{"nrhp_refnum":"98000197","name":"Foscue and Simmons Plantations","other_names":["Foscue Plantation"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"US 17, from Trent R. and Banks Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pollocksbille","county":"Jones County","state":"NC","lat":35.04186653200006,"lon":-77.20156308246452,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-10-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 1,353-acre agricultural district straddling US 17 (the old New Bern Road) at Pollocksville, Jones County, North Carolina, combining the Foscue and Simmons plantations. It includes a ca. 1821-1825 brick plantation house built by Simon Foscue, Jr., a Simmons cottage, cemeteries, tobacco barns, fields and woodlands.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the plantations form an unusually intact agrarian landscape held by the intermarried Foscue and Simmons families for nearly two hundred years. Fields and timberlands show continuous use for naval stores, timber, corn, peas, soybeans and tobacco. The brick Federal-style house is the only known brick house built in the county before the Civil War.","narrative":"Straddling US 17 near Pollocksville, this 1,353-acre district joins two intermarried families' plantations in Jones County. Simon Foscue, Jr., built the brick plantation house about 1821-1825, facing the New Bern Road. It is a two-story Federal-style dwelling on a side-hall plan, and the only brick house known in the county before the Civil War. About fifty years later, his granddaughter Christiana Foscue Simmons and her husband Amos built a one-story frame cottage across the road. The land runs from the road to the Trent River and includes cemeteries, tobacco barns, marl pits, farm roads and later houses. Woodlands west of the road have long been kept for timber, and woodlands in the east were used for naval stores. Cleared fields have grown corn, peas, soybeans and tobacco through slave, tenant and hired labor. The two plantations were reunited under the Foscue name in 1973, and the holding has stayed within one family for nearly two centuries.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Simon Foscue, Jr. (Foscue Plantation House)","architectural_style":"Federal; Italianate; Bungalow; front-gable barn","criteria":[],"status_note":"Foscue Plantation House restored in the mid-1970s and now maintained by a nonprofit association; fields leased to farmers; some buildings, such as a tenant house, are ruinous.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.199155-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/18/7210/47721018/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/98000197.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000197/b829110b48-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000197/b829110b48-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tradewinds","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Foscue_and_Simmons_Plantation.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Tradewinds</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:Foscue_and_Simmons_Plantation.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721018","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foscue_and_Simmons_Plantations","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19461807"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/jones-county/foscue-and-simmons-plantations-98000197/"}