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Benjamin Hawkins Burying Ground

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Location	:	Biltmore, Buncombe County, USA
Coordinate	:	35.5582050, -82.5887670
Description	:	The Benjamin Hawkins Burying Ground is located on the Biltmore Estate. The Biltmore Company allowed the family to mark the graves of their ancestors during a ceremony conducted in 2003. Benjamin Hawkins owned 700 acres of land known by the Vanderbilt family as the Peninsula Plantation because it is located at a crook in the French Broad River. The largest portion of the tract was acquired from Col. Joseph McDowell a hero of the Battle of Kings Mountain, a land speculator, who may have received the land for service during the Revolution. Col. McDowel conveyed the... Read More	The Benjamin Hawkins Burying Ground is located on the Biltmore Estate. The Biltmore Company allowed the family to mark the graves of their ancestors during a ceremony conducted in 2003. Benjamin Hawkins owned 700 acres of land known by the Vanderbilt family as the Peninsula Plantation because it is located at a crook in the French Broad River. The largest portion of the tract was acquired from Col. Joseph McDowell a hero of the Battle of Kings Mountain, a land speculator, who may have received the land for service during the Revolution. Col. McDowel conveyed the tract to Benjamin Hawkins by Burke County deed in 1786. Col McDowell was the first owner of the tract since the Indians did not recognize land ownership and Benjamin Hawkins was the first caucasion settler to live on and farm the land. What was the Hawkins Plantation now includes the Antique Farm Equipment Museum, the Winery, two restaurants, the Antler Hill shops, and the Inn on Biltmore. It was owned by Benjamin Hawkins at his death in 1827 and was left to the two younger sons with the two older sons named as guardians subject to a life estate of his widow under the terms of his Will which was found during the early part of 2013 among the land records of George Vanderbilt who had acquired the tract in the late 1880's. The cemetery sits on the crest of a hill behind the Antique Farm Equipment Museum. You take the dirt road known as Antler Hill Road and travel to just short of the turn back over to the Inn on Biltmore. At that point you need to crawl over a fence and walk over the pasture to the top of the hill. To go on the Biltmore Estate, one needs to pay admission or seek special permission of the owners for the purpose of vistiting the family graveyard.

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