The Historic Gardens of Middleton Place — Enchanted Gardens

His wife, Heningham Lyons Ellett Smith, restored the landscape that had been neglected for six decades following the Civil War. Her efforts led the Garden Club of America to describe Middleton Place in 1940 as the “most important and interesting garden in America.”

In the early 1970s, 110 acres, including the flanker house, the gardens, and several outbuildings, were placed on the National Register of Historic Places and opened to the public. Today you will find a living museum with stable yards, carriage house, textile, carpentry, coopering and blacksmith shops, a mill, and a spring house on an estate of historic gardens and grounds.