Verona (Jackson, North Carolina)

Verona is a historic plantation house located near Jackson, Northampton County, North Carolina.  It was built about 1855, and is a one-story, six bay, "T"-shaped, Italian Villa style frame dwelling.   It has a hipped roof, is sheathed in weatherboard, and sits on a brick basement.   It features a full-width porch, with flat sawnwork posts and delicate openwork brackets.   Also on the property is  the contributing family cemetery.   The house was built for Matt Whitaker Ransom (1826-1904), Confederate brigadier general, United States senator, and minister to Mexico, and his wife Martha Exum. 

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 

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Category:Historic American Buildings Survey in North Carolina
Category:Plantation houses in North Carolina
Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
Category:Italianate architecture in North Carolina
Category:Houses completed in 1855
Category:Houses in Northampton County, North Carolina
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Northampton County, North Carolina