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Joseph P. Hunt Farm
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Farmhouse
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Location	4067 Chewning Rd (NC 1514), near Dexter, North Carolina
Coordinates	36°23′07″N 78°32′48″W / 36.38528°N 78.54667°W / 36.38528; -78.54667
Area	81 acres (33 ha)
Built	c. 1844 (1844)
Built by	Joseph Penn Hunt Martha Crews Hunt
Architectural style	Greek Revival
MPS	Granville County MPS
NRHP reference No.	88001265
Added to NRHP	August 31, 1988

The Joseph P. Hunt Farm is an historic tobacco farm complex and national historic district located near Dexter, Granville County, North Carolina. Built about 1844 by Joseph Penn Hunt and Martha Michum Crews Hunt, the farmhouse is a two-story, three-bay, Greek Revival style dwelling. It has a two-story rear ell dated to the 1870s and a full-width front porch added in the 1920s. Also on the property are the contributing small frame outbuilding, potato house, corn crib, two tobacco barns, smokehouse, large horse barn, packhouse, and combination icehouse/carriage house. Representative of rural life during the brightleaf era, the farm was also the site of Breedlove Mill.

Upon Hunt's death, the farm passed to his daughter Susan Caroline Hunt Breedlove and her husband John Henry Breedlove. Son Laurie Garner Breedlove and daughter-in-law Rebecca Mason Rice Breedlove were the next owners, followed by their daughters Evelyn Caroline Breedlove and Mildred Laurie Breedlove. The farm remained in the family until 1970.

The site, now known as Goose River Farm, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Granville County, North Carolina
• Joseph Penn Breedlove

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. ^ Brown, Marvin A.; Esperon, Patricia (December 1987). "Joseph P. Hunt Farm" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved November 1, 2014.
3. Some other sections of the land holdings were inherited by son Joseph Penn Breedlove and daughter Evelyn Martha Breedlove.

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