Word: fairntosh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FAIRNTOSH, "stately traditional plantation home," whose owner is commemorated by a silver, state-erected plaque on a pole as "one of the state's largest slaveholders before the War." The family had brought the name from their estate in Ireland and assembled here outside of Exeter a couple of hundred slaves and a couple of thousand acres...
...really got to Fairntosh was along the narrow black road dropping steeply down and then straightening out across a flat stretch of swampy forest where at the end of the day a rich odor of bacon cooking came drifting from some nearby shack or trailer. "They've got it fixed up real pretty," said the man we asked for directions, "with them long white fences goin up the hill and the house is hid in the trees...
Things aren't simple; Fairntosh wasn't white and didn't have columns. It was a beautiful shade of yellow, and beside it was a bed of trained yellow roses, and above it were those tremendous oaks. It was actually built too early to have columns, and its porch stood out instead with sober Federalist dignity...
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