Bathe at Your Own Risk: Seventeenth-Century Hygiene
Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site · Charleston ✓ verified
Sat, Nov 21 · all day
Ideas about what it means to be clean and how best to achieve it have changed dramatically over the centuries. Join a park educator to learn why the once-popular practice of bathing fell out of fashion in Europe during the early modern period. Discover the techniques that seventeenth-century Europeans and their colonial counterparts used to clean themselves and the pivotal role that clean linen played in pursuit of proper hygiene.
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About Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site
Charles Towne Landing marks the site of the first permanent English settlement in the Carolinas (1670). Families explore the Animal Forest of native wildlife, walk the trails and gardens, board a replica 17th-century sailing ship, and join ranger-led nature and living-history programs.
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