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United States Department of the Interior - National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number - 8 Page 4 Lily Smith Boggs , had a dower right in the property which was not recorded until 1925 ( Orange County D . B . 106 , p . 310 . ) This dower deed contains a hand - drawn plat showing a slightly different dower tract from that awarded to Granny Walker . Mrs . Boggs ' dower contained fifty - two acres located on both sides of the Eno . River . In the meantime , Mrs . Boggs remarried J . Archie Davis in 1915 , and they lived in the Faucett House for a few years . Because Mrs . Davis did not own the Faucett home tract outright , and she and her husband could . not purchase it until the Boggs children reached the age of majority , the Davises purchased a nearby house in the early 1920s and moved away from the Faucett House . About 1931 , when the youngest Boggs child reached * majority , Archie Davis bought their shares and owned the 50 acre Faucett House dower tract outright . In 1937 he sold this tract , specifically identified as being Lily Boggs Davis ' dower , to Mr . and Mrs . F . Vernon Altvater ( Orange County D . B . 108 , p . 125 ) . The Altvaters undertook a major restoration of the house between 1938 and 1940 and lived there until relocating to Colorado in 1946 , They named the house the " Coach House , " and reassembled much of the land that was probably associated with the house , including the mill tract . ( Interviews with Mrs . F . V . Altvater , Robert Davis ) . In 1950 the Altvaters leased the " Coach House " tract , containing 122 acres , to Jake L . Conners and his wife . By 1954 the Conners owned the tract ( 1954 survey of Conners property , copy in file ) . In 1956 Mr . and Mrs . Charles Blake bought the " Coach House " tract ( Orange County D . B . 161 , p . 3 ) . Mr . Blake was a retired 1`: . I . T . professor whose hobby was bird banding , and they renamed the place " Chatwood . " After his death , Mrs . Blake married Ralph Watkins . Mrs . Watkins , now widowed again , still resides at Chatwood and maintains a heritage rose garden of statewide prominence . • Faucett Mill Ownership Faucett Mill remained - in the Faucett family until 1904 , when W . W . Faucette sold the approximately thirty- acre mill tract to W . A . Hall ( Orange County D . B . 58 , p . 154 ) . Robert Davis , grandson of one of the last millers , recalls that the mill went through the hands of several owner - operators during the early • twentieth century . Davis ' s grandfather , Enoch Turner Smith , was the next - to - last miller . The last miller was William A . Collins . About 1930 William Mitchell , a Hillsborough businessman , bought the mill tract . He was the first owner who did not operate the mill , and it has not been operated since this time . ( Davis interview ) . In 1937 Mitchell sold the 35 acre mill tract to Mr . and r1rs . Altvater ( Orange County D . B . 105 , p . 208 ) . The Altvaters sold 16 . 13 . acres ( one- half ) to a friend , Mrs . Carter , and kept the 17 acre section - containing the mill , dam , cottage and river ford for themselves . ) Mrs . Altvater and her daughter , Mrs . Andrew Wallace , both of Durham , still own the 17 acre tract . ( Altvater interview) .