Poplar Grove Plantation is a

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plantation A plantation is an agricultural estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops, usually mainly planted with a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. The ...

by the Topsail sound in Scotts Hill near Wilmington in

Pender County, North Carolina Pender County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 60,203. Its county seat is Burgaw. Pender County is part of the Wilmington, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. History The county ...

. It was listed on the

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on July 16, 1979.

History

The plantation was originally owned by the widow of

Cornelius Harnett Cornelius Harnett (April 10, 1723 – April 28, 1781) was an American Founding Father, merchant, and politician from Wilmington, North Carolina. He was a leading American Revolutionary statesman in the Cape Fear region, and a delegate for North ...

. Later, the property, which once included

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, became the home of the Foy family, an American family of

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descent, from 1795 until 1971. The original

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was destroyed in a fire. The current house, a 12-room

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-style mansion, was built in the early 1850s by Joseph Mumford Foy. It was mistakenly referenced as being owned by Nicholas Nixon. The Plantation is now under the care of Poplar Grove Foundation, Inc. Poplar Grove opened as a museum to the public in 1980.Poplar Grove Foundation website
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References

External links

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