Latta Plantation is a c.1800 Federal style National Register historic site situated on 16 acres within Mountain Island Lake's Latta Nature Preserve. In addition to the home’s Federal style, it also contains some elements of Georgian design, including the house's main staircase. Architectural elements of the Latta House and its’ documented transfers of ownership are well detailed in this Charlotte Landmarks Commission Report.

Predating the construction of the plantation, the land was lived on by Indigenous tribes. In 1799, James Latta, a traveling merchant and planter who immigrated from to America from Ireland in 1785, paid $600 for a 100-acre tract of land on the east side of the Catawba River from Moses Hays. It is believed that Latta, then living in nearby Lincoln County, had his plantation house constructed there shortly thereaftert.

Latta had three daughters who were educated at Salem Academy (then a boarding school for girls, now a women's college located in Old Salem in Winston-Salem, North Carolina), and who became the mistresses of some of the finest plantations in the area - Oak Lawn, Cedar Grove, and Mount Mourne.

The Latta property now also houses the Ezekiel Alexander Log Home, a log building built between 1760 and 1790, that formerly sat in nearby Charlotte.

Latta is owned by Mecklenburg County and is maintained by the county’s Parks and Recreation department. The site was operated by a nonprofit as a living history museum providing visitors glimpses into 19th century antebellum life in the Carolina backcountry until its abrupt closure in 2021 after a description of an upcoming Juneteenth event in marketing materials was ill-received by the public.

Plans for the historic sites’ reimagining, renovation, and reopening were announced in a public information session in March 2025. The Final Interpretive Master Plan and the Public Meeting Presentation detailing the reopening plans and the sites’ rebranded name, Latta Place, as well as the most up-to-date information on the reopening project and its’ timeline can be found on the Mecklenburg County Parks and Recreation website and on the sites’ Historic Latta Reimagined page under Active Surveys & Projects.