Post in ground architecture is English as well as French and was a technology
 transferred to both countries' colonies. Also keep in mind, particularly in the
 South, that many buildings were built by African-Americans and they probably
 added their own methods of construction.
 
The slave quarters cabins (1792-1815), outhouse pit, and the planter's kitchen
 (1792-1840s) at Kings Bay Plantation in Camden Co., Georgia were built of posts
 with lathe woven around them and smaller uprights. These were then plastered
 with tabby (burnt shell cement and sand).
William H. Adams
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