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Beaver Creek Plantation, under the ownership of George Hairston, was a large slave-holding tobacco plantation and the center of an empire in tobacco-growing and slave-trading built by the Hairston family, Scottish emigrants to Pennsylvania in the early 18th century.
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 ...
Beaver Dam Plantation House is a historic plantation house located near Davidson, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was built in 1829, and is a two-story, four-bay, single pile Federal style dwelling. It has gable roof, brick exterior end chimneys, and a one-story, full-width, shed roof porch.
Hairston died on March 5, 1825, at his home, Beaver Creek Plantation, survived for a few years by his widow. [17] Both are buried at the Hairston Family Cemetery there. The last will and testament that Hairston wrote on 7 March 1820, was admitted to probate on 9 April 1827.
Mallard Creek Church Rd., ... Beaver Dam Plantation House. March 19, 1979 Southeast of Davidson on NC 73 ... NC 2439, 0.3 miles north of its junction with NC 2426 ...
It should be noted that there are over 200 antebellum (pre-Civil War period) former plantation homes still standing in North Carolina, most privately owned and not open to the public (with the exception of several house museums and B&B's).
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Coolmore Plantation: Coolmore Plantation. February 18, 1971 : Rte. 3 (W of Tarboro on U.S. 64) ... Roughly bounded by NC 1003, NC 1411, NC 1414, and Town Creek