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CHAPEL HILL TOWNSHIP SURVEY FINAL REPORT Kelly A. Lally and M. Ruth Little, Principal Investigators June 1992 Methodology The architectural survey of Chapel Hill Township is the first phase of the Orange County survey. The remaining six townships in the county will be surveyed in 1992-1993. The town of Carrboro was surveyed in 1980; Chapel Hill is cur- rently being surveyed. Kelly A. Lally and M. Ruth Little served as Principal Investigators for the survey. Kelly Lally has an MA in Folk Studies and conducted the survey of historic resources in Wake County from 1988 to 1991 . M. Ruth Little of Longleaf His- toric Resources has a Ph.D. in Art History and served as National Register Coor- dinator and later as Survey Coordinator in the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office from 1986 to December 1989. Fieldwork was conducted from December 1991 to April 1992. The consultants spent sixteen days in the field and drove 1945 miles commuting from Raleigh to the survey area and driving area roads. Using USGS quadrangles as field maps, Lally and Little drove every accessible road and field-checked every older build- ing coded on the quad maps outside the city limits of Carrboro and Chapel Hill to identify and document historic properties over fifty years old. 160 properties were recorded in detail, while other badly deteriorated, heavily altered, or ex- tremely common resources were map-coded according to the State Historic Preservation Office's map-code typology. Resources were evaluated by the Principal Investigators and the State Historic Preservation Office staff for Nation- al Register eligibility using the Secretary of Interior's criteria. Properties were documented with computer forms, black and white photog- raphs, and occasionally color slides; each property received a state survey num- ber and was marked on the appropriate USGS map and aerial photo map of Orange County. In the index and on the computer forms properties were de- scribed geographically according to their locations on the field maps; street ad- dresses were recorded when available. In addition, oral history information was gathered from residents and local people when possible. All original survey files and maps will be stored in the Survey and Planning Branch of the State Division of Archives and History. Copies of the files will go to the Orange County Plan- ning Department.