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Our family has been living Charleston, South Carolina history since 1690 and we’d like to share it with you! View Tours
As a sightseeing visitor, your historic Charleston tour might take you to Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, or you might choose viewing the homes on The Battery in downtown Charleston on our Historic Charleston City Tour. As an added bonus, all of our touring guests receive free admission to the Powder Magazine circa 1713, a National Historic Landmark when they show proof of tour purchase at the Powder Magazine gate. This tour is done on your own. We bring to you the best Charleston, SC tour value. 
There are many Charleston tours to choose from, including private tours for groups. We invite you to spend the day with our experienced historians. Remember, History Buffs Go With Us! View Tours Book online or by phone. 843-577-3311
~(updated 12-30-11) The Camelia’s and Sasanquas are in bloom! Admire the beautiful blooms at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens with us. According to award winning Camelia gardener Rupert Drews (He is my uncle!) in an interview with Charleston Home Magazine [2006],
“It’s a Southern social must to have camellias in the yard,” says Rupie Drews, a Charleston native and notable authority on the iconic blooms. And he should know; the 77-year-old camellia connoisseur had his own introduction to flowers as a child, learning at his father’s elbow in the nursery he kept at the family’s Hampton Park home. “In the wintertime, when everything else is dead, here come the camellias… they bloom and show everything else up,” he says. The gifted gardener has been showing camellias for more than 40 years and nurtures his fondness for them daily by caring for the more than 300 varieties currently growing in his garden.
Through the years Uncle Rupie has shared many Camelia clippings and roots with the curators at Magnolia Plantation. Enjoying Camelia’s in the wintertime are a Southern pastime. Tour with Charleston’s Finest to and experience this Charleston tradition.~L.G.
Pictured below: Japonica English Khune Drews, created by Uncle Rupie, named for my cousin, English. Award winning bloom registered with the American Camelia Society.
Charleston’s Finest Historic Tours are packed with information about what to see and do while in Charleston, South Carolina.Charleston is a city once known as “Little London” where democracy was nurtured and secession proclaimed! Charleston was often the home of Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, and Thomas Sumter, the Gamecock. John Rutledge was chairman of eleven committees that helped formulate America and finalized the American Constitution. Rutledge has a beautiful home that we look forward to showing you.
“Marriage Compromise” house on the Battery 
“A City Set In A Garden”
Charleston has been known as a “city set in a garden” for over 300 years. Flowers you may have in your hometown were probably developed in Charleston or brought to America through Charleston ports.
- The Noisette Rose established a new class of rose. After being sent to Paris, the flower is all over the world today. Philippe Noisette, who moved to Charleston, developed the first bush rose.
- The common gardenia is named after Dr. Alexander Garden, a physician and horticulturist, who lived in Charleston prior to the Revolutionary War.
- Another Charlestonian, Joel Poinsett, was responsible for the world popularity of the Christmas Poinsettia plant. Showing her flowers 12 months a year, Charleston’s love of gardens has made her one of America’s most picturesque cities.
Magnolia Plantation
A day in Charleston would not be complete without a plantation excursion to Magnolia Plantation and Gardens. Once declared by travel writer Charles Kuralt as “My greatest Charleston pleasure”.
- Magnolia Plantations is on the list of top 25 homes most visited in America. Early European Travel writers once said there are only 3 things to see in America: Magnolia Plantation, Niagara Falls, and the Grand Canyon.
- The Drayton family has been living on Magnolia Plantation since 1676 when Thomas Drayton can to Charleston. There are many books about this extended family.
- Magnolia has something for visitors of all ages: riding train though Audubon Swamp, birds and alligators, petting zoo, touring the Southern Plantation house, to see original slave cabins, or simply strolling the older public gardens in America.
Charleston’s Finest guests are sure to enjoy the Plantation’s many treasures. View our Tours
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