Hunt, Joseph P., Farm

Set along Goose Creek near Dexter, the Joseph P. Hunt Farm covers 81 acres of pasture, woodland and historic buildings. Joseph P. Hunt bought 350 acres in 1844 and soon built the two-story farmhouse, which has a trim Greek Revival finish, flat-paneled doors, post-and-lintel mantels and tall wainscoting made from wide hand-planed boards. Its plan shows a shift from the older hall-parlor layout to a center hall, and a kitchen and dining ell was added in the 1870s. Around the house stand nine contributing outbuildings, including log tobacco barns, a corn crib, a potato house, an insulated ordering house, a packhouse and an unusual combined icehouse and carriage house. The remains of the Breedlove Mill foundation form an archaeological site. The property stayed in the Hunt and Breedlove family until 1970. It was listed for its architecture and for what it shows of rural life from the plantation era through the bright leaf tobacco period.