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The road crossing I-95 leading to the park's former entrance, once renamed "Marco Polo Park Boulevard", reverted to its original name of "Old Dixie Highway". The community of Plantation Bay now occupies the site of the former park. One major hindrance to the park's success was the lack of a southbound exit off of Interstate 95 to access the park.
The first sugar plantation on the land was started in 1725 on the Par Force Estate. Oxholm's 1800 map shows a sugar plantation with an animal mill on Par Force land. [6] After Reef Bay Estate was formed by joining the neighboring properties, a new sugar factory was built. The factory was used for processing sugarcane into sugar and distilling rum.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the United States of America that are national memorials, National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places or other heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
Annaberg Historic District is a historic section of Saint John, United States Virgin Islands where the Annaberg sugar plantation ruins are located. The district is located on the north shore of the island west of Mary's Point in the Maho Bay quarter. [2]
Location of Hanover County in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hanover County, Virginia.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Hanover County, Virginia, United States.
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(The term "plantation" was used in the 17th century to mean an agricultural colony.) [2] Williams had been exiled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony under religious persecution; he and his fellow settlers agreed on an egalitarian constitution providing for majority rule "in civil things" with liberty of conscience on spiritual matters.
Laurel Bay Plantation, also known as Woodward Plantation and Tabby Ruin Site, is a historic archaeological site located near Beaufort, Beaufort County, South Carolina.The site contains artifacts associated with domestic outbuilding activities related to either or both Laurel Bay Plantation (c. 1772 –1779) and Woodward Plantation (c. 1800 –1861).