This is the Perry family's starter home built in 1750. It is absolutely as small as it looks. It is Georgian in style and is a story and a "jump." with two rooms upstairs.
Downstairs the kitchen side of the main room.
Upstairs room
The home is located in Franklin County, NC. Jeremiah Perry I listed 3,297 acres for taxation in 1802. North Carolina is a metes and bounds surveying state. That is to say property is very rarely surveyed in square or rectangular plots. This property is no exception and a large tract of it is still intact, a couple miles across. Jeremiah built his home in the middle of property. This fact kept the Union soldiers from finding the buildings and destroying them during the Civil War. Over the years the family built a more substantial home which is across the driveway from this small home. With slave labor they were essentially self-sufficient with a saw mill and water mill for grinding grain. The plantation also had it's own racetrack.
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