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tTndus �' ,>;� . manufacturing 7 'Aft it , F _ `.% acanc /Not in use . 4 — ] ) amacrir hnrP1 --- - - _ Pnna � ri � sine P , r s ing 1 e (i c,i A 1 1 ; n r7 Domestic : secondary structure — 7 . Description Architectural Classification - Materials ( enter categories from instructions ) ( enter categories from instructions ) foundation g rone� Other : heavy timber vernacular walls wPart� erboard � rr a r a l -- roof, asnhal t- other brick metal Describe present and historic physical appearance . The Faucett Mill , nearby mill cottage , and Faucett House stand along a quarter mile section of the old " Great Road " which forded the Eno River at this point , two miles northwest of Hillsborough , an important colonial town in piedmont North Carolina . The crossroads formed by this early highway and the reliable Eno River was an advantageous place for a grist mill , operating at least from the early 1790s to ca . 1920 . Although repaired and enlarged several times , the frame mill still shows its hand - hewn frame and handmade nails . The small frame mill cottage , of indeterminate age , sits on a rise above the mill , pond and race and 200 yards from the river ford . The stately $Faucett House , said to have been an inn for travelers when the ford was uncrossable , stands on a wooded hill a . short distance east 04E. the mill . The " Great Road , " now State Road 1328 , was superseded by N . C . Highway 70 in the 1920s , and the " Great Road " is now a dirt lane ending at the mill . . 1 . Faucett Mill . Pre - 1792 Contributing Building Faucett Mill is an imposing 2 story weatherboarded building which . sits alongside a reconstructed mill race ( 1960s ) on its east side with the Eno River 100 feet to the west . The heavy timber , hand -hewn frame , handmade nails , and dry laid stone foundation indicate that the building has an eighteenth century construction date . It is apparently the same mill which stood on . the site in 1792 . Typical of grist M ' lls , it is apparent that periodic floods have caused extensive reworking of • the fabric . The exterior has wide plain weatherboarding and small square windows with some batten shutters and no window sash . Stabilization work in the 1930s included a new metal roof . On the interior , most of the mill machinery is gone but some milling gears and bolters are still in place . Mill stones , apparently from this mill , are reused ' in- various places on the property , including a well cover . The mill race and dam were also repaired in the 1930s , ? . Faucett House - _ circa- 1808 Contributing Building The Faucett. House is a very well -preserved 21ole, story frame Federal style house. , one room deep , with an original ane - story rear wing . The house has a gable roof , exterior end single shoulder brick chimnevs , and a one- story shed porch exterfding the length of the main facade . Between 1938 and 1940 , the house underwent a substantial- restoration- by- F .- L . Altvater .- _ them owner . Although Altvater moved an early house from its nearby site to this property , and attached it as a ' rear wing at the soutnwest corner of - the house ; arci � itectural analysis indicates that the restoration respected the original fabric of the main block . The house retains integrity from its - nate �i _construction , ca . 1808 . See continuation sheet