Tucker Farm; the land upon which Meredith College relocated in 1926 and dedicated to the Tucker Family
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Tucker, Rufus Sylvester & Tucker Family
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Tucker Farm; the land upon which Meredith College relocated in 1926 and dedicated to the Tucker Family
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The land upon which Meredith College was relocated in 1926 is celebrated as the "Tucker Farm" in college histories and archival webpages. Tucker Farm was the estate upon which Rufus Sylvester Tucker, his brother, William H. Tucker, and mother, Lucinda M. Tucker lived during the antebellum and postbellum periods. The Tucker family was among the wealthiest in Wake County and each family member appears as a slave holder in census records. Collectively the Tuckers enslaved twenty four persons in 1860, a fact ignored in campus descriptions of the property. The Tuckers were wealthy merchants and Rufus served the Confederacy as a quartermaster and cavalry officer during the Civil War. During and after the Civil War portions of the Tucker estate served as components of Confederate Camp Mangum, Fort Polk during World War I, a North Carolina state prison farm, and a reformatory known as the Polk Youth Center. Rufus Tucker's heirs would ultimately sell a portion of this estate for the 1926 relocation of Meredith College from downtown to its current 225 acre location on the western edge of Raleigh, North Carolina.
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225 acres situated on the western side of Raleigh in Wake County, North Carolina.
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1926
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