Somerset Place

Somerset Place

:"For the Georgian crescent in Bath, England, see Somerset Place (Bath)."

Somerset Place is a former plantation near Creswell in Washington County, North Carolina, along the northern shore of Lake Phelps, and now a State Historic Site. Somerset Place operated as a plantation from 1785 until 1865. Before the end of the Civil War, Somerset Place had become one of the Upper South's largest plantations. [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1546/is_n2_v10/ai_16883756 "Somerset Place - colossal slave-built plantation - North Carolina's African-American Culture: Advertising Travel Supplement" in "FindArticles", April-May, 1995] . Retrieved May 2, 2008.]

In 1969, Somerset Place was designated as a State Historic Site. In 1986, descendants of slaves from Somerset Place planned a gathering known as Somerset Homecoming. [ [http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1997/vp970601/05290187.htm" Restored Plantation Is Peek Into The Past" in "The Virginian-Pilot", June 1, 1997] . Retrieved May 2, 2008.] The event was inspired by a book titled "Somerset Homecoming" written by the property's current manager Dorothy Spruill Redford. [ [http://www.unctv.org/ncbookwatch/author_az/2001/dorothy_redfordl.html "Dorothy Spruill Redford" in "UNC-TV", 2001] . Retrieved May 2, 2008.]

References

External links

* [http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hs/somerset/somerset.htm Somerset Place Web Page]
* [http://www.historicalbemarletour.org/sites/somerset.html An Historic Albemarle Tour Site]


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