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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.
Aspendale is a historic house and plantation property on Delaware Route 300 west of Kenton, Kent County, Delaware, United States. The main house, built 1771–73, has been under a single family's ownership since construction and is a rare, well-preserved example of a Georgian "Quaker plan" house. It was listed on the National Register of ...
Nemours Estate from the front. The Nemours Estate is a 200-acre (81 ha) country estate with jardin à la française formal gardens and a French neoclassical mansion in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. Built to resemble a French château, its 105 rooms on four floors occupy nearly 47,000 sq ft (4,400 m 2). It shares the grounds at 1600 ...
Designated ARLH. September 14, 1977[3] Bellingrath Gardens and Homeis the 65-acre (26 ha) public gardenand historic home of Walter and Bessie Bellingrath, located on the Fowl Rivernear Mobile, Alabama, United States. Walter Bellingrath was one of the first Coca-Colabottlers in the Southeast, and with his wealth built the estate garden and home.
Though Okolona Plantation in Middletown, Del., looks like your typically beautiful Italianate Victorian, it's not just a pretty face. This stunning home was once a 19th century "peach mansion," where
Stonum. Categories: Plantation houses in the United States by state or territory. Plantations in Delaware.
Plantation houses in Delaware (5 P) Categories: Plantations in the United States by state or territory. Houses in Delaware. Buildings and structures in Delaware by type. Agriculture in Delaware. African-American history of Delaware.
The Shirley Plantation, c. 1900–1906, photo by William Henry Jackson Shirley Plantation dovecote The lands of Shirley Plantation were first settled by Europeans in 1613 by Sir Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr and were named West and Sherley Hundred, probably because this Lord Delaware's wife Cessalye was the daughter of Sir Thomas Sherley (variant spellings being common at the time). [6]