Quilt Pattern

Tobacco Basket

Located in Roxboro, this waypoint along the Quilt Trail is part of Person County, within the Piedmont North Carolina region. This trailstop is a member of the Person County Quilt Trail trail.

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Fred and Ada Hinton purchased five acres in 2001 from the Guill family because it joined Ada’s family’s land. Ada’s family, the O. T. Evans’ family, has lived and farmed in this community for generations alongside the Guill and Ramsey families. Robert Ramsey has been instrumental in maintaining the beauty of the barn, originally a pack barn, on which the quilt is hung. He initially restored a tobacco basket and made a tobacco leaf cut-out to hang on the barn. This was the inspiration for the quilt.
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Oak Grove Mt. Zion Rd
Roxboro, North Carolina


Quilt Square by Roxboro Community School Art Students • Photography by Ken Martin

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36.461755 °N, -79.024282 °W

Quilt Pattern

Sunflowers, Angus Bull, Vegetable Garden

Located in Roxboro, this waypoint along the Quilt Trail is part of Person County, within the Piedmont North Carolina region. This trailstop is a member of the Person County Quilt Trail trail.

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The owner's great grandfather John Holeman Hester and his wife Josephine Thompson Hester moved to this farm around 1890. This fertile land near Concord Church, which John inherited from his father, was a thriving tobacco farm and he continued growing tobacco his entire life. The lands continues to be farmed, and the family has expanded into cattle, grain, hay, timber and the tobacco warehouse business. There are three quilt squares on the farm drawn from the owner's memories of growing up on the farm. One celebrates the sunflowers planted around an old tobacco pack house that dates back to the early 1900’s. Another features an Angus Bull, and the third highlights their vegetable garden.
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2339 Country Club Rd
Roxboro, North Carolina


Quilt Square by Kate Lagaly • Photography by Ken Martin

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36.47908 °N, -78.990543 °W

Quilt Pattern

Star and Crescent

Located in Roxboro, this waypoint along the Quilt Trail is part of Person County, within the Piedmont North Carolina region. This trailstop is a member of the Person County Quilt Trail trail.

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In the early 1900s, Robert Daniel Bailey, Bradsher Wilkins’ great-grandfather, purchased this land, which is currently farmed by Bradsher and his father Jimmy Wilkins. The quilt pattern, Star and Crescent, is one that was used by Bradsher’s grandmother, Thelma Bailey Wilkins, in making quilts for the family. The quilt square was painted by Bradsher’s mother, Susan. The quilt is hung on what had previously been a burley shed that was destroyed by a tornado and rebuilt in 2011. For more information visit www.facebook.com/WilkinsFarms or email wilkinsfarms@outlook.com.
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790 Shiloh Church Rd
Roxboro, North Carolina


Quilt Square provided by Owner • Photography by Ken Martin

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36.494948 °N, -78.932205 °W

Quilt Pattern

Unknown

Located in Roxboro, this waypoint along the Quilt Trail is part of Person County, within the Piedmont North Carolina region. This trailstop is a member of the Person County Quilt Trail trail.

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The original construction of the log cabin was in the 1840s by Gabriel Bailey, Sr., who was the great, great Grandfather of the present owners, Robert and Deborah Wilkins. It was moved to its present location on Shiloh Church Road in 2001 from another farm which was formally owned by Gabriel Bailey. This cabin was originally used as a separate dining room from the main house, and also had a bedroom upstairs. The land it now sits on was also once part of the Bailey Estate. It was purchased by Jesse and Thelma Bailey Wilkins in 1945 from Robert D. Bailey. This quilt pattern was chosen due to the passion for quail hunting, and quail dog training of the current owner of the cabin and his father, Jesse B. Wilkins, Sr.
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560 Shiloh Church Rd
Roxboro, North Carolina


Quilt Square by Chrystal Hardt • Photography by Ken Martin

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36.493314 °N, -78.928074 °W

Quilt Pattern

Unknown

Located in Roxboro, this waypoint along the Quilt Trail is part of Person County, within the Piedmont North Carolina region. This trailstop is a member of the Person County Quilt Trail trail.

