Ipiutak Site

Ipiutak Site

Major site of Ipiutak culture, inhabited around 100 BC – 800 AD. Found sites of some 600 houses, although these could have existed in different time periods. Here have been found interesting mortuary offerings – elaborate ivory carvings and masks.

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.

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.

Boone Hall Plantation and Gardens

Boone Hall, the main building

One of the oldest existing plantations in the United States, founded in 1681. The stately plantation house was built in 1935-1936 in a Colonial Revival style. Stories about ghostly apparitions around the kiln of the plantation. A famous feature of the park is Avenue of Oaks – more than one kilometer long, gorgeous avenue of moss-covered oaks.