From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Perry Farm
Perry Farm
Perry Farm In 1914 Feggins’ son Guyon Perry purchased Perry
Farm. The property remains in the family to this day.
U.S. National Register of Historic Places Perry Farm was listed on the National Register of His-
Nearest city: Riley Hill, North Carolina toric Places in August 1994 as significant in African-
American social history.[2][3]
Built: 1820
Architect: Unknown
See also
Architectural style: Other
• List of Registered Historic Places in North Carolina
Governing body: Private
MPS:
MPS: Wake County MPS References
NRHP Reference#: 94001025 [1] "National Register Information System". National
[1] Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
Added to NRHP: August 26, 1994 2008-05-02. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/
docs/All_Data.html.
The Perry Farm is an intact, historic African-American [2] ""Wake County Landmarks"". Capital Area
farm complex in Riley Hill, North Carolina, a suburb of Preservation, Inc.. http://www.cappresinc.org/
Raleigh. The farm house was built in 1820 by John and gallery.php?reflink=wake_county_landmarks.
Nancy Perry, white owners of several slaves during the Retrieved 2008-05-02.
Antebellum period of the South. [3] ""Riley Hill, Wake County North Carolina"".
After the Civil War ended, a freedman named Feggins University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Perry made arrangements with his former masters to 2002-05-21. http://209.85.165.104/
work the land as a tenant farmer. Each night after work, search?q=cache:oebr1-x7onQJ:www.hsl.unc.edu/
Feggins made baskets and furniture for extra money so phpapers/RileyHill02/
he and his brother could buy land, which was the prime rileyhill02.pdf+Perry+Farm+Riley+Hill&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=13&gl=u
goal of many freedmen. Feggins Perry also helped estab- Retrieved 2008-05-02.
lish the nearby Riley Hill Baptist Church for freedmen.
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• Buildings and structures completed in 1820
• Houses in Wake County, North Carolina
• African American history in North Carolina
• National Register of Historic Places in Wake County, North Carolina
• North Carolina Registered Historic Place stubs
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