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MMAP I INTRODUCTION This technical proposal has been prepared by Legacy Research Associates, Inc. (Legacy) of Durham, North Carolina, for the Orange County Environment & Resource Conservation Department (ERCD) in Hillsborough, North Carolina. This proposal is for conducting a cultural resources survey for the proposed 97 -acre Hollow Rock Access Area that will include a trail and limited parking, along with other limited facilities sited in a natural area. Information from the cultural resources survey will be used to assist with the siting of future facilities and for identifying areas of historic and cultural interest for interpretation. The information will also be used in the future by Orange County for planning the development of the New Hope Creek Preserve. This proposal presents our understanding of the project and the methods we will use in performing these tasks. The proposal is based on the Request for Proposal (RFP) dated July 23, 2007, from the ERCD, as well as information about the area from Legacy's previous work in Orange County. Legacy proposes to provide the following services as requested. Following background, research, the initial stage of fieldwork (surface and subsurface investigations) will be a thorough investigation of Areas 1 and 2 (approximately 7 and 27 acres, respectively) where portions may be significantly disturbed by construction followed by a field reconnaissance survey of the remainder of the park property identified as Area 3 (approximately 63 acres) where historic and archaeological resources are most likely to be found. The purpose of the archaeological survey will be to identify the presence and determine the significance of archaeological resources that may be affected by the proposed Hollow Rock Access Area and, in the future, the New Hope Preserve. The services proposed are pursuant to the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (as amended), the Archaeological and Historical Preservation Act of 1974, Executive Order 11593, and 36 CFR Parts 660 -66 and 800 (as appropriate). The field investigations and technical report will meet the qualifications specified in the Secretary of the Interior's Standards and Guidelines for Archeology and Historic Preservation (Federal Register 48) and will comply with guidelines for archaeological research that have been established by the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO). All cultural materials collected and curated, along with all records of this contract, shall be cared for in accordance with the requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 79. The Principal Investigator and Project Archaeologist will meet or exceed the qualifications described in the Secretary of the Interior's Professional Qualifications Standards (48 FR 44738 -9). PROJECT BACKGROUND .Orange County owns a portion of the 97 -acre property that is comprised of a series of several adjoining tracts along Erwin Road and New Hope Creek that were acquired between 2001 and 2007. The property is a multi jurisdictional project owned by Orange and Durham counties, the City of Durham, the Town of Chapel Hill, and others. The property is the known location of two prehistoric archaeological sites (31 OR7 and 31 ORl 3). It also likely contains a portion of an historic trading path and /or road bed and, possibly, a Siouan village known as Adshusheer. The village was recorded by James Mooney in Siouan Tribes of the Southeast (Bureau of American Ethnology 1896). According to Francis L. Hawk's History of North Carolina (1858), the Eno tribes were first mentioned in historic documents in 1654 by Francis Yeardley in a report titled "Narrative of Incursions into Carolina 1654" that was published in Narratives of Early Carolina (1650 -1708) by Alexander S. Salley in 1911. In this report Yeardley described the Eno tribes as "a great nation" called Haynoke. The village was reported by John Lederer in 1672 along with the Shakori village that was 14 miles away from Adshusheer. Lederer wrote that "the Eno village was surrounded by large cultivated fields and was built around a central plaza where the men played a game described as 'slinging of stones "', in which "they exercise with so much labor and violence and in so great numbers that I have seen the ground wet Page 2 of 8