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Strickland, Bev
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Project Purpose Supplement
Orton Plantation
Historic Rice Field Protection and Restoration Project
As stated in the original permit application, the purpose of the proposed project is "to
protect and restore the various elements of the historic rice field system at Orton
Plantation ". The Applicant's preferred alternative, as presented in the Public Notice, has
been selected subsequent to careful consideration of a range of alternatives as detailed in
the project Alternatives Analysis and is believed to be the least environmentally
damaging, practicable alternative (LEDPA) that satisfies the stated purpose.
The purpose of the project is not the commercial production of rice. Rather, the above -
stated purpose involves the reestablishment of historic rice cultivation and revitalization
of this historic resource as a defining landscape element of the Plantation. In doing so,
agricultural practices related to rice cultivation will be employed within only the five rice
fields within the functioning, intact, hydrologic management system.
In the fall of 2010, Orton Plantation was purchased by Orton Plantation Holdings LLC.
The principal of the parent company of Orton Plantation Holdings LLC is a direct lineal
descendant of Roger Moore, the person who succeeded to the original crown grant and
established the plantation in 1725. As such, Orton Plantation Holdings LLC has an
interest and a purpose to reestablish the plantation for the cultivation of rice consistent
with the rehabilitation of the historic plantation buildings, gardens and cemeteries.
Rehabilitation of these historic resources is being performed in close coordination with
the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO). In addition, the owner
recently submitted a formal application and nomination to the National Park Service for
consideration of Orton Plantation as a National Historic Landmark (refer to attached
correspondence). As the last remaining intact rice system of the 35 documented
plantations in operation during the Colonial and Antebellum periods in North Carolina,
Orton Plantation is believed to be of both regional and national historical significance.
Orton's rice fields have the potential to be a primary source from which researchers can
gain understanding about historic rice production and its contribution to the culture and
economy of the Cape Fear Region and North Carolina during the Colonial and
Antebellum periods.
The historic significance of the plantation and rice fields makes the effort to restore the
property to rice cultivation one of significant public interest. SHPO concurs in this
assessment. Tangible public benefits are anticipated as a result of the proposed project.
For instance, the rehabilitation of rice fields and re- establishment of cultivation of
heirloom rice varieties can provide unique educational opportunities in a manner similar

to the recent longleaf pine restoration workshop held on the Orton property.' The
proposed rehabilitation of the rice fields is consistent with the overall conservation effort
of the owner, and the revitalization of these areas as an historic and educational resource
benefits the public interest.
The project purpose calls for rehabilitation and protection of the historic rice fields. The
rice fields included in the project represent the surviving remnant of the much larger
operation which once flourished at Orton Plantation. These remaining rice fields have
been continuously served by a constricted fresh water reserve (Orton Pond) that was
initially formed in the 18th century. The overall water management system has been
continuously maintained for over 280 years. The fields have been protected by dikes
continuously maintained for the same time period. Other rice fields of the Kendall
system, north of the subject rice fields within the Orton property (totaling approximately
180 acres of former fields and over 600 acres of dammed freshwater reserve) have
reverted to coastal marsh as their protective dikes and the water management system
deteriorated to the point of becoming nonfunctional. The system of rice fields for which
the project is proposed remains intact and functioning and as such, is the sole remaining
viable rice plantation in North Carolina out of the 5,000 plus acres of rice that were
grown in the state at the time of the Civil War. (See the attached map of "Plantations on
the Lower Cape Fear 1725 to 1760 ".) Agricultural practices related to rice cultivation will
be employed within only those areas functioning as a part of the present day, intact,
hydrologic management system. The alternative of restoring all the historic rice fields,
including the Kendall system, was considered by the applicant. However, this alternative
was eliminated from further consideration due to permit feasibility (the prior owners had
applied for and been denied permits for similar activity), the extent of disturbance to
coastal wetlands that would result from the project, and the cost and effort required to re-
establish the water management system. As a result, the applicant does not seek to
reestablish fields which have been lost over time due to the destruction of their dikes or
water management systems, but only to reestablish rice cultivation on fields that remain
intact and have been maintained as managed freshwater areas.
The project purpose remains unchanged and is consistent with the overall historic
Plantation restoration currently underway. The attached correspondence and supporting
information submitted to the National Park Service provides more detailed information
regarding the historical significance of Orton Plantation including the surrounding rice
fields which represent the last remaining intact system in North Carolina. Rehabilitation
of this system is an integral component of the historic restoration efforts being
undertaken by Orton Plantation Holdings, LLC and represents a unique opportunity to
maintain and protect a regionally significant resource.
I Over 50 people (iricludirtg members of the C Coastal Larid Trust, the l -C ii'ildli fe Resources
ColnInissiol, the V'S Fish acid TFildlye Service, acid the Cape Fear River match) attended this workshop.

Belvedere Property Martagement LLC
Peter J Taltv
Vice Pre.vident
March 1, 2012
Alexandra M. Lord, PhD
Branch Chief
National Historic Landmarks Program
National Park Service
1201 Eye Street, NW
Washington, DC 20240
Re: Orton Plantation, Winnabow, North Carolina
Dear Ms Lord:
Further to our various communications and on behalf of the new owner of Orton
Plantation, I am now pleased to summit a formal inquiry request for potential listing of
Orton Plantation as a National Historic Landmark.
Built in 1735 by Roger Moore, co- founder of the adjacent historic Brunswick Town, the
original Orton Plantation house is one of the oldest structures in Brunswick County and
has evolved into what is now considered to be a near-perfect example of Southern
antebellum architecture. In 1773, Moore created the first and largest rice plantation on
the Lower Cape Fear River, and as one of 35 inter-coastal plantations, Orton is now the
last remaining intact rice system in North Carolina.
