By 1860, the Bennehan and Cameron families' Stagville plantation complex spanned roughly 30,000 acres and held nearly 900 enslaved people, making it one of the largest plantations in North Carolina and among the largest in the American South. The surviving Horton Grove quarters, four two-story dwellings built around 1851, are the only structures of their kind still standing in North Carolina, and archaeological work there has documented enslaved families who lived at Stagville for as many as five generations. After emancipation, some formerly enslaved families remained nearby as sharecroppers, while others moved into Durham and became founders of the city's Black business community, including the Hart family, whose descendants helped establish businesses on Durham's Black Wall Street.