Mount Vernon (Woodleaf, North Carolina)
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Mount Vernon | |
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| Location | SR 1003 and SR 1986, near Woodleaf, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°47′18″N 80°38′40″W / 35.78833°N 80.64444°W |
| Area | 29.5 acres (11.9 ha) |
| Built | c. 1822 |
| Architectural style | Federal |
| NRHP reference No. | 80002899[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 27, 1980 |
Mount Vernon is a historic plantation house, farm complex, and national historic district located near Woodleaf, in Scotch Irish Township, Rowan County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1822, and is a two-story, three-bay, Federal style frame dwelling. It is sheathed in weatherboard and has a full-width, one-story shed roofed porch. The house was designated a post office in 1822. Also on the property are the contributing log smokehouse, large barn (c. 1898), "lighthouse" or Delco house (c. 1917), corn crib (c. 1917), gear house (c. 1917), woodhouse (c. 1917), spring house, mill site, shop, and plantation office.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]
