Stony Creek Plantation, also known as Shell House, is a historic plantation house located at DeWitt,

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. The original section was built about 1750, and is a -story, three-bay, center-hall plan house. It would have been built by enslaved African Americans. They likely cultivated tobacco and mixed crops by the time this plantation was developed. A two-story perpendicular section was added in 1872, more than 120 years later and after the Civil War. The house is T-shaped and features massive brick chimneys. an
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in 2003.

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