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Plantations and Plantation houses — in Texas. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. C. Cotton plantations in Texas (7 P) H.
Stratford Hall is a classic example of Southern plantation architecture, built on an H-plan and completed in 1738 near Lerty, Virginia. The Seward Plantation is a historic Southern plantation-turned-ranch in Independence, Texas. Plantation complexes were common on agricultural plantations in the Southern United States from the 17th into the ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the United States of America that are national memorials, National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places or other heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
In the 1850s, after Texas had become a state, the land passed to his son, John Hoblett Seward (1822–1892). John Seward was married Laura Jane Roberts (1838–1920) [5] of Houston. The main house on the plantation was built in 1855. [5] [6] The plantation house was originally built as a one-story building 1/4 mile from Sam Seward's house.
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[3] [4] George Paul Brulay had immigrated from France to Matamoros, Mexico and then to Brownsville, Texas. [3] He bought up 400 acres of land located near the Rio Grande, most of which at the time was full of brush plants. [4] It was initially experimented with different crops on the land; first it was a cotton plantation, followed by a sugar ...
The Col. Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson Plantation is a Southern plantation with a historic house located in Salado, Texas, USA. The National Register of Historic Places has listed it since April 5, 1983. [2] Robertson built the house in the late 1850s, completing the construction of the main house in 1860.
The Levi Jordan Plantation is a historical site and building, located on Farm to Market Road 521, 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of the city of Brazoria, in the U.S. state of Texas. Founded as a forced-labor farm worked by enslaved Black people, it was one of the largest sugar and cotton producing plantations in Texas during the mid-19th century ...