Potts Plantation

Potts Plantation
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
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Location	South of Davidson and southwest of Cornelius, between NC 2693 and NC 115, near Cornelius, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°28′45″N 80°50′13″W
Area	510.7 acres (206.7 ha)
Built	1753 (1753), 1811
Built by	McGee, Jack
Architectural style	Federal, Late Victorian, Colonial Revival
MPS	Rural Mecklenburg County MPS
NRHP reference No.	97001561[1]
Added to NRHP	January 5, 1998

Potts Plantation is a historic plantation complex and national historic district located near Cornelius, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 11 contributing buildings, 12 contributing sites, and 4 contributing structures in rural Mecklenburg County. The plantation seat was built in 1811, and consists of a two-story, three-bay, weatherboarded log house on a low brick foundation with flanking one-story wings added in 1947. The house has Federal, Late Victorian, and Colonial Revival style design elements. Associated with the plantation seat are the contributing smokehouse (c. 1811 – 1820), dependency, poultry house (c. 1920 – 1940), double-pen log barn work area, and corn crib (c. 1900 – 1920). Other notable contributing resources are the Slave Cemetery, five tenant complexes, the Smith Cottage Complex (c. 1891 – 1961), Smith Cottage (c. 1891), and Potts Cemetery (1946). The Potts Plantation has been the property of the Potts family since 1753.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.^[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Davvd Foard Hood (April 1997). "Potts Plantation" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved February 1, 2015.