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i I (�Ml Na •c0 0402 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Cabe - Pratt - Harris House Section number 8 page 8 Orange Co . , NC f continues in existence today . He may have left his North Carolina business affairs in the hands of John Burton , Jamima ' s son from her first marriage . Burton Told the Jehu Broom tract to J . H . Pratt in a deed dated 1860 . The 1850 population and agricultural censuses for Orange County record that James H . Pratt ( age forty four ) and wife , Malvina ( age thirty ) were living on the farm which had 300 improved acres , 500 unimproved acres and forty - seven slaves . The farm had a cash value of $ 2 , 000 with $ 200 worth of farming implements and machinery . The livestock , valued at $ 500 , included four horses , seven milch cows and fourteen other cattle , eighteen sheep , and eighty - five swine . His principal crops were wheat ( 240 bushels ) , Indian corn 11035 bushels ) and oats ( 500 bushels ) . The sheep produced twenty pounds of wool , and the cows produced 200 pounds of butter . He also raised peas and beans ( five bushels ) , Irish potatoes ( ten bushels ) and hops ( 5 pounds ) . He grew one h ndred pounds of flax and had on hand f ive pounds of flax seed . In 1860 Pratt acquired 130 adjoining acres which had been Nancy Cabe ' s inherited portion of her father William Cabe ' s land . At age thirty - two Nancy Cabe married George Faucett and probably had died without children to inherit the land . Her share of William Cabe ' s , and had descended to her brothers and sisters or their heirs . In his 1885 will , Pratt deeded " the Cabe tract of land containing 140 acres and the Jehu Brown tract containing 160 acres " to the Lucinda Harris family for her lifetime , after which her children Emma and Jane Harris were to have it . ( Lucinda ' s husband , Benton Harris , died during the Civil War and Pratt had promised to provide for the family . ) Lucinda Harris also received " one horse , two cows andlgalves , ten head of sheep and ten of hogs , one plow and gear . Members of the Harris family owned the property until 1942 , when Douglas and Frances Hill purchased the house and approximately 180 acres . A photograph from the early 1940s shows the house before the Hills appended a new rear addition about 1942 . A photo taken in 1954 , after Hurricane Hazel ravaged piedmont North Carolina , shows a large uprooted - tree which had apparently narrowly missed falling the new addition which had metal - trimmed casement windows . In the 1970s and 1980s the Hills sold portions of the acreage for the Eno River State Park . Dr . and Mrs . Gregory Georgiade purchased the house and 27 . 3 acres in December , 1983 from the Mills ' son , Robert . The