page_title: Cooleemee
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Cooleemee / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: Broadside advertising the sale of 1,000 acres of land by order of the Superior Court of Forsythe County, North Carolina, belonging to Peter Hairston, and by order of F. C. Hairston, Commissioner.
context_page_description: Cooleemee, also known as the Cooleemee Plantation House, is a house located between Mocksville and Lexington, North Carolina, at the terminus of SR 1812 on the Yadkin River in Davie County, North Carolina. It is a U.S. National Historic Landmark, designated in 1978 for its architecture.
context_section_description: In 1999, Henry Wiencek published The Hairstons: An American Family In Black And White, which told the story of the Hairston family, which continues to own Cooleemee, and of the plantation and its history over the past 150 years. This family, with black and white branches due to slavery, have continued to hold reunions at Cooleemee that honor their family's history and roots in the region. Wiencek, in the course of his preparation for this book, witnessed what he considered to be extraordinary interactions between members of the Hairston Family. In the course of his research, Wiencek learned that the Hairstons were not only the largest slaveholding family in the South, but also slave traders.
  Peter Wilson Hairston, the latest Hairston to own the property at the end of the 20th century, published a book in 1986 accounting the history of the family's enslaved people, which helped other research into the family and the property. Hairston died in February 2007 in the same bed in which he was born.
caption: Public sale of Hairston lands, Forsyth County, North Carolina, 1888
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