Hobcaw Barony is a 16,000-acre property dedicated to research and education. While the Discovery Center and Gift Shop are free to enter, paid guided tours provide full access to the property and residences of the Baruchs, a northern wealthy family that bought and preserved the property.
Hobcaw Barony encompasses more than 70 cultural sites, including cemeteries, slave dwellings, and the Baruch’s residences. Several of the villages on Hobcaw’s campus were occupied until as late as the 1950s, and provides an insight into the cultural landscape of Gullah Geechee communities as those that lived on Hobcaw.
The property uniquely links Native American and Gullah Geechee history and heritage through its programs and archaeological research. It also houses one of the few research centers on wetland studies, run by Clemson and College of Charleston.
