Southern Live Oak at Oakland Plantation – Cane River Creole National Historical Park

Susan L. Hitchcock is a historical landscape architect with the National Park Service. She has a Master of Historic Preservation from the School of Environment & Design at the University of Georgia, where she concentrated in historic landscape preservation. Her work involves project managing cultural landscape studies and providing technical assistance to parks in the Southeast Region of the National Park Service. She serves on the Board of the Southern Garden History Society, as well as the Elizabeth Lawrence Garden Advisory Council and the Garden Committee of Historic Columbia Foundation. She is also a founding member of the Georgia Historic Landscape Initiative and serves on the Acquisitions Committee of the Cherokee Garden Library. Her special areas of interest are southern garden history, Colonial Revival gardens, and English landscapes. Susan lives and gardens in her native Columbia, South Carolina. She acquired her love of gardening from her mother, who was an active member of the Gateway Garden Club. Susan is also a graduate of the Honors College of the University of South Carolina.