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Somerset Place |
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Location:
2572 Lake Shore Road, Creswell, NC 27928 |
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Somerset Place is a representative state historic site offering a comprehensive and realistic view of 19th-century life on a large North Carolina plantation. Originally, this atypical plantation included more than 100,000 densely wooded, mainly swampy acres bordering the five-by-eight mile Lake Phelps, in present-day Washington County. During its 80 years as an active plantation (1785-1865), hundreds of acres were converted into high yielding fields of rice, corn, oats, wheat, beans, peas, and flax; sophisticated sawmills turned out thousands of feet of lumber. By 1865, Somerset Place was one of the upper South's largest plantations. |
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Phone: |
(252) 797-4560 |
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Website: |
www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hs/somerset |
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