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NPS Form 10.900-a <br /> (8-86) <br /> OMB Approval No.1024- <br /> 15 <br /> United States Department of the Interior <br /> National Park Service <br /> National Register of Historic Places <br /> Continuation Sheet <br /> Section number 7.e Page 3 <br /> Alexander Hogan Plantation <br /> Orange County,NC <br /> Description(continued) <br /> Who exactly is buried here remains unclear. While members of the Hogan family were almost certainly <br /> interred in the cemetery, there is some uncertainty as to whether any Hogan slaves, or freed African-Americans are <br /> buried there as well. With regards to the latter possibility, some oral accounts claim that the cemetery contains some <br /> black graves. Two of the graves are thought to belong to Zachariah and Alice Hogan, grandparents to Essie Hogan <br /> Leak. On the other hand, the overall cemetery design is more typical of a southern folk family cemetery (Clauser <br /> 1994). That is, the immediate Hogan family would be buried within the enclosure with extended kin buried outside <br /> the stone walls (John Clauser, personal communication 1995). Moreover, the grave layout is more representative of <br /> white than black cemeteries, since black graves do not tend to be laid out parallel to each other or in rows as do white <br /> graves (Little 1994). If true,this latter interpretation raises the possibility of the existence of another cemetery on the <br /> property. <br /> Statement of Significance <br /> The significance of the Hogan plantation (31 OR296) is that it represents an example of a small nineteenth- <br /> century North Carolina Piedmont plantation that spanned the antebellum and post-bellum occupation of Orange <br /> County. Virtually no archaeological work has been done on any such site in the county and, in fact, only very limited <br /> work has been reported from similar sites elsewhere in the state. The site contains well-preserved archaeological data <br /> including structural remains, artifact assemblages, and a cemetery that would contribute significantly to our <br /> understanding of the daily life of its African-American and Euro-American occupants. In addition, the site has the <br /> potential to address anthropological questions dealing with slavery and plantation social structure. Not only would <br /> such information be of value to local archaeologists and historians, it would also be of interest to researchers <br /> elsewhere in the Southeast where plantation archaeology has been ongoing for over two decades. Therefore, the <br /> Hogan site meets Criterion D for inclusion in the National Register. <br /> Historical background and significance: <br /> Farming dominated Orange County economic life throughout the nineteenth century. In the antebellum <br /> years, for example, 75% of all white men reported farming as their primary occupation (Kenner 1987:30). Corn, <br /> wheat,tobacco, and cotton were the primary crops of the county. Even those who did not farm were somehow tied to <br /> its agricultural economy. Not surprisingly, most of the county's households grew enough food to maintain their self- <br /> sufficiency. Moreover, what was not domestically produced, could be obtained at the neighborhood rural general <br /> store. Thus, there was little reason—at least from an economic standpoint—to establish extensive contacts outside <br /> one's neighborhood. In fact, Orange County has been described as a series of several rural neighborhood <br /> communities tied together by kinship during the nineteenth century(Kenner 1987:19). <br />
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