{"nrhp_refnum":"96000929","name":"Old Neck Historic District","other_names":["See Also:William Jones Plantation","Fletcher--Skinner--Nixon P"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by US 17, NC 1302, NC 1300, Suttons Cr., andthe Perquimans River","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hertford","county":"Perquimans County","state":"NC","lat":36.17692488600005,"lon":-76.40547556809946,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-09-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural agricultural historic district of about 3,365 acres on Old Neck, east of the Perquimans River near Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina. It holds five antebellum plantation seats, smaller farms, and related outbuildings, roads, fields and cemeteries.","why_significant":"The district shows the development of a plantation society and economy in the antebellum period, followed by tenant farming and small independent farms in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It contains a range of Federal, Greek Revival and later farm architecture, including rare outbuildings. Its agricultural landscape and integrity are described as exceptional within the Albemarle region.","narrative":"Old Neck is a rural farming district of roughly 3,365 acres lying across the Perquimans River from Hertford, North Carolina. Bounded by the river and Suttons Creek, it is mostly flat, open farmland crossed by drainage ditches, with five major plantation seats and several smaller farms. Its buildings range from Federal and Greek Revival plantation houses, such as the William Jones house of 1813 and Cove Grove, built about 1830, to plain farmsteads finished in 1946. Most are wood frame with brick foundations and chimneys. The district illustrates the shift from antebellum plantations worked by enslaved labor to tenant farming and small independent farms. Rare outbuildings survive, including a slave kitchen and carriage house at Cove Grove. Land has stayed with descendants of the Nixon, Jones, Skinner and Fletcher families, and the fields, roads, ditches and woodland remain little changed. Recent mobile homes and ranch houses are scattered, mostly in wooded areas.","period_of_significance":"1813-1946","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal and Greek Revival plantation houses, plus later late-nineteenth and twentieth-century frame farmhouses and bungalows","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Most dwellings are in fair to excellent condition with minor alterations; auxiliary buildings often suffer neglect. The Fletcher-Skinner-Nixon house was adapted into a bed-and-breakfast inn in 1992.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.125481-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/30/7217/47721730/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/96000929.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721730","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Neck_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987390"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/perquimans-county/old-neck-historic-district-96000929/"}