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Magnolia Plantation and Gardens in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Magnolia Plantation is the oldest public garden in America, first opening its gates to visitors in 1870.
But its roots go much deeper. It has been owned by the same family for twelve generations.
In the 1600s, as the British established the “Golden Triangle” route of slave trade from Africa to the Caribbean and the Americas, Charles Town (now Charleston) was colonized by British settlers from Barbados.

Generally they were non-firstborn sons who would not be inheriting land from their planter fathers in Barbados. One of these immigrants to America was Thomas Drayton, arriving in 1676 with his wife Ann.

Establishing Magnolia Plantation as a rice plantation along the Ashley River, they also developed a small formal English garden, Flowerdale, in 1685.

It became the core of these expansive gardens four generations later, during the 1840s, when its newest owner needed to work outdoors for his health.

In striving to create a romantic garden for his wife, the Reverend John Grimké Drayton introduced the first azaleas to America. He also used camellias to accent the natural woodlands.

A century later, the gardens became the primary focus of the plantation, opening to the public just five years after the end of the Civil War.

Encompassing more than 600 acres, Magnolia Plantation and Gardens covers much more ground than you’d expect. That’s because its natural beauty lies beneath a canopy of centuries-old trees in a dense woodland along the Ashley River.

This is a garden destination that takes two or three days to explore, particularly if you opt to go on the tours that are offered. At a minimum, you can spend all day just walking through the gardens.

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