On a Friday evening after work, C. Leigh Stevens did what a lot of people do, he poured himself a drink. Stevens’ cocktail, however, was sipped on a train out of Manhattan’s Penn Station roaring ...

P.T. Barnum once used a South Carolina plantation as a retreat for his circus animals. The same property was at times a grist mill, saw mill and used to grow cotton, sweet potato, and corn as well as ...

The property deed dates back to an original 1698 Kings Grant, the listing reads. The plantation in South Carolina includes “world class hunting,” a 5,586-square-foot house and an “oak avenue” driveway ...

A 274-year-old plantation along the Combahee River in Beaufort County with ties to Robert E. Lee and Frank Lloyd Wright recently sold for $9 million. The 1,851-acre Old Combahee Plantation had been on ...

Conservation can be tough when a property is passed down informally over generations. A growing effort is helping families ...