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--hapel Hill or Old Chapel Hill Road and that it has been Cld NC <br />6 far seventy, eighty, or ninety years. Mr. Michael Hill, a <br />- esear -cher with the North Carolina Department of Archives end <br />-iistory has provided me with the following chronology of our <br />-o ad according to listed maps of the period: <br />:77r -- There were only two roads running south out of <br />Hillsborough: one to the large farm and _property <br />of one T. Lloyd: the other to Patter-son's farm. <br />NFr official road name5.1 <br />Roads south out of Hillsborough much the same as <br />l 177Cj . No official road names.. _.._ <br />1833 - Roads south out of Hillsborough myh the same as <br />In 1770, No official road names. <br />1 891 - Our road first appears as OLD CHAPEL HILL ROAD. NeL•a- <br />Chapel Hill Road (presently New 86 which was built <br />betwev 1870 and 1e8o) first appears on maps of the <br />?rea. <br />1921 - State of North Carolina assumed management of North <br />Carolina roads as the N. C. Highway Commission. <br />1923 - First official map of North Carolina roads was <br />printed by N. C. Highway Commission. This map <br />shows our road as N. C. 14 and designates it as <br />a topsoil and clay road. <br />1929 - Our road was upgraded to an oil- treated road. <br />1933 - Our road (sti11 1V. C. 14) A�,as first paved - -and - - <br />remained N. C. 14 until 1944. <br />11944 - New Chapel Hill road became State Highway Cab, <br />and N. C. 14 (our road) became State Road 1 009 <br />(NOT OLD 86) . <br />t until eight years ago (1982) did the Department of Trans- <br />start officially designating our road as "Old 86 ". <br />summarize, our road'­ official designations are: <br />1791-1923, 32 years - Old Chapel Hill Road <br />19 3 -1944, 21 years -- r.;. C_ 14 <br />- , -1982, '.8 years - -- State Poad 100C) <br />1 ° j ye ,Ar s <br />t r :Jer:tC� f ±:�E f7av•- <br />„30 D L' VJ (Jf -r lC1,il1, �:) �ItI. -+ P, 311 f <br />-. 1.�i_• -._ f.:r: "• L:i -_._ !I -... '��: .1__, f.,�R.l'�� '`.I. I- !�l�l'1W�_�r' ��`- �r1 <br />r <br />