| Rose Hill | |
| Location: | N of Nashville off NC 58, near Nashville, North Carolina |
| Coordinates: | 36.0011°N -78.0253°W |
| Architecture: | Late Victorian, Influence |
| Added: | April 28, 1982 |
| Refnum: | 82003492 |
Rose Hill is a historic plantation house located near Nashville, Nash County, North Carolina. It consists of a late-18th or early-19th century dwelling with a Victorian addition. The earlier section comprises the -story, rear wing. The Victorian section is a basically square two-story structure, three bays wide, topped by a gable roof. The front facade features an early-20th century, two-story portico with fluted Doric order columns.[1]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
Rose Hill was given in a land grant from George III to the Boddie family in 1762.[2] Nathan Boddie, one of the founders of Nash County, built a manor house on the land for his son, George Boddie, in the late 18th-century.[3] George Boddie owned the property between 1797 and 1842.[3] He left the plantation and 50 enslaved people under the direction of his second wife, Lucy Williams, until his son, Nicholas William Boddie, was of age.[3] Nicholas was likely responsible for the large Victorian additions to the manor house.[3]
The plantation consisted of the manor house, a 9,400 acre-farm, and a mill.[4] In 1790, Nathan and George Boddie enslaved forty-five people on the plantation.[3] In 1840, George Boddie enslaved eighty-two people at Rose Hill.[3] In 1860, Nicholas William Boddie enslaved twenty-seven people.[3]
Rose Hill now operates as a wedding venue and 830-acre working cattle farm, still owned by the Boddie family.[2]