Orton Plantation is a historic plantation house in Smithville Township, Brunswick County, North Carolina, built beside the Cape Fear River in 1735 by Roger Moore in the Classical Revival and Greek Revival styles. The plantation was originally worked as a rice farm by enslaved labor, and during the Civil War Union forces used the house as a military hospital, which helped preserve the structure. The Sprunt family owned and maintained the property, including its extensive public gardens, for 126 years before it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973; in 2010 it was purchased by Louis Moore Bacon, a descendant of the original builder, and closed to public access.
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Building Type LocationSmithville Township, Brunswick County, North Carolina 1 Completed Year Building Type
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The Orton Plantation is a historic plantation house
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in Smithville Township in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States.
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The Orton Plantation Gardens and family-owned chapel were open to the public until 2010, when the plantation was sold to Louis Moore Bacon, a direct decedent of the original builder.
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Located beside the Cape Fear River between Wilmington and Southport, Orton Plantation is considered to be a near-perfect example of Southern antebellum architecture.
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Originally a -story white brick building, a second floor was added to the house in 1840 along with four fluted Doric columns.
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