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up with the farmhouse in one straight horizontal row. The house is again sepa- <br /> rated-from the agricultural buildings by several hundred feet. The farm buildings <br /> are closely-spaced and include a frame garage, frame tobacco packhouse, log <br /> corn crib with board and batten exterior walls, a v-notched log mule stable, and <br /> the typical local hay barn, built of logs joined with half-dovetail notches with a <br /> v-notched log side additon. These buildings face a concrete block milking barn <br /> added in the 1950s. <br /> Dairy Farms <br /> Many Chapel Hill Township farmers turned from cotton production to dairy <br /> farming from the 1920s to the 1950s. Dairy farms required specialized out- <br /> buildings, including large cow barns,milking barns, milk cooling facilities, .hay <br /> barns, and feed silos in addition to the standard domestic farm buildings. Most <br /> of the the dairy buildings in Orange County were probably built according to <br /> plans and specifications provided by the Agricultural Extension Service or North <br /> Carolina State University. <br /> The Bryant Nevilles Farm aptly illustrates the transition of many small farm- <br /> steads to dairy farms. The Nevilles farm retains its original 1860s log <br /> homestead and smokehouse, but these traditional buildings are surrounded by a <br /> modern 1920s bungalow and dairy farm buildings added by Bryant's son, Jesse, <br /> and his grandson, Lacy, from the 1920s to the 1950s. Among these later build- <br /> ings are a 1924 gable-roofed cow barn; a 1925 frame milking barn, which still <br /> retains milking machinery; a frame hay barn; a 1950s concrete block milk cool- <br /> ing house; and two 1950s silos. Other area dairy farms, such as the Doc <br /> McClennan Farm [OR 382] display the large, picturesque gambrel-roofed frame <br /> barns typically associated with dairy farms. <br /> Antebellum Frame Houses <br /> Seven frame houses of antebellum date stand in Chapel Hill Township. These <br /> are as follows: <br /> OR 365:Smith-Cole House, 1845. 2-story center passage <br /> OR 431 :Lloyd-Rogers House: 1850s 2-story center passage <br /> OR 435: John Kirkland House: 1850s? 2-story side-hall <br /> OR 470: Sam Couch Farm: ca. 1848 hall-and-parlor 2-story <br /> OR 347: Williams House: 1850s? hall-and-parlor 1 1/2 story <br /> OR 491 :Patterson House: 1830s? 2-story center passage <br /> OR 400: Smyth House: 1850s? Gk. Rev, hall-and-parlor <br />