Plantations represent a very unique and traditional era in the South. Ironically, they provide a sense of pride and shame for the prestigious Southern families who owned and operated them. This is a focus on the ruins of plantations that have been lost to time but remain just enough to give us a sense of wonder. Plantations like Rosewell, Millwood, Forks of Cypress, Bulow, Windsor... Most of what remains are just columns and walls, but it is the story of what those columns supported and what those walls contained that will be beneath the spotlight. The Bulow Plantation in Florida was a sugar plantation built in the early 1800s and burned in 1836. All that remains are the limestone foundation and ruins of the mill's coquina. Millwood Plantation is located on the Savannah River on the border of South Carolina and Georgia. The plantation was used from 1834 to the mid-1920s, and its main crop was cotton. Windsor may be the most fascinating of the three plantations. Its original appearance was unknown until a drawing of the plantation in its “heyday” was found. It was built between 1859 and 1861. It is said to be the largest house built at the time, on 2,600 acres. It was so remarkable that Mark Twain sat on the roof of the observatory to think and even mentioned the house in Life on The Mississippi. Unfortunately it burned down in 1890. The Old Sheldon Church was the parish church of Prince William. It may have been the first conscious attempt in America to emulate a Greek temple. It was built between 1745 and 1753. Only a few walls and four of the seven original columns of the portico remain. It too burned. The Rosewell Plantation in Gloucester County, Virginia was once the largest and most exceptional mansion... center of card... both, and William MS Rasmussen. Lost Virginia: Vanished Architecture of the Old Dominion. Charlottesville, Virginia: Howell Press, 2001. Patton, Heather -, correspondent. 2008. “Bulow Ruins Offer Glimpse of History.” Daytona Beach News-Journal (FL), September 10. NewsBank, EBSCOhost (accessed 13 February 2014). Matrana, Marc R.. Lost Plantations of the South. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. Print.Norma McLean, Staff Writer. 1993. “JUST A REMINDER, HISTORY ALL THAT REMAINS OF THE HAMPTON PLANTATION.” State, The (Columbia, SC), March 25. 3. NewsBank - Archives, EBSCOhost (accessed February 13, 2014).STARBUCK, DR. nd "THE MATERIAL BASIS OF THE POSTBELLUM LAND PLANTATION - HISTORICAL ARCHEOLOGY IN THE PIEDMONT OF SOUTH CAROLINA - ORSER,CE." Public history 12, n. 1:94-96. Arts & Humanities Citation Index, EBSCOhost (accessed February 13, 2014).