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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.
Paul C. Cameron (1808–1891) was an American judge, railroad builder, and a wealthy plantation and slaveholders in North Carolina. [1] When his father left him the business in the late 1800s, [1] Cameron oversaw the work of 470 slaves across 12,475 acres of land mostly in North Carolina.
Mills-Screven Plantation, North Carolina; Somerset Place, North Carolina; Stagville, North Carolina; Midway Plantation House and Outbuildings, North Carolina; Pettigrew State Park, North Carolina; Brown–Graves House and Brown's Store, North Carolina; Fairntosh Plantation, North Carolina; Leigh Farm, North Carolina; Grimesland Plantation ...
Thomas Gillespie (c. 1719 – December 13, 1786) was a large plantation owner in mid-to-late 18th-century North Carolina and served as commissary of the Rowan County Regiment in the North Carolina militia during the American Revolution.
Even though he himself was born a slave, Stanly had used his intelligence and family ties to become a successful entrepreneur, land developer, and plantation owner. In fact, Stanly "became not only the largest slave owner in Craven County, and one of the largest in North Carolina, but he owned more than twice as many slaves as the second ...
The Humphrey–Williams Plantation (also known as the Humphrey–Williams–Smith House and Plantation) is a historic plantation complex located near Lumberton, Robeson County, North Carolina. The Humphrey–Williams House was built about 1846 with the forced labor of enslaved people , and is a two-story, five-bay, vernacular Greek Revival ...
Fletcher-Skinner-Nixon House and Outbuildings, also known as Swampside, is a historic plantation complex located near Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina. The main house was built about 1820, and is a two-story, Federal style frame dwelling. It is sheathed in weatherboard, sits on a brick pier foundation, and features an engaged double ...
It should be noted that there are over 200 antebellum (pre-Civil War period) former plantation homes still standing in North Carolina, most privately owned and not open to the public (with the exception of several house museums and B&B's).