Back in October we took a trip out to Berkeley Plantation. The plantation was built in 1726 and has quite an interesting history! The first Thanksgiving was here (a whole year before the pilgrims.) and focused completely on prayer instead of food.
The plantation is also home to several presidents: William Henry Harrison, the 9th president, and his grandson, Benjamin Harrison, who was the 23rd president.
Taps was written here, the area was also one of the first shipyards in the new world, and it's also home of the first whiskey distillery.
Pictures weren't allowed inside the plantation house, so the following pictures are all of the grounds. The tour of the house was interesting and our tour guide was friendly and did a good job talking about the house and the grounds.
We also found out while on the tour that a movie was being filmed nearby, and the grounds of the plantation were being used for the cast and crew. And I believe some of the movie was being filmed at the plantation as well.
Two of the guys who were working on the movie were on the tour with us and they were really interesting. We ran into them later and talked to them again. We could have talked to them for quite a while as the one guy (the other one didn't really talk) was just full of information about the area, history, and the movie they were making.
Anyways, back to the pictures! The sun was just starting to go down which made for some interesting lighting. You'll notice some lens flare (which looks like rays or dots of light.) in several of the pictures. I think it looks kind of neat!
Oh my goodness! What a gorgeous place. Thanks for providing so much history about it, too. Totally makes sense to film a movie here. :)
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What a beautiful place. Thanks for sharing it.
ReplyDeleteIt really was beautiful! I want to go back in the spring as I imagine there will be lots of flowers blooming then!
ReplyDeleteThanks!
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