47 www.ReadMPM.com | www.MountPleasantMagazine.com | www.MountPleasantPodcast.com They will guide you to Hobcaw Barony, where you’ll be greeted by Sandy, a highly-knowledgeable volunteer who has been working at the plantation for 14 years, and whose enthusiasm for the history of the 16,000-plus acre nature preserve is contagious. A two-hour tour of Hobcaw, a Native American word meaning “between the waters,” takes you to the Baruch mansion on Winyah Bay, where the late landowner and financier Bernard Baruch (1870-1965) once hosted Winston Churchill, President Franklin Roosevelt and Ernest Hemmingway. It will also bring you to Friendfield Village, the last slave village of the 19th century on the Waccamaw Neck. Additionally, you will travel along part of the road once known as the King’s Highway. The Hobcaw Barony Discovery Center itself is a wealth of information about the indigenous coastal ecology, wildlife and endangered species. While you’re there, ask Sandy to tell you the stories about Bernard’s daughter Belle Baruch (1899-1964), whose foundation now operates the property. An equestrienne, sailor, hunter and an amateur pilot, Belle was a woman ahead of her time. Tickets for the Hobcaw Barony tours sell out way in advance, so book your time online at www. hobcawbarony.org or call 843-546-4623. SITES TO SEE Next, head to Brookgreen Gardens, a National Historic Site situated on four former rice plantations. Inside the over 9,000 acres of nature preserve, you’ll find a place that was recently named one of the Top 10 Botanical Gardens in America, where you’ll walk beneath the 250-year-old oaks alongside flora and fauna, reflecting ponds and rice fields amid the largest and most comprehensive collection of American figurative sculpture in the country. Referred to as “the finest outdoor museum of its type in the world” by “Brookgreen Gardens” author Robin R. Salmon, the gardens, three galleries and a visible storage and research gallery reveal a treasure trove of over 2,700 breathtaking carvings by 425 artists. Of note is the detailed work “The Visionaries,” sculpted by Anna Hyatt Huntington (1876-1973), who was among New York City’s most successful sculptors in the early 1900s during a time the hammock coast NEW! Bubbles Jewelry Bar- Custom Charm Jewelry & Parties 2118 Hwy 41 Ste 104 Mt Pleasant 843.800.0564 @bubblesgiftshoppe @bubblesjewelrybar @therealbubblescandleco
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