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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.
Fisher Island and South Beach seen from Crandon in August 2006 The Atlantic Ocean seen from the Crandon Park beach in February 2008. The land Crandon Park occupies was once part of the largest coconut plantation in the United States, operated by William John Matheson and his heirs. In 1940 the Matheson family donated 808.8 acres (327.3 ha) of ...
Belle Grove, also known as Belle Grove Plantation, was a plantation and elaborate Greek Revival and Italianate-style plantation mansion near White Castle in Iberville Parish, Louisiana. Completed in 1857, it was one of the largest mansions ever built in the Southern United States , surpassing that of the neighboring Nottoway , today cited as ...
Composed of 39 buildings, Evergreen Plantation is an intact major antebellum plantation complex of the Southern United States. [6] [7] Open to visitors. 88000102 Fairhaven Plantation House: February 11, 1988: Zachary East Baton Rouge 93000821 Fairview Plantation House: August 12, 1993: Ethel East Feliciana 10000062 Felicity Plantation: March 8 ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Mississippi that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
Nottoway Plantation, also known as Nottoway Plantation House is located near White Castle, Louisiana, United States.The plantation house is a Greek Revival- and Italianate-styled mansion built by enslaved African people and artisans for John Hampden Randolph in 1859, and is the largest extant antebellum plantation house in the South with 53,000 square feet (4,900 m 2) of floor space.
On Saturday, the plantation will educate visitors about the end of slavery and the lives of the nearly 1,000 enslaved people who lived on the plantation. The city is also being asked to help fund ...
Santa Barbara's Moreton Bay Fig Tree located in Santa Barbara, California is believed to be the largest Ficus macrophylla in the United States. [ 1 ] An Australian seaman visiting Santa Barbara in 1876 presented a seedling of an Australian Moreton Bay fig tree to a local girl who planted it at 201 State Street.