Pictures from South Carolina

We visited South Carolina in 2000 and 2002. Also in 2004 we were in the state, but this time we just crossed through the northwest corner on  our way from Georgia to North Carolina. Charleston and its surrounding is where have spent most of our time in this state.

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	The Battery has many large and often antebellum houses.
	This is not easy to see in the picture, but the balconies are different from floor to floor. The balconies on top and bottom floor has straight railings while the middle balcony has a curved railing. This provided space for the womens big crinoline dresses.
	This house formerly belonged to John C. Calhoun, vice president under two presidents before the Civil War.
	Outside town are many large, old plantations. The picture shows Boone Hall Plantation, known as America's most photographed plantation. It ihas been used in many movies and TV series. Best known in Denmark is probably the television series "North and South", where Boone Hall "played" the Mains family home, Mount Royal.
	Imagine the late Patrick Swayze as Orry Main on horseback coming up the oak avenue.
	In these huts lived the household slaves and the slaves who worked as artisans. Field slaves lived in  mobile wooden shacks that were carried from one field to another
	Between 8 and 12 people typically shared a house like this with just one single room.
	This is the old gin house. Today it houses a restaurant and souvenir shop.
	Not far from Boone Hall you find Fort Moultrie, founded in 1776 and thus one of America's oldest forts. It was active up until the Second World War but is now a museum. Edgar Allen Poe are among those who served here.
	The large 6" Rodman guns are from around 1870.
	In Charleston Harbor between Fort Moultrie on one shore and Fort Johnson on the other is Fort Sumter. Gun shots from Fort Johnson against Fort Sumter started the civil war.
	Here and there along the South Carolina roads you can still find stalls where sweetgrass baskets are made and sold. They are beautiful, but quite expensive.

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