North Carolina

North Carolina Church Founded Before The Civil War

This church was built in 1853 and is all that is left of a once-expansive plantation.

[Halifax County, NC]

The first portion of this plantation home was built in 1810 and expanded in 1850.

[Edgecombe County, NC]

Rev. James O’Kelly, a noted abolitionist, started a congregation here in 1794.

[Chatham County, NC]

This home has seen better days. Check out the post to see what it looked like back then!

[Alleghany County, NC c. 1890s]

This old schoolhouse rests peacefully in a pasture.

[Pender County, NC]

This old store at a sleepy rural crossroads was visited by Dorothea Lange in 1939.

[Orange County, NC]

This plantation home was built in 1823 for Henry Hill Thorne and his bride, Elizabeth Alston Williams.

[Halifax County, NC]

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