Since 1997, Frogmore Plantation is a working farm, tourist attraction featuring many structures, and educational center.

Buildings on the site include a cotton gin, and a plantation manor house named Gillespie.

The historic plantation house is named Gillespie and included on its property are a slave row of cabins and numerous outbuildings, or dependencies.

An archeological site shortly southwest of the house, named Frogmore Mound was added in July 2004, and a cotton gin, moved to the property from another location in order to have a working plantation and named Piazza Cotton Gin was added in January 1999.

[2] Tanner was inspired to publish the book after the Frogmore Plantation was opened in 1997 for public history tours.