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028 28 ❑' nationally ZI statewide ❑ locally r <br /> Applicable National Register Criteria X❑ A ❑ 8 X f C ❑ D 11 <br /> Criteria Considerations ( Exceptions ) ❑ A ❑ 8 ❑ C ❑ D ❑ E ❑ F ❑ G <br /> Areas of Significance ( enter categories from instructions ) Period of Significance Significant Dates <br /> Architecture pre - 1792 - ca . 1930 179 <br /> Commerce <br /> Cultural Affiliation <br /> N / A <br /> Significant Person ArchitecUBuilder <br /> N / A Unknown <br /> State significance of property , and justify criteria , criteria considerations , and areas and periods of significance noted above . <br /> The Faucett Mill and House , located on the old " Great Road " at its ford on the <br /> Eno River about two miles northwest of Hillsborough in Orange County , are an <br /> eighteenth century grist mill and associated house of statewide significance <br /> both architecturally and as rare survivals of piedmont back country commerce <br /> during the settlement period of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . <br /> Hillshorough was an important political center of backcountry North Carolina <br /> ( Hillsborough Historic District , NR ) . The Faucett Mill , a two - story frame grist <br /> mill with a heavy timber frame , handmade nails , and much later refurbishing , <br /> :. 11 on the Eno River in Orange County , and may be the <br /> is the only intact m <br /> earliest mill established in the area . According to strong local tradition , <br /> the two - story frame Federal style house served as a tavern until about 1860 . <br /> Architectural analysis indicates an early nineteenth century date of construction , <br /> and the floor plan has a unique feature . a center hall plan with two front <br /> doors , one to the center hall and the other to the reputed "public room . " <br /> Architecture Context <br /> Both the Faucett Mill and House are s ignif ' cant locally as late l8th - early <br /> 19th century landmarks , and both are unique in their functions in the county - - <br /> the only surviving examples of a grist mill and a rural antebellum inn . <br /> Because of periodic reworkings of the mill building , only the fieldstone <br /> foundation and the . heavy timber frame reflect its late eighteenth century <br /> beginnings . The rest of the building fabric expresses the continuity of use <br /> through generations , rather than a building of a particular architectural <br /> period . Faucett �1111 is the only intact water - powered grist mill in Orange <br /> County . <br /> The Faucett House , unlike the mill , is an unusually well - preserved building • <br /> and has undergone very little alteration through the generations . It is <br /> a simple , two - story frame early Federal style house , one - room deep , with <br /> exterior end chimneys and a gable roof parallel to the facade . This is <br /> the most prevalent house form in the Hillsborough area . Prominent early <br /> examples of the form in the nearby Hillsborough <br /> -- - - ® See continuation sheet <br />
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