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• Cotton was the main cash crop on Chapel Hill Township farms, and some farms had special storage buildings for the harvested crop. Like granaries, however, cotton houses documented in Chapel Hill Township greatly resemble other farm buildings from the exterior. The cotton house on the Sidney W. Crabtree Farm [OR 366] stands next to the farm's smokehouse. They are nearly identical: both are small, gable-front frame structures with gable-end doors. Other outbuildings documented in smaller numbers in the township include dairies, chicken houses, wagon shelters, wash houses, potato houses, privies, and a few tobacco barns. Arrangement of Farm Buildings Outbuildings are generally clustered behind the farmhouse, with domestic build- ings, such as kitchens and smokehouses, placed conveniently close to the main house and agricultural buildings usually located a slight distance away. There are no universal arrangements, although outbuildings are generally lined up in several short rows behind or beside the farm house or placed in a rectangle, forming a courtyard of sorts. Other times buildings are placed in seemingly ran- dom clusters. Three Chapel Hill Township farmsteads represent the wide variety of farmyard arrangements. The Henry Lloyd House [OR 440] off Old Fayetteville Road faces six outbuildings and a garden plot forming a rectangular farmyard across a dirt road that once served as the road to Fayetteville. Included in the compound are a log hay barn, frame stable, log sheep barn, log corn crib, and a frame cotton house. The log barns all have v-notches. The whetstone, which sharpened tools and farming implements, is still located at one end of the yard--an ex- tremely rare survival. The smokehouse and well are characteristically located next to the house. The Lindsey-Wilson Farm contains a full complement of log and frame outbuild- ings dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. The collection includes a V-notched log kitchen with massive stone rubble chimney, a half-dovetail smokehouse, v-notched hay barn, and a two-story frame granary, all of which appear to be of nineteenth century vintage. The smokehouse, kitchen, well, milkhouse, and chicken houses are located in the yard behind the house, while the farm buildings, such as the granary, corn crib, hay barn, and milking barn are found in the side yard several -hundred feet from the domestic complex. The Lloyd Farm [OR 392] in the western section of the township shows an un- usual arrangement: all five mid-to-late nineteenth century outbuildings are lined