Perciphull Campbell House, Historic house in Union Grove, Iredell County, North Carolina, United States
The Perciphull Campbell House is a two-story timber-frame residence in Union Grove built around 1820 with a pitched roof and stone foundation. The structure showcases exterior brick chimneys and interior fireplaces decorated in Georgian and Federal styles typical of early 1800s construction.
Perciphull Campbell began buying land along Hunting Creek in the mid-1790s, and by 1815 he was one of four commissioners appointed to lay off Williamsburg. The house was probably built in the 1810s or 1820s for him, his wife Sarah Elizabeth Cook and their eight children. A grist mill on the creek, run by John Campbell by 1800 and by Perciphull Campbell Jr. in 1850 and 1860, stayed in operation as Campbell's Mill until at least 1917 and stood until the 1930s.
Perciphull Campbell and his wife Sarah raised eight children in the house. The interior walls are flush sheathed, and a partially enclosed stairway winds from the right-hand ground-floor room to the single large upper room, whose floor is covered with hand-planed, random-width boards. The two ground-floor fireplaces have segmentally arched fireboxes, side pilasters and paneled friezes.
The property preserves several outbuildings including a smokehouse, stone well, and corn storage structure that together show how a working farm operated in this era. These surviving buildings help visitors understand the daily functions of a household and its surrounding agricultural activities.
Hunting Creek nearby was home to a tub mill operated by John Campbell in the early 1800s, processing local grain and materials for the region. This small mill linked the household to early industrial work and the water power that drove local commerce.
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