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025 August 18, 1997 Interim Draft CEDAR GROVE RURAL CROSSROADS COMMUNITY NATIONAL REGISTER NOMINATION SECTION 7-DESCRIPTION Located in the northwest corner of Orange County,Cedar Grove is an unincorporated rural crossroads community originating at the intersection of Carr Store Road and Efland-Cedar Grove Road. It is situated within a rural landscape approximately 11 miles northwest of Hillsborough,the county seat. The community retains a variety of once typical crossroads building types and uses, including two store buildings,two churches,a post office,and residences all providing a physical framework that contributes to a sense of ongoing vitality. For the most part,the non-domestic structures are clustered at the crossroads while the residences emanate from the intersection for a one-mile stretch along the two main roads. The built resources punctuate expanses of pasture and cultivated land framed by woodlands. Thus,the natural and agrarian countryside overlaid with the built environment constitutes a significant cultural landscape which embodies the essential character of the once-typical rural crossroads community. The Cedar Grove Rural Crossroads Community Historic District is comprised of approximately 105 acres and contains 22 contributing primary structures, 5 non-contributing primary structures,and I non- contributing site. These non-contributing structures are unobtrusive in scale and are compatibly sited; therefore,they do not infringe upon the overall integrity of the district. The most prominent built resources of the community include two each of historically significant and architecturally notable Colonial Revival houses,churches and store buildings. With the exception of one of the houses and one of the churches,these resources are concentrated at the crossroads. Most of the built resources are houses that lack significance individually,but as a group possess intrinsic value as components of the crossroads community pattern of development. The architectural landscape of the community is one of a rural vernacular aesthetic,and although the primary barns associated with the farmsteads have disappeared,sufficient physical vestiges in the form of field patterns strongly allude to the historical agrarian character of the community. The Pender-Oliver Store(18)which has remained in business since the 1880s is flanked on the north and south sides by ca. 1940s buildings,the Cedar Grove Post Office(19)the C.C.Oliver Auto and Tractor Repair