Somerset Place

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For the Georgian crescent in Bath, England, see Somerset Place (Bath).
The drive leading to Somerset Place
The drive leading to Somerset Place

Somerset Place is a former plantation near Creswell in Washington County, North Carolina, along the northern shore of Lake Phelps, and now a State Historic Site. Somerset Place operated as a plantation from 1785 until 1865. Before the end of the Civil War, Somerset Place had become one of the Upper South's largest plantations.[1]

In 1969, Somerset Place was designated as a State Historic Site. In 1986, descendants of slaves from Somerset Place planned a gathering known as Somerset Homecoming.[2] The event was inspired by a book titled "Somerset Homecoming" written by the property's current manager Dorothy Spruill Redford.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Somerset Place - colossal slave-built plantation - North Carolina's African-American Culture: Advertising Travel Supplement" in FindArticles, April-May, 1995. Retrieved May 2, 2008.
  2. ^ " Restored Plantation Is Peek Into The Past" in The Virginian-Pilot, June 1, 1997. Retrieved May 2, 2008.
  3. ^ "Dorothy Spruill Redford" in UNC-TV, 2001. Retrieved May 2, 2008.

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