Johnson Farm

Located on the south side of Kipling Road in northern Harnett County, North Carolina, the Johnson Farm is a 350-acre rural complex held by one family for six generations. Its centerpiece is a two-story Southern Colonial house completed in 1918 from a design attributed to Ottie Johnson, built by the local builders Ashworth and Draughn. The farm also includes two tenant houses, two country stores dating from 1886 and 1918, and tobacco-processing buildings. The farm is regarded as one of the largest in the county since the nineteenth century, and the tenant system that worked its fields is central to its importance. Its buildings also document rural domestic and farm construction from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The period of significance runs from 1885, when the first store opened, to 1960, when the complex reached its present appearance.