Winnowing Hands
Winnowing Hands is an artwork in South Carolina, at a modelled elevation of 12 m. Persimmon Hill stands 18 m to the northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Laurel Hill County Park, a park 1.1 miles away. Long Point Road Scenic Highway passes 2.1 miles off.
This bronze sculpture called Winnowing Hands adorns a fountain within the Market at Oakland Shopping Center. The work depicts a sweetgrass basket in the hands of its maker. Winnowing Hands was sculpted by California artist Shirley McWorter-Moss and was un
What the record says
- Material
- bronze
How to reach it
- 2.1 mi off the Long Point Road Scenic Highway
- 4.5 mi off the Mathis Ferry Road Scenic Highway
- 10.0 mi off the Fort Johnson Road Scenic Highway
- 14.2 mi off the Riverland Drive Scenic Highway
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Laurel Hill County Park: 1.1 mi
- Laurel Hill County Park (Entrance): 1.4 mi
- Charles Pinckney National Historic Site: 2.6 mi
- Fort Palmetto Park: 2.7 mi
- Palmetto Island County Park: 2.7 mi
- Antique Tractor Shed: 2.2 mi
- Wagon Rides: 2.2 mi
- Boone Hall Plantation: 2.2 mi
- Cotton Gin: 2.2 mi
- Smokehouse: 2.3 mi
- Hobcaw Shipyards: 6.6 mi
- Scanlonville: 7.0 mi
- General William Moultrie: 7.1 mi
- "The Kings Highway": 7.2 mi
- Center Street Wastewater Treatment Plant: 7.2 mi
- Spotted Crab: 7.0 mi
- Child With a Sailboat: 7.2 mi
- Fishing Children: 7.2 mi
- Pete the Plastic Pelican: 7.4 mi
- Pelican on Parade: 8.0 mi
- Keith Museum: 6.1 mi
- Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum: 8.6 mi
- Vietnam Experience Exhibit: 8.6 mi
- USS Yorktown: 8.7 mi
- Fort Sumter History Museum: 9.2 mi
- Newbrook Garden: 6.5 mi
- Daniel Island Community Garden: 7.3 mi
- The Marion And Wayland H. Cato Jr. Garden: 10.1 mi
- Lenhardt Garden: 10.3 mi
- Warren Place Garden: 10.3 mi
- Capers Island Boneyard: 5.4 mi
- Cummings Point: 10.0 mi
- Grice Beach: 10.0 mi
- Grice Beach: 10.1 mi
- Sunrise Park Beach: 10.7 mi
- Avian Conservation Center: 6.0 mi
- Caw Caw Interpretive Center: 23.3 mi
- Dills Bluff: 12.4 mi
- Church Flats Bluff: 23.5 mi
- Strawberry Chapel and Childsbury Town Site: 18.1 mi
- Dorchester: 23.1 mi
- Persimmon Hill: 20.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Winnowing Hands. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Persimmon Hill | NW 304° | 18 m | 20.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:24 | 18:58 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 06:12 | 19:55 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 07:08 | 18:45 | 19:17 |
| December solstice | 07:19 | 16:40 | 17:17 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Jun, Sep–Dec.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 48 | 50 | 56 | 64 | 73 | 79 | 82 | 81 | 77 | 68 | 58 | 51 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 5.4 | 6.0 | 6.7 | 5.5 | 3.9 | 3.0 | 3.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sullivans IS, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/13337521826
Day trips start here
- Mount Pleasant · 4 mi
- Isle of Palms · 5 mi
- Sullivan's Island · 8 mi
- Charleston · 10 mi
- Greater Charleston · 10 mi
- North Charleston · 14 mi
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