World & Nation
The family of a prominent Confederate minister fled to the old Ceres Plantation when Union gunboats began the Civil War siege of Vicksburg, bringing along what was reputed to be the biggest library in the South.
Dec. 25, 1988
Travel & Experiences
“Who doesn’t love chocolate?”
May 30, 2015
The plantation manager jerked the Land Rover to a stop, got out and waved his hand at the red earth scraped clean of all but a few stumps.
July 22, 1985
As one of the South’s most sophisticated cities, Charleston captures the grace, charm and hospitality that this corner of America is famous for.
Nov. 1, 1987
California
Narcotics: Officers discover the marijuana plantation in a rugged section of Los Padres National Forest above Ojai. It’s the sixth such find in two months.
Sept. 24, 1996
Antebellum mansions exuding the “Gone With the Wind” feeling have long attracted visitors to the Old South. But until lately, the slaves’ stories were all but left out of plantation tours.
Jan. 17, 1999
Business
Much of the tea that Americans sip comes from plantations around Munnar, a cool, hilly town in the South Indian state of Kerala.
May 25, 1989
On these quiet, dreamy islands just off Georgia and South Carolina, a culture is being lost, a people displaced and, in an odd way, a part of America’s most painful history is being replayed across a 20th-Century stage.
Aug. 28, 1988
The Southern state’s coastal outposts are meant for meandering, to the sound of clip-clopping horses or gators slowly sliding into the depths.
May 23, 2004