Volunteers gather to make living history

Volunteers daub mud into a mud barn as part of the Horry County Museum's future living history site.

By: Thema Ponton | SCNow
Published: June 28, 2008

Local volunteers are packing it in. and getting a little dirty in the process.

Dozens of people are helping to build the L.W. Paul living history farm in Conway.

The Horry County museum is developing the farm to teach people about agriculture and domestic traditions in Horry County.

Saturday afternoon, dozens of volunteers were on the site of a reconstructed tobacco barn on Harris-Shortcut Road.

Young children happily mixed clay and water with their feet to make mud that's going in between the cracks of the barn as insulation.

R. Walter Hill, IV, Director of the Horry County museum said the old fashioned barn daubin' is just the start to preserving historical agriculture in Horry County.

Hill said, "The principle behind this farm and this is a preliminary step here is to have kids involved in a somewhat fun way in every process or agriculture and domestic life from the early part of the twentieth century."

The farm is also going to have a mill and a farm house.

Hill said it will be at least a year before visitors will be able to come to the farm.