Piedmont Historic Homes

7055 Old 421 Road, Guilford County
Sale pending October 16, 2025

• Sold for $500,000 on November 12, 2025 (originally $748,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,172 square feet (per county), 10.0 acres
• Price/square foot: $230
• Built in 1932 (per county)
• Listed February 28, 2025
• Last sales: $237,500, September 2017; $227,000, March 2016
• Neighborhood: Located in Guilford County on the Guilford-Randolph county line. The property has a Liberty mailing address.
• Note: The initial price had to be one of the most inflated prices in recent memory — more than three times the 2017 price.
  • “Workshop with huge new patio, large tractor shed, stately center aisle barn and grand chicken coop with water and electricity. Fenced yard, extensive irrigated landscaping”

206 Pike Memory Lane, Staley, Chatham County

• Sold for $399,000 on October 1, 2025 (originally $600,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,426 square feet, 18.7 acres
• Price/square foot: $280
• Built in 1918
• Listed November 15, 2024
• Last sale: August 2003, price not recorded on deed
• Neighborhood: Located about 3 miles south of Staley and 6.5 miles northwest of Siler City off Old U.S. 421.
• Note: The property includes a pond.
  • Propane heat, no central air conditioning.

4166 Dicks Mill Road, McLeansville, Guilford County

• Sold for $540,000 on June 12, 2025 (listed at $540,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1,712 square feet, 20.10 acres
• Price/square foot: $315
• Built in 1902 (per county; see note)
• Listed May 23, 2025
• Last sales: $468,000, October 2023; $135,500, June 2016
• Note: South Buffalo Creek runs through the property.
  • The historic character of the interior has largely been wiped out.
  • The listing says the house was built in the 1880s.
  • Susan Hanner Dick (1855-1936) and John Caldwell Dick (1853-1937) bought this property around 1907 as part of two purchases totaling 138 acres. They owned it for the rest of their lives. The Greensboro Record memorialized John as “member of a prominent Guilford family,” but didn’t elaborate.
  • In 1940, Harry Donald Gann (1896-1963) and Sadie Emma Snow Gann (1908-1993) bought 120 acres of the property from the Dicks’ estates. They sold off pieces of the land throughout their lives, some to their children. When their daughter sold the property in 2016, it consisted of the present 5 acres.

4083 Busbee Road, Moore County

• Sold for $235,000 on June 8, 2025 (originally $375,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,200 square feet, 13.1 acres
• Price/square foot: $196
• Built in 1900
• Last sale: $15,000, November 2023
• Listed October 21, 2024
• Neighborhood: Located off N.C. 705, about 8 1/2 miles southeast of Seagrove and 8 1/2 miles north west of Robbins. The property has a Seagrove address but is across the county line in Moore County.
• Note: The house was originally listed as for sale by owner at $375,000. The price dropped to $259,000 when it became listed by a real-estate agent.
  • The listing says the property includes a pond.
  • The home may have been built by Stephen H. Davis (1870-1946), a farmer, and Polly Ann Hussey Davis (1875-1965). Deeds describe the property as part of his estate. It was sold in 1955 to their daughter Alice Davis Yow (1907-1998) and her husband Joseph Colbert Yow (1911-1986). Joseph was a veteran of World War II and a sawmill worker. They lived in the house for the rest of their lives.
  • Ownership passed to her sons, James Cranford Davis (1930-2018) and Fermon Douglas Davis (d. 2024, age 90). James worked in road maintenance for the N.C. Department of Transportation; Fermon was a mechanic for Southern Equipment for more than 40 years. It is now being sold by Fermon’s son.

1115 Manco Dairy Road, Chatham County

• Sold for $490,000 on April 30, 2025 (listed at $500,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,304 square feet, 14 acres
• Price/square foot: $376
• Built in 1910
• Listed January 6, 2025
• Last sale: $175,000, September 1972
• Neighborhood: Located 5 miles west of Pittsboro, just off U.S. 64.
• Note: The property has a conservation covenant.
  • The property’s seller also owns the nearby Alston-Degraffenreid House, a 106-acre National Register property built in 1810, and Harland’s Creek Farm, an organic farm on the Alston-Degraffenreid property.

