Last updated: 11/21/2002


Maps and Drawings

Part of the original Joseph John Goldston farm is parcel 8900 shown on current tax map at left.  The remains of the "Old Road" is shown at left where it turns of present Ralph Sipe Road.  It continued to Bear Creek where it was shallow enough for wagons to cross.  The original Goldston Family Cemetery and home site is the dark spot northeast of parcel 8902 where the trees have never been cut.  The blue line is Bear Creek. 

Parcel 8900 is the 92 acres remaining of the original Goldston Farm and is still in the hands of James David "Jim" Goldston, III, Raleigh, NC., 04/16/2002.

The 1870 Map shows roads and land owners in Chatham County.  I highlighted the Old Road in red as it ran from Gulf northeast.  One can see where the map artist, Col. N. A. Ramsey, marked the homes of Thomas Jefferson Goldston and Joseph John Goldston.

The Old Road bears right (northwest) off Ralph Sipes Road as marked by the remains of an old Oak tree.

The original builder was probably Joseph John Goldston, father of A. J. Goldston.
 

When I visited there as a child, it was being farmed.  My father was born in the house but the family, Robert Lee Goldston, son of Andrew Jackson Goldston, moved to Wake County about 1930 and started R. L. Goldston and Sons Lumber Company, a steam driven saw mill and plainer mill.

Allan Goldston is pictured left about 1937 with the old Home Place partially seen behind him.

If you could see past the stump on the left you would see Bear Creek at the edge of the far woods. 

The original Goldston Family Cemetery is just past the tree stump.

Andrew Jackson Goldston opened this store about 1890 and I think one of his sons, Edward Moreau Goldston operated it.