In 1973, the Orton Plantation house and 12 acres of gardens were nominated on the
National Register of Historic Places (a copy of the original nomination is included with
this inquiry). Orton Plantation Holdings, LLC, purchased the property in 2010. Louis
Moore Bacon, a direct descendant of Roger Moore, is the owner of Orton Plantation
Holdings, LLC, and it has become his mantra to rehabilitate and where possible restore
the property to a semblance of its antebellum grandeur. During its history, Orton
Plantation has been attacked by Native Americans, used as a military hospital, and was a
home to lawyers, physicians, military leaders, and a Colonial governor.
As part of this process of rehabilitation and restoration, an application has recently been
submitted to North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office to extend the existing
nomination to include Orton's historic rice fields. A copy of this application is also
included together with supporting infon-nation.
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Rehabilitation work is almost complete on the original Orton Plantation house and
gardens, and the proposed rehabilitation and restoration of the rice fields are currently
pending subject to permit approval by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. A Cultural
Landscape Report is being compiled to establish Orton's historic context within a wider
landscape and highlight Orton's cultural importance in the development of the Lower
Cape Fear Region.
From its settlement in 1725, the region became the most prosperous in North Carolina by
1775. At this time, no other region developed as rapidly as Lower Cape Fear and the
Moore's proved to be pivotal in shaping the regions political and economic importance
within North Carolina. The rice grown and produced at Orton was of a high quality, fine
grain, which was highly prized and sought after as seed rice by the larger South Carolina
plantations. The annual production of seed rice was critical in order to maintain the vast
economies and rapid growth of rice plantations in the southern states. Orton and other
Lower Cape Fear plantations were a key factor in maintaining the development and
success of the Southern based rice economy. Orton's rice fields have the potential to be a
primary source from which researchers can gain understanding about Colonial and
Antebellum periods of North Carolina and the Cape Fear Region.
The above is but a brief overview of Orton Plantation's complex social and cultural
historic importance. A more detailed history is included with the attached National
Register nomination and application.
On behalf of the owner, I would hope that in recognition of Orton Plantation's historic
importance, much of which we are still uncovering, Orton Plantation house, gardens and
the surrounding rice fields would qualify for nomination as a Historic National
Landmark.

STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE
NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL RESOURCES
OFFICE OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY
SURVEY AND PLANNING BRANCH
STUDY LIST APPLICATION
Please type or print
1. HISTORIC PROPERTY NAME: Orton Plantation Rice Fields (adjacent and part of National
Register Nominated, Orton Plantation House & Gardens — 12 acres)
Other names n/a
(if historic name is not known, use current name or address)
2. LOCATION (give street address in urban areas; give both street address and physical location in rural areas, for
example, N side of SR 1234, 0.5 mi. S of SR 1965, [1123 Jones Farm Road])
Street /Secondary Road (SR) /Highway
Junction of S.R1530 and S.R. 1529. 0.8 mile drive on private road
Town or vicinity: Smithville Township County: Brunswick County
3, GENERAL INFORMATION
A. Is this an individual property or a historic district ?: Individual Property
(If this is a district, please consult with the National Register Coordinator at the State Historic
Preservation Office for guidance in completing this application.)
B. ', Property use and construction date(s):
Individual Properties
Primary building /resource: provide historic and current use, original construction date,
and if appropriate, dates of additions. If exact date is unknown, give approximate date.
As an integral part of Orton Plantation the rice fields where constructed between 1726 and
the late 1750's by Roger Moore. The rice fields remain intact in their original layout and
configuration. Historic earthen dikes, facing ditches and quarter drains are fully evident,
together with associated and functioning canal, ditch and trunk gate flood system. Upon
his death in 1750 Roger Moore left his Orton & neighboring Kendal Plantations with 250
slaves. Brunswick 1850 census shows Orton having a profitable. Sawmill, Corn mill and
Rice Threshing machine producing 15000 bushels of rough rice (annual production of
325,000 pounds of Rice) together with 77 slaves.
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Rice production expanded and flourished until end of the Civil War. Brunswick 1860
census lists Orton as having 144 slaves in 40 houses. A public auction of Orton in 1872
advertised 9,026 acres with 300 acres of superior rice land of which 225 acres produced
16,300 bushels of rice with houses detached for 200 hands. 'Orton Plantation is the last
remaining, fully intact, rice field system in North Carolina and last remaining plantation on
the Cape Fear River of 60 plus plantations which provided high quality and highly prized
seed rice to the larger southern plantations. Reference materials suggest that rice was
last commercially produced` at Orton during the early 1930's. As part of restoration
proposals by the current owner the Rice Fields are currently subject to a USACE permit
review process:
Subsidiary buildings (if present): provide same as above for each building
Slave quarters, water powered mill, ancillary structures and lighthouse are evident from
plans and brick remains on site and are currently being researched to establish extent and
purpose.
Historic Districts: provide historic and current use, and give range of dates for the entire district, not
for individual buildings
Orton Plantation` is adjacent to Old Brunswick Historic District, Orton being built by one of
the founding settlers of Brunswick Town
C. Approximate acreage: Approximately 465 acres (Includes Rice Fields at 320 acres and
existing Nat. Reg. House and Gardens Nomination at 12 acres)
D. Have any buildings on the property been moved? Yes ❑ No V
(If yes, explain the reason for the move, and provide further details and the date of the move. Use an
additional sheet if necessary.)
