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2 evaluation by staff and our consultants. The presentation was broken down by property type, and chronologically: planter class houses; ITEM #6: UPDATES AND INFORMATION ITEMS a. Update on historic resources inventory project: Our consultants completed the survey update within the Town’s ETJ, with no particularly remarkable discoveries. One thing of interest was the discovery of the Robert Jones House, built c. 1850, located on a small cul-de-sac off of Orange High School Road. We learned that it was moved there from Johnston County in the late 1990s. Ireland noted that the intent was to bring in historic houses from all over the region. The Town submitted its application for a CLG grant to survey the area of the town outside of the National Register Historic District, to include the mill village, the African American neighborhoods, and even to make sure some of the Daniel Boone Village is documented in some way. Discussion followed about the movement of the former mill houses, and where they are all located. There are at least 50 relocated mill houses all over the town. At the library there is a copy of a paper someone did in the 1980s about the movement of these houses. b. Historic Preservation Month Proclamation (Attachment 2): Tom Loter did a fine job reading our proclamation. Staff thanked him and also Jaimie Grant for attending the BOCC meeting to show support. Staff then discussed the process for generating more activity for Preservation Month, in addition to a proclamation. Laurie Paolicelli did a great job of creating a video to show to the BOCC. If we want to pursue a social media approach, staff must start months in advance to get the groundwork done. c. Dickson House repairs and landscape work: Staff gave an overview of the history of the property and its move and restoration in the 1980s to serve as the Town’s visitor center, followed by PowerPoint presentation showing the various architectural features and historic photographs. This is owned by the County and leased to the Alliance. The County will be carrying out some repair and restoration work on the exterior later this year. Staff mentioned the recent removal of the two Crape Myrtles that stood right in front of the porch; these had grown into the front of the house within 20 years of being planted and had to be removed this spring. d. Bellevue Mill Update (added to agenda): Staff showed a PowerPoint about Bellevue Mill and the recent fire that destroyed it the second oldest section. The original fire containment system of firewalls and fire doors did a good job of preventing the fire from spreading beyond one single building. An investigation is underway to determine the cause. Arson is a possibility. e. Occaneechi Village update: Staff presented an informational update and PowerPoint about the plans for a project to rebuild the recreated Occaneechi Village down at River Park in 2016-17. It will be located behind the Link Center and the Farmer’s Market, on the site of the first recreated village. As background, this was first built in the late 1990s, then portions were removed to use to rebuild a village at the tribal property in rural Alamance County. The original circular concrete footing is still in the ground. The Tribe has made a decision to support rebuilding the Village again back at the first location. The layout of the Village will be based on research and advice from Dr. Steve Davis of UNC who supervised the earlier digs at the original Village site (the Wall Site) at the bend in the Eno. The current project will seek to recreate the village shown in the artist’s conceptual drawing done for the first project in the 1990s. Tribal member John Jeffries will help supervise the effort based on his experience in leading the first village project. The County is in the process of procuring 400 cedar poles right now to build the palisade. We hope to get this started this fall. Our challenge is to find materials for the huts that will look authentic but will have some durability. There is