Historic Hobcaw Barony Cruise & Hobcaw House Tour
is NOT currently operating. We hope to resume in the fall.
Enjoy our cruise to Hobcaw Barony aboard the Carolina Rover.
Join us for a three-hour voyage through the Winyah Bay toward the Great Pee Dee River, giving view to majestic oak trees and the abandoned rice fields of Hobcaw Barony, to tour Bernard Baruch's winter hunting retreat. Step aboard in Georgetown and travel back in time to Hobcaw Barony pier to disembark and begin your tour of the Hobcaw House, built in 1930 high above the Winyah Bay. After exploring the Hobcaw house your cruise will continue over to view the smokestack of the USS Harvest Moon, a Civil War Flagship of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron 1864-1865, resting on the dregs of Winyah Bay for more than a century. Thereafter, cross the Winyah Bay to glide by the historic site of Battery White, an artillery battery constructed by the Confederates, during the American Civil War, built in 1862-63 to defend Winyah Bay.
Once home to the Waccamaw Indians, this colonial land grant was divided into 14 plantations by 1865. With the decline of the rice cultivation, Hobcaw was bought by Bernard M. Baruch (a Wall Street financier and presidential advisor) who used it as a winter hunting retreat. Baruch's daughter, Belle, later purchased the 16,000-acre estate. At her death, the Belle W. Baruch Foundation was created to operate Hobcaw Barony as a center for environmental research.
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Reservations are required. $38.00 per passenger. This tour is not recommended for younger children. See our Reservation Calendar for Hobcaw Tour dates. This tour normally operates once per week. Departure days and times change weekly.
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