James Latta

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1st marriage in Ireland: Elizabeth Houston.

CHILDREN OF JAMES LATTA & ELIZABETH HOUSTON LATTA:

• 1.William Latta b:09 Oct 1781 m:Mary Pamelia Woods on Dec 1811
• 2.Robert Latta b:21 Aug 1783 Find A Grave Memorial# 8596251 1st m:Jane Allison on 04 Nov 1806. 2nd m:Eliza Dilworth b:09 Oct 1821

2nd marriage in USA: Jane Allison Knox m: April 12, 1796, Lincoln Co., NC

CHILDREN OF JAMES LATTA & JANE KNOX LATTA:

• 1.Mary Margaret Allison(Polly)Latta m:James Gilbraith Torrence
• 2.Elizabeth (Betsy) Latta m:Benjamin Wilson Davidson
• 3.Nancy Angelina Latta m:Rufus Reid
• 4.Ezekiel Latta Find A Grave Memorial# 24054187

James Latta is "Latta Branch #12" as established by Robert H. Lattas' work, located in the "Library of Congress", Rare Book Room, Washington, DC.. In 1792 James Latta was in Ireland educating his son's. He came to America in 1792 to administer on John's estate, which show's that he was probably a brother. Only one son, Robert, came with him. They walked from Charleston, South Carolina, to Lincoln, North Carolina and were taken in and cared for by a gentleman named Albert Torrence. On account of the shock of the wreck and the walk his mind left him. He later sent for another son, William Latta. His first wife died in Ireland, Elizabeth Houston. There were other children of this marriage but James Latta only brought Robert & William. From the works of Robert H. Latta, "Library of Congress."

Latta Plantation circa 1800, is the last remaining Catawba River plantation open to the public. The 62 acre farm of James Latta, a Scot - Irish merchant, is on the National Register of Historic Sites and consists of the original home and smoke house, enhanced by eleven other outbuildings, as well as fields, farm animals, a garden,and interpreters in period clothing. Latta Plantation is located just north of Charlotte, NC. Traveling South on I-77, exit 23, Huntersville, NC.

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Built in 1800, Latta Place was owned by James Latta, an immigrant from Northern Ireland. A successful traveling merchant through 1820, Mr. Latta then retired and turned his property into a cotton plantation consisting of 742 acres and 34 enslaved people. After Mr. Latta's death in 1837, his wife Jane sold the property to David Harry. In 1853, William Sample purchased the property, which was owned by the Sample family until 1922. Crescent Land and Timber, a subsidiary of Duke Power, then purchased the property because of its proximity to the Catawba River, and rented the home out to tenant farmers, until the house was abandoned in the 1950s.

In the 1970s, a group of citizens recognized the structural and historical significance of Latta Place and formed a private non-profit entity, Latta Place, Inc., to save and restore the property. With much diligence, and due in large part to the efforts of Jean Boggs, Latta Place, Inc. secured $110,000 from Mecklenburg County to restore the home, and opened it to the public in the mid 1970s. At that point Latta Place, Inc. donated the house and land to Mecklenburg County and recommended that the adjacent property be purchased by the county to form what is now Latta Plantation Nature Preserve.

Today, Historic Latta Plantation is still operated by Latta Place, Inc. In addition to daily tours, Latta offers 35 special events each year, five themed summer day camps, homeschool programs, workshops, educational field trips, and daily tours year-round. The 12,000 school children that visit the site annually are able to participate in unique interactive historical programming, visit rare and endangered breeds of historic livestock, see the process of growing short-staple cotton first hand, visit our honeybee exhibit, and much more!

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