Hart House

This house was originally one of the slave quarters on the Stagville plantation.  After emancipation the Hart family, a formerly enslaved family, sharecropped here until 1957.  They lived in and renovated the house.

 

Fall holds on

Fall might start slow in North Carolina, but it lasts a long time.

 

Horton Grove

These three buildings were home to enslaved workers on the Stagville plantation.  Each building housed 4 families with as many as 26 people in all.  The buildings were occupied until the 1970's as many of those enslaved on the plantation continued to live there and work as sharecroppers.  (see here)

 

Bennehan Cemetery

This cemetery is a short walk from the house on the Stagville plantation.  It is very small and was reserved for the family only.  Enslaved workers were buried elsewhere.

 

The great barn

This barn is BIG.  It was built by enslaved workers for the Stagville plantation in 1860.  It was one of the largest agricultural buildings in the South.  

It takes a lot of tobacco to fill a barn this size.

 

Stagville Plantation

The Stagville plantation is an historical site in Durham, NC.  It was the home of the Bennehan/Cameron family.  This house, the Bennehan house was built between 1787 and 1799.  It was the home of the family until 1847 when they built a much larger, grander mansion nearby.

The Cameron family was one of the richest slaveholders in the South.  By 1860 Paul Cameron owned 30,000 acres in North Carolina, Mississippi and Alabama, and enslaved 1000 people.

The historical site sheds light on the lives of the enslaved workers on the plantation.

 

Lonely

This cormorant seemed to be contemplating his lonely life.

(or looking for fish)