{{short description|Historic farm in North Carolina, United States}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Perry Farm | nrhp_type = | image = | caption = | location = NC 2320 south side, east of the junction with NC 2300, Riley Hill, North Carolina | coordinates = {{coord|35|51|7|N|78|24|09|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = North Carolina#USA | built = 1820 | architect = | architecture = | added = August 26, 1994 | area = {{convert|10|acre}} | mpsub = {{NRHP url|id=64500376|title=Wake County MPS}} | refnum = 94001025<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> }}
The '''Perry Farm''' is an intact, historic African-American farm complex in Riley Hill, North Carolina, a suburb of Raleigh. The farm house was built in 1820 by John and Nancy Perry, white slaveholders of several slaves during the Antebellum period of the South.
After the Civil War ended, a freedman named Feggins Perry made arrangements with his former enslavers to work the land as a tenant farmer. Each night after work, Feggins made baskets and furniture for extra money so he and his brother could buy land, which was the prime goal of many freedmen. Feggins Perry also helped establish the nearby Riley Hill Baptist Church for freedmen.<ref name = nrhpinv>{{Cite web | author = Patricia S. Dickinson| title =Perry Farm| work = National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory | date = June 1994 | url = https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/WA1941.pdf | format = pdf | publisher = North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office | accessdate = 2015-05-01}}</ref>
In 1914, Feggins' son Guyon Perry purchased Perry Farm. The property remains in the family to this day.
Perry Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in August 1994 as significant in African-American social history.<ref name="Perry">{{cite web| title=Wake County Landmarks| publisher=Capital Area Preservation, Inc.| url=http://www.cappresinc.org/gallery.php?reflink=wake_county_landmarks| accessdate=2008-05-02| url-status=dead| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725135330/http://www.cappresinc.org/gallery.php?reflink=wake_county_landmarks| archivedate=2011-07-25}}</ref><ref name="Farm">{{cite web|title=Riley Hill, Wake County North Carolina |publisher=University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |date=2002-05-21 |url=http://www.hsl.unc.edu/phpapers/RileyHill02/rileyhill02.pdf |accessdate=2008-05-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060917210807/http://www.hsl.unc.edu/phpapers/RileyHill02/rileyhill02.pdf |archivedate=September 17, 2006 }}</ref>
==See also== *List of Registered Historic Places in North Carolina
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Category:Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Category:Houses completed in 1820 Category:Houses in Wake County, North Carolina Category:African-American history of North Carolina Category:National Register of Historic Places in Wake County, North Carolina
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