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<br />SCUPF OF Vv~RI~ <br />cultural Resources Survey <br />Hollow Rock Access Area and New Hope Preserve <br />orange County, NC <br />1. Pro`ect Back round <br />Grange County owns pardons of a future, 9?'~acre, low-impact park and natural area, <br />made up of a series of adjacent tracts located along Erwin Road and New Hape Creek. <br />The subject property is located along the southeast side of Erwin Road ~5R ~ 734} at the <br />intersection with Pickett Road ASR ~ 3o3}. It extends from New Hape Creek, on the <br />west, tv just beyond the boundary line between grange and Durham counties. A multi- <br />jurisdictional project, the property is owned by Grange and Durham counties, the City of <br />Durham, the Town of Chapel Hill, and others. The site is predominately wooded. New <br />Hope Creekfarms the western boundary line ofthe park property and with a smaller <br />tributary flawing diagonally through the center portion of the property, roughly parallel <br />with Erwin Road. The property is approximately six miles southeast of Exit X55 of <br />Interstate 4a}and approximately two miles west of the NC T5~ exit from 15-5a~ . See <br />Hollow Rock Access Area and New Hope Preserve map} <br />The property is surrounded by a combination of undeveloped and rural residential <br />properties. It is bounded to the east by a subdivision on Cambridge Road, to the south <br />and west by New Hope Creek and to the north by Erwin Rvad. See Hollow Rock <br />Access Area and New Hope Preserve on USGS map and on 2aas ortho photograph.} <br />The property was acquired in a series of transactions from ~aa~ to 2Da7. Triangle land <br />Conservancy purchased the first two acres in 20a2. Grange County purchased a one <br />acre parcel in 2oo5, a seven-acre parcel from Duke University in ~4a6, a twenty-acre <br />parcel from Wade and Carolyn Penny in 2oo5, and a 26-acre parcel from Trinity School <br />in Janua ~ao~. Acquisition of a 43~three-acre tract owned by Duke University by <br />Durham and Grange counties will be completed in April 2908. The City of Durham and <br />Town of Chapel Hill will own partial interest in that 43-acre portion. All of this lies <br />directly across Erwin Road from one of the entrances to Duke Forest's Kvrstian <br />Division, which encompasses about ~ ,9aa acres on New Hope Creek. <br />At least two general stores were located along this stretch of Erwin Road, near where <br />the road crosses New Hope Creek, during the twentieth century. The earlier store was <br />a simple one-room frame structure, probably constructed during the ~92os-4os period. <br />Following a standard country-storelrural gas-station design, this front-gable building was <br />moved from the site to a location nearby and used by a private owner as a pottery <br />workshop and related storage. Somewhat later, amodern-day convenience store and <br />gas station was constructed at the site; it was removed in the late ~ 99os as part of the <br />North Carolina Department ofTransportation's campaign to replace the bridge aver <br />New Hope Creek. A dark green Arts and Crafts style bungalow sits along a slight rise <br />3 <br />