Stagville

Infobox_nrhp | name =Stagville
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nearest_city= Durham, North Carolina
lat_degrees = 36 | lat_minutes = 7 | lat_seconds = 0.96 | lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 79 | long_minutes = 50 | long_seconds = 16.01 | long_direction = W
area =
built =1799
architect= Unknown
architecture= Georgian
added = May 25, 1973
governing_body = Private
refnum=73001338 cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

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

Historic Stagville, consisting of 71 acres in three tracts, provides a unique look at North Carolina's history and infrastructure in the antebellum South.

The Bennehan House, built 1787 and 1799, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973; and Horton Grove, two-story slave residences built in 1850, was listed in 1978.

Stagville's historic buildings include several slave residences, known as Horton Grove, which are well preserved. They are the only two-story slave houses remaining in North Carolina. Significant archaeological finds around the houses have given archaeologists and historians a glimpse into the lives of the many slaves who lived and worked at Stagville.

Also on the site are several historic houses and barns, including the original Bennehan House.

In 1976, Liggett and Meyers Tobacco Company, which had owned and worked the land for decades, donated the property to the state of North Carolina.

Notes

External links

* [http://plantationletters.com/index.html The Plantation Letters Project: Selections from Cameron Family Letters]
* [http://www.historicstagvillefoundation.org/historic_stagville.htm Historic Stagville Foundation website]
* [http://www.hauntednc.com/investigation_stagville.htm An investigation conducted by Haunted NC]

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