{"nrhp_refnum":"70000480","name":"Buck Spring Plantation","other_names":["Nathaniel,Macon,House"],"category":"site","location":{"address":"N of Vaughan on SR 1348","address_restricted":false,"city":"Vaughan","county":"Warren County","state":"NC","lat":36.47858967450006,"lon":-78.00080572714776,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1970-10-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Site of Nathaniel Macon's Buck Spring plantation, about 70 acres near Vaughan in Warren County, North Carolina, where Macon built a small house in 1781. The site includes graves, a log corncrib, a smokehouse, a stable and a reconstructed dwelling.","why_significant":"The site is tied to Nathaniel Macon, a nationally prominent U.S. Representative and Senator from North Carolina who served as Speaker of the House from 1801 to 1807. He lived at Buck Spring for the rest of his life and is buried there. The nomination is for the site rather than the main house, which is largely a 1930s reconstruction.","narrative":"Buck Spring Plantation is a roughly 70-acre site near Vaughan, in Warren County, North Carolina, associated with Nathaniel Macon, who built a small house there in 1781 and lived in it for the rest of his life. Macon served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1791 to 1815, including as Speaker from 1801 to 1807, and in the Senate from 1815 to 1828. Jefferson once called him \"the last of the Romans.\" The site holds the graves of Macon, his wife Hannah Plummer Macon and their only son, each marked with a simple stone cairn as Macon requested. A log corncrib, thought to retain most of its original fabric, stands nearby, along with a smokehouse whose framing is original and a later log stable. The present dwelling is essentially a reconstruction from the 1930s. Because of that, the property was recognized as a site, valued for its link to Macon.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked deteriorated and altered. The dwelling is essentially a 1930s reconstruction, and the site is owned by the Warren County Commissioners.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:56.790913-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/40/7227/47722740/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/70000480.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722740","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Spring_Plantation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20708601"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/warren-county/buck-spring-plantation-70000480/"}