Magnolia Plantation 1676
N 32° 52.285 W 080° 05.445
17S E 585062 N 3637398
The Magnolia Plantation historical marker is located at the intersection of Magnolia Plantation Road and Ashley River Road (SC Hwy 61) in Charleston, South Carolina.
Waymark Code: WM4CNK
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 08/06/2008
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The marker of the text reads as follows: "Fountainhead of the Drayton family, which played so important a part in America's Colonial, Revolutionary, and Independence history. Its original plantation house, credited by contemporary historians as having been the earliest in the Carolina colony, along with its famous garden, now America's oldest, were built by Thomas Drayton in the 1680s. Its remains a working plantation utilizing scores of workers, and is still owned and operated by a direct family descendent."
Marker Name: Magnolia Plantation 1676
Marker Location: Roadside
Type of Marker: Historic Site
County: Charleston County
Marker number: Not listed
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