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Castle Hayne
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s o th e r Ed e n
by Jamie Walker
photography by Allison Potter | historic photos courtesy of The Swart Family
Castle Hayne, originally Castle Haynes, is eight miles northwest of
Wilmington, on the northeast branch of the Cape Fear River.
Named for Roger Haynes’ 17-room castle-like plantation home
that dominated the area in the 1700s, John Burgwin, builder of
the historic Burgwin-Wright house in downtown Wilmington, married Roger
Haynes’ daughter in 1753, and subsequently acquired “Castle Haynes.” Burgwin
renamed the plantation, “The Hermitage,” and deemed it his country home.
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