Stagville

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Stagville
Bennehan House StagvillePCCA20081021-6739B.jpg
Stagville is located in North Carolina
Stagville
Location5828 Old Oxford Highway, Durham, North Carolina
Coordinates36°7′1″N 78°50′1″W / 36.11694°N 78.83361°W / 36.11694; -78.83361Coordinates: 36°7′1″N 78°50′1″W / 36.11694°N 78.83361°W / 36.11694; -78.83361
Area9 acres (3.6 ha)
Built1799 (1799)
Architectural styleGeorgian
NRHP reference No.73001338[1]
Added to NRHPMay 25, 1973

Stagville Plantation is located in Durham County, North Carolina. With buildings constructed from the late 18th century to the mid-19th century, Stagville was part of one of the largest plantation complexes in the American South. The entire complex was owned by the Bennehan, Mantack and Cameron families; it comprised roughly 30,000 acres (120 km2) and was home to almost 900 enslaved African Americans in 1860.[2]

The remains of Historic Stagville consist of 71 acres (290,000 m2), in three tracts, and provide a unique look at North Carolina's history and general infrastructure in the antebellum South. Among structures on the Stagville site are several historic houses and barns, including the original Bennehan House and some of the original slave quarters, which were in an area known as Horton Grove.[2][3]

The [1] , built 1787 with a large addition in 1799, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973; Horton Grove, an area of two-story slave residences built in 1850, was listed in 1978. 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.

In 1976, Liggett and Meyers Tobacco Company, which had owned and worked the land for decades, donated some of the acreage to the state of North Carolina, which now operates the property as Historic Stagville State Historic Site, a historic house museum, which belongs to the North Carolina Department[2] of Natural and Cultural Resources.

Notes[]

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ a b Survey and Planning Unit Staff (May 1973). "Stagville" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-10-01.
  3. ^ Lenwood G. Davis (1991). A Travel Guide to Black Historical Sites and Landmarks in North Carolina. Bandit Books. pp. 48–49. ISBN 978-1-878177-02-5.

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Sources[]

  • Anderson, Jean Bradley. Piedmont Plantation: The Bennehan-Cameron Family and Lands in North Carolina. Durham: Historic Preservation Society, 1985
  • Anderson, Jean Bradley. A History of Durham County, North Carolina. Durham: Duke University Press, 1991
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