Sloop Point Plantation is a historic

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located at

Sloop Point Sloop Point Plantation is a historic Plantation house in the Southern United States, house located at Sloop Point, North Carolina, Sloop Point, Pender County, North Carolina. It was built in 1729 according to dendrochronological dating and is ...

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. It was built in 1729 according to dendrochronological dating and is possibly the oldest surviving framed building in the state of North Carolina. The house was built as a home for John Baptista Ashe and his wife Elizabeth Swann Ashe. The building was added to the

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in 1972.

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* Historic American Buildings Survey in North Carolina Plantation houses in North Carolina Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Houses completed in 1729 Houses in Pender County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Pender County, North Carolina 1729 establishments in the Thirteen Colonies {{PenderCountyNC-NRHP-stub

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