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Historic Price House - Offerings

Visitors to Historic Price House receive a guided tour of the home, kitchen, and slave cabin and learn about the Prices and their slaves.  They may also hike the site's nature trail, which passes through new growth Piedmont forest.  The trail contains clues to the drastic changes made to the land by early Upstate residents and their slaves as they transformed the frontier into antebellum society.  Picnic tables available.  Restrooms on site.  The Gift Shop includes a selection of replica 18th century toys and games, nature toys, Price House tee-shirts and souvenirs, items made by local blacksmith Bruce Mills, and books for kids and adults about early South Carolina and U.S. history, slavery, and South Carolina nature.

GROUP VISITS

Groups of 10 or more people from schools, churches, scout troops, senior citizen groups, and other community organizations can schedule, at least 14 days in advance, special tours and activities.  We welcome group visits all year, even during the site's winter closure.

To schedule a group visit, contact Zac Cunningham, Price House's director, at 864-576-6546 or pricehouse@spartanburghistory.org.

COST: For children's groups only. Other rates available for adult groups.
Guided Tour Only: $2.00 per child
Guided Tour with Natural History Activity: $4.00 per child
1 teacher/chaperone FREE for every 10 children in group
Additional teachers/chaperones: $5.00 each
Minimum: 10 children; Maximum: 50 children AND adults
Picnic area & child-friendly gift shop on site!
State Academic Standards Addressed:
Social Studies : K-1, 2-1, 2-2.1, 3-1, 3-2, 3-4, 4-2, 4-4, 8-1, 8-2, 8-3, USHC-1, USHC-2, USHC-3 / Science : 1-2, 2-2, 3-2, 3-3, 4-2, 5-2, 5-3, 6-2, 6-4, 7-4

Natural History Activities
You can choose one of the six listed below or let us know if you need an activity created to meet your curriculum needs or interests. All activities last approximately 45 minutes. For groups visiting over multiple days, activity participant limits can be based on number of children visiting in a single day.

Food Webbing
• K to 4th grades
Everyone in the 1800s, whether rich or poor, free or slave, relied heavily on nature for food.  Then, as now, plants, animals, and humans functioned together in a balanced web of life.  Children learn about these interrelationships by role-playing to create food chains and food webs.

Forest are TREE-mendous
• K to 6th grades
Children learn about the different life stages of trees and forests.  Grade 3-6 students search the nature trail to draw and label trees in various life stages.  Grade K-2 students imagine themselves as trees and act out the various life stages.

Backcountry Wildlife: Past & Present
• All ages
Children study historical accounts of Backcountry wildlife, including bison, wolves, and mountain lions, left by early explorers and naturalists. They compare these animals to wildlife found in the area today.  Students will hike the nature trail and look for signs of wildlife.

Trailblazing Transport
• 2nd to 5th grades
Price House's inn, post office, and store sat at a crossroads that brought travelers, mail, and goods from all over to the Upstate.  Who were these travelers?  How did the mail arrive?  What kind of goods? Children hear about travel and transport in the 1800s while learning the basics of hiking - how to follow a trail, use a compass, and read a map - and experiencing nature.

Cotton, Corn, & Erosion
• 3rd grade or above
From the beginning, Upstate residents drastically altered the region's landscape.  The farming methods practiced by Thomas Price and others increased erosion and created deep gullies in the land.  Children see one of these gullies, participate in a hands-on erosion experiment, and discuss the basics of soil and the importance of soil conservation.

A Slave's Value
• 6th grade or above
When Thomas & Ann Price died in the early 1820s, the couple's property, including two-dozen enslaved African Americans, was sold at auction.  The Prices' property records introduce students to antebellum slavery and demonstrate that, as property, slaves were given an economic value.  A slave's value, however, was also found in the wonderful contributions these men, women, and children made to our society and culture.  Contributions that have made us who we are today.

Have History, Will Travel - Price House: (December - February Only)
Cost: $50 per classroom
A great way to complement a fall or spring field trip to Price House!  Discounts are available for multiple blocks in the same day and for booking a series of lessons at once.
The 'Have History, Will Travel' program gives you the opportunity to have a Price House Interpreter come to your classroom and do the teaching! Lessons on a variety of topics, including the history of the early United States, daily life in the early 1800s, antebellum slavery, and the dynamic interaction between people and nature, all meet state standards.  Lessons include pictures, maps, touchable artifacts, environmental science components, geography reinforcement and a brief writing exercise.   Lessons can also be tailored to your current curriculum.

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