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unusual facts about Plantation


Dibutyl phthalate

With the exodus of all domestic producers the nearest supply option for DBP for U.S. customers is Miami Chemical, a company in Plantation, Florida which imports material from manufacturing partners located in South America.


Abraham Van Buren

Van Buren fell in love with her and the two were married at Colonel Richard Singleton's Wedgefield, South Carolina, plantation named "Home Place".

Aligider

Aligider is located ten kilometers to the west of Teseney and was home to the Barattolo cotton plantation where Hedareb tribes and 1500 ex-fighters and their families farm cotton, sesame and sorghum.

Augustine Warner, Jr.

He was the only son of Augustine Warner, who immigrated from England in 1628 and patented the plantation called "Austin's Desire" in Gloucester County, Virginia in 1642, building Warner Hall on the property.

Bean Brothers

In 1882 he set up a trial sugar plantation on Cox's Peninsula (later Cox Peninsula) across Darwin Harbour from Port Darwin, and organised the hire of 2,000 Singapore Chinese labourers to work the field at ₤1 per week.

Belle Meade Plantation

The bloodlines of Belle Meade Plantation, primarily due to the success of "Bonnie Scotland, a Belle Meade foundation stud, include famous descendants such as Secretariat, Funny Cide, Seabiscuit, Giacamo, Mine That Bird, Smarty Jones, and Barbaro, Since the 1990s, every horse that has run the Kentucky Derby is a blood descendent of Belle Meade Plantation foundations.

Burkeville, Virginia

Polk Miller, renowned old time banjo-player, story-teller, veterinarian, and Confederate veteran; was born on a plantation just west of Burkeville in 1844.

Cabell R. Berry

He was raised on a plantation and educated at Higginbotham Academy, a preparatory school of the University of Virginia.

Charles S. Fairfax

He was collaterally related to Thomas, the 6th Lord Fairfax, who relinquished his English estates to his brother, Robert, and emigrated to America, where he settled on a plantation of more than a million acres (4,000 km²) in Virginia, which he inherited from his mother, Catherine Colepeper.

Charleston Tea Plantation

Since Bigelow bought the Charleston Tea Plantation, they have been working on updating the machinery, the process, and expanding the grounds as well as production.

Clover Forest Plantation

Clover Forest Plantation, located in Goochland, Virginia between Richmond and Charlottesville, is an authentically restored James River estate consisting of terraced landscaped grounds, a private lake, and a Federal-style mansion with portions dating back to pre-revolutionary America.

Cuthbert Bullitt

Bullitt developed his plantation, known as Mount View on a peninsula where Quantico Creek enters the Potomac River.

De Stem des Bloeds

Van Kempen is a supervisor at a tea plantation named Ciranu in West Java.

Divača

A tree of heaven plantation stands near the railroad station; it was used to cultivate eri silkworms in the 19th century.

Fanny Kemble

Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble (1999), fictionalised made-for-TV movie adapted from her Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839, starring Jane Seymour and Keith Carradine.

Florida State Road 224

SR 224 is also known as Kingsley Avenue, named for the early Florida setter and plantation owner Zephaniah Kingsley.

Forks of Cypress

Additionally, some of writer Alex Haley's ancestors were slaves on this plantation, which provides a setting for much of his book, Queen: The Story of an American Family.

Fort Belvedere, Surrey

The triangular turreted structure was set amidst a dense plantation of trees and overlooked Virginia Water, a man-made body of water constructed by Thomas and Paul Sandby at the behest of the Duke.

Fountain Hughes

Hughes appealed to Jefferson's grandson to try to keep his family together: Thomas Jefferson Randolph purchased Hughes' wife and his three sons and took them with Wormley to his plantation of Edgehill.

Handunugoda Tea Estate

Handunugoda Tea Estate is a family owned plantation in Tittagalla, Ahangama within the Southern Province, Sri Lanka.

Hobcaw

Hobcaw Barony, also known as Bellefield Plantation, a tract of land in Georgetown County, South Carolina, in the United States

J. Bruce Hain House

The Classical Revival style structure was completed in 1913 for J. Bruce Hain on his working plantation.

James K. Hampson

James Kelly Hampson (1877 – 8 October 1956) was the archaeologist to excavate and preserve the artifacts from the Nodena Site and owner of the Hampson Plantation in Wilson, Arkansas.

James R. Stewart

James Stewart G.S.A. Ph. (October 1, 1903 – April 30, 1964) was born in Morehead, MS, the son of a wealthy plantation owner; his uncle Professor William Stewart taught in Centreville, MS. He began school in Morehead and moved to Cleveland by 1915 where he studied art and commercial business.

Jefferson Forest High School

Being so close to Thomas Jefferson’s plantation Poplar Forest, the school's name pays tribute both to the third president of the United States and to the community in which it is located, Forest.

Kerevat Airfield

Kerevat Airfield (prewar: Tavilo Plantation; variant: "Keravat") was an aerodrome located near Kerevat, East New Britain province, Papua New Guinea.

