It took about a year and a half and more than $1,800 for consulting fees and other expenses, but Dr. Frances Farthing along with her brother Baxter Farthing,and sister, Dixie Farthing HUFF of Chilhowie, Va. got the farm where they grew up listed this year on the National Register of Historic Places......Nestled above the north bank of the Watauga River in the Sugar Grove community just below the mouth of Cove Creek, the yellow, 2-story frame house sits nearly obscured by maples, pines, walnuts and apple trees......Among the elements nominated for registry are the landscape features, including the stonework ( walkways and stone walls,etc ) designed and installed by Ben W.Farthing. Most of the stonework was laid in the 1938-1941 period. ....."The Farthing Farm," the text continues, "with its house, out-buildings, vernacular rock landscape and pristine mountain terrain still conveys a strong image of a middle-class Watauga County farmstead from the years of the farm's primary significance.
NOTE: THE NEXT PHOTO (5A) WAS TAKEN, 1938, FROM THE HILL AT FAR LEFT OF THE BUILDINGS AND SHOWS END VIEW OF THE HOUSE AND LARGE BARN."
