This tour lasts approximately two hours and enables visitors to explore our unique Natural Heritage Garden. You’ll step back in time to when explorers first touched the coastal sands of the state, buffalo and wolves inhabited the Piedmont prairies, Native Americans managed the landscape with fire, and African Americans began to make beautiful baskets from local grasses. Enjoy this fascinating insight into the social, cultural and ecological history of South Carolina. Following the tour, we will visit the Hunt Cabin to learn about life in the Antebellum period. The Hunt family built this cabin in the early 1800’s (c.1826) and lived in it with their growing family. Participants will learn about their lives, the lives of the enslaved people who lived on the property, and others in the nineteenth century upstate.