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Somerset Place | NC Historic Sites Somerset Place offers a comprehensive and realistic view of 19th-century life on a large North Carolina plantation Originally, this unusual plantation included more than 100,000 densely wooded, mainly swampy acres bordering the five-by-eight mile Lake Phelps, in present-day Washington County
Civil War at Somerset Place | NC Historic Sites - NC. gov Civil War at Somerset Place Somerset Place was one of North Carolina's largest slaveholding plantations before the Civil War Three generations of the Collins family owned the plantation over its eighty year tenure More than 861 enslaved people, two free black employees, and around fifty white employees lived and labored on the 100,000-acre
Somerset Place | NC Historic Sites The heartbreak of losing young children was all-too familiar to the enslaved families at Somerset Place Between 1839 and 1862, the chapel register recorded the deaths of 144 children under 9 years old Somerset Place State Historic Site: Instagram: @somersetplaceshs Facebook: @somersetplace
History | NC Historic Sites 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
The Site | NC Historic Sites - NC. gov Today, Somerset Place serves as a powerful reminder of one of the most turbulent eras in American History Born from the ashes of the American Civil War, our long road toward unity and racial equality is still being traveled
Plan Your Visit | NC Historic Sites - NC. gov Somerset Place offers a comprehensive and realistic view of 19th-century life on a large North Carolina plantation Originally, this unusual plantation included almost 110,000 acres of densely vegetated swampland bordering Lake Phelps in present-day Washington County
Somerset Place | NC Historic Sites Somerset Place is a representative state historic site offering a comprehensive and realistic view of 19th-century life on a large North Carolina plantation Free admission, donations are accepted and appreciated
Home | NC Historic Sites Here you’ll find virtual tours, hand-on activities, and opportunities to travel back in time The Division of North Carolina State Historic sites is committed to saying the names of African Americans whose lives have intersected with our historic sites
Somerset Homecomings | NC Historic Sites - NC. gov One man attending the August 31, 1986, Somerset Homecoming—the first major homecoming of slave descendants to occur at any former plantation—summed up the prevailing sentiment About midday, this elderly black gentleman walked in a slow and deliberate way through the fourteen rooms of the main house at Somerset Place
The Enslaved Community | NC Historic Sites - NC. gov Somerset Place These enslaved persons were skilled laborers but they were also people with their own traditions Each man, woman, and child forcibly brought to the plantation had a special identity and culture that could be passed on to future generations