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South Carolina’s Botany Bay Plantation
While tourists crowd Myrtle Beach and Hilton Head, Botany Bay Plantation sits quietly on Edisto Island, preserving a piece of raw South Carolina coastline.
The 4,600-acre wildlife preserve, formed from two historic cotton plantations, keeps its dirt roads unpaved and its beach ungroomed. No gift shops, no condos – just the Lowcountry as it was.
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Who Created Botany Bay?
Originally formed in the 1840s by John Townsend, a secessionist and state legislator, he developed the plantation into a hub for cotton production and horticulture…