Road trip, final day

Vacation is over, time to head home...but not just yet.  

First we wanted to visit Mount Harmon.

Restored 18th-century manor house and colonial era tobacco plantation; includes nature preserve, boxwood garden, colonial kitchen, smoke house, replica slave quarters, tobacco barn and prize house.

And close to the Delaware border, which made it ideal for our last day.

It's in an isolated spot on the Sassafras River.  A two mile long driveway leads to the plantation house and related buildings.  We parked our car in the visitor's lot, and were greeted with this sight:

The manor house is a small but opulent display of Georgian architecture and 18th century  wealth.  I was fascinated by the kitchen as well, a separate building (just as at the Mudd house) where food for the entire plantation was prepared.  Initially the land was worked by indentured servants, but ultimately  it became a slave-based economy.

Pineapples were used as a welcome sign in colonial times.

That's real tobacco in the field.  Local Amish rent out the land and grow the crop.

Colonial era fashions were  fascinated with the Far East, as can be seen on the design on this clock.

The herb garden.

The box garden.

 I'm sure I could spend hours in that garden, but it was time to go home...