Kinta Kellas

It is historically named after the Scottish plantation owner in British Malaya, William Kellie Smith who is most famous for building Kellie's Castle in Batu Gajah.

Kippax Plantation

The Archaeological Conservancy recently purchased the site of Kippax Plantation to protect it from development.

Lower Brandon Plantation

Martin's new plantation built on the 1616 land grant was initially named "Martin's Brandon", apparently incorporating the family name of his wife, Mary (née Brandon) Martin, daughter of Robert Brandon, a prominent English goldsmith and supplier to Queen Elizabeth I of England.

Mardi Gras in the United States

In 1833, Bernard Xavier de Marigny de Mandeville, a rich plantation owner, raised the money to fund an official Mardi Gras celebration.

Mariënburg

In 1882 the plantation, which had been abandoned, was purchased by the Netherlands Trading Society (NHM).

Michel-Jean Cazabon

His parents, owners of a sugar plantation, were "free colored" immigrants from Martinique, who had come to Trinidad following the Cedula of Population of 1783.

Michelin Rubber Plantation

Michelin Rubber Plantation was located near Dầu Tiếng District in Bình Dương Province, 72 km northwest of Saigon.

Monster Mansion

Over the Fall and Winter of 2008, the Monster Plantation was completely overhauled by Goddard's company, the The Goddard Group.

Monster Pig

Later news reports brought forward allegations that the entire story was the result of a canned hunt scheme cooked up by Eddy Borden, the owner of Lost Creek Plantation, and Keith O'Neal of Southeastern Trophy Hunters, to build up business for the then four-months-old Lost Creek hunting plantation, trying to create their own news event along the lines of the 2004 “Hogzilla” event.

Montreal Royals

In 1928, George Stallings, a former Major League Baseball executive and Southern United States plantation owner, formed a partnership with Montreal lawyer and politician, Athanase David, and Montreal businessman, Ernest Savard, to resurrect the Montreal Royals.

Murugappa Group

Market leaders in several segments including Abrasives, Auto Components, Cycles, Sugar, Farm Inputs, Fertilizers, Plantations, Bioproducts and Nutraceuticals, the Group has forged strong alliances with leading international companies like Groupe chimique tunisien, Foskor, Cargill, Mitsui Sumitomo, Morgan Crucible and Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM).

Needtobreathe

Seth Bolt had received a degree in recording engineering at Full Sail University, and the band honed its sound while recording several EPs at Bolt's Plantation Studios.

Oak Grove, Westmoreland County, Virginia

The community also lies in a region of historic architecture, with notable buildings including Wirtland at Oak Grove, a Gothic Revival plantation house listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Peter Brush

Educated at Clifton College and RMA Sandhurst, Brush spent his early teenage years at his father's citrus plantation in Canada, later returning to Drumnabreeze House, Magheralin, County Down.

Rajapaksa family

Chamal Rajapaksa (born 1942), Speaker of Parliament (2010-), Minister of Irrigation & Water Management (2007-2010), Deputy Minister of Plantation Industries (2004-07), Deputy Minister of Ports Development & Development of the South (2000-01), Member of Parliament for Hambantota District (1989-) + Chandra Malini Wijewardene

Red Dust

The story revolves around a love triangle, set on a rubber plantation most likely located in Cochinchina (southern French Indochina) during the monsoon season, between the plantation's owner/manager Dennis Carson (Gable), a prostitute named Vantine (Harlow), and Barbara Willis (Astor), the wife of an engineer named Gary Willis (Raymond).

Riverdale Park, Maryland

After Rosalie Stier Calvert died in 1821 and George Calvert in 1838, their son, Charles Benedict Calvert, took over the plantation.

Sandy Gbandi

Born near the Firestone rubber plantation, Gbandi and his family fled from his native Liberia to Houston, Texas following the outbreak of the First Liberian Civil War in 1989, when he was just six years old.

Saunders Hall

Goode-Hall House, a plantation house on the National Register of Historic Places

Sawpit Bluff, Florida

Sawpit Bluff was a small settlement in East Florida during the American Revolutionary War, on the site of a plantation at the mouth of Sawpit Creek where it discharges into Nassau Sound opposite the south end of Amelia Island.

Simon Fleming, 1st Baron Slane

Archembald's grandson, Archembald fitz Stephen le Fleming, came to Ireland with King Henry II of England in 1171 and participated in Hugh de Lacy's plantation of the kingdom of Kingdom of Mide.

Spymaster USA

12 Candidates were invited to "The Farm," a remote former Virginia plantation that has been converted into an executive retreat.

The Kingdom of this World

Bouckman: Bouckman is of Jamaican origin and leads the secret gathering of trusted slaves, where he speaks of French requests for freedom for black slaves, but also of the resistance displayed by plantation landowners.

USS Oak Hill

Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Oak Hill, in honor of Oak Hill plantation, the estate of James Monroe, the fifth U.S. President, in Loudoun County, Virginia.

William Crump

Settling his family along the Brazos River east of Bellville, not far north of San Felipe, where Stephen F. Austin had earlier founded the headquarters of his first colony, Crump established a plantation.


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