Past as prelude -- Founding a Tidewater tobacco plantation -- Prosperity and expansion -- Success in colonial Maryland -- A revolutionary patriot -- Elizabeth Rousby Plater -- Richard Boulton : master craftsman -- An eighteenth-century slave community -- A Maryland statesman -- The new capital -- The war of 1812 and the end of the Plater era -- A southern farmer -- The Civil War -- The Kane family -- Rescued from ruin -- Colonial revival -- Trustworthy managers -- Tenants and workers -- Creating a foundation for the future -- Sotterley today.
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