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Friends visiting in Arkansas often ask where they can visit old Plantations. Plantations? They must think they are visiting Vicksburg, Miss. or one of the other locations where wealthy landowners ...
The circa 1779 Trepagnier plantation home in Norco is shown in a 1938 photo. By then abandoned, the house was occupied by a group of squatters. It would be demolished nearly two decades later, in ...
A retired military couple, Keith and Robin Muschalek bought a dilapidated Wilson County home in 2015. They soon found out the property was a slave plantation, and are now trying to learn more ...
The “Big House” plantation home built from cypress trees hewn by slaves, at the Whitney Plantation slavery museum near New Orleans, ... 18-year-old Cal State Fullerton student drowns in Lake ...
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Somerset Place is an old slave plantation just out of Creswell. My great-grandmother and great-grandfather were slaves there. They had their children there - some of their ...
It can’t be said for certain, but Old Slave Road’s current name appears to reflect its past, as it is situated at the site of two plantations where more than 100 people were enslaved before ...
Home • News. Slave Descendant United with Plantation Owner 181 Years After Families Lived on the Land ... an old plantation founded in 1768 near Hopkins, ...
Tracing the Drax family’s millions – a story of British landed gentry, slavery and sugar plantations
Journalist and historian Paul Lashmar has published extensive research into the wealthy and influential Drax family of Dorset ...
The home once stood about 7 miles north of Sweet Briar as the crow flies, on an Amherst County plantation known as Tusculum. When it was built in the 1750s, central Virginia was rugged frontier.
Old Slave Road today winds for about a half-mile off Wild Horse Creek, at the far western edge of St. Louis County. It features 3,000-square-foot homes on multi-acre lots, often set far off the ...
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