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INTEROFFICE MEMO Date: December 7, 1998 36 To: John Link, County Manager From: Don Belk, Preservation Planner cc: Gene Bell, Interim Planning Director Subject: Draft: 1999 Historic Preservation Fund Grant Application: The Oaks Rural Historic Landscape District National Register Nomination The application period for 1999 federal Certified Local Government (CLG) grants is underway. As you know, Orange County's historic preservation effort has benefited enormously from this program in past years. Our historic architectural and archeological surveys, the historic preservation element of the Orange County Comprehensive Plan, and our architectural history manuscript were all funded in large part by CLG grants. The upcoming St. Mary's Road Corridor preservation planning study is also being funded partially by this grant program administered by the State Historic Preservation Office. At their November 24 meeting, the Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) voted to recommend to the Board of Commissioners to apply fora 1999 CLG grant in the amount of $6,000 for the purpose of completing a nomination of The Oaks Rural Historic Landscape District to the National Register of Historic Places. During the inventory of historic resources in the unincorporated portions of Orange County, The Oaks Crossroads was placed on the National Register Study List as a district deemed potentially eligible for the National Register by the North Carolina National Register Advisory Committee. The rural crossroads community centers on the historic crossroads of Old Hillsborough Road and Old Fayetteville Road, now the intersection of North Carolina Highway 54, Mebane Oaks Road, Saxapahaw Road, and Lloydtown Road. The community is comprised of a small, dispersed collection of buildings dating to various periods in the 19th and early 20th centuries-including several domestic single-family residences, a church, and a historic academy (the Bingham School, individually listed on the National Register) that now serves as abed-and-breakfast. There are also several unoccupied cultivated and forested tracts within the area. The total project cost of the National Register nomination is estimated to be $12,000. The grant would be matched by $4,000 County funds and $2,000 County in-kind services. A draft grant application is attached. Grant applications must be completed and submitted to the SHPO by January 31, 1999. Grant awards will be announced in late March or early April 1999. All grant-awarded projects must be completed by September 30, 2000. The final draft Application will be presented to the Board of County Commissioners for consideration of approval on January 19. If the grant is awarded by SHPO and subsequently accepted by the Board of Commissioners, it would require a commitment of $4,000 in the FY1999-2000 County budget. If you have any further questions, please let me know. The HPC will discuss the draft grant application at their January 5 meeting. DECEMBER 7, 1998