The plantation was founded by Thomas Carter III, a descendant of American colonist and Puritan minister Rev.

Thomas Carter, who received a land grant for three-hundred acres in Rockingham County when he settled in North Carolina after leaving Massachusetts in the late 18th century.

What remains of the plantation, including two log houses, a tenant farmer's cabin, and a cemetery for family members and enslaved persons, is located off of North Carolina Highway 65.

[1][2] Thomas Carter's great-great grandson, Thomas Carter III (1745-1817), moved to North Carolina from Massachusetts around 1782 and received a land grant for 300 acres on both sides of Little Rockhouse Creek in Rockingham County, east of the Dan River, from the State of North Carolina.

[3][4][5] Yancey, who became a justice of the peace and a trial lawyer, rented one of the houses with his wife, Mary Elizabeth Morton Carter, until they left and bought a farm in Madison, North Carolina.

[3] Yancey Ligon Carter and his descendants were buried at Sardis Primitive Baptist Church, instead of the plantation cemetery.