Bellamy Mansion Museum For the last three years, the Slave Dwelling Project has started its season with a sleepover in the slave dwellings at Hopsewee Plantation in Georgetown County, South Carolina. As he had since returned to the north after his duties were completed, draftsman Rufus W. Bunnell had joined the Connecticut regiment of the Union Army.[1]. FNB Cathleen Turner is the Regional Director of Preservation North Carolinas Piedmont Office based in Durham. Jen moved to Wilmington in 2009 to attend UNC Wilmington and earned her Bachelors degree in special education with a dual license in elementary education. always filled to overflowing and groaning under their weight. P.O. Two enslaved men that lived on the Bellamy property included Guy, the butler and coachman, and Tony, a laborer and handyman. It was through this lens that she became familiar with Preservation North Carolina. Mary Elizabeth (Belle) married William Jefferson Duffie of Columbia, South Carolina on September 12, 1876. Our servantswere, completely demoralizedGuy, the coachman, came to, Mother and said he did not want to leave but the Yankees, made him, after taking his good shoes for themselves, They had also taken my brother John's new homemade. [2], As a young man, John Dillard Bellamy, Sr. inherited a large piece of his fathers plantation in Horry County, South Carolina at about age 18, along with several enslaved workers. In August 2021, Jen married her long-time sweetheart, Aaron, at Brooklyn Art Center. Web Design and Website Hosting/Management by ProjectBox Media, Courtyard By Marriott Wilmington Wrightsville Beach, Embassy Suites by HIlton Wilmington Riverfront, Courtyard by Marriott Carolina Beach Oceanfront, Courtyard Wilmington Downtown / Historic District, Fairfield by Marriott Wilmington/Wrightsville Beach, Home2 Suites Wilmington Wrightsville Beach, Lumina on Wrightsville Beach, A Holiday Inn Resort, The Arts Council of Wilmington/New Hanover County, Web Design and Website Hosting/Management by ProjectBox Media. After several years freelancing for Our State Magazine, Walter Magazine, and many local interior designers and architects, while also acting as a content curator at a large art firm, Annie decided to follow her heart and make the jump to a career in historic preservation. Maggie has lived in Tarboro, North Carolina for the last decade and shares her home with her three spoiled cats, who really run the household. Board of Directors; News; Bellamy Mansion Museum. This was a devastating blow to the Confederacy, as Wilmington was the last major port supplying the southern states. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. to an organized association of 250 or more workmen. Prior to that her background was in traditional real estate with a degree in Historic Preservation, among many other studies, though her childhood dream was to grow up to be a mermaid. fix my headquarters temporarily at the house of a Dr. Bellamy, Bellamys son recalled the visit to Wilmington of a, high-ranking Radical Republican who spoke to a crowd, from the porch of his home: On day I was with my school, mates, in their home next to the present City Hall, when a, band struck up music and started down Third Street to, Market, and up Market to Fifth, to the Headquarters of. bellamy mansion board of directors. Mary Duke Biddle Foundation The Free Negro in North Carolina, John H. Franklin, UNC Press, 1943 Union officers took shelter in the nicer homes in town whose owners had been forced to abandon them. Mike Nelson - President; Jared Maloney - Treasurer; Lue Ponich - Secretary; Brent Sumner - Past President . The Bellamy Mansion is a stately survivor. She even described the basement as "more like hog pen than anything else." War and Refugeeing at Floral College: The architecture of Belmont Mansion makes it one of the most significant homes of 19th century Tennessee. In 1830, he had two slaves; by 1860 he had three. Sarah Miller Sampson (1815-1896) belonged to Dr. William Harriss, Dr. John D. Bellamys father-in-law, and was given to Eliza and John D. Bellamy in 1839, the year of their marriage and of Dr. Harrisss untimely death just a few weeks after the ceremony. This organization has not appeared on the IRS Business Master File in a number of months. Of the other three daughters of Dr. and Mrs. Bellamy, Eliza and Ellen lived out their days unmarried in the family mansion on Market Street, while Kate Taylor died as an infant in 1858. The Bellamys did not move there until, A short time later the Parsleys purchased a home, in Lumberton and moved there, perhaps anticipating the, Trustees of the college and their president, Rev. Restoration of Slave Quarters is supported in part by Save Americas Treasures Grant Mrs. Bellamys formal gardens were not planted until closer to 1870, and when the mansion was first built there were no large shade trees like today. In 2004, Jack led the Historic