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07"5 <br /> AGENDA ITEM #6: INFORMATIONAL ITEMS* <br /> a. Planning Department Calendar. <br /> b. Appointment Letter for Patricia M. Samford <br /> c. Updated HPC Roster <br /> d. Announcement from Myrick Howard, Executive Director,Preservation/NC <br /> e. Memorandum from the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions <br /> f. "The National Historic Preservation Act - What a Developer Needs to Know"; article <br /> from Land Development,Spring/Summer 1997. Dealing with Section 106. <br /> g. The Preservation Commission Reporter,June 1997. SHPO's occasional newsletter. <br /> h. Letter from Planning Department re: Bluebird Farm,3017 Frank Perry Road. <br /> I. Letter from David Brook, SHPO re: Meadowmont. <br /> j. Battle of Lindley's Mill. <br /> Dickinson reported that John Braxton and his wife are historians in Alamance County and are <br /> both on the Preservation Commission in Alamance County. Several years ago Alamance County <br /> hired a local professor to write a pamphlet on the Battle of Lindley's Mill. This battle was to try <br /> to stop Burke from being kidnapped by Fanning and taken off to Wilmington. It was <br /> unsuccessful so as a result, it was left off the history books. This was quite a battle and lasted <br /> longer than almost any Revolutionary battle that was held. The Commission should obtain a <br /> copy of this pamphlet as Alamance County was originally part of Orange County. <br /> k. Comments of Ms. Earnhardt's property,Chapel Hill Township. <br /> Dickinson reported that Ms. Earnhardt asked Dickinson to look at a little house that she owns on <br /> some of her property to see it has any value to save or move. This is a little end gable house It <br /> has a center door and two windows with a center chimney. It was built in 1890-1910 as a tenant <br /> house, very lightly framed with 2x4 studs 2 '/: feet apart. There is a loft upstairs and a gable rear <br /> "L" that has had all of the siding removed already. There is a heart pine floor for the rear "L" <br /> that is mostly eaten by termites. The house had electricity but no running water. Someone had <br /> been living in the house for years and had the electricity taken out, but they moved out after <br /> hurricane Fran. <br /> Dickinson made the determination that this house was not valuable enough for the Commission <br /> to strenuously ask Ms. Earnhardt to move this subdivision out and around it. The house was <br /> going to sit right where a cul-de-sac is proposed. It is not a house that could be used now. It is <br /> very flimsily built and in rough shape. <br /> AGENDA ITEM#7: ADJOURNMENT <br /> Allison then adjourned the meeting. <br /> 8 <br />