High Rock Farm

{{short description|Historic house in North Carolina, United States}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = High Rock Farm | nrhp_type = | image = | caption = | location = SE of Reidsville on SR 2619, near Williamsburg, North Carolina | coordinates = {{coord|36|15|36|N|79|34|0|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = North Carolina#USA | built = early 1800s | architecture = Federal | added = April 26, 1974 | area = {{convert|9|acre}} | refnum = 74001373<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> }}

'''High Rock Farm''' is a historic plantation house located in Rockingham County, North Carolina. It dates to the early-19th century, and is a two-story, central hall plan, Federal-style brick dwelling with a rear ell. It sits on a full basement and has a hipped roof. The front facade features a pedimented portico supported by two stuccoed columns and with a gallery at the second level.<ref name = nrhpinv>{{Cite web | author =Survey and Planning Unit Staff| title =High Rock Farm| work = National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory | date = October 1973 | url = https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/RK0003.pdf | publisher = North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office | access-date = 2015-02-01}}</ref>

Nathaniel Scales, who had also owned Deep Springs Plantation and Mulberry Island Plantation, left High Rock to his daughter, Mary Scales McCain after his death in 1824.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.themarconline.org/deep-springs-historic-home/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2016-01-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308070638/http://www.themarconline.org/deep-springs-historic-home/ |archive-date=2016-03-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Mary Scales was married to the great-great-great-grandfather of U.S. Senator John McCain.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://greensboro.com/news/rockingham-county-historian-bob-carter-combines-discretion-scholarship/article_3deb10a8-5f74-526d-b6f0-b020d86f0f9f.html|title=Rockingham County historian Bob Carter combines discretion, scholarship|author=Mary Burritt|website=Greensboro News and Record|date=16 October 2016 |access-date=9 December 2021}}</ref>

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.<ref name=nris/>

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Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Category:Federal architecture in North Carolina Category:Houses in Rockingham County, North Carolina Category:National Register of Historic Places in Rockingham County, North Carolina Category:Plantation houses in North Carolina Category:Scales family residences Category:McCain family Category:Brick buildings and structures in North Carolina