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Lost Plantation: The Rise and Fall of Seven Oaks (Jefferson Historical)

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Excellent! I thought I knew everything

there was about Seven Oaks, being from that area also,

but learned alot more of the history

and genealogy involved in this small book.

Marc Matrana did a great job and his love

of the plantation shows, it was a sad day when

they let this beautiful plantation fall to the wrecking ball.

What an awesome book. Old plantations, be they lost forever or saved from the wrecking ball, have fascinated me since I was a little girl. I gobble up everything I can about them, visit sites where they once stood and spend lazy afternoons at the ones we are fortunate to still have with us. No racist fantasies goin on...just basking in their beauty and all that once was and dreaming of a time that is no more. So glad that this book was written to honor the memory of this lost treasure.

I have not read this book yet but I plan to. I visited Seven Oaks in the late 60's. It had already began to crumble with the roof having fallen in along the front. But, oh, how magnificent she was with her huge columns standing proud and defiant! You could almost hear the darkies singing as the Master, with his family, sat on the upper veranda in the late eve and watched the steamboats pass by on the mighty Miss. What a treasure lost!

I have now read the book! I stand by my original review. What a magnificent mansion it was.