2930 Wayne White Road, Randolph County
The S.W. White Homeplace

• Sold for $235,000 on April 15, 2025 (originally $275,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2,524 square feet, 7.6 acres
• Price/square foot: $93
• Built in 1870
• Listed February 25, 2025
• Last sales: $173,000, November 2003; $4,400, May 1946 (99.43 acres)
• Neighborhood: Located about 2 miles south of Climax and 7 miles east of Level Cross. The property has a Climax mailing address but is across the county line in northeastern Randolph County.
• Note: The listing says, “The historic home has a story of its own,” but it doesn’t say what it is.
  • The property includes a pond.
  • Deeds refer to the property as the “S.W. White Homeplace.” Simon Wilson White (1845-1929) was a native of Randolph County and lived his entire life in this part of the county. The property remained in the White family until 2003. “His acts of kindness and his service to the people around him made him generally beloved,” the Greensboro Daily News said.
  • Simon and Louise Eunice Osborne White (1845-1932) had eight children (Jabez, William, Frederick, Alta, John, Pliny, Joseph and Louise).
  • The property passed to son Pliny (1880-1932), who passed it on to one of his sons, Wayne Earl White (1916-1999), and daughter-in-law Geraldine “Gerry” Whitley White (1925-2017). Wayne was a merchant and a 1938 graduate of Guilford College. Gerry also attended Guilford College. She worked for the Randolph County Public Library and headed the Book Mobile program. Gerry sold the property in 2003.

515 Jake Shoaf Road, Davidson County

• Sold for $700,000 on April 10, 2025 (originally $1 million)
  • Sold to an LLC in Kernersville
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,547 square feet, 43.36 acres
• Price/square foot: $275
• Built in 1800
• Listed January 3, 2023
• Last sale: The listing says the property has been in the Hyatt-Oman family since the 1600s.
• Note: The property includes a barn and other outbuildings. A creek runs through the property.
  • The property has a Lexington mailing address but is located north of the city, east of Welcome and west of Thomasville.
  • Previous owners include Kermit Cline Oman Sr. (1914-2001) and Kermit Cline Oman Jr. (1943-2012). Both owned City Shoe Shop in Thomasville. William Jr. also was a veteran of 82nd Airborne Division of the U.S. Army.

256 Pine Ridge Road, Davie County (also here, and there’s a PDF brochure, as well)
The Forbes-Luther Cabin, Sleepy Hollow

• Sold for $187,000 on April 1, 2025 (listed at $389,000)
  • Sold to the Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1,237 square feet (per listing) and 27.5 acres
• Price/square foot: $151
• Built in 1953
• Listed October 28, 2024
• Last sale: October 1936, price not recorded on deed
• Neighborhood: Located near the Jerusalem community, about 7 1/2 miles south of Mocksville, just off U.S. 601, and about 3 miles east of Cooleemee. It’s also about 11 miles north of Salisbury.
• Note: The county records show 696 square feet, which doesn’t look right.
  • Preservation North Carolina holds a preservation easement on the property.
  • Listing: “The Forbes-Luther Cabin’s centerpiece is a monumental stone fireplace in the vaulted main living area. … The entire interior is clad in knotty pine.  Prospective buyers may wish to modernize the existing kitchen and bath. …
  • “Roughly 5.2 acres of pasture currently support a small cattle herd, with the remaining acreage providing mature woodland landscape and an opportunity for an appropriate new home site.  The design and location of a possible new home site will require review and approval by Preservation North Carolina.”
  • A two-story hardwood dog-trot log barn is believed to date back to the mid-19th century, when the property was part of the large Livengood plantation.
  • This piece of the plantation was sold to a family named Craig; Margaret C. Craig, a widow, sold it in 1936 to Dr. John Selby Forbes (1896-1946) and May Stewart Cuthrell Forbes (1894-1969) of Salisbury. It has been in their family ever since.
  • Dr. Forbes established the first office devoted entirely to optometry in Salisbury in the early 1920s. He committed suicide at age 50, despondent over the death of one of his sons on Iwo Jima in World War II.
  • May passed ownership of the property to their daughter and son-in-law, Barbara Jean Forbes Luther (1926-2010) and Francis Marion Luther (1920-2005). Francis worked in the Salisbury city government for 26 years, retiring in 1982 after serving as city manager for 11 years. Jean was a graduate of Catawba College. The property is now being sold by their son and daughter.

