Piedmont Historic Homes

9056 Mount Carmel Road, Stokesdale, Guilford County
The John and Ida Fulp House

• Sold for $480,000 on June 2, 2024 (listed at $500,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,444 square feet, 13.85 acres
• Price/square foot: $196
• Built in 1938
• Listed May 10, 2024
• Last sale: $215,000, October 14, 2016
• Neighborhood: Located in the northwest corner of Stokesdale, near Belews Lake.
• Note: The property includes a barn and a garage/workshop.
  • The property was bought in 1906 by John Walker Fulp (1857-1924) and Ida R. James “Aunt Ida” Fulp (1866-1960). It was sold after Ida’s death.

381 Huffines Mill Road, Rockingham County

• Sold for $645,000 on May 24, 2024 (listed at $675,000)
• 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2,376 square feet, 40.08 acres
• Price/square foot: $271
• Built in 1926
• Listed March 5, 2024
• Last sale: $347,500, September 2018
• Neighborhood: Located about 12 1/2 miles east of Reidsville, just off N.C. 65, and about 20 miles north of Greensboro.
• Note: The property has a Reidsville mailing address.
  • The house has an attached two-car garage. The property includes a log cabin and an RV-size garage with workshop.

343 Hamlin Ford Road, Dobson, Surry County

• Sold for $180,000 on April 16, 2024 (auction)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1,016 square feet, 21.8 acres (see note)
• Price/square foot: $177
• Built in 1940
• Last sale: Online records are not completely clear, but most likely the two tracts were bought in two transactions in 1922 and 1939.
• Neighborhood: Located 4.7 miles southwest of Dobson.
• Note: The current owners, siblings Glenn U. Draughn (1925-2009) and Fern Draughn (1931-2021), inherited the property in 1991 from their parents, Samuel James Draughn (1899-1984) and Grace Edmonds Draughn (1904-1991).

• Sold for $211,000 on April 11, 2024 (listed at $199,000)
• 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 2,568 square feet, 11.04 acres
• Price/square foot: $82
• Built in 1892
• Listed March 4, 2024
• Last sale: $1,400, December 1936
• Note: The property includes a barn and a tobacco barn.
• The property was bought in 1936 by Myrtle Lee Kiser (1910-1991). She worked for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company for 36 years. She left the property to her sister Erma L. Kiser (1913-2001). Erma also worked for RJR. The property is being sold by the heirs of a nephew.
• Something to ask about: The property appears to have no road frontage. Access appears to be via a driveway cutting through another property to Spainhour Mill Road.

• Sold for $165,000 on March 22, 2024 (listed at $168,000)
• 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, square feet not recorded, 20.12 acres (per county)
• Price/square foot: Unknown
• Built in 1940 (per listing; see notes)
• Listed February 9, 2024
• Last sales: $110,000, February 2, 2024; $85,000, February 2022
• Neighborhood: Located about 11 miles east of Westfield, not far from Tory’s Den Cave.
• Listing: “The cabin contains a minisplit for HVAC, a sleeping and storage loft, bathroom with shower, and a kitchen with wood burning fireplace. The electricity is installed underground and is metered at the cabin. There is an additional transformer box behind the cabin on the main ridge for future homesite. Cabin is connected to underground septic system, and water is provided by a rain water collection system and pressure tank. New owner has the option to install a water treatment system to make the rain water potable, use one of the nearby springs for their water source or drill a well.”
  • The property includes “mature hardwood forest, long range views (leaf off), and several springs and creeks.”
• Note: Listed for sale seven days after it was sold.
  • Owned by an LLC based in Colorado, as was the last owner.
  • Although the listing says the cabin was built in 1940, county records show no building on the property (there does appear to be one, though).
  • The deed and online listings show 20.69 acres.
  • The 1940 construction date appears on only one online listing. The actual construction date is relatively insignificant because the cabin has been extensively renovated.

4363 Big Oak Church Road, Eagle Springs, Moore County

• Sold for $367,000 on March 4, 2024 (originally $412,000)
• 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 950 square feet, 7.75 acres
• Price/square foot: $386
• Built in 1932
• Listed November 18, 2023
• Last sale: $133,000, September 2016
• Note: The property has an Eagle Springs address but is about 4 miles north in northwestern Moore County.
  • The property was in the Cole-Blake family for more than 100 years. In 1903, Lovda Cole Blake (1873-1954) bought the property from Joseph Burl Cole (1869-1949) and Margaret Bethel Blake Cole (1871-1930). Lovda was married to David W. Blake (1875-1959); his name wasn’t on the deed. Some familial connection seems likely, but its exact nature isn’t identifiable from online records.
  • In 1951, Lovda and David sold the property to their daughter Margaret Cole Whitley. She owned it until 2001.