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UPS Pone 10-200. OAS AppavW Ue W-6- IS M.",NS) United States Department of the Interior 36 National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Jacob Jackson Farm / Maple Hill Section number 8_ Page 9 Orange County, NC farm for a short time.31 On October 14, 1940, five years after Thomas had passed away, "Miss Ida" sold the house and 471/2 acres to T. H. and Willie Christian Antrim for four thousand dollars.32 The Antrims added the connector ell and purchased 12.2 acres of the 77 acres which had been allocated to Nannie Turner Hughes from D.S. and Elizabeth W. Matheson, enlarging the farm to its present 63.3 acres on December 11, 1943.'" The property was deeded to Florence G. Guild on April 17, 1946.'The dining room/kitchen wing and the granary were constructed and the chicken house was repaired and resited before Marie B Hollandsworth and her husband, D. E. Hollandsworth (now deceased) purchased the property on October 13, 1949.' During the Hollandsworths' long ownership, bathrooms and central heating were added and the house was carefully restored and maintained. Today, the Jacob Jackson Farm and Maple Hill are owned by Mrs. Hollandsworth and her daughter, Ann H. Myers. The property with key elements intact, retains integrity as a prime example of a nineteenth-century Orange County, North Carolina farmstead. "Blanche Midgett and Carrie Fraley,personal interviews,6&7 September, 1993. 72 Deed dated October 14,1940,Book 112,p.403,Orange County Register of Deeds Office,Hillsborough,NC. "Deed dated December 11,1943,Book 118,p.432,Orange County Register of Deeds Office,Hillsborough,NC. "Virginia Antrim, personal interview,10 September,1993. 's Deed dated April 17, 1946,Book 123,p.518,Orange County Register of Deeds Office,Hillsborough,NC J6 Deed dated October 13,1949,Book 831,p.642,Orange County Register of Deeds Office,Hillsborough,NC.