Clear Springs Plantation, also known as Dawson Place and Green's Thoroughfare, is a historic

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located near

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, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built about 1740, and is a -story, five bay by two bay,

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style frame dwelling. It may be the oldest standing structure in Craven County and probably one of the oldest in North Carolina. It was listed on the

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in 1973.

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