{"nrhp_refnum":"86001657","name":"Woodard Family Rural Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Along US 264","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wilson","county":"Wilson County","state":"NC","lat":35.68867883550004,"lon":-77.84115940749439,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-08-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural historic district of about 550 acres in eastern Wilson County, North Carolina, in the fork of Toisnot Swamp and White Oak Swamp along Rt. 264. It contains four farmhouses built between about 1832 and 1911 by the Woodard family, with associated farm outbuildings.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be significant for its link to the agricultural prosperity of eastern Wilson County in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is also tied to prominent Woodard family members, including farmers, Baptist preachers and businessmen. Its farmhouses show a progression of styles from Federal to Colonial Revival, and three generations of family houses survive on land still farmed.","narrative":"Four farmhouses and their outbuildings make up this rural district of roughly 550 acres in eastern Wilson County, North Carolina, set in the fork of Toisnot Swamp and White Oak Swamp along Rt. 264. William Woodard, a prosperous farmer, began acquiring the land in 1823. His c. 1832 Federal plantation house is the oldest dwelling. Later houses include two mid-nineteenth century vernacular and Greek Revival farmhouses and a Colonial Revival residence remodeled in 1911 from a modest earlier home. Frame packhouses, smokehouses, tobacco barns and tenant houses survive nearby. The district matters because three generations of farmhouses built by one family remain on land still used for farming. It reflects the prosperity of the area from the plantation era through the flue-cured tobacco boom. Its owners included Baptist preachers, deacons and local businessmen. Twenty-nine dwellings and farm buildings contribute to the district.","period_of_significance":"Ca. 1832 - 1920s","architect_builder":"Unknown (the c. 1832 William Woodard house is said by family tradition to have been built by James Bullock Woodard; C. C. Rackley, a Wilson contractor, raised the L. P. Woodard House to two stories in 1911)","architectural_style":"Federal, Greek Revival, vernacular farmhouses and Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Occupied, in good condition and altered; the land remains in agricultural use, mainly corn and tobacco.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.038243-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/39/7187/47718739/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/86001657.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718739","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodard_Family_Rural_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22061154"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wilson-county/woodard-family-rural-historic-district-86001657/"}