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Somerset Place
1786
Creswell, Washington County, North Carolina
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
One of the largest plantations in the upper South worked more than eight hundred enslaved people on drained swampland by Lake Phelps. In 1986 Dorothy Spruill Redford, a descendant, organized a homecoming that brought two thousand descendants of Somerset's enslaved families back to the ground, and then spent years rebuilding the site's interpretation around the people who did the work rather than the family in the big house.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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