Francis McNairy House

Francis McNairy House. . Originally located in northwest Guilford County, this two-story log house was the home of Francis and Mary Boyd McNairy. Like other Scots-Irish families, the McNairys migrated to North Carolina from Pennsylvania. In 1762, they purchased 640 acres of land, and probably lived in a smaller house until this structure was built. Between 1762 and 1786 Mary gave birth to eleven children., In 1967 the museum purchased this house and moved it approximately eight miles from its original site on Old Battleground Road near Horsepen Creek. Following extensive renovations in 1994, the house was restored and reinterpreted to the 1820s, when siding covered the exterior logs and pine paneling, chair rail and decorative mantels were added to the interior., According to tradition David Caldwell, a self-trained physician, used the house as a field hospital after the Battle of Guilford Courthouse on March 15, 1781.