Cascine (Boundary Increase)

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.