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vIIILeu t: LaIeb LP) C � Jd ( llii � ( � t Oi the incer � or National Park Service O 3 1 National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number $ Page 3 Faucett House Ownership By the early twentieth century , the house and the mill were in separate ownership , and continued in this way until the F . V . Altvaters reassembled them in the late 1930s . A hand - drawn plat map of Mary A . Walker ( " Granny Walker " ) fifty - acre. dower found in Orange County Superior Court records of 1905 and illustrated below provides the first certain verification of ownership of the Faucett House . This plat shows the river , the road , the " Mill tract , " the old barn site , and a generic drawing of a house on the exact site where the Faucett House stands today . JJILLL S � � �•t , _ r v — 4400i Lc.s.ti.. .. . • " SOft .- • . . .. . . T f Orange County superior Court , 14 April 1905 , Mary A . Walker vs . �- � Keirs at Law of P . G . Walker . Document . located in P . G . Walker Estate File , North Carolina state Archives Granny Walker lived in the Faucett House until her death a few years later . Apparently she and her husband , Pinckney George Washington Walker ( P . G . ) had lived there for some time , and P . G . ' died there . ( Interview with Robert Davis , son of Archie Davis , notes in file ) . Although the Faucett House had larger it at various times , this fifty - acre dower amounts of acreage associated with tract laid out in 1905 is the acreage nominated here with the house because it constitutes the- earliest verifiable home tract . At Granny Walker ' s death , her home tract reverted to Cash A . Boggs , a local farmer who had purchased the 157 acres which included the dower at public estate sale in 1905 ( Orange County D . B . 58 , pp . 311 - 312 ) . Boggs did not ever live in the Faucett House . He died about61913 ( Davis interview) . His widow ,