{"nrhp_refnum":"85003114","name":"Cascine (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["See Also:Cascine"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"N side of NC 1702","address_restricted":false,"city":"Louisburg","county":"Franklin County","state":"NC","lat":36.04152841800004,"lon":-78.32407488981225,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-12-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Cascine is a plantation district near Louisburg in Franklin County, North Carolina. This boundary amendment expands the listed area from 60 acres to about 1287 acres, adding a gristmill complex, a slave cemetery, tenant houses, tobacco barns and archaeological sites on land granted to the Perry family in 1752 and 1763.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that Cascine is a rare, intact record of southern plantation history from the colonial era to the present. Its buildings, landscape and archaeological sites show the growth of a slave-labor plantation economy, the shift to farm tenancy after the Civil War, and continued agricultural use. It is also tied to the locally prominent Perry family and holds strong potential for archaeological study.","narrative":"Cascine is a plantation of roughly 1500 acres near Louisburg, North Carolina, that has stayed in agricultural use since land grants to the Perry family in 1752 and 1763. The original 60-acre core holds a mid-18th-century frame house, a ca. 1850 Greek Revival main house, an office, a brick kitchen and farm outbuildings. This boundary amendment enlarges the listed area to 1287 acres to include the wider working landscape. Added resources include a mid-19th-century family gristmill on Cedar Creek with its race and stone dam, a miller's house, a probable slave cemetery, brick and artifact scatters that may mark slave cabins, tenant houses, and many log and frame tobacco barns. Together they show the move from slave labor to tenancy after the Civil War. The nomination argues that the unusually intact landscape and its archaeological potential make Cascine important for understanding southern plantation life.","period_of_significance":"1850-1940","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival and Georgian (plantation house, office and miller's house)","criteria":["A","B","C","D"],"status_note":"The farm is still worked, and the main house is occupied. Several outlying buildings are deteriorated or abandoned, and the mill's first-level floor has collapsed.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.286539-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/10/7203/47720310/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/85003114.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003114/23a524cc18-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003114/23a524cc18-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"C.O. Greene, Photographer","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cascine,_State_Route_1702,_Louisburg_vicinity,_(Franklin_County,_North_Carolina).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">C.O. Greene, Photographer</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cascine,_State_Route_1702,_Louisburg_vicinity,_(Franklin_County,_North_Carolina).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720310","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascine_(Louisburg,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18711543"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/franklin-county/cascine-boundary-increase-85003114/"}