James and Sophia Clemens Farmstead

The James and Sophia Clemens Farmstead is a historic farm situated in western Darke County, Ohio, United States.

Located at 467 Stingley Road,[1] approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) from the Indiana border,[2] it is among the oldest remaining buildings of a small community of free African-Americans founded before the Civil War.

Over the years, the community became a center for the Underground Railroad, complete with a Quaker school known as the Union Literary Institute; among the movement's leaders in the community were the Clemens family.

[3] The Clemens house itself was erected circa 1850 on land purchased in 1822.

[5] The two-story brick I-house rests on a limestone foundation and is covered with a tin roof.

The Clemens Barn, located immediately east of the house