White Oak Plantation, Historic plantation house near Charlotte, United States
White Oak Plantation is a two-story brick residence listed on the National Register of Historic Places, located in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, east of Charlotte. The house features a gabled porch that runs across the full front of the building and sits on a large parcel of land in the Catawba River Valley.
William Johnston, who fought at the Battle of Kings Mountain, acquired the land from John Wiley and established the plantation in 1784. The property was built in the years just after the American Revolution, when settlers were beginning to put down permanent roots in this part of the Carolinas.
The Federal Style of the building reflects the tastes of the Scotch-Irish families who settled this part of North Carolina and built with brick to show their standing. The two-story structure with its gabled front porch was a way of saying, in architectural terms, that the owner had arrived.
The property is located east of Charlotte along State Road 2826 and is best reached by car, as the area has no public transit options nearby. Visiting during daylight hours gives you the best view of the brick exterior and the front porch details.
The house was originally built with a Quaker-style floor plan, where rooms were accessed directly without a central hallway. At some point the layout was changed to a center hall plan, which means the interior you see today is not the one Johnston first walked through.
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