In this video, my wife Heidi and I hike Magnolia Plantation Gardens & the Audubon Swamp in Charleston, South Carolina. Not only is the first part stunning with plenty of flora, but it's also the very first romantic garden in America. After that, also on the Magnolia Plantation is the Audubon Swamp. Inspired by Shrek's swamp, it has plenty of wildlife including many Alligators! Best hike in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Magnolia Plantation and Gardens (464 acres, 187.77 hectares) is a historic house with gardens located on the Ashley River at 3550 Ashley River Road west of Ashley, Charleston County, South Carolina.[2][3] It is one of the oldest plantations in the South, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Magnolia Plantation is located near Charleston and directly across the Ashley River from North Charleston. The house and gardens are open daily; an admission fee is charged.
The plantation dates to 1676, when Thomas and Ann Drayton (née Anna Fox) built a house and small formal garden on the site. The plantation still remains under the control of the Drayton family after 15 generations.[citation needed] Some of the enslaved people who were forced to work at the house were brought by the Draytons from Barbados in the 1670s.[4] The historic Drayton Hall was built in 1738 by enslaved laborers for John Drayton, grandfather of judge John Drayton II, on an adjoining property.
Magnolia was originally a rice plantation, with extensive earthworks of dams and dikes built in fields along the river for irrigating land for rice cultivation. African enslaved people from rice-growing regions created the works. As time went on, these enslaved people developed a creolized Gullah language and vibrant culture, strongly influenced by their West African cultures.[4] They have retained many combined cultural elements from West Africa to this day in what is known as the Gullah Heritage Corridor of the Lowcountry and Sea Islands of the Carolinas and Georgia.
Audubon Swamp Garden is a 60-acre (24 ha) cypress and tupelo swamp on the grounds of Magnolia Plantation near Charleston, South Carolina, United States. At one time, the swamp served as a reservoir for the plantation's rice cultivation. The swamp garden includes native flora and non-native, exotic plantings and is home to herons, ibis, turtles, otters, alligators, and other wildlife.
The swamp garden is named for ornithologist and artist John James Audubon, who visited the plantation before the Civil War and is said to have collected waterfowl specimens there as models for his paintings. Director Wes Craven made use of the site while filming the 1982 horror film Swamp Thing.[1] The site also served as inspiration for Shrek's swamp.[2]
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Timecodes
0:00 - Intro
0:40 - Magnolia Plantation Romantic Gardens
6:45 - Audubon Swamp