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15 <br /> History <br /> Residents of Rogers and Eubanks Roads can trace their family landholdings back to .: y`'.' ;'k r - - �;• r- <br /> ti <br /> �- <br /> the 1700s when some of the earliest families in Orange County, such as the Hogans <br /> and Blackwoods,settled in the area. After emancipation,African American <br /> families, like the Rogers and Nunns, began farming in the area,taking their crops for <br /> sale at the Durham farmer's market and enduring the Great Depression. During the <br /> development boom experienced by Orange County in the 1960s and 1970s, more <br /> families joined the Rogers/Eubanks Road neighborhood.The area slowly lost its <br /> agricultural focus as properties were divided among siblings and new housing was <br /> IT <br /> built. k OLD LANDFILL <br /> In 1972, the north side of Eubanks Road became the site of a solid waste landfill k <br /> to serve Orange County. This was the first permitted solid waste disposal site in s, <br /> Orange County and was constructed to lesser standards than the 1995 Landfill <br /> C&D Landfill <br /> expansion on the southside of Eubanks Road. As a result of their proximity to the <br /> =.. ..; ° <br /> landfill, residents in the Rogers Road Study area have endured several decades <br /> of negative impacts associated with modern solid waste disposal practices.These Orange Co.Landfill <br /> include increased truck traffic, illegal dumping, a putrid stench, contaminated wells, �- <br /> rats and vultures. <br /> Ja <br /> . .�F�.tq,z.. '.y X11. iy��• '. r^ :4:. . .. <br /> irange county bona Waste Facilities <br /> ,ear Eubanks Rd. Fee` <br /> o boo i,000 z,000 N <br /> Figure 3-Aerial Image of Orange County Landfills <br /> Rogers Road Task Force Report <br />