High Rock Farm
High Rock Farm | |
36°15′36″N 79°34′0″W / 36.26000°N 79.56667°W / 36.26000; -79.56667 | |
Area | 9 acres (3.6 ha) |
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Built | early 1800s |
Architectural style | Federal |
NRHP reference No. | 74001373[1] |
Added to NRHP | April 26, 1974 |
High Rock Farm is a historic plantation house located in Rockingham County, North Carolina. It dates to the early-19th century, and is a two-story, central hall plan, Federal style brick dwelling with a rear ell. It sits on a full basement and has a hipped roof. The front facade features a pedimented portico supported by two stuccoed columns and with a gallery at the second level.[2]
Nathaniel Scales, who had also owned Deep Springs Plantation and Mulberry Island Plantation, left High Rock to his daughter, Mary Scales McCain after his death in 1824.[3] Mary Scales was married to the great-great-great grandfather of U.S. Senator John McCain.[4]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Survey and Planning Unit Staff (October 1973). "High Rock Farm" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-08. Retrieved 2016-01-31.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Mary Burritt (16 October 2016). "Rockingham County historian Bob Carter combines discretion, scholarship". Greensboro News and Record. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
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