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Somerset Place
2572 Lake Shore Rd, Creswell, NC 27928, United States Phone: 1 252-797-4560 Average Price: $ 10 per personAbout
Somerset Place offers visitors a comprehensive and realistic view of nineteenth-century life on a large-scale North Carolina plantation. During its eighty-year existence as an active plantation (1785-1865), Somerset Place encompassed as many as 100,000 acres and became one of North Carolina's most prosperous rice, corn, and wheat plantations. Cumulatively, it was home to more than eight hundred enslaved men, women, and children of African descent-eighty of whom were brought to Somerset directly from their West African homeland in 1786.
