{"nrhp_refnum":"99000509","name":"Hood-Anderson Farm","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Old Battle Bridge Rd., 0.4 mi. S of jct. with Old Tarboro Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Eagle Rock","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.79912087900007,"lon":-78.40701484429783,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-04-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Social History","Architecture","Historic - Aboriginal"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 138-acre rural farm complex along Old Battle Bridge Road near Eagle Rock in eastern Wake County, North Carolina, centered on a house of about 1839 built by William Henry Hood on land bought in 1837.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the farm as an exceptionally complete antebellum agricultural complex that also documents later cotton and tobacco farming through the 1940s. It includes an 1854 general store and post office described as the only antebellum store building known to survive in the county, plus tenant/slave housing and archaeological sites. It is listed under Criteria A, C and D for agriculture, social history, architecture and archeology.","narrative":"Hood-Anderson Farm occupies 138 acres on both sides of Old Battle Bridge Road near Eagle Rock in eastern Wake County. It is what remains of a 364-acre tract William Henry Hood bought in 1837. The centerpiece is a two-story house of about 1839 that blends Federal and Greek Revival features, with a porch added in 1917. Nearby are an 1854 general store and post office, a one-room dwelling, a two-room tenant or slave house, a 1912 barn, tobacco barns, a smokehouse, garages and a family cemetery. Sites include a cotton gin, a blacksmith shop, a dam on Buffalo Creek and a remnant of the old Tarboro Road. The farm is significant as an unusually complete antebellum agricultural complex. Its buildings and landscape trace the shift from slave-worked cotton to cotton and tobacco farming by the Anderson family, and through the Depression years. The store is noted as the only antebellum store building known to survive in the county, and several sites may yield archaeological information.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1830s-1948","architect_builder":"Hood, William Henry","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C","D"],"status_note":"Several buildings are in fair or poor condition, with vandalism damage to the main house windows. The barn and a 1930 tobacco barn are in good condition. Tobacco is still grown in the fields, and a tenant lives on the property in a mobile home.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.223868-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/19/7185/47718519/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/99000509.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000509/8611ca043c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000509/8611ca043c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"TheAnonymousPhotographer","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hood-Anderson_Slave_House_2.png\" rel=\"noopener\">TheAnonymousPhotographer</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hood-Anderson_Slave_House_2.png"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718519","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hood%E2%80%93Anderson_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5897403"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/hood-anderson-farm-99000509/"}