Salisbury Foundation where he managed a robust historic properties redevelopment program and revolving fund, along with museum sites and advocacy campaigns for six years. home was built at Fifth and Market Streets. At the end of his enlistment in 1862, he returned to studies at, Chapel Hill for half a session, then raised a company of cavalry in Brunswick county for home defense. Dr. Bellamy lived here until their new. We are grateful to this group of individuals who devote their time to the betterment of Belmont Mansion. I recollect well when the seat of the Confederate government. Seven enslaved female African Americans lived in this building including Sarah, the housekeeper and cook, Mary Ann and Joan, nurses, Rosella, a nurse and laundress, and three children. Free blacks experienced little difficulty in securing employment in, North Carolina in the building trades. This organization has not yet reported any program information. Free Negroes usually held one, two, or, three slaves"These free-blacks in New Hanover County. Shannon L. Phillips, Director of Development. then Historic Preservation at the Clemson/College of Charleston Graduate Program in Historic Preservation. 2022 Board of Directors Executive Committee. Designed with Greek Revival and Italianate styling, this twenty-two room house was constructed with the labor of both enslaved skilled carpenters and freed black artisans. Post himself was, not known to own any slaves though he employed many. This year, the Bellamy Mansion Museum marks the 150th anniversary of house's completion. Dr. Bellamy kept 24 enslaved men between the ages of 18-40 living in 9 slave cabins. NC Humanities Council She joined Preservation North Carolina in early 2018 and now serves as Marketing Manager and Member Services. Having a visibly pleasing slave quarter gave the impression of high social status for the family. He ran away, but only to get under the feet of General Shermans forces. While in school getting her Bachelor of Fine Arts, she fell in love with architectural photography, and specifically historic architecture. The house remained the Bellamy's home for 80 years, surviving 2 generations of the family, until Ellen Douglas Bellamy, daughter of John and Eliza, died in 1946. Ante-bellum North Carolina, Guion Griffis Johnson, UNC Press, 1937 The second phase, which began in 2003, included more exterior repairs to all of the building's windows and doors. Click here for a full list of Preservation NCs Board of Directors. There was, a jar of young vegetables, in brine for pickling; one Yankee, tasted these and not finding them to his liking, spit. PO Box 27644 Covington Foundation, $10,000-$19,999 A native of Tupelo, Mississippi, Leslie spent many childhood summers vacationing at Wrightsville Beach with family and friends. (A99). His projects there included a log barn reconstruction for the Charlotte Museum of History, stabilization of structures at Historic Brattonsville, SC and work on several landmark properties in Charlotte and in Mecklenburg County. Ellen willed the property to dozens of nieces, nephews, and other family members, but none chose to make the mansion their residence. The Bellamy Mansion Museum of History and Design Arts is a stewardship property of Preservation North Carolina. Sarah served the Union officers and was most likely paid for service. When shes not working you can catch her hiking, camping, and canoeing around the state with her husband and 5-year-old pit-mix, baking anything sourdough, or enjoying a beer at a local brewery with friends. The town was full also of, Confederate soldiers, who encamped at Camp Lamb, in the northern part of the city, at the present site of, Delgado Cotton Mills, now Spofford Mills (todays, area of Wrightsville Avenue and Dawson Street), and, in South Wilmington, drilling to aid in the defense, of the city and the fortifications of the river, He continues: We happened to be, my father and I, at, Grovely Plantation, when Fort Fisher fell, and Fort Anderson, was evacuated, and the Confederate troops retreated to, Wilmington. A highlight of this was a study abroad year which allowed for much US travel and an epic Greyhound trip, at very low speeds, around 28 states in 35 days. Tony Bellamy, the caretaker, most likely conducted maintenance and grounds keeping on the property. The home was taken over by federal troops during the American Civil War, survived a disastrous fire in 1972, was home to two generations of Bellamy family members, and now following extensive restoration and preservation over several decades, the Bellamy Mansion is a fully functioning museum of history and design arts. She spent her youth either dancing in local performances or riding shotgun with her realtor Mom. Upon his death, Dr. Harriss left behind his wife, along with seven children and fourteen enslaved workers who were also living at the household. tailors, tanners, brick makers, carpenters, brick