Plantations of the Old South

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The principal house of a plantation in the antebellum American South typically had two stories with very tall windows with a veranda across the entire front facade supported by two-story columns.

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Oak Alley Plantation is located on the west bank of the Mississippi River in Vacherie, St. James Parish, Louisiana.
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Hampton Plantation was established in 1735. It is near McClellanville, South Carolina.

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The Stafford Plantation was a plantation on Cumberland Island in Camden County on the southeastern coast of Georgia. It was established in the early 19th century by Robert Stafford.
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Dunleith is an antebellum mansion in Natchez, Mississippi. The previous building, Routhland had been built by Job Routh in the 1790s and passed down to his daughter Mary Routh.

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Gunston Hall is an 18th century Georgian mansion near the Potomac River in Mason Neck, Virginia. The house was the home of the United States Founding Father George Mason.

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Liberty Hall is a plantation house near Camden, Alabama. The Greek Revival style main house was built in 1855 for John Robert McDowell.
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Boone Hall Plantation has a large Colonial Revival plantation house. It is located in Mount Pleasant, Charleston County in South Carolina.

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Nottoway Plantation is located in White Castle, Louisiana. The plantation house was built by John Hampden Randolph in 1859.

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Kensington Plantation House is a plantation house located near Eastover, South Carolina. It was built between 1851 and 1853 by Colonel Richard Singleton.