Richard Mendenhall Plantation Buildings, Plantation buildings in Jamestown, North Carolina.
The Richard Mendenhall property is a collection of seven buildings from the early 1800s located in Jamestown. These include a two-story brick residence with covered porches on three sides and a barn constructed in the Pennsylvania German style.
The brick farmhouse was built in 1811 in a plain Quaker style, with a porch on three sides and later additions to the west and rear. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 and lies within the Jamestown Historic District.
The farmhouse follows plain Quaker design, and the grounds hold a one-room schoolhouse, a museum and Thy Store. The property also keeps a wagon with a false bottom, linked in the site's own presentation to the Underground Railroad. The buildings stand within the Jamestown Historic District.
The site is open for tours as Mendenhall Homeplace and sits within the Jamestown Historic District, so the surrounding streets can be combined with a visit. The grounds hold the 1811 brick farmhouse, a Pennsylvania German-type Red Bank Barn, a one-room schoolhouse, Dr. Madison Lindsay's House, a museum, Thy Store and a well house.
The property keeps a wagon with a false bottom, listed among the site's buildings as the Underground Railroad False Bottom Wagon. Visitors can also see the house of Dr. Madison Lindsay, one of the structures preserved alongside the 1811 farmhouse and the Red Bank Barn.
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