Abandoned 18th century NC plantation house 

It just looks sad, makes me sad these historic homes are left to rot. What there walls know...the people that once called it home, want to cry 😥

They sure don't build them like they used to. This is a gorgeous home!

Parts of our heritage left rotting away all over the country. I'm a southerner and of course these southern homes, big or small tug at my heart. I wish that instead of fighting about keeping the Rebel Battle flag and Confederate statues people would try and save our real heritage, houses like this. Thanks so much for documenting this home over the years. at least in this way it will survive.

It hurts my heart to see our history rotting like that. Im from North Carolina myself.

A very professionally made video. This still stately home that provided shelter, comfort, and security for nearly two centuries has been abandoned and forgotten; left to slowly crumble and die to time, the elements, and, unfortunately, eventually vandals. That's the real shame. The family of the homeowners should be ashamed.

Thankyou for making a record of this once fine house which is now sadly on its last legs.

What a well made & dignified old house. Super place. Thankyou for showing us.

Wow!!!! Such an incredible and beautiful place!! I loved the history! Thanks for going inside and showing the interior as well!! 👍😄

Poor thing. She looks like she's so tired and just wants to sit down.

Beautiful video. Well done. And thank you for not talking through the whole thing like so many RU-vidrs do.

These old homes were built with love unlike today's housing that I will not call a home,I wish I had the money to save all of them

Lovely home! Love the wide plank wood floors! If only this could be saved for another person to make their home.

You obviously love it, you should get and take care of this awesome piece of History 🤗

This was really well made and put together. brilliant video.

What an awesome old home I love to explore ❤️

Most North Carolina house from this period, even the higher end ones, often have a sense of simplicity to them.

Beautiful old place.

Where would you start in an effort to save this? The bones look pretty good, but oh that poor interior. I was extremely fortunate to live in a 110 year old house in NC for a time. it had at one point been a boarding school and 3 stories. At some point, they removed the 3rd story somehow and made it 2. The couple we purchased it from had done such beautiful work on it while still managing to preserve a lot of the original material. My kitchen was paneled with actual old barn siding and there was an area of brick in front of the kitchen sink that was from a factory torn down in a town close by. They had polyurathaned them and they protected the wood floor directly in front of the sink. 2 woodstoves downstairs in the living and dining room and 2 of the upstairs bedrooms still had the original fireplaces that were usable although we never did. The bathroom was as big as the smallest bedroom and had a claw foot tub. It was heaven. My husband and I both loved old houses and this was a dream come true. Sad to say when he passed, I wasn't able to keep it up and had to sell. I'll never forget it though. And when I see these abandoned beautiful places, it's just heartbreaking.

Great video Mark. Someone needs to save this place.

This needs to be restored. Historically. I wish i could view this a museum. The history behind it is invaluable and enlightening.

Very well done, when i look at your video, i can see there must have lots of tears, laughter,love, within those walls. I have subscribed. More please;)

Sad old house. Many of it's residents have lived and long since died, while it still stands.

Awesome video mate, great shots and footage 👍

If walls could talk the stories they would tell. ;)

I would purchase and restore if current owner would sell!!

when ever I see these videos I always think of what it must have been like for the Husband to proudly carry his bride through the door the very first time. Or their first Christmas :(

This video was fantastic, the House, no doubt was a diamond in its day and I have Great respect for people that make these videos because there will be a day these structures won’t be standing any longer, and true craftsmanship of them will be lost forever, thank you, Great video, also I subscribed

wouldn't is be great to have the money to restore these old homes to the way they were and save everything that could be saved

History is important to keep alive whether it be building or battles everything needs to preserved for future generations. We as humans are cruel and history needs to be retold to the point that its never ever repeated. Thanks for sharing history.

Love the drone footage! Truly breathtaking! 👍🏻

I saw tag in there but you went by it so fast I could not see the date or the state

Is it like 3 feet above ground because of flooding?

very unique floor plan

I used to drive pass an identical house every day in Virginia. It has now been raised.

Place like that has to have ghost.

Does anybody have info who may have lived there ????? Thanks for posting this. Really enjoyed it. Where is this located.

I use to do old home on sundays

where is it and is it or I should say, is the land it is sitting for sale?

Huh how did I miss this video I'm so sorry Mark. Good to see inside the building looks quite creepy. Amazing drone footage. Is this house on stilts?

WOW! That place is HUGE! The hurricanes that knock over the Carolinas are gods own chainsaw that is for sure...

Where did u find this one ?!

The room at 4:28 looks so familiar. Must've seen it in another video.

A guy by the name of Hans Grogen lived there from 1844 until 1948. He grew tobacco and cranberries of all things. He served in the confederate army under Gen Simon B Buckner during the Civil war. He was captured at New Creek WV a small skirmish that took place there. He was imprisoned in Chicago. He escaped that prison by broke his leg in several places.After the war, he tried to return to farming but his leg never healed right. In 1866 he married Mila Swarrigen, and when she gave birth in 1868 to what he believed was his brother's baby, he killed both Mila and his son, and hid the bodies in the attack of this house. Authorities did catch up with him a few days latter and came to arrest him, he shot himself in the head on the porch of this house. Mila Grogen and baby were buried on this property, with a small stone marker. I have been told the markers were swept away in a flood from 1985. So that's the history of it

You can see nobody has lived in that place for a long time. There are no really modern touches. Last modernisation here was probably electric light. But someone has cared enough to maintain a roof on it in relatively recent years.

someone should buy it and fix it up...I live in a home built in 1901..

beautiful & poignant

Where is that house

i too am in nc . what part are you from

Wow

My family and I lived in an old plantation house in N.C. back in the mid 70's near the swamps up north of the state near the state line to VA. My Dad was stationed in Norfolk, VA at the time. The man who owned it said it had been in his family for generations. At the time, the owner also had horse stables and grounds across the street from it that was used to train race horses. All of the land around the house and yard was all bean fields and on one side, the woods was across the field and on through there would be the swamp.

Do you know who the family was that owned this plantation?

I never understood why they made steps so steep back then

I just don't understand why so very many of these homes are left to just rot away. There is a huge market for parts and pieces of these.old homes. Someone could at least sell what was usuable.

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If those walls could talk

Why do people always show you writing on the Wall, Mantel or other places but you can’t read or barely see it and they won’t read it so now you’re stuck with a mystery. Lolol I like that house.

I have Ancestry Heritage in Tyrell Co.North Carolina.Im looking for relatives of the Davenports

I've never seen that and I live in nc

I bet she was beautiful back in her time.

stairs would not pass code.

I think I will have a crack at building this in Fallout 4 !

Isn't this the house from American horror story made ?

Something this old should be restored

No todos sabemos idiomas

Trespassing?

I Was told there was a family of midgets living there at one time or other, all bowed up and going at it

So sad

Appears to be 1800's/19th century construction, but thanks for sharing!

I'm not lying, I've seen that thread spool on the door trick before.

Places like this I'd like to maintain in an "arrested decay" way. The inside would be made habitable, and the outside repaired only to keep it standing. I like the weathered look of these places. Redoing the outside just makes them look like the millions of other homes out there. Boring ! Ever see the Disney Phantom Manor in Euro Disney ? THAT'S how I like houses !! :)