Casey Farm

{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Casey Farm | nrhp_type = HD | image = Casey Farm Rhode Island.jpg | caption = Casey Farm | location =2325 Boston Neck Rd., North Kingstown, Rhode Island, U.S. | locmapin = Rhode Island#USA | coordinates={{coord|41|30|48|N|71|25|28|W|display=title,inline}} | area = | built = {{start date|1725}} | architect = | architecture = | added = August 14, 1973 | refnum = 73000006<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2007a}}</ref> }}

'''Casey Farm''' is a historic farm in Saunderstown, Rhode Island, United States. It is now a historic museum property, operated by Historic New England, and is open to the public.

==History== Casey Farm occupies a {{convert|300|acre|ha|adj=on}} tract of land that has been undivided in 300 years of ownership. It extends the full width of the neck of land between the Narrow River and the West Passage of Narragansett Bay. Its main house was built c. 1725–50 by Daniel Coggeshall, and became Silas Casey's when he married Coggeshall's daughter. The property remained in the hands of Casey descendants until it was given to the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA, now Historic New England).<ref name=NRHP>{{cite web|url=http://www.preservation.ri.gov/pdfs_zips_downloads/national_pdfs/north_kingstown/noki_boston-neck-road_silas-casey-farm.pdf|title=NRHP nomination for Casey Farm|publisher=Rhode Island Preservation|access-date=2014-11-09}}</ref>

The farm produced food for local and foreign markets. Located near Newport, Rhode Island Casey Farm had access to materials imported from England, enabling its early owners to live in a fashionable manner. Prosperity ended with the burning of Newport during the American Revolutionary War, and the farm settled into a pattern of absentee ownership. Starting in the mid 19th century, the Casey family began to improve the farm. They leased the property to tenant farmers but retained two rooms in the house for their own occasional summer use, as they had come to regard the farm as their ancestral home.

Casey Farm was also the summer home and subsequently the burial place of Civil War general Silas Casey, military engineer Thomas Lincoln Casey and Washington, D.C. architect Edward Pearce Casey.

In 1955 the farm and Casey family papers were donated to the preservation organization Historic New England.<ref name="ProJo20180107">{{cite news|last1=Hill|first1=John|title=R.I.'s Thomas Lincoln Casey, man behind the Washington Monument|url=http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20180107/ris-thomas-lincoln-casey-man-behind-washington-monument|access-date=8 January 2018|publisher=The Providence Journal|date=7 January 2018|location=Providence, RI}}</ref>

==Visiting today== The farm is owned by Historic New England.Today, hired farm hands raise organic vegetables, herbs, and flowers for subscribing households in a Community Supported Agriculture program. The guided tour includes the farmyard and cemetery, where six generations of Caseys are buried. Casey Farm runs a farmers market on Saturday mornings from mid-May through October featuring organic produce and all-local vendors.<ref>https://www.historicnewengland.org/property/casey-farm/</ref> The education personnel at Casey Farm also offer numerous programs for children during the school year and the summer. Staff members, which Historic New England calls "farm teachers," host various programs in the fall and springtime for schoolchildren. Casey Farm also partners with schools across Rhode Island by giving teachers and their students the opportunity to raise and hatch chicks in incubators each year. They call this partnership "Project Chick."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-08-08 |title=Project CHICK: Chickens Hatching in Classrooms — Historic New England |url=http://www.historicnewengland.org/Plone/school-youth-programs/k-12-programs-resources/rhode-island/copy_of_projectchick.htm |access-date=2022-01-27 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808231631/http://www.historicnewengland.org/Plone/school-youth-programs/k-12-programs-resources/rhode-island/copy_of_projectchick.htm |archive-date=8 August 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> During the summer, Historic New England has various summer camp offerings at Casey Farm for children between the ages of 3 and 13. These camps include week-long day programs and single-day programs.<ref>{{Cite web|title=For Schools and Afterschool Programs {{!}} Historic New England|url=https://www.historicnewengland.org/school-youth/for-schools-and-afterschool-programs/?location=rhode-island|access-date=2022-01-27|website=www.historicnewengland.org|language=en-US}}</ref>

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== External links == {{Commons category|Casey Farm}} * [https://www.historicnewengland.org/property/casey-farm/ Historic New England website information] {{North Kingstown, Rhode Island}} {{NRHP in Washington County, Rhode Island}} {{Historic New England}}

Category:Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island Category:1720s establishments in Rhode Island Category:History of New England Category:Cemeteries in Rhode Island Category:Museums in Washington County, Rhode Island Category:Farm museums in Rhode Island Category:Buildings and structures in North Kingstown, Rhode Island Category:Farms in Washington County, Rhode Island Category:Historic New England Category:National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Rhode Island