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3 unusual facts about Charleston Tea Plantation


Charleston Tea Plantation

Since Bigelow bought the Charleston Tea Plantation, they have been working on updating the machinery, the process, and expanding the grounds as well as production.

Owned by the Bigelow Tea Company, it grows the tea sold under the brand name American Classic Tea from the Camellia sinensis plant.

These failures included plantations in Georgetown, Greenville, and Summerville, the longest of which lasted less than twenty years.


South Carolina Highway 700

The state highway heads northeast as Maybank Highway, a two-lane road that passes by the Charleston Tea Plantation, the only working tea plantation in the United States, and near the Firefly Distillery, which is on Bear Bluff Road on the portion of the island north of Leadenwah Creek.


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