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2. Carter's Grove - Wikipedia

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   Carter's Grove, also known as Carter's Grove Plantation, is a 750-acre (300 ha) plantation located on the north shore of the James River in the Grove Community of southeastern James City County in the Virginia Peninsula area of the Hampton Roads region of Virginia in the United States . The plantation was built for Carter Burwell, grandson of ...

3. List of plantations in North Carolina - Wikipedia

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   Built from 1776 to 1863. The following table shows the plantations in North Carolina that were built between 1776 and the end of the Civil War. /  35.83750°N 77.621806°W  / 35.83750; -77.621806  ( Adelphia Plantation) /  36.05333°N 78.19583°W  / 36.05333; -78.19583  ( Archibald H. Davis Plantation) Built in 1820 (about).

4. List of Gilded Age mansions - Wikipedia

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   Gilded Age mansions were lavish houses built between 1870 and the early 20th century by some of the richest people in the United States. These estates were raised by the nation's industrial, financial and commercial elite, who amassed great fortunes in era of expansion of the tobacco, railroad, steel, and oil industries coinciding with a lack ...

5. Freeman House (Gates, North Carolina) - Wikipedia

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   Freeman House (Gates, North Carolina) /  36.55056°N 76.75528°W  / 36.55056; -76.75528. Freeman House, also known as The Stateline House, is a historic home located on the North Carolina- Virginia state line near Gates, Gates County, North Carolina, USA. The house was built in three building phases, the earliest perhaps dating to the ...

6. List of historic houses in Virginia - Wikipedia

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   Many historic houses in Virginia are notable sites. The U.S. state of Virginia was home to many of America's Founding Fathers, four of the first five U.S. presidents, as well as many important figures of the Confederacy. As one of the earliest locations of European settlement in America, Virginia has some of the oldest buildings in the nation.

7. These NC college towns rank among the best in the South. What ...

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   North Carolina is home to three of the best college towns — and boasts some of the South’s most beautiful campuses, new rankings show. Boone, Davidson and Elon all earned spots on a list of ...

8. Rosewell (plantation) - Wikipedia

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   Rosewell Plantation in Gloucester County, Virginia, was for more than 100 years the home of a branch of the Page family, one of the First Families of Virginia. Begun in 1725, the Flemish bond brick Rosewell mansion overlooking the York River was one of the most elaborate homes in the American colonies. In Mansions of Virginia, the architectural ...

9. List of the oldest buildings in North Carolina - Wikipedia

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   1760. House. Entered on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, this gambrel-roofed home of a merchant was built about 1760. It was named for George Owens and is the oldest structure of the Historic Halifax State Historic Site. [13] Joel Lane House. Raleigh. ca. 1760–1770. House.