E. Architect and /or builder (if known):
4. APPLICANT OR CONTACT PERSON INFORMATION (If other than owner)
Name: Orton Plantation Holdings LLC
9149 Orton Road SE
Winnabow, NC 28479
Attn: Mr Peter Talty
Address 17th Floor, 1251 Avenue of Americas
City /State: New York, NY Zip Code 10020 Daytime Tel.: [phone]
E -mail address: peter.taIty @bIlc.com Signature Date ' ` 'TI I
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5. This application is submitted [check one of the following]:
V by the owner ❑ with the owner's knowledge but not at his or her request
❑ at the request of the owner ❑ without the owner's knowledge
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6. REASON FOR REQUEST (Please be brief. Use a separate sheet of paper if you desire to provide a
longer response)
In 2025 Orton Plantation rice fields will be 300 years old. The principal shareholder of the
owner's parent company is a direct lineal descendant of Roger Moore, the founder of the
plantation and therefore has a keen interest in its history. Moore created the first and largest
rice plantation on the Lower Cape Fear and as one of 35 inter coastal plantations, Orton is now
the last remaining intact rice system in North Carolina. The principal of Orton Plantation
Holdings LLC`wishes to ensure that the Plantation, House 'Gardens, Rice fields are understood
and preserved as a legacy of an important facet of North Carolina history.
7. Does the owner plan to seek rehabilitation tax credits? Yes ❑ ; No ; V
If "yes" checked, answer question 12. Is the property income - producing ❑ or nonincome
producing ❑?
8. Has the property ever been surveyed by the State Historic Preservation Office or by a locally- sponsored
historic preservation project? If yes, please give the name and date of the survey project, if known:
The Rice Fields have been surveyed' and researched as part of current Restoration/
Rehabilitation Permit proposals and a shore line archaeology survey will be conducted during
Spring 2012. No other surveys have been carried out at this time.-
9. LEGAL OWNER OF PROPERTY (For individual property only; give mayor's name /address for districts)
Orton Plantation Holdings LLC
10. SUPPORTING INFORMATION
Please attach all of the requested supporting information. Incomplete applications cannot be considered. All
materials' submitted become the property of the State Historic Preservation Office and cannot be returned.'
A. Description (Include as an attachment on a'separate sheet of paper)
1), For individual properties, briefly describe the original and current appearance of the
building(s), both exterior and interior. Include information on any historic features that have
been, or will be removed or altered, and describe all current and proposed additions.
2) Briefly describe the setting for both individual properties and historic districts. For example,
' is it in a' commercial area, residential neighborhood, or a rural landscape?
B. History (Include as an attachment on a separate sheet of paper)
Briefly outline the history of the property and give a short explanation of why the property
or district is historically or architecturally important. Be sure to include information on any
significant local, statewide, or national historical events associated with the property, historical
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individuals related to it, and /or any historical trends with which it is associated. A detailed essay
is not necessary, however, the information should clearly explain why the property meets the
National Register criteria. Please refer to the enclosed National Register Fact Sheet 2 for
information on the evaluation criteria.
C. Map /Site Plan (Include as an attachment on a separate sheet of paper)
Provide a street or road map with the location of the property marked on it. A hand -drawn sketch'
map with the street and /or route numbers and a north arrow is acceptable for properties located in
unmapped city or county jurisdictions. If there are several buildings on property (such as a
farmstead, school campus, or industrial complex), please provide a sketch site plan showing the
location of all of the buildings.
D. Photographs
Photographs may be digital images submitted on `a CD (preferred) or color prints or color slides.
If you submit digital photographs, please include proofs of the images on paper. To save paper
and ink, as many as nine images may be placed on a single 8 x 10 sheet of paper, though images
should be at least 31/4 " x 21/2 Black and white proofs on plain paper are acceptable. You do
not need to use expensive inks or papers for proofs. Proofs provide a quick reference for the
property file to show us what is on the CD.
Please use a CD -R and not a CD -RW to burn your photographs. CD -RW disks often will not
read in computers other than the one in which they were created. We cannot accept photographs
as attachments to email except when only two or three are being submitted to supplement an
application for which most photos have been already submitted on a' CD. Call or email us before
sending photos as attachments.
We prefer digital images in jpeg format of no more than 500 Kb per image. However, if you do
not have an image editor to manipulate image size or format, we will accept the images as they
are created by your camera.
If you submit prints, or slides, HPO staff will scan them at no cost to you.
Study List applications are presented to the North Carolina National Register Advisory
Committee (NRAC) in a PowerPoint presentation assembled by staff. We prefer that you not
submit your photographs in your own PowerPoint presentation. If your application is for a large
district or an unusually complex property, we may consider using a PowerPoint presentation that
you have assembled, though we reserve the right to edit the presentation to meet the needs of the
NRAC and to be of acceptable length, for the agenda.
For individual properties, please provide a set of photographs showing all sides of the building(s),
representative interior views; outbuildings (if any) and views of the setting. Prints, slides, CDs, and
proofs of digital photos should be labeled with the name of the property, location, county, view, and
date. If 'a site plan is included in the application (see C above), please key the views to the plan.
11. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REQUIRED FOR HISTORIC DISTRICTS
Note: Before completing a Study List application fora historic district, please contact the National
Register
Coordinator at the State Historic Preservation Office (HPO). HPO staff usually` make a site visit before
evaluating a Study List application for a district.
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A. Map
The map should show the proposed historic district with the tentative boundaries clearly delineated.
Proposed boundaries are usually defined during the HPO staff site visit.
B. Photographs (See item 10 -D for information about formats for photographs)
Photographs should illustrate the character of the proposed historic district with exterior views of
significant buildings, a selection of typical buildings, distinctive landscape features, and a few
representative views of streetscapes. Please key the photographs to the district map.
12. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REQUIRED FOR PROPERTIES WITH PLANNED
REHABILITATION TAX CREDIT PROJECTS
Provide specific' information about the building's period of significance and additions and
alterations that have acquired historic significance in their own right. If exterior alterations,' new
additions or adjacent or related new construction are planned, describe how they impact the
significant historic features of the building or its setting. Also, please contact the Restoration
Branch at 919- 807 -6590, if you have not done so already.
Please remember' that the HPO staff is available to assist you with general information about the required
supporting items for the Study List application.
If you are unsure about any of the requirements, please
contact the HPO:
Return to: Ann V. Swallow
HPO website: www.h o.ncdcr. ov_
National Register Coordinator
APPLICATION CHECKLIST
Survey and Planning Branch, HPO
Do you have the following items in your
4617 Mail Service Center
application packet?
Raleigh, NC 27699 -4617
0 Completed two -page form (questions 1 -9)
E] Physical description (question l0A)
O ace Location: Archives /State Library
0 History /Significance (question 1013)
Building
F Historic district map (for district only)
109 East Jones Street
E] Map marked with property location
Raleigh, NC 27601
F' Site plan (multiple buildings /resources only)
E Rehabilitation information (question 12)
Telephone: [phone]
Photographs or CD and image proofs —
Fax: [phone]
labeled
E -mail. ann.swallow(?ncdcr.gov
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ORTON PLANTATION HISTORIC RICE FILEDS - STUDY LIST APPLICATION
(Section 10) SUPPORTING INFORMATION
A Description
Orton Rice fields remain intact (see attached Rice Field layout and configuration). This
diagram shows the rice fields in relation to Orton plantation house and gardens together with
an overlay of the historic canals, facing ditches and quarter drains. The current owner has an
enforceable agreement with respect to the withdrawal of water form the historic 8 mile long
Orton Pond, which was built to supply Orton's rice fields and water powered mills, constructed
circa 1725 by the damming of Orton Creek.
The original rice field dike system is fully intact, notwithstanding occasional breaches which
have always been promptly repaired, or are part of 'a current restoration proposal within a
USACE permit application review process. The demise of other historic Cape Fear Plantations
due to hurricanes and economic downturns has resulted in Orton being the last remaining
functioning rice plantation.
The 'Front' rice fields are dominated by invasive Phragmites with the 'Back' rice fields being
colonized by volunteer shrub/scrub wetland species. Aerial images reveal a complex network
of intact historic facing ditches, quarter ditches and dikes which are in need of rehabilitation.
Historic trunk gates and water control valves have been replaced and renewed over time and
the rice fields can still be flooded as originally intended. 19th & 20th century repairs are evident
to both Trunk Gates and the dike revetments facing the Cape Fear River.
Orton Plantation rice fields together with Orton pond have a significant geomorphology which
has dominated the surrounding landscape for nearly 300 years. Historic plans and images
show that what was once a barren landscape stripped of its timber for ship building and
construction has over time been softened by regeneration of wetland fringes by Cypress trees
together with human intervention by the planting of what are now majestic Live Oak avenues
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ORTON PLANTATION HISTORIC RICE FILEDS - STUDY LIST APPLICATION
(Section 10) SUPPORTING INFORMATION
B. History
Between 1700 and 1775 no colony in British America experienced more impressive growth
than North Carolina, and no region within the colony developed as rapidly as the Lower Cape
Fear. Totally uninhabited by Europeans in 1700, this isolated corner of North Carolina's
southern coast is particularly noteworthy for its relatively late colonization and its rapid rise to
economic prominence. First settled in 1725, the region grew to be the most prosperous in
North Carolina by 1775. The study of the eighteenth-century settlement of the Lower Cape
Fear is a prime example for understanding North Carolina and the entirety of colonial America
as a patchwork of regional cultures (Bradford, J Wood, 2004).
One family, the Moore's, proved to be pivotal in the development of the Lower Cape Fear.
During early 1700's they shaped the regions political and economic importance within North
Carolina. The Moore's provide an instructive if exceptional example. As the most powerful
family in the region, they articulated an elite model of behavior many other families no doubt
emulated. The Moore's like many other settlers clearly developed impressive and complex
kinship ties to the Lower Cape Fear. Maurice and Roger Moore were powerful men, coming
from one of South Carolina's most prominent families. Maurice's father, James Moore, came to
South Carolina from Barbados in the 1670's and served as Governor of South Carolina
between 1700 and 1703. These connections insured that two of the 10 siblings, Maurice and
Roger, would become wealthy and influential plantation owners.
Orton and Kendal plantations were created on lands granted by the Lords Proprietors in 1725
to Maurice Moore, who along with brothers Roger, Nathaniel and a group of settlers founded
Brunswick Town (now within Historic Brunswick Town District). Maurice established lands
further up river and passed ownership of the land to Roger. Although the Moore's had
originally emigrated from Ireland via Barbados, Orton and Kendal were named after the
Moore's ancestral homes in the Lake district of North of England. Roger Moore was among the
first settlers to build a distinctive plantation system along the Cape Fear River. Some
fragmentary business accounts reveal that by 1735 Moore already exported lumber, turpentine
and wood shingles from Lower Cape Fear. At this time Moore also traded with connections in
both South Carolina and Barbados.
These accounts probably provide only a small glimpse of the range of activities on Moore's
Orton & Kendall plantations. Fifteen years later, Moore's will revealed that his resources
included "Twenty Odd Thousand Acres of Land & Near Two Hundred and Fifty Slaves",
making him almost certainly the wealthiest plantation owner in North Carolina.
Some time between 1726 and 1730 Roger Moore established a modest house on the 10,000
acre site to be called Orton. The house was burned down by Cree Indians and his next home
was established on neighboring land which subsequently became Kendal Plantation. However,
by 1735 he had moved his family to a more suitable brick mansion situated on the original
Orton house site. Over time and subsequent ownerships the original brick structure was
enveloped and extended to create a Greek Revival Antebellum house that is one of the most
recognized in North Carolina today.
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Orton Plantation's rice fields as seen today were constructed some time between 1726 and
1750 together with the damming and construction of Orton pond, which was essential as a
reserve to supply the rice fields with water. The pond and rice field layout is recorded on many
early historic navigation plans of the Cape Fear River. Research is ongoing and current
! thinking suggests that the `back' rice fields contiguous to Orton pond, protected by higher
ground and most easily fortified against the brackish Cape Fear River, were developed first as
a beta test site to experiment with rice cultivation. Due to their success, a large dike
impoundment was built out into <a shallow portion of the Cape Fear River. This was equipped
with extensive` irrigation and water control structures to modulate water levels. At the same
time sluices drained the fresh water of Orton pond through a series of paddies and canals
within the original "Back" rice fields to the 200+ acres of rice fields that provide the magnificent
foreground view from the front of the plantation house. Although cultivation of rice and other
crops has been intermittent in the last few decades, the original system of water controls,
sluices, canals and embankments are largely in place and functional.
Orton was the first rice plantation in the Lower Cape Fear Region and one of the largest in
North Carolina and because of his vast land holdings, Roger Moore was referred to as `King'
Roger. The amount of slave labor that was needed to build the original pond and back rice
fields was significant but with commercial success even more slaves were imported to build
out and cultivate the massive front rice fields. This horrendous and cruel labor system gave
way after the civil war to large agrarian employment and eventually more mechanized
cultivation.
Upon his death in 1750, Moore left his Orton and Kendal estates and 250 slaves to his sons,
half brothers George and William. William died seven years later and passed Orton to wife
Mary and son Roger (the younger). Orton was thereafter passed through various ownerships:
• Richard Quince:. 1770 -1796.
• Benjamin Smith: 1796 -1826, grandson of Roger Moore and Governor of North Carolina (1810 -
11) . 1800, Brunswick census lists 199 slaves
•
Dr Fredrick Jones Hill 1826 -1854. 1830 Brunswick census lists 55 slaves. 1850 census shows
profitable Sawmill, Corn mill and Rice Threshing` Machine producing 15000 bushels of rough
rice (annual production of 325,000 pounds of Rice) with 77 slaves
• Thomas Calezance Miller: 1854 -1872. Rice plantation flourishes until end of Civil War. 1860
Brunswick census lists 144 slaves in 40 houses.
• Isaac B Grainger: 1874 -1876
Currer Richardson Roundell: Feb 1876- July 1876
Co[. Kenneth McKenzie Murchison: 1884 -1909
• Luola Murchison Sprunt and James Sprunt: 1909 -1924
James Laurance Sprunt: '1924 -1973
• James Laurance Sprunt Jr., Laurance Gray Sprunt, Kenneth Murchison: Sprunt, Samuel Nash
Sprunt
• 1978 -2010 Louis Moore Bacon (descendant of Roger Moore), as principal of parent company
to Orton Plantation Holdings LLC.

Current rehabilitation of National Register nominated Orton Plantation house and gardens
together with the proposed rehabilitation and restoration of the rice fields highlighted the need
to connect the plantation house, gardens and rice fields as one historic entity, hence the desire
and importance of including the rice fields on the National Register. In order to understand the
rice field systems as agricultural features, the fields should be considered in context of the
plantation, plantation house, slave villages, kitchens, outbuildings and burial grounds. As
cultural landscapes, rice fields consist of interconnected systems of land, water, vegetation
and wildlife that differentiate them from other cultural' resources.
The rice grown and produced at Orton was of a high quality, fine grain' which' was highly prized
and sought after as seed rice by the larger` southern plantations. The annual production of
seed rice was critical in order to maintain the vast economies and rapid growth of rice
plantations in the southern states. Orton and other Lower Cape Fear plantations were a key
factor in the maintaining the development and success of the Southern based rice economy.
Orton Rice fields have the potential to be primary sources from which researchers can gain
understanding about Colonial and Antebellum periods of North Carolina` and the Cape Fear
Region.'
Extensive slave labor made the economic development of the Lower Cape Fear possible and
the circumstances' surrounding slavery did' as much to differentiate the Lower Cape Fear form
other regions as anything else.' Contemporaries acknowledged that there were many more
slaves in the region than could be found on inland territories. Although fiercely independent of
South Carolina, Governance and Tax: structure, Lower Cape Fear rice plantations, represented
the most northerly position of the Carolina Low Country and is known as the upper most limit of
the "Deep South ".
Orton's' rice fields are the last of the many rice plantation's of North Carolina.
They stand as tangible record of the skill and labor exerted by enslaved laborers. Although the
noted Civil War battlefields of Fort Fisher and Fort Anderson flank the southern boundary of
Orton, the reason for the war itself was the demands of the slave labor practice that built and
cultivated the plantation's' rice fields that will hopefully be restored as its own 'battleground'
testimony.
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Orton Plantation Location
Location:
Smithville Township
North Carolina
United States
34 °3'38 "N
Coordinates:
77 °56'47 "W34.06056 °N
77.94639''W Coordinates:.
34 °3'38 "N
��56'47"W34.06056 °N
77.94639 °W
Built:
1735
Architect:
Unknown
Architectural style:
Classical Revival
Greek Revival
Governing body:
Private
NRHP Reference #:
73001294u
Added to NRHP:
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CONDITION
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DESCRI13E THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
Orton is a, large, imposing Classical Revival mansion set amid great
magnolias and live oaks 'draped with Spanish moss.' The present house com-
bines elements from three 'centuries. The earliest`' elements ('the first' -story
front and side brick walls) were built about '1735`as part of a: one- and -one-
half story dwelling. In the 1840s` the house was enlarged into a two -story
Greek Revival temple -form structure. Evidence in the attic suggests a
possible intermediate stage of development, with the front part of the house
being raised to two stories (a center hall plan one room 'deep) earlier, and
the portico and rear section following in the 1840s. Neoclassical` Revival
wings were added in 1910, and other work was done in the main house, blendi g
with what was built in the 1840s. To the rear is an expansion done in the
early 1960s.
The temple form main block of Orton retains much of its original
character. It is a two -story stuccoed brick 'structure and has a gable roof
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covered with slate. The main (east) facade features a massive` tetrastyle
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The elliptical ° lunette in the center of the pediment is apparently a 1910
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elaboration of an earlier louvered lunette.
The facade has at both levels a central doorway, which is flanked at
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the first level by single wide- three -part windows and at the second by pair
of normal size windows; this arrangement' existed at least as early as 1890.
The first -level entrance consists of a single` door flanked by fluted Ionic
columns and sidelights. An entablature with pulvinated frieze breaks out
over the columns; above it is a wide transom with tracery. These` elements,
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within paneled soffit and reveals, are framed by a symmetrically molded
architrave with roundel corner blocks and base blocks featuring a Greek fre".
The first -floor facade windows have nine- over -nine sash in-the center secti n
(replacing the original six- over --six) and three -over -three in the sidelight
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They are framed; and divided by symmetrically molded` architraves' with rounde
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corner blocks. At the second level`, the 'doorway, of twentieth century de-
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sign, consists of a`double door beneath a transom; the upper part of each
leaf is glazed'. The 'symmetrically molded architrave has 'corner blocks and
base blocks featuring a Greek. fret. This doorway serves a balcony which,
though it had an earlier precedent, was elaborated in 1910. It is 'supporte
by large, carved scroll brackets and enclosed by - turned balusters and
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paneled pedestals that carry a molded rail. The four windows at this level
contain six- over -six sash and are framed by symmetrically molded architrave
with roundel corner blocks like those below._ Louvered shutters appear on
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all windows of the main block and wings, except at the rear.
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The addition of ` the wings about 1910 altered the side elevations. As
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seen in a circa 1890 photograph, the widely spaced two front bays` of the
south side of the main block were identical at both levels, with windows
containing six -over -six sash 'flanking an interior end chimney. Behind
these ( but within the block of the house) was a porch with a 'two -bay
olliptical- archod open arcade; four closely placed windows appeared above.
Today the wing covers the second bay and the rear porch is enclosed; the
second -floor fenestration is undisturbed. No early picture of the north
elevation has been found; the present scheme with six bays and two interio

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The one -story side wings echo many of the features of the Greek
Revival main block; the wall, cornice, and window treatments are identical.
The °south wing is a single room. Three 'arched openings occur in the 'south
wall, that in the center containing a French door. The northern wing is
much larger and 'contains three`; bedrooms and several baths. The flat roofs
of the wings are enclosed with balustrades identical to that of the gallery
on the temple form section.
The plan of Orton would seem to have developed, as follows: a center-
hall plan, one room deep, ca. 1735; perhaps then raised from a`story- and -a-
half to two full stories with the 'same plan; in the 1840s a transverse
stair hall and rear rooms added. This plan probably was maintained until
the 1910 renovation. An 1872 notice of the auction of Orton, states that
"The ,Improvements consist; of a TWO STORY DWELLING HOUSE, 'containing, 10
Rooms, Brick Basement. . . " Ten rooms can be accounted for in the pre
1910, portion of the house. .Besides' adding the wings; Kenneth` Murchison,
architect for the 1910 additions, altered the floor plan and some of the
interior trim of the house -- mainly at the first" level. On the first- floor,
the walls which formed the center hall were removed, creating a large
parlor, extending the width of the main block. The windows to the rear of
the fireplaces were enlarged as entrances to the wings. The rear porch was
enclosed and some alterations made to the rear.
The two stylistic eras (1840s Greek Revival and`1910Neoclassical
Revival) present in the interior features are so compatible that identifying
all of them is impossible. In addition, it appears that some of the Greek
Revival molding was either reused or reproduced. In the parlor, all the
windows are framed with symmetrically molded architraves with roundel corner
blocks. The reveals are flat - paneled with alternating square and vertical
panels. A panel also occurs beneath each window. The doors are framed with
a modified version of the front entrance, each employing a pair of Ionic
columns and an entablature with ,a pulvinated frieze. The fireplace at each
end of the room features a gray -black marble mantel with engaged Ionic
columns which support a frieze of serpentine with faceted panels in the
center tablet and end blocks. Elaborate plaster work of classical motifs
dating from 1910 forms the cornice and adorns the ceiling. The stair located
in a transverse hall behind the parlor rises in two flights with a landing in
between. The newel is turned and covered with acanthus leaves. Turned
balusters carry a handrail oval in section. Behind the stair hall is the bit -.
liard room which has a tall neo- Federal style mantel, a molded chair rail,
and a deeply molded baseboard. In the dining room, a shallow dome forms the
central portion of the ceiling. The woodwork consists of a, high flat- paneled
wainscot, symn-iatrically molded architraves with paneled corner blocks', and a
neo- Federal style mantel. The `south end of the 'dining room is '`treated as a
solarium. Its
terrazzo floor is raised one stop, and the room is visually
divided by 'a pair of Tuscan columns which 'occur at each end of the step. ` A
handsome art nouveau copper chandelier is the focal point.. The central
spherical globe is encircled by a filigree ring from which hang eight smaller
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bulbs, each with a foliated cup.`
The second floor, although partitioned to create dressing rooms, bath-
rooms, and closets, retains much of its simple Greek Revival finish. - The hall
is unusually narrow and has a heavily molded transverse elliptical arch
carried on paneled pilasters. The architraves in the `hall` and those in the
southeast bedchamber are symmetrically molded and have faceted 'corner blocks.
Plaster cornices also occur in those' two areas. Mantels remain only in the
two front bedchambers. They are wood and follow simple straight lines.
Molded chair rails also occur in those rooms; however, 'their era is'undetermin
able.
The Orton Plantation gardens, open to the public, are among the best-
{ kknown in the southeast. The gardens were developed in the early twentieth'
century, and "many of its important parts were designed by the . . . landscape
architect,: Robert Swann Sturtevant." Live oaks shade extensive plantings of
azaleas, and other flowering trees and shrubs abound. A formal "scroll
garden;" a "white circle garden" and a "sun garden" are individually treated.
A 1915 Memorial Chapel and a curious tomb said to be that of the first owner
of Orton,, "King" Roger Moore are on the grounds as well. The vast rice fields
have been leased to the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission as a
waterfowl sanctuary. Still; visible are many of the old ditches and drains,
part of the elaborate irrigation system for the rice fields; some are still
used to;flood the fields' for the autumn migration of the birds.
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PERIOD. (Check One or More as Appropriate)
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❑ 151h Century ❑ 171h Century PC] 19th Century ,
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SPECIFIC DATE(S) ((tApplicablo andl(norvn)
AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Chock Ono or More as Appropriate)
Aboriginal ❑ Education Political ❑ Urban Planning:
❑ Prehistoric' Engineering ❑ Other (3pocily)
❑ 9� 9 ❑ Religion/Phi.
Historic ❑ Industry losophy
Agriculture' ❑ Invention ❑ Science
Architecture ® Landscape ❑ Sculpture
❑ Art Architecture ❑ Social /Human.
❑ Comaorce ❑ Literature itarian
❑ Communications ❑ Military ❑ Theater
❑ Conservation ❑ Music ❑ Transportation
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STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
Orton Plantation is an impressive and intriguing composite of three
centuries of remarkably eventful history.' It was a vast and fertile plan-
tation yielding great wealth first from naval stores, then from rice pro -`
duction. The house began as the relatively small circa 1735 home of the
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colorful and powerful early settler, "Ding" Roger Moore; saw the rising and
falling fortunes of a series of notable owners including Governor Benjamin '
Smith; grew to a sophisticated and imposing Greek Revival temple -form
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structure in the 1840s; suffered the vicissitudes of the Civil War and
Reconstruction; was reclaimed in the 1880s as a luxurious winter hunting
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retreat; and in the twentieth century has been lavishly expanded and
renovated, so that today, with its superb gardens it is perhaps the best-
known antebellum showplace in North Carolina, typifying the romanticized
ideal of the Southern mansion. <,
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Among the first settlers along the lower Cape Fear River were the
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Moores, sons of James Moore, a governor of the province of South Carolina.
They became acquainted with the area while on a military expedition to
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relieve North Carolinians embattled by fierce Tuscarora Indians. By 1728,
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Maurice Moore had patents' amounting to 9,210 acres and his brother Roger, ?
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12,780 acres. Roger Moore built on this land probably about 1725. His
house was located on the west bank of the Cape Fear River between present
cities of Wilmington and Southport. Known as Orton,,probably after an
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English place name associated with the Moore family; it was burned by
Indians whose encampment was across the river from it. The imperious and
opulent Moore is supposed not long 'after to have armed his many slaves and
entirely eradicated the Cree band responsible. Sometime before. 1734 "King"
Roger Moore, as he was called, built the house whose walls form the core of
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Mr. Roger Moore, hearing we had come,' was so kind as to send fresh
horses for us to come up to his house, which we 'did and were kindly
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received by him, he being the chief gentleman in all Cape Fear. His
house is built of brick and exceedingly pleasantly situated about f
two miles from the town and about half a mile from the river, though,
there is a creak that comes up close to the door between two beautiful
meadows about three miles in length. `` He has a prospect of the town of
Brunswick, and of another beautiful brick house, a building about half
a mile from him belonging to Eleazer "Allen, Esq., late speaker to the
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Still; another nearby house, Russellborough, was owned by the Moores and `served
as the residences of royal governors Arthur Dobbs and William Tryon. The only `
lucrative trade of the Cape Fear area at this time was in naval stores purchas d
by England for hpr ships. Orton with its rich pine forests no doubt contribu ' d
much - lumber, turpentine, tar, and pitch to this trade. ISing Roger Moore died
in 1750 leaving a vast estate including 250 slaves.
A few years later Orton was bought by a. wealthy local' merchant, Richard
Quince. A lady diarist writing about 1775 mentions Quince and includes a_
reference to the pre- Revolutionary; tenor of the times.
We got safe on shore and tho' quite dark landed from the boat with
little trouble, and proceeded thro' rows of tar and pitch to the house
of a mercht'to whom we had been recommended. . . These [houses] are
inhabited: by merchants of whom Mr. Quence, our host,; is first 'in' con
sequence. He is deeply engaged in the new system of politicks, in
which they are all more or less, tho' Mr. Dry the Collector of Customs,
is the most zealous and talks treason by the hour.
