TALBOTT, Tenn. (WATE) – Knocking on the walls, footsteps creeping through the house, and voices coming from what seems to be nowhere. An old Talbott Plantation house has become a Haunted House ...
Friends visiting in Arkansas often ask where they can visit old Plantations. Plantations? They must think they are visiting Vicksburg, Miss. or one of the other locations where wealthy landowners ...
The old plantations of the American South have long been a source of fascination, fear, and mystery. These grand estates, with their wide porches, tall columns, and sprawling grounds, were once ...
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Why this 175-year-old plantation house was never touched again

This 175-year-old plantation house has been left largely untouched since 1998. Walking through its rooms offers a rare look at original architecture, furnishings, and the quiet decay of a ...
In the end, the crumbling Bywater manor was a home fit only for birds. Doves, poignantly enough. Eventually, they, too, were shooed away, and the wrecking ball was brought in. By then, the two-story ...
On a Friday evening after work, C. Leigh Stevens did what a lot of people do, he poured himself a drink. Stevens’ cocktail, however, was sipped on a train out of Manhattan’s Penn Station roaring ...
Above ground they could see the old plantation house known as Rutland. Below ground they knew there was a family cemetery that dated back to the 1700’s. And members of the Timberlake family who had ...
The Parish House Restaurant, is actually a 200-year old plantation home that has been lovingly transformed into a landmark. It is the perfect place to enjoy a delicious lunch and browse for gifts and ...
A stately old house of “imposing scale” has been uprooted — awakened from its historical slumber — to find a new life and a new name, not even a quarter of a mile from its birthplace. The ...
It’s unclear exactly what was uncovered first, but it was probably the bottles. The bottles always seem to turn up first. Whatever the case, it was enough for the workers preparing the foundation for ...
A centuries-old plantation located on a sprawling 1,640 acres along South Carolina’s picturesque ACE Basin is on the market. Poco Sabo Plantation, listed for $16.5 million, may be attractive to a ...