Value based design of former southeastern plantations using Millway Plantation as a research site

Former Southeastern Plantations are landscapes that suffer from unique challenges in the modern cultural environment. The land-use of these sites have changed over time to respond to different needs, but recently many of these sites have started to decline due to their inability to support themselves economically today. They retain cultural stories that represent value for current peoples and thus warrant intervention to save that cultural legacy. To better explore revitalization options for these landscape types in the present, this thesis will explore historic events, cultural values, and stakeholder input to create a process that applies value as a design framework on one particular site called Millway Plantation in rural South Carolina. This framework was used to create and evaluate conceptual plans that redefine what Millway could productively be for present peoples.