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House, has been placed on the study list for potential listing on the NRHP . This plantation dates to about 1848 . The so - called . Gosling Log House , also on the study list, may date to the . early 1800s (Henry 1999) . The Dortch family is said to have constructed and inhabited this log structure since at least the mid -nineteenth century (Mary Jane Lockhart Gosling, personal communication 1999) . One Postbellum property has been placed on the NRHP study list, the late .nineteenth-century Caine- Roberts farmstead complex (Henry 1999) . To summarize the architectural survey findings , no extant structures from the eighteenth-century Colonial Period have been identified in the project area. A number of survey sites do date to the Antebellum Period. These consist of six farmsteads and one institutional site , St . Mary ' s Chapel. The late eighteenth century is represented by a frame rear ell to a later period extant frame house (Hill Farm, Or659) . The original one- bay house structure has a stone foundation, and a large, double- shouldered chimney measuring at least eight feet wide at its base . The historic property also incorporates a small family cemetery containing fieldstone markers . The Walker House (Or718) complex also contains a family cemetery. The burying ground ' s earliest recorded gravestone is for "the family patriarch Robert Walker ( 1767- 1826)" (Henry 1999 : 16) . The rear section of the extant house , built of heavy framed timber, is believed to date to 1814 (Henry 1999) . Three single- storied, single-pen log houses in the project area date to the early decades of the nineteenth century . The Gosling Log House ( Or652) stands alone, but the Charles Thompson Farm (Or1450) log structure has an extant, later period frame addition fronting the cabin (Henry 1999) . Mabry Hill, or the Jacob Jackson Farm ( Or710) , listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has a "single-pen, hewn log house likely constructed in 1810 . . .joined to a two - story, weatherboarded log Federal farmhouse built as a separate structure" (Henry 1999 : 16- 17) . In the 1840s a frame, Greek Revival- style addition was added to the Federal- style structure . Henry considers the John Berry House , also known as Sunnyside (Or692) (and locally as "four chimneys") as the "most significant ante-bellum home in the St . Mary ' s . Road study area" (Henry 1999 : 17) . John Berry was a well-known local builder. For example , the Greek Revival- style Orange County Courthouse was designed and built by Berry in 1846 . Berry ' s own home dates to 1848 . He did not design his house in brick, but apparently chose frame with a "wealth of interior woodwork . . . derived from Asher Benjamin' s pattern books" (Henry 1999017) . Although Berry owned a significant plantation complex, including mills ( see below) , no extant outbuildings have been located . For example , no slave quarters have been located for the estimated 45 slaves that labored on the plantation during the decade before 1860 (Henry 1999 : 17) . The last extant building dating from the Antebellum Period ( 1859) is St . Mary' s Chapel, a Protestant Episcopal Church. This "well-preserved example of brick Gothic Revival- style architecture " is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (Henry 1999 : 17) . It is associated with an extant cemetery located about 250 feet to the southeast, close to St . Mary' s Road (Joy 1995 ) . The cemetery is lined by a fieldstone wall built in 1836 . The burying grounds contain an estimated 25 unmarked and 26 masked graves, although 45 grave markers with death dates ranging from 1780- 1938 were noted in total (Joy 1995 ) . (Many of the tombstones were not in situ, and were simply leaning against the walls and/or trees in the cemetery. ) A fieldstone foundation measuring about 20 feet north/south by 24 feet east/west is located in the northeast corner of the cemetery (Joy 23