Orton Plantation 1167627600

The house at Orton plantation was built in 1735, and the two wings were added in 1910. Throughout the antebellum period, Orton was a rice plantation that encompassed several thousand acres and was worked by hundreds of enslaved laborers.

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Rob Friesel. Orton Plantation. May 15, 2007. Photograph. Flickr. Accessed February 20, 2026.