Beaver Dam is an antebellum plantation house located on the northern edge of present-day Knightdale, Wake County, North Carolina. The house was built around 1810 by Col. William Hinton, brother of Charles Lewis Hinton who built the nearby Midway Plantation.[2] At its height, the Beaver Dam plantation encompassed around 4,000 acres (1,600 ha) tended by the forced labor of about 50 enslaved people.[3][4]
Beaver Dam | |
 Beaver Dam viewed from the southeast | |
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| Location | 7081 Forestville Road, Knightdale, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°48′32.6″N 78°29′06.8″W / 35.809056°N 78.485222°W |
| Built | c. 1810 |
| Architectural style | Federal |
| MPS | Wake County MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 86003529 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | January 6, 1987 |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.[1]
In 2005, the house was purchased by Hinton Land, LLC and underwent a 6-month restoration by Lambeth Restoration, HagerSmith Architects, Williams Realty and Building Company, John Stein Painting, Western Cedar Supply, and others.
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edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Silver, Charles Hinton. "Midway Plantation". Retrieved 29 September 2012.
- ^ Schulz, W. "The Plantation Houses that made up the early Knightdale area" (PDF). Knightdale Historical Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 May 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
- ^ Virginia Oswald and Jerry L. Cross (September 1986). "Beaver Dam" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-05-01.