Stagville
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Location | 5828 Old Oxford Highway, Durham, North Carolina |
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Coordinates | 36°7′1″N 78°50′1″W / 36.11694°N 78.83361°WCoordinates: 36°7′1″N 78°50′1″W / 36.11694°N 78.83361°W |
Area | 9 acres (3.6 ha) |
Built | 1799 |
Architectural style | Georgian |
NRHP reference No. | 73001338[1] |
Added to NRHP | May 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[]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
External links[]
- Historic Stagville - official site
- North Carolina Historic Site: Historic Stagville
- The Plantation Letters Project: Selections from Cameron Family Letters
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
- Archaeological sites in North Carolina
- Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
- North Carolina in the American Civil War
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
- Historic house museums in North Carolina
- Plantation houses in North Carolina
- Open-air museums in North Carolina
- Museums in Durham County, North Carolina
- Georgian architecture in North Carolina
- North Carolina State Historic Sites
- National Register of Historic Places in Durham County, North Carolina
- Houses in Durham County, North Carolina
- Slave cabins and quarters in the United States
- Southern United States museum stubs
- North Carolina building and structure stubs
- Durham County, North Carolina Registered Historic Place stubs