Perciphull Campbell House

Perciphull Campbell House is a historic home located near Union Grove in Iredell County, North Carolina.

[1] The Perciphull Campbell House, located above Hunting Creek in the rolling hills near the northern edge of Iredell County, is an undisturbed example of the solid but unpretentious Piedmont Carolina dwelling of the type sometimes labelled "I-House".

[2] Probably built circa 1820, the Campbell House is a two-story, gable-roofed frame building on dry-laid stone foundation.

The front porch is nicely detailed with flush siding, bold chamfered posts with Lamb's tongue, and molded railing.

While the mantels differ somewhat in detail, each is segmentally arched above the firebox and has side pilasters, a paneled frieze, and a heavy multi-layered shelf which is blocked outward at each corner and in the center.

The only interior alterations consist primarily of linoleum-covered floors downstairs and plywood paneling and tile ceiling in the left-hand first story room.

This weather-boarded structure features a gable roof with deep overhang on the front end and a batten door with the same type of strap hinges as those found in the house.

There has, in addition, been a long association between the house and a gristmill which was located on the northern side of Hunting Creek just across the small country road which is now SR 132.

The mill remained standing until the 1930s, located just beneath a covered bridge which formerly spanned Hunting Creek at this point.

The complex communicates in its unpainted condition much of the character of typical antebellum Piedmont farms that made up the agrarian economy of this region in North Carolina.

As early as the mid-1790s, Campbell had begun to accumulate prime lands along Hunting Creek, with two purchases at this time totaling 300 acres (120 ha).

It is also known that Campbell was performing marriages in the northern portion of the county during the 1820s, although it is not known whether he was acting as a minister of the gospel or (more likely) a justice of the peace.

There, with his wife Tabitha Morgan and their five children, Perciphull Campbell, Jr., established himself as a planter on a somewhat smaller scale than his father.

[2] On October 22, 1862, Perciphull Campbell, Jr. died, leaving, like his father before him, an estate which was long enmeshed in a web of legal uncertainty and complexity.

Campbell died intestate May 20, 1888, once again leaving the Hunting Creek home place in a condition of legal limbo.

Painting of the covered bridge at the Campbell Mill before 1930