Agenda - 10-11-1995 - Items 1 and 2 - Appendix 1

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History of the Area Past Hist= Many family cemeteries are located in the study area. One of the largest sites is located adjacent The European settlement of this area began in the to the northwest corner of the study area on the 1750s. The William Blackwood family was location of the Alexander Hogan plantation. among the first to settle in the area. Other families followed in developing an agricultural The area has maintained a largely rural character based community. The Lloyds, Hogans, Strouds, even as the Chapel Hill area has grown and McCauleys, Kirklands, Pattersons, Johnsons, and changed. This character has survived because Strayhorns were prominent in the creation of this large tracts of land remained in family hands. new community. Other tracts were purchased and preserved by Duke University. In particular, the Blackwood The patriarchs of the Hogan family, Colonel John division of Duke Forest borders the northwest Hogan and his brother Daniel, married sisters boundary of the study area. Mary and Sara Lloyd and settled in the area in the late 1770s. Colonel Hogan is historically noted as Sites of Historical Significance a revolutionary war hero and for his selling land for the location of the University of North Based on a historical inventory conducted by Carolina at Chapel Hill. Orange County in the early 1990s, there are two sites of historical significance located within the During this era, family homesteads varied from study area,and there is a third site located directly small single family farms to actual full scale adjacent to the northern boundary of the area. plantations. Many families owned slaves that worked on these farms. Wheat, corn, and oats The Lloyd-Rogers House was built in the 1850s were early crops. Cotton became more prevalent and is believed to be one of the few large in the mid to late 1800s. By the 1900s, several antebellum houses that has survived in the Chapel families could process cotton with their own Hill Township, although it has undergone cotton gins. numerous alterations since the 1950s that have almost destroyed its architectural integrity. The The completion of the railroad around the 1890s house is located on Purefoy Road, just off of allowed farm goods and lumber to be easily Rogers Road. The interior of the house retains transported to and from Chapel Hill, Carrboro, much of the house's historical significance. In the and the surrounding areas. just north of the study front yard is an overgrown graveyard containing at area's boundary is the former site of the least nine uninscribed gravemarkers. Blackwood post station, a central point for the community. The Nunn House was built in 1905 by Sam Nunn for his family. The house is a significant late Much of the land in the Eubanks area has example of the traditional Orange County log remained in family hands for generations. A house that is two stories tall with a single exterior number of the area residents are descendants from end fieldstone and brick chimney. The log house former slaves and early European settlers. Some is covered on the outside by aluminum siding, of the former slaves became owners of the land laid on top of the weatherboarding. Sam Nunn that their families had worked prior to formerly farmed 138 acres on this site, and he ran emancipation. While much of the land is no a blacksmith shop. longer used for farming, a good deal of it has been passed down and divided into family Although the Blackwood Grist Mill is not within residences. the study area, it is a significant historical site that Northwest Small Area Plan Page 7