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Site OR432, the Blackwood Farm Post Office and General Store, is located on the west side of Mill House Road (SR 1725) approximately 0.6 mi (1.0 km) north of the project area, in the present Spence's Farm complex. The property consists of a one -room log house with detached log kitchens, a log barn and numerous frame outbuildings said to have been built by the Blackwood family; it is thought to have housed the original Blackwood post office and general store after the railroad came through the area. The NRHP eligibility of this property has not been assessed. The Blackwood Grist Mill site (OR433) is 0.18 mi (0.3 km) north of the project area, on the east side of Mill House Road (SR 1725). The building is a small frame structure with a stone basement, and was built by the Blackwood family for a grist mill. According to Lally and Little (1992), the structure was converted to a house in the 1950s and has consequently lost its architectural integrity; it is considered ineligible for the NRHP. The Sam and Laura Nunn House (OR434) is located 0.3 mi (0.5 km) southeast of the project area on the east side of Mill House Road (SR 1725). The house was built by Sam Nunn for his family ca. 1905. At the time of the 1992 survey, the Nunn house was one of two two -story log houses found in the area (Lally and Little 1992). According to records at the SHPO's Survey and Planning Branch, this property was determined eligible for the NRHP on June 6, 1993. The Clyde Hogan House (OR489) is located on the west side of SR 86, approximately 0.6 mi (1 km) to the northeast of the project area. According to Lally and Little (1992), the Hogan House complex contains a "somewhat remodeled late 19'h/early 20'b century I- house" with a log smokehouse, log corn crib, frame garage, and a vertical board frame building that "may have been a detached kitchen ... in the backyard." According to Orange County real estate data, the house dates to ca. 1892. The survey did not assess the NRHP eligibility of this property. The John Kirkland House (OR490) was located on the east side of SR 86 approximately 0.75 mi (1.2 km) to the northeast of the project area. In 1992, Lally and Little noted that this was an antebellum log house built by John Kirkland that was later expanded with an addition and new style roof. A board- and -batten smokehouse and stilted dairy sat in the yard. Survey maps at the SHPO Survey and Planning office note that this house has been destroyed, and online Orange County Land Records /GIS do not list a structure on this property. The John Kirkland House is considered destroyed and ineligible for the NRHP, although it is possible that significant archaeological remains are present on that property. The SHPO Survey and Planning office survey maps identify two other properties within a one -mile radius of the project area— OR1433 and OR1442. OR1433 is located at 6616 Mill House Road, approximately 0.3 mi (0.5 km) north of the project area. No survey information was found at the Survey and Planning office other than the survey map notation, although online Orange County Land Records /GIS show that the one -story frame dwelling at that address was constructed ca. 1933. The NRHP- eligibility of that property remains unassessed. OR1442 is located directly north of the project area at 6823 Mill House Road, and according to online Orange County Land Records /GIS is a small brick one -story bungalow type house dating to ca. 1952. The NRHP- eligibility of that property is also unassessed. Cemeteries. The North Carolina Cemetery Survey records at the North Carolina State Archives do not list any recorded cemeteries within the project tract. Similarly, an on -line database of Orange County cemeteries (htti): / /www.cemeterycensus.or /ng c /omWindex.htm) also fails to depict cemeteries on or adjacent to the property. A number of cemeteries do lie within a one -mile radius, however, including the John Freeland Family Cemetery and an unmarked cemetery on the former Kirkland property (located north of the John Kirkland House), and the fieldstone- marked cemetery at the Alexander Hogan Plantation site. 3