Live Oak & Azaleas
I shot this image of a moss-draped live oak shading a stand of azaleas at Middleton Place plantation near Charleston, South Carolina.
From the 1700s through the mid 1800s Middleton Place served as an important political and economic force in American history. In 1776, the son of one of its founders, Arthur Middleton, signed the Declaration of Independence. For that sin British forces imprisoned him in 1781 and looted the property, which they used as a jumping off point for their siege of Charleston.
In 1860, another Middleton Place legatee, Williams Middleton, signed an altogether different declaration: the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession which helped to jump start America’s bloody Civil War.
The building in the background of this photo is the plantation’s old springhouse, the lower level of which provided food refrigeration for the plantation house. The upper level served as a chapel.
Live Oak & Azaleas
I shot this image of a moss-draped live oak shading a stand of azaleas at Middleton Place plantation near Charleston, South Carolina.
From the 1700s through the mid 1800s Middleton Place served as an important political and economic force in American history. In 1776, the son of one of its founders, Arthur Middleton, signed the Declaration of Independence. For that sin British forces imprisoned him in 1781 and looted the property, which they used as a jumping off point for their siege of Charleston.
In 1860, another Middleton Place legatee, Williams Middleton, signed an altogether different declaration: the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession which helped to jump start America’s bloody Civil War.
The building in the background of this photo is the plantation’s old springhouse, the lower level of which provided food refrigeration for the plantation house. The upper level served as a chapel.