THE year 1638 saw the birth of two notable French botanists, Guy-Crescent Fagon, who was born in Paris on May 11, 1638, and Pierre Magnol, who was born at Montpellier on June 8, 1638. Both were ...
Tucked away in a large room in the Aiken County History Museum on Sunday, Dr. Harry Shealy Jr. spoke to a crowded room about plants – and one man's passion for them. Shealy, a retired USC Aiken ...
It’s hard to imagine it, but a couple of centuries ago the land on which the Charleston International Airport now sits was the French Botanic Garden, established by the famous botanist Andre Michaux.