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33 Moorefields Pt Pleasant N O R T H E A S T C A PE F E AR R I V E R Cobham Point Repose Auburn Belvidere Gabourel’s Bluff Belville Buchoi The Forks Clarendon Stag Park Bear Garden The Neck Mosely Hall Hyrneham Pleasant Hall Spring Garden Bloom Hill Eagle Island Old Town Pleasant Oaks Lilliput Kendal Orton Russellboro York Green Hill Clayton Hall Springfields Strawberry Heron’s Castle Haynes Rock Hill Nesses Creek Fairfields Sans Souci Hilton Hatton Lodge Grainger Davis TOWN CREEK Rice’s www.wrightsvillebeachmagazine.com WBM TThe image of Tara, the fictional plantation featured in Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone with the Wind,” inevitably surfaces when the word plantation comes to mind. The term plantation refers to the size of the land hold-ings, not the house in which the owner lived. During the colonial period, from the early 17th century cotton until American indepen-dence, the homes tended to be fairly modest compared to many great homes of the Antebellum era. Between the mouth of the Cape Fear River, at Bald Head Island to just above Wilmington, there have been more than 60 plantations over the years. Until the early 20th century, these plantations were an integral part of southeastern North Carolina’s economy and society. Howe’s Pt. Govenor’s Pt. Magnolia Dallison Mulberry Prospect Schawfields Greenfields Rose Hill Sedgely Abbey Hasell Mt. Gallant Swan’s Point The Oak The Vats Lillington Hall C A P E F EAR RIVER A T L A N T I C O C E A N Ft. Johnson (Smithville) Rocky Run The Hermitage Spring Garden Dobbs Watters Hullfields Dalrymple Originally drawn especially for O r i g i n a l l y


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