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 ...

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 ...

The Whitney Plantation stands as a profound monument to the history of slavery in the Southern United States. Located in ...

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 ...