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North Carolina plantation were identified by name, beginning in the 17th century. The names of families or nearby rivers or other features were used. The names assisted the owners and local record keepers in keeping track of specific parcels of land. In the early 1900s, there were 328 plantations identified in North Carolina from extant records.
Horton Grove was an area of houses for enslaved African-Americans at the 30,000-acre (120 km 2) Bennehan-Cameron plantation complex, which included Stagville Plantation in the northeastern part of Durham County, North Carolina. The slaves who lived at Horton Grove were held by the influential Bennehan and Cameron families.
Minchinton, Walter E. "The Seaborne Slave Trade of North Carolina." North Carolina Historical Review 71.1 (1994): 1–61. online; Modlin Jr, E. Arnold. "Tales told on the tour: Mythic representations of slavery by docents at North Carolina plantation museums." Southeastern Geographer 48.3 (2008): 265–287. online
The slave residences are well preserved and are the only two-story slave quarters remaining in North Carolina. Significant archaeological finds around the quarters have given archaeologists and historians a glimpse into the lives of the many enslaved people who lived and worked at Stagville and throughout the Bennehan-Cameron holdings.
Avirett–Stephens Plantation is a historic slave plantation complex and national historic district located near Richlands, Onslow County, North Carolina.The plantation house was built in 1851, and is a two-story, five-bay, double-pile Greek Revival style frame dwelling.
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The site features several reconstructed buildings for the plantation's slaves, including two homes and the plantation hospital; the grounds also include reconstructed stocks like those used to punish slaves. The visitor center's exhibits display the history of the site and antebellum North Carolina. There is also a gift shop.
Glenwood is a historic plantation with a Greek Revival house and several outbuildings, located near Enon, Yadkin County, North Carolina. Tyre Glen or Tyree Glenn (1800–1875) built one of the largest plantations in western North Carolina in Enon. The estate, known as Glenwood, once had 360 slaves and 6,000 acres (24 km 2). [2]