Flowers Plantation Offers Rural Living With City Appeal
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Flowers Plantation may be 3,000 acres of planned residential living, but it still looks much as it did in 1905 when Joshua Washington Flowers purchased the Dr. Watson farm.
The land eventually passed to Joshua Percy Flowers, who owned the property from the 1920s to 1982. Flowers is a local legend around Johnston County, and the community on his former estate has been slowly building and expanding since the mid-1980s. The chief goal of the developer has been to maintain the rural, farm-like atmosphere. This was made possible by a development company’s singular vision, including a master plan that calls for new buildings to resemble existing historical structures while providing the amenities that people demand, say Holden Royall and Chris Walters of the plantation’s marketing division.
“Johnston County is growing in such leaps as a result of its close proximity to the Research Triangle and Raleigh,” Royall and Walters say. “Flowers Plantation has 3,000 contiguous acres beginning along the Neuse River and falling east to the banks of Buffalo Creek. The beautiful landscape of Johnston County, with streams and the river, made perfect areas for the pedestrian and biking trails which connect from one neighborhood to the next.”
More than 2,000 property owners now live in the community, which includes the Pineville Club Spa and the Dr. Watson Inn, a historic bed-and-breakfast.
Two elementary schools operate within Flowers Plantation’s borders - East Clayton Elementary, which opened in 1996, and River Dell Elementary, which opened in 2003.
Story by Joe Morris
Photo by Ian Curcio
