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Mowfield Plantation

Northampton County, NC

Mowfield Plantation in the 1920s. Mowfield was the birthplace of the thoroughbred
racehorse Sir Archy (1805-1833). The story of this famous horse is told in a book
by Elizabeth Amis Cameron Blanchard and Manly Wade Wellman titled The Life and
Times of Sir Archie
and published in 1958 by the University of North Carolina Press.

North Carolina Collection - Photographic Archives
University of North Carolina Library at Chapel Hill

Sir Archy

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