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35 <br /> The Project <br /> St. Paul A.M.E. Church purchased the Hogan-Rogers House and property <br /> surrounding it in order to build a new church complex on the site. Plans call for <br /> demolition of this historic house in late 2012. The Preservation Society began <br /> working with the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association, St. Paul Church, and <br /> Habitat for Humanity to relocate and restore this home that holds over 170 years of <br /> history for Chapel Hill's white and black community. Currently, the house is listed <br /> on the North Carolina State Historic Preservation survey conducted in 1999. <br /> Habitat for Humanity has graciously donated two lots to relocate the home but <br /> funding for the home's moving and restoration is dependent on funds allocated to <br /> Rogers Road community as part of the over remediation plan. <br /> This report details the home's colorful history, its meaning to the community <br /> today, and its important to the future of Chapel Hill. <br /> Places That Help Us Remember: Why the Hogan-Rogers House is <br /> important. <br /> Thomas Lloyd Hogan buried his daughter in the front yard of his house in 1845, <br /> the year Texas was annexed from Mexico and became the 28th state. Thomas was <br /> the grandson of Maj. Gen. Thomas Lloyd, a sheriff, Justice of the Peace, and <br /> member of the Assembly of Orange County from 1760-1769. Thomas inherited the <br /> land from his father, Daniel, who fought for independence in the Revolutionary <br /> War. The Lloyd family, and their neighbors the Hogans, were prominent early <br /> settlers of Orange County and instrumental in the founding Hillsborough. Thomas <br /> built this house in the early 184os lived here with his family, both white and black, <br /> until his death on July 4, 1856. Slaves made up much of the workforce on the farm <br /> and in the house, and the skilled enslaved workers may have been the builders of <br /> the house that sheltered the family. The home was sold out of the Hogan family <br /> after World War I and purchased by Sam Rogers Jr., an African American whose <br /> father had been a slave. Rogers lost the house during the Great Depression. <br /> Today, the Hogan— Roger House is a threatened landmark that will be destroyed it <br /> is relocated and restored. The house is an historical artifact from one of the earliest <br /> 3 <br />