Qualla: Bryan-Bell Farm https://qualla.com/bryan-bell-farm en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/1/p/bryan-bell-farm-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Bryan-Bell Farm https://qualla.com/bryan-bell-farm Bryan-Bell Farm: Introduction https://qualla.com/bryan-bell-farm/ Photo credit Tradewinds, CC BY-SA 3.0. Count the buildings: twenty-five of them, scattered across seven distinct areas of farmland near Pollocksville. A main house from 1844. A barn from around 1840. Seven pack houses from the 1920s. Two tobacco barns. Two chicken houses. A log barn from 1890. An I-house from 1880. A metal silo, an equipment shed, a hay barn, a stable. A 19th-century graveyard. The Bryan-Bell Farm - also called Oakview Plantation - is not so much a single building as a working farm preserved in slow motion, each generation having added something without tearing down what came before.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/1/p/bryan-bell-farm-wp/dq1p-bryan-bell-farm-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Bryan-Bell Farm: Two Houses in One https://qualla.com/bryan-bell-farm/ Photo credit Tradewinds, CC BY-SA 3.0. The main residence was built around 1844 in the Federal style - the restrained, classical aesthetic that had dominated American building since the early republic. Then, in 1920, the house was renovated in the Classical Revival idiom that was sweeping the South in the wake of plan...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/1/p/bryan-bell-farm-wp/dq1p-bryan-bell-farm-two-houses-in-one.mp3 0:06 2 full Bryan-Bell Farm: The Forced Labor That Built the First House https://qualla.com/bryan-bell-farm/ Photo credit Tradewinds, CC BY-SA 3.0. Plantation is the older name for this place, and it carries the weight that word should carry. The 1844 main house was built in coastal North Carolina at the height of the cotton and tobacco economy. Like most plantations of its size and era, Oakview was almost certainly built an...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/1/p/bryan-bell-farm-wp/dq1p-bryan-bell-farm-the-forced-labor-that-built-the-first-house.mp3 0:06 3 full Bryan-Bell Farm: Tobacco, Chickens, and the 20th-Century Farm https://qualla.com/bryan-bell-farm/ Photo credit Tradewinds, CC BY-SA 3.0. The earliest outbuildings - the barn from around 1840, the log barn from 1890, the I-house from 1880 - belong to the antebellum and Reconstruction-era farm. Most of the rest belong to the 20th century. Seven pack houses from the 1920s hint at the eastern North Carolina tobacco bo...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/1/p/bryan-bell-farm-wp/dq1p-bryan-bell-farm-tobacco-chickens-and-the-20th-century-farm.mp3 0:06 4 full Bryan-Bell Farm: A Working Landscape, Preserved https://qualla.com/bryan-bell-farm/ Photo credit Tradewinds, CC BY-SA 3.0. On December 21, 1989, the National Register of Historic Places added the Bryan-Bell Farm as a historic district covering 25 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 2 contributing structures across seven separate areas of the property. That sprawling delineation is unusu...

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