Mills-Screven Plantation
Mills-Screven Plantation | |
35°13′20″N 82°15′4″W / 35.22222°N 82.25111°W / 35.22222; -82.25111 | |
Area | 11.1 acres (4.5 ha) |
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Built | c. 1820 (1820)-1840 |
Architectural style | Greek Revival, Federal |
NRHP reference No. | 83001904[1] |
Added to NRHP | February 17, 1983 |
Mills-Screven Plantation, also known as Hilltop, is a historic plantation house located near Tryon, Polk County, North Carolina. The main house was built about 1820 and later expanded into the 1840s, and is a long two-story, seven-bay, Federal / Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It features a two-tier, three-bay, pedimented Ionic order portico. Also on the property are the contributing stone springhouse, guesthouse part of which is said to have been a slave cabin, double pen log crib, and a larger 20th century frame barn.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]
The original owners were slaveholders ohn McIntire and Govan Mills (1805-1862).[3][4]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Michael T. Southern; Janet Hutchison & Joe Mobley (April 1981). "Mills-Screven Plantation" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
- ^ Mazzochi, Jay (2006). "Polk County, North Carolina". NCPedia.
- ^ "Plantations of North Carolina". NCGenWeb.
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