{"nrhp_refnum":"00001185","name":"Tinga Nursery","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"US 117, 0.62 mi. N of jct. with NC 132","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wrightsboro","county":"New Hanover County","state":"NC","lat":34.29886420650004,"lon":-77.91749637427083,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-10-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["European","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A working plant nursery and farm complex on the east side of US 117 near Wrightsboro, New Hanover County, North Carolina, established in 1913 by Dutch immigrant Eelco I. Tinga. It includes a 1918 bungalow, barns, outbuildings, irrigation ditches, a pond and nursery fields.","why_significant":"The nursery is described as the last intact link to Hugh MacRae's early-twentieth-century European-settled Castle Haynes agricultural colony. It helped start the area's flower and bulb industry and is still cultivated by descendants of Tinga, one of the colony's early settlers. It is significant in Agriculture and European Ethnic Heritage.","narrative":"Tinga Nursery is a working nursery and farm complex along US 117 near Wrightsboro in New Hanover County. Eelco Tinga, a Dutch horticulturist, bought thirty acres in 1912 on land developed by Hugh MacRae as part of his European farm colonies, and built a large barn in 1913. A Craftsman-style bungalow followed in 1918, along with a wash house and woodshed, and an employee's room was added in 1921. Later additions include bulb and pump buildings, offices, a pond, cold frames and a network of irrigation ditches laid out in the strip pattern Tinga knew from the Netherlands. Six buildings, one site and one structure contribute to the property's character. It was listed for its role in agriculture and European ethnic heritage between 1913 and 1950. It is regarded as the last intact reminder of MacRae's Castle Hayne colony and as an early contributor to the region's flower and bulb industry, still run by Tinga's descendants.","period_of_significance":"1913-1950","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Still operating as a nursery, with the house, employee quarters and other buildings still in use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.47526-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/63/7215/47721563/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/00001185.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001185/797b01ff4d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001185/797b01ff4d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"BSLRed","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tinga_Nursery.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">BSLRed</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tinga_Nursery.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721563","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinga_Nursery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24041335"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/new-hanover-county/tinga-nursery-00001185/"}