Walnut Grove (Tar Heel, North Carolina) Explained

Walnut Grove
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Nocat:yes
Location:E of Tar Heel on NC 87, near Tar Heel, North Carolina
Coordinates:34.7311°N -78.7822°W
Built:c.
Architecture:Greek Revival
Added:May 29, 1975
Refnum:75001241

Walnut Grove, also known as Robeson Plantation, is a historic plantation house complex and national historic district located near Tar Heel, Bladen County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1855, and is a two-story, frame house, five bays wide and four bays deep, in the Greek Revival style. The front and rear facades feature three bay double porches. Also on the property are the contributing dining dependency, kitchen, dairy, smokehouse, barn, well, cold frame, and scalding vat.[1]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Robert·Topkins and Ruth Little-Stokes . Walnut Grove. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . March 1975. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-08-01.