Nine slave cabins still stand at South Carolina’s oldest working plantation

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It’s been farming for over 320 years

Boone Hall Plantation sits on 738 acres in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, about 25 minutes from downtown Charleston.

It has been producing crops continuously since 1681, making it one of the longest-running working plantations in the country. Nine brick slave cabins still stand.

A three-quarter-mile canopy of oaks leads to the front door…

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