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Category: Landscape


Breaking News, Landscape, Preservation, Research, Uncategorized

Drayton Hall’s multi-talented project assistant Joseph Mester has written an excellent piece in the Charleston Gateway visitor guide about Drayton Hall’s African American Cemetery. The article describes the beginnings of…

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Breaking News, Fieldwork, Internships, Landscape, Press, Research, Uncategorized

Friends,  Every year, we wait in anticipation as June rolls around and we get to meet our newest intern from the French Heritage Society Internship program that we are lucky…

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Landscape, Preservation, Uncategorized

Preserving our landscape here at Drayton Hall requires constant effort. Too much or too little rain, a wind storm, or the growth of an invasive species can all threaten our…

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Education, Landscape

At Drayton Hall on Sunday, May 1, 2011, fourteen of us lucky nature-loving souls tried to keep up with renowned botanist and professor emeritus from the Citadel, Dr. Richard Porcher. …

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African American history, Breaking News, Event, Landscape, Uncategorized

Saturday, October 9th, marked a beautiful and memorable day in Drayton Hall’s recent history. For those of you who were there, you know what I’m talking about, and for those…

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Archaeology, Landscape

Here’s this week’s update on the most recent discoveries relating to the archaeological investigations at the north flanker site. [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeFrL-rQBnk&hl=en&fs=1]

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