Snee Farm & Fort Moultrie

It was clear but breezy as we made our way southeast from Congaree to Charleston, SC. I was surprised at how thick the trees were and how little development there was along this road. After a couple of hours drive, we arrived at the Snee Farm. The Snee Farm was once part of several plantations owned by Charles Pinckney, a former Senator, Governor, Ambassador to France, and a signer of the Constitution. This site is rather small - the visitor center for the Charles Pinckney NHS is in the bottom floor of a 19th century house built on the site of the house Pinckney owned, which burned down in a fire. In addition, half of the visitor center was closed for renovations, so we weren't able to view most of the exhibits. The site also contains a short trail through some of the former grounds of the plantation, which we walked. 

The kids answered the Jr Ranger questions as best they could with the limited information available to them, and had to ask the Ranger for some of the answers. It only took us about an hour and a half to complete it, but even if all the exhibits were available, I doubt it would have taken more than two hours to see pretty much everything.  We then drove to a KOA in nearby Mount Pleasant.This morning we visited Fort Moultrie National Monument. It is located at the entrance to the Charleston harbor, near Fort Sumter. It was pretty interesting, as the Fort provided a defense of the Charleston area from Colonial times to World War II. 

At the visitor center, we watched the video about the different eras of the fort, and viewed the exhibits before walking through the fort itself. We were there about 2 hours, and the kids earned their Jr Ranger badges. Since the history of Fort Moultrie also included much of the history of Fort Sumter, we elected not to pay the fee to take the boat over to Fort Sumter, or to try to take the RV to downtown Charleston to the visitor center.