Poplar Grove (Scotts Hill, North Carolina)

	Poplar Grove Plantation
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	10200 US Highway 17 North, Wilmington, North Carolina 28429
Coordinates	34°19′13″N 77°45′55″W / 34.32028°N 77.76528°W
Area	14.2 acres (5.7 ha)
Built	c. 1850
Built by	The enslaved of Joseph M. Foy
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	79003346
Added to NRHP	July 16, 1979

Poplar Grove Plantation is a peanut plantation by the Topsail sound in Scotts Hill near Wilmington in Pender County, North Carolina. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in North Carolina on July 16, 1979.^[1]

History

The plantation was originally owned by the widow of Cornelius Harnett.^[2] Later, the property, which once included Figure Eight Island, became the home of the Foy family, an American family of French Huguenot descent, from 1795 until 1971. The original plantation house was destroyed in a fire. The current house, a 12-room Greek Revival-style mansion, was built in the early 1850s by Joseph Mumford Foy.^[3] It was mistakenly referenced as being owned by Nicholas Nixon.^[4]

The Plantation is now under the care of Poplar Grove Foundation, Inc. Poplar Grove opened as a museum to the public in 1980.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Our State website
^ Renee Gledhill-Earley and Joe Mobley (May 1979). "Poplar Grove" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved February 1, 2015.
^ Gould IV, William B. (2002). Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor (paperback ed.). Stanford University Press. p. 42. ISBN 0-8047-4708-3.
^ Poplar Grove Foundation website

External links

Poplar Grove - official site

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[2] Our State website

[nrhpinv-3] Renee Gledhill-Earley and Joe Mobley (May 1979). "Poplar Grove" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved February 1, 2015.

[4] Gould IV, William B. (2002). Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor (paperback ed.). Stanford University Press. p. 42. ISBN 0-8047-4708-3.

[5] Poplar Grove Foundation website

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