5225 Sample Rd.
Huntersville, NC  28078
704-875-2312

Tour the Latta homestead, built in the late 1700s by merchant James Latta,  a Scot who came to America from Ireland in 1785. Latta and his second wife, Jane Knox of nearby Lincoln County, purchased the land that would eventually total 742 acres and began construction on the two-story Federal style house. By 1825, Latta hired an overseer to manage the plantation and his slaves. James and Jane had four children. Rich, attractive, cultured and naturally quite popular, daughters Betsy, Polly, and Nancy were often called "the belles of the Catawba." The family is buried in the family gravesite just down the road at Hopewell Presbyterian Church, the center of their social and community life. In addition to the main house, guests to the plantation can tour a replica cabin of the plantation slaves such as Suckey, the cook, and Peter, a field hand. Live farm animals are on site, including mules, sheep, and hogs. Guests to the plantation can also explore the Latta Plantation Nature Center, which serves as the gateway to the 1,343 acres of Latta Plantation Nature Preserve and is the source for educational programs and information on the preserve's natural communities, flora, and fauna.  The preserve, Mecklenburg County's largest, forms a green peninsula extending into Mountain Island Lake and protects a natural heritage site and several endangered plants.

3427 N. Tryon St.
704.335.0325

Visit the county's oldest federal-style plantation house c. 1815. Family and enslaved plantation life interpreted. Tours 1:30 & 3:00, Thursday through Sunday.

TRIP's Review of Historic Rosedale

One of area’s best examples of Federal-period architecture, original 911-acre plantation. Tour includes info on slavery on this plantation.

Rosedale Plantation is located in the heart of Charlotte. This historic plantation and its many peaceful gardens are a welcome retreat in the midst of a busy city. As you stroll the grounds of this southern plantation, you seem to be surrounded by history and can actually feel what life must have been like in the early nineteenth century.

The house is one of the best examples of Federal period architecture in the state, and guests will marvel at its beautifully carved mantles and frieze work. The cool days of autumn make walking the grounds and enjoying the many gardens especially nice.

A well-dressed scarecrow guards a traditional kitchen and herb garden filled with the same beautiful and useful plants that the inhabitants of Rosedale tended long ago.

Historic Brattonsville

1444 Brattonsville Rd.
McConnells, SC 29726
803.684.2327

Revolutionary War battle site, restored house museums, livestock, nature trails.

TRIP's Review of Historic Brattonsville

Historic Brattonsville is a living history village located on 720 acres in York County.

It was a primary location for the filming of the movie The Patriot, and features more than 29 historic buildings that bring to life the Carolina Piedmont from the 1750s through the 1840s.

Visitors to the site can explore the original homestead, a home built in the early 1820s by physician John Bratton, his wife Harriet, and their 14 children.

Other structures on the grounds—some of which are original buildings and some of which are reproductions—include the oldest home in all of York County, built in 1776, as well as cabins, barns, slave quarters, and a smokehouse.

Historic Brattonsville also features historic farming exhibitions and rare breeds of livestock.