Susquehanna Plantation in Greenfield Village, August 1989

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Artifact Overview

Henry Carroll owned this southern Maryland house (pictured here at Greenfield Village) in the decades before and after the Civil War. Its form -- one room deep with porches -- invited cooling breezes in the warm, humid climate. In 1860, the Carrolls raised tobacco and wheat on their 700-acre plantation. Seventy-five enslaved African Americans provided the skill and labor that supported the Carroll family's comfortable life.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic transparency

Subject Date

August 1989

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

EI.1929.2954

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Plastic

Technique

Photographic processes

Color

Multicolored

Dimensions

Height: 2.5 in
Width: 2.375 in