Visit St. George and Experience the South Carolina National Heritage Corridor
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The Palmetto Trail & SC National Heritage Corridor "Communing with Nature"
The St. George area is part of the Palmetto Trail network. Zigzagging across the state, more than 425 miles of trails link the upstate to the coast and encompass the Palmetto State’s history, culture and
geography.
For Palmetto Trail Info:
call 803-771-0870 .
The Heritage Corridor features all of the top historic places in the state including the Klauber Building located at 225 Parler Avenue in St. George.
Call 800-788-5646 for all the deatails.
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The South Carolina National Heritage
Corridor extends 240 miles across South Carolina, stretching from the mountains of Oconee County, along the Savannah River, to the port city of Charleston, including many historical attractions in St. George.
The 14 counties of the corridor offer a cross-section of South Carolina’s History, Culture, and Natural Landscapes. The area describes the evolution of upcountry and low country life, from grand plantations and simple farms to mill villages and urban centers, and how their history affected South Carolina as a state.
Rural St. George and the National Heritage Corridor - Protecting Our Treasured Landscapes
HISTORY: The South Carolina National Heritage Corridor was established by the U.S. Congress in 1996 as one of a select number of National Heritage Areas. That's a SC Historical Region in which entire communities live and work, to this very day. Our residents, businesses, and local governments have come together to conserve the "Special Landscapes" of the South.
The National Heritage Corridor protects a region of the state which retains a large percentage of rural landscapes.
The South Carolina National Heritage Corridor was established by the U.S. Congress in 1996 as one of a select number of National Heritage Areas: Regions in which entire communities live and work, and where residents, businesses, and local governments have come together to conserve special landscapes and their own heritage.
The Corridor contains an array of intact cultural resources representative of three major components of South Carolina's development. This is what you'll discover when you travel along the Heritage Corridor:
- The invention and development of our plantation system of agriculture
- The relationship of historic trade routes and the coastal SC Port Trade
- The settlement of South Carolina's Lowcounty, Midland fringes and the Upstate
The area also contains specific sites of importance to the Revolutionary and Civil wars, and numerous state park and recreational facilities. When visiting St. George, you'll just love the elegant, timeless beauty of our Historic Churches and Antebellum Shanties.
This Corridor, bounded at one end by the ancient port city of Charleston, and at the other by the mountains of the Blue Ridge, contains historic, cultural, and natural resources that tell the vibrant story of South Carolina's centuries-long evolution and culture.
St George South Carolina is Keeping History and Heritage Alive
When you visit the Corridor, you will learn tales of rice and indigo, pirates and patriots,
slaves and freemen,
cotton fields and mill villages, swamps and waterfalls, railroads and backroads, soul food and "pig-pickin's," spirituals and bluegrass.
From Table Rock Mountain to the Churches of St. George, the South Carolina National Heritage Corridor
is a setting within which southern history and lifestyle is alive and accessible, in all its rich variety of cultures.
We know you will enjoy your visit to the beautiful, historic St. George South Carolina. Our Town is a part of our Nation's Protected National Heritage. We invite you to come and experience the history in St. George for yourself! You'll be glad you did...and so will we. |