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- SCAD students at Woodmanston
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- Crew working on new boardwalk
Recent Updates
SCAD students created a large two-part temporal art project at LeConte-Woodmanston Read about the project. Examine the finished project.
Harold Reeves, a local nature photographer, took these pictures recently at LeConte-Woodmanston.
Read the January 2010 newsletter.
This year we plan to inaugurate the memorial and expanded gardens, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the year 1860 from which our data for the memorial comes, and the 250th anniversary of the year the LeContes acquired Woodmanston. More information will be available when a specific date has been set.
Efforts are always underway to further beautify LeConte-Woodmanston. Our access road has been graveled and greatly improved by the County, and the area for the Coastal Georgia Greenway picnic grove/trailhead is near completion. We have doubled the length of our swamp and upland trails and will be constructing new bridges, kiosks and rest stations as funding becomes available. A new boardwalk was recently constructed by our maintenance contractors. Rob Hicks, from the Plum Creek Foundation, recently presented a check to LeConte-Woodmanston board members for improvement and expansion of the nature trail. He has also agreed to secure some long-leaf pine trees for us. We have had heavy equipment on the site and have excavated a pond; repaired the east maintenance road; isolated a portion of a rice field; defined the memorial pathway; raised and leveled an area for the new maintenance carport; expanded parking for the pavilion; graded and raised the beds and paths of the formal garden; pulled the ditch along "LeConte Lane" to the pavilion area; and cleared two additional upland trails. A camellia nursery is being established in the woods to the south of the maintenance carport. A local landscape architect will be helping us with the site plan, and a SCAD student will turn it into a work of art. A rain garden has also been excavated and will be the project of David Moulder and his master naturalists.
We have been involved in several outreach events in the past months, presenting and participating with: Pine Ridge Garden Club in Vidalia; Southern Heritage Garden Conference; United Ministerial Alliance of Hinesville; Garden Club of Georgia events; the Fort Stewart Showcase; the Bamboo Gardens Spring Festival; and the Two Rivers Master Gardeners Association. On July 11th several board members participated in the "Back-to-School Rally" at Briar Bay Park. There was a tent and exhibit at the park and hay wagon rides were offered along with a talk about Woodmanston.
This fall we participated in the Colonial Coast Birding Festival and the Riceboro Ricefest.
We have welcomed several groups to the site including the Coastal College of Brunswick Continuing Education Program and the Fort Stewart Home-Schoolers. In June and July there were visits from a Day Care group and a Vacation Bible School group from Riceboro led by Mrs. Lelia Williams.
Foundation membership continues to grow. The foundation's annual meeting has been moved to the third Saturday in February next year. If you are considering becoming a foundation member please check our membership page.
Don't forget to check our news page for additional information.