Designed to preserve a rich heritage, Treyburn is a captivating blend of past and present. Acquired by Bryan Properties in 2003, Treyburn was founded by Clay Hamner, Terry Sanford, Sr., Terry Sanford, Jr., and Frank Kenan in the 1980s. The neighborhood’s 5,300 acres were once part of North Carolina’s largest antebellum plantation. This land was home to the Cameron and Bennehan families from the 1700s to the mid-1900s. Duncan Cameron and Richard Bennehan helped plan the city of Raleigh, found the University of North Carolina and build the state capital. A resting place for Daniel Boone before his exploration west, this land also supported mercantile stores, a wide range of crops, mills, livestock and tobacco barns. The site of historically significant, mid-19th century houses and barns, the property’s signature building, the Great Barn, was built in 1860. Now on the National Register, the Barn was the largest agricultural building in North Carolina on the eve of the Civil War. After the Civil War, three generations of African Americans lived here, making their living as sharecroppers, storekeepers, domestic workers and blacksmiths. Running through Treyburn, the 17th-century Catawba Indian Trading Path supported Indian commerce from Virginia to Georgia prior to European colonization. The Path was a principal route for European settlement in the Piedmont. Treyburn, a veritable landmark, has a bright future built on the foundation of honoring its past.