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This page talks about the experince I had on the Fort Hill tour last semester.

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Fort Hill is a historic site on the Clemson campus in South Carolina. It serves as a time capsule to the time of famous Vice President John C. Calhoun and the man who helped to create the University, Thomas Green Clemson. Fort Hill would remain a time capsule since John C. Calhoun's daughter, Anna Maria, wanted to preserve the house and use the land around the house to create a place of higher education. However, the Fort Hill House's purpose today is very different from its original purpose. Initially, the house was a four-room building constructed by a reverend known as James McElhenny and served as a place for him, his family, and 25 of his slaves to live. After McElhenny passed away, Floride Bonneau Colhoun, John C. Calhoun's mother-in-law, purchased the property and owned the house for six years until she died in 1836. After Floride Colhoun died, John C. Calhoun and his wife (Floride Calhoun) lived in the house until 1866, when Floride Calhoun died (John C. Calhoun died in 1850). After the death of Floride, their last surviving child, Anna Maria Calhoun (Who was married to Clemson), inherited the property and was then inherited by Tomas Green Clemson after she died in 1875 until 1888, when his will gave three-fourths of the Fort Hill plantation and $80,000 to the state of South Carolina for the establishment of a public scientific and agricultural college. However, by this time, the features of the house had changed drastically from the original 4-room home to the now 14-room house. 2 main external parts of the house were added on after the Calhouns owned the house, which consisted of the office, which was its was its building, and the outside kitchen, which was made so that a fire in the kitchen did not lead to the whole house burning down. On the inside, I noticed that the house contained many pieces of furniture that were given to them. For example, In the house's dining room, one of the cabinets was made from the planks of the U.S. Constitution. In the parlor, there was a chair that George Washington used during the Revolutionary War, and one other piece was a sofa that was from Mount Vernon. I also noticed that there was a decent amount of furniture that was made by requests from the Calhouns, with one of those being the dresser in the master bedroom. These furnishings conveyed to me the sense of an elite, wealthy family of the time due to the unique and historically significant pieces inside and outside the house.

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During our tour, our tour guide emphasized the more important people of the house, such as John C. Calhoun, Anna Maria Calhoun, Tomas Green Clemson, and their lives outside of the house. However, one place where they emphasized these people's lives in the house was the house's office. uring this, our guide talked about what John C. Calhoun did in the office, such as the letter to his cousin about a runaway slave and the maps that workers found in the office. These areas were emphasized because they are the more critical parts of the house's history and are most likely the main reason those who came on the tour came on the tour. However, the tour guide didn't emphasize things that happened around the house or the everyday life of an enslaved person and how the enslaved people were treated on the plantation. I believe that this was less emphasized because of the sensitivity of the issue of slavery in our time and the fear of offending patrons and losing business. However, I believe that this results in only one side's story being told and the other side's story being lost to history. This was seen on the panels around the house, as most of the panels emphasized the Colhouns, while only a few panels talked about the enslaved people in the home or their daily lives.

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In conclusion, the tour of Fort Hill at Clemson University offered a unique experience, displaying the history within its walls. The house has essentially served as a time capsule, revealing the changes that occurred from its beginnings as a regular four-room home made by Reverend James McElhenny to its transformation into an large 14-room mansion owned by influential figures such as John C. Calhoun and Thomas Green Clemson, who's request for establishing a public institution dedicated to scientific and gricultural education reshaped the purpose of Fort Hill and solidified its current role within the campus of Clemson University.

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