Oak Woodlands

Oaks are among the most majestic and prominent trees in California and for many, they optimize the sunny, rolling lowlands of the state. Oaks are regionally diverse and a number of species and subspecies are found in a variety of ...

National Historic Landmark- Woodlands

National Historic Landmark- Woodlands

A 1788 remodeling of an older Georgian house transformed The Woodlands into one of the earliest and most advanced examples of Adamesque style domestic architecture in America.

In 1840 the land surrounding the mansion was converted into a ...

National Historic Landmark-Woodlands

National Historic Landmark-Woodlands

From 1836 until his death, this was the home of William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870), an important literary figure in the ante-bellum period. The brick house which he built here in 1867 was originally a one-story structure, to which ...

Woodlands and Millwood

1 ½ mi. south was Woodlands, built before 1800 by Wade Hampton, I (1752-1835), Colonel in Revolution, Major General in War of 1812. ¼ mi. north was Millwood, built before 1820 by Wade Hampton II (1791-1858), aide to Gen. Jackson, ...

Woodlands

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Woodlands was the country home of William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870), the most prominent and prolific writer of the antebellum South, from 1836 to his death. A novelist, poet, historian, critic, and essayist best known for his novels about ...

The Arlington Woodlands

Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial

"Cherish these forest trees,"

Marquis de Lafayette, 1825.

William Howard Russell, a famous 19th century English correspondent, once described the forest before you as "some of the finest woods I have seen in America." Two centuries ...