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Jacob Jackson Farm, also known as Maple Hill, is a historic home and farm and national
historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains historic building, older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal p ...
located near Hillsborough,
Orange County, North Carolina Orange County is a County (United States), county located in the Piedmont (United States), Piedmont region of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 148,696. Its county seat is Hil ...
. The Maple Hill dwelling consists of a single pen, hewn log cabin (c. 1810) joined in 1940 by an ell to a two-story, weatherboarded log Federal farmhouse (c. 1820), and a 1 1/2-story, mid-19th century
Greek Revival Greek Revival architecture is a architectural style, style that began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe, the United States, and Canada, ...
style wing. A frame dining room/kitchen block was added to the cabin in 1946. Also on the property are the contributing barn (c. 1855-1910) and agricultural landscape. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 1994.


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Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Greek Revival houses in North Carolina Federal architecture in North Carolina Houses completed in 1820 Hillsborough, North Carolina Buildings and structures in Orange County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Orange County, North Carolina {{OrangeCountyNC-NRHP-stub