Chester
Visit Cotton Hills Farm in Chester, SC for seasonal produce, pumpkins, U-Pick flowers, a corn maze and fall family activities.
Chester
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Fall Fun at Cotton Hills Farm: Corn maze, U-Pick pumpkin patch, corn pit, straw maze, farm games and U-Pick flowers.
Admission: Weekdays $6 per person. Saturdays $12 per person and includes unlimited hayrides and tractor train rides. Ages 1 and under are free. Pumpkins and U-Pick flowers are priced separately.
Hours: Fall activities are open through October 31 from 9 AM–7 PM, with the last corn maze admission at 6 PM.
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Location
Chester
Farm Ledger Region
Midlands, South Carolina
Farmers
Jeff Wilson, J.E.B. Wilson & Pete Wilson
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Six generations of the Wilson family have cared for this ground in Lowrys, South Carolina—growing with the times while protecting what was handed down.
Cotton Hills Farm has been part of the South Carolina landscape since 1882, when a 100-acre homeplace was given to Theodosia Abell and Joseph Wilson. What began with cotton, corn and small grains has grown into a roughly 1,000-acre family farm producing peaches, strawberries, tomatoes, sweet corn, watermelons, pumpkins, flowers and more.
Today, Jeff Wilson farms alongside his sons, J.E.B. and Pete, carrying forward a family tradition that has lasted for more than 140 years. But Cotton Hills has endured not because the family resisted change—it has endured because each generation found a way to keep farming relevant.
One of their most important decisions came in 2007, when the Wilsons placed the farm under a conservation easement. As development moved farther south from Charlotte, they chose to protect the land so it could remain farmland for the generations still to come.
That same connection to the past can be found in smaller details. Corn descended from family seed is ground into grits and cornmeal on a 1905 stone mill, while wooden produce baskets are still made from local poplar during the winter months.
Cotton Hills Farm is a reminder that agricultural heritage isn't simply something a family inherits. It is something they choose, season after season, to carry forward.
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