Carter Plantation

A free man of color built the house. Thomas Freeman bought the land from James Rheem in 1817, built a Federal-style house by about 1820 and lived there until 1838. He worked the land with enslaved laborers, whose names are not recorded; one account says a schoolhouse was hidden in the woods so enslaved children could learn in secret. W. L. Breed, a legislator and sheriff, lived there until 1843, and George Richardson until 1858; Richardson's Carter descendants gave it its name. It joined the National Register in 1979 and now stands within a golf resort.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tickfaw State Park — 4.2 mi
  A floodplain park on the Tickfaw River, with cypress-tupelo swamp, bottomland hardwoods and about 4.75 miles of trails and boardwalks, plus a nature center with an 800-gallon river aquarium.

More markers nearby

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• Springfield — 1.8 mi
• Hungarian Settlement — 4.4 mi
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