Hanover House celebrates 30 years in S.C. Botanical Garden
Come join us this October as Clemson’s Department of Historic Properties, with support from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, hosts a month long celebration filled with dynamic speakers, engaging programs and family-friendly activities that bring history to life.
Event Information
Oct 4
A History of Hanover: A Facilitated Discussion with Rick Owens and Holly Corbett
11:00-12: at Hayden Conference Center
Can You Build It?
12:00-4:00 Activities at Hanover House
When Hanover House was moved, it was taken apart, pieces were labelled, and the house was put back together at its new location! Try to rebuild a house and create a new design, too. Activities appropriate for all ages.
Oct 11
South Carolina’s Forgotten Landscape: A Cultural History of Old St. John’s Berkeley with Richard Porcher
11:00-12: at Hayden Conference Center
Piece by Piece activities
12:00-4:00: at Hanover House
Quilts are so much more than a way to keep warm. They can tell stories and share a message. Each square is a meaningful work of art! Put some quilt design puzzles together, color your favorite square design, then draw an original to share your own message. Activities appropriate for all ages.
Oct 16
Foodways: Rice Cultivation and the Dutch Fork Pumpkin with David Shields
6:30-7:30: at OLLI, 100 Thomas Green Blvd, Clemson, SC 29631
Oct 19
Rice - Plant, Pick, and Process
2:00-4:00: Activities at Hanover House
Rice was an important crop to the early inhabitants of the Hanover House. Explore how rice is grown as you use beads to create a bracelet showing the steps of the plant's life cycle. Then, learn weaving techniques similar to those used by enslaved field workers to make baskets to harvest and transport the rice they grew. Finally, put your muscles to work as you explore the technique used to separate the rice hull from the kernel using a mortar and pestle, like what was done in the past! Activities appropriate for all ages.
Oct 25
Celebration of Preservation: Black Heritage Trail, Preservation South, and Clemson Historic Preservation
11:00-12:00: in Charleston at the Hayden Conference Center
Learn what it means to save pieces of history for the future. Adorn your own mini house with features that you feel are important to preserve and add a note that includes things you want to protect for generations to come. Activities appropriate for all ages.
Hanover House was built in 1716 for French Huguenot Paul de St. Julien in Berkley County, South Carolina. It is one of the oldest examples of an early French Huguenot colonial house still standing in the country. In the 1940s when the Cooper River was dammed to create Lake Moultrie, the house was dismantled and moved to the campus of Clemson University to save it. In 1994, it was dismantled and moved to its current location in the South Carolina Botanical Garden where it was opened to the public as a museum. Hanover House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Hanover House is open Monday to Saturday (except for home football game days) from 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4:30 p.m. and on Sunday from 2 to 4:30 p.m.
