Jackson, Jacob, Farm

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.