The Crater family farm is located in Hamptonville,
N.C. on Windsor Road approximately 2 miles from Buck Shoals Creek
and 3 miles south of Highway 421. The creek was the home of Buck
Shoals Mill, a water wheel grist mill that was built around 1880.
The mill operated until the 1950s and the structure was finally
razed in the 1960s. A picture circa 1890 of this local mill became
the logo for Buck Shoals Vineyard.
The Crater farms were farmed by five generations with the primary
crops being tobacco, corn, grain, cattle and chickens. The current
vineyard site sits at an elevation of approximately 1150 feet and
has both east and west facing slopes. Springs from the property
feed ponds which later drain into Buck Shoals Creek.
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