Conoho Creek Historic District

Conoho Creek Historic District covers roughly 2,800 acres of farmland and woodland in north central Martin County, North Carolina, stretching about four miles along NC 142 toward the community of Hassell. The landscape is almost evenly split between forest and open fields, bounded on the north by Conoho Creek and Salsbury Mill Branch. Its resources include seven antebellum plantation seats, a small late nineteenth-century farm, and five twentieth-century farmsteads, along with tobacco barns, smokehouses, tenant houses, two schoolhouses, a general store, cemeteries and mill sites. Houses are frame, with brick pier foundations and chimneys, and range from Georgian/Federal and Greek Revival plantation homes to modest farmhouses. The district was listed because its field patterns, roads, waterways and buildings survive much as they were between 1810 and 1947, illustrating the progression from plantation agriculture to tenant farming and then to small independent farms. Restoration has been carried out on several of the principal houses.