Magnolia Plantation and it's Gardens

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Step back 325 years as you visit Charleston, South Carolina's premier tourist attraction and plantation, founded 1676.

As the South's Complete Plantation Experience, noted by travel writer, Charles Kuralt, as his "...greatest Charleston pleasure," we invite you to add Magnolia Plantation and Its Gardens to your travel itinerary. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the U. S. Department of the Interior, stately Magnolia Plantation has, for over three centuries, been the original ancestral home of the Drayton family, whose many sons have played important roles throughout American history.

It is believed that no other plantation in South Carolina is still under original family ownership from that early date, thirteen generations of the present-owning family having enjoyed it. Like many of Charleston's settlers, the original American Drayton, Thomas, and his future wife, Ann Fox, arrived here from Barbados in the 1670s. Having received Magnolia Plantation as a wedding gift from her Barbadian father, Stephen Fox, they built the colony's first plantation house of note here in the 1680s. At the same time, they began planting what is now America's Oldest Garden. Over the ensuing three centuries, their direct descendants, while continuing to live here, have maintained a special affinity with their ancestral island, this Barbados Tropical Garden being their tribute.

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