Walterboro | Palmetto Places

Tour beautiful old churches and Bonnie Doone Plantation. Window-shop at the South Carolina Artisans Center, and visit the Colleton County Museum. Meet landscape architect Robert Marvin, and learn about making salve at Mount Carmel Herb Farm.

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Colleton County was named in honor of Sir John Colleton, one of the eight English lords proprietors, who was granted land by King Charles II. The county’s marshes made the area ideal for rice farming...
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The heart of Walterboro is the Colleton County Courthouse, a Greek Revival style building designed by Robert Mills. It was here where in June, 1828, where Robert Barnwell Rhett delivered an address...
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Further exemplifying Walterboro’s commitment to historic preservation, two houses are being reused as the South Carolina Artisan’s Center. The Artisan’s Center displays, and provides a retail outlet...
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The property called Bonnie Doone was once a major rice plantation. General William T. Sherman’s troops burned the original house during The Civil War, and took the house’s owner prisoner. The house...
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The preservation of Walterboro’s landscapes has been the passion of one of Walterboro’s residents: nationally acclaimed landscape artist Robert Marvin. Marvin joins to discuss his inspirations, and...
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South Carolinians have collected and grown herbs for generations. Here at the Mount Carmel Herb Farm, people can go to learn all about growing and cultivating herbs. Catherine McCormick discusses the...
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Colleton State Park, with its riverside setting, makes the park a popular campsite. The park is also headquarters for the Edisto River Canoe and Kayak Trail, the state’s official 66 mile black-water...