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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.
[4] In September 1856, he listed for sale A. J. Orr's "two-story dwelling house and lot" in Macon. [48] He also organized an administrator's sale of his deceased brother's possessions, including "all the Household and Kitchen furniture, one new Piano, one good Two-Horse Carriage and Harness complete, [and] one Two-Horse Wagon and Harness."
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 ...
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.
North Carolina Historical Review 63.1 (1986): 1–39. online; 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."
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 ...
In 1831, he moved to Iredell County, North Carolina and commissioned the construction of mansion on his Mount Mourne Plantation in Mount Mourne, North Carolina. [1] The mansion is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. By 1850, he owned eighty-four slaves and became the second largest slave owner in Iredell County. [1]
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.