Fairntosh Plantation
- Name
- Fairntosh Plantation
- Latitude
- 36.107756
- Longitude
- 78.839855
- State or Province
- North Carolina
- Country
- USA
- Description
- Fairntosh was a North Carolina Plantation in present-day (2022) Durham County, N.C., sold to white enslaver Duncan Cameron (1777-1853) and Rebecca Bennehan Cameron by Rebecca's father, Richard Bennehan, in 1810. It was considered the "sister plantation" to Stagville Plantation, owned by the Bennehan family.
- Black people were enslaved by members of the white Cameron and related families at this place in the 1800s before emancipation.
- Place Type
- Plantation
- Bibliographic Citation
- Cameron Family Papers, 1757-1978. Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- View, Fairntosh, Durham, North Carolina. N.C. State University Libraries Rare & Unique Digital Collections.
- View, Fairntosh, Durham, North Carolina
- National Register of Historic Places
- Source Resource
- https://onthesegrounds.lib.unc.edu/api/items/1219
- Source Site
- https://onthesegrounds.lib.unc.edu/
Linked resources
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