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0 <br /> 0 <br /> I � <br /> M <br /> 0 <br /> m <br /> r ace <br /> M <br /> rn <br /> N <br /> M <br /> cn <br /> N <br /> D <br /> rn <br /> T <br /> 0 <br /> cn <br /> D <br /> Q0 <br /> cn <br /> he term hidden in the title of this book is to be understood both literally and figura- n <br /> w <br /> Ttively, for seeing Hillsborough today implies a task for both the eyes and the imag- W <br /> 0 <br /> ination. Behind the gracious houses and their thick hedges, sometimes partially obscured <br /> j by trees—often altogether invisible and inaccessible to a visitor or, in some cases, right in <br /> 0 <br /> plain sight—are signs of a past that evoke the intimate story of a small Southern town and <br /> j its life and people a century and a half, or two, or three, ago. <br /> In Hidden Hillsborough we seek to understand and interpret the secondary buildings, or <br /> dependencies, that dot the townscape seemingly randomly, preserved here and there along <br /> the streets or in backyards. The book also calls attention to various types of landscape <br /> features that appear in our peripheral vision, but are difficult to explain or are taken for <br /> granted, and therefore usually ignored. Hidden Hillsborough hopes to guide the reader to a <br /> jway of seeing these traces of the historic town in a fuller sense, including and beyond the <br /> visual,in a perception of what is present today,but whose implications are not immediately <br /> apparent—things barely observed and easily overlooked. <br /> THE GENESIS OF Hidden Hillsborough dates to a zou board meeting of the Preservation Fund <br /> j of Hillsborough at which a committee was formed of some of its members and volunteers <br /> to research and catalog the dependencies and landscape elements of the town environment <br /> that we live with daily.Among these are the historic kitchens, offices, school-related build- <br /> ings, well houses and spring houses, smokehouses,barns, and slave houses, and, yes, neces- <br /> sary houses for privies).Alongside them, scattered along the quiet streets, are aspects of the <br /> terrain whose origin and function have been somewhat of a mystery: stone walls that start <br /> xxiii <br />