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The Sanford Farm has been in the family for over 100 years. The barn continues to be used as a workshop and gathering spot for family celebrations. Painted by family members, their quilt square is in the shape of a cross and painted in the colors of red, green, gray and Carolina blue. The barn is available for wedding photos.
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10339 Virgilina Rd
Roxboro, North Carolina


Quilt Square provided by Owner • Photography by Ken Martin

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36.499589 °N, -78.84077 °W

Quilt Pattern

Log Cabin

Located in Roxboro, this waypoint along the Quilt Trail is part of Person County, within the Piedmont North Carolina region. This trailstop is a member of the Person County Quilt Trail trail.

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The farm has been in the Osborne H. Oakley family for three generations with ancestral roots tracing back as far as 1803. The current owners are siblings Donald Ferrell Oakley, Joan Oakley Leibert, David Osborne Oakley, and Marilyn Oakley Sifford who inherited the farm in 1997 along with their brother Mark Oakley. They selected the log cabin quilt pattern because their mother, Remell Tingen Oakley, loved quilting and made a beautiful log cabin quilt for each of her children. The pieces she used were cut from outgrown clothing and other fabric remnants. She cut and pieced together every square and then sewed them together to make the quilts. While setting up the quilting frames, family members were invited over for a quilting party.
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2319 Allensville Rd
Roxboro, North Carolina


Quilt Square by Chrystal Hardt • Photography by Ken Martin

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36.390067 °N, -78.944547 °W

Quilt Pattern

Unknown

Located in Roxboro, this waypoint along the Quilt Trail is part of Person County, within the Piedmont North Carolina region. This trailstop is a member of the Person County Quilt Trail trail.

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This property has been in their family pre-civil war. Unsure of the construction date of the building, it is a log structure that was built when the road had a different route. The house faces the direction of the old road bed that was filled in when the State paved the Old Allensville Rd in 1986. The old road originated pre automobile.
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1154 Hicks Yarborough Rd
Roxboro, North Carolina


Quilt Square by Chrystal Hardt • Photography by Carly Long

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36.377897 °N, -78.933496 °W

Quilt Pattern

Lone Star

Located in Roxboro, this waypoint along the Quilt Trail is part of Person County, within the Piedmont North Carolina region. This trailstop is a member of the Person County Quilt Trail trail.

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The Bray Barn is a 30 acre horse farm that has been in Mickie’s family for three generations. The farm was originally used for tobacco by her grandfather Lemmie Edward Day then later by her Uncle Venoy Hoyt Day. Mickie inherited a love for quilting from both her grandmothers, Evelyn Clayton Day and Ila Lee (Dolly) Day Duncan. Mickie is now a quilter and owns a long arm quilting machine. She has passed her quilt passion onto her daughter and daughter-in-law. The Loan Star pattern quilt square was painted by her daughter as a Christmas present in 2015.
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540 Evelyn Day Rd.
Roxboro, North Carolina


Quilt Square provided by Owner • Photography by Carly Lon

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36.364384 °N, -78.921769 °W

Quilt Pattern

Star Quilt

Located in Timberlake, this waypoint along the Quilt Trail is part of Person County, within the Piedmont North Carolina region. This trailstop is a member of the Person County Quilt Trail trail.

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This farm has been in the family for over 100 years – five generations – and continues to serve as managed pine forest. The owner’s grandmother, Ora, was a functional quilter who created quilts from scraps of curtains, clothes and other linens to keep her children and grandchildren warm. The square pattern was chosen to honor Ora by replicating a star quilt created by her and by using her favorite color, purple. Although renovated, the barn has been standing as long as living memory.
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1819 Houston Blalock Rd.
Timberlake, North Carolina


Quilt Square by Roxboro Community School Art Students • Photography by Ken Martin

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36.338939 °N, -78.93168 °W

The Person County Quilt Trail began as an idea in 2015. With grant funding from the N.C. Dept. of Commerce and management by the Piedmont Conservation Council, the trail has become a reality. The ultimate goal is for a continuous Quilt Trail that travels throughout the North Carolina Piedmont. Presently the counties participating are Person, Randolph, and Rockingham.

The painted quilt squares are unique and reflect the history of this area’s agriculture and the passions of the trail’s participants. Many squares are painted from family heirloom quilts while some were designed to show the history of or the present day working on the farm.

Visitors are encouraged to stop and take photographs from the roadside. Several farms may also offer their seasonal produce or other goods for sale. While touring the Quilt Trail, please be considerate of private property.

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