{"nrhp_refnum":"86003455","name":"Cedarock Park Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"SR 2409","address_restricted":false,"city":"Graham","county":"Alamance County","state":"NC","lat":35.98966778700006,"lon":-79.44171709683553,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-12-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Cedarock Park Historic District is a 414-acre county natural area park with a historical focus, located east of Friendship-Patterson Mill Road about six miles southwest of Graham in Alamance County, North Carolina. It contains two early nineteenth-century farmsteads, a rock dam and a grist mill site.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant for its representative vernacular Greek Revival farmhouses and outbuildings, which illustrate nineteenth-century piedmont farm life, and for its associated long-lived milling and agricultural activity. It also notes that the district served as a local post office site and community center.","narrative":"Cedarock Park is a 414-acre county park in rural southwest Alamance County, North Carolina, set on former farmland with rolling pastures, hardwood stands and rock outcroppings along Rock Creek. Its two surviving farmhouses, the c. 1820 Curtis House and the c. 1835 George W. Garrett House, are two-story frame dwellings in the vernacular Greek Revival style, and the Garrett farm keeps a log kitchen, smokehouse, corncrib and barn. The district is also marked by a rock dam and the foundation of the Huffman grist mill, which operated on Rock Creek from around 1850 until the early 1930s. Post offices at both farmsteads gave the area a community role in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The district is regarded as an intact record of antebellum and postwar farm life in the piedmont, with its buildings, setting and associated mill sites still legible today.","period_of_significance":"C. 1820 - C. 1930","architect_builder":"John F. Garrett, owner/builder, c. 1835, 1868; and various or unknown","architectural_style":"Greek Revival (vernacular)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Garrett House now serves as the Park Ranger's office; Spoon House is in use as a park concession stand.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.254618-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/24/7188/47718824/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/86003455.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003455/2dab4552d8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003455/2dab4552d8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"The original uploader was 5minutes at English Wikipedia.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CedarockWaterfall.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">The original uploader was 5minutes at English Wikipedia.</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CedarockWaterfall.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718824","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedarock_Park_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5056984"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/alamance-county/cedarock-park-historic-district-86003455/"}