Sloop Point Plantation is a historic house located at Sloop Point, Pender County, North Carolina. It was built in 1729 according to dendrochronological dating and is possibly the oldest surviving framed building in the state of North Carolina. The house was built as a home for John Baptista Ashe and his wife Elizabeth Swann Ashe.[2][3][4][5]
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| Location | Intersection of Family Lane and SR 1561 (Sloop Point Road), near Vista, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 34°24′58″N 77°35′55″W / 34.41611°N 77.59861°W |
| Area | 4 acres (1.6 ha) |
| Built | c. 1729 |
| Built by | Ashe, John Baptista |
| NRHP reference No. | 72000985[1] |
| Added to NRHP | January 20, 1972 |
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Samuel Swann Connection to Sloop Point Plantation
- ^ Clarendon Courier, Fall 1995, Volume 7, No. 3
- ^ Tetterton, Beverly (2006). "Sloop Point Plantation". NCPedia.
- ^ John B. Wells, III (July 1971). "Sloop Point" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
External links
edit- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. NC-219, "Sloop Point Plantation, U.S. Route 17, Holly Ridge Vicinity, Topsail Beach, Pender County, NC", 12 measured drawings