Brookland (Grassy Creek, North Carolina) Explained

Brookland
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Location:NC 1443, near Grassy Creek, North Carolina
Coordinates:36.5175°N -78.5756°W
Architecture:Georgian, Federal
Added:April 28, 1988
Refnum:88000412

Brookland is a historic tobacco plantation complex and national historic district located near Grassy Creek, Granville County, North Carolina. The plantation house was built about 1817, and is a two-story, four-bay, heavy timber frame Georgian / Federal style dwelling. It has a gable roof, hall-and-parlor plan, and cut stone exterior end chimneys. Also on the property are the contributing kitchen, smokehouse, schoolhouse, three log tobacco barns, log striphouse, log stable, hay barn, chicken house, and a frame smokehouse.[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Marvin A. Brown and Patricia Esperon . Brookland . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . August 1987. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-11-01.