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06O community and commercial development, or representative resources of commercial architecture. No individual commercial buildings have been determined eligible due to extensive remodeling or severe deterioration. Only one National Register site exists, the Faucette mill and house (Chatwood). • Historic Districts: Crossroads communities are generally eligible for National Register listing as representative of the community, commercial, and transportation development of the area. To be eligible, the general historic atmosphere of the crossroad community must be intact with few modern structures present. Although not recommended to the Study List as crossroad communities, three locations have been suggested for further study as potential local historic districts: Cedar Grove, the Oaks, and the Ray Kenion district. These locations may also be eligible for the National Register as rural historic landscapes. While existing buildings are perhaps the easiest historic sites to document, they are by no means the only ones. Numerous mills once provided for the economic well-being of the county, and many of the dams and raceways still exist. Furthermore, over 150 cemeteries and burial sites provide a record, in many cases the only record, of the lives and deaths of.Orange County residents. The existence of churches and rural community centers also imparts an identity and cohesion to rural communities and neighborhoods that can benefit the planning process. While many church buildings may be of recent vintage and not of historic value, the same does not necessarily hold true for the congregations. Over twenty Orange County congregations have been in continuous existence for at least 150 years. Descriptions of historic sites and community features are presented in the following publications: • An Inventory of Sites of Cultural Historical Recreational Biological and GeoXogical Signcance in the Unincorpora ted Portions of Orange Courrrtx Orange County Planning Department, 1988. — -- - • Ch el Hill Townshtrygy:Final Rem Kelly A. Lally and M. Ruth Little, 1992. • Orange Cormty Multi 1p a froper#y Document anon Form: Historic Resources of (range Coun Todd Peck and Jody Carter, 1993. All sites identified in the 1992-1993 inventory of historic sites and structures are shown on the Historic Sites Map. Archaeological Sites Archaeological sites have been recorded in Orange County for over 50 years. Until 1993, approximately 300 sites were known, and 250 of those were recorded by the staff and students of the Research Laboratories of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,