Boone Hall Plantation Cabins

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Boone Hall Plantation Cabins

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Catherine Sherman

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Photograph - Photography

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"Boone Hall Plantation Cabins" by Catherine Sherman.

One of the first sights that you see as you enter Boone Hall Plantation are the brick slave cabins.

Boone Hall Plantation is one of America's oldest still working plantations, continually growing crops for over 320 years. It's on the National Register of Historic Places. It's known for its Avenue of Oaks, which are more than 200 years old.

The nine remaining of the original slave cabins sit parallel with the live oak allee that leads to the plantation house and date to 1790-1810. It was common for owners to display their slave cabins in the front of the property as a sign of wealth. The one-story structures are 12 feet by 30 feet with gabled roofs, have either plank or dirt floors and a simple fireplace with a brick hearth and no mantle at the rear of each house. The brick was likely made on the plantation. The cabins were in use well into the 20th century, as they were occupied by sharecroppers through the 1940s. Today they display information on slave life. The plantation was named one of the African American Historic Places in South Carolina.

The earliest known reference to the site is 1681. The land grant of 470 acres (1.9 km2) was given by Theophilus Patey as a wedding present to his daughter, Elizabeth, and Major John Boone. The original wooden house was constructed in 1790. The house that stands now was built by Thomas Stone, a Canadian who purchased the land in the early 20th century. He wanted a "grander style" home, so he built the Colonial Revival-style house that stands there today. The bricks in the house were taken from the brickyard on the plantation, run by the Horlbeck family that owned the property for many years.

The house and grounds have appeared in NBC's television soap opera Days of Our Lives, ABC's mini-series North and South (as Mont Royal) and the movies Queen and The Notebook. The house, gardens, and other places of interest are open to the public for tours all year round.

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