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. ORANGE COUNTY 081 <br /> (g) <br /> 1. Alberta Mill Complex. NE. corner Weaver Pnd Greensboro streets, <br /> Cartboro. Built of brick, the ITIP47" p411 is a two-story, low <br /> gable roof birrl ding with an office and warehouse attached. The <br /> large arched head windows are sat in segmented. arches with brick <br /> labels. Built in 1898 by a local merchant, Thomas F. Lloyd, <br /> - Alberta Mill was run as a local operation drawing labor from nearby <br /> farms, In.'1910 Lloyd sold the mill to Julian, S. Carr who rPnemPd <br /> it Durham Rosiery Mill #4. It stayed in business until 1930 except <br /> for a. brief period in the early 1920s. Alter World War II, it was - <br /> . <br /> reopened and operated by Pacific NIlls of Boston, Mass., until 1957. <br /> Since that time it has remained empty. P1 "s and renovations in - <br /> progress to rmlep it into a shopping mall. Private. NIL _ <br /> 41) 2. Bingham School. NE. corner NC 54 and SR 1007, Oaks. Building was part <br /> of respected nineteenth century school. Private. <br /> 3 3. Blackwood Rouse.. N. side SR 1723, 1.0 mi. W. of jct. with NC 86, u471% <br /> • borough vie. Mid-nineteenth century one-end-a-half-story frame <br /> house distinguished by its large stone ch"zaey. Three-bay shed <br /> . dormer on front facade and later additions. Private. <br /> 4. Chambers Log Rouse. W. side SR 1531; 0.1 mi. S. of Person County line. <br /> • - Caldwell via. Unpretentious log cabin, one-and-a-hall stories tel <br /> and three bays wide. The heavy, hand-hewn beams are joined with a <br /> ' housetop" IT-notch. Private, <br /> 41) 5. Chatwood. Faucette's Nil Road, Pllicborough vie. Two ca. 1790 houses <br /> joined. East section believed to be Faucatte Tavern. Fine tra- <br /> ditional finish.preserved. Private. • <br /> IA 6. Commmndant's House. W. of Hillsborough on Barracks Road, Rillsborough- <br /> Ca. 1860, Dwelling of C. C. Taw, headmaster of Yillsborough <br /> Military Academy (razed). School later berPire. Horner & Graves <br /> School. Crenellated, towered brick structure of Gothic Revival <br /> design. . Private. NR- <br /> 41) 7. Gilbert Craig Rouse. End of SR 1711, Hillsborough vie. Eccentric <br /> house built over several years with vernacular classical elements. <br /> Private. <br /> t7: 8. Damascus Congregational Church. E. siie SR 1940, 0.5 mi. S. of jct. <br /> with SR 1942, Chapel Hill vic. Mid-oil-zeta...each century. One-story <br /> frame church with gable end entrance. Gothic arch windows, <br /> louvered ventilator and two-pane traosom over double-door aatrance. <br /> Interesting weatherboard t •under gable eaves. Congregation <br /> founded <br /> in 1792. Private. <br /> • <br /> . .6) SITES OF HISTORIC INTEREST IN ORANGE COUNTY (TJCOG) • <br /> tgitt- <br /> NATIONAL REG/STER OF HISTORIC SITES <br />