Cascade Plantation, also known as Willow Oaks, is a historic

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located near Eden,

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. It dates to the 1830s, and is a two-story, five bay by three bay,

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style frame dwelling. It sits on a brick basement and is sheathed in weatherboard. It has pairs of brick exterior chimneys on each gable end. Willow Oaks plantation was the home of Dan River Inc. founder and president Thomas Benton Fitzgerald from 1897 to 1916. It was listed on the

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in 1975.

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