Sloop Point Explained

Sloop Point
Location:Intersection of Family Lane and SR 1561 (Sloop Point Road), near Vista, North Carolina
Coordinates:34.4161°N -77.5986°W
Built:c. 1729
Builder:Ashe, John Baptista
Added:January 20, 1972
Refnum:72000985

Sloop Point Plantation is a historic house located at Sloop Point, Pender County, North Carolina. It was built in 1729 according to dendrochronological dating and is possibly the oldest surviving framed building in the state of North Carolina. The house was built as a home for John Baptista Ashe and his wife Elizabeth Swann Ashe.[1] [2] [3] [4]

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

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Notes and References

  1. http://moreswansborohistory.blogspot.com/2011/04/samuel-swann-connection-to-sloop-point.html Samuel Swann Connection to Sloop Point Plantation
  2. http://www.onhgs.org/courier/CC-Vol07-3.pdf Clarendon Courier, Fall 1995, Volume 7, No. 3
  3. Web site: Sloop Point Plantation. NCPedia. Tetterton, Beverly. 2006.
  4. Web site: John B. Wells, III. Sloop Point. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . July 1971 . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2015-02-01.

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