St. Francisville, Louisiana
Begun in 1849 and restored in 1915, the terraced garden of Afton Villa stands as an outstanding example of antebellum landscape architecture.The 140 acres of rolling countryside which house the gardens include a mile and a half driveway enveloped by an alley of live oaks. The landscaping effects at...
Roswell, Georgia
This home, located in historic Roswell, was built by one of the town's founding fathers, Archibald Smith. For over 150 years, the Smith’s Plantation Home has stood the test of time as The Civil War was brought to its front steps, and all around it, the small mill village of Roswell...
Little Rock, Arkansas
This program provides walking tours to local landmarks and historic sites.The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program is devoted to getting the citizens of Arkansas involved in their past. The AHPP also offers workshops and programs for youth education. In addition, a virtual tour is available of...
Biloxi, Mississippi
The complex includes the Jefferson Davis Presidential Library, the restored antebellum home, the Confederate Museum, and veterans cemetery.The house was built by James Brown, a wealthy plantation owner from Madison County, Mississippi. The house was started in late 1848 and was completed in 1852....
Middletown, Virginia
Built in 1797, this unique limestone home was once residence to Major Issac Hite and his wife, Nelly.Belle Grove was home to the sister, Nelly Conway Madison, of President James Madison. During the Civil War, Belle Grove was at the center of the decisive Battle of Belle Grove or Cedar Creek. Today...
Nashville, Tennessee
Belle Meade Plantation is a 30-acre historic site 6 miles west of Nashville.The centerpiece of the property is the Belle Meade mansion built in 1853. This Greek revival house was home to five generations of the Harding-Jackson family, original owners of the Belle Meade Farm. In the late 19th...
Nashville, Tennessee
The mid-19th-century Italian-style villa was one of the most elaborate antebellum homes in the South, containing an art gallery, conservatories, lavish gardens, aviary, lake and zoo.The moving spirit of Belmont Mansion was Adelicia Hayes Franklin Acklen Cheatham. Born on March 15, 1817, to an...
Charles City, Virginia
This historic plantation was the birthplace of Benjamin and William Harrison.One of Virginia's most historic plantations and the site of the first official Thanksgiving in 1619, Berkeley is also the birthplace of Benjamin Harrison, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and President William...
Upper Marlboro, Maryland
Dr. James Weems built this plantation house in 1740. Today, it is one of the oldest buildings in the area and an invaluable piece of colonial architectural history.Although Major John Billingsley never lived on the property he acquired from Lord Baltimore on the Patuxent River and the Western...
Hardy, Virginia
Author and orator Booker T. Washington was born in this small plantation, where he eventually took his "first breath of freedom."
On April 5, 1856, Booker T. Washington was born a slave on the 207-arce farm of James Burroughs. After the Civil War, Washington became founder and first...
Flagler Beach, Florida
Visitors can tour the sugar mill ruins and learn about the plantation's history at the interpretive center.Visitors can tour the sugar mill ruins and learn about the plantation's history at the interpretive center.
In 1836, the Second Seminole War swept away the prosperous Bulow Plantation where...
Natchitoches, Louisiana
The hand-hewn beams, bousillage walls and fencerows of local Creole plantations remind visitors of the people who left behind a legacy of rural landscapes and farms.In 18th century Louisiana, Creole referred to locally born Spaniards, French and enslaved people. After the Louisiana Purchase, Creole...
Franklin, Tennessee
The bloodiest five hours of the Civil War unfolded on the doorstep of this majestic 19th-century Tennessee plantation.Carnton was built in 1826 by former Nashville mayor Randal McGavock (1768-1843). Throughout the nineteenth century it was frequently visited by those shaping Tennessee and American...
Chesterfield, Virginia
This 1817 plantation home serves as the headquarters for the Chesterfield Historical Society.One of the finest Palladian style period houses in Chesterfield County, Castlewood has a five-part building plan that bears no likeness to any other recorded dwelling in Virginia. Its unique place in the...
Sullivan's Island, South Carolina
This remanent of Charles Pinckney's plantation preserves his story and the stories of the lives of enslaved African Americans on South Carolina Lowcountry plantations.Snee Farm, Pinckney’s coastal plantation, offers an opportunity to learn about the cultural environment that influenced...
West Point, Virginia
Chelsea Plantation is one of the best examples of early 18th century architecture in America, and once served as headquarters for General LaFayette's army during the Revolutionary War.Furnished with period antiques and a large collection of paintings, this 1709 brick house was built during the...
