Columbia, SC

Permanent display in the Baruch Silver Gallery, 1st Floor

In 1965, through the generosity of the estate of Bernard Mannes Baruch, the University of South Carolina received an extensive collection of 18th and early 19th century British silver. This collection, numbered in excess of 450 pieces, had been assembled in the early 20th century by Baruch's wife, Annie Griffen Baruch.

Replica toys, early games, stories, and songs from the 1700s and 1800s help children to learn how children of earlier times enjoyed their leisure time.

Group Programs are offered during the following days and hours throughout the year. Up to two successive one-hour tours may be done by each group during a day:

Days: Tuesday through Friday

Times:   9:30 am – 10:30 am

           11:00 am – 12:00 pm

             1:00 pm –   2:00 pm

             2:00 pm –   3:00 pm

Please contact the Visitor Services Coordinator at 803-359-8369 for more information or to set up a tour.

Thanks to the Cultural Council of Richland and Lexington Counties, these programs are offered free of charge.

The schoolmaster, dressed in period style dress, teaches reading, writing, and arithmetic.  Spelling bees, writing on chalk slates, writing with quill pens, and playing early recess games show children what a typical school day was like 150 years ago.

Group Programs are offered during the following days and hours throughout the year. Up to two successive one-hour tours may be done by each group during a day:

Days: Tuesday through Friday

Times:   9:30 am – 10:30 am

           11:00 am – 12:00 pm

             1:00 pm –   2:00 pm

             2:00 pm –   3:00 pm

Please contact the Visitor Services Coordinator at 803-359-8369 for more information or to set up a tour.

Thanks to the Cultural Council of Richland and Lexington Counties, these programs are offered free of charge.

Within the historic Lawrence Corley Log House, built around 1774, children learn about life in the Colonial era in the backcountry by seeing furniture, quilts, dishes, and eating utensils.  They see a spinning demonstration, use cotton cards, and a “knitty-knoddy,” after which they dip candles and take home the finished product.

Group Programs are offered during the following days and hours throughout the year. Up to two successive one-hour tours may be done by each group during a day:

Days: Tuesday through Friday

Times:   9:30 am – 10:30 am

           11:00 am – 12:00 pm

             1:00 pm –   2:00 pm

             2:00 pm –   3:00 pm

Please contact the Visitor Services Coordinator at 803-359-8369 for more information or to set up a tour.

Thanks to the Cultural Council of Richland and Lexington Counties, these programs are offered free of charge.

Everyone loves the kitchen, especially the John Fox kitchen from the nineteenth century.  After seeing the kitchen and learning how certain items were used, they proceed out into the kitchen yard and inspect all of the outbuildings used for preparing a meal.  Children even get to see a historic privy.  The activities in the yard include butter-churning, corncob shucking, using a coffee grinder, and much more.  Teachers and parents will be given a short list of food items needed to do this tour, which can be found at any grocery store.

Group Programs are offered during the following days and hours throughout the year. Up to two successive one-hour tours may be done by each group during a day:

Days: Tuesday through Friday

Times:   9:30 am – 10:30 am

           11:00 am – 12:00 pm

             1:00 pm –   2:00 pm

             2:00 pm –   3:00 pm

Please contact the Visitor Services Coordinator at 803-359-8369 for more information or to set up a tour.

Thanks to the Cultural Council of Richland and Lexington Counties, these programs are offered free of charge.

This is a fiber arts program for younger children.  The loom is explained and demonstrated in the museum loom house, after which the children engage in paper weaving, potholder weaving, and daisey loom weaving according to their abilities.  They end the program by playing related games to the sound of early weaving songs.

Group Programs are offered during the following days and hours throughout the year. Up to two successive one-hour tours may be done by each group during a day:

Days: Tuesday through Friday

Times:   9:30 am – 10:30 am

           11:00 am – 12:00 pm

             1:00 pm –   2:00 pm

             2:00 pm –   3:00 pm

Please contact the Visitor Services Coordinator at 803-359-8369 for more information or to set up a tour.

Thanks to the Cultural Council of Richland and Lexington Counties, these programs are offered free of charge.

This tour is given for only a few weeks in December.  The John Fox House circa 1832 is decorated with period decorations which the children are shown as they look through the house.  After the tour, the children make these same early decorations such as popcorn strings, pomanders, and gum drop trees which they are allowed to take back to the classroom.  This program is a most memorable Christmas experience!

Group Programs are offered during the following days and hours throughout the year. Up to two successive one-hour tours may be done by each group during a day:

Days: Tuesday through Friday

Times:   9:30 am – 10:30 am

           11:00 am – 12:00 pm

             1:00 pm –   2:00 pm

             2:00 pm –   3:00 pm

Please contact the Visitor Services Coordinator at 803-359-8369 for more information or to set up a tour.

Thanks to the Cultural Council of Richland and Lexington Counties, these programs are offered free of charge.

The Teacher–Ranger–Teacher (TRT) program provides opportunities for teachers to connect to the resources in a national park. Teachers develop lesson plans based on their park experience for use in the classroom and parks. The program focuses on teachers from schools with ethnically diverse student populations, who have had little or no experience with national parks or limited opportunity to explore the relevance parks can have in their lives and the lives of their students.

http://www.nps.gov/cong/forteachers/