Charleston’s hard history is explained here at McLeod, and takes into scope grueling day-to-day life on a pre-civil war farm.

1 hour • Admission Ticket Included

The only and oldest remaining plantation house, in its original form, on the Ashley River. While we do not tour inside the house, we will stop for pictures and a history lesson. The Drayton Family is fascinating, and have owned this property since inception… until just recently.

Please note this is a driving tour, and we do not enter the admission areas of the grounds.

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Thomas Drayton and his wife Ann arrived from Barbados to the new English colony of Charles Towne and established Magnolia Plantation along the Ashley River in 1676. The oldest public tourist site in the Low Country and the oldest public garden in America. We will drive down Live Oak Alley and stop for pictures in front of the house.

Please note this is a driving tour, and we do not enter the admission areas of the grounds.

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

View Middleton Place’s vista of the house entrance. We will shop the open-air market and museum store.

Please note this is a driving tour, and we do not enter the admission areas of the grounds.

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

We visit the oldest church building (1708), still in service, south of Virginia. We will stroll the church graveyard and get a peak inside this 300-year-old structure. Learn how the Reverend John Drayton Jr saved the family’s crucifix-form church and how he curated the Ashley River gardens.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free