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

plantation house A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as a symbol for the plantation as a whole. Plantation houses in the Southern United States and in other areas are known as quite grand and ...

located near

Jasper Jasper, an aggregate of microgranular quartz and/or cryptocrystalline chalcedony and other mineral phases, is an opaque, impure variety of silica, usually red, yellow, brown or green in color; and rarely blue. The common red color is due to ...

, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built about 1740, and is a -story, five bay by two bay, Georgian 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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Plantation houses in North Carolina Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Georgian architecture in North Carolina Houses completed in 1740 Houses in Craven County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Craven County, North Carolina 1740 establishments in North Carolina {{CravenCountyNC-NRHP-stub