{"nrhp_refnum":"89000467","name":"Williams, Isaac, House (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["See Also:Williams, Isaac, House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NC 55 at jct. with NC 50","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newton Grove","county":"Sampson County","state":"NC","lat":35.24633014400004,"lon":-78.38006813398528,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-06-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A boundary increase adding 37.59 acres of farm fields, woodland, a family cemetery and outbuildings to the 2.8-acre Isaac Williams House property south of NC 55 near Newton Grove, Sampson County, North Carolina. The house itself dates to about 1867.","why_significant":"The added land has been tied to the house since its construction and is the productive farmland behind the house's agricultural significance. Isaac Williams became a large, successful farmer in Westbrook Township, and the land stayed in the same family. The 1983 listing left the farmland out, and this increase corrects that.","narrative":"This boundary increase brings the working land of the Isaac Williams farm into the historic property near Newton Grove in Sampson County. It adds about 37.6 acres of cultivated fields, woodland, a family cemetery and several outbuildings to the original 2.8-acre home lot, for a total of 40.39 acres. Williams bought the farm in 1867 and built his house soon after. He ranked among the county's larger farmers, producing corn, cotton, wheat, livestock and turpentine from longleaf pine. The farm passed through his sons and grandson, and the same family has owned and lived on it ever since. The cemetery holds Isaac and Laura Williams, and an iron fence surrounds it. A circa 1867 servants quarters, moved from behind the house, also survives. Later additions include a 1960 brick ranch house and two tobacco barns. The earlier listing omitted the farmland, but it is the productive base of the house's agricultural history, so it was added for its association with local farming from 1867 to 1936.","period_of_significance":"1867-1936","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"No style","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Farmland is still cultivated, now rented to another farmer; the main house was restored and enlarged as a residence; the servants quarters is used for storage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.958505-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/11/7222/47722211/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/89000467.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722211","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Williams_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24436281"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/sampson-county/williams-isaac-house-boundary-increase-89000467/"}