Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the United State's South, plantation homes and properties are major attractions for both tourists and history buffs, and these ...

The Historic Smithfield Plantation Home is located west of the Virginia Tech Duck Pond. Built between 1772 and 1774, it was once the home of the Preston family and now hosts events such as weddings ...

The Whitney Plantation stands as a profound monument to the history of slavery in the Southern United States. Located in Wallace, Louisiana, Whitney Plantation Tours offers a unique educational ...

A documentary about Mississippi examines competing forces: the nostalgic celebration of the old south and the refusal to sanitize the brutal history of enslavement ...

As a child growing up in South Louisiana, plantation home tours comprised family outings and school field trips. The tours were romanticized narratives of the Antebellum South, with visions of ...

CHARLES CITY — Around 1776, Judge John Tyler Sr. built a 1½-story wood-frame plantation home near the James River, where famous friends such as Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry occasionally stopped ...

LAPLACE, La. — Jo Banner is excited to show the newly acquired Woodland Plantation House near the banks of the Mississippi River. “We have still a lot of work to do, but I think for the home to be ...