Henderson Scott Farm Historic District

Henderson Scott Farm is a rural district of about 198 acres at a crossroads in eastern Alamance County, North Carolina. Seventeen buildings are scattered across rolling farmland. Henderson Scott built three antebellum structures at the crossroads: a one-story hall-and-parlor house in 1836, a two-story Greek Revival house in 1849 and a frame store in 1855. The store was later moved and converted into a house. Farm outbuildings include a smokehouse, a sheep barn, a brick milk and butter house, garages, chicken houses and dairy barns from the 1930s and 1940s. Five generations of the Scott family lived here. The farm was the birthplace of three influential state figures, Robert Walter Scott, Governor William Kerr Scott and Senator Ralph Scott, who shaped North Carolina's agricultural policy. The early houses are also among the county's earliest examples of their plan types. Ten of the seventeen buildings contribute to the district's character.