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.~~~~M~~n- ~~- <br />_ it - <br />C. ~. <br />c <br />uy Kristy Shumaker Orange County's Environment <br />krisry. cluunukcr(7ncwsofnrunge cnm and Resource -Conservation <br />The Orange County Board of division. The property also con- <br />Commissioners last week tainsanawralhcritagesite-sig- <br />approved acontract to purchase nificant for its plant life - a <br />farmland located at the intersec- three-acre pond and two streams <br />Lion of New {-tope Church Road that Flow through the farm and <br />and N.C 8C for $2,064,000, or into Ncw liope Crcck, about a <br />$13,609 per acre, mile to the southwest. <br />The property is owned by A portion of the property was <br />David Dlackwood, a trustee who sold in 1988 for construction oP <br />lives in Cary, and Nannie and Interstate 40, as was another <br />Mary Blackwood, who currently portion for construction of New <br />reside on the property. Nannie Hope Elementary_School, Iocat- <br />and Mary are the youngest of ed across N C. Hwy. 86. <br />eight children of Herbert and "This purchase is another tri- <br />Alice Blackwood, who `bought, umph for our award-winning <br />the farm in 190Cz. Lands Legacy program, cspe- <br />The land, which dates back to cially since the Blackwood <br />the Revolutionary War, will be ~. property contains so many cle- <br />used for a county park. menls of that program within its <br />Most 9f the original farm boundaries: natural areas, park <br />remaihs intact, including the and recreation sites, farmland <br />farmhouse -with portions dat- and a historic location," .said <br />ing back to 1827, according to <br />David stanch, director of See Park, Page 3A <br />co~E2~ <br />
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