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Abandoned plantation homes for sale12/27/2022 Southern Plantations are significant, not only as historical land marks, but also as examples of architecture. “Farmers” were simply the European immigrants to the New World’s southern hinterlands who had set up crop production on much smaller acreage, with much more meager means – though still taxed. Definitions vary by interpreter, but most historians agree that large stately homes centered on thousands of acres of land which produced crops for sale were owned by “Planters” – an implication that these owners were there to “plant” not just crops but communities to be owned and taxed by the Crown. Southern Plantation homes were generally not just a single home, but an entire compound of buildings, fields, roads, barns and wells. This statistical-scarcity is why many remaining plantation homes have become members of the National Registry of Historic Places. Given the history of the South in general, it is surprising many of them survived. The very few grand Southern Plantation homes that were built subsequently became targets of war, municipal overtaking, community neglect, fire or natural disaster. In fact, most Southern family-owned agricultural establishments were better defined as “farms,” not plantations. The views that every old Southern family’s ancestors somehow oversaw large acreage plantations with moss-draped live oaks lining wide driveways that led to Tara are in many ways a myth. 174 acres, guest house, pool house, barn, pond and more! See more on this Southern Plantation home for sale at Legacy Farms and Ranches of North Carolina.
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