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4 • 2106 Front Street • Apt. J-5 Durham, North Carolina June 28, 1987 Dr, John Hartwell, Chairman of Site Committee • . . Route #6 Box 1540 Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278 • . . Dear Dr. Hartwell: Because I have not been successful in getting you on the telephone I have decided to write to you. • I have heard nothing said, at the meetings we have attend,- about our cottage, which we call the "River House", and the mill. If your first choice of sites, called Corporation Lake Site, for a reservoir is accepted almost all of our 100 acres will 'be. inundated. - • , I did hear you mention a few times what is best for your children and grandchildren. I am also thinking of mine. Certainly their lives are very much upset, and those of the future generations of our family will be, to say nothing of the ruination of one of the loveliest portions of the Eno River, the historic properties,and the wild life in the area . . I wonder if any property owner in any of your various sites have owned their property for 51 years-as' my family. and. I- h4Ve• ownedithese. - . _ acres. They are-left. in my' will to my daughter, Barrie Altvater Wallace. • She and her husband for years have had plans to, build there or to enlarge the present cottage, - Their-twol-sons also.' plan to .build .places' for them- . selves tterei One of their sons lives there now in theoRiver Cottage,. • . and another lived there last summer and- plant -to:live there again when -- he returns to Duke for graduate school. . • ' Following ia a little background concerning our property: ' . • ' - When we first bought it, Mrs. Carter, who' was a close friend of ours, begged us to let her have enough land. to %build aoottage. We let her have 17 acres, which is . now—Peter Wears' °place. He is her grandson. . . , Shortly after we bought the River House. area we bought the old' • Poach'HoUse, which had not been lived in for 17 years. My husband was • .