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| Half-Day Tours (you may sign up for both half-day tours) | ||||
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Charleston Architecture Walking Tour (morning half-day tour, includes box lunch - walking leaves from the Francis Marion Hotel) Led by Kristopher King, Historic Charleston Foundation |
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| Founded in 1670 at Albemarle Point, then moved to Oyster point in 1680, Charleston was the only walled city constructed in the United States. By 1690, Charleston was America's fifth largest city. Initially, the population consisted mostly of English settlers, and later added many French Protestants called "Huguenots" as well as quite a few Irish. Charleston became one of the largest and wealthiest cities in America as the result of the trading of indigo, rice and slaves. | ||||
| Historic Charleston Foundation is dedicated to preserving and protecting the historical, architectural and cultural character of Charleston and its historic environs, and to educating the public about Charleston’s history and the benefits that are derived from preservation. This walking tour will showcase some of the Foundation's many successes while providing participants with an excellent overview of the breadth of historic architecture in Charleston. Highlights will include homes along the East Battery, the Nathaniel Russell House and gardens (one of Historic Charleston Foundation's house museums), and the Aiken-Rhett House, another Foundation property that is currently the subject of extensive archaeological and historical research and restoration efforts. |
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African-American/Gullah Focus Walking Tour (afternoon half-day tour, does not include lunch - walking tour leaves from the Francis Marion Hotel) Led by Valerie Perry, Historic Charleston Foundation |
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| Return to Overview | While the splendid architecture of Historic Charleston is testament to the fortunes and social status of the city's white inhabitants, numerous sites also reflect the participation of enslaved and freed African-Americans in the history of Charleston. The Gullah are African Americans who live throughout Low Country communities in South Carolina and Georgia who still practice cultural traditions brought by their enslaved ancestors from Africa hundreds of years ago. | |||
| This walking tour will focus on the rich African-American/Gullah history of Charleston. Participants will visit the Old Slave Mart, the Avery Research Center for African-American History and Culture at the College of Charleston, among other important sites. Participants also will have the opportunity to meet with Phillip Simmons, an internationally renowned blacksmith and ornamental gate maker, and "Sweet grass" basket makers, whose baskets are sought after the world over for their style and quality. |
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Auldbrass Plantation - Beaufort Tour (all day tour, includes lunch - bus departs from the Francis Marion Hotel) |
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| Return to Overview | Auldbrass Plantation is the only plantation Frank Lloyd Wright ever designed, working on it from 1938 until his death in 1959. The property then fell into disrepair after the owner's death in 1962, but in 1986, Joel Silver (famed Hollywood producer) purchased the property. Having already restored Wright's 1924 Storer residence in Los Angeles, California, Silver has spent the last 15 years restoring Auldbrass to the original Wright design and specifications (see 2003 New York Times article by Matt Lee and Ted Lee). Auldbrass is rarely open to the public, so this tour, arranged by the Historic Charleston Foundation, promises to be a real treat. |
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| In addition to visiting Audlbrass, participants also will visit Beaufort, South Carolina, which contains a 304-acre National Register Historic District and National Historic Landmark. Chartered by the British in 1711, Beaufort is the second-oldest town in South Carolina. In the eighteenth century as indigo and rice plantations thrived, Sea Island Cotton also brought incredible prosperity to the area prior to the Civil War. Beaufort’s eighteenth and early nineteenth century homes are one of its most beloved treasures, and the Beaufort style of architecture is unique to the area and typically features a raised first floor, double porches, high ceilings, a southern orientation and a T-shaped floor plan that helps to provide for cross breezes. |
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Cooper River Historic District (all-day tour, includes lunch - bus departs from the Francis Marion Hotel) Led by Jonathan Poston and Katherine Saunders, Historic Charleston Foundation |
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| The district’s rice fields, canals, dams, reservoirs, causeways, roads and cemeteries are tangible evidence of the rice plantation economy and the work of thousands of slaves who provided labor for the plantations. The area also contains several significant archaeological sites; digs here have given scholars new insights into the Colonial, antebellum and post-Civil War history of white and black inhabitants of the region. Fine examples of architecture found in the district from the Colonial period through the modern era will be visited on this tour. These include Middleburg Plantation (1697), the oldest surviving plantation house in South Carolina; the Georgian style Pompion Hill Chapel (1763); and the International style buildings at Mepkin Plantation (ca. 1938). |
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Ashley River Tour (all-day tour, includes lunch - bus departs from the Francis Marion Hotel) Led by James Hare, Cornerstones Community Partnerships, Sante Fe, New Mexico |
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| Like the Cooper River, the Ashley River was home to numerous plantations. Traveling along the Ashley River Road, one passes not only the elegant gateways of these plantations, but passes through the history of European settlement, commerce, industry, slavery, two wars, and the environmental degradation of Reconstruction. A 24-mile segment of the Ashley River has been designated a State Scenic River and Ashley River Road is a Scenic Highway. | ||||
| Stops along this tour will include Middleton Plantation, a National Historic Landmark (the house was constructed ca. 1731), Old St. Andrews Episcopal Church, built ca. 1706 and the oldest surviving church in South Carolina), and Fort Dorchester, a tabby structure built in the mid-18th century. Lunch is being arranged at the Garden Center on the beautifully landscape grounds of Middleton Plantation. |
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US/ICAHM
Session on Geophysical Sensing Technologies (click on title above for list of speakers, abstracts, and speaker biographies) Geophysical sensing technologies (e.g., ground penetration radar, high resolution aerial radar, magnetometry, sonar technologies, satellite and aerial collection of multispectral and hyperspectral data) and the availability and sophistication of GIS technology have developed rapidly over the past decade. This symposium will present a brief history of these technologies, describe some of the most promising applications of them, and consider the ways in which they might be made more available to researchers and preservationists. A discussion will be held at the end of the session to solicit ideas for mainstreaming the use of these technologies in research, site management planning and monitoring the condition of cultural resources. The discussion will also address the need to safeguard the locations of sites when they are discovered with the use of remote sensing technologies. |
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