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1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS WORK SESSION AGENDA ABSTRACT Meetings Date : August 29 , 2002 . Action Agenda Item No . SUBJECT : Orange County 250 ' Anniversary Celebration DEPARTMENT : Economic Development PUBLIC HEARING ; (Y/ N ) Na Commission ATTACHMENT ( S ) : INFORMATION CONTACT ; , Dianne Reid , ext 2325 TELEPHONE NUMBERS : Hillsborough 732 -8181 Chapel Hill 9684501 Durham 688 -7331 Mebane 336 "2274031 PURPOSE : To update the Board on plans for the celebration of Orange County' s 250 "' anniversary . BACKGROUND : September 9 , 2002 marks the 250t' anniversary of the first colonial court of the County of Orange , held at Grayfields along the Eno* River. A planning group — The Orange County 250 Committee has been meeting regularly to plan a series of celebration activities for the year. Plans for the kickoff celebration have been finalized , as follows : On Sunday , September 8 , the public is invited to celebrate Orange County's 250th Anniversary with a walk through history . Attendees may park vehicles in the lot by the Orange County Sheriffs Department on East Margaret Lane in downtown Hillsborough . Shuttles will begin leaving at 12 : 30 pm to take people to Moorefields , near the site of the first colonial court in Orange County , At Moorefields , the Orange County 4 - H will provide a presentation on farming in Orange County . At 1 : 00 pm , participants join in a 3 . 5- mile hike back to downtown Hillsborough , stopping along the way to experience Orange County history . John Blackfeather Jeffries , of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation , will discuss Native American history in Orange County . Hikers will pass the old slave cemetery on West Margaret Lane and hear Jack Payne , an African American storyteller. The hike is sponsored by the Trading Path Preservation Association . After the walk , participants can return to the Old Orange County Courthouse on King Street at 4 : 00 pm to hear a keynote address by Harry L . Watson , PhD . Mr. Watson serves as Director of the UNC Center for the Study of the American South and .coTeditor of its journal , Southern Cultures . He is also a professor in the UNC- Chapel Hill Department of History . His specialties are the antebellum South , Jacksonian America , and the history of North Carolina . The Hillsborough Historical Society Is sponsoring the address .