and stone masons, cabinet makers, caterers, blacksmiths and shoemakers, and they, often purchased their own black slaves to help in their businesses, The census of 1830 listed 192 free-blacks in North Carolina, who owned from one to 41 slaves, while almost half of that, By 1860, there were twenty-four free Negro mechanics plying their, trade in North Carolina. Jen has wonderful memories of her grandparents taking her on tours of downtown Wilmington and watching fireworks from the top of the old parking garage across from the Battleship. Grist Plantation was a turpentine plantation in Columbus County, near Chadbourn, North Carolina. After their wedding, Bellamy took over Dr. William James Harriss' medical practice in July 1839. Through its Endangered Properties Program, Preservation NC acquires endangered historic properties and then finds purchasers willing and able to rehabilitate them. [1], By 1860, as the Bellamy family prepared to move into their new home on Market Street, their family included eight children, ages ranging from one to nineteen. Chesley was almost 6 years old. prominent at the reception; he escorted me across the mall, and introduced me to the President, who put his hand on, my head and said to me, Young man, you will live to be, a good man and make a valiant soldier, I know. The train, departed shortly thereafter, carrying the visitors to, Richmond, where they established the new capital, The town of Wilmington was transformed with colorful, characters during the war, and the most daring were the, blockade runners who brought goods in and out of, Wilmington. The existence of free-black craftsmen in antebellum North Carolina. -- being wounded in the shoulder and knee at Gaines Mill. They were mostly from Indiana and Illinois. First Citizens Bank $40,000+ 1772 Foundation John and Eliza welcomed four of their own children into the Dock Street home before they moved across the street in 1846 to the former residence of the sixteenth governor, Benjamin Smith. Grovely Plantation was "an almost ten thousand acre" produce plantation on Town Creek in Brunswick County, now a present-day Brunswick Forest development, on which Dr. Bellamy raised livestock and crops such as "wheat, oats, corn, and peanuts." The Bellamys lived in the Dock Street home of Elizas newly widowed mother, Mary Priscilla Jennings Harriss. William developed a successful medical practice of his own, just as his father and grandfather had before in Wilmington. Being politically-active in antebellum Wilmington and having. Already have a GuideStar Account? He left for two years in 1837 to study at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and he returned to Wilmington in 1839 to marry Eliza, Harriss' eldest daughter and take over Dr. Harriss medical practice following Elizas fathers untimely death in July. (Yankee) Captain Sharpproved a "friend in need" and, treated mother and sister with respect, but was a thief, with it all; he showed us a pocket full of jewelry and s, aid that he had "captured" those handsome rugs in, Cheraw (South Carolina). Cathleen is a graduate of Emory University, with a Masters degree in Historic Preservation from the University of Georgia. 'till then how it felt to be hungry. The, ordinary procedure in teaching a slave a profession was to, bring him up under the tutelage of a slave craftsman or, apprentice him to a free tradesman. We had only milk and a barrel of scupperonong wine, made, the summer before at Grovely; when they tasted it and found it, too new and sweet, they pulled out the bung and let every bit, run on the ground. Having, no rice fields on Grovely, I have known him to get, at one, times, three thousand bushels of rough rice, which e bought, from Colonel Thomas C. Miller, at Orton Plantation; this was, hulled by his slaves in wooden mortars, with wooden. Administered by the National Park Service U.S. Department of Interior. TONY DIED SOMETIME BEFORE 1889 AROUND THE AGE OF 63. Dr. Bellamy was a secessionist, and he assumed the honor of heading the welcoming committee when Jefferson Davis visited Wilmington in late May. In what free time that leaves, she loves playing trivia with friends at the local brewery, going out to eat, and is an avid reader who is happiest curled up with a book and a glass of wine, and of course her cats! As the war continued, the Bellamys remained in residence at their new Market Street home. Box 27644 East wall of the slave quarters, facing our parking lot, Window to the privy on the east wall of the slave quarters, View from below of the second floor framework, Looking up at the upstairs fireplace through a hole in the floor, Panorama of the construction in the privies, Reconstruction of the walls in Sarahs room, Rogers Building Corporation who has helped us with the restoration process, Fireplace, bed frame, and old floorboards in the laundry room, Some original plasterwork above Sallys