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Over the last decade, the Collins family's Somerset Plantation has been revitalized as a center for the interpreting of antebellum southern history. Dorothy Redford, a descendant of Somerset's slave population, helps visitors understand the area's past.
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Coastwatch (NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. Issue , July/Aug 1993, p10-15, por Periodical Website
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9568
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At one time there were 329 plantation estates reaching across rural North Carolina. Only a few, including China Grove Plantation in Arapahoe and Green River Plantation in Rutherfordton, would be preserved.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 75 Issue 3, Aug 2007, p70-74, 76, il Periodical Website
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13493
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The search for Flora MacDonald's old home has lead explorers into Montgomery County. R. E. Wicker, an historian of Moore County, has moved the old plantation of Flora MacDonald out of Richmond, across the line into Montgomery. After 40 years of research, Wicker is satisfied that he has pinpointed the exact spot where the noted Scotchwoman and her family lived during their brief and stormy career in North Carolina.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 21 Issue 31, Jan 1954, p6, f
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13907
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Nowhere else in North Carolina did early settlers live on a grander scale than those who first settled on large plantations along the Pasquotank River.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 18 Issue 7, July 1950, p10
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17788
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James Latta Built a home on 100 rolling Piedmont acres in 1800 which was expanded over the years. By the 1950s, the plantation sat empty until the locals fought to preserve it. Now restored the Latta Plantation is located within the larger Latta Nature Preserve, where visitors can enjoy costumed actors, period antiques, miles of hiking trails, the equestrian center, and raptor preserve.
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18808
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One of Richmond County's most historic houses is available for restoration. The John Phillips Little Homeplace near Mount Gilead was occupied for many years by the namesake, who was born in 1828, and is an example of Greek revival architecture, which was fashionable in the 1840s.
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North Carolina Preservation (NoCar Oversize E 151 N6x), Vol. Issue 40, Apr 1983, p2, f
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21209
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This article examines the rice growing industry in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia during the 18th- and 19th-centuries. Emphasis is placed on the rice plantations of the Manigault family of Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia.
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31205
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Much of the film “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” was shot in the summer of 2001 at one of North Carolina’s largest antebellum plantation houses, Buckner Hill House, near Faison in Duplin County. Its owners, Terry Grimes and Brad Chappell, describe how the film crew and Tri-County EMC electric cooperative worked to take special care filming the movie in the historic house.
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Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 34 Issue 8, Aug 2002, p8, il