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The Orton Plantation is a historic plantation house in the Smithville Township of Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States. Located beside the Cape Fear River between Wilmington and Southport , Orton Plantation is considered to be a near-perfect example of Southern antebellum architecture.
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
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 ...
The script called for a Southern-style, antebellum plantation house as a prominent location, and when flipping through a magazine Capra happened upon a picture of Orton Plantation in Brunswick County.
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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.
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).
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.