This unique YMCA is the site of a historic plantation and home to outdoor activities, living history and unique group activities.
Heritage Building at Hollingsworth Outdoor Center
Whisk students, groups and families back to another, simpler era. The Hollingsworth Outdoor Center - located near the GHS YMCA in Simpsonville, South Carolina, offers hands-on activities and explorations on a beautiful 55-acre site.
The 1823 plantation site of Dr Thomas Collin Austin, contains a lovely manor house and a well-preserved set of outbuildings that are unique in the upstate. These include a springhouse built on an artesian well, and a washhouse used to wash clothes.
Hands-on activities led by knowledgeable staff give children and adults alike a vivid connection to a world of the folks who lived on the property 140 years ago:
Brick making: engage in a craft practiced on the Hollingsworth property.
Broom making: participants will cut broom straw from the fields, then, craft their own broom.
Pioneer tools: participants will learn about the use of woodworking tools from the 1870s, and then make a shingle or even a rough-hewn bench.
Cooking and butter making: learn how food was prepared in the 1870s and make butter and cornbread.
Spinning wool: using cards and drop spindles, participants learn to make their own yarn.
Come journey with us to another time.
Outdoor education, recreation, team building
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