What is an important aspect of the history of the American South, particularly the antebellum (pre-American Civil War) era that Haller Nutt owns?
Plantations
Haller Nutt
Haller Nutt (1816-1864) was an American Southern planter.
 He was a successful cotton planter and plantation owner in Mississippi.
 He developed a strain of cotton that became important commercially for the Deep South.
Plantations in the American South
Plantations were an important aspect of the history of the American South, particularly the antebellum (pre-American Civil War) era.
 The mild subtropical climate, plentiful rainfall, and fertile soils of the American Southeast allowed large plantations to flourish; where large numbers of workers, usually Africans held captive for slave labor, were required for agricultural production.
MacFarland House (Charleston, West Virginia)
MacFarland House, also known as MacFarland-Ruby-Crowley-Hubbard House, is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia.
 It was built in 1836 and is one of only six pre-American Civil War houses still standing in the city.
 The house features a full two-story modified Roman Doric portico. Reverse Underground Railroad
The Reverse Underground Railroad is the term used for the pre-American Civil War practice of kidnapping free blacks from free states and transporting them into the Southern slave states for sale as slaves.
 The Reverse Underground Railroad operated for eighty-five years, from 1780-1865.
 The name is a reference to the Underground Railroad, the informal network of abolitionists and sympathizers who helped to smuggle escaped slaves to freedom, generally in Canada. Mordecai Zachary House
The Zachery-Tolbert House, also known as the Mordecai Zachary House, is a restored pre-American Civil War house located at Cashiers, Jackson County, North Carolina.
 The house was built between 1850 and 1852, and is a two-story, five bay Greek Revival style frame dwelling.
 It has a low hipped roof and central front, two-story, portico.
 A frame two-room kitchen was added to the rear elevation and was connected to the house by a covered breezeway in the 1920s. Charles Sumner House
The Charles Sumner House is a historic house at 20 Hancock Street on Beacon Hill in Boston, Massachusetts.
 The brick townhouse, built c. 1806, is notable as the home for many years of the Charles Sumner (1811–1874), an outspoken and aggressive political opponent of slavery, whose beating on the floor of the United States Senate in 1856 was a defining moment of the pre-American Civil War period.
 The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1973. Old Burying Ground (Beaufort, North Carolina)
Old Burying Ground is a historic cemetery located at Beaufort, Carteret County, North Carolina.
 It was established in 1724.
 There are approximately 200 stones from the pre-American Civil War era, approximately 45 from the war period, about 150 from 1865 to 1900, and a few 20th-century markers.
 A notable burial is of Otway Burns, a naval hero in the War of 1812. South Fulton, Georgia
South Fulton is the most recently and last chartered city in Fulton County, Georgia, United States.
 It includes all of the land that had remained unincorporated land in Fulton County that was southwest of East Point and College Park.
 The communities of Red Oak, Cooks Crossing, Stonewall, Tell, Fife, Campbellton, Ben Hill, Sandtown, Cliftondale, Cochran Mill, and Peters Woods (a few of which were formerly pre-American Civil War towns) are located in South Fulton. William W. Freehling
William W. Freehling (born 1935) is an American historian, and Singletary Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at the University of Kentucky.
 Freehling has written several well-respected works on the American South during the antebellum era and on the American Civil War, most notably "Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina", which won the 1967 Bancroft Prize, and a two volume work on the antebellum period, "Road to Disunion". Conklin-Montgomery House
Conklin-Montgomery House is a historic home located at Cambridge City, Wayne County, Indiana.
 It was built between about 1836 and 1838, and is a two-story, five bay, brick hip and end gable roofed townhouse.
 It features a two-story, "in antis", recessed portico with a second story balcony supported by Ionic order and Doric order columns.
 Also on the property is a contributing pre-American Civil War gazebo.