Walnut Grove (Tar Heel, North Carolina)

Walnut Grove
Location E of Tar Heel on NC 87, near Tar Heel, North Carolina
Coordinates 34°43′52″N 78°46′56″W / 34.73111°N 78.78222°W / 34.73111; -78.78222Coordinates: 34°43′52″N 78°46′56″W / 34.73111°N 78.78222°W / 34.73111; -78.78222
Area 20 acres (8.1 ha)
Built c. 1855 (1855)
Architectural style Greek Revival
NRHP Reference # 75001241[1]
Added to NRHP May 29, 1975

Walnut Grove, also known as Robeson Plantation, is a historic plantation house complex and national historic district located near Tar Heel, Bladen County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1855, and is a two-story, frame house, five bays wide and four bays deep, in the Greek Revival style. The front and rear facades feature three bay double porches. Also on the property are the contributing dining dependency, kitchen, dairy, smokehouse, barn, well, cold frame, and scalding vat.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Robert·Topkins and Ruth Little-Stokes (March 1975). "Walnut Grove" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.


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