Wards Hollow, listed on the National Register of Historic Places and Historic North Carolina event venue.
The Ward's Farm was established in the mid-19th century in Chatham county, North Carolina by Dr. Edward Hiram Ward (August 1829 - June 1896), he established his medical practice on the banks of Wards Creek.
Dr. E.H. Ward was the son of Hiram Ward (1794-1842) and Sara Hackney (1806-1848). History indicates that the first Edward Ward, settler, was a landowner...
more »Wards Hollow, listed on the National Register of Historic Places and Historic North Carolina event venue.
The Ward's Farm was established in the mid-19th century in Chatham county, North Carolina by Dr. Edward Hiram Ward (August 1829 - June 1896), he established his medical practice on the banks of Wards Creek.
Dr. E.H. Ward was the son of Hiram Ward (1794-1842) and Sara Hackney (1806-1848). History indicates that the first Edward Ward, settler, was a landowner and sailed from London to America and settled in Pitt County in 1704. He was the grandson of Sir Edward Ward, a London judge, who presided at the trial of pirate William Kidd, and sentenced him to be hanged on Tryburn Wall in London.
A few years after his arrival in Chatham County, Dr. Ward established a small farmstead. He may have done this to supplement his income as a rural physician, many of whom only realized about $300 a year in income. Ward, according to family tradition, purchased the land, where the farm complex is now located, just before the Civil War and moved his two-room cabin there.
Evidently Dr. Ward's farming operations and medical practice were successful, for by the time Ward was fifty years of age, in 1880, he had amassed an estate that was larger than most of his Chatham County neighbors. In 1880, when the average farm in North Carolina contained only 142 acres, Ward owned 230 acres of land valued at $1,200. Including his other property, Ward's total estate was valued at $1,732 in 1880. At a time when the size of many farms in the state was decreasing, Ward was expanding his land holdings. By the time of his death in 1896, when the average North Carolina farm contained only 142 acres, Ward's estate contained 344 acres.
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