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Breaking News, Carter C. Hudgins, Portico, Preservation, Press, Staff, Trish Smith

  Enjoy these two recent articles about Drayton Hall, its staff, and the work we’re doing to preserve this architectural masterpiece. Online: January 2016 – Charleston Mercury – “Drayton Hall’s…

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Distinguished Speakers Series, Event, Friends of Drayton Hall, Landscape, Portico, Sarah Stroud Clarke, Staff, Trish Smith, Uncategorized

The Friends of Drayton Hall are pleased to present the third season of the Drayton Hall Distinguished Speakers Series. Beginning with the opening event of the 2016 season, you’ll experience…

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Breaking News, Event, Landscape, Preservation, Uncategorized

Join us on January 29 and 30 for Breaking Ground and Building Bridges, a symposium that brings together leading scholars from Charleston’s preservation and history organizations to present new research…

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Archaeology, Breaking News, Portico, Preservation, Staff

Enjoy this fascinating piece by Trish Smith on the National Trust’s Preservation Leadership Forum Blog. Posted on November 20, 2015, news of the discoveries related to the rehabilitation of Drayton Hall’s iconic…

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African American history, Research

By Ruth Ellen Gruber, Norman and Gerry Sue Arnold Distinguished Visiting Chair at the College of Charleston More than 20 years ago I wrote a book called Upon the Doorposts…

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Distinguished Speakers Series, Research

Dr. Brian Matthew Jordan, cultural historian of the Civil War and Reconstruction, will speak at the close of the Civil War Sesquicentennial on April 16th at the next Drayton Hall…

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