Surry, Virginia
This 1,400-acre plantation located opposite Jamestown Island, includes an antebellum plantation home, farm buildings, and the Farm and Forestry Museum, which portrays Virginia's agricultural history.Chippokes Plantation State Park is one of the oldest working farms in the United States. Chippokes...
Grove Hill, Alabama
Housed in the historic Alston-Cobb house, the Clarke County Historical Museum seeks to educate the local community and visitors about the area's history.
Included on the National Register of Historic Places, the Clarke County Historical Museum is a treasure trove of local history. Housed in an 1854...
Memphis, Tennessee
A remarkably preserved historic site within an urban area, this plantation also features a small archaeological mound and traces of old Indian trails.Davies Manor Plantation is a remarkably preserved historic site within an urban area. In addition to the house and grounds, a small archaeological...
Destrehan, Louisiana
This plantation was established in 1787 and remains the oldest documented plantation home in the lower Mississippi River Valley.Erected in 1787 by Charles Paquet, Destrehan Plantation was purchased by indigo planter Robert Antointe Robin DeLogny and his family. Besides his profitable indigo cash...
Newberry, Florida
The plantation complex consists of eighteen buildings, including the house in which the Dudley family resided complete with the original furniture.
Farming has always been central to life in Florida, and the Dudley Farm bears witness to the complex lifestyles that evolved around it. Living history...
Port Orange, Florida
Interpretive signs recount the history of this famous 16th century sugar mill and of the pioneers who braved the harsh New World conditions in an effort to make a living refining sugar cane.
The Dunlawton Sugar Mill Botanical Gardens features original sugar mill equipment, such as a sugar cane...
Edgard, Louisiana
Located on the west bank of the Mississippi River, this is a privately owned sugar cane plantation site.Evergreen Plantation is the most intact plantation complex in the South with 37 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places, including 22 slave cabins. Evergreen has its country's...
Miami, Florida
This served as the slave quarters on the plantation of William English from 1844 until its appropriation by the U.S. Army in 1849, at which point it was used in the Second Seminole War.Located in Miami's Lummus Park, Fort Dallas and the William Wagner House offer unique insights into southeastern...
Ellenton, Florida
This antebellum mansion was home to Major Robert Gamble and headquarters of an extensive sugar plantation.The Gamble Plantation's history stretches from Major Robert Gamble, who presided over a large-scale nineteenth-century sugar plantation in the mansion, to Confederate Secretary of State Judah P...
Tallahassee, Florida
This site recalls the history as both an antebellum plantation and as the luxurious and stately private residence it was to become in the latter half of the nineteenth century.This estate began in the 1830's as a cotton and corn plantation that ultimately encompassed 2,400 acres. The plantation's...
Seaford, Delaware
This site is a complete Victorian Italianate mansion with slave quarters, barns, sheds and spacious grounds.This home belonged to William Henry Harrison Ross, who was the Governor of Delaware from 1851 to 1855. And although he was instrumental in bringing a railroad connecting to Philadelphia to...
Mason Neck, Virginia
The home of George Mason, father of the Bill of Rights, was constructed in the Georgian architectural style around 1760.George Mason was instrumental in the framing of the United States government, but he shied away from public office and preferred, instead, to manage his plantation estate, Gunston...
Ponce, Puerto Rico
This working coffee plantation recaptures rural life in 19th century Puerto Rico.Hacienda Buena Vista, considered one of Puerto Rico's best remaining examples of a coffee plantation, consists of an 87 acre agricultural complex constructed in the mid-19th century. The hacienda's principle buildings...
Fredericksburg, Virginia
Built on 1,300 acres, this home to George Washington's sister, Betty, served as a Revolutionary-era arms dealer by supplying Washington's troops during the fight for independence.One of Virginia's most elegant colonial mansions, Kenmore was built in the 1770s by Fielding Lewis for his wife Betty,...
Raleigh, North Carolina
This 19th-century historic farmstead's goal is to interpret the agricultural heritage and rural history of North Carolina through educational programs, special events and exhibits.The recorded history of Oak View began in 1829 when Benton Southworth Donaldson Williams purchased a tract of land in...
Charlotte, North Carolina
This Federal style mansion is noted for its faux grained woodwork and the original French wallpaper that can be seen in three different rooms.The neighbors called it "Frew's Folly," though the reason remains obscure. Perhaps it was the chrome yellow trim, a shocking contrast to the plank...
Blacksburg, Virginia
Established by Revolutionary war patriot, William Preston, this plantation later became the social and political center of the county.Established by Revolutionary war patriot, William Preston, this plantation later became the social and political center of the county.
On the eve of the American...
