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William Henry Wall Plantation Outbuildings
E. side SR 1932, 0.3 mi S. of Franklin Co. line
Wake Forest vic.
Although the handsome, two story, transitional Federal/Greek Revival style
house at the heart of the William Henry Wall Plantation complex was destroyed by
fire in 1988, the property retains a significant collection of antebellum
outbuildings, as well as several notable later structures and a stand of mature
oak trees. Directly behind the old house site, stand a diamond -notched log
smokehouse and a small plank dairy. Both have side -gable roofs with flush eaves
and boxed cornices and batten doors. The dairy has strap door hinges and three
unusual rectangular square sections of metal in a horizontal row on the front of
the building, all with circular patterns of holes punched into them, apparently
for decoration.
To the south of the house site are a well house and a storage barn. The
well house is a particularly well -finished post and beam structure on a tall
granite block foundation. The well itself is in the front; to the rear is a
storage area. Though now doorless, earlier photographs of the storage barn show
original double doors with original iron strap hinges.
Immediately to the north of the smokehouse and dairy is a two -room,
side -gable -roofed building with central brick chimney and two batten doors that
may have been a dwelling or a detached kitchen/dining room. This building also
appears to be of mid -19th century vintage. Further to the north are several
turn of the century or later barns and sheds, including an attractive 2 1/2
story, gable front barn with side shed. Across SR 1932 and to the northwest of
the house site is a 2 1/2 cotton ginhouse, with hooded, gable front roof. The
building appears to date from the late 19th century and has three batten doors
on the front and bits of machinery in inside. Although likely associated with

the main complex of the Wall farm originally, this building now appears to
belong to another property.
William Henry Wall is said to have acquired this property, originally
around 400 acres, from William Roles, the founder of the town of Rolesville.
source: author unknown, entry on the William Wall Plantation (enclosed in
file).

WILL WALL HOUSE
ROUTE 3, WEST OAK STREET
PRESENT OWNER - ALICE SOULE ,
E IN
840
ACRES
WILLIAM HENRY WALL BUILT THISROLESl(FOROWHOMOROLESVIOLE
LAND HE PURCHASED IN 1829 FROM WILLIAM- TWp DOWNSTAIRS
WAS NAMED). ORIGINALLY THE HOUSE HAD FOUR ROOMS
AND TWO UPSTAIRS. SIX TENANT FAMILIES USED TO SHARE-CROP
HA E -CR OITH ON THE
FARM WHICH WAS SELF SUPPORTING WITH A GRAINERY,
WEAVING ROOM, AND SCHOOL ROOM. WILLIAM HENRY WALL WAS KILLED BY
A UNION SOLDIER WHILE TRYING TO DEFEND TOS TO
DURING THE CIVIL
THE PROPERTY,
THERE IS A FAMILY CEMETERY DATING B FAMILY SINCE IT WAS BUILT
THE HOUSE HAS BEEN OWNED BY THE WALL
OVER 145 YEARS AND FIVE GENERATIONS AGO.

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