Tea Plants at Charleston Tea Plantation
by Jerry Griffin
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Tea Plants at Charleston Tea Plantation
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Jerry Griffin
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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.
The green plants you see here are tea plants. The leaves are cut on the top and two sides by a machine made specially for that purpose several times during the growing season. They are dried and then roasted (green tea is not roasted, oolong tea for 15 minutes and black tea for 40 minutes..they are all the same leaf when they start out!
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Kathi Isserman
ONGRATULATIONS! Your FANTASTIC image has been FEATURED on the home page of "SHOWCASING THE SOUTH” L Please add the photo to the 2021 “FEATURED IMAGE ARCHIVE THREAD.” Thank you for participating in the group.
Steve Rich
My wife and I visited here several years ago, we are long overdue for a revisit. We loved it, also the sampling of different teas.
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