Palo Alto Plantation is a historic plantation house located at Palopato, Onslow County, North Carolina.

It was built between about 1836 and 1840, and is a two-story, five-bay, double-pile frame dwelling with vernacular Federal and Greek Revival style design elements.

It was the childhood home of Daniel L. Russell, Jr. (1845-1908), governor of North Carolina, 1897–1901.

[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

This article about a property in Onslow County, North Carolina on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.