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In 1825, George Washington Morris (1799–1834), a grandson of Lewis Morris (1726–1798), signer of the Declaration of Independence, who purchased the land and named it Grove Plantation. George Washington Morris, who was born in 1796 at Morrisania , the family estate in Westchester County, New York , married Maria Evans Whaley from Edisto.
Location of West Feliciana Parish in Louisiana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States.
The Grove, known officially as the Call/Collins House at The Grove, is an antebellum plantation house located in Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida. Territorial Governor Richard Keith Call constructed The Grove circa 1840.
[1] [2] The plantation was established in 1825. [1] There was a school at Pecan Grove as early as 1837. [3] Henry Goodrich owned Pecan Grove plantation beginning sometime before 1847. [4] Pecan Grove had a main residence, a cotton gin, and slave quarters. [5] Pecan Grove was used as a site for political meetings [6] and had a Masonic lodge. [7]
The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1] There are 10 properties listed on the National Register in the parish. One property was once listed, but has since been removed.
The plantation was first recorded in 1753 when Peter Perry purchased 473 acres. Perry owned 46 chattel slaves. [2] The plantation house, built about 1800, was in poor condition when Henry L. Bowles (1866-1932), a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, bought the property in 1928. He demolished it and built the present house in the same year.
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The current house, a 12-room Greek Revival-style mansion, was built in the early 1850s by Joseph Mumford Foy. [3] It was mistakenly referenced as being owned by Nicholas Nixon. [4] The Plantation is now under the care of Poplar Grove Foundation, Inc. Poplar Grove opened as a museum to the public in 1980. [5]