In this Sandlapper's Corner lesson, the children are asked to imagine how they would have lived, if they had lived in South Carolina in the 1700s. They see children "living" in several different homes at different times during this century.
Each visit to a home is a history lesson. First, the children look at what life would have looked like at the Heyward Mansion of Thomas and Elizabeth Heyward in Charleston, South Carolina. Next, they visit the home of Arthur Middleton and there is a demonstration of the system used to cultivate rice on the plantation.
The tour takes the Sandlappers to Hanover House, built in 1716 for French Huguenot Paul de St. Julien in Berkeley County, as well as visiting Walnut Grove Plantation, the home of Charles Moore, located in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
The features of the houses, furnishings, and outbuildings are highlighted, as well.
Sandlapper’s Corner was a children's educational program that began airing on SCETV in the 1970s. Produced by Dr. Sandra G. Thomas, the show was about South Carolina—its people and places, its present and past.
