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r___ PAGE 9 ib4. cohesion and identity to rural communities . Even - . though the church buildings may be new and not of historical value, the sane is not true of the communities end conefegation, some of which have already celebrated their bicentennial . . . The majority of material within the appendix was taken from current registries provided- by state agencies including the Division of Archives and Histor-y and Archeology branch of the Department of Cultural Resources, the N.C. Wildlife Commission , and the N .C. Natural Heritage Program. The inclusion of cther data, especially that concern- ing cemeteries and mill sites, required extensive fieldwork and relied upon every available source for clues, from 90 year-old maps and minutes of Baptist Association meetings to handwritten fieldnotes of members on the Chapel Hill Histort- cal Society which ere cori file in the Registrar of_ Deeds Office. One note as to entries—the entries for arche- ological sites are as cryptic as they are because the Archeology Branch has asked that they be presented that way . Although c_oiplete data on sites, including location, is now on file in the Planning DepartmE:r:i ; ' her u = e fear that public disclosure of exact locations will invite disrup- tion of the sites . New measures of protection that may arise from this work will depend entirely on whether any new protection beyond the status quo is warranted . Potential measures could range from Zoning Ordi- nance amendments to simply informing a state agency responsible for a particular site's pro- tection that development Is proposed for that site to no new measures at all . What new measures or simply new etpereriess that might arise from this work stems from its basic premise, Orange County's niter°<, i hEr itege should not be compromised, its cultural heritage not forgotten . Planning Staff recommends approval of amendment to the text and incorporation of ' inventory as appendix to the Land Use Plan . . Commissioner Marshall noted this was an impressive study and one which r+res needed tut gtestioned, under the religious area of the study, if Black Baptist was a specific denomination . Torgan responded that the document he had to work with was the Orange County Cirectory which was ,put together in 1952. and that directory made the distinction beiweep t'i ile southern ' Baptist Churches and Black Baptist Churhes . Marshall suggested that this not be listed as if it were a denomination . '