Puppy Creek Plantation

NW of Rockfish on SR 1409, Rockfish, North Carolina. County/parish: Hoke.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 12, 1976. NRIS 76001329.

1 contributing building. 1 contributing structure.

Also known as:

  • McGregor-Lamont House

From Wikipedia:

Puppy Creek Plantation

Puppy Creek Plantation, also known as the McGregor-Lamont House, is a historic plantation house located near Rockfish, Hoke County, North Carolina. It was built about 1821, and is a two-story, three-bay, Federal style frame dwelling. It is sheathed in weatherboard, has a gable roof, and sits on a high brick pier foundation. It features exterior end brick chimneys and full-width front porch.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

The McGregor-Lamont House is likely the site of a wedding referred to by North Carolina writer Charles W. Chesnutt in his conjure tale "The Marked Tree," first published in the journal The Crisis.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720892