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Location: Drayton Hall
Phone: 843.769.2603
Featuring Connections: From Africa to America - Unscripted and Interactive
Programs, activities, and a special promotion take place throughout the month of February to highlight African-American history at Drayton Hall:
Saturday, February 6th - 10:00am to 11:30am
NEW Drayton Hall Family Fun First Saturdays - A Day In The Life of a Colonial Plantation - ideal for families with children ages 6 through 12
- This new monthly series (February through May) of interactive programs will take place the first Saturday of every month.
- Series launches during Black History Month with A Day In The Life of a Colonial Plantation
- In February, families will learn all about the workings of a colonial plantation and household and will have the opportunity to try their hand at colonial cooking, be a blacksmiths apprentice, and use musical instruments with African traditions.
- Children will make indigo-dyed rag dolls and pinch pots as take-home souvenirs
- Families pay the regular gate admission per person plus only $7 per family for the program. OR, they can sign up for the series of four programs and pay regular gate admission one time plus $20 per family for the entire series.
Daily Programs highlight African-American history at Drayton Hall:
Connections: From Africa to America
Presented three times daily at 11:15 a.m., 1:15 p.m., and 3:15 p.m., this 45-minute program uses maps, historic documents, and artifacts to trace the story of enslaved Africans through emancipation, and into the 20th century. Participants can expect to read through slave lists and plantation records describing a days work in the rice fields and to hear about the skills of enslaved people that helped make the plantation prosper.
Drayton Hall House Tours
Every Drayton Hall House Tour is unique because each one is unscripted: Drayton Hall s professional interpreters not only design their own program after extensive research and training, they continue to enrich their presentations as the results of Drayton Hall s ongoing research into African-American history and culture become available. In honor of Black History Month, a special emphasis is being placed on all house tours to highlight the roles and responsibilities of African Americans and the contributions they have made to Drayton Hall throughout its long history, said Craig Tuminaro, director of museum interpretation.
The Voices of Drayton Hall Interactive Landscape Tour on DVD
A companion piece to Drayton Hall s professionally guided house tour, this self-directed, interactive landscape tour on DVD lets visitors dig deeper into a favorite topic or skip ahead at any point during the tour. They ll discover never-before-seen images and documents from Drayton Hall s archives and listen to the voices of Drayton Hall descendants, both black and white. Included with regular admission; produced by The History Channel.
A Sacred Place: The African-American Cemetery
Thought to be in use by at least the late 1800s, the cemetery was at the heart of a community of African-American families tending their small houses, gardens, and fields. A recent discovery showed that the burial grounds extend beyond the boundaries of the present-day site; while the number of documented graves has increased from 33 to 39, future studies will likely reveal that that there are many more.
