The Taylor Farm, Granville County
The exciting farm of Reverend Junious Moore Taylor and wife, Nannie Peace of Creedmoor nestled among Carolina Pines, Red Oaks and graceful White Elms. A shy crooked road tip-toed and twisted its lonesome trail to the Taylor’s two-story doorsteps. Here the happy children, horses and herds of various other farm animals galloped, played and matured on land purchased by Taylor in Granville County (Dutchville Township) as follows: May 4, 1886—three acres for $75 in cash; November 5, 1887—25.25 acres for $300 cash; February 12, 1898—25.5 acres for $350. By the middle of the 1900s his total acreage was some less than 250.
A Baptist minister and public school teacher, J.M. Taylor taught his family by month Bible workshops in the home; daily school curriculum, accenting nature; elements of the sky and birds, rain, its function and destination; home ownership, a MUST; forest protection; and the production of a vegetable garden by every child by making him the owner of a tiny plot of land with free seeds.
As of today, only 13.75 acres have been deducted from the original. May 15, 1935 this plot along Ledge Rock Creek was donated to the new Creedmoor water system.
--submitted by Manie Taylor Geer, daughter
In 1988, the North Carolina Department of Agriculture published a commemorative book, North Carolina Century Farms: 100 Years of Continuous Agricultural Heritage. This book provided a history of century farms in North Carolina. It contains information about a second Freeman Farm in Gates County.
Stories about other Granville County century farms in the book include:
The Blankenship Farm, submitted by Amanda Roberts Blankenship
The Anderson’s Place Farm, submitted by Daniel A. Hunt
The Blackwell Farm, submitted by Fred Blackwell
The Bobbitt Farm, submitted by Anne Bobbitt Murphy
The Dickerson Farm, submitted by Jack Thomas Dickerson
The Haney Farm, submitted by J.B. Haney
The Harris Farm, submitted by Hunter Harris
The Harris Farm, submitted by Richard Harris Jr.
The Hunt Farm, submitted by F. Earle and Nan G. Hunt
The Husketh Farm, submitted by Alma Ormond Husketh
The Lane Farm, submitted by Ralph H. Lane
The John P. Lawrence Farm, submitted by Robinette M. Husketh
The May Farm, submitted by James O. May
The Moore Family Farm, submitted by Mr. and Mrs. George B. Summers
The Claude A. Parham Heirs Farm, submitted by Mary Irene Parham
The Perry Farm, submitted by Adelle and Samuel Perry
The Royster Farm, submitted by L. Ray Royster
The Turner Farm, submitted by Anne Bobbitt Murphy
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