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1. Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865

2. c. 1810
   Construction or physical change · Near Hillsborough Jacob Jackson Farm log dwelling is built

   A single-pen hewn-log cabin, the oldest part of the Maple Hill house on St. Mary's Road about 2.8 miles northeast of Hillsborough, is dated to about 1810 or earlier. The National Register nomination credits it, perhaps, to yeoman farmer Jacob Jackson and finds no support for a local tradition dating it to 1750.

3. c. 1820
   Construction or physical change · Near Hillsborough Maple Hill farmhouse is built

   Jacob Jackson is thought to have built a two-story, weatherboarded log farmhouse in the Federal style about 1820, south of the earlier cabin on his farm northeast of Hillsborough. The date rests on its styling and on Jackson's documented residence there by 1822; a Greek Revival wing followed about 1855 and a connector joined the buildings in 1940.

4. Reconstruction and the New South · 1866–1899

5. August 14, 1877
   Property or economic transaction · Maple Hill (Jacob Jackson Farm), 2314 St. Mary's Road, near Hillsborough Louisa Turner sells Maple Hill and 140 acres to her brother-in-law Israel Turner

   Louisa Jackson Turner, widow of John Turner, sold her father Jacob Jackson's home tract and the house where she lived to Israel Turner Jr. for $10,500. Israel Turner later ran a government-licensed distillery on the farm.

6. Civil rights era · 1945–1975

7. October 13, 1949
   Property or economic transaction · Maple Hill (Jacob Jackson Farm), 2314 St. Mary's Road, near Hillsborough D. E. and Marie Hollandsworth buy Maple Hill and begin restoring it

   D. E. and Marie B. Hollandsworth bought the Jacob Jackson farmhouse on St. Mary's Road and restored its Federal block and Greek Revival wing, adding bathrooms and heat. Mrs. Hollandsworth and her daughter still owned it when it was listed in the National Register in 1994.

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