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Apr 25, 2024 · For more than a decade now, the goings-on at Brunswick County's fabled Orton Plantation have occurred largely out of the public eye. For nearly a century before Orton was purchased in 2010 ...
Orton Plantation, a former rice plantation during slavery, is no longer open for public visit. A descendant of the founder of Orton Plantation re-purchased the plantation and the large acreage of former rice fields and formal gardens surrounding it, as well as the family chapel and graveyard close by the plantatation's large mansion.
Aug 25, 2016 · Orton Plantation’s rice fields as seen today were constructed sometime between 1726 and 1750 together with the damming and construction of Orton pond, which was essential as a reserve to supply the rice fields with water.
Orton Plantation, on the west bank of the Cape Fear River, first was owned, in 1725, by Maurice Moore, son of S. C. Governor James Moore. Maurice named the property for Cole Orton Hall, in Leicester, England, the site of a battle during the English Civil War in which the Royalists were victorious.
Orton Plantation. 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.
The plantation house at Orton embodies several phases of construction. It contains elements of the brick house erected in the early 18 th century for rice planter Roger Moore, one of the principal planters on the Lower Cape Fear in the colonial period.
The Orton Plantation is a historic Southern plantation in the Smithville Township of Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States. Located beside the Cape Fear River between Wilmington and Southport, Orton Plantation is considered to be a near-perfect example of Southern antebellum architecture. Built in 1735 by the co-founder of Brunswick ...
