Cold again this morning and what does Grandpa do he decides to
clean the trailer windows and while he was doing this I planned a road trip where we stayed warm and took advantage of the amazing sunshine.
We was our first road trip of this vacation.
Camden was the random destination that we decided on and with
a packed picnic lunch off we went. We
travelled past numerous cotton fields that appeared to our untrained eyes to be unharvested
and the fields held standing water, it is very wet this year.
We were thrilled to learn that Camden is a revolutionary war
site a place that we will return too as we toured just one of the many historical
places in Camden.
The house in the background is the McCaa House the home of
Dr.
John McCaa 1793-1859.
We were able to tour the Cunningham House 1835 and the Craven
house both housed small museums of interesting items from the home and
era.
This is an authentic bread oven that would have been used during
the Revolutionary period.
The stockade you must have a place of punishment.
The 1777 power magazine was built and this is a replica that shows the
48 in. thick walls.
These two images are of one of the two Redoubt that the British
built during the war. A redoubt is a
temporary fortification from which there is no flank defenses – one way in and
one way out.
We were not able to tour the Kershaw house because they were
setting up for the February 1-3 event A Treaty of Ghent Celebration Weekend the
tent that you see is one of at least 10 tents we saw that will house the 1815
market. If it wasn’t a 2 ½ hour drive we
would go back tomorrow afternoon when the Market opens to the public.
We ended our day with a ½ price banana split.
Grandma Snyder
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