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24 <br /> HISTORIC/ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES <br /> Existing historic and archaeological sites within the project boundaries have been identified in <br /> the Preliminary Evaluation of Ecological and Archaeological Resources at the University Station <br /> Site as well as by Trawick Ward, a research anthropologist and member of the Preservation <br /> Commission, and by the architectural historians, Todd Peck and Jody Carter, employed by <br /> Orange County to conduct an inventory of historic sites and structures in the unincorporated <br /> portions of the county. Provided below are descriptions of the sites identified by these sources. <br /> 1. Dairy Farm An extensive dairy complex featuring a bungalow with <br /> brackets under the eaves, battered columns on piers, and <br /> sidelights around the door. This main house is in disrepair, <br /> missing most of the glass in the windows which has <br /> resulted in damage from the elements. The balustrade from <br /> the staircase is missing, the fireplace has caved in, and <br /> there is fire damage in one of the front rooms. <br /> A second house is also on the property. This gable-ell <br /> cottage probably predates the main house, and, like the <br /> main house, is in a serious state of deterioration. The <br /> interior has been substantially damaged by a fire. The <br /> floors have given way in two of the rooms, the windows <br /> are missing glass, and the fireplace in the back room has <br /> collapsed. <br /> Outbuildings on the site include a quonset but that was <br /> evidently used as a milking barn. There is also a clapboard <br /> milking barn with two adjacent silos, an attached trough of <br /> unidentified use, and a brick storage building. There are <br /> also two barns which are dilapidated beyond identification. <br /> Three deteriorated buildings are also on the property. It <br /> appears that they were most recently used for housing, but <br /> it is unclear as to what their original use was. (Todd Peck <br /> do Jody Carter] <br /> In the northern and northwestern section of the project are <br /> the buildings of the Guernsdale Dairy Farm, founded in the <br /> 1940's on land once owned by Benjamin Duke. Most of the <br /> Structures were built after the formation of Guernsdale, <br /> except for one barn and one silo, built before 1940. <br /> [Preliminary Evaluation] <br /> 2. James Strayhorn Research turned up the locations of two historic sites: the <br /> Cemetery James Strayhorn cemetery and the ruins of Craig Manor. <br /> The Strayhorn cemetery, dating from the early nineteenth <br />