Midway Plantation House and Outbuildings
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Midway Plantation House and Outbuildings
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Midway Plantation House viewed from the southwest
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| Location | 1625 Old Crews Road, Knightdale, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°49′24.60″N 78°29′39.25″W / 35.8235000°N 78.4942361°WCoordinates: 35°49′24.60″N 78°29′39.25″W / 35.8235000°N 78.4942361°W |
| Built | 1848 |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| MPS | Wake County MPS |
| NRHP reference # | 07000543 |
| Added to NRHP | January 6, 1987 |
The Midway Plantation House and Outbuildings were constructed in the mid 19th century about 0.75 miles (1.21 km) west of present-day Knightdale, Wake County, North Carolina, along the wagon trail that would eventually become U.S. Route 64,
The two-story plantation house was built in 1848 by Charles Lewis Hinton as a wedding gift for his son, David, and daughter-in-law, Mary Boddie Carr, and was named for its relative position halfway between Beaver Dam and The Oaks, two other Hinton family properties.
Other structures on the site included a carriage house, kitchen, smokehouse, potato house, well house, ice house, cotton gin, loom house, doll house, office, school, two stables, and several slave quarters. Of these, only the kitchen, school, office, and carriage and doll houses remain. In June 2005, the house and surviving outbuildings were moved approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) north of their original location to make way for a large shopping center. The move and Hinton family history are documented by Hinton descendant and noted film critic Godfrey Cheshire III in Moving Midway (2007).
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
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