Admissions: Park admission is
free.
Office Hours: 11am-noon
Days and Hours of Operation:
Grounds: Th-M 9am-5pm (extended to 6 pm during
Daylight Savings Time); make sure you do not enter park outside of
these hours!
You must use parking lot,
do not pull off the road and park at trail head. You need to park
and walk back to the trail head.
House Museum Tours are held on the hour
Thursday through
Monday at 1 pm, 2 pm and 3
pm.
“Cotton is King!”
Those words resounded through Congress and then the nation in
a fiery speech by South Carolina Sen. James Henry Hammond in the
years leading up to the Civil War.
Hammond’s legacy also lives on in the picturesque setting of
Redcliffe Plantation State Historic Site
The plantation home, completed in 1859, and iconic lane of
145-year-old magnolia trees are highlights of the site. So is the
view of the Savannah River valley from the top floor of the Greek
Revival house, where historians say Hammond could see the clock
tower a dozen miles away across the river in downtown
Augusta.
Exploring the preserved slave quarters, admiring the heirloom
garden and picnicking on the expansive lawn also are favorite
activities at the park. Redcliffe was donated to South Carolina in
1973 by former Time editor John Shaw Billings, a descendant of the
former congressman and governor.
You will be looking for small lock n lock
container! You must use the trail to find it.
Congrats! deckgun
FTF!