{"nrhp_refnum":"84000561","name":"McLeod Family Rural Complex","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":".4 miles west of US 1","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pine Bluff","county":"Moore County","state":"NC","lat":35.07577276300006,"lon":-79.50162218517285,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-12-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural farm district near Pine Bluff in Moore County, North Carolina, of about 225 acres, made up of two McLeod family houses (ca. 1840 and 1884), their outbuildings and the surrounding family farmland and woodland.","why_significant":"The complex is presented as physical evidence of the social and economic progression of an immigrant Highland Scot family in the sandhills. The John McLeod House is a rare antebellum dogtrot with its open breezeway fully intact, and the Alex McLeod House is a typical, largely unaltered late 19th century farmhouse. The property is also the documented site of a March 1865 Union overnight camp.","narrative":"Two farmhouses, a collection of outbuildings and some 225 acres of fields and woods near Pine Bluff make up this McLeod family complex in southern Moore County. John McLeod, a Highland Scot immigrant, had a dogtrot house built about 1840; its open breezeway survives intact, which the form considers perhaps unique in the sandhills. Nearly a mile away stands the two-story frame house built in 1884 for his son Alex, with sawnwork porch brackets, a wide sidelighted front door and simple vernacular interiors. Outbuildings include the family's earlier saddle-notched log house, barns, a crib, a root cellar and a smokehouse. The land has stayed in family hands since the early 1800s, and the farmland between the houses preserves the visual link between them. Union troops under General Kilpatrick also camped on the property on March 8, 1865. The complex was listed as an intact record of small-farm life among Highland Scot families.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Joseph Rosy? (family tradition says Belgian architect Joseph Rosy built the Alex McLeod House)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C","D"],"status_note":"The John McLeod House is abandoned except for agricultural storage (hay); the Alex McLeod House is largely unaltered. The form lists the status as occupied and unoccupied, with present use as agriculture, private residence and vacant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:48.571592-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/21/7214/47721421/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/84000561.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721421","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLeod_Family_Rural_Complex","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987059"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/moore-county/mcleod-family-rural-complex-84000561/"}