Farmville Plantation

Farmville Plantation is a historic Plantation house in the [Southern United States|plantation house] located near the historic location, called Elmwood south of Statesville, [North Carolina|Statesville] in Iredell County, North Carolina. It consists of two Federal style houses. The main house was built about 1818, and is a two-story, three bay by two bay, brick dwelling with a two-story entrance portico. The house is also known as the Joseph Chambers house or Darshana. The main house has a low gable roof and one-story rear shed porch. Attached to it by a breezeway is a smaller two-story, three bay by two bay stuccoed brick dwelling. The house was restored in the 1960s.
It was added to the National [Register of Historic Places] in 1973.

History

The Farmville Plantation was built by Joseph Chambers in about 1820. The land was worked by Slavery in [the United States|enslaved people] who were held on the plantation. Joseph's son, Pinckney Brown Chambers was born on the plantation and inherited it from his father.