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Heelside Farms Heelside Farms has developed through the years to include a variety of animals. Join our Ravelry Group http://www.ravelry.com/groups/heelside-farms

Cows and fowl were the beginning and sheep were added as our love of the fiber arts came to the forefront.

Beautiful sweaters and projects here on Saturday and a little visitor who met some of our sheep.
10/19/2026

Beautiful sweaters and projects here on Saturday and a little visitor who met some of our sheep.

10/19/2026

The vanished village of Black Band…

Over the weekend, I drove through what was once the mining town of Black Band... and I'm still not entirely sure of its location. In the late 1800s, there was a depot on the railroad, halfway between Stone Creek (known as Phillipsburg at the time) and Yorktown (no longer in existence itself, but consider it the former Yaggi Cheese area). It was on the railway, the creek and the township border of York and Jefferson. It served as a transport center for multiple mines and was named for the blackband iron ore they were wielding their picks at.

Today it would be along Stonecreek Road, near its intersection with Buehler Road. I hesitate to call it a ghost town because there's nothing left to suggest there was ever a town at all among the cornfields. Yet, in 1882:

"Our town is not very large but the neighborhood receiving mail at this office about 200. It is located on the C. & M. railroad and on Stone creek. Preachers, doctors and lawyers, we have none; John Maurer, school teacher; J.J. Foehl, postmaster and also station agent, dry goods and grocery merchant; Amelia Foehl, telegraph operator; Godfrey Flaueter, blacksmith; William Riley, wagon maker; Rudolph Stuber, carpenter and grain cradles; E.G. Kuhn, weigh master at ore dock for the Penn Iron and Coal Co., and George Brick, Supt. of mine; Christ Maurer, Supt. at the Ridgeway, Burton ore mines, and William Foster at the A. Wilhelmi ore mines; D.M. Bair and Rudolph Stuber, c***r makers with steam engine; Fred Wingeier, Fred Indermuhli, Sam Wingeier, Peter Anderegg, Fred Stucky and Godfrey Schweitzer, cheese makers."

For comparison, in 1880, the population of Rowville was 189 and Ragersville was 212. However, those villages hadn't been planned around a single resource, and just a year after the railroad arrived in Rowville/Baltic in 1883, its population had boomed to 350.

Thanks to everyone who came out in the cold and rain yesterday. A great time to share our fiber love.
10/18/2026

Thanks to everyone who came out in the cold and rain yesterday. A great time to share our fiber love.

Our Spin in /Craft day is this Saturday from 10 til 3 in the Red Barn Studio on our farm. See you then
10/12/2026

Our Spin in /Craft day is this Saturday from 10 til 3 in the Red Barn Studio on our farm. See you then

Our newest roving is Caspian. It is Finn /Cormo wool with 20% bamboo. Great spin!
10/07/2026

Our newest roving is Caspian. It is Finn /Cormo wool with 20% bamboo. Great spin!

10/02/2026

Have been checking in on Shetland Wool week pictures. Wow. What inspiration. Such gorgeous colorwork. Have any of you been keeping up with Shetland wool week?

Some of the fiberistas have been getting ready for Fall.
09/30/2026

Some of the fiberistas have been getting ready for Fall.

Playing on the hay. Mama and baby guineas.
09/26/2026

Playing on the hay. Mama and baby guineas.

Sweater weather! Yes. We are enjoying this so much after a hot summer. Do you like cardigans or pullover sweaters when i...
09/24/2026

Sweater weather! Yes. We are enjoying this so much after a hot summer. Do you like cardigans or pullover sweaters when it gets cool? A few examples.

Busy hands on Saturday. Fiber lovers having fun.
09/22/2026

Busy hands on Saturday. Fiber lovers having fun.

Address

508 Sedgewood Road
Four Oaks, NC
27524

Opening Hours

Monday 7am - 6pm
Tuesday 7am - 6pm
Wednesday 7am - 6pm
Thursday 7am - 6pm
Friday 7am - 6pm
Saturday 7am - 6pm
Sunday 7am - 6pm

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+19194646411

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