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4worldlovers: The Abbey Nature Preserve is part of the mill pond acreage that connected the manor house to the “old farm road” leading to agricultural fields straight out to the Intracoastal waterway. This farm road and its trails were daily traversed for two over centuries by the enslaved community of Poplar Grove Plantation. This community and their descendants are part of the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor designated by the National Park Service. Visit Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor – Where Gullah Geechee Culture Lives (gullahgeecheecorridor.org)

The Abbey Nature Preserve has two tracts totaling 63 acres under the stewardship of the North Carolina Coastal Land Trust. An additional 65-acre tract is not protected by a conservation easement, and sits between the mill pond and the manor house. The entire 65-acre tract including the parking lot and trails to the mill pond, has been sold to Mungo Home for future development. More information here: https://coastallandtrust.org/lands/abbey-nature-preserve/

Pender County has negotiated with Mungo Homes to manage the 63 acres under the stewardship of the North Carolina Coastal Land Trust, but not the 65-acre tract currently used as trails in the Abbey Nature Preserve. The current trail head will be relocated to Scotts Hill Loop Road so that Mungo Homes can clear cut the 65 acres to create 9,000 sq. ft home sites. More information here: Pender County to operate and maintain Abbey Nature Preserve | Pender County Government (pendercountync.gov)

The Mungo Home development will severely compromise the original use of the “old farm road” of this former peanut plantation site, and completely destroy the last remaining intact plantation site in the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor of Pender County. The historical significance is monumental. Please visit for more information and to take action: https://savescottshill.org/

A copy of Joseph Mumford Foy’s 1857 Peoples Pocket Diary lists the fields of the plantation by name, including Bowen Field, Old House Field, Mill Field, Long New Ground Field, Alligator Field, Lilaput Field, and Fox Neck, among others.

Poplar Grove was originally owned Ann and James Moore, Commander of the Whigs in Moore’s Creek campaign, 1776. Visit Moore, James | NCpedia for more information. The property was purchased by Cornelius Harnett in 1767 as his second plantation home on Topsail Sound to escape the mosquitoes of the Northeast branch of Cape Fear River where his primary residence, Hilton, was located. After Harnett’s capture by British forces and subsequent death in 1781, it was then awarded and/or confiscated by Francis Clayton who had served as Harnett’s secretary on the Wilmington Safety Committee, and later discovered to be Tory spy and traitor to the Patriot cause.

Upon the discovery of Clayton’s betrayal, Poplar Grove was listed again for sale on January 10, 1791 “where Mr .Clayton usually resided (formerly Mr. Harnett’s) containing about 800 acres, with a commodious dwelling house and other necessary buildings. A considerable part of this is clear and under good fences, having been planted this present year, and is excellent for corn and indigo: with this, or separate, will be sold an extensive range of banks, between the Sound and the Sea, esteemed valuable for stock and the timber, and on which is some good plantable land” (See advert below). This plantation site and another of 1,920 acres included 40 enslaved persons at this time.

The plantation and “lands of the sound ” was then purchased in 1795 by James Foy, Jr., son of Captain James Foy, Sr., who had served in the American Revolution and part of James Moore and Cornelius Harnett’s circle of American Patriots residing along the coastal communities between Topsail Sound and New Bern, Edenton and Bath, and the river plantations from Moore’s Creek to Fayetteville, along both branches of the Cape Fear.

The following excerpts include Runaway Slaves notices from notable plantations between Brunswick, New Hanover and Onslow Counties especially as it relates to the principle enslavers on the 1800 Census for New Hanover County. Most notably, are those enslaved listed with tribal markings, country of origin such as Guinea or the Congo, speakers of other languages … Continue reading Runaway Slave Ads 1765-1812

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The museum complex operates Wednesday-Saturday from 9:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. First tour of the day is at 10 a.m. Last tour of the day during April and May is typically at 1 p.m.

Please use the Abbey Nature Preserve parking lot to access site.


The history of Scotts Hill, Pender County, North Carolina is reflected in this historic site. History is always moving, and continues to shape how we move forward as an historic site.

Black history is American history. The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission (GGCHCC), of which Poplar Grove is a part, recognizes that “Historic sites carry potent literal and symbolic messages across generations. We (GGCHCC) encourage you to visit them this summer and ask yourself important questions about the history they share and the stories that are left out.”

What stories will Poplar Grove carry forward? Part of Poplar Grove’s mission is to initiate meaningful dialogue that builds upon the values of respect, empathy, cultural diversity, multiple perspectives, and democratic principles, and it is our desire to shine light on the generations of enslaved peoples at Scotts Hill whose legacies are especially relevant today.

We will be restructuring our exhibits and tour texts with information about the history of Poplar Grove and the important role of the Gullah Geechee people in our community. More importantly, we will provide a safe space in which to pause, reflect, listen and learn with the exact purpose of viewing American history through the lens of a collective and shared experience, of our collective humanity – locally, nationally, globally, spiritually.

Located in southeastern North Carolina and within the National Park Service’s Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, Poplar Grove historic house and museum, formerly a sweet potato and peanut plantation, produced peanuts from the agricultural skills of the Gullah Geechee people. The sweet potatoes and peanuts were sold locally to planter families to supplement the diet of the enslaved community. The highly protein-packed food source crossed racial lines during the Civil War to feed both Union and Confederate troops, and in the last decade of the 19th century, Wilmington peanuts were shipped as far north as New York City before P.T. Barnum’s traveling circus would popularize this Gullah crop to the masses.

The museum complex is sustained through the continuing efforts of Poplar Grove Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit Public Charity, dedicated to education, conservation, and preservation. The current manor house was restored and opened to the public as a museum in 1980 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The 15+ remaining acres left of the original homestead are under the stewardship of the North Carolina Coastal Land Trust.

Poplar Grove Foundation, Inc. seeks to shed light on this pre-Revolutionary War planter family who originally settled in New Bern, NC, from Baltimore, Maryland circa 1760. Foy family members and those people this family enslaved played an integral part in eastern North Carolina’s agricultural development and actively participated in North Carolina’s Revolutionary War. The land, and its original manor house, mill pond, brick kiln, and out buildings, was purchased in 1795 by James Foy, Jr. of New Bern, NC, from the estate of Cornelius Harnett, a leading Revolutionary North Carolinian politician.

After the original homestead burned circa 1849, Joseph Mumford Foy, the grandson of James Foy, Jr., chose to construct his new home closer to the Old New Bern Road, which would later become the Wilmington and Topsail Sound Plank Road. The current manor house was built circa 1850, constructed and maintained by the skills of enslaved men and women within the Foy family as well as from enslaved male artisans of neighboring planter families, such as Nicholas Nixon of Porters Neck, David Ward Simmons of New Bern, NC, and the Doziers of Brittons Neck, SC.

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