Prairie View is a plantation house built in 1859 by John Taylor in Pleasant Green, Missouri. The Prairie View plantation is a private residence and the current owners are Robert and Ann Betteridge. The Betteridge family have owned Prairie View since 1903 when Robert Betteridge's grandfather William Betteridge bought the house and legally changed the name from Prairie View to Crestmead. Prairie View entered the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 in 1982 because of the unique Italianate

Italianate architecture

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/Greek architecture

Architecture

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 and contribution to local commerce

Commerce

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 and agriculture

Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...

 of the region. The plantation utilized slave labor

Manual labour

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 from the time of its completion until the end of the Civil War

Civil war

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