Guilford College Woods is a 240-acre oasis of biodiversity on land of the Saura and Keyawee peoples, later settled by European American Friends, or Quakers, in the 1700s. It was the site of encampments of British and American troops during the Revolutionary War, a refuge for enslaved Africans seeking freedom through the Underground Railroad and for Quaker men escaping the Confederate draft during the Civil War in the 1800s, and the site of a former college farm. It remains an educational and recreational resource.