The Midway Plantation House and Outbuildings are a set of historic buildings constructed in the mid-19th century in present-day Knightdale,
Wake County, North Carolina
Wake County, officially the County of Wake, is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 1,129,410, making it North Carolina's List of coun ...
plantation house
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was built in 1848 about west of present-day Knightdale, along the wagon trail that would eventually become
U.S. Route 64
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. It was built by Charles Lewis Hinton, a farmer, slaver owner, and
state treasurer
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, as a wedding gift for his son, David, and daughter-in-law, Mary Boddie Carr (sister of Governor
Elias Carr
Elias Carr (February 25, 1839 – July 22, 1900) was an American planter, lawyer, and politician who served as the 48th governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1893 to 1897.
Biography
Carr was born in Edgecombe County, North Carolina ...
). David and Mary's daughter, the anti-suffragist Mary Hilliard Hinton, was born here. It was named for its position halfway between two other Hinton family properties:
Beaver Dam
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and The Oaks.
Other structures on the site included a
carriage house
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, kitchen,
smokehouse
A smokehouse (North American) or smokery (British) is a building where meat or fish is curing (food preservation), cured with Smoking (cooking), smoke. The finished product might be stored in the building, sometimes for a year or more. The move and Hinton family history are documented by Hinton descendant and film critic
Godfrey Cheshire
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He was instrumental in the founding of Raleigh's ''Spectator Magazine'' in 1978. He served as chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle.
In 2001 and ...
in ''
Moving Midway ''Moving Midway'' is a 2007 American documentary film directed by film critic Godfrey Cheshire. The film follows Cheshire's cousin Charlie moving the Midway Plantation House and Outbuildings to a new location, and what the Midway means to his fami ...
'' (2007).
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Wake County, North Carolina
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