{"nrhp_refnum":"09000504","name":"Foust-Carpenter and Dean Dick Farms","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"E. and W. sides of Mt. Hope Church Rd., N. and S. sides of Carpenter House Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Whitsett","county":"Guilford County","state":"NC","lat":36.02979370450004,"lon":-79.62615344758876,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-07-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 325.24-acre rural farm district in southeastern Guilford County, North Carolina, near Whitsett, containing six dwellings and thirty outbuildings along Mt. Hope Church and Carpenter House Roads. It was developed by the Foust, Carpenter and Dick families from the mid-nineteenth century onward.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is the most intact agricultural landscape in southeastern Guilford County's Jefferson Township, kept together by continuous family ownership while surrounding farms were subdivided. It preserves farmhouses, tenant houses, barns and sheds, field patterns and farm roads that have changed little since 1937. It also documents the farm of Ernest \"Dean\" Dick, an African American landowner, alongside the larger Foust and Carpenter farms.","narrative":"Along Mt. Hope Church and Carpenter House Roads near Whitsett, a 325-acre farm district preserves a working rural landscape in southeastern Guilford County. It includes six dwellings and thirty outbuildings, among them a circa 1898 I-house built for John C. Foust, tenant houses, a nineteenth-century log house, frame barns, corn cribs, pack houses and equipment sheds. Eighteen irregular fields, some terraced, and a network of dirt farm roads follow patterns visible in aerial photographs from 1937. The land was held continuously by the Foust, Carpenter and Dick families, and the Carpenters still grow corn, barley, wheat, tobacco and hay and raise cattle. The Dean Dick farm, started by an African American farmer who bought land in 1905, adds a log dwelling, milk barn and icehouse. Surrounding farms have been subdivided for housing, which makes this the most intact agricultural landscape in Jefferson Township and the reason for its listing.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Other: Two-story frame I-House","criteria":[],"status_note":"Farming continues, with corn, barley, wheat, tobacco and hay grown and cattle raised. The John C. and Barbara Foust House has served as a tenant house since 1918 and was repaired in 2009. The log house served as a rental until about 2005.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.996113-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/90/7204/47720490/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/09000504.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720490","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foust%E2%80%93Carpenter_and_Dean_Dick_Farms","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19461817"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/guilford-county/foust-carpenter-and-dean-dick-farms-09000504/"}