Deep Springs Plantation is a

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Stoneville, North Carolina Stoneville is a town in Rockingham County, North Carolina, United States. Stoneville is part of the Greensboro–High Point metropolitan area of the Piedmont Triad. History Settlers came to the ridge between the Mayo and Dan rivers in the northw ...

. The farmland was later sold off to create the Deep Springs Country Club, a golf club and residential neighborhood, but the original house still exists as a private residence.

History

In 1824, land along the

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was left to James Madison Scales after his father, Nathaniel Scales, died. In November 1825, Scales married Elizabeth Lesuer at Lennox Castle and they later settled on the land along the river. The plantation is named after a deep spring on the property that supplied water to the house.http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/rockingham/history/other/dan1.txt In 1846, an apatite meteorite weighing approximately twenty-five pounds fell near the house, and is now on display at the

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. The mansion was constructed between 1827 and 1830, in time for the couple's second child, Nathaniel, to be born in the house. Scales' siblings owned other plantations in

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including his brother

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Mulberry Island Plantation Mulberry Island, also known as the Penn Farm, is a historic plantation house in Stoneville, North Carolina near the Dan River. The home was once the seat of the Scales family and the Settle family, two prominent North Carolinian political dynast ...

and his sister Mary Scales McCain at

High Rock Farm High Rock Farm is a historic plantation house located in Rockingham County, North Carolina. It dates to the early-19th century, and is a two-story, central hall plan, Federal style brick dwelling with a rear ell. It sits on a full basement and h ...

. In 1880 the plantation was sold to John M. Lindsay. The house was later sold to the Armfield family. In 1969 the plantation was sold and the land was turned into a private country club, Deep Springs Country Club. The house was bought in 2003 by the Byerly family and is maintained as a private residence.

References

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