- Casey Farm
Infobox_nrhp | name =Casey, Silas, Farm
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location=North Kingstown, Rhode Island
locmapin = Rhode Island
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built =1725
architect= Unknown
architecture= No Style Listed
added =August 14 ,1973
governing_body = Private
refnum=73000006cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]Casy Farm in
Saunderstown, Rhode Island ,Rhode Island ,USA , was established around 1750. This mid 18th-century homestead overlookingNarragansett Bay was the center of a plantation that produced food for local and foreign markets. Located nearNewport, 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 Revolution , 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.Nowadays, resident farm managers 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. The farm is owned byHistoric New England .External links and references
* [http://www.historicnewengland.org/visit/homes/casey.htm Historic New England website information]
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