Casey Farm

Casey Farm
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Casey Farm
Location:	North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Built:	1725
Architect:	Unknown
Architectural style:	No Style Listed
Governing body:	Private
NRHP Reference#:	73000006
Added to NRHP:	August 14, 1973

Casey Farm in Saunderstown, Rhode Island, USA, is a historic farm established around 1750.

History

This mid 18th-century farmstead overlooking Narragansett Bay was the center of a plantation that 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 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.

Casey Farm was also the summer home and subsequently the burial place of several decorated war heroes and military engineers including Silas Casey, Thomas Lincoln Casey, and Edward Pearce Casey.

Visiting today

Today, 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 by Historic New England.

See also

• Historic New England
• Open air museum

External links

• Historic New England website information