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3 U OYf . .�.."r ►'u 117 �ty � United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Cabe - Pratt - Harris House Section number = Page = Orange Co . , NC 8 . Statement of Significance : Summary . The Cabe - Pratt - Harris Mouse is significant under national Register Criterion C . It � embodies the distinctive characteristics of late - Georgian design and is notable as an example of a small but substantial early - nineteenth century farm house of the Eno River valley . The house was probably built in the 1820s by Jamima Cabe and her husband , Jehu Brown . She inherited this tract of land after her father William Cabe ' s death in 1828 . William Cabe was the son of Barnaby Cabe , an early land grantee in the area . The house and farm were later owned by the Pratt and Harris families . Although mid - twentieth century additions ( remodeled in the late - twentieth century ) expanded the house , the old section retains its early form , and its handsome late - Georgian hall - and - parlor interiors . The interior , unusually sophisticated for a small rural dwelling of the period , retains its flush board sheathing , six - panel doors , and arched and raised - panel mantels . Historical Background : The Cabe - Pratt - Harris House , or Riverbend Farm , stands j on a tract which dates to the mid - eighteenth century . The farm began as several hundred acres , but has been partitioned over the years , and at present contains approximately twenty - seven acres . No original farm outbuildings survive . The early barns , and livestocic pens were replaced with a c . 1950 cinder bloclt barn and fenced pens for the current owner ' s hunting dogs . The land is first associated with the McCabe ( shortened to Cabe at an early date ) and Few families , who were among the earliest settlers in the Eno River Valley . The farm stayed in the Cabe family until the mid - nineteenth century and has had two owners in the twentieth century . much of the historical data about the Cabe family , and other early Eno River Valley settlers , was compiled by Hugh Conway Browning ( 1896 - 1983 ) , a family descendant . His meticulous genealogical research revealed facts of births , marriages and deaths and the tight web of kinship among the area ' s early families , and the tangle of land transactions that Were a part of their fortunes . The McCabe family originated in Scotland and joined Protestant families who migrated to Ireland in the seventeenth century , and thence to America before the Revolutionary War .