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<br />This instrument prepared by and return to: Geoffrey E. Gledhill, Coleman, Gledhill, Hargrave & Peek, PC,
<br />P.O Drawer 1529, Hillsborough, NC 27278
<br />STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
<br />COUNTY OF ORANGE
<br />WARRANTY
<br />DEED OF AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION EASEMENT
<br />This Deed of Agricultural Conservation Easement ( "Conservation Easement') is granted
<br />on this _ day of 2004, by .JOHN IRA WARD, JR. and HAZEL J. WARD,
<br />husband and wife, having an address of 1515 Ira Road, Efland, NC 27243, PEGGY and MARK
<br />MAJORS, wife and husband, having an address of 201 Ward Street, Graham, NC 27253,
<br />DONNA and DAVID FRANCIS, wife and husband, having an address of 121 Normandale
<br />Drive, Cary, NC 27513, SANDRA and JOHN HANNON, wife and husband, having an address
<br />of 3601 Memory Lane, Raleigh, NC 27604, and JOHN IRA WARD, III and JENELL WARD,
<br />husband and wife, having an address of 4710 High Rock Road, Efland, NC 27243 (referred to as
<br />"Grantors "), to ORANGE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, having an address of Post Office
<br />Box 8181, Hillsborough, NC 27278 (referred to as "Grantee ").
<br />Grantors are the sole owners in fee simple, of certain farm Property, more particularly
<br />described in Exhibit A, attached hereto and incorporated herein (the "Property "), which consists
<br />of approximately 112 acres of land, located in Cheeks Township, Orange County, North Carolina
<br />and identified as Tracts #1 - #4 on the plat of property titled "Property of John Ira Ward, .Jr. ",
<br />prepared by John C. Atkins, P.L.S., which plat is recorded at Plat Book _, Page _, Orange
<br />County Registry (PIN 9845 -09 -0989, PIN 9846 -10 -2834, PIN 9845 -19- 2937, PIN 9845 -29-
<br />9829), The Property includes buildings and other improvements, which are shown on Exhibit B,
<br />attached hereto and incorporated herein.
<br />The Property consists primarily of'productive agricultural land. The majority of the soils
<br />on the Property have been classified as "prime" or "statewide important' soils by the Natural
<br />Resources Conservation Service, United States Department of Agriculture (also referred to as
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