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An Apollonaut travel guide
Brick, oak and marsh.
An introduction to the Lowcountry landscape around Charleston, where Boone Hall stands in Mount Pleasant beside the marsh.
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Read the land and the water
Boone Hall lies in Mount Pleasant, about eight miles from downtown Charleston, on land that runs down to the marsh and creek.
A landscape guide can give context without turning a place into a backdrop. Notice how the avenue frames the approach, how the cabins stand in a row, and how the farm still works the land today.
Handmade brick
Enslaved workers made Boone Hall’s bricks by hand. The cabins, the smokehouse and the Cotton Gin house are built of brick.
Begin with a detail and ask who made it and under what conditions. A photograph alone cannot tell you who set the brick or the life they were forced to live.
A house of the 1930s
The present house was built in 1936 in the Colonial Revival style, in place of an earlier wooden house. It is far younger than the cabins and the avenue.
Look at the meeting of the two: an older landscape of forced labour and a twentieth-century house built on it.
Make room for context
Pair this reading with Boone Hall’s history and the Journal. This is an introduction for visitors, not a claim that our team manages these places, commissions their restoration or represents their makers.
Read at the source
Sources & further reading
Links lead to the original publishers.
