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5 <br />1999 HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND (HPF) APPLICATION FORM <br />State Historic Preservation Office <br />North Carolina Division of Archives and History <br />III. ABSTRACT OF PROPOSED PROJECT <br />During the inventory of historic resources in the unincorporated portions of Orange County, <br />The Oaks Crossroads was placed on the National Register Study List as a district deemed <br />potentially eligible for the National Register by the North Carolina National Register Advisory <br />Committee. The rural crossroads community centers on the historic crossroads of Old <br />Hillsborough Road and Old Fayetteville Road, now the intersection of North Carolina Highway <br />54, Mebane Oaks Road, Saxapahaw Road, and Lloydtown Road. The community is comprised <br />of a small, dispersed collection of buildings dating to various periods in the 19th and early 20th <br />centuries-including several domestic single-family residences, a church, and a historic academy <br />that now serves as abed-and-breakfast. There are also several unoccupied cultivated and <br />forested tracts within the area. <br />The Oaks crossroads and environs contain suitable contributing characteristics to qualify as <br />a rural historic district. The Oaks area exhibits elements of a historic cultural landscape, a <br />landscape that has evolved through use by the people whose activities and occupancy have <br />modified the physical environment. Affected by the processes of land uses, patterns of spatial <br />organization, responses to the natural environment, and cultural traditions, The Oaks is reflective of <br />an agricultural-based, tightly-knit community that was self-reliant and innovative in character. The <br />Oaks possesses a significant concentration, linkage, and continuity of land uses, buildings and <br />structures, roads, and natural features that would qualify it as a National Register Rural Historic <br />District. Furthermore, this district contains significant examples of mid-to-late 19th and early 20th <br />century vernacular and stylish azchitecture. Among these aze the Bingham School, a National <br />Register property. <br />