cotton plantation

  • 31plantation — plan|ta|tion [ plæn teıʃn ] noun count 1. ) a large farm where crops such as tea, coffee, cotton, and sugar are grown: a sugar plantation 2. ) a large group of trees that are grown to be cut down for wood …

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  • 32plantation — noun (C) 1 a large area of land in a hot country, where crops such as tea, cotton, and sugar etc are grown: a rubber plantation 2 a large group of trees grown to produce wood …

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  • 33plantation — A place brought under cultivation and planted with crops or trees. A large farm. Atty. Gen. v S. B. Judges, 38 Cal 291, 295. A large area of land, cultivated by workers who live upon the land, usually devoted to the raising in quantity of one or… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 34plantation — [plɑːnˈteɪʃ(ə)n] noun [C] a large farm where crops such as tea, coffee, cotton, and sugar are grown …

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  • 35plantation — /plænˈteɪʃən / (say plan tayshuhn), /planˈteɪʃən/ (say plahn tayshuhn) noun 1. a farm or estate, especially in a tropical or semitropical country, on which cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugar, or the like is cultivated, usually by resident labourers.… …

  • 36plantation — In English law, a colony; an original settlement in a new country. In American law, a farm; a large cultivated estate. Term used chiefly in the southern states to refer to large farms on which cotton, tobacco, sugar, and like crops are grown …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 37Tara Plantation — Tara, the fictional plantation found in Margaret Mitchell s 1936 novel Gone with the Wind , was located near Jonesborough (now Jonesboro), Georgia. As the locale of the final, decisive defeat of the Confederate defenders in the Battle of… …

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  • 38Horseshoe Plantation — was a small cotton plantation located in northern Leon County, Florida and established around 1840 by Dr. Edward Bradford, a planter from Enfield, North Carolina. [ [http://www.bradfordgenealogy.org/CROWELLGENEALOGY.html Bradford Genealogy… …

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  • 39La Grange Plantation — was a large cotton plantation of 4150 acres (17 km²) located in central Leon County, Florida, USA established by Joseph John Williams.LocationLa Grange Plantation was located just east of Tallahassee in 2 tracts of land. The western most tract… …

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  • 40Burgesstown Plantation — was a large cotton plantation of 8100 acres (33 km²) in northern Leon County, Florida, United States established by Frederich R. Cotten between 1850 and 1855.Plantation locationBurgesstown extended to the west as far as the Ochlockonee River, to… …

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