Lowcountry Trail



Lowcountry Trail One-quarter mile in length, the Lowcountry Trail crosses the hillside overlooking Mainfield, a Brookgreen rice field. For enslaved Africans on Brookgreen, this hill was a bridge between the world of daily work and the familiarity of life in Slave Village beyond the crest of the hill. The rhythms of life - planting, growing, harvesting, threshing - changed seasonally for everyone on the rice plantation.

Archeological projects have revealed the remains of four structures on the hillside: the site of the overseer's residence at the apex of the hill, and its kitchen, smokehouse and dependency closer to the edge of the rice field. Along the trail, four stainless steel figures have been placed to represent the Plantation Owner, the Overseer, and enslaved African Male and an enslaved African Female. They provide reminders of plantation life and the associated joys and sadness of the human experience played out here nearly 200 years ago.

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