Somerset Place is a former plantation on the northern shore of Lake Phelps near Creswell, North Carolina, now within Pettigrew State Park. It operated from 1785 until 1865 and grew into one of the largest plantations in the antebellum Upper South. The surviving main house, built in a double pile plan, dates to 1830. The site was designated a North Carolina State Historic Site in 1969 and is operated today by the state's Department of Natural and Cultural Resources; the roughly seven acre core includes the plantation house, various outbuildings, reconstructed slave quarters, and a visitor center. In 1986, descendants of people enslaved at Somerset Place organized the Somerset Homecoming gathering, later documented by longtime site manager Dorothy Spruill Redford in a book of the same name. Somerset Place was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
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Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account LocationSourced to the subject's own accountWashington County, United States 2 Completed YearSourced to the subject's own account Classification
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1. Somerset Place (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationEntity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article (standing)
Somerset Place is a former plantation on the northern shore of Lake Phelps near Creswell, North Carolina, now within Pettigrew State Park. It operated from 1785 until 1865 and grew into one of the largest plantations in the antebellum Upper South. The surviving main house, built in a double pile plan, dates to 1830. The site was designated a North Carolina State Historic Site in 1969 and is operated today by the state's Department of Natural and Cultural Resources; the roughly seven acre core includes the plantation house, various outbuildings, reconstructed slave quarters, and a visitor center. In 1986, descendants of people enslaved at Somerset Place organized the Somerset Homecoming gathering, later documented by longtime site manager Dorothy Spruill Redford in a book of the same name. Somerset Place was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field (1830)
completion_date/completed = 1830
Wikipedia infobox building_type field (Plantation)
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 that belongs to the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. Somerset Place operated as a plantation from 1785 until 1865. Before the end of the American Civil War, Somerset Place had become one of the Upper South's lar
View the Source 2. Somerset Place (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Washington County, United StatesQuote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Washington County, United States
Wikidata item Q7559894, property P131/P17 (location): Washington County, United States
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