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PUBLIC HISTORY ---- Field Sites
Field Sites in Charleston
Among the historic sites visited by field school participants are:
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Drayton Hall Begun in the late 1730's, this
Georgian Palladian plantation house is now operated as an historic house
museum by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and is an outstanding
example of a building that has been preserved rather than restored.
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Middleton Place Laid out in 1741, the grounds
of this plantation are the oldest landscape gardens in the United States.
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Heyward Washington House Begun in 1771,
this home of a prominent rice planter became the city's first historic
house museum.
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Joseph Manigault House Built in 1803, the home is recognized as a National Historic Landmark.
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Aiken-Rhett House The Historic Charleston Foundation
is now interpreting this grand home as a working urban plantation.
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African American Heritage The work of black artisans is evident everywhere in the city's eighteenth-century
and antebellum architecture; local African-American heritage also includes
slave insurrection sites, freedmen neighborhoods, historic churches, and
schools.
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Fort Sumter National Monument The stabilized
brick fort is located on an island in Charleston Harbor and is maintained
and interpreted by the National Park Service.
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Charles Pinckney National Historic Site Archaeological
research at this new unit of the National Park system is exploring the
material culture of slave life.
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McCleod Plantation Land use plans are being developed
for this historic plantation landscape that includes an extant row of slave
cabins.
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