Edgewood Farm
Eastfield Road in Northern Mecklenburg County is like many other rural, now increasingly suburban, two-lane roads in the Charlotte Area. A collection of entrances to subdivisions and corner shopping centers mixed in with rural ranch homes, and if you are lucky, a few remaining farms. About one mile east of the intersection of NC 115 and Eastfield Road, the past, present, and future of the area intersect. Here, a new residential subdivision is sprouting up within feet of an old historic farmhouse called the Edgewood Farm. While recent overgrowth has the Edgewood property look ragged. The home was painstakingly taken care of by the McLeod family. The Edgewood Farmhouse is one of the last remaining intact antebellum plantation homes still standing in Mecklenburg County. The home, built around 1853 (or 1840), belonged to Robert Davidson Alexander and his wife, Abigail Bain Caldwell Alexander. The two were married in 1829. Alexander was the son of Willian Bain A...
