We spent 4 nights in Charleston and learned some interesting things by taking a carriage tour through the city. The one picture show the water line on a brick building. This is along the main drag in Charleston. Apparently because much of the city is below sea level there is a lot of flooding - about every couple of weeks. We were told that when this main road floods, the cars parked on the street all have out-of-state plates on them. The locals know to check the weather report the night before. Charleston also has a law on the books that once something reaches 75 years of age it can’t be removed - This includes trees. Around 74 years ago the city constructed Army barracks for servicemen. After the war they were changed into low-income housing. Now the city of Charleston is in risk of having the only low income housing facility that is protected by the government as a historical property.
The next day we went to visit the Boone Plantation. The definition of a plantation is as follows: It has to have been at least 1,000 acres of which at least 500 acres was being cultivated, and there had to be slave labor. The entrance to the plantation is referred to as the boulevard of oaks. These oaks are about 300 years old, and live to be about 600 years. Part of 3 movies were filmed here - North and South (with Patrick Swayze), the Notebook, and the sequel to Roots.
That night I took a tour of the Charleston Jail that was closed in the early 1900's. It’s suppose to be haunted. The carriage tour drive said he went on this tour twice and he won’t go back since he got so scared, so Nan declined to go with me. He must have been a real pansy because it wasn’t that scary. The jail was built to have no plumbing or electricity. The life expectancy of prisoners was about 2 months because of the rampant diseases. Also, when people walked on the floor is would crunch from the head lice. The warden was into torturing prisoners. He left his house one morning to walk to his job at the jail, he never arrived, and noone knows what ever happened to him. Although these are gruesome stories, nothing happened that scared me on the tour.
It rained again Tuesday night, but we were able to power our way out of the muddy campsite this morning and head to Savannah, GA.
The next day we went to visit the Boone Plantation. The definition of a plantation is as follows: It has to have been at least 1,000 acres of which at least 500 acres was being cultivated, and there had to be slave labor. The entrance to the plantation is referred to as the boulevard of oaks. These oaks are about 300 years old, and live to be about 600 years. Part of 3 movies were filmed here - North and South (with Patrick Swayze), the Notebook, and the sequel to Roots.
That night I took a tour of the Charleston Jail that was closed in the early 1900's. It’s suppose to be haunted. The carriage tour drive said he went on this tour twice and he won’t go back since he got so scared, so Nan declined to go with me. He must have been a real pansy because it wasn’t that scary. The jail was built to have no plumbing or electricity. The life expectancy of prisoners was about 2 months because of the rampant diseases. Also, when people walked on the floor is would crunch from the head lice. The warden was into torturing prisoners. He left his house one morning to walk to his job at the jail, he never arrived, and noone knows what ever happened to him. Although these are gruesome stories, nothing happened that scared me on the tour.
It rained again Tuesday night, but we were able to power our way out of the muddy campsite this morning and head to Savannah, GA.
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