{"nrhp_refnum":"94000184","name":"Jackson, Jacob, Farm","other_names":["Maple Hill"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"NC 1002, 0.4 mi. W of NC 1538","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hillsborough","county":"Orange County","state":"NC","lat":36.09411225650004,"lon":-79.05940384557076,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-03-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 63.15-acre farm district on a hilltop 2.8 miles northeast of Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina, centered on the farmhouse Maple Hill, which grew in stages from about 1810 to 1950. It also includes a log and frame barn, two noncontributing outbuildings, and farmland and woods.","why_significant":"The farm is significant under Criterion A for its link to the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century agricultural economy of Orange County, with surviving pasture and woodland showing historic land-use patterns. Maple Hill is significant under Criterion C for the architecture of its Federal block and Greek Revival wing, which show how a rural log farmhouse evolved as occupants' needs and means changed.","narrative":"Jacob Jackson Farm, also known as Maple Hill, occupies a hilltop above the Eno River valley northeast of Hillsborough, North Carolina. The 63-acre property includes a rambling H-shaped farmhouse built in stages. A hewn-log cabin from about 1810 was followed by a two-story weatherboarded log Federal house around 1820 and a Greek Revival wing added shortly after 1855. A connector ell came in 1940, and a kitchen and dining block in 1946. Beyond the house stand a log and frame barn, pasture, and second-growth woodland. The farm was listed for two reasons. Its fields, woods, and widely spaced outbuildings preserve the layout of a subsistence and diversified farm from the early nineteenth century into the mid-twentieth. The house also shows how many rural Piedmont dwellings grew over time, with Federal and Greek Revival log construction left largely intact beneath later, careful repairs. Jacob Jackson, a yeoman farmer, is thought to have built the early sections.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1820-1940","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Federal; Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Maple Hill has had continuous use as a dwelling; the farm no longer grows crops, and a slave cabin and older granary were demolished in 1950. The barn is deteriorated in places but basically sound.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.837819-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/30/7216/47721630/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/94000184.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000184/3e78887f7b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000184/3e78887f7b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JACOB_JACKSON_FARM,_HILLSBOROUGH,_ORANGE_COUNTY,_NC.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JACOB_JACKSON_FARM,_HILLSBOROUGH,_ORANGE_COUNTY,_NC.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721630","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Jackson_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19880935"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/orange-county/jackson-jacob-farm-94000184/"}