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Largest antebellum mansion in the south — built in 1859 with 165 rooms — burns to the ground
NY Post ^
| 5/16/25
| Shane Galvin
Posted on 05/17/2025 1:59:45 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather
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posted on
05/17/2025 2:10:57 AM PDT
by
Jonty30
(I have invented a pen that can write underwater. And other words. )
To: Libloather
The now lost massive plantation house was made possible by sugar cultivation. Like cotton, sugar was a high value crop in the antebellum South. Both required the brutal heavy labor that slavery facilitated.
To: Rockingham
All true. yet as man, created in the image of God, has created within himself first and produced second, great and wonderful things, we should preserve such things that our legacy may learn of itself by knowing its past.
I don't trust modern history teachers to deliver a truthful comprehension of what man has done.
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posted on
05/17/2025 2:53:33 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
To: Libloather
That’s a shame. It was a beautiful house.
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posted on
05/17/2025 2:57:57 AM PDT
by
FLT-bird
To: Jonty30
That was my first thought. Democrats hate history and think destroying it will somehow make their lives better. Mental illness? I vote “yes”.
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posted on
05/17/2025 3:01:42 AM PDT
by
Semper Vigilantis
(I am encouraged that each passing day another dirty hippie gets to explain themself to their maker)
To: knarf
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posted on
05/17/2025 3:03:24 AM PDT
by
Semper Vigilantis
(Those who fail to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.)
To: Libloather
Damn! DemonicRATS will go to no ends to erase their slave
Mongering past.
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posted on
05/17/2025 3:09:55 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
To: Libloather
A tragic loss!
Glad I was able to spend some quality time there!
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posted on
05/17/2025 3:27:46 AM PDT
by
Taxman
(MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! SUPPORT THE FAIRTAX!)
To: Jonty30
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posted on
05/17/2025 3:28:46 AM PDT
by
rdl6989
To: Jonty30
It wuz probably one o’ them dang Yankee sojers who dun it.
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posted on
05/17/2025 3:30:54 AM PDT
by
Apparatchik
(Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
To: Jonty30
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posted on
05/17/2025 3:35:31 AM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
To: Libloather
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posted on
05/17/2025 3:36:05 AM PDT
by
nesnah
(Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
To: Libloather
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posted on
05/17/2025 3:38:21 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
To: mewzilla
Looks like the property is still on the National Register of Historic Places...
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/73973710
If the fire was the result of a criminal act, wonder if that will allow for some federal bigfeet using 18 U.S.C. § 844(i)...
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posted on
05/17/2025 3:46:19 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
To: All
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posted on
05/17/2025 3:56:20 AM PDT
by
Liz
(This then is how we should pray...."Our Father, who art in heaven......" )
To: nesnah
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posted on
05/17/2025 4:19:57 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
To: knarf; mewzilla; Liz
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posted on
05/17/2025 4:24:59 AM PDT
by
PGalt
(Past Peak Civilization?)
To: Libloather
A few years ago, the wife and I took a long weekend and toured a number of plantations and antebellum homes - I was particularly interested in the engineering of putting in upside down pyramid based into the muck to v=create a foundation that could shift w/o causing damage to the structure...also noted the slave shacks that a number still had preserved.
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posted on
05/17/2025 4:33:12 AM PDT
by
trebb
(So many fools - so little time...)
To: mewzilla
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posted on
05/17/2025 5:14:22 AM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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