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80 <br />8/16/2017 Gmail - Vista Grande <br />� Q <br />Vista Grande <br />1 message <br />Jim and Bev Wiggins <jimerly @embargmail.com> <br />To: Warren Mitchell <warrendmitchellpe @g mail. com> <br />Cc: Lynn Richardson <lynn.richardson @chathamnc.org> <br />Warren Mitchell < warrendmitchellpe@gmail.com> <br />Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 9:17 PM <br />Hi Warren- - <br />Thanks again for meeting me at the site of Vista Grande today and showing me around. I'm <br />copying this email to Lynn Richardson in the Planning Office so she'll know that I have visited the <br />property. <br />I got photographs of all of the structures for our records. I appreciate your offer to send me contact <br />info for the previous owner so that I may see what more she might be able to tell me about the <br />history of the property. I will do more deed research and will let you know if I turn up anything that <br />you might find useful. <br />I hope that you will explore the possibility that some of the large trees on your property might be <br />worthy of recognition from the Grand Trees of Chatham organization. Such recognition could be <br />beneficial, I think. <br />I noted the large number of flowers near the house. In addition to daffodils, right now there are <br />hellebores blooming. Perhaps you can use some of those plants somewhere in the development if <br />they can't be left where they are. I think the big vine near the house might be wisteria. All show that <br />someone in the family (probably some years ago, given the size of the vine and the spread of the <br />other plants) took time to tend flowers. <br />As we discussed, your plat indicates that the surveyor did not look for cemeteries on the property <br />so I hope that you will be sensitive to the possibility that one could exist. Perhaps the previous <br />owner will know where family members have been buried over the years. I will try to contact <br />members of the Morgan family to locate the William Morgan burial site which is believed to be on <br />the property to the east of yours. <br />The goal of the Chatham County Historical Association is to preserve and share the history of the <br />county. One way to do that is to save some of the stories about parcels such as yours. There are <br />many ways to do that: <br />• Saving some of the large trees and flowering plants and noting in your sales materials that <br />these were associated with the Ivey (or ? ?) homestead. <br />• Naming the subdivision and /or the roads after features of the previous owners or the <br />property. After we've done some research, maybe we can suggest some possibilities if you <br />are interested. I'm told that it is getting harder to come up with creative road names that <br />haven't already been used in the county. <br />• Reusing materials from the site - -such as using rocks from old chimneys (though yours seem <br />to have already been repurposed) in walls or entryway structures - -or using old timbers from <br />existing structures to build features for common areas - -can contribute to tying the new <br />community to the past use of the land. <br />• Using old photos of the homestead or brief stories about the family that lived there in your <br />sales materials. <br />https:// mail.google.com / mail /u /0 / ?ui= 2 &ik= 6e3deabb34 &jsver= diJsRESGZw4.en.& view= pt &q =bev &search = query&th =15b 127d5bbf399c3 &siml =15b 12... 1/2 <br />