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F . CHURCH OF GOD OF HILLSBOROUGH <br /> e/s NC86 s/o Joppa Oaks <br /> tmr: 4.45 . .4B <br /> org: bldg: under construction <br /> G . ABUNDANT LIFE CHURCH <br /> n/e corner US70 and Orange High Rd . ESR1588] <br /> tmr: 4.6 .C. 10 <br /> org: post 1971 bldg: <br /> cem: none adjacent <br /> In Hillsborough etj . <br /> H. MARS HILL BAPTIST CHURCH <br /> e/s NC57 <br /> tmr: 4.3. . 15 <br /> org: 1834 bldg: <br /> cem: adjacent on south <br /> I . HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH <br /> e/s NC57 n/o Governor Burke Rd . CSR15563 <br /> tmr: 4.5C.B. 1 <br /> org: bldg: under construction <br /> J . JONES GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH <br /> e/s Coleman Loop below north end intersection with NC86 <br /> tmr: 4. 1 .C.3 <br /> org: bldg: <br /> cem: none adjacent <br /> II . Historical <br /> A . Cemeteries <br /> 1 . ENO MEETING CEMETERY (THE QUAKER GRAVEYARD) <br /> w/o NC57, approximately 1 /4 mile n/w of Mars Hill <br /> Baptist Church <br /> tmr: 4.4. .5 <br /> The Eno Meeting of Friends was established about <br /> 1755 and disbanded about 1850 . The church building <br /> is gone with no traces left, but a rock wall <br /> surrounds the cemetery . Site is in disrepair . Many <br /> graves are unmarked and others have headstones worn <br /> to the point of illegibility; fallen trees have <br /> damaged other stones . Site is full of trees and has <br /> ground cover of periwinkle. People other than <br /> Quakers are buried here . Quaker graves are <br /> identifiable when numbers are used in place of names <br /> of months. <br /> 2. GOVERNOR BURKE GRAVESITE <br /> n/o Gov . Burke Rd . ESR1556] <br /> tmr: 4.6 .A .22A <br /> Grave of Thomas Burke ( d . 1783) , State ' s third <br /> governor, at site of Tyaquin , family plantation . <br /> Marker recent . <br /> 38 <br />