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Orton Plantation Gardens overlooking the Cape Fear River. The Orton Plantation house is an example of Classical Revival and Greek Revival architecture. Originally a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story white brick building, a second floor was added to the house in 1840 along with four fluted Doric columns. Two wings were added to the house in 1904.
English: Orton House and gardens — on the Orton Plantation, Located in Smithville Township, Brunswick County, North Carolina. Built in the Greek Revival style in 1735.
In contrast, the primary focus of a plantation was the production of cash crops, with enough staple food crops produced to feed the population of the estate and the livestock. [4] A common definition of what constituted a plantation is that it typically had 500 to 1,000 acres (2.0 to 4.0 km 2 ) or more of land and produced one or two cash crops ...
Later, under orders from General Clinton and General Cornwallis, British forces burned parts of the town again. After the war, two or three families returned to Brunswick. The port was still functioning but by 1830 the town site was completely abandoned and sold to Frederick Jones Hill, owner of Orton Plantation, for $4.25.
On the Cape Fear River at the junction of NC 1530 and 1529; also 9149 Orton Rd. 34°03′31″N 77°56′44″W / 34.058611°N 77.945556°W / 34.058611; -77.945556 ( Orton Plantation Smithville Township
Orton House at Orton Plantation The settlement of Brunswick Town (1726) was located directly across the Clarendon River, by then renamed as the Cape Fear River, from the Federal Point Peninsula, 5 miles south of the old Charles Town settlement and a couple miles north of Howe's Point (later Sunny Point).
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In 1935, he created a landscape design for Orton Plantation in Brunswick County, North Carolina, not all of which was implemented and only some of which survives today. [11] In 1946, he developed landscaping for thirty acres of the Lloyd–Howe House estate, an area southeast of the main house known as the Clarendon Gardens.