
After the Civil War the slaves either left or no longer could be driven to do the dangerously hard work. Rice farming here stopped and the plantations folded. In the early 1900's several of the old properties were consolidated and the old riceland turned into hunting camps for the wealthy. The buildings are gone, except for an old kitchen at Brookgreen, but many of the walks, walls and springs survive. Note "Spanish moss" hanging from the limbs of the live oak. Guides will tell you the plant that drapes from the trees is neither Spanish nor moss, but the name sticks.
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