Mills-Screven Plantation Explained

Mills-Screven Plantation
Location:NE of Tryon on SR 1509, Tryon, North Carolina
Coordinates:35.2222°N -82.2511°W
Built:c. -1840
Architecture:Greek Revival, Federal
Added:February 17, 1983
Refnum:83001904

Mills-Screven Plantation, also known as Hilltop, is a historic plantation house located near Tryon, Polk County, North Carolina. The main house was built about 1820 and later expanded into the 1840s, and is a long two-story, seven-bay, Federal / Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It features a two-tier, three-bay, pedimented Ionic order portico. Also on the property are the contributing stone springhouse, guesthouse part of which is said to have been a slave cabin, double pen log crib, and a larger 20th century frame barn.[1]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

The original owners were slaveholders ohn McIntire and Govan Mills (1805-1862).[2] [3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Michael T. Southern . Janet Hutchison . Joe Mobley . amp . Mills-Screven Plantation. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . April 1981. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2015-02-01.
  2. Web site: NCPedia. Polk County, North Carolina. Mazzochi, Jay. 2006.
  3. Web site: Plantations of North Carolina. NCGenWeb.