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Photos by: Harmony Hall Plantation Village Facebook Page
By: Charlotte Smith
Bladen County has a hidden historical treasure, its Harmony Hall Plantation Village in White Oak. In December Miss North Carolina 2016, McKenzie Faggart, accompanied the second graders from Elizabethtown Primary School on a field trip to the local village to learn and play.
According to local history teacher, Mrs. Sunday Allen, 84 second graders, and around 20 parents and teachers were lead in activities around the plantation by 23 high school students to learn about the days of olden.
Tours of the school, the house and Shaw kitchen were made by the eager students. Miss North Carolina held story time in the old chapel. Before the day ended a nature hike, a Christmas craft, a picnic, lessons on writing with feather quills, and were also enjoyed by those in attendance.
Harmony Hall Plantation was the 1760’s era home of Col. James Richardson on the Cape Fear River. The plantation village today has several buildings that span the years from the home’s origin to 1900-including a one-room school which operated in Bladen County during the last quarter of the nineteenth century according to their Facebook page.
Harmony Hall is owned by Harmony Hall Plantation Village, Inc. and is operated and maintained by a dedicated group of volunteers. The home place has been on the National Register of Historic Landmarks since 1972.
Harmony Hall Plantation Village Inc. holds a 501(c)3 tax exemption and graciously accepts donation of any amount to continue preservation efforts and education. For more information visit their Facebook page.
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