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Harmony Hall Plantation

This historic home in Bladen County sits on a property with other old buildings including a schoolhouse, a chapel, a corn crib, a log home, a store, a kitchen and other preserved buildings to show what the area may have looked like in the 1800s.

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  • Farms and plantations The great majority of free North Carolinians, rich and poor, lived and worked on farms before the Civil War. In this chapter, we’ll examine a variety of primary sources — from letters and diaries to recipes and novels — that show what life and work were like for these people.

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  • Mordecai Historic Park: This late eighteenth/early nineteenth century plantation home and historic park is located on the edge of downtown Raleigh, NC.

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Colonel James A. Richardson built his home on a 12,000 acre tract on the Cape Fear River near the village of White Oak around 1768. It was here, according to local tradition, that the seeds of General Cornwallis’ defeat at Yorktown were sown. Several old buildings have been moved onto the property to give it an authentic atmosphere. Please see photographs of Harmony Hall from NC ECHO.

Harmony Hall Plantation, owned by Bladen County Historical Society, is operated by volunteers. The address is Harmony Hall Plantation, P O Box 297, White Oak, N. C. 28399. Telephone numbers are: 9l0-866-4844 or Seth F. Lewis at 9l0-648-4340

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