Green, John Bunyan, Farm

This farm along the Rocky River near Midland, in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, covers 371.25 acres and centers on a two-story frame farmhouse built soon after 1880 for John Bunyan Green. The house combines a traditional I-house form with Italianate details, including a two-story gabled porch with sawn balustrades, bracketed eaves and a well-made open-string staircase in the center hall. Around it stand a log barn, three log crib buildings, a granary, a cotton house, a blacksmith shop, a tenant house and a board-and-batten miller's house. Green farmed the land and operated a grist mill, sawmill and cotton gin on the river, a business his son continued until 1934. The first mill washed away in 1908 and its turbine-powered replacement later fell into ruin, leaving only rubble. The property was recognized for its architecture and as a well-preserved example of a post-Civil War farm and milling enterprise.