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The Laurence Sprunt family sold Orton Plantation for $45 million in May 2010 to Louis Moore Bacon, a hedge fund manager and direct descendant of Roger Moore, builder of the original Orton home in 1725. Since the purchase, the plantation and grounds have been closed to the general public.
On the Cape Fear River at the junction of NC 1530 and 1529; also 9149 Orton Rd. 34°03′31″N 77°56′44″W / 34.058611°N 77.945556°W / 34.058611; -77.945556 ( Orton Plantation Smithville Township
Later, under orders from General Clinton and General Cornwallis, British forces burned parts of the town again. After the war, two or three families returned to Brunswick. The port was still functioning but by 1830 the town site was completely abandoned and sold to Frederick Jones Hill, owner of Orton Plantation, for $4.25.
In contrast, the primary focus of a plantation was the production of cash crops, with enough staple food crops produced to feed the population of the estate and the livestock. [4] A common definition of what constituted a plantation is that it typically had 500 to 1,000 acres (2.0 to 4.0 km 2 ) or more of land and produced one or two cash crops ...
Orton House at Orton Plantation The settlement of Brunswick Town (1726) was located directly across the Clarendon River, by then renamed as the Cape Fear River, from the Federal Point Peninsula, 5 miles south of the old Charles Town settlement and a couple miles north of Howe's Point (later Sunny Point).
The road was improved from US 17/US 74/US 76 to Orton Plantation in 1948. [13] In 1951, the segment was completely improved, and NC 130 was extended along the road from Southport to Belville. [14] North of Wilmington, US 421 was removed from the routing between Bells Crossroads and Wilmington in 1954.
He realized how historically valuable the land was. Because of him, the site was named a historic site. The family that owned Orton Plantation sold a majority of the land to the State Department of Archives and History for one dollar and the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina sold the land they owned for one dollar too.
In 1935, he created a landscape design for Orton Plantation in Brunswick County, North Carolina, not all of which was implemented and only some of which survives today. [11] In 1946, he developed landscaping for thirty acres of the Lloyd–Howe House estate, an area southeast of the main house known as the Clarendon Gardens.