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across Francis Marion Park. Marion, the“ Swamp Fox” who bedeviled and bewildered the British with Cherokee-style guerilla warfare during the Revolutionary War, grew up around here.
Soon U. S. 17 took me through Francis Marion National Forest. I turned onto a lone road to McClellanville, enticed by the sign proclaiming“ Tree City USA.” I was immediately tunneling through an avenue of moss-draped live oaks all the way to its terminus in this fishing village of barely 500 folk. I’ d passed Graham’ s Seafood, est. 1894. At the Intracoastal Waterway sits the Village Museum. The wood of live oaks, I learned, was used by the Colonials for shipbuilding because the thick, bent limbs of the squat trees provided naturally curved timbers for the hull, lending exceptional strength. Cannonballs would bounce off; hence the term“ Old Ironsides,” alluding to the USS Constitution.
Boone Hall Plantation offers a more famous boulevard of mossenveloped oaks as it approaches the mansion seen in many a movie,
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If Boone Hall Plantation looks familiar, it’ s because it served as a focal point in many a movie, including“ Gone with the Wind.”
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