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NPS Fmm 104Ma <br /> ({yv,}") OAB APpovl ft.1074001! <br /> 27 <br /> United States Department of the Interior <br /> National Park Service <br /> National Register of Historic Places <br /> Continuation Sheet <br /> Jacob Jackson Farm / Maple Hill <br /> Section number 7 Page 7 Orange County, NC <br /> residence, Maple Hill, is situated. The land forms a plateau on the west while the rest of the <br /> property has gently rolling contours that terminate at a wooded ridge near the northern <br /> boundary. A portion of Little Creek follows the east border and flows south, crossing adjacent <br /> farmlands before emptying into the Eno River. A wire fence encloses most of the property, <br /> leaving a three-acre site on the southeast corner set apart for the house and chicken house. A <br /> large field of 23.1 acres, west of Maple Hill, is presently used as a pasture. Its terrain evidences <br /> cultivation during the period of significance for the ground has been leveled, cleared of stones, <br /> and shows remnants of furrows. The remaining 37.05 acres is woodland that borders the field <br /> and includes mature poplars, oaks, and maples, a second growth forest essentially undisturbed <br /> since the late-nineteenth century. The barn, chicken house, and equipment shed/granary on <br /> the Jacob Jackson Farm are widely separated from one another, dividing the farm into <br /> specialized activity areas, a practice brought to the North Carolina Piedmont by its English <br /> settlers and continued through the period of significance into the late twentieth century. The <br /> property clearly conveys the land use patterns associated with Orange County's nineteenth-to- <br /> mid-twentieth-century subsistence and diversified agricultural economy. <br />