Charleston/Mt Pleasant, SC

10/26 - 10/30/12
KOA
Mt. Pleasant, SC

Part 1 of 4

When we started this caravan on Oct 2nd I had said that I would only write one post per stop, but...I changed my mind.  We only had 85 miles driving from Wilmington, SC to our next stop so we stopped along the way at Georgetown, a cute historic town.  We enjoyed the old homes, most built c. 1750 and a bit of history on a trolley ride.

A bit blurry but it is sort of readable, it is referring the the house in the next picture, click on picture to read better.

This house is pink and lavender which is not the original colors but the owners painted it this way before there was an ordinance about painting the historic homes like this.  This house was grandfathered in.  luckily the owners keep it up very well with fresh paint often.

This  home shows how the front door is on the side, not facing the street.  In the early 1700's the King of England taxed the homes by how many feet of the home bordered the street.  Note, the porch on the left was added later, along with the right side addition.  Many of the homes were like this, narrow at the street and deep into the lot.

Indigo was a huge cash crop which made the area extremely wealthy very quickly. Indigo was shipped back to England and used for dye.

Indigo was used for material of all kinds, it especially adhered well to silk.  It was used for military uniforms.  The ladies especially liked it because it did not fade onto their arms when they sweat.  Apparently the cheaper fabrics would fade and the colors would stick to their arms but the indigo did not.

The BIG tree is one of the many Live Oak Trees in the area.  This tree is 165 feet high with branches as large as a tree.  This tree is estimated to be about 1600 years.

The first Masonic Hall in this area.  George Washington gave a speech on the porch.

Inside the AME Church, very beautiful.  The organ was destroyed by hurricane Hugo and was not able to be repaired.

 At the KOA finally and
A wagon ride back to the Oakland Plantation house

The KOA is bordered by the Historic Oakland Plantation.  The land was purchased by John Perrie who came from Ireland.  The house was built in 1755 when Charles Barksdale acquire the plantation, his family owned it until 1859 when Philip E Porcher bought the property and his descendant have owned it ever since.
For some reason I did not get a picture of the actual house up close.  These Live Oak trees are enormous that line the actual road going to the house.

This is what you do with a palm tree that died, very clever.













Tomorrow, Saturday was going to be a breakfast and Halloween Party but the group shelter is only screened in and not warm enough and it is going to be rainy and windy from the hurricane.

10/27, Saturday:  It IS rainy and windy, but not bad except when we went over a tall bridge.  I think the hurricane will miss us.  Where we were in the Outer Banks though, they are expecting 10 - 12 inches of rain, most of that area is only 2 - 6 feet high so it means some flooding, glad we have moved on.

Have a blessed day, drive safe, thanks for stopping by.

Nancy