{"nrhp_refnum":"70000482","name":"Aycock, Charles B., Birthplace","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"6 mi. from jct. of SR 1542 and U.S. 117","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fremont","county":"Wayne County","state":"NC","lat":35.519880698000065,"lon":-77.97471913099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1970-02-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A state-owned historic site near Fremont in Wayne County, North Carolina, on about eight and a half acres. It includes the farm complex where Governor Charles B. Aycock was born in 1859, with a house built about 1840 and a schoolhouse moved to the site in 1912.","why_significant":"The site is the birthplace of Charles B. Aycock, North Carolina's forty-ninth governor, who led a major public education campaign in the early 1900s. The farm shows the modest circumstances of his birth and a typical mid-nineteenth-century eastern North Carolina farmhouse with outbuildings. The relocated schoolhouse recalls his role in public education.","narrative":"This state historic site near Fremont, in Wayne County, preserves the farm where Charles Brantley Aycock was born on November 1, 1859. Aycock became North Carolina's forty-ninth governor and made public education his cause. The complex includes a one-story weatherboard house built about 1840 by his father, Benjamin Aycock, with a hall-and-parlor plan, plus a separate kitchen, a stable and smaller outbuildings. A late nineteenth-century schoolhouse, originally the Oak Plain School and built about 1870, was moved here from Nahunta in 1912 to commemorate Aycock's work for schools. Aycock was elected governor in 1900 and took office in 1901. During his term, schoolhouses were built at the rate of one a day, teacher salaries nearly doubled, and the school term lengthened from four to five months. The plain farmhouse reflects the frugal circumstances of his family, while the schoolhouse reminds visitors of his educational legacy. The property is owned by the state and is open as a museum.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"House built about 1840 by Benjamin Aycock, the governor's father","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent, original site; occupied status not clearly marked; present use is a museum.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:56.508937-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/19/7228/47722819/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/70000482.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722819","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aycock_Birthplace","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4831053"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wayne-county/aycock-charles-b-birthplace-70000482/"}