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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.
In the early 1900s, there were 328 plantations identified in North Carolina from extant records. [ 10 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The Sloop Point plantation in Pender County, built in 1729, is the oldest surviving plantation house and the second oldest house surviving in North Carolina, after the Lane House (built in 1718–1719 and not part of a plantation).
Orton's Plantation or Orton's Point Light was built in 1849 at the west bank of the Cape Fear River at Orton's Plantation (located between Wilmington and Southport). It was destroyed toward the ...
Coordinates: 34.039823°N 77.946582°W. Boardwalk overlooking the Cape Fear River. Brunswick Town was a prominent town in colonial North Carolina. It was the first successful European settlement in the Cape Fear region, a major colonial port in the 18th century, and home to two provincial governors. Brunswick Town existed for 50 years until it ...
Coordinates: 34.0187°N 77.9061°W. Pleasure Island is a coastal barrier island in Southeastern North Carolina, United States, just south of the City of Wilmington. Pleasure Island is located within Federal Point Township, in New Hanover County. The coastal resort towns of Carolina Beach and Kure Beach, as well as the annexed communities of ...
The script called for a Southern-style, antebellum plantation house as a prominent location, and when flipping through a magazine Capra happened upon a picture of Orton Plantation in Brunswick County.
1760. House. Entered on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, this gambrel-roofed home of a merchant was built about 1760. It was named for George Owens and is the oldest structure of the Historic Halifax State Historic Site. [13] Joel Lane House. Raleigh. ca. 1760–1770. House.
Figure Eight Island was first recorded as part of the Province of North Carolina in 1762, during the reign of George III, as a tract in a royal land grant to James Moore Jr., brother of Orton Plantation 's Roger Moore. In 1775, the island passed from James Moore to American revolutionary Cornelius Harnett and became known as The Banks.