List of plantations in North Carolina

[4] A common definition of what constituted a plantation is that it typically had 500 to 1,000 acres (2.0 to 4.0 km2) or more of land and produced one or two cash crops for sale.

[6] The tables of plantations below are sortable, so the name, locality, county (current), historic register number, and built in years can be easily reviewed.

The names assisted the owners and local record keepers in keeping track of specific parcels of land.

Sloop Point was once owned by John Baptista Ashe, who was a delegate to the Continental Congress, U.S.

Jane Barnes Evans was a cotton Baroness and part owner of the North Carolina Railroad which ran through part of her Tall Pines Plantation which supplied fresh water to the North Carolina Railroad for the use of steam engine locomotives.