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Historic house in North Carolina, United States United States historic place
Old Town Plantation
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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LocationOff NC 97, near Battleboro, North Carolina
Coordinates35°58′54″N 77°43′52″W / 35.98167°N 77.73111°W / 35.98167; -77.73111
Area10.1 acres (4.1 ha)
Builtc. 1742 (1742)
NRHP reference No.72000961
Added to NRHPJanuary 20, 1972; December 1, 1983

Old Town Plantation is a historic plantation house located near Battleboro, Edgecombe County, North Carolina. It was built about 1742, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, frame dwelling with a gambrel roof on a brick foundation. It features a double-shoulder Flemish bond chimney with small brick wings, and two other brick chimneys. The house has a hall-and-parlor plan. Also on the property is a contributing log storage house with a pyramidal roof and a board-and-batten door. The house was moved in 1983, to a new site less than one mile west of the original site.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, and relisted in 1983.

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. John B. Wells, III; Allison B. Harris (July 1983). "Old Town Plantation" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-11-01.
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