Magnolia Plantation and Gardens Charleston, SC

Magnolia Plantation and Gardens is a historic mansion with gardens on the Ashley River in Charleston County, South Carolina, near 3550 Ashley River Road west of Ashley. It is on the National Register of Historic Places and is one of the oldest plantations in the South.

Is Magnolia Plantation a real estate development?

The Drayton family has owned Magnolia Farm, a former rice plantation near the Ashley River, since 1676. Throughout Magnolia's 350-year history, black people have lived and worked there, first as enslaved workers and then as paid garden staff following emancipation.

Magnolia Plantation is known for what?

It is the oldest public tourist attraction in the Lowcountry, as well as one of the oldest public gardens in the United States, having welcomed visitors in 1870 to see the thousands of beautiful flowers and plants in its famous gardens.

Middleton or Magnolia Plantation: which is better?

Magnolia Plantation & Gardens is a beautiful place to visit. It is the oldest public garden in the country, having opened as a tourist attraction in 1870. This garden is significantly more random than Middleton Place, which is formal and calm, and the Plantation offers greater variation.