Charleston Tea Plantation Sign
by Jerry Griffin
Title
Charleston Tea Plantation Sign
Artist
Jerry Griffin
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Photograph
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A sign at the Charleston, South Carolina Tea Plantation showing the distance and direction to other tea growing locations in the world.
The Charleston Tea Plantation was established in 1960 on a tract of land on Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina. It was never a plantation in the sense of it being a large farm with most of the work done by slaves. It is 127 acres of tea plants and the only tea growing operation in the United States.
In 1960 the Thomas J. Lipton Company purchased Pinehurst Tea Plantation in Summerville, South Carolina. The plantation had been abandoned since 1915. Thomas Lipton rescued the surviving tea plants and moved them to a research facility that had been constructed on Wadmalaw Island. In 2003 the Charleston Tea Plantation was auctioned off to R.C. Bigelow who paid $1.28 million.
The Charleston Tea Plantation is where the nine flavors of tea are produced, including the original American Classic Tea. This tea is the only tea in the world made with tea that is grown in America. It has been the official tea of the White House since 1987.
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