The Powder Magazine Museum is South Carolina's oldest public building. The Powder Magazine is owned and operated by The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in The State of South Carolina. Exhibits are focused on South Carolina's colonial military history, and available to the public daily. Standards-based field trips and classroom outreach programming is available to assist teachers. (From our Streamline collection)
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Glimpse how a continental soldier in the American Revolution might view his life during America's first civil war. Based on the personal diaries of a real continental soldier, Joseph Plumb Martin, the...
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In a student acted play, students recount President's George Washington's visit to Snee Farm in May of 1791. Featured prominently in the video are student portraying Charles Pinckney, President...
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Dr. Walter Edgar, speaking from the steps of Snee Farm, Charles Pinckney's country estate, recounts to school children the public life and service of Charles Pinckney. Included in this discussion are...
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Children from James B. Edwards Elementary experience social, and political customs of colonial South Carolina in the period just prior and during the Revolutionary War. See children dancing the minuet...
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School children portray Charles Pinckney explaining his views on states' rights, and individual freedoms, as they align to the views of the Democratic-Republican Party. Emphasis is placed on his shift...
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The Powder Magazine Museum is South Carolina's oldest public building. It has been a property of the non-profit the NSCDA-SC since 1902. The Powder Magazine is owned and operated by The National...
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Mrs. Ann Edwards talks to children about the life of Charles Pinckney and his love of his estate, Snee Farm. Mrs. Edwards highlights Charles Pinckney's service during the Revolutionary War, his public...
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Mrs. Ann Edwards continues her discussion of the life of Charles Pinckney focusing specifically on Pinckney's accomplishments in state and federal government after the Revolutionary War. Of special...
