Old Farm Day at Ashtabula

The Pendleton Historic Foundation and the Bart Garrison Agricultural Museum of South Carolina host “Old Farm Day at Ashtabula” on March 28 from 10am to 3pm. This event celebrates the rich farming heritage in the Upstate. Old Farm Day displays antique tractors, cotton gins, and hit-and-miss engines to demonstrate the historical progression of farming. The Ag-venture event not only shows bygone equipment to a new generation, but also allows old-timers to recall farming the way it was. Admission is $5 per car. Visitors will enjoy demonstrations of heritage crafts such as blacksmithing, feed bag and hoop quilting, wood carving, display of some early tools, timber hewing demonstrations and fiber arts like spinning, weaving, tatting, knitting, and crocheting. Guests also have the opportunity to milk Clarabelle, the automated cow. “Kiddie Korral” will be filled with hands-on activities such as the game of put-n-take, corn cob dart throwing, ball and cup, making a ring toss toy, candle making, manual cotton seed pulling, and shelling and grinding corn. Animals on the grounds will include livestock guard dogs, goats, and chickens. Ashtabula historic MOO-seum house tours will be available for a reduced price of $3 per person. Ashtabula is located at 2725 Old Greenville Highway in Central, three miles east of downtown Pendleton, on SC HWY 88.