Record #:

15180

Author(s):

Tucker, Harry Z.

Abstract:

Capt. Peter Hairston's historic plantation stood in Stokes County near the Sauratown Mountains. Hairston purchased the 32,000 acre plantation in the early 19th-century, becoming one of the wealthiest planters in the region before his death in 1834.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 6 Issue 12, Aug 1938, p5, il

Subject(s):

Plantations--Stokes County; Hamburg Plantation (Stokes County); Hairston, Peter Wilson, 1819-1886