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a Poem No. ,1003008 015 Mew 10' T4 { U NITED STATES DEPAR7611 1ENT OF THE 1 NTklt lUK FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE - - - - - - - _ RECEIVED • A . NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ; . TORS'--- NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED CONTI NUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 8 PAGE 2 had the commanding presence of a soldier , and every boy instinctively felt his influence . " Each principal thereafter was given the rank and title of Colonel by the siste . William became headmaster in 1865 , and his famous father died in February , 1866 . The move of the school to . Mebanesville came in December , 1864 . The war had made it increasingly difficult to obtain provisions at Oaks , which was ten miles from the railroad at Hillsborough . The school was moved to a site which lay on * a spur of the Southern Railroad at Mebansesville station , in the northwestern corner of Orange County . Old William James Bingham was violently opposed to the move aY9 ordered the family slaves to disregard his son ' s requests to prepare for the move . His will , written in August , 1864 , stipulated that if his sons did not continue the school at Oaks , the academy buildings and grounds should becomel5he . sole possessions of his widow and not be jointly owned by William and' Robert . Nevertheless , the ' Bingham School was moved from Oaks and - prospered .at its new location . In 1873 , the principalship of the school passed to Robert Bingham upon the death of his brother William . In 1891 , Robert decided to move the school to Asheville following two destructive fires that swept the Mebanesville . buildings in 18818and 1890 . The school continued in Asheville until 1928 , one year after Robert ' s death . After the removal of the Bingham School to the Mebanesville location , William James ' * widow Eliza Alves -Bingham continued . to olive at * the house at Oaks and maintain the lands surrounding it . She also inherited other property in the county , Chapel Hill and Hillsborough which William James . Bingham had acquired during his long and prosperous life . . She made several sales of land over the years 1871 to 1881 . Included in these transactions were two parcels that had been . part of the original tract which Bingham purchased from Alexander Morrow in 1844 . The first parcel of 46 acres directly in front of the Bingham house was sold to D . F . Morrow in 1874 for twelve hundred and f ifty dollars ( $ 1250 ) 0 % The second parcel was sold to S . S . Webb in 1880 in a complicated exchange that included a third party , Abner Conklin , to whom Eliza A . Bingham had promised to sell 20 and 31 acres during his lifetime . This parcel wals9 bordered by Caterpillar- Creek and the lands of Lizzie Morrow and Sarah Crawford . Eliza Bingham died in 1885 and her will , written in 1877 , stipulated that all t of her property was to o to her daughter Mar Bingham with bequests of books to be P P Y 8 g Y g q made to her other daughters 2irs . J . W . Montgomery , Mrs . P . T . Penick , their husbands and children . There is a local tradition that nary Bingham maintained a school in the old home until the 1880s , however , this is not substantiated by any existing records . There are deed transactions by Mary which show her 26elling land just north y Df. the Bingham house to William G . Stafford as late as 1888 . One written statement I . Aelide . in 1954 by Mrs . Emma Harward Monk gives the history that her cousin Lucy �Vuatliersbee "who had conducted a private school in Chapel Hill for some years , moved Oats , N . C . and opened a school in the21ld Bingham home . " She further states that y tune Webb was farming the Bingham land . " � i