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The Historic Rice-Tremonti Home 8801 E. 66th Street (at Blue Ridge) Raytown, Missouri 64133 (816) 358-RICE
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The historic Rice Tremonti Plantation home was built in 1844 by Archibald Rice. The Rice family owned the property until 1903 when it was sold upon the death of Elijuh Coffee Rice. Other prominent families who owned the property were the Judge John Lowe family and later Dr. Louis Tremonti and his wife Gloria.
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Many of the travelers down the Santa Fe, California and Oregon Trails stopped at this well known plantation located 8 miles or one days wagon journey from Independence. The home and grounds were placed on the National Register of Historical Places in 1978.
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A replicated slave cabin, Aunt Sophie's cabin, is located on the same site since 1836. The cabin was home to Sophie White a slave of the family who returned as a free woman from Texas after the Civil War. She remained with the Rice Family until her death in 1896.
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