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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1898/00/00 Peabody and Stearns Architect Plum Orchard is built on the western shore of Cumberland Island, Georgia, for George Lauder Carnegie, a son of Thomas M Carnegie and named after his uncle, Scottish industrialist George Lauder.
1898/10/06 George Lauder Carnegie Home George Lauder Carnegie and his wife, Margaret Copley Thaw, dedicate Plum Orchard.
1898/10/06 Margaret Thaw Carnegie Home George Lauder Carnegie and his wife, Margaret Copley Thaw, dedicate Plum Orchard.
1913/03/22 Alice Copely Thaw Bride Alice Cornelia Thaw marries Geoffrey George Whitney, a stockbroker with Whitney and Elwell, at her sister's home, Plum Orchard at Dungeness on Cumberland Island in Georgia.

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Particulars for Plum Orchard Historic District:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Cultural Affiliation Colonial American
Cultural Affiliation Deptford
Owner Federal
Area of Significance Historic and non-aboriginal
Sight Category Historic District
Criteria Information Potential
Architectural Style Neoclassical
Agriculture Plantation
Area of Significance Prehistoric
Historic Use Secondary structure
Historic Use Single dwelling



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 23rd November 1984

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Plum Orchard Historic District
Registry Address: Address Restricted
Registry Number: 84000258
Resource Type: District
Theme Group: Cumberland Island National Seashore MRA
Owner: Federal
Architect: Peabody and Stearns
Architectural Style: Classical revival
Area in Acres: 60
Contributing Buildings: 9
Contributing Sites: 2
Contributing Structures: 7
Non-Contributing Structures: 1
Certification: Listed in the National Register
Nominator Name: National Seashore
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: State
Area of Significance: Prehistoric, Historic and non-aboriginal, Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Architecture-Engineering, Information Potential
Cultural Affiliation: 19th C. Plantation, Early Colonial, Deptford
Period of Significance: 1900-1750 AD, 1499-1000 AD, 1749-1500 AD, 1000 AD-999 BC
Significant Year: 1898
Historic Function: Domestic
Historic Sub-Function: Single dwelling, Secondary structure
Current Function: Landscape
Current Sub-Function: Park

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