The area where the remains were found was once-popular vacation destination for local plantation owners that began to fall into disrepair even before the Civil War as wealthy people abandoned their vacation homes and the ocean took hold of them, according to the Edisto Island website.
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Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 May 2025
Advertisement Advertisement Louisiana, like much of the rest of the South, is dotted with former plantations.
Today, countless smallholdings here still tend to the crop, like Jackie Russell, who offers tours of her family’s farm, a 25-acre site producing the Sugarloaf.
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Mark Ellwood,
AFAR Media,
14 Apr. 2025
According To Nutritionists By Hannah Coates The rural setting of Glebe House, a restaurant with rooms surrounded by a 15-acre smallholding, is crucial to the spell of the place, which is heavy on Devonshire air and the scent of baking porridge bread.
Toiling Out of Sight New York’s countryside, where in some areas verdant hills are dotted with bright red barns and clustered farmhouses, is a popular retreat for city dwellers and a tourism destination for recreational fruit picking, beer tasting and hayrides.
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Ana Ley,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
Little Cat Lodge Hillsdale The mid-1800s farmhouse that is today Little Cat Lodge sits right on the New York–Massachusetts border, where the Hudson Valley meets the Berkshires.
In one instance, detectives saw on video that a man dug into the garbage can and took the shoes Brand had previously thrown away at the 47th Street train station.
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Madeline Buckley,
Chicago Tribune,
2 June 2025
John Densmore, the legendary drummer for the Doors, recalls coming across a classic rock station one night that bragged about a contest on who currently has the most money in rock and roll.
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