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The Orton Plantation is a historic plantation house in the Smithville Township of Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States. Located beside the Cape Fear River between Wilmington and Southport, Orton Plantation is considered to be a near-perfect example of Southern antebellum architecture.
4 dni temu · Totally uninhabited by Europeans in 1700, this isolated corner of North Carolina’s southern coast is particularly noteworthy for its relatively late colonization and its rapid rise to economic prominence, first settled in 1725, the region grew to be the most prosperous in North Carolina by 1775.
3 dni temu · Decorated with large Grecian columns, the sprawling white plantation home sits nestled amongst live oak trees with a gallery of windows allowing the home to flow into its picturesque surroundings. And while the gardens highlighting the home’s beauty, life at Orton certainly wasn’t always so serene.
Orton Plantation, a former rice plantation during slavery, is no longer open for public visit. A descendant of the founder of Orton Plantation re-purchased the plantation and the large acreage of former rice fields and formal gardens surrounding it, as well as the family chapel and graveyard close by the plantatation's large mansion.
25 sie 2016 · Orton's rice fields are the last of the many rice plantations of North Carolina. They stand as tangible record of the skill and labor exerted by enslaved laborers.
This is one of many walkways at Orton Plantation, dappled in sunlight and canopied with oak leaf and moss. Orton Plantation, on the west bank of the Cape Fear River, first was owned, in 1725, by Maurice Moore, son of S. C. Governor James Moore.
25 kwi 2024 · For more than a decade now, the goings-on at Brunswick County's fabled Orton Plantation have occurred largely out of the public eye.
