Henderson is a city and the county seat of Vance County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 15,060 at the 2020 census.
Mount Mourne Plantation is a former Southern plantation and historic house located in Mount Mourne, Iredell County, North Carolina. It was built in 1836, and is a two-story, five-bay transitional Federal / Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It features a hipped roof entrance portico with four fluted Tuscan order columns.
Melrose, also known as the Williamson House, is a historic plantation house located near Yanceyville, Caswell County, North Carolina. It consists of two two-story, frame blocks connected by a 1+1⁄2-story breezeway. The original section dated to about 1780 and is a two-story, frame single pile block with Federal style details. The later section was built about 1840, and is a two-story, frame single pile block with Greek Revival style details. The later section features a portico supported by four unfluted Doric order columns. Also on the property is an octagonal, Williamsburg-style pump house with a conical roof.
Athol, also known as Benbury Hall and Joshua Skinner House, is a historic plantation house located near Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina. It was built about 1857, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, five bay, "T"-shaped Greek Revival style frame dwelling. The rear section of the house features two-tier porches on either side. The front facade features a full-length two-tiered porch supported by Roman Ionic order columns.
Sandy Point is a historic plantation house located near Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina. It was built about 1810 and later expanded. It is a 2 1/2-story, five bay, Federal / Greek Revival style frame dwelling with a center hall plan. The front facade features a two-tiered full-length porch and the house has two exterior end chimneys at each side.
Sally-Billy House is a historic plantation house located at Halifax, Halifax County, North Carolina. It was built about 1804, and consists of a two-story, one bay, pedimented central block flanked by two-bay one-story wings. The frame dwelling is sheathed in weatherboard. The house was moved to its present location in December 1974.
The Gen. Joseph Arrington House is a historic plantation house located near Hilliardston, Nash County, North Carolina.
Belvidere, also known as the Exum Newby House and Lamb House, is a historic plantation house located at Belvidere, Perquimans County, North Carolina. It was built about 1767, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, five bay, frame dwelling with an unusual hip on gambrel roof. The Georgian style dwelling is sheathed in weatherboard and rests on a brick pier foundation. In the mid-1970s, Belvidere was sold to radio personality Wolfman Jack.
Cove Grove is a historic plantation house located near Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina. It was built about 1830, and is a two-story, five bay, transitional Federal / Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It has a gable roof and features front and rear full-height porticoes supported by Ionic order columns.
Sutton-Newby House is a historic plantation house located near Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina. It was built about 1745, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, four-bay, frame dwelling with a brick end and gable roof. It originally had both ends in brick. It features a full-width, shed roofed front porch and massive double-shouldered chimney. It is a member of the small group of 18th century frame houses with brick ends in northeast North Carolina; the group includes the Myers-White House and the Old Brick House.
Stockton is a historic plantation house located near Woodville, Perquimans County, North Carolina. It was built in 1840, by Josiah T. Granbery and consists of a two-story, three-bay, temple form central section flanked by one-story wings. The Greek Revival style frame house has gable roofs on each section and a prostyle tetrastyle Doric order portico on the front of the central section. It was the boyhood home of Robert W. Welch Jr. (1899-1930). The house and 500 acres was then sold to Alvie Cook in 1935 who owned it until his death in 1970. Alvie and Mabel Cook raised five daughters in the home: Marguerite, Sue, Peggy, Grace, and Mabel Louise. After Alvie's death, Mabel Cook, sold it in 1972 to Eugene and Ellen Rountree. In 1992 Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina holds Protective Covenants and the house is sold to Terry L. and LuAnn H. Cobbs who own Stockton to this day.
Waverly Plantation is a historic plantation house located near Cunningham, Person County, North Carolina. It was built about 1830, and is a Late Federal style frame dwelling consisting of a two-story, three bay by two bay main section, with an attached 1 1/2-story, one bay by two bay section. Both sections rest on brick foundations, are sheathed in weatherboard, and have gable roofs.
Green River Plantation is a historic plantation house on over 360 acres located near Columbus, Polk County, North Carolina. The oldest section of the "Big House" was built between the years 1804–1807, and is a two-story, four-bay, Late Federal style frame dwelling. A later two-story, four-bay, brick Greek Revival style dwelling was built beside the original structure in the mid-19th century. The two sections were joined in the late 19th century by a two-story section and grand staircase to form a structure that is over 10,000 square feet in size and boasts over 42 rooms and spaces. The plantation house was built by Joseph McDowell Carson, son of Col. John Carson, who built Carson House at Marion, North Carolina. The later-built section of the home was the residence of Samuel Price Carson, North Carolina State Senator and U.S. Federal Representative, and younger brother of Joseph McDowell Carson.
Seven Hearths is a historic plantation house located near Tryon, Polk County, North Carolina. It was built about 1800 for Marvel (Marville) Mills - assumed built by his father Major William Mills, and is a two-story, five bay, Federal style frame dwelling. It has exterior gable end double shouldered chimneys and flanking one bay wide, one bay deep projections.
Burnside Plantation House is a historic plantation house located near Williamsboro, Vance County, North Carolina. It was built about 1800 and remodeled before 1824. It is a two-story, five bay, Federal style frame dwelling. It is sheathed weatherboard and a gable roof. Each gable end has a pair of brick chimneys with stepped weatherings. The property includes a smokehouse dated to about 1760. During the American Civil War, it was the residence of Thomas Hardy, whose daughter Pinckney Hardy, became the mother of General Douglas MacArthur.
Pool Rock Plantation is a historic plantation house located near Williamsboro, Vance County, North Carolina. It consists of two, two-story sections. The older was built in 1757 by James Mitchell, an immigrant from Lunenburg County, Virginia. His daughter, Amy Mitchell, married Michael Satterwhite in the house in 1759. It is a two-story, three-bay, Federal style frame structure. It forms the rear section. About 1855, a more ornate two-story, three-bay, Italianate style frame structure attributed to Jacob W. Holt (1811-1880). The later section has a shallow hipped roof and overhanging eaves. The two sections are joined by a two-story hallway linker. Also on the property is a contributing one-story, hip roof office building.
Ashburn Hall, also known as the Capehart House, is a historic plantation house located near Kittrell, Vance County, North Carolina. It was built in the 1840s or early 1850s, and is a two‑story, three‑bay, T‑shaped frame dwelling in a restrained Greek Revival style. It features a broad, one‑story pedimented entrance portico, with four spaced, paired fluted Tuscan order columns.
Elgin is a historic plantation house located near Warrenton, Warren County, North Carolina. It was built about 1835, and is a two-story, three-bay, Federal style temple-form frame dwelling. It has a gable roof, pedimented front porch, and flanking porches. At the rear is an earlier 1+1⁄2-story frame dwelling with a gable roof. The front facade features a Palladian entrance with sidelights and Tuscan colonnettes. The house is similar in style to Dalkeith.
Little Manor, also known as Mosby Hall, is a historic plantation house located in Warren County, North Carolina near the town of Littleton. It was built about 1804, and is a Federal style frame dwelling consisting of a two-story, five-bay, pedimented main block flanked by one-story wings. It has a pedimented center bay front porch with Doric order pilasters and an older two-story rear wing, dated to about 1780.
Williamsboro or Williamsborough is an unincorporated community in Vance County, North Carolina, United States. It was established in about 1755 as Williamsborough in Granville County in the Province of North Carolina. It became part of Vance County in 1881 when Vance County was founded. Williamsboro is located in Williamsboro Township, which is an administrative division of Vance County.
