Boone Hall scrapbooks, 1935-1940.

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Boone Hall scrapbooks, 1935-1940.

1935 - 1940

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Three bound volumes entitled "Boone Hall Journals" document the purchase, development and operation of Boone Hall Plantation by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Stone. Journal entries (some in French) concern farming at Boone Hall, construction of a house, restoration of buildings, the weather, the digging of irrigation ditches, family matters, dealings with African-American workers, hunting, and other topics. Scrapbooks also contain numerous photographs, correspondence, clippings, weather reports, market reports, a watercolor painting, a poem about Boone Hall, and other items. Photographs depict crops (including tomatoes, corn, potatoes, and cabbages), pecan groves, houses and other buildings, workers, and other subjects. Correspondence (letters, postcards, telegrams) mainly concerns farming operations and payrolls and includes letters to Thomas A. Stone from [farm manager?] Charles W. Schroder. Newspaper clippings include articles about the Stones' purchase and operation of Boone Hall and Thomas Stone's installation of "Passamaquoddy, Jr.," a paddle wheel and generator which harnesses tide power to generate electricity

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Boone Hall (Plantation : S.C.)

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Boone Hall Plantation, located in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, is one of America's oldest working plantations, continually producing agricultural crops for over 320 years. The land was gifted from owner, Theophilus Patey, to his daughter Elizabeth and her new husband Major John Boone as a wedding gift in 1681; it was then known as Boone Hall Plantation. The Boone family owned the plantation until 1811 when it was sold to Thomas A. Vardell and then Henry and John Horlbeck bought the property. ...