Historic Brattonsville to host Children’s Day on the Farm

Historic Brattonsville will host Children’s Day on the Farm on March 28. The annual event, which runs from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., celebrates farm life in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Admission is $8 adults, $6 seniors, $3 for youths age 4-17 and free for children younger than 3 and Culture and Heritage Museum members.

Hands-on activities include candle-dipping, blacksmithing and food preparation in the way of the settlers of the Carolina Backcountry.

Children will have the chance to enjoy period toys and games. Spring also brings newborn lambs and other farm friends to pet and cuddle.

Professional storyteller Sharon Cooper-Murray, known as the “Gullah Lady,” will tell her South Carolina sea island tales. Visitors can join the Gullah Lady in the hands-on activity of community rag quilting as she shares traditions of the Gullah culture.

A team of draft horses will plowthe field. Pony and tractor-drawn wagon rides will be available for a small fee.

The 778-acre plantation offers a nature preserve with miles of walking trails, more than 30 colonial and Antebellum structures and a Revolutionary War battlefield site and interpretive trail.

The Friends of Historic Brattonsville will sell food.

Historic Brattonsville is at 1444 Brattonsville Road, McConnells. For more information, go to www.chmuseums.org or call 803-684-2327.

This story was originally published March 27, 2015 at 1:13 PM with the headline "Historic Brattonsville to host Children’s Day on the Farm."