Mount Mourne Plantation, human settlement in North Carolina, United States of America
Mount Mourne Plantation is a two-story house built in 1836 in North Carolina that blends Federal and Greek Revival styles, marked by five sections across the front with a sloped roof and entrance porch. The building features four Tuscan columns and sits on roughly 3.6 hectares of land near North Carolina Highway 115.
The house was built in 1836 by Major Rufus Reid, who made it one of the largest plantations in the area and the second largest in Iredell County. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, recognizing its historical importance to the region.
Mount Mourne Plantation takes its name from this historic house and the surrounding community. The site shows how life functioned on large estates in early American history and what role such plantations played in shaping the local region.
The house is now private and not open to visitors, though it remains of interest for exterior viewing and local history walks. Its location near North Carolina Highway 115 makes the site easy to find, even though internal tours are not available.
Under Major Rufus Reid, the plantation was one of the largest in the region and employed nearly 90 workers in fields growing cotton, wheat, and corn. This scale highlights the vast extent of the estate and its economic importance in local history during the early 1800s.
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