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Blenheim was not supported by a vast plantation but by income-producing investments and inherited lands and wealth. The Lees owned other land in the county, but
Blenheim was the principle dwelling plantation being a 225-acre (0.91 km) tract originally known as “The Three Brothers”. It has been
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