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24 <br />HISTORIC /ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES <br />Existing historic and archaeological sites within the project boundaries have been identified in <br />the Preliminary Evaluation of Ecological and Archaeological Resources at the University Station <br />Site as well as by Trawick Ward, a research anthropologist and member of the Preservation <br />Commission, and by the architectural historians, Todd Peck and Jody Carter, employed by <br />Orange County to conduct an inventory of historic sites and structures in the unincorporated <br />portions of the county. Provided below are descriptions of the sites identified by these sources. <br />1. Dairy Farm An extensive dairy complex featuring a bungalow with <br />brackets under the eaves, battered columns on piers, and <br />sidelights around the door. This main house is in disrepair, <br />missing most of the glass in the windows which has <br />resulted in damage from the elements. The balustrade from <br />the staircase is missing, the fireplace has caved in, and <br />there is fire damage in one of the front rooms. <br />A second house is also on the property. This gable -ell <br />cottage probably predates the main house, and, like the <br />main house, is in a serious state of deterioration. The <br />interior has been substantially damaged by a fire. The <br />floors have given way in two of the rooms, the windows <br />are missing glass, and the fireplace in the back room has <br />collapsed. <br />Outbuildings on the site include a quonset but that was <br />evidently used as a milking barn. There is also a clapboard <br />milking barn with two adjacent silos, an attached trough of <br />unidentified use, and a brick storage building. There are <br />also two barns which are dilapidated beyond identification. <br />Three deteriorated buildings are also on the property. It <br />appears that they were most recently used for housing, but <br />it is unclear as to what their original use was. [Todd Peck <br />& Jody Caner] <br />In the northern and northwestern section of the project are <br />the buildings of the Guemsdale Dairy Farm, founded in the <br />1940's on land once owned by Benjamin Duke. Most of the <br />Structures were built after the formation of Guernsdale, <br />except for one barn and one silo, built before 1940. <br />[Preliminary Evaluation] <br />2. James Strayhorn Research turned up the locations of two historic sites: the <br />Cemetery James Strayhorn cemetery and the ruins of Craig Manor. <br />The Strayhorn cemetery, dating from the early nineteenth <br />