"Plantation homes" refer to large houses or estates that were historically built on plantations, which were large agricultural or farming estates typically worked by enslaved individuals. These homes were often built by wealthy landowners to showcase their social status and wealth.
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There's everything here from the civil rights movement and the civil war, through to beautiful
old plantation homes, beaches and pretty towns.
When I think of «The South» I envision large
plantation homes with wrap around front porches, oak trees covered in Spanish Moss and a tall glass of ice tea.
Charleston is home to many great historical sites and cultural venues, from Drayton Hall, one of the oldest unrestored
plantation homes in America, to the Gibbs Museum of Art.
The brick and the heart pine floors in our home were all reclaimed from antebellum
plantation homes here in the South.
Eagle Society members will enjoy the abundance of natural beauty, delicious regional cuisine, and architectural treasures
from plantation homes to centuries - old towns.
Kekaha - The historic Fielding House is a restored
Hawaiian plantation home featuring an unobstructed view of the ocean, three bedrooms, two tiled baths, a sunken soaking tub, a fully - equipped kitchen, natural fiber Sea Grass and Spanish Paver Tile floor coverings and comfortable, Island - style furnishings and decor.
A restored and remodeled Hawaiian
plantation home featuring views of the ocean, three bedrooms, two tiled baths, a sunken soaking tub, a fully - equipped kitchen, natural fiber Sea Grass and Spanish Paver Tile floor coverings and comfortable, Island - style furnishings and decor.
Not, sure if it's the way the paint looks faded from the sun or the remembrance of Louisiana days playing in the dilapidated river
road plantation home next door to my grandmothers and thinking how beautiful she must have been in her prime.
Not, sure if it's the way the paint looks faded from the sun or the remembrance of Louisiana days playing in the dilapidated river road
plantation home next door to my grandmothers and thinking how beautiful she must have been in her -LSB-...]
I knew the starched white columns of old
plantation homes just as well as I knew the spires of Cinderella's storybook castle, and I'd seen with my own eyes how, just before a harvest, Georgia's cotton fields could look like a fresh - fallen snow.
We were in these tiny
little plantation homes where I couldn't really hide lights, so [with digital] being able to light with practical sources and supplementary candle - light was a great asset.
If you want a real - life heroine, try The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks, a novel based on the life of a woman named Carrie McGavock; her
Tennessee plantation home was used as a Confederate hospital during the Civil War.
While naturally dark - skinned slave women were left to work the fields, their children would receive preferential treatment, being brought
into plantation homes to serve as house slaves.
Built - in 1987 with a design that reminds some of colonial New England and others of vintage Key West, the inn underwent a major room overhaul late in 2012, with each unit receiving being redecorated in the furnishings, prints, and colors of a traditional
Hawaii plantation home (of the sort you might see in the «Old Maui» town of Hana).
Set on Maui's lush North Shore, this
historic plantation home dates to the 1870s, and the architectural style is still studied as a classic of «Old... Read More
Perhaps visit one of the several museums that make up the Smithsonian Institution, the National Gallery, the Air and Space Museum or visit Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens - President Washington's
popular plantation home in Virginia.
Often these tours include sites such as the Wallblake House, an 18 - th
century plantation home, an Old Prison or you can head out on the waters in a glass bottom boat for great views above and below the water.
When the
elegant plantation home was built in Baton Rouge, La., some two centuries ago, it was elevated a few feet aboveground — providing greatly boosted odds of limited damage in one of the Mississippi delta's frequent big floods (not to mention protection from termites and the like).
Before becoming a successful industrialist, he worked as an architect in Georgia, designing
huge plantation homes for wealthy planters in and around Milledgeville and Macon.
A little lagniappe about the history of this house, along with many
other plantation homes, can be found in this Louisiana cookbook (AL).
On the south bank of the Red River, Alexandria is a historic city, where visitors can tour
old plantation homes, visit the zoo or participate in the annual Mardi Gras festivities.
I knew I wanted to visit one (if not more) of
the plantation homes when were planning our trip to Charleston.
Grade Level: Pre-K-2, 3 - 5, 6 - 8, 9 - 12 Montecello: Home of Thomas Jefferson offers teachers and students or the history buff a wealth of information about the third President of the United States and
his plantation home.
Noah, thirty - one, is restoring
a plantation home to its former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl he loved like no other.
For history lovers, how about reciting your vows in a sugar mill, in the shadow of a Light House, among the cannons of an old fort or at
a plantation home surrounded by sugar cane fields?
A truly exceptional offering by any measure, this upscale ocean view home melds the timeless ambiance of
the plantation home with sophisticated elegance.
This plantation home is in the heart of Hilo and in a restored plantation home from 1914.
Featuring real maps based on
the plantation homes of prominent Founding Fathers!
Stroll through the cobblestoned streets of the Old Alexandria to feel the spirit of George Washington, or go visit Mount Vernon,
his plantation home and museum.
He wants to spend big on
a plantation home with a big porch, while she's focused on budget friendly and move - in ready.