Mount Vernon (Woodleaf, North Carolina)


Mount Vernon
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
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Location	SR 1003 and SR 1986, near Woodleaf, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°47′18″N 80°38′40″W / 35.78833°N 80.64444°W / 35.78833; -80.64444Coordinates: 35°47′18″N 80°38′40″W / 35.78833°N 80.64444°W / 35.78833; -80.64444
Area	29.5 acres (11.9 ha)
Built	c. 1822 (1822)
Architectural style	Federal
NRHP Reference #	80002899^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 27, 1980

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.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ C. Greer Suttlemyre; Davyd Foard Hood; Jim Sumner & John W. Clauser (February 1980). "Mount Vernon" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.

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