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<br />ATTACHMENT 3 <br />November 19,1998 <br />VIA FIRST CLASS MAIL <br />Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />Post Office Box 8181 <br />Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278 <br />Re: Proposed Incorporation of the Town of Hebron, Cheeks Township <br />Orange County, North Carolina <br />Dear Madame Brown and Members of the Orange County Board of Commissioners: <br />We, the undersigned Orange County residents, are very grateful to you for your concern <br />and your efforts to address the recent non-contiguous satellite annexations of Orange County <br />property by the City of Mebane. <br />As you know, our Hebron community is an old, rural, undeveloped area with many farms, <br />which have been in some families since 1755. The Nelson family farm was originally deeded by <br />a land grant from Lord Granville and is recorded in Book 1 of the Orange County Register of <br />Deeds. There are many families who have been here for well over a hundred years, having <br />ancestors who served in the Orange County militia. Others were veterans who sent money home <br />to pay for the farms on which they and their families now live. It is a community of families and <br />neighbors with long histories and a deep and abiding love of the country, the community and <br />Orange County. Although our community is located 2 miles south of Interstate 85, we still have <br />dark night skies, wildlife, some dirt roads, and working farms which produce crops and <br />livestock. <br />-~ <br />