Boone Hall Plantation

We went to Boone Hall Plantation in Charleston which is one of America's oldest working plantations. It was really neat to see some our countries history. The plantation is over 700 acres and we took a tour of about 30 acres.

This is the famous row of oaks... Boone planted these oaks back in the late 1700's with the thought that they would eventually look like this. This is the driveway back to the house... it was absolutely breathtaking!

Us on the grounds... this place was beautiful!

This is the smokehouse on the plantation which was used to smoke and dry meats back then. Its on the national historical registry as one of the oldest free standing structures in the country.

These are the original slave homes that the "elite" slaves stayed in on the plantation. Boone allowed them to use one as a religious gathering place, which was unheard of back then. There would be up to 15 people in these homes at a time. It was neat to learn about some of the slave culture and how they lived through this difficult time in our countries history.

This is the plantation home, which is not original to the plantation. We took a tour and it was beautiful but was built in 1950. This is the third home to the plantation... The first was taken by a fire and the second was tore down to build this one. We learned that there was a law back in the 1800 that stated you had to build your kitchen outside and free-standing from the main house. It was told that on average, each kitchen burned down up to 4 times a year and it was much easier to re-build the kitchen then the whole house.