Magnolia Plantation was the fountainhead of the Drayton family, which played an important part in America’s Colonial, Revolutionary, and Independence history. Its original plantation house, credited by contemporary historians as having been the earliest in the Carolina colony, along with its famous garden, now America’s oldest, were built by Thomas Drayton in the 1680's. It remains a working plantation utilizing scores of workers and is still owned and operated by a direct family descendent.
