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11982
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Orton Plantation Gardens is one of the country's oldest plantation showplaces. O'Brien discusses what to see during a visit there.
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12254
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Orton Plantation Gardens turned 250 in 1975. The columned mansion built in classic antebellum architectural style provides the focal point for the historic site, first owned by \"King\"Â Roger Moore in pre-Revolutionary War days.
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35512
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Treasures found in Williamsburg and Charleston were expected. What was a pleasant surprise to A.G.L. Hellyer, a horticultural journalist mentioned by the author, was the Orton Plantation, which Wakefield boasted as offering the most beautiful garden in North Carolina. How the lower Cape Fear area and its people contributed to its creation, this was disclosed in the discussion of Brunswick County’s development, pre and post-Colonial days.
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36145
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His memories lasted for the war’s duration, from his enlistment at 17 to release from service in July 1865. His military service included the Battle of New Bern (1862); encampment at Goldsboro; imprisonments at Fort Delaware and Point Lookout. Alluded was how religion and humor helped to soften the otherwise hard experience of combat. Harshness not hinted were the economic fallout of Reconstruction for the South and life on his family’s plantation.
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Civil War; New Bern, Battle of, N.C., 1862; Orton Plantation (Brunswick County); Orton Plantation (Brunswick County)--Description and travel; Branch, Lawrence O'Bryan, 1820-1862; Gunboats; Appomattox Campaign, 1865; Reconstruction (1865-1877)--North Carolina--Economic conditions; Slave trade--America