Farrington is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Chatham County,

North Carolina North Carolina ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, South Carolina to the south, Georgia (U.S. stat ...

, United States. It is now part of the Fearrington Village

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

. There are three sites in Farrington listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

: John A. Mason House,

O'Kelly's Chapel O'Kelly's Chapel is a historic chapel located near Farrington, North Carolina, Farrington, Chatham County, North Carolina. Named after Reverend James O'Kelly, it was built about 1900. It is a modest one-room rural chapel with Gothic Revival archi ...

, and Joseph B. Stone House.

Geography

Farrington is located at (35.8018148 -79.0138990) about 8 miles (12.9 km) southeast of Chapel Hill on Farrington Point Road. It is to the north of

Jordan Lake B. Everett Jordan Lake is a reservoir in New Hope Valley, west of Cary, North Carolina, Cary and south of Durham, North Carolina, Durham in Chatham County, North Carolina, in the United States; the northernmost end of the lake extends into sout ...

, a surrounding placemark.

References

Unincorporated communities in Chatham County, North Carolina Unincorporated communities in North Carolina {{ChathamCountyNC-geo-stub