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This photo details a scarf joint and pegged tenon as well as some white-washed interior siding. The scarf joint is a technique applied when one does not have a timber quite long enough for the task at hand. The builder makes an intricate butt joint…

This photograph has in the foreground the door to one of the rooms of one of the Horton Grove homes in Stagville. Visible also is the pine flooring as well as the white-washed timber frame that is also brick-nogged as well as the white-washed…

This window shutter is constructed of pine boards running vertically with support boards nailed across a large amount of cut nails. The metal hinges are also nailed to the shutter, which still swings freely.

These slats are above each door of every house in the Evergreen homes. They appear to be cypress, like the rest of the home most likely would have been, and one can see upon a closer inspection the knife lines that marked the width of the mortise…

This line is from the bankruptcy and asset evaluation of Pierre Clidamon Becnel, then owner of Evergreen Plantation, from April 20, 1835. It shows that there were at the time twelve enslaved peoples' homes, which were valued at a total of $1,200.

These short paragraphs given an overview of the tasks that Pierre Becnel contracted with John Carver to perform on the main house of Evergreen Plantation

This photo shows the outside of one of the twenty-two still extant Evergreen homes. Save one board, all of the siding over the timber frame remains in place and the doors and window shutters all close fully to protect from the elements.

This information from the National Historic Register details the twenty-two still extant homes at Evergreen. This was part of a larger document that includes a total of thirty-seven buildings that are on the National Historic Register.

This photo shows light pouring through some missing exterior siding. It shines on the pegged post that is covered in cobwebs.

This is an example of a scarf joint from the Great Barn at Stagville. This one is a stop-slayed, undersquinted scarf joint with a wedge, one of the strongest scarf joints that demonstrates a tremendous amount of skill.