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Harriet Butler Henderson NC: Exploring the Legacy

By Tammy Oct 07, 2026
a large white house sitting on top of a dirt field
a large white house sitting on top of a dirt field

The Harper House at Bentonville Battlefield in North Carolina

Genealogy - Family History in TN (photo of Rufus Hardy Haney of Henderson and Madison Counties) http://genealogytrails.com/tenn/

a large white house sitting on top of a dirt field
a large white house sitting on top of a dirt field

Vicki Butler-henderson

Photo by Albert Barden. From the Albert Barden Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC.

built in 1857 in Rutherford county nc. Used as Union headquarters in 1860

Free Records for Researching Family Ancestry in TN
Free Records for Researching Family Ancestry in TN
Family Genealogy, Genealogy, Family History, Mona Lisa, Family Photos, Historical Figures, History
Family Genealogy, Genealogy, Family History, Mona Lisa, Family Photos, Historical Figures, History

Harriett Baptist Church Henderson Nc

A drawing of Harriet Jacobs by Keith White, 1994. Image from the State Archives of North Carolina.

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Photo by Albert Barden. From the Albert Barden Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC.

Vicki Butler-henderson

N_53_16_2078 Hillcrest Housing Project Office and Nursery, Wilmington 1945 | by State Archives of North Carolina

https://flic.kr/p/HVGqME | PhC_232_1 | Leala Smoot Knox and one of her children, Cabarrus and Iredell Counties, NC, c.1909 (African American). See also PhC_232_2 and a Bible Record for this family, State Archives of North Carolina call number 400.2611. From the Smoot-Knox Family Photo Collection, PhC.232, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC.

an old black and white photo of a woman standing in front of a large house
an old black and white photo of a woman standing in front of a large house
Portrait Tattoo, Tattoos
Portrait Tattoo, Tattoos
an old black and white photo of a woman with a snake on her head wearing a hat
an old black and white photo of a woman with a snake on her head wearing a hat
Jacobs, Harriet
Jacobs, Harriet
an old black and white photo of a woman in glasses with pearls on her necklace
an old black and white photo of a woman in glasses with pearls on her necklace
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Discovering grits, black history & the ‘big house’ in NC - Auction Finds
Discovering grits, black history & the ‘big house’ in NC - Auction Finds
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Families
Families

Madison Hemings’s daughter Harriet Hemings Butler Spears (Courtesy of Shay Banks-Young). Click 'visit' for further reading. Source: monticello.org