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Bracebridge Hall

Page history last edited by PBworks 17 years ago


 

Overview

 

Location

near Old Sparta, Edgecombe Co., NC

 

Date Constructed/ Founded

not determined

 

Associated Surnames

Carr

 

Historical notes

none

 

Associated Slave Workplaces

Swain Plantation (Edgecombe Co., NC)


 

Associated Free Persons

 

  • Jonas Johnston Carr - owner
  • Elizabeth Jane Hilliard Carr - wife of Jonas J. Carr

 

  • Elias Carr (b.1839-d.1900) - owner; son of Jonas J. and Elizabteh J.H. Carr; Democratic governor of North Carolina (1893-1897)
  • Eleanor Kearney Carr - wife of Elias Carr (m.1859)
  • William Kearny Carr - son of Elias and Eleanor K. Carr
  • John Buxton Carr - son of Elias and Eleanor K. Carr
  • Mary Elizabeth Carr - daughter of Elias and Eleanor K. Carr
  • Elias Carr - son of Elias and Eleanor K. Carr
  • Eleanor Kearny Carr - daughter of Elias and Eleanor K. Carr
  • Annie Bruce Carr - daughter of Elias and Eleanor K. Carr


 

Associated Enslaved Persons

 

  • none recorded yet


 

Research Leads and Plantation Records

 


 

Miscellaneous Information

 

  • Bracebridge Hall is on the National Register of Historic Places
  • Bracebridge Hall is also known as the Carr Farm
  • The Elias Carr and his sons helped manage the Swain Plantation during the Reconstruction era


 

References

 

  • Fleming, Monika S. Edgecombe County: Along the Tar River. Arcadia Publishing. 2003.
  • Guide to the Elias Carr Papers (#160). Special Collections Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/0160/


 

Users Researching This Workplace

 

  • Karmella Haynes - I have ancestors who lived near Old Sparta in 1870 - 1880. According to the Guide to the Elias Carr Papers, the papers contain the names of "hands" working for Carr during Reconstruction. I am interested in researching these papers.

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