Would You Visit a Plantation?

Would You Visit a Plantation?

  • Yes

    Votes: 79 97.5%
  • No

    Votes: 2 2.5%

  • Total voters
    81
I have fond memories as a boy going to visit my G Grandfather who still lived in the old family place in Mississippi. Even though he only lived in 4 rooms of that house, my brother and I would run all over that place. I am blessed with over 40 plantations with in a 30 mile drive of my place in Demopolis which is the 2nd oldest town in the state. In fact its was a town before Alabama was a state.
Gaineswood is the show place but Thornhill is a close second.

 

My husband and I enjoyed our tour of Oatlands! We love that area and hope to return this year. Have you visited Morven Park? We have it on our list. Winchester is a great base camp for touring the area. The historical district is very nice.
No, I'm not familiar with Morven Park, but we often used Winchester as our base camp for antiquing or visiting CW battlefields and museums.
 
Oakmont, PA, is a town local to me in Pennsylvania. A number of years ago, an elderly woman died and left her family’s 1890’s Queen Anne Victorian house to Oakmont with the requirement that it be used for an educational purpose. The local government eventually turned it into a house museum to teach visitors how a middle class family lived at the turn of the last century.

I toured it once. The docent explained how such tasks as laundry were done in the 1890’s.
I've heard about this house. I'm not far from Oakmont myself; gonna pay a visit this summer.
 
I have fond memories as a boy going to visit my G Grandfather who still lived in the old family place in Mississippi. Even though he only lived in 4 rooms of that house, my brother and I would run all over that place. I am blessed with over 40 plantations with in a 30 mile drive of my place in Demopolis which is the 2nd oldest town in the state. In fact its was a town before Alabama was a state.
Gaineswood is the show place but Thornhill is a close second.

My uncle married a Tallichet from Mississippi but her father was originally from Demopolis and I wondered at times about the French surname in such an Anglo area. I’ve just now read more about Demopolis and the French colonizers that founded it in 1817, and taking a leap here, suspect they were descendants of the settlers. Of note: I already knew that she was a cousin of the Hollywood actress Margaret Tallichet who was well known in the early-mid 20th century, and that Margaret’s family was also from Demopolis.
 
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Gordon Lee Mansion and slave quarters. Built in 1840.

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No sir it's in Owings mills Baltimore county
Some years ago I was working in Frederick and while driving in the area I came across a home or museum that looked very similar. There was a historic plaque outside and IIRC related the history and the fact that during the Sharpsburg campaign, CS troops came through and purchased horses from the owner with CSA script, IIRC he was a reluctant seller.

Edit: here is the home! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schifferstadt_(Frederick,_Maryland)
 
Some years ago I was working in Frederick and while driving in the area I came across a home or museum that looked very similar. There was a historic plaque outside and IIRC related the history and the fact that during the Sharpsburg campaign, CS troops came through and purchased horses from the owner with CSA script, IIRC he was a reluctant seller.

Edit: here is the home! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schifferstadt_(Frederick,_Maryland)
All the photos are of the same place there in Owings mills Md the place is called the Meadows a real estate place owns it now the building you are talking about is a 2 1/2 story slave house at the property but the two do look similar
 
Yes of course I would and have visited 2 plantations, Drayton Hall near Charleston, and Oak Alley near New Orleans. Aside from the unique architecture and landscaping, these visits are excellent ways to learn about and understand the horrors of slave life and the cultivation of staple crops during the antebellum era.

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45 years ago, I took my new bride to Natchez on our honeymoon.

Years ago, a historical replica of a plantation was built in Greenwood, MS. It was called Florewood Plantation and it was finally closed down. I think it closed due to it was a financial failure. It had a home filled with original antiques. The area had barn, blacksmith shop, school house, the cook house and houses for the slaves.

Wiki Florewood Plantation
 
45 years ago, I took my new bride to Natchez on our honeymoon.

Years ago, a historical replica of a plantation was built in Greenwood, MS. It was called Florewood Plantation and it was finally closed down. I think it closed due to it was a financial failure. It had a home filled with original antiques. The area had barn, blacksmith shop, school house, the cook house and houses for the slaves.

Wiki Florewood Plantation
Not unlike Florewood a faux plantation was set up in Brooklyn, NY in 1895 to demonstrate to the locals what is was all about. Apparently it was a big hit!

This is a thread about it from 2017:
 
Yes of course I would and have visited 2 plantations, Drayton Hall near Charleston, and Oak Alley near New Orleans. Aside from the unique architecture and landscaping, these visits are excellent ways to learn about and understand the horrors of slave life and the cultivation of staple crops during the antebellum era.

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Drayton was a cool experience. Completely empty, but lots of history that date back long before the Civil War if I remember it correctly.
Boone Hall was also a neat experience, I've been there twice. It was there I learned that even brickmaking was something a plantation could do.
 
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