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alb <br /> UNITED STATES DEPAf TNIENT OF THE INTFRIOit FOR NPS USE ONLY <br /> NATIONAL PARK SERVICE <br /> RECEIVED <br /> NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES <br /> INVENTORT" w NOMINATION FORM IDATE ENTERED <br /> CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 8 PAGE 3 <br /> In 1893 the property containing, 316 2 / 3 acres and meeting the description in <br /> the original deed of Morrow to Bingham , was sold by Sarah Co Stroud , wife of Weldon <br /> M . Stroud , to W . G . Careathers for " twelve hundred and sixtysix dollars ( $ 1266 ) cash <br /> and twelve hundred and thirty three dollars to be left by will of last testament of <br /> said second part . " It is not known how Sarah C . Stroud obtained the Bingham property <br /> to sell to Careathers . She was the daughter of Alv12 Durham and W. G . Careathers was <br /> her brother- in-law by marriage to her sister Nancy . <br /> Careathers sold this same piece of land to Harmon McIver in 1910 . The AicIver <br /> family which is closely related to the families in that area of Orange County have <br /> maintained part of this land including the site and surrounding 9 . 98 acres which <br /> contains the old Bingham home and several outbuildings . The property- extant build - <br /> ings which date from the 1840s -- is an historic architectural monum23t ' to the efforts <br /> of one of the nineteenth century ' s most notable educator families . <br /> FOOTNOTES <br /> 1Samuel A . Ashe , ed . , Biographical History of North Carolina (Greensboro , N . C . : <br /> Charles L . Van. Noppen , 1907 ) , p . 67 . <br /> 2lbid . , p . 68 . <br /> ftO <br /> 3 " Bingham Occupies Honored Place• Among the Educational Ranks of Western Carolina ' s <br /> Institutions , " Asheville Citizen Times , November 30 , 1921 . <br /> 4Ashe , pp . 67 -- 68 . <br /> 5Orange County Records , Orange County Courthouse , Hillsborough , N . C . , <br /> ( Subgroup : Deeds , Book 31 , p . 139 ) . <br /> 6Laurence McMillin , The Schoolmaker , ( Chapel Hill , N . C . : The University of <br /> North Carolina Press , 1971 ) , p . 12 . I <br /> 7Ashe , p . 69 . <br /> i <br /> McMillin , p . 23 . � <br /> i <br /> Charles Lee Raper , The Church and Private Schools my North Carolina ( Greensboro , <br /> Co . Jos. J . Stone , Book and Job Printer , 1898 ) , p . 67 . <br /> lOricMillin , p . 22 . <br />