“Cotton is King!”
Those words resounded through Congress and then the nation in a fiery speech by South Carolina Sen. James Henry Hammond in the years leading up to the Civil War.
Hammond’
Visitors & History Center includes museum of Beech Island history, archival research room &
Beech Island, SC Historical Societies...
Wine tasting room is open to the public....
The annual fall festival offers continuous entertainment, games, contests and activities for children. Also, crafts and food...
Built in 1842, consecrated in 1843. Oldest church building in Aiken. Behind the sanctuary are interred botanist Henry Ravene...