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Attachment 6 <br />AN ORDINANCE OF THE ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />DESIGNATING THE PROPERTY KNOWN AS THE <br />CAPTAIN JOHN S. POPE FARM <br />IN ORANGE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA <br />AS A LOCAL HISTORIC LANDMARK <br />Whereas, all of the prerequisites to the adoption of this ordinance prescribed in Part 3C, Article <br />19, Chapter 160A (Historic Districts and Landmarks) of the General Statutes of North Carolina and an <br />Ordinance Creating the Historic Preservation Commission of Orange County (the "Historic Preservation <br />Ordinance ") have been met; and <br />Whereas, the Orange County Board of Commissioners has taken into full consideration all <br />statements and information in the application and the designation report prepared by the Orange County <br />Historic Preservation Commission and presented to the Board of County Commissioners on the day <br />of April, 2013, on the question of designating the property known as Captain John S. Pope Farm as a <br />historic landmark; and <br />Whereas, the property known as the Captain John S. Pope Farm, located in Cedar Grove <br />Township in the County of Orange and more particularly described in Exhibit A attached hereto, is one <br />of the best preserved historic tobacco farm complexes in the northern part of the county; and <br />Whereas, the original farmhouse built between 1870 and 1874 remains largely intact and retains <br />virtually all of its original interior woodwork and room finishes, including its distinctive ornamental <br />mantels and stair; and <br />26 <br />Whereas, the Captain John S. Pope Farm retains a collection of twenty historic outbuildings dating <br />from the 1860s to the 1960s; and <br />Whereas, the John S. Pope Farm with its farmhouse and collection of historic outbuildings <br />exemplifies the small and mid -sized tobacco farms that once prospered throughout Orange County and <br />the northern Piedmont section of the state; and <br />Whereas, the Orange County Historic Preservation Commission has recognized the historic, <br />architectural and cultural significance of the property known as the Captain John S. Pope Farm and has <br />recommended that the property be designated a "historic landmark" as outlined in Article 3 of the <br />Historic Preservation Ordinance; and <br />