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Outhouse exterior, Stagville Plantation

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Dan Kelo
Date created
April 17, 2008
Location
North Carolina
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Exterior of an outhouse at Stagville Plantation.

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Exterior view of an outhouse behind the Bennehan house, the main plantation house at Stagville Plantation.

Stagville plantation is located in parts of what are now Orange, Durham, Wake, and Granville counties. Established in 1787 by the Bennehan and Cameron families, Stagville was the largest plantation in North Carolina. In 1860 more than nine hundred enslaved people lived on its thirty thousand acres. Most of them worked in the fields growing crops such as tobacco, wheat, corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes.