Sentence examples for plantation it from inspiring English sources

Originally a sugar cane plantation, it's famous for its Creole-inspired interiors and the 800-foot-long corridor of live oaks dating to the 1700s.

A former sugar plantation, it had been found by his son Henry.

Founded with Biddeford in 1631 as a single plantation, it was the seat of Sir Ferdinando Gorges' government (1636 53) before passing to Massachusetts.

At Los Álamos plantation, it would appear that no expense was spared to produce the Bonita brand Cavendish bananas sold in the United States.

Settled in 1752 as the Pontoosuc Plantation, it was incorporated as a town (and made the county seat) in 1761 and named for the English prime minister William Pitt.

On the site of a former slave plantation, it currently houses close to 5,000 inmates and covers more ground, at 18,000 acres, than the island of Manhattan.

Although the programme had its origins in the stochastic analysis of radiata pine plantations, it is widely applicable to other species of even-aged plantations and forests.

Last year it promised to promote more women and to ensure there is no sexual harassment on the plantations it owns and buys from.

Long ago a common refuge for slaves who escaped from the colonial sugar plantations, it was named a Unesco World Heritage Site in 2008.

Located in the midst of rubber and palm plantations, it is a centre of trade and transshipment for rubber, tobacco, tea, natural fibres, palm oil, and rice.

Because, by definition, the Maroons lived in settlements that were isolated from plantations, it is implausible to assume that plantation slaves learned Saramaccan from Maroons, although escapees from among the enslaved must have taken the plantation varieties into the Maroon colonies.