Boone Hall Plantation

This plantation is still a working farm.  They grow produce mostly although they do still have some cotton and pecan trees.  The cotton crop was damaged by the arrival of the Boll Weevil in the 1920s.  Instead Pecan's became the main cash crop but more than one hurricane took down the Pecan groves, most recently Hurricane Hugo in 1989.  The house that stands now was built in the 1930s by a Canadian using bricks made years prior in the slave-run brickyards.  The Notebook used this plantation as a filming location.

Besides the house there was an extensive gardens and preserved brick slave cottages.  The most famous aspect of the plantation is said to be the Avenue of Oaks.  Large, old live Oak trees line the long drive and reach across to create a canopy over the lane.  Spanish moss hangs from the branches.  We were also privileged to hear a presentation on the 'Gullah' language developed from English and the rhythm of the African languages belonging to the slaves brought from West Africa.