In recent years, events as activists have decried Confederate monuments and flags, developers have continued using " plantation" in neighborhood names to evoke elegance. Now plantation place names and the word itself are under new scrutiny. In American South, plantations and slavery were inextricably bound. Historians typically define plantation as farms large enough to have at least 20 enslaved people.

Pantations communities in Brunswick County :                                                       Doe Creek Plantation, Mallory Creek Plantation, Sea Wynde Plantation, Tall Pines Plantation, Thee Rock Plantation, Stoney Creek Plantatiom, Brick landing Plantation, Grovely Plantation, Middle Island Plantation, Oak Ridge Plantation, Riversea Plantation, Seascape At Holden Plantation, Pine Forest Plantation, Winding River Plantation, Brunswick Plantation, Indigo Plantation, Middle Island Plantation, Ocean Ridge Plantation, Olde Town Plantation, Orton Plantation, Bent Tree Plantation, Oakland Plantation, Owendon Plantation, River Run Plantation, Sea Trail Plantation, St James Plantation, Fair Oaks Plantation and Oak Ridge Plantation, Jackeys  Creek Plantation and Magnolia Green Golf Plantation,

Please sign petition to change community names with " plantation" in Brunswick County.