179 Stone Country Lane, Randolph County
Hearthstone Farm

• Sold for $488,000 on January 30, 2025 (listed at $489,999)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,896 square feet, 18.80 acres
• Price/square foot: $257
• Built in 1870
• Listed January 6, 2025
• Last sale: $215,000, March 2017
• Neighborhood: Located just off U.S. 64 about 5.8 miles west of Asheboro. It has an Asheboro mailing address.
• Note: The listing says there are two dwellings on the property. It refers to the original log cabin as the Hoover House. This 1985 description mentions additional buildings that may or may not be on the 18.8 acres in this listing:
  • “This complex includes one log cabin original to the site and several other structures built or moved here by local antiquaries Frances and Lee Stone. The original cabin is a saddle-notched log structure now part of a larger dwelling. A small log cabin with half dovetail notching was half of a saddle-bag cabin which once stood in south-western Randolph. The largest house of the complex is a log cabin of unknown notching now surrounded by frame additions; the second floor is entered by an enclosed stair which rises from an exterior doorway on the engaged porch. A small half-timbered house with brick nogging was built in 1978, based on Old Salem examples.” (The Architectural History of Randolph County North Carolina, p.129)
  • Lee Jay Stone (1906-1998) was a famously successful high school football coach. Born in Pennsylvania, he received a bachelors degree in economics from Lebanon Valley College and an MBA from Columbia University. He coached at Appalachian State Teachers College, Trenton State Teachers College in New Jersey, Lee Edwards High School in Asheville, Broughton High in Raleigh and Asheboro High. His teams won championships in 1941 (Broughton) and 1950, 1958 and 1965 (Edwards). In 29 years, his teams never had a losing season. He’s a member of the N.C. High School Sports Hall of Fame. He also served on the Asheboro city school board for 30 years. Online records don’t go back far enough to find the date of the Stones’ purchase of the property. Their daughters sold it in 1999.

982 Chaney Road, Randolph County

• Sold for $589,000 on January 15, 2025 (originally $695,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,698 square feet (per county), 26.80 acres
• Price/square foot: $218
• Built in 1890
• Listed October 8, 2024
• Last sale: $148,500, July 2017
• Neighborhood: Located 7 1/2 miles east of Asheboro and 5 miles southwest of Ramseur. It has an Asheboro mailing address. Just south of the Piedmont Pines community.
• Note: The property includes a guest cabin, another one-room cabin with a wood stove, two-car garage, two carport sheds, hot tub, patio, fire pit with propane gas, barn, basketball court, wired building with a wood stove and finished interior, chicken coop and well house with gas logs.
  • The house was probably built by John Fernando “Bud” Routh (1869-1949) and Lula Prevost Routh (1871-1944), although vague descriptions in deeds make it impossible to be certain. He bought the property from his parents in 1890. Bud was a teacher in the Randolph public schools for 20 years. He spent 30 years with the Randolph Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance agency. He was working as a surveyor at the time of his death at age 80.
  • The Rouths sold the property in 1920 to Banister Roscoe “B.R.” Chaney (1870-1955) and Sarah Ada “Sallie” Dockery Chaney (1877-1964). B.R. was a tobacco farmer and a Mason, serving as grand master at one point. The family sold the property in 1955.