315 King Street- this building served as a civil war hospital.

Stop 1- Wayside (1st LA) Hospital- 544/564/570 King Street

The Wayside Hospital- (1st Louisiana). The hospital was established in July of 1862. Soldiers were treated here until they were well enough to travel to other hospitals in South Carolina and Georgia. In December of 1863 it was renamed the 1st Louisiana Hospital and it treated soldiers from that state.

Stop 2- See separate post for the Citadel and its Museum.

Stop 3- Drayton Hall- 3380 Ashley River Road. Drayton Hall was built from 1738-1742. The plantation grew indigo and rice before the war. Four Drayton brothers fought for the Confederacy (James, Thomas, John and Charles). One fought for the Union (Percival). Drayton Hall was evacuated during Sherman’s march through South Carolina. Signs were posted around the home stating that it was used as a hospital to treat patients afflicted by an epidemic. The ruse worked and the home was avoided by Union soldiers.

Markers in the Caretaker’s House

Stop 4- Magnolia Plantation Gardens- 3350 Ashley River Road. The oldest plantation on the Ashley River, it was founded in 1679. It was owned by Reverend John Grimke Drayton. The original home was burned during the war. The present home on the property, built before the Revolutionary War, was moved from its original location in Summerville in 1873.

Stop 5- Middleton Plantation- 4100 Ashley River Road. The Middleton family owned the home and plantation from 1741 to 1865, when it produced rice. William Middleton was a signer of the Ordinance of Secession on December 20, 1860. The house was burned by Union troops on February 23, 1865.

Ruins of the main house burned during the Civil War

The Middleton Museum

Display inside the mill

The Plantation Chapel

Middleton Cemetery