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19 The road passes through the community of Calvander which is remembered as the site of the Andrews Academy, a very fine private school for local farm children where schoolmaster Calvin Andrews prepared them for entry to the University of North Carolina or simple life as well- educated farmers who could quote poetry as they walked behind their mules! Calvander was named after "Calvin" Andrews. Land given in land grants to the Andrews Family lie to the left of Old NC 86 around Calvander and parts of the land around Calvander included land grants to Thomas Lloyd in 1754. Somewhere along Old N.C. 86 and above Calvander is the site of the Meadows, Mr. Lloyd's 783 acre home place believed to be located just north of the Meadow Flats, which is part of Duke Forest. Thomas R. Lloyd, whose name appears on the previously mentioned map from 1777, was a landowner, magistrate, justice of the peace, an officer in the Hillsborough militia and as a representative from Orange County to the Provincial Assembly at Wilmington. (See attached Exhibit A, history of Thomas Lloyd). A tall granite block with a bronze plaque was erected near Stony Hill Road in 1933 by the Thomas Lloyd Memorial Association to honor this colonial settler and legislator. On Eubanks Road (S.R. 1727), just .2 miles off Old N.C. 86, are the remains of Nunn's Chapel, a sizable African American Baptist Church said to have seated 150 persons. The Hogan Land Grants (of Colonial settler, Col. John Hogan) lay on either side of the road. Two African American Hogan family cemeteries are to be found on the original grant. In addition, on the right is located a house which was a two room schoolhouse named Morris Grove School that was attended by African Americans beginning in the early 19020's. Also located on Eubanks Road is the Alexander Hogan Plantation Site which is on the National Register for Historic Places. Blackwood Mountain is off to the left several miles from Calvander, and Bald Mountain, reputed to be the highest point in Orange County, is located west of Old N.C. 86. Nearly all the land on both sides of the road originally belonged to Samual Blackwood, one of the pioneers of the New Hope area. 2. Recreational /Educational: A mile north of Calvander is located approximately 111 acre District County Park as well as the site for elementary and middle schools for the Chapel Hill /Carrboro School System.