{"nrhp_refnum":"79003343","name":"Person-McGhee Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"US 1","address_restricted":false,"city":"Franklinton","county":"Franklin County","state":"NC","lat":36.16153337350005,"lon":-78.45234191959997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-06-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farm on the south side of the Tar River at Chavis Bridge in Franklinton Township, Franklin County, North Carolina, consisting of a substantially expanded farmhouse and more than a dozen agricultural buildings set in a rolling valley. The core house dates from the early nineteenth century, with a large Queen Anne style section added in the 1890s.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the farm's main importance lies in its exceptional rural setting and its well-preserved collection of outbuildings, which document changes in farming from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. The house is cited as a representative Federal-period domestic building in Franklin County and as one of the most elaborate Queen Anne style houses in the county. The farm is also linked to Wyatt Lemuel McGhee, a merchant whose furnishing business and orchard terracing are described in detail.","narrative":"Set in a self-contained valley south of the Tar River at Chavis Bridge in Franklin County, the Person-McGhee Farm combines an early nineteenth-century house with a large Queen Anne style residence built in the 1890s in front of it. The older core is a three-bay, two-story frame dwelling over a stone cellar with a modillion cornice and a two-room plan. Land was acquired by Joseph A. Person in 1846 through a division of his father's estate. In 1883 the property passed to Wyatt Lemuel McGhee, a merchant whose general store and tobacco warehouse made him a prominent Franklinton figure. McGhee terraced the hillsides and planted plum, peach, apple and mulberry trees. Later generations shifted the farm toward poultry, strip-cropping and cattle. The house and its outbuildings are valued as a group that shows how farming practice changed over a century, and the open views across the valley are regarded as the farm's most distinctive quality.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal; Queen Anne; Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Used as a farm; pasture for black Angus cattle; the property is held as a private residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.373336-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/4/7203/47720304/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/79003343.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003343/2a7ba6b23d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003343/2a7ba6b23d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Mld74","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McGheeFarm.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Mld74</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McGheeFarm.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720304","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person%E2%80%93McGhee_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987521"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/franklin-county/person-mcghee-farm-79003343/"}