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23 county finds for future pailk Family to sell 152-acre the past couple of years toward New Hope Church Road creating public parks around the p county, largely through its Lands farm for $2. IM; deal is Legacy program. latest step in arks plan Back in11906, Herbert and Alice p p. p Blackwood bought the property . along New Hope Church Road and By ROB SHAPARD raised eight children on the farm. chh@herald-sun. com; 732= 6397 Gary Blackwood, David's father, moved to Durham, but the other HILLSBOROUGH — Orange siblings remained on the farm. County has agreed to pay about Nannie and Mary Blackwood, $2 . 1 million for a former dairy David's aunts, live on the property farm between Hillsborough and r now but will move in the next few Chapel Hill as the future site of a months , county park. The family name figures in the The property includes about 152 nearby railroad crossing along acres along New Hope Church N. C. 86 known as Blackwood Sta= Road near its intersection with tion, but David Blackwood isn't N.C . 86, just northeast of Inter- sure exactly what the connection state 40. A park there eventually is, he said Friday. could feature recreation fields, While living in Durham, Black- trails, open space and farmstead wood's parents and siblings called exhibits, although the county is far a visit to the old family farm from . deciding uses or setting a "going out home, " and they went timetable for opening the park d there frequently. Blackwood is 54 "It's a very, very pretty piece of now and lives in Cary with his own property," said David Blackwood, family. 41 who helped negotiate the sale on "There are a lot of neat memo- behalf of his family and is serving , ries out there," he said. "In the as an unofficial spokesman. summer, I'd go out and spend a The purchase is the latest in sev- eral steps the county has taken in please See LAND/PAGE .6