2. The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a piece
of ground planted with trees or useful plants; esp., in
the United States and West Indies, a large estate
appropriated to the production of the more important
crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate;
as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation.
3. An original settlement in a new country; a colony.
While these plantations were forming in Connecticut.
--B. Trumbull.