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Broughton's
Mulberry Plantation
- The style and elegance of the "Mulberry Plantation"
is credited to Thomas Broughton, an early American planter-politician.
Broughton built the Jacobean baroque-style home in 1714... some
years before he actually acquired the title to the site. Regardles
of the manner in which he obtained the property, historians say
he modeled it after the Broughton family seat in England.
- The house is located on a rare hill near ancient rice fields
lining a river in the Carolina Low Country.
- At one time the house served as a sort of fortress during
various early wars with the Indians. And old cannon relics have
been uncovered from what is now the lawn.
- The present owners open Mulberry Plantation each spring to
the public.
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