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0 <br />A PARK APART C4, # 4pi4 <br />By MARK SCHULTZ <br />mschultz@newsobserver.com <br />s7l,_401e ZY 2oiS- <br />0 <br />11 �p 11111111111 111111111111l", 11111i 1111� 111111111!11111111111! ��111 11111 'Sillililill <br />1111 111! � �i, R I'VE! <br />TO M6, <br />EnEff MT <br />Location: 4215 N.C. 86, Hillsborough, NC <br />Hours: Blackwood Farm Park is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday only. <br />October - March 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., April and September 8 a.m. - 7 p.m., May - <br />August 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. <br />Amenities: Four miles of hilkingtrails, picnic shelter with tables, restroom, <br />pond with fishing area (no boating) -16 years or older, with valid fishing <br />license and artificial bait only- open fields, historic farmhouse, barn, smoke <br />house, corncrib and other outbuildings <br />But unlike most parks, there <br />will be no ballfields. <br />Instead, visitors will be able to <br />explore many of the farm's actual <br />buildings: the chicken house, or <br />"biddie house," where the Black- <br />woods raised young chick- <br />ens; the shed where five alt l; <br />cows at a time were milked <br />by hand until the farm <br />mechanized in the late <br />1930s; the weathered <br />wooden barn where the <br />mules, cows and horses Stra <br />were stalled and where <br />wheat, hay and corn husks were <br />stored in the large loft. <br />"Come sit on the porch, walk <br />the trails, explore the farm build- <br />ings," McKee said, <br />"Except for the fact that you <br />hear 1-40, this is the way it was <br />250 years." <br />Bob Strayhorn, the cattle farm- <br />er caddy-cornered from the <br />Blackwood Farm at N.C. 86 and <br />New Hope Church Road, also <br />spoke at the ceremony. His family <br />has been associated with <br />Schultz: 919-829-8950 <br />;f ! <br />