planter

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The name comes from an estate built on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in the early years of the 18th century by Philemon Hemsley, a wealthy merchant and tobacco planter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

“I was trying to take a picture of the beautiful turquoise planter at the end of the pool, but the camera was on me, so I just snapped it,” she later told PEOPLE.

From Salon • Aug. 9, 2025

“I grabbed a festive disco ball planter with a pothos in it, came home to put it on our windowsill, and I was just so excited,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2025

Brought over by the British, the game is mentioned in the diaries of the politician and planter William Bird III in 1704.

From BBC • May 29, 2024

Southern colonies did not hesitate to invent ways to extend the terms of servitude, and the planter class accumulated uncultivated lands to restrict the options of free workers.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander