Our core indoor exhibit, this space interprets the history of dairy, poultry, and cattle farming; barn history; cotton; and apple/peach farming.

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Agriculture is not just about the fields; it touches our lives inside and out, especially in the home. This exhibit interprets a typical South Carolina farmhouse c. 1920.

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This exhibit focuses on the importance and impact that Black farmers have had on the state, with an emphasis on the antebellum slave experience and Reconstruction that resonates into today.

A controversial crop in our modern age, tobacco shaped many farmers’ lives and those of their families through the years. This exhibit features the remnants of a Pee Dee tobacco barn, complete with interpretation on the impact that tobacco farming had on the farmer and the state.

This exhibit showcases machinery that made major impacts on the success and efficiency of the modern farmer, namely the McCormick Reaper.

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The first peoples of South Carolina, this exhibit covers the impact that Native Americans had on early SC agriculture.

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This permanent exhibit showcases the enormous impact that generational family farming has had on the state.

This exhibit introduces the history of meat and BBQ in South Carolina, from Native American origins of BBQ to the modern meat industry.

Currently being renovated, this exhibit focuses on the enormous changes occurring in agriculture, from our state to the US as a whole.