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BACKGROUND: Register Advisory Committee. The rural crossroads community centers on the historic (continued) crossroads of Old Hillsborough Road and Old Fayetteville Road, now the intersection of North Cazolina Highway 54, Mebane Oaks Road, Saxapahaw Road, and Lloydtown Road. The community is comprised of a small, dispersed collection of buildings dating to vazious periods in the 19th and early 20th centuries-including several domestic single-family residences, a church, and a historic academy that now serves as abed- and-breakfast. There are also several unoccupied cultivated and forested tracts within the area. The Oaks crossroads and environs contain suitable contributing chazacteristics to qualify as a rural historic district. The Oaks azea exhibits elements of a historic cultural landscape, a landscape that has evolved through use by the people whose activities and occupancy have modified the physical environment. Affected by the processes of land uses, patterns of spatial organization, responses to the natural environment, and cultural traditions, The Oaks is reflective of anagricultural-based, tightly-knit community that was self-reliant and innovative in chazacter. The Oaks possesses a significant concentration, linkage, and continuity of land uses, buildings and structures, roads, and natural features that would qualify it as a National Register Rural Historic District. Grant funds would be used to develop a National Register nomination for The Oaks Rural Historic Landscape District. Funds would be used to hire a consultant to conduct survey work aimed at developing a thorough historic context of the rural landscape of the azea. The scope of work would include: determination of historic area boundaries and evaluation of the landscape elements; expanded surveys on historic structures and potential azcheological sites; evaluation of significance and historic integrity of the landscape and built environment; application of the National Register criteria, and preparation of the National Register Multiple Listing forms. The work would also include the required photography for the nomination forms and preparation of a color slide presentation. Listing in the National Register of Historic Places is an honorary designation which recognizes the importance of a site to the Nation's heritage. National Register designation imposes no restrictions on property owners; however, it does offer a degree of protection by ensuring a review of federally-funded projects to determine if they pose adverse impacts to National Register sites. This requirement is described in Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. Similarly, North Carolina law (General Statutes Sec. 121-12a) provides for consideration of National Register sites in state-funded or state- licensed projects. (The attached National Register Fact Sheets provide additional information on the National Register. ) RECOMMENDATION: At their January 5, 1999 meeting, the Historic Preservation Commission recommended submission of the subject CLG Grant Application and forwarding the recommendation to the Boazd of County Commissioners for consideration and approval. Administration Recommendation. The Administration recommends that the County Manager be authorized to apply for up to $6,000 from the Historic Preservation Fund Grant Program. If the grant proposal is accepted by the State Historic Preservation Office, the Environment and Resource Conservation Department will request $4,000 in the FY1999-2000 Budget as a cash match. The grant and matching funds would be used to complete a National Register nomination for the Oaks Rural Historic Landscape District.