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4 <br /> INTRODUCTION <br /> Survey and Planning Grant Funds are being requested to complete Phase 1E[ and Phase III of Orange <br /> County's historic preservation program. The purpose of the proposed project is two-fold: (1) Completion of the <br /> inventory of historic sites and structures in the unincorporated sections of Orange County, excluding the Chapel <br /> Hill township; and (2) Completion of the Orange County Architectural and Historical Inventory Manuscript in a <br /> form suitable for publication. The County intends to employ an experienced and reputable architectural <br /> historian/writer to conduct this work. <br /> BACKGROUND <br /> Orange County has previously utilized Survey and Planning Grant Funds to undertake inventories of <br /> historical and archaeological sites in its unincorporated areas. These inventories have been undertaken in year-by- <br /> year phases. Phase I, initiated in 1991, consisted of an inventory of unincorporated portions of Chapel Hill <br /> Township. Kelly A. Lally and M. Ruth Little were the principal investigators. The survey compiled files on 160 <br /> properties, and the project was completed in June, 1992. <br /> Phase H, funded by a $17,000 survey and planning grant, began in 1992. The purpose of the Phase II <br /> project was to complete the inventory of unincorporated portions of the remaining six townships. The Phase II <br /> fieldwork, conducted by Todd Peck and Jody Carter, was completed in 1993. The research resulted in a total <br /> survey of 507 structures. Subsequent fieldwork by Planning Department staff in Fall 1994 revealed a number of <br /> sites not surveyed during the Phase 11 work. It is estimated that an additional 75 structures remain to be <br /> surveyed to complete Phase H. <br /> Phase III was the archaeological survey of the unincorporated portions of Orange County. This work was <br /> funded by a survey and planning grant of$15,000. In September 1994, An Archaeological Survey of Portions of <br /> Orange Cotmt�h Carolina was completed by Randy Daniel of the Research Laboratories of Anthropology, <br /> University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Phase III grant funds also included monies for the preparation of the <br /> architectural inventory manuscript by Todd Peck and Jody Carter. While the manuscript preparation was begun <br /> in Spring, 1993, it was not completed, and the contract was terminated by mutual agreement between Orange <br /> County, the Division of Archives and History, and the consultants. <br /> I - I <br />