door, Deteriorating plaster above the fireplace, Contrast of old brick and new wood near the second floor window, Second floor of the slave quarters panorama, Looking down through the gaps in the second story floor. . Her two daughters live in Raleigh while attending NC State. Wagonloads of corpses roll down Market Street to Oakdale Cemetery, the first of more than 600 who will die. Wilmington were chiefly Whigs the Moores, the Hills. The Bellamy Mansion Museum is open Monday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Those wishing to view the exhibit can access it through the Carriage House Visitor Center. (portrait above fireplace. MR TONY BELLAMY, BORN IN NORTH CAROLINA CIRCA 1825 MARRIED ARBOR SULLIVAN PRIOR TO EMANCIPATION. She loves to travel, and loves the beach and mountains equally, but is always excited to visit new places. The house had sustained extensive damage to its plaster work and much of the original wood had been destroyed. Click here to resend it.). The Artists' Reception will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Feb. 24, and the public can attend for free. When the family returned, Mary Elizabeth and Eliza moved back in with their parents. Maggie is known for her love of holidays and over the top decorating, especially at Christmas, and of sports, especially Carolina Panthers football. Julianne manages Preservation North Carolinas education programs including the Shelter Series, annual conference, quarterly magazine, exhibits and publications. He claimed to have been, in politics, a former, Democrat, and was a candidate for the nomination for, president against General U.S. Grant. the spinners and weavers on the hand looms of the plantation. Alfred Moore Waddell in his 1909, History of New Hanover County notes that Bellamy's, Grovely Plantation was originally named Spring Garden.. Bellamy's shares last traded at $6.68, valuing the . The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick. Post-fire restoration efforts included stabilization of the slave quarters and near completion of the mansion's exterior restoration, but a full interior restoration required more money and time. Congressman married Emma M. Hargrove of Granville County; George, known as the Duke of Brunswick because of his, political connections, married Kate Thees; Chesley Calhoun. The Bellamy House was quickly occupied and chosen to be headquarters for the military staff. It was largely through his own industry that, James D. Sampson was able to become a respected and, wealthy citizen in Wilmington. Chronicles of the Cape Fear, James Sprunt, Edwards, Broughton, 1916, Architects and Builders in North Carolina, Bishir, UNC Press 1990 (LogOut/ The Bellamy Mansion, built between 1859 and 1861, is a mixture of Neoclassical architectural styles, including Greek Revival and Italianate, and is located at 503 Market Street in the heart of downtown Wilmington, North Carolina. As incoming Western Regional Director for Preservation NC, Jack will work to continue the legacy of success established over the past 18 years by his predecessor, Ted Alexander. 814 Oberlin Road She was born in New York and relocated to South Carolina at age 13. Closed due to the war, the college, was composed of two connected buildings, Parsley, moved his family there in 1861 and occupied the, front house. position that the Southern States were never out of the Union, their efforts at secession being unsuccessful, and being, restored to the former status as States of the Union, they, were entitled to representatives not only in Congress, Daughter Ellen Douglas Bellamy captured the Bellamys wartime. On March 1, 1865, General Joseph Roswell Hawley was placed in charge of the Wilmington District and assigned the Bellamy House. Cabinet arrived in Wilmington, on the way to Richmond, people welcomed them, en masse! [1] In the 1990s his great-grandson, William B. Gould IV, edited Goulds diary into a book titled, Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor. He took the. George became a farmer and took over Grovely Plantation, land that his father had purchased in 1842 in Brunswick County, North Carolina, later going on to serve multiple terms in the North Carolina Senate between 1893 and 1914. There they were, like a swarm of bees, through the woods---and did we run! Obtaining her real estate license in 2015, shes now the HR & Properties Director. "We have 80 volunteers. Over the next twenty-two years Dr. and Mrs. Bellamy welcomed ten children to their family: Annie wasnt born in North Carolina, but she got here as soon as she could. It was a night to live always in his memory, and of which, Bellamys Grovely Plantation in Brunswick County: Because the property's slave quarters were constructed only a few years before the abolition of slavery, they are some of the best preserved examples of urban slave housing in the country.
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