Potts Plantation

Historic farm in North Carolina, United States

United States historic place


Potts Plantation
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district


35°28′45″N 80°50′13″W / 35.47917°N 80.83694°W / 35.47917; -80.83694
Area	510.7 acres (206.7 ha)
Built	1753 (1753), 1811
Built by	McGee, Jack
Architectural style	Federal, Late Victorian, Colonial Revival
MPS	Rural Mecklenburg County MPS
NRHP reference No.	97001561^[1]
Added to NRHP	January 5, 1998

Potts Plantation is a historic plantation complex and national historic district located near Cornelius, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 11 contributing buildings, 12 contributing sites, and 4 contributing structures in rural Mecklenburg County. The plantation seat was built in 1811, and consists of a two-story, three-bay, weatherboarded log house on a low brick foundation with flanking one-story wings added in 1947. The house has Federal, Late Victorian, and Colonial Revival style design elements. Associated with the plantation seat are the contributing smokehouse (c. 1811 – 1820), dependency, poultry house (c. 1920 – 1940), double-pen log barn work area, and corn crib (c. 1900 – 1920). Other notable contributing resources are the Slave Cemetery, five tenant complexes, the Smith Cottage Complex (c. 1891 – 1961), Smith Cottage (c. 1891), and Potts Cemetery (1946). The Potts Plantation has been the property of the Potts family since 1753.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Davvd Foard Hood (April 1997). "Potts Plantation" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved February 1, 2015.