The Midway Plantation House and Outbuildings are a set of historic buildings constructed in the mid-19th century in present-day Knightdale, Wake County, North Carolina, as part of a forced-labor farm.
Midway Plantation House and Outbuildings | |
 Midway Plantation House viewed from the southwest | |
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| Location | 1625 Old Crews Road, Knightdale, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°49′24.60″N 78°29′39.25″W / 35.8235000°N 78.4942361°W |
| Built | 1848 |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| MPS | Wake County MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 07000543 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | January 6, 1987 |
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
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Silver, Charles Hinton. "Midway Plantation". Retrieved 1 May 2014.
- ^ "Hinton, Charles Lewis | NCpedia". www.ncpedia.org. Retrieved 2020-10-06.
- ^ Baumbach, George. "History of the Hinton Plantations, Knightdale, NC". Retrieved 1 May 2014.
- ^ Schulz, W. "The Plantation Houses that made up the early Knightdale area" (PDF). Knightdale Historical Society. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
- ^ 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. Retrieved 2015-05-01.
- ^ Roger Ebert (October 15, 2008). "Moving Midway Movie Review & Film Summary (2008)". Retrieved November 19, 2016.
- ^ "About Moving Midway - A Documentary by Godfrey Cheshire". Retrieved November 19, 2016.
