Owner of Little Cigars mansion to be sold

RALEIGH, N.C. - The state's top elected officials agreed Tuesday to sell a 1920s mansion in Rockingham County with a failed history as a museum to a cigarette executive for $4.12 million.

The Council of State, with six members attending, voted without dissent to sell the Chinqua-Penn Plantation to Calvin A. Phelps. The Council of State, a body led by Gov. Mike Easley that includes nine other top elected statewide officials, has to approve land deals.

Phelps owns Alternative Brands Inc., the Mocksville-based manufacturer of little cigars and Tucson cigarettes.

....theres some history up for sale...

AP Wire | 07/11/2006 | N.C. sells vacant Rockingham plantation to cigarette executive

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