Coastal Region Challenge – Hampton Plantation SHS Traditional Geocache
Coastal Region Challenge – Hampton Plantation SHS
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This cache is part of the SC State Park Geocache Challenge. You are looking for an ammo box. Park in the assigned lot and heads towards the plantation house.
The cache is a short walk from the parking area. Please remember to use insect repellent!!
Tucked away among live oaks and magnolias in the Santee Delta region, Hampton Plantation State Historic Site is home to the remote, final remnants of a colonial-era rice plantation. The plantation’s Georgian-style mansion and well-kept grounds serve as an interpretive site for the system of slavery that helped build such plantations into the greatest generators of wealth in early American history.
The property also tells the story of the freed people who made their homes there for generations after emancipation. Visitors can explore the mansion, wander the plantation grounds or look out upon Wambaw Creek at the remains of rice fields that once stretched as far as the eye could see.
Hampton inspired the works of a South Carolina poet laureate, Archibald Rutledge, who lived here and gave it to the people of South Carolina as a legacy. The site is a National Historic Landmark.
This cache is part of the South Carolina State Park Service Geocache Challenge. There are 4 regions within the challenge, with different numbers of geocache locations in each region. In each posted cache, there is a hint, a number that will be used in the formula given in the description for the regional mystery cache, leading you to the final cache in each region, 4 in total. And in that final mystery cache in each region is also a hint, a number that will be used in the formula given in the description for the “Finale cache”, providing the coordinates to reach the final cache, located at Sesquicentennial State Park which entitles the first 5 finders to a special reward. But to do this, you will have to have traveled to all 47 parks, and have found all of the caches! Good luck and most of all, have fun! For more information on the South Carolina State Park Geocaching Challenge, hours of operation, rates, and other information, please refer to our website: www.southcarolinaparks.com
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