Midway Plantation House and Outbuildings

Midway Plantation House and Outbuildings
Midway Plantation House viewed from the southwest
Midway Plantation House and Outbuildings is located in North Carolina
Midway Plantation House and Outbuildings
Location within North Carolina
Midway Plantation House and Outbuildings is located in the United States
Midway Plantation House and Outbuildings
Location within the United States
Location1625 Old Crews Road, Knightdale, North Carolina
Coordinates35°49′24.60″N 78°29′39.25″W / 35.8235000°N 78.4942361°W / 35.8235000; -78.4942361
Built1848
Architectural styleGreek Revival
MPSWake County MPS
NRHP reference No.07000543 [1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 6, 1987

The Midway Plantation House and Outbuildings are a set of historic buildings constructed in the mid-19th century in present-day Knightdale, North Carolina, as part of a forced-labor farm.

The two-story plantation house was built in 1848 about 0.75 miles (1.21 km) west of present-day Knightdale, along the wagon trail that would eventually become U.S. Route 64.[2] It was built by Charles Lewis Hinton, a farmer, slaver owner, and state treasurer,[3] as a wedding gift for his son, David, and daughter-in-law, Mary Boddie Carr (sister of Governor Elias Carr).[4] David and Mary's daughter, the anti-suffragist Mary Hilliard Hinton, was born here. It was named for its position halfway between two other Hinton family properties: Beaver Dam and The Oaks.[5]

Other structures on the site included a carriage house, kitchen, smokehouse, potato house, well house, ice house, cotton gin, loom house, doll house, office, school, two stables, and several slave quarters. Of these, only the kitchen, school, office, and carriage and doll houses remain.

In June 2005, the house and surviving outbuildings were moved about 2 miles (3.2 km) north to make way for a large shopping center.[6] The move and Hinton family history are documented by Hinton descendant and film critic Godfrey Cheshire in Moving Midway (2007).[7][8]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ↑ Silver, Charles Hinton. "Midway Plantation". Archived from the original on April 21, 2012. Retrieved May 1, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Hinton, Charles Lewis | NCpedia". www.ncpedia.org. Archived from the original on October 24, 2023. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
  4. ↑ Baumbach, George. "History of the Hinton Plantations, Knightdale, NC". Archived from the original on May 2, 2014. Retrieved May 1, 2014.
  5. ↑ Schulz, W. "The Plantation Houses that made up the early Knightdale area" (PDF). Knightdale Historical Society. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 24, 2023. Retrieved May 1, 2014.
  6. ↑ Cynthia de Miranda (December 2006). "Midway Plantation House and Outbuildings" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 8, 2019. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
  7. ↑ Roger Ebert (October 15, 2008). "Moving Midway Movie Review & Film Summary (2008)". Archived from the original on November 19, 2016. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
  8. ↑ "About Moving Midway - A Documentary by Godfrey Cheshire". Archived from the original on September 26, 2016. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
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