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The front hall of Camden's Mulberry Plantation, with its beautiful interior curving stairway, did not escape the decorative impact of the Victorian era. (For examples of the external decoration of the...
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Wake Up King George! examines the Stamp Act and other various acts of British Parliament following the French and Indian War, addressing the acts and ensuing colonial responses. Wake Up King George...
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The interior décor of the Victorian era reflected the consumer society that America had become by the late 19th century. Filled with elaborately designed "things" - objects of art as well as of use...
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The mother of the boys who lived in the bedroom of this Rock Hill home labeled the 1898 photograph of it (in her album "The Blue Room") and gave the cry of mothers everywhere who have told their...
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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...