A year after these words were penned, Brutish soldiers burned William Dry's
home,' Russellborough, the former governor's residence. Its ruins are 'one-
half mile from the entrance to Orton.
In 1796, Richard Quince, Jr., sold Orton to Benjamin Smith, an aide to
General George Washington in the Revolution and a grandson of King Roger Moore.
Smith was one of the first trustees of the University of North Carolina and
became its first` benefactor when in 1789 he gave it land 'warrants for 20,000
acres. Smith Hall, built in 1850 as hall for literary societies and now
serving as the Playmakers Theater, was named for him. He was fifteen times a
state; senator and was serving as such when he was elected governor of North r
Carolina in 1810. Though an able man, Smith suffered financial reverses that
forced the sale of Orton. In 1824 it was advertised as
the late residence of Governor Benjamin Smith containing 1
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more or less. Of this track between; 100 and 500' acres is swamp land
of a, strong; and 'fertile soil, which, it is believed will produce at
least 1,000 lbs.'of cotton or four times of rice to the acre. . .
Included in the premise's is "a very superior and never failing mill
stream with an excellent dam, wanting only flood gates. The rice'
machine mill and gin having been recently destroyed by fire. The pond
may be used at all times as a reservoir of water to 'flow the how lands,
thus rendering Orton one of the most valuable rice plantations in the
country.
In 1826, Dr. Frederick Jones' Hill bought Orton. Hill was a state- senator'
in 1835, and 'a representative the succeeding three legislative sessions; it
was his education bill, passed in 1839, that put into operation a public school
system for the state. During Hill's ownership Orton house was enlarged and
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the central block took on its present rather typical antebellum appearance
with a full Doric portico.
Thomas Cale�ance'Miller bought Orton in 1854. According to the census
of 1860 he had 417 acres in cultivation and 8,276 unimproved or fallow. There
were 561,000 pounds of rice on the plantation, indicating it was still the
chief crop. The estate contained 144 slaves and was valued at $42,500. The
Cavil War apparently caused the abandonment of Orton. It is said to have been
used around that time as a hospital for smallpox victims. An auctioneer's
handbill of 1872 advertised Orton and "Lands adjacent thereto, 9,026 acres by
actual survey." Among other particulars listed are its two -mile front on the
river, water power from a pond seven miles in length, ' ten -room dwelling house,
and houses for 200 hands.
About 1880 Orton became the property of Colonel K. M. Murchison, a former
Confederate officer who after the war had built a successful cotton and naval
stores trade in New York. Murchison built the first hotel of any note in
Wilmington and called it "The Orton ". He restored the decayed Orton Plantatio I,
and spent his winters there, where hunting on its vast acreage was his frequen
pastime.' When Colonel Murchison died in 1904, his son -in -law James Sprunt
bought the estate. Like most of Orton's owners, James Sprunt was a noted
figure, During the Civil' War, when a youth of seventeen,' he went to sea as
purser on ships running the Federal blockade of Wilmington. While so employed
he was captured and imprisoned for some months.` After the war, he was -a member
of his father's cotton export firm and become a well - established civic leader
and philanthropist. His interest in history led him to become a knowledgeable
writer on historical events and to endow the publication of historical studies
by the University of North Carolina. Mr. Sprunt lavished care on Orton and
undertook the addition of wings to the main structure in 1910. Orton remains
in the Sprunt family., In the mid- twentieth century Orton has come to be the
state's most widely recognized example of "Southern" architecture; its romanti
facade 'amid lush; gardens is widely pictured on travel posters, wallpaper, and
most recently, represents the South on boxes of Scotties Tissues in the
"Rediscover America" series (see enclosure)
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9• MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES
Research by Charles. Blume, survey specialist; architectural description by
Janet Seapker, survey specialist.
New Hanover. County Records, New Hanover County Courthouse, Wilmington,
North Carolina, Office of the Register of Deeds '(Subgroups: Deeds,
Wills).
New Hanover; County Records, State Department of Archives and History,
Raleigh, North Carolina (Subgroups: Deeds, Wills).
Brunswick County Records, Brunswick County Courthouse, Wilmington, North
Carolina, Office of the Register of Deeds' (Subgroups: Deeds, Wills).
10. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA:,
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DEFINING �.
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OF LESS THAN TEN AC_RES__
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LATITUDE LONGITUDE .` LATITUDE LONGITUDEM
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NW 34 e 03 , 54 ° 77e 57' 02• 0 O
N E 34 e 03 ' 54 `" 77° 56' 25,.
S E 34 e 03 , 09 " 7 7e 56, 25,.
Sw 3 e 03 ' 09 77o _ 57, 02w
APPROXI MATE ACREAGE OFNOMINATED PROPERTY: 12 acres
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NAME AND TITLE:
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ORGANIZATION DATE
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STREET AND NUMBER:
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CITY OR TOWN: STATE CODE
ry IEEE North Carolina
12 STATE Ll;AISON QFFICER: GERTIFICAI IOf! IiAi "I C3lA, RF'&yl:� i (R`11EPl1ATIGN? —
As the designated' State Liaison Officer for the No—
tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law I hereby certify that this property is included in the
89 -665), L hereby nominate this property for inclusion National Register.
in the National Register and certify that it has been
evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set
forth by the National Park Service, The recommended
Chief, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation
level of significance of this nomination is
National E] State M Local' r-1 p
Date
Name {/i" i`!�
H. G. Jones - ATTEST:
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'rifle State His torian/Administrato:r
Keeper of The lational Register
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