Out for a walk the day, using a shorter lens to catch random scenes around old Magnolia Plantation. This isn’t something I do a lot of this time of year, tourism pays the bills here and it gets busy.
Below is an image looking down to the gate on the original entrance. Early years travel and commerce was by river, sometime before the US Civil War a road came up along the river. There were at least four major plantations and homes on the Ashley and wagon/carriage was easier by then.
Of course when the war did come along that road made it easy for the federal army to march right in. And they did.
On the side on the entrance is one of the many swamps here. The plantation is made up of multiple swamps, the land between here and Charleston is filled with wetlands.
Swamps can be beautiful, in the case of Magnolia the original owners took advantage of the water by planting gardens around the various ponds and using the marshy sections as rice fields.
The original settlers along the Ashley plantations became some of the wealthier people in North America.
Photographed with the OM-1 mk2, OM 12-100 f4, Lightroom, DxO Filmpack.
Linda and I always enjoy visiting various plantations on our travels…well, mainly Linda but a small price to pay for all the birding she let’s me do. Incredible way to learn about the southern history and influences.