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• 125 The Town of Hillsborough has one of the richest histories of any town in North Carolina, a wealth that extends outside the Town limits. Two private homes east of Town have been identified by the State Division of Archives and History as architecturally and/or historically significant to the area. One of the homes, Ayr Mount, is on the National Register of Historical Places. The eighteenth century grave sites of Gov. Thomas Burke and one of the oldest Meeting of Friends in the State are north of Town. Eight archaeological sites outside • the Town's corporate limits have been recorded with the State Archaeology Branch. The spiritual and community life of the Township is focused on the Town of Hillsborough. Several rural churches, though, serve as the nucleus of long standing, stable rural communities. Existina Land Use Hillsborough Township's 15,100 acres can be broken down into . three administrative jurisdictions, the Town of Hillsborough, County planning jursidiction, and the Hillsborough Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ) which is land adjacent to the Town's municipal boundaries for which Town land use regulations may still apply. The acreages for each area are as follows: Acreage Percentage of Township Hillsborough Town 1,950 12.9 Hillsborough ETJ 3,250 21.5 County Jurisdiction 9,900 65.6 TOTAL 15,100 100.0 Land use within the 9,900 acres in the county's jurisdiction can be broken down in the following manner: Classification Acreage Percentage Commercial 96 0.9 Industrial 20 0.2 Institutional 48 0.5 Residential 1,299 13.1 <1 acre/unit (327) (3.3) 1-5 acres/unit (640) (6.4) 5.01-10 acres/unit (332) (3.4) Public/Quasi-Public Open Space 413 4.2 • Managed Forest 493 5.0 Agriculture 2,324 23.5 Undeveloped/Other 5,207 52.6 TOTAL 9,900 100.0 3.9-8