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The Hermitage, also known as Tillery House, is a historic plantation house located near Tillery, Halifax County, North Carolina.It was built about 1810, and is a tripartite house that consists of a two-story, three-bay, pedimented central block flanked by one-story, two-bay, wings.
Magnolia is a historic plantation house located near Scotland Neck, Halifax County, North Carolina. It was built about 1840, and is a two-story, five-bay, Greek Revival-style frame dwelling with rear additions. It is sheathed in weatherboard, a hipped roof with interior chimneys, and full-width front porch.
Tillery-Fries House, also known as Conoconnara Hall, The Mansion, and Oak Grove, is a historic plantation complex located near Tillery, Halifax County, North Carolina. The Federal-style main house was built about 1800, and enlarged and remodeled about 1891 in the Colonial Revival style. It is a large, two-story with attic gable-roofed, frame ...
In contrast, the primary focus of a plantation was the production of cash crops, with enough staple food crops produced to feed the population of the estate and the livestock. [4] A common definition of what constituted a plantation is that it typically had 500 to 1,000 acres (2.0 to 4.0 km 2 ) or more of land and produced one or two cash crops ...
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Halifax County, Virginia. ... Brandon Plantation: April 26, 1996 : Coleman Dr., 500 feet (150 m ...
Myrtle Lawn is a historic plantation house and national historic district located near Enfield, Halifax County, North Carolina. It encompasses seven contributing buildings and one contributing site, the farm landscape. The house was built about 1816 and expanded about 1850. It is a two-story, five-bay, Federal style frame dwelling.
Tillery is an unincorporated community in Halifax County, North Carolina, [1] that was a plantation and is now home to a museum. [2] Tillery was incorporated as a town in 1889. [3] Franklin Roosevelt's Resettlement Administration instituted a New Deal era resettlement program in the area. [4] In 1936 it was renamed Roanoke Farms. [5]
Strawberry Hill is a historic plantation house located near Enfield, Halifax County, North Carolina. It was built in 1792, and is a two-story, three-bay, vernacular frame dwelling with 19th century rear additions. It has double-shouldered brick exterior end chimneys and a gable roof. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places ...