# High Rock Farm

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{{short description|Historic house in North Carolina, United States}}
{{Use American English|date=July 2025}}
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{{Infobox NRHP
| name         = High Rock Farm
| nrhp_type    =
| image        =
| caption      =
| location     = SE of Reidsville on SR 2619, near [Williamsburg, North Carolina](/source/Williamsburg%2C_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](/source/Plantation_house_in_the_Southern_United_States) located in [Rockingham County, North Carolina](/source/Rockingham_County%2C_North_Carolina). It dates to the early-19th century, and is a two-story, central hall plan, [Federal](/source/Federal_architecture)-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](/source/portico) supported by two [stucco](/source/stucco)ed 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](/source/Nathaniel_Scales), who had also owned [Deep Springs Plantation](/source/Deep_Springs_Plantation) and [Mulberry Island Plantation](/source/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](/source/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](/source/National_Register_of_Historic_Places) in 1974.<ref name=nris/>

==References==
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{{NRHP in Rockingham County, North Carolina}}

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

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