Black Past
Black Past: Jordan Hatcher Case (1852)
Learn about the slave Jordan Hatcher who was charged with killing and assaulting a white man and how his trail affected others.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Barton Hall
This structure, built in 1840, is described by the National Park Service as an "unusually sophisticated" Greek Revival style plantation house. The interior contains a stairway that ascends in a series of double flights and bridge-like...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Kenworthy Hall
This plantation house was completed in 1860 and is one of the best preserved examples of Richard Upjohn's distinctive asymmetrical Italian villa style. It is the only surviving residential example of Upjohn's Italian villa style that was...
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Woonsocket: History of Providence
A general history of the founding of Providence, (Rhode Island) and the other three towns that together formed Providence Plantation.
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Providence Around 1800
A general history of the founding of Providence, (Rhode Island) and the other three towns that together formed Providence Plantation.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Bay Verte, 1775
A map of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia near Bay Verte (Green Bay) and the eastern shore of Chignecto showing the campaign of Colonel Monckton in 1775 against the French. "About the last of May, Colonel Monckton sailed from Boston, with...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Virginia, 1577
A facsimile of an early map (1651) showing the discoveries of Sir Francis Drake in North America, including the coastline of Ould Virginia and Maryland, the Bay of Checepiake (Chesapeake Bay), Lord Delaware Bay, Cape Hatteras and Cape...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Ireland, 1558 1652
A map of Ireland from the ascension of Queen Elizabeth (1558) to the end of the Cromwellian conquest and the Act for the Settlement of Ireland (1652). This map is color-coded to show the territories of the expanded English Pale, the...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in South Carolina: Hopsewee
Plantation mansion built in 1749; the birthplace of Thomas Lynch, Jr.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in South Carolina: Drayton Hall
Plantation house built in 1742 of Palladian architectural style.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in South Carolina: Brick House Ruins
Ruins of a plantation house that burned in 1929.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Virginia: Shirley
Oldest plantation in Virginia.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Virginia: Westover
Plantation that is ancestral seat of the Byrd family.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Washington, d.c.: Octagon House
Plantation owner's home lent to President Madison after the Burning of Washington in 1814.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Virginia: Prestwould
Most intact and best documented plantation surviving in Southside Virginia.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Virginia: Mount Vernon
Plantation home of President George Washington.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Virginia: Berkeley
One of the great plantations of Virginia, associated with Presidents William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in South Carolina: Middleton Place
Plantation mansion and botanical gardens on the Ashley River.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Virginia: Brandon
Plantation tended from 1614 on, with unusual brick mansion in style of Palladio's "Roman Country House" completed in 1760s.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Hawaii: Old Sugar Mill of Koloa
First commercially successful Sugar plantation in Hawaii.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Virginia: Bremo Historic District
James River plantation with mansion probably designed by Thomas Jefferson.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Delaware: Aspendale
House and small plantation, intact from 1771.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Tennessee: The Hermitage
This plantation was the home of Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death. He built the Greek Revival mansion house in 1819. Jackson served as President of the United States from 1829 to 1837.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Virginia: Berry Hill
A Greek Revival plantation mansion, imitating the Parthenon.
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