Clayton Family Farm

Clayton Family Farm occupies about twenty-five acres where Stanleyville Drive meets NC 66 in northern Forsyth County, now at the edge of Winston-Salem. The land has belonged to one family since the late eighteenth century. Its fifteen resources include the ca. 1800 weatherboarded log John Clayton House, the 1879 two-story brick Matthew C. Clayton House with Italianate details, a store built around 1910, log and frame outbuildings, a family cemetery, and a pond site. Twelve resources contribute to its historic character. Two old roadbeds, the Great Wagon Road and Old Hollow Road, crossed here and put the family at a busy crossroads. Travelers watered their animals at the "open pond," which appears on an eighteenth-century map of Wachovia. The farm grew corn, tobacco, wheat and potatoes, and the store served the neighborhood. The property keeps a high degree of integrity of setting and materials, though only a fraction of the original Clayton land remains.