Walking Backwards Through Time
(Part One) LIVING IN THE PAST AT HISTORIC BRATTONSVILLE Article and Photographs
by Roxanne Lark I went looking for a sunflower field and
found an 18th century homestead. Those who know me won’t raise an eye brow thinking about that one. I am even surprised at where my journey took me, from Historic Brat- tonsville in McClellanville SC to Historic Rosedale Plantation in Charlotte and then back to my own roots. Funny how that hap- pens sometimes. A friend and I heard about a huge sun-
flower field that several folks in a photogra- phy class had been to for a field trip and we decided to go find it. Well, if you look on “lo- cations” on your GPS, I doubt if you will find anything like “sunflower field” listed. After wandering around through a few charming towns (another way of saying “we were lost”) we found a sign for Historic Brattonsville Vis- itor’s Center and it was surrounded by 18th and 19th century homes. We stopped in to ask directions and we got them, but we also got an invitation to come back and explore the historical dwellings. We got back in the car and drove directly to what was left of the sun- flower field. Apparently we missed the blooms by a few days. Being such positive gals and being determined not to let the day slide by without practicing what we had learned in our last photography class, we jumped back in the car and headed back to Brattonsville. I thought it would be worth spending an
hour or so there wandering around and using this for our photography field trip. Several hours later I was so engrossed in all I was see- ing that I realized we had skipped lunch and had been out in midsummer heat with hu- midity levels around 80 percent all day. We left to get lunch and returned to spend a few more hours. With some buildings being original struc-
tures, some being replicas and a few having been moved there from other locations, in-
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