Because of Hobcaw’s popularity, we’re running two trips simultaneously this season. We just had some cancellations and are hoping to fill these slots. A full description of the trip is below. If you would like to reserve space, please contact Julie Thogmartin (740-501-8154 or juliathogmartin@gmail.com) asap. Thank you!
The trip is Thursday, March 24 from 7:45 am -2:00 pm. The cost is $24.00.
We’ll carpool to Hobcaw (in Georgetown, SC), then embark on a 2-hour bus tour that includes highlights of Hobcaw Barony’s 16,000 acres of history and ecology. A privately-owned research reserve, the property represents every environment and century in the Lowcountry.
Naval stores, indigo, and rice production ended by 1905, when the land was purchased by Bernard Baruch, a native South Carolinian and Wall Street financier. He and other millionaires hunted ducks, deer, and wild turkeys on this winter retreat.
The bus stops for a tour inside his 1930 home which played host to politicians, generals, and newspapermen, including Winston Churchill and President Franklin Roosevelt.
In addition to Hobcaw House, the tour includes a drive by Bellefield plantation, the home of Belle Baruch who owned the property by 1956, as well as a drive through Friendfield Village, the last 19th century slave village on the Waccamaw Neck. Minimal walking.
-Submitted by Carol Bane