The Stafford-Benbow House was built as a two-room home for Robert M. Stafford, Guilford County Sheriff from 1865 to 1880 and owner of Old Mill. Stafford later enlarged the house to its current Neo-classical style. A jail stood behind the house in the early 1900s. The property was later owned by A. Murrow Benbow, grandson of Jesse Benbow, and remained in the Benbow family for over 50 years.