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The Leigh Farm is a historic home and plantation complex located near Chapel Hill, Durham County, North Carolina.The house was built about 1834, and is a one-story, three-bay, frame dwelling with a broad gable roof.
Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District is a national historic district located at Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina.The district encompasses 51 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, and 5 contributing structures in a predominantly residential section of Chapel Hill.
In the early 1900s, there were 328 plantations identified in North Carolina from extant records. [ 10 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The Sloop Point plantation in Pender County, built in 1729, is the oldest surviving plantation house and the second oldest house surviving in North Carolina, after the Lane House (built in 1718–1719 and not part of a plantation).
The Occaneechi Indians lived in the area of what is now Hillsborough, north of Chapel Hill, prior to European settlement. [6]The area was the home place of early settler William Barbee of Middlesex County, Virginia, whose 1753 grant of 585 acres on the north and south side of "Lick Branch" [7] from John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville was the first of two land grants in what is now the Chapel ...
Battle Park, E. Franklin and E. Rosemary Sts. residences, and central campus of University of North Carolina; also roughly bounded by Carolina Ave., North, Cameron & Columbia Sts. 35°54′45″N 79°03′08″W / 35.9125°N 79.052222°W / 35.9125; -79.052222 ( Chapel Hill Historic
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1956. ISBN 0-8078-4566-3. Bennett Place Staff. Guide Book for Staff & Volunteers of Bennett Place State Historic Site. Bradley, Mark L. This Astounding Close: The Road to Bennett Place. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8078-2565-4. Longacre, Edward G. Worthy Opponents ...
Orange County is a county located in the Piedmont region of the U.S. state of North Carolina.As of the 2020 census, the population was 148,696. [2] Its county seat is Hillsborough. [3]
State Farm is the largest property and casualty insurance provider, and the largest auto insurance provider, in the United States. [8] State Farm is ranked 39th in the 2024 Fortune 500, which lists American companies by revenue. [9] State Farm relies on exclusive agents (also known as captive agents) to sell insurance.