Fig Island shell rings

A group of shell rings – ring-shaped shell middens that are up to 6 meters high. The largest ring has a diameter of some 40 m. These mounds were made some 4400 – 3600 years ago. This might be the most complex system of shell rings in North America.

Hampton Plantation

Hampton Plantation

Historic plantation house that was built in 1735-1790 (or 1791). This wooden house is designed in the Georgian style.

Millford Plantation

Millford Plantation

Magnificent plantation house in the Greek Revival style. It was constructed in 1839-1841 by the Manning family, one of the largest slaveholders of the period.

Beaufort Historic District

Beaufort, Craven Street

In this town have been preserved several neighborhoods with numerous magnificent homes and gardens from the 19th century.

Brookgreen Gardens

Brookgreen Gardens

The first formal sculpture garden in the USA, developed by the famed sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington in the 1930ies.

Drayton Hall

Drayton Hall

The oldest unrestored plantation house in the United States. It was built sometime around 1738 in the Palladian style. Now it serves as a museum of plantations.

Aiken-Rhett House

Aiken-Rhett House

Historical city house that was built in 1820 by the merchant John Robinson, one of the best-preserved townhouse complexes in the United States. It contains also the historical slave quarters. Now here is a museum.

Table Rock SC

Table Rock, South Carolina

970 m tall mountain with a fairly flat surface and steep slopes of monolithic granite. This mountain is a batholith – fragment of magma that was pressed upwards during the Ordovician period some 430 million years ago.

Landsford Canal State Park lilies

Bloom of spider lilies in Lansford Canal State Park

One of the few remaining populations of a spider lily Hymenocallis coronaria. This beautiful flower is very rare and here it forms a pure stand in Catawba River – the largest stand of this plant anywhere. The beauty of these fragrant flowers can be admired in May – June.

Avenue of Oaks, Boone Hall

Avenue of Oaks, Boone Hall

Outstanding avenue of enormous oaks. Avenue is more than one kilometer long and leads towards one of the oldest plantations in the United States – Boone Hall. Planting of the avenue was completed in 1843.