This annual festival, which generally takes place the last Sunday in April, celebrates the historic Mount Pleasant shrimping industry with the traditional Blessing of the Fleet ceremony and other fun family activities including face painting, an art show, crafts, a shrimp-eating contest and a shag dance contest. Live music is performed and local restaurants offer up seafood and other culinary creations. The event is free and free parking is available.
Established in 1681 by Major John Boone, one of the original settlers of South Carolina. Boone Hall began as a rice plantation and was converted into a prosperous cotton plantation in the 1800s. Thomas A. Stone, Canadian ambassador to the Netherlands, built the present plantation manor house in 19
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