Charles Pinckney National Historic Site, SC

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​NPS Stop 2-Charles Pinckney National Historic Site: https://www.nps.gov/chpi/index.htm

​This site was one of the smaller plantations owned by Charles Pinckney who was a principal author and signer of the United States Constitution.  On this plantation the cash crop was indigo.  Indigo was used in textiles as a blue dye. This plantation produced over one million pounds of indigo which was shipped to England. This site is a very pretty setting and the azaleas and roses were in bloom.  We hiked some of the trails in what was left of the massive estate which he used as a summer home.