OAKLAND
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NCDaywalker
N 34° 27.664 W 078° 24.718
17S E 737730 N 3816318
This is a local historical groups plaque honoring the home of a favorite son's home place - OAKLAND.
Waymark Code: WMR78A
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 05/21/2016
Views: 6
"Oakland Plantation, situated on a bluff overlooking the Cape Fear River in Bladen County, North Carolina, was built over 200 years ago by General Thomas Brown, an American Revolutionary War patriot. It is one of a few houses of its period in North Carolina still being used today.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Oakland depicts the architecture and skill of the artisans of that period. Bricks laid in Flemish bond were brought from England on sailing ships as ballast, transported up river, and unloaded by hand.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972"
Quoted from webpage: (
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Text plaque reads:
OAKLAND
ONE AND ONE-HALF MILE NORTH-
EAST STANDS OAKLAND, THE HOME
OF GENERAL THOMAS BROWN, AN
OFFICER OF THE REVOLUTION,
1747 - 1814. STAUNCH PATRIOT,
STATESMAN, PLANTER.
ERECTED BY THE BATTLE OF ELIZABETHTOWN
CHAPTER DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
AND BLADEN COUNTY, JUNE 14, 1940
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