More visits to Brookgreen Gardens...

15 March 2022

Huntington Beach State Park, Murrells Inlet, SC  

Marc-  Our exploration continued today mostly at the Brookgreen Gardens nearby.  This included visiting more gardens and seeing many more beautiful sculptures.  We also took a tour of the old plantation cemeteries (both slaveowner and slave).  The Huntington family ensured that these places have been preserved.  The most recent burials have taken place in the African-American cemeteries.  There are still relatives of the people in these cemeteries who are eligible to be buried there.

Native Americans are represented here in what was once their homeland.

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Buffalo

                                Some of the African Americans moved West to become cowboys.

Spring flowers everywhere

Goats were common on the plantations here.

Bald Eagles are still present here.

Many Squirrels here.

A quilt to explain slave escape routes.

A farmer and his horse.

Modern times in South Carolina