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Veterans’ Memorial

    Oak Alley Plantation

    Built (1837-39) by Jacques T. Roman, this fine example of Greek Revival architecture is famous for its alley of 28 evenly spaced live oak trees, believed to be at least 100 years older than "Big...

    Built (1837-39) by Jacques T. Roman, this fine example of Greek Revival architecture is famous for its alley of 28 evenly spaced live oak trees, believed to be at least 100 years older than...

    • louisiana
    • plantation

    In Memory of Betty & Dick Irwin

    • only sunny hours

    Camp Sever

      Freedom Lost

      FREEDOM LOST By the late 1700s the institution of slavery was declining in Delaware and there was a dramatic growth in the state's free black population. Demand for slave labor in the Deep South...

      FREEDOM LOST By the late 1700s the institution of slavery was declining in Delaware and there was a dramatic growth in the state's free black population. Demand for slave labor in the Deep South...

      • delaware
      • wilmington
      • 1700s
      • 2004