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A large frame building was built over it. At the top of the earth there was an entrance door and steps leading down to the bottom of the ho1e~ Other things besides ice were stored there. There was a still on the plantation and barrels of brandy were stored in the ice house, also pickles, preserves ~nd cider)
	Ll?~~y of the things we used were made on the place. There

was a grist mill, tannery, shoe -shop, dacksmith shop, and .loori~ for weaving cloth. .

	~There were about one hundred . and sixty-~two slaves on the ijiantation and every Sunday morning all the children had to be bathed, dressed, and their hair combed and carried down to marster‘s for breakfast. It was a rule that all the little colored children eat at the great house every SUnday morning in order that marster and missus could w~ch them e at so they could know which ones were sickly and have them doctor~d.

	“The sLave children all carried a mussel shell in their hands to eat with. The food was put on large trays and the children all gathered around and ate, dipping up their food with their mussel shells whichthey used for spoons. Those who refused to eat or those who were ailing in any way had to corne back to the great house for their meals and medicine until they viere well.
t~~rster had~ a large apple orchard in the Tar River low

grounds and up on highér ground and. nearer the plantation house there was on one side of the road a large plum orchard and on the other sidé was a±i orchard of peaches, cherries, quinces and