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Heritage Corridor

The South Carolina National Heritage Corridor is bounded at one end by the ancient port city of Charleston and at the other end by the mountains of the Blue Ridge. It contains historic, cultural, and natural resources that tell the vibrant story of South Carolina’s and the South’s long evolution and culture. By following either the Nature Route or the Discovery Route, visitors will learn 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-pickins,” spirituals and bluegrass. From Table Rock Mountain to the wharves of McClellanville, the South Carolina National Heritage Corridor is a setting within which southern history and life style is alive and accessible, in all its rich variety of cultures.

The Audubon Center at Francis Beidler Forest near Harleyville, and the Silver Bluff Audubon Center near Aiken are both designated Discovery Sites along the Heritage Corridor. For more information and a map of the route, please check out their website.