GRIMESLAND — Black Jack native Marty Mills remembers exploring the Grimes Plantation long after its days as a working farm but before it was restored to its intended splendor.

She admits to trespassing — her daughter kindly calls it “snooping” — around the graveyard and 1,000-acre lot before leaving the area for 26 years.

“It’s amazing how much of it is gone,” Mills said, recalling many more small outbuildings but never a state of complete disrepair.

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