Somerset Place

This representative antebellum plantation offers an insightful view of life during the period before the Civil War. Somerset encompassed as many as 100,000 acres and was one of North Carolina's most prosperous plantations. It was home to more than three hundred enslaved men, women, and children of African descent - eighty of whom were brought directly from their west African homeland in 1785. Guided tours include the mansion, outbuildings, and archaeological excavations.

The Civil War link that appears in the above article is from Randel M. Price, University of Mississippi.

Somerset Pictures taken by Wynn Smith

Somerset Place - The NC Historical Sites' page.

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