Boone Hall Plantation

Step back into antebellum times at Boone Hall Plantation in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, near Charleston. As a quintessential plantation, Boone Hall has been used for movie sets, book settings, and a means to understanding plantation life. The soap opera, Days of Our Lives and the mini-series, North and South filmed there. The movies, Queen and The Notebook, also used it.

Once a visitor starts down the nearly mile-long, oak-lined drive, the imagination takes over. The original land was given to John Boone in 1681 as a wedding present, and a wooden house was built on the site in 1790. When the property fell in the hands of Thomas Stone in the early 1900's, he wanted a grander house, and built this Colonial Revival style plantation house, which certainly fits the property. 

Many of the buildings on the property, however, are original, like the nine existing slave cabins. It's also still the longest continuous operating plantation farm. Boone Hall Farms have been going for over 320 years. You can buy some of their items at their market and eat at their restaurant just down the road.

If you're ever in the Charleston/Mt. Pleasant area, I highly recommend a tour of Boone Hall. Their interpretive programs are excellent and the time will be well-spent, especially if you're a history buff, like me.

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