Susquehanna Plantation in Greenfield Village, October 2007
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Artifact Overview
Henry Carroll's Susquehanna Plantation was one of the largest, most productive farms in southern Maryland before the Civil War. Henry Ford had Carroll's house moved to Greenfield Village in 1942. Costumed presenters in 2007 interpreted the daily life of those living on prosperous Maryland estates--both the landowners and the enslaved African Americans whose skills and labor made these plantations profitable.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Digital image
Subject Date
October 2007
Creators
Creator Notes
Photographed by Michelle Andonian.
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2008.171.1225
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Color
Multicolored
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ArtifactSusquehanna Plantation
Henry Carroll owned this Maryland house on the Patuxent River 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.