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Collections, Event, Friends of Drayton Hall, General

    Tickets   Celebrate the opening night of the Charleston Spring Antiques Show at the exclusive Preview Party on Thursday, March 31, 2022 at The Gaillard Center in downtown…

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Drayton Hall Preservation Trust is always grateful for donations to our decorative arts collections that reflect the long history of Drayton Hall. This year we received two wonderful 18th century…

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Amber Satterthwaite, Archaeology, General, Online Exhibits, Website

List of Enslaved Families, Drayton Hall, 1849 – 1865. Drayton Papers Collection On Juneteenth (June 19th), we recognize the day that all Americans became free. Today, we take time to acknowledge the…

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Archaeology, Carter C. Hudgins, General

Carter C. Hudgins Ph. D is, as many of our readers know, the President and CEO of Drayton Hall Preservation Trust. In January of 2021, he began overseeing a new…

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General, Landscape, Lenhardt Garden at Drayton Hall

Spring is gently nursing the plants to success in the Lenhardt Garden at Drayton Hall; On many accounts, it was well worth the wait. Once again this year, the reliable…

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DRAYTON HALL PRESERVATION UPDATE by Trish Lowe Smith Curator Of Historic Architectural Resources As you read this, an 82-foot lift creeps slowly around Drayton Hall. Turkey vultures shuffle along the…

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