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Mount Vernon (Woodleaf, North Carolina)

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Built
  
c. 1822 (1822)

Area
  
12 ha

Added to NRHP
  
27 May 1980

NRHP Reference #
  
80002899

Architectural style
  
Federal architecture

Mount Vernon (Woodleaf, North Carolina)

Location
  
SR 1003 and SR 1986, near Woodleaf, North Carolina

Mount Vernon is a historic plantation house, farm complex, and national historic district located near Woodleaf, Rowan County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1822, and is a two-story, three bay, Federal style frame dwelling. It is sheathed in weatherboard and has a full-width, one-story shed roofed porch. The house was designated a post office in 1822. Also on the property are the contributing log smokehouse, large barn (c. 1898), "lighthouse" or Delco house (c. 1917), corn crib (c. 1917), gear house (c. 1917), woodhouse (c. 1917), spring house, mill site, shop, and plantation office.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

References

Mount Vernon (Woodleaf, North Carolina) Wikipedia