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The San Francisco Plantation House is located on the north bank of the Mississippi River, separated from the river by Louisiana Highway 44 and a levee. The house stands on about 8 acres (3.2 ha) of land, now surrounded by a farm of oil tanks.
Cornelius Harnett's house. The plantation was originally owned by the widow of Cornelius Harnett. [2] Later, the property, which once included Figure Eight Island, became the home of the Foy family, an American family of French Huguenot descent, from 1795 until 1971.
Monticello, located outside Charlottesville, Virginia, was the primary plantation house of Thomas Jefferson. A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as a symbol for the plantation as a whole.
"1985" is a song that was written and recorded by American pop-punk band SR-71 for their album Here We Go Again. Mitch Allan, SR-71's frontman, gave the song to pop-punk band Bowling for Soup, who recorded a cover version that reached number 23 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and was included on the band's album A Hangover You Don't Deserve.
By the 1980s, copra production in New Guinea was dominated by two Australian trading companies: Burns Philp and W. R. Carpenter & Co. [3]In 1985 the PNG government established the Copra Marketing Board, [4] to take over copra production in PNG.
Glenfield Plantation (originally called Glencannon) is a one-level historic antebellum home in Natchez, Mississippi.Glenfield was built in two distinct architectural periods on a British land grant originally deeded to Henry LeFluer by King George III.
Plantation economies are factory-like, industrialised and centralised forms of agriculture, [citation needed] owned by large corporations or affluent owners. Under normal circumstances, plantation economies are not as efficient as small farm holdings, since there is immense difficulty in proper supervision of labour over a large land area.
One of the oldest homes in Louisiana, Destrehan Plantation was constructed beginning in 1787 and completed in 1790, during the period of Spanish rule.Robert Antoine Robin de Logny contracted with Charles Pacquet, a mulatto carpenter, to build a raised house in the West Indies or Creole style, with outbuildings to support his indigo plantation.