page_title: Boone Hall
section_title: Grounds and Other Significant Structures at the Site
hierarchical_section_title: Boone Hall / Mansion and grounds / Grounds and Other Significant Structures at the Site
caption_attribution_description: English: 3/4 MILE AVENUE OF OAKS PLANTED IN 1743 BY CAPTAIN THOMAS BOONE. HAS BEEN USED IN THE FILMING OF MANY HOLLYWOOD MOVIES This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 83002187 More images
context_page_description: Boone Hall Plantation is a publicly-toured historic site. It is one of America's oldest working plantations, continually producing agricultural crops for over 320 years. The antebellum era plantation is located in Mount Pleasant, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
  The historic site includes a 1936 Colonial Revival style dwelling, a number of unique, brick slave cabins, as well as multiple significant landscape features, including an allée of southern live oak trees believed to have been planted in 1743.
context_section_description: Boone Hall Plantation now spans 738 acres. The landscape is used for growing seasonal crop fields, but also includes preserved wetlands, creeks, and ponds. 
  The most notable feature of the grounds is the grand Avenue of Oaks that was first planted in 1743 and completed by the Horlbeck brothers in 1843. On axis with the front facade of the house, the allée consists of 88 live oak trees and one magnolia, that are evenly spaced, and run 3/4 of a mile from the entrance of the plantation to a pair of brick gateposts. The gateposts are topped with ball finals, hung with formal wrought iron gates and along with a brick serpentine wall enclose the forecourt of the house. Open lawns at each side of the entry drive are flanked by formal gardens with brick-paved paths, laid among large live oaks and planted with camellias, azaleas and Noisette roses. Visitors arriving to the house in the 19th century by carriage would have driven through the tunnel of oaks, past the many slave quarters to the left of the road. Their number, but small massing would have stood in stark contrast to the large, master's house at the end of the drive. Such a vista symbolizes the place as a place of work and production, rather than leisure. 
  The original slave cabins date from between 1790 to 1810. Built of brick, the one-story structures are 12 feet by 30 feet with gabled roofs, have either plank or dirt floors and a simple fireplace with a brick hearth and no mantle at the rear of each house. The cabins were in use well into the 20th century, as they were occupied by sharecroppers through the 1940s. These dwellings were continuously occupied by enslaved, then free sharecroppers fo nearly 150 years, making them incredibly significant to the history of the site. 
  On the wide forecourt directly in front of the house are two pergolas, constructed in 1993 as part of the ongoing efforts to enhance the gardens. At the southwest edge of the gardens, within the serpentine wall, is a brick smokehouse dating from 1750. The cylindrical structure has a conical timber roof sheathed in slate.
  To the southeast of the main house is the large Cotton Gin house built in the 1850s. The machinery to process cotton is no longer found, and has since been used as a guest house, restaurant and gift shop by subsequent owners. Due to damage by Hurricane Hugo, the building is no longer habitable and is awaiting renovation.
caption: The Avenue of Oaks
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