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IMAGE KEY

left and below:
hobcaw sunrise
The vereen house

following pages:

u hobcaw marshes

v standing guard

w hand-carved door pull
ON former slave cabin
Between x bell at bellefield house

the y the vereen house, detail

Waters:

The Allure of Hobcaw Barony

lands to be quite
overwhelming. (Just
to put its size in per-
spective, the Barony
is 3,000 acres larger
than Manhattan Is-
land.) There are no
paved roads. The Ba-
ruchs clearly intend-
ed that the property
remain in its natural state. There are two main the hand-carved door pull (see image w on the
houses, Hobcaw House and Bellefield House, next page) on one slave cabin to be haunting–a
plus the Vereen House (a caretaker’s house, I reminder of the people who worked these vast
believe). I fell in love with the Vereen House’s rice plantations and the lives they led.
blue color and the giant live oaks that guard There is restricted access to Hobcaw Barony
it. (See image above and v on the next page.) through the tours and programs the foundation
Friendfield Village is a former slave village and universities offer. For further information,
that was in residential use until 1952. I found see www.hobcawbarony.org.

nyghtvision magazine volume 3, number 1, WINTER 2013