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Knox Farm Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
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Location	3485 Amity Hill Rd., near Cleveland, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°43′01″N 80°44′49″W / 35.71694°N 80.74694°W / 35.71694; -80.74694
Area	890 acres (360 ha)
Built	1854 (1854)-1856
Built by	James Graham
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	83001914
Added to NRHP	April 1, 1983

Knox Farm Historic District is a historic farm complex and national historic district located near Cleveland, Rowan County, North Carolina. The Robert Knox House was built between 1854 and 1856, and is a two-story, single-pile, three-bay vernacular Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It has a two-story rear ell, one-story rear kitchen ell. Its builder James Graham also built the Jacob Barber House and the Hall Family House. Other contributing resources are the log corn crib, reaper shed (c. 1870-1880), power plan (c. 1945), chicken house (c. 1930), brooder house (c. 1930), log smokehouse, barn (c. 1839-1845), main barn (1916), milking parlor (1948), spring house (18th century), tenant house (1920), and Knox Chapel Methodist Church (1870s).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Davyd Foard Hood and Jerry Cross (n.d.). "Knox Farm Historic District" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved February 1, 2015.

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