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Bart Garrison Agricultural to a halt and the tunnel was never
Museum of South Carolina completed. It stands today as a
The Bart Garrison Agricultural Museum of monument to the efforts of pre-
South Carolina (BGAMSC) celebrates the Civil War engineering. It was also
state’s long agricultural history and culture, the curing location for the famous
from Cherokee farmers to modern fields Clemson Blue Cheese. Down a gentle,
monitored by drones. BGAMSC’s exhibits, graveled path a short distance away
classes, workshops, and demonstrations is Issaqueena Falls, a beautiful waterfall
interpret and preserve the heritage of with a wooden lookout platform and a
agriculture and its importance in our picnic shelter.
daily lives. The museum focuses not only
on the history of agriculture, but how Fort Hill National Historic Landmark
that legacy affects modern and future Fort Hill was home to John C. Calhoun and and the African American experience. Originally the home of the St. Julien
agricultural practices and healthy living. Thomas G. Clemson. Politician Calhoun Fort Hill is open for self-guided tours and Ravenel families, it was threatened
Open Thursday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., served as Congressman; Secretary of utilizing interpretive exhibits, brochures by flooding from Lake Moultrie in 1941.
the museum is designed so that visitors War; Vice President to John Quincy and QR code phone app. It is closed on all Recognized for its national significance,
may leave with a new skill and an increased Adams; Vice President to Andrew Jackson; home football games on Saturdays and the Hanover House was relocated to Clemson
appreciation for the land. Secretary of State; and Senator. John and weekend after Thanksgiving. University, and in 1994, it was moved to
120 History Ln., Pendleton, SC 29670 Floride’s daughter, Anna Maria Calhoun, 520 Fort Hill St., Clemson, SC 29634 the South Carolina Botanical Garden,
864.646.7271 • bgamsc.org married Thomas Clemson at Fort Hill in 864.656.2475 Hanover House is open for tours on
1838. Thomas G. Clemson was a scientist, clemson.edu/about/history/properties
Stumphouse Tunnel and Issaqueena Falls mining engineer, diplomat to Belgium, and weekdays only and is closed on all home
In the 440-acre Stumphouse Park, superintendent of agriculture. Thomas Historic Hanover House (c. 1716) football game Saturdays as well as the
1,617-foot-long Stumphouse Tunnel was Clemson willed that Fort Hill “shall always Hanover House, built in 1716 for French weekend following Thanksgiving.
started in 1852 by the Blue Ridge Railroad be open for the inspection of visitors” as a Huguenot Paul de St. Julien in Berkeley 113 Hanover Cir., Clemson, SC 29634
to connect Charleston to Knoxville and museum. The antebellum main house and County, SC and listed on the National 864.656.2241
eventually on to Cincinnati. The Civil War outbuildings are restored with original Register of Historic Places, is one of South clemson.edu/about/history/
– and lack of funds – brought construction furnishings interpreting plantation life Carolina’s oldest wooden residences. properties/hanover/

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