Mills-Screven Plantation

NE of Tryon on SR 1509, Tryon, North Carolina. County/parish: Polk.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 17, 1983. NRIS 83001904.

5 contributing buildings.

Also known as:

  • Hilltop

From Wikipedia:

Mills-Screven Plantation

Mills-Screven Plantation, also known as Hilltop, is a historic plantation house located near Tryon, Polk County, North Carolina. The main house was built about 1820 and later expanded into the 1840s, and is a long two-story, seven-bay, Federal / Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It features a two-tier, three-bay, pedimented Ionic order portico. Also on the property are the contributing stone springhouse, guesthouse part of which is said to have been a slave cabin, double pen log crib, and a larger 20th century frame barn.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

The original owners were slaveholders ohn McIntire and Govan Mills (1805-1862).

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721838