LAND IN CRAVEN COUNTY/QUEENSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP/PEE DEE RIVER

Comparisons to similar referenced listings are in progress. References can be found on the individual articles linked or are noted if there are no articles. The tables of plantations below are sortable, so the name, locality, county (current), historic register number, and built in years can be easily reviewed. Other scholars have attempted to define it by the number of slaves that were owned. A common definition of what constituted a plantation is that it typically had 500 to 1,000 acres (2.0 to 4.0 km 2) or more of land and produced one or two cash crops for sale. In contrast, the primary focus of a plantation was the production of cash crops, with enough staple food crops produced to feed the population of the estate and the livestock.

Typically, the focus of a farm was subsistence agriculture. Today, as was also true in the past, there is a wide range of opinion as to what differentiated a plantation from a farm. Definition of a plantation The Old Plantation by James Battle Avirett, 1901 This is a list of plantations in North Carolina that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.

LAND IN CRAVEN COUNTY/QUEENSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP/PEE DEE RIVER