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Slave quarters. A focus of tours of the site is the carriage house and the history of the enslaved workers who lived there, including the nanny, cook and butler. During a renovation of the carriage house in the 1990s, the owners of the site discovered one of the oldest and best preserved urban slave quarters in the American South.
My interest had been piqued years before when visiting the Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters for work. I couldn’t explore the circa-1819 Neoclassical building, because it isn’t wheelchair ...
Telfair Museums, in the historic district of Savannah, Georgia, was the first public art museum in the Southern United States.Founded through the bequest of Mary Telfair (1791–1875), a prominent local citizen, and operated by the Georgia Historical Society until 1920, the museum opened in 1886 in the Telfair family's renovated Regency style mansion, known as the Telfair Academy.
The house and grounds were used in several silent films, including Stolen Moments. [5] 76000650 Greenwood Plantation: Thomasville Thomas 88000968 Hamilton Plantation slave cabins: St. Simons Island: Glynn: Unusually well-built slave cabins; summer tours given by Cassina Garden Club 76000635 Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation: Brunswick: Glynn ...
CHARLOTTSVILLE, Va. — Gardiner Hallock, Director of Restoration for Thomas Jefferson's mountaintop plantation, stood on a red-dirt floor inside a dusty rubble-stone room built in 1809.
This is a list of slave cabins and other notable slave quarters. A number of slave quarters in the United States are individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Many more are included as contributing buildings within listings having more substantial plantation houses or other structures as the main contributing resources ...
Owens–Thomas House: Anson Ward 124 Abercorn Street 1817-1819 By William Jay, on the NRHP. Jay's earliest structure in Savannah Owens–Thomas House Slave Quarters Anson Ward 124 Abercorn Street, rear (view from Lincoln Street) 1817-1819 A rare & intact example of a 19th-century urban slave dwelling Mary Marshall Houses: Anson Ward
The former carriage house beside the Bliss-McClure house at 63 University Ave., Lewisburg, was a hidden stop on the network of safe havens for escaped slaves in the mid-19th century. Recognized as ...