The Browntown Museum in Hemingway, South Carolina is an open air museum featuring a small, low country farm. This museum depicts a typical small village and way of living in the antebellum south. It is called Browntown is it the original home area of the Brown family in 1760. Today, the homes, outbuildings, and farm area shows the resourcefulness and diligence of the Brown family who settled here.
Included in the structures found in the grounds is a blacksmith shop, a smoke house, pie safe as well as one of the very few remaining cotton gins in the east coast area. Annually the Browntown Museum helds an open house, giving fee access to the public to explore and learn more about the rural life during the 1800s.
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