Qualla: Perciphull Campbell House https://qualla.com/perciphull-campbell-house en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/q/t/perciphull-campbell-house-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Perciphull Campbell House https://qualla.com/perciphull-campbell-house Perciphull Campbell House: Introduction https://qualla.com/perciphull-campbell-house/ Photo credit Public domain. The name catches in the throat before you ever say it correctly. Perciphull. Not Percival. Not Perciful. Perciphull, a spelling the Campbell family carried for four generations along the red-clay rises of Iredell County, in a corner of the North Carolina Piedmont where Hunting Creek slips quietly through second-growth woods. The house that bears that name is a two-story frame I-house with a stone foundation, gable roof, and exterior chimneys whose brick stacks were sheathed in stucco. It was built around 1820. And every plank in it was raised on labor that was not free.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/q/t/perciphull-campbell-house-wp/dnqt-perciphull-campbell-house-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Perciphull Campbell House: A Planter, by Degrees https://qualla.com/perciphull-campbell-house/ Photo credit G. Moore, CC BY-SA 3.0. Perciphull Campbell, Sr., did not arrive in Iredell County as a man of property. He built it slowly, one tract at a time, along Hunting Creek through the 1810s and 1820s. By 1815 he had risen far enough in local standing that the North Carolina legislature appointed him one of fo...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/q/t/perciphull-campbell-house-wp/dnqt-perciphull-campbell-house-a-planter-by-degrees.mp3 0:06 2 full Perciphull Campbell House: The Names the Ledgers Kept https://qualla.com/perciphull-campbell-house/ Photo credit G. Moore, CC BY-SA 3.0. What the ledgers preserve, the architecture does not. By 1850, after Campbell had moved south to a second residence on Big Rocky Creek, he was recorded as the owner of twenty-one enslaved people. His son Perciphull Campbell, Jr., who took over the Hunting Creek home place after h...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/q/t/perciphull-campbell-house-wp/dnqt-perciphull-campbell-house-the-names-the-ledgers-kept.mp3 0:06 3 full Perciphull Campbell House: Four Generations on Hunting Creek https://qualla.com/perciphull-campbell-house/ Photo credit G. Moore, CC BY-SA 3.0. Perciphull Sr. died at his Rocky Creek property on June 6, 1853, leaving an estate that took years to unwind. His son Perciphull Jr., named co-executor, continued at Hunting Creek with his wife Tabitha Morgan and their five children until his own death on October 22, 1862, in the...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/q/t/perciphull-campbell-house-wp/dnqt-perciphull-campbell-house-four-generations-on-hunting-creek.mp3 0:06 4 full Perciphull Campbell House: Alice's Long Tenancy https://qualla.com/perciphull-campbell-house/ Photo credit G. Moore, CC BY-SA 3.0. Alice Campbell's quiet half-century in the house is the longest single chapter in its history. On December 4, 1935, she finally signed it over to L.C. Henderson, conveying the home place and 139 acres with the careful provision that she could occupy and enjoy the profits of the p...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/q/t/perciphull-campbell-house-wp/dnqt-perciphull-campbell-house-alices-long-tenancy.mp3 0:06 5 full Perciphull Campbell House: What the I-House Shape Tells You https://qualla.com/perciphull-campbell-house/ Photo credit G. Moore, CC BY-SA 3.0. From the road, the house reads as a textbook of an old vernacular form. The I-house is two stories tall, one room deep, with chimneys at each gable end. It was the prosperous farmer's house across the upland South in the early nineteenth century, a deliberately upright silhouette...

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