Farmington Historic District

Farmington is a rural crossroads community in northeastern Davie County, North Carolina, built around the intersection of NC Highway 801 North and Farmington Road. The community began in 1837, when George Wesley Johnson opened a general store and post office there. Through the late nineteenth century it served as a trading hub with tobacco factories, roller mills, sawmills and a distillery, though most residents still depended on farming. Its buildings, dating from about 1850 through the mid-twentieth century, include vernacular farmhouses and examples of Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Craftsman, Colonial Revival and Ranch styles. The Johnson Family House, built of brick in 1854-55, is cited as one of Davie County's most significant Greek Revival dwellings. The district also preserves fields, pastures, boxwood-lined approaches and outbuildings that show the landscape of a Piedmont farming community across a century of change.