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| James and Penelope Watson Farm 117 J. G. Watson Road, Hoffman vicinity Mid-nineteenth century |
| James and Penelope Watson Farm (William R. Garrett) |
| The wood and stone chimney of the log house on the James and Penelope Watson Farm, Hoffman vicinity (William R. Garrett) |
| Watson Farm corncrib (James L. Reese II) |
| Watson Farm smokehouse (James L. Reese II) |
| The Watson Farm ranks as one of the county's most significant historic farmsteads for the high degree of preservation of its farmhouse and other buildings. Farmer James Garrett Watson (ca. 1806-99) and his wife, Penelope Currie Watson (d. 1911), likely built the hall-parlor log dwelling that forms the original section of the present farmhouse before the Civil War. To read more about this historic site in Richmond County, please refer to the book, The Architectural History of Richmond County, North Carolina. |