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Historic Hanover House (c. 1716) Heritage and History at Hagood Mill and its importance in our daily lives.
Hanover House, built in 1716 for French One of the most charming sites in the Exhibits at the museum focus not only
Huguenot Paul de St. Julien in Berkeley Clemson Area is Hagood Mill, three miles on the history of agriculture, but how
County, SC, is one of South Carolina’s north of Pickens, SC. There is something for that legacy affects modern and future
oldest wooden residences. The St. Julien and everyone at this historic site. See the historic agricultural practices and healthy living.
Ravenel family home was threatened with mill operate every third Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 The museum is open Thursday-Saturday,
p.m., at the Folklife Festivals. The site is also
flooding by Lake Moultrie in 1941. The home to historic cabins, a blacksmith shop, noon-5 p.m.
Historic American Buildings Survey of the a moonshine still, and a cotton gin. Visitors
Santee-Cooper basin noted that Hanover may also see prehistoric petroglyphs and 120 History Ln. | Pendleton, SC 29670
was of national significance. Hanover was an amazing collection of Native American (864) 646-7271 | bgamsc.org
preserved at Clemson University, home to art and artifacts in the Hagood Creek
the state’s architectural school. It was Petroglyph Site. Hagood Mill hosts group Stumphouse Tunnel
Woodbvrn Historic House relocated to the South Carolina Botanical tours, field trips, and live music, and can be and Issaqueena Falls
Garden in 1994, now overlooking a reserved for special events and weddings. The 1,617-foot-long Stumphouse
Visitors will also find an educational vegetable garden. Hanover House is restored The site is open Wednesday-Saturday, 10 Tunnel was started in 1852 by the Blue
walking trail in the treeline. The home is as a monument of early French Huguenot a.m. - 4 p.m., and can be visited any day Ridge Railroad to connect Charleston
open by appointment only. Please call or during daylight hours to take advantage of
email pendleton.hf@gmail.com to book a tour. colonial architecture. The museum its walking trails and disc golf course. to Knoxville and eventually on to
interprets life at a Lowcountry South Cincinnati. The Civil War – and lack of
130 History Ln. | Pendleton, SC 29670 Carolina rice plantation. 138 Hagood Mill Rd. | Pickens, SC 29671 funds – brought construction to a halt.
It stands today as a monument to the
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530 Garden Trail | Clemson, SC 29634 efforts of pre-Civil War engineering,
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Fort Hill National Historic Landmark properties/hanover Bart Garrison Agricultural Museum famous Clemson Blue Cheese. Down
Fort Hill was home to John C. Calhoun and of South Carolina a gentle, graveled path a short distance
Thomas G. Clemson. Politician Calhoun The Agricultural Museum’s exhibits, classes, is Issaqueena Falls, a beautiful waterfall
served as Congressman; Secretary of War; Ashtabula Historic Home workshops, and demonstrations interpret with a wooden lookout platform and a
Vice President to John Quincy Adams; Vice Ashtabula is a charming two-story clap- and preserve the heritage of agriculture picnic shelter.
President to Andrew Jackson; Secretary board house, built in 1825 and situated on
of State; and Senator. John and Floride’s Highway 88 approximately three miles east
daughter, Anna Maria Calhoun, married of Pendleton. Run by the Pendleton Historic
Thomas Clemson at Fort Hill in 1838. Foundation, the house is decorated with an-
Thomas G. Clemson was a scientist, tebellum furniture. On the grounds, visitors
mining engineer, diplomat to Belgium will find a brick annex that dates back to
and superintendent of agriculture. Thomas
Clemson willed that Fort Hill “shall always the 1790s and was once used as an inn and
be open for the inspection of visitors” as a tavern for weary travelers in the Upstate.
museum. The antebellum main house and The home is open by appointment only.
outbuildings are restored with original Please call or email pendleton.hf@gmail.com
furnishings interpreting plantation life to book a tour.
and the African American experience.
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