Darrow, Louisiana
Known as "The Sugar Palace," this plantation has 16 rooms filled with period antiques and Louisiana artwork, and boasts over 38-acres of gardens, ponds, and an oak alley.The Houmas house is significant in the area of architecture as an excellent example of a plantation house designed in...
Sanford, North Carolina
The late-18th century house, which today features fine antiques of the colonial and Revolutionary War eras, was first owned by Philip Alston, whose band of Whigs was attacked in 1781 by Tories.During the American Revolution, groups of citizen-soldiers called Whigs or revolutionists, and Tories, who...
Lesage, West Virginia
This historic plantation home was built in 1835 by Captain William Jenkins and was home to the Confederate Brigadier General Albert Gallatin Jenkins.Jenkins Plantation has survived wars, floods, wind and weather. Since 1835 a large brick house, essentially a mansion in its time and place, has stood...
Dover, Delaware
This was the home of John Dickinson, one of the founding fathers of the United States, signer of the Constitution, and "Penman of the Revolution."It was January 18, 1740 when Samuel Dickinson, a wealthy Quaker tobacco planter and merchant of Talbot County, Maryland moved his family to the...
Richmond, Virginia
The noted Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall built this Federal-style house in 1790 and lived here for forty-five years.This temple-front, four-room plan house with an Adamesque interior has undergone remarkably few changes since Marshall's ownership. It reflects much of its original...
Jacksonville, Florida
This historic plantation, comprising a number of the original structures that made up the site, bears witness to the complex history of slavery in the United States.The Kingsley Plantation, administered by the National Park Service, is located on Fort George Island and includes the plantation house...
Vacherie, Louisiana
Voted a top Louisiana travel attraction, this plantation gives daily guided tours, in both English and French, that transports visitors to Creole culture.Named by Lonely Planet Travel as the "Best History Tour in the U.S.," the one-hour guided visit, entitled: The Creole Family Saga, is...
Greensboro, Alabama
This 15-acre estate was the boyhood home to hero and U.S. Congressman Richmond Pearson Hobson.Nationally significant as the boyhood home of Spanish-American War hero and U.S. Congressman Richmond Pearson Hobson, Magnolia Grove is a Southern archetype – what many tourists expect to see in the...
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
This plantation home was one of the earliest buildings in the city of Baton Rouge.The plantation house, now surrounded by an urban setting, was once the center of a 900-acre operation with frontage on the Mississippi River. The main house was built around 1791 as a small settler's house and as...
St. John, Virgin Islands (U.S.)
The original one-story mansonry of the Great House dates from the mid-19th century, when the plantation was used to farm cotton and cattle.The Mary Point Great House and Factory, where cotton was cultivated and cattle grazed in the past, is associated with Governor Berg, 19th-century Governnor and...
Charlottesville, Virginia
Italian for "little mountain," Monticello is the self-designed home of Thomas Jefferson, the nation's third President and principal author of the Declaration of Independence.Construction began in 1769 according to Jefferson's first design, which was completed (except for porticoes and...
Raleigh, North Carolina
Mordecai Historic Park includes Mordecai Mansion, an antebellum plantation home with many of its original furnishings.While at Mordecai, visitors can tour other historic structures which have been moved to Mordecai Park for preservation, including the Birthplace of Andrew Johnson. Mordecai Historic...
Princeton, New Jersey
Located on two floors of the restored mansion, the museum’s galleries explore the history and culture of New Jersey, focusing on Morven.For more than 200 years Morven has played a role in the history of New Jersey and the nation. It was originally part of a 5,500-acre tract purchased from...
Upper Marlboro, Maryland
Mount Calvert's rich archaeological and historical resources represent over 8,000 years of human culture.
Archaeological evidence shows that American Indians were present from the Archaic Period (7500-1000 BC) through the Woodland Period (1000 BC-1600 AD). Early Archaic hunters and gathers visited...
Earleville, Maryland
The home on this 290-acre plantation in Cecil County, Md., was built in 1730.The main building itself at this 290-acre site is a three-story, five-bay manor house dates back to 1730. It was decorated with hand painted Chinese wallpaper and period antiques of the British Isles. The site was a...
Clinton, Tennessee
This operating farm features 30 historic log buildings and exhibits on Appalachia's past.With more than 30 historic log buildings gathered onto 63 acres, which date from the 19th century, and hundreds of exhibits celebrating the creativity and color of our Appalachian forebears, the Museum annually...
Lake Arbor, Maryland
This archaeological site used to be one of the most prominent tobacco plantations in the country.Of the large tobacco plantations of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, Northampton was one of the most prominent. However, only the ruins of the main plantation house, some outbuildings, and the slave...