Old Town Plantation is a historic plantation house located near Battleboro, Edgecombe County, North Carolina. It was built about 1742, and is a 1+12-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.[2]

Old Town Plantation
Old Town Plantation is located in North Carolina
Old Town Plantation
Old Town Plantation is located in the United States
Old Town Plantation
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[1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 20, 1972; December 1, 1983

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, and relisted in 1983.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "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.