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-300a <br /> 038 <br /> From 10.74) 0 <br /> U NITED STATES DEPA RTIOENT OF THE INTER IOR 'FOR NPS USE ONLY • - <br /> NATIONAL PARK SERVICE " . <br /> RECEIVED'. ' s;� <br /> NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES <br /> INVENTORY--NOMINATION FORM ,DATE ENTERED ' <br /> CONTI NUATKIN SHEET' ITEM NUMBER g PAGE 3 - <br /> In 1893 the property containing, 316 2/3 acres and meeting the description in <br /> the original deed of Morrow to Bingham, was sold by Sarah C. Stroud, wife of Weldon <br /> M. Stroud, to W. G. Careathers for "twelve hundred and sixtysix dollars ($1266) cash <br /> and twelve hundred and thirty three dollars to be left by will of last testament of <br /> said second part." It is not known how Sarah C. Stroud obtained the Bingham property <br /> to sell to Careathers. She was the daughter of Alvii2 Durham and W. G. Careathers was <br /> her brother-in-law by marriage to her sister Nancy. <br /> Careathers sold this same piece of land to Harmon McIver in 1910. The McIver <br /> family which is closely related to the families in that area of Orange County have <br /> maintained part of this land including the site and surrounding 9.98 acres which <br /> contains the old Bingham home and several outbuildings. The property--extant build- <br /> ings which date from the 1840s--is an historic architectural monum2gt to the efforts <br /> of one of the nineteenth century's most notable educator families. <br /> FOOTNOTES <br /> 'Samuel A. Ashe, ed., Biographical History of North Carolina (Greensboro, N. C.: <br /> Charles L. Van. Noppen, 1907), p. 67. <br /> 2lbid., p. 68. <br /> 3"Bingham Occupies Honored Place• Among the Educational Ranks of Western Carolina's <br /> Institutions," Asheville Citizen Times, November 30, 1921. <br /> 4Ashe, pp. 67-68. <br /> 5Orange County Records, Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough, N. C., <br /> (Subgroup: Deeds, Book 31, p. 139). <br /> 6Laurence McMillin, The Schoolmaker, (Chapel Hill, N. C.: The University of <br /> North Carolina Press, 1971), p. 12. ' <br /> 7Ashe, p. 69. <br /> 8cMMillin, p. 23. <br /> 9Charles Lee Raper, The Church and Private Schools in North Carolina (Greensboro, <br /> --. C. : Jos. J. Stone, Book and Job Printer, 1898), p. 67. <br /> 10McMillin, p. 22. <br />