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Prestwould Plantation

Prestwould Plantation

A two-family slave house still stands on the property east of South Boston, and the "peculiar institution" is effectively interpreted. The museum owns one of the largest collections of slave writings in the country, so information on plantation life from the slave perspective is evident. Prestwould was built in a post Revolutionary Georgian style and displays over five generations of decorative history.

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