page_title: Dr. William Rainey Holt House
section_title: William Rainey Holt
hierarchical_section_title: Dr. William Rainey Holt House / William Rainey Holt
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Dr. William Rainey Holt, "physician, planter, promoter and long president of the North Carolina State Agricultural Society," lived in Lexington, North Carolina. He was the son of Michael Holt and Rachel (Rainey) Holt, and was born In Alamance County, North Carolina, October 30, 1798.
context_page_description: Dr. William Rainey Holt House, also known as The Homestead, is a historic home located at 408 South Main Street Lexington, Davidson County, North Carolina.
context_section_description: William Rainey Holt was a Pennsylvania-trained physician who practiced medicine after relocating to Davidson County. An ardent secessionist, Dr. Holt had three sons killed during military service for the Confederacy in the Civil War. His home was occupied by Union Army soldiers.
  Following the war, Holt spent an increasing amount of time at his plantation Linwood, located southwest of Lexington, where he operated a scientific farm on his 1,600 acres (6.5 km²). As president of the North Carolina Agricultural Society, Holt was among the first to introduce purebred breeds of livestock to the state.
caption: Dr. William Rainey Holt
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