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James Newsome House, also known as Wynnewood, is a historic
plantation house A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as a symbol for the plantation as a whole. Plantation houses in the Southern United States and in other areas are known as quite grand and e ...
located near Ahoskie,
Hertford County, North Carolina Hertford County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 21,552. Its county seat is Winton. It is classified within the region known in the 21st century as the Inner Banks. History H ...
. It was built in the 1820s or 1830s, and is a two-story, three bay
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style frame dwelling. It has a gable roof, beaded siding, and brick chimneys with free-standing stacks at the gable ends. Also on the property are the contributing slave cabin,
smokehouse A smokehouse (North American) or smokery (British) is a building where meat or fish is cured with smoke Smoke is a suspension of airborne particulates and gases emitted when a material undergoes combustion or pyrolysis, together with t ...
, large barn, and plantation office. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1984.


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Plantation houses in North Carolina Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Federal architecture in North Carolina Houses in Hertford County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Hertford County, North Carolina Slave cabins and quarters in the United States {{HertfordCountyNC-NRHP-stub