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Alamance County Historical Museum, Inc. - Oak Grove Plantation
Burlington, Alamance County

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1 NC Echo Thumbnail Alamance County Historical Museum, Inc. - Oak Grove Plantation
Burlington, Alamance County

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Sign in front of the Alamance County Historical Museum.

2 NC Echo Thumbnail Alamance County Historical Museum, Inc. - Oak Grove Plantation
Burlington, Alamance County

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Exterior side view of the Alamance County Historical Museum. The museum is primarily a house museum interpreting this house, Oak Grove, built originally by Michael Holt in 1790 and expanded in 1800. E. M. Holt, son of Michael Holt and founder of the famous Holt Mills lived here with his family until 1849.

3 NC Echo Thumbnail Alamance County Historical Museum, Inc. - Oak Grove Plantation
Burlington, Alamance County

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Exterior front view of the Holt House - Oak Grove.

4 NC Echo Thumbnail Alamance County Historical Museum, Inc. - Oak Grove Plantation
Burlington, Alamance County

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Several of the original outbuildings are still extant in their original locations.

5 NC Echo Thumbnail Alamance County Historical Museum, Inc. - Oak Grove Plantation
Burlington, Alamance County

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Dr. Bill Vincent, Director of the Alamance Historical Museum, with a music box purchased by E. M. Holt in Lucern, Switzerland, c.1859.

6 NC Echo Thumbnail Alamance County Historical Museum, Inc. - Oak Grove Plantation
Burlington, Alamance County

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A table built by Thomas Day that belonged to the Holt Family. Many of the pieces displayed throughout the house are original to the Holts.

7 NC Echo Thumbnail Alamance County Historical Museum, Inc. - Oak Grove Plantation
Burlington, Alamance County

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Holt dining room table and chairs with original china hand painted by Mary Katherine Holt in 1872 and fired by the William Lycette Company in Atlanta. Table is also set with the Holt Family sterling by Tiffany.

8 NC Echo Thumbnail Alamance County Historical Museum, Inc. - Oak Grove Plantation
Burlington, Alamance County

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One of the Holt's daughter's dresses.

9 NC Echo Thumbnail Alamance County Historical Museum, Inc. - Oak Grove Plantation
Burlington, Alamance County

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Another view of the Thomas Day table.

10 NC Echo Thumbnail Alamance County Historical Museum, Inc. - Oak Grove Plantation
Burlington, Alamance County

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An original painting by Elizabeth LeBreun Vigee, court painter to Marie Antoinette.