W hat was once the centerpiece of a large plantation in the mid-1840s today sits in ruins in rural Dallas County. The John Jay Crocheron house, or Elm Bluff, is an abandoned plantation house in ...
Somewhat famously, if not for the Orton Plantation house, which sits off N.C. 133 between ... In 1888, Murchison built a large hotel in downtown Wilmington and called it "The Orton." ...