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Cedar Grove
Plantation was built in 1831 by James G. Torrance. Torrance was the son of Hugh Torrance, a Revolutionary War veteran, who owned and operated a store of the site of the plantation in the late 18th and early 19th Century. Torrance built the home to showcase the Torrance family's
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Plantation's main crops were cotton and corn, as well as other foods that would have been needed to feed the Torrance family and the enslaved people who lived on the plantation.
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When James died, he left the plantation to his third and final wife, Margaret
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The House is noted for its combination of both
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was named for its location in the midst of a grove of Cedar trees.
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