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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.
It was launched from Johnston Atoll on July 9, 1962, and was the largest nuclear test conducted in outer space, and one of five conducted by the US in space. A Thor rocket carrying a W49 thermonuclear warhead (designed at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory ) and a Mk. 2 reentry vehicle was launched from Johnston Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, about ...
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.
The largest spaceflight museum in the world showcases artifacts including the Saturn V moon rocket and the Apollo 16 command module. The center also hosts Space Camp and Space Academy for budding ...
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 ...
One of the biggest attractions at Omni Amelia Island Resort are the golf courses. The resort boasts two championship courses. The Oak Marsh course, was Pete Dye's design, and winds through salt marshes and heritage oaks draped with spanish moss. The challenging Long Point course, designed by Tom Fazio, includes eight water hazards that must be ...
Ruins of a plantation house built 1859–61 for Smith Coffee Daniell II. It was three and a half stories high, then topped by a large cupola. It was one of the largest antebellum mansions ever built in the South.
Researchers at University New South Wales (UNSW) believe they’ve found evidence that an asteroid impact buried near the town of Deniliquin, Australia, is the world’s largest ever discovered ...