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The Mepkin Abbey Botanical Garden (3200 acres) is a natural area and botanical garden located on the grounds of Mepkin Abbey a Trappist monastery located at 1098 Mepkin Abbey Road Moncks Corner South Carolina. The garden is open to the public daily except Mondays.The grounds began as the Mepkin Plantation home of American patriot Henry Laurens. The house itself was burned by the British and again by the Union Army in the Civil War.