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A brochure put out by the Southern Railway describes "Camden, SC 1908, A Winter Tourist Resort on the Southern Railway." Photos inside the brochure lure tourists with a description of the beauties of...
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Camden was famous for its elaborate formal gardens. This photograph of the gardens at Court Inn, around the turn of the century, shows benches placed under an ivy-covered shelter. Courtesy of the...
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Middleton Place gardens along the Ashley River. This photograph around the 1920s shows the grounds at Middleton Place before they were redesigned and replanted. (See Middleton Place) Courtesy of the...
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The original Middleton Place mansion was destroyed after the Civil War, but the elaborate gardens with their centerpiece "butterfly lakes" designed by John Middleton have survived. (See Middleton...
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The gardens of the Hampton-Preston Mansion in Columbia, sketched here by the artists for "Harper's Weekly," April 15, 1865, when the mansion briefly served as Sherman's headquarters. The maze was...
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South Carolina became famous for the beauty of the avenues of live oak trees leading up to the mansion house. One of the most noted was the double avenue of oaks at Heyward Plantation, in Bluffton...
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This four-square bungalow type house, built in the suburbs of Columbia as it began to expand beyond its boundaries into the surrounding countryside in the early 20th century, is probably one of...
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Mill housing in South Carolina exhibited a variety of styles, but the most widely used was a copy of the salt-box construction of New England mill villages, where the steeply pitched roof helped keep...
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These houses were constructed by the Winnsboro Mill, now a part of the Uniroyal facility in Fairfield County, around 1929. The mill owners provided housing as a way to attract workers or operatives to...
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This house, originally built in the Greek Revival style in Camden, perhaps as early as 1850 judging from the cornices, was later heavily ornamented with Queen Anne cutwork and balustrades on the porch...