Weekend Garden Tour - Video 2: The first stop along the garden tour at Charles Towne Landing is to view the camellias planted by Ferdinanda Waring. Check out this camellia, just one of many varieties we will show you! | South Carolina State Parks

📅 Saturday, Oct 18 | 11 AM – 3 PM 📍Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site 🎨 Family-friendly, hands-on, and full of history! Archaeologists often rely on unexpected tools—like historic paintings—to uncover daily life long before photos or social media, and to help identify artifacts. Come see for yourself! Join our Artifact Seek & Find and search historic paintings from the 1600s for dishes, pipes, wine goblets, and more just like ones we have found at Charles Towne. | South Carolina State

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❓Why did Charles Towne move from where Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site is today (the original settlement site), to the peninsula on the other side of the Ashley River? Ranger John🤠 is here to tell you why -- and debunk some myths! Listen up! | South Carolina State Parks

Do you ever camp in an area like the SC Upstate where bears live? Then you need to be Bear Aware! This video features Memphis, one of our black bears that live at Charles Towne Landing. Look how quickly it takes a bear to destroy a campsite if food is left where bears can find it! | South Carolina State Parks

#RangerJohn here to ask you to join us for Colonial Trades & Harvest Day, Saturday, Nov. 9 at Charles Towne Landing! Learn about daily life activities in the Carolina colony, interact with educators dressed in period clothing, see our active archaeological excavation --and more! Details, here https://southcarolinaparks.com/products/10003558 | South Carolina State Parks