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1990 ; see also Eastman 1990) . This I believed to be the foundations of the original church, a log structure constructed about 100 years before the extant brick, Gothic Revival building . The original chapel was Anglican and was established in 1759 . It was only one of three eighteenth-century Anglican chapels constructed in Orange County. It was built on land that was originally granted from Lord Granville to Michael Synnott on March 25 , 1752 (Joy 1995 : 3 cites Orange County Deed Books 1 : 24) . In early January of 1759 Thomas Holden purchased 500 acres from Michael Synnott on Buckquarter Creek (Joy 1995 : 3 cites orange County Deed Books 1 : 27) . During that year one acre of land was gifted to Stephen Scarlett by Thomas Holden for the church (Joy 1995 : 3 ) . In May, of 1858 "the church trustees purchased a tract of land adjoining the original one-acre lot from Ellen Bain, descendent of Thomas Holden" for construction of the new brick church (Joy 1995 : 3 ) . Although the original St . Mary ' s school was reportedly a log structure located just northeast of the present- day Chapel, no structural evidence of the 1840s structure has been found (Mary Jane Lockhart Gosling, personal communication 1999) . That log building served the local community grades I - 11 . It was replaced by a frame building, which in turn burned during the Depression. At that time it was replaced by the current brick (American common bond) school on. This brick structure ( St. Mary ' s School, Or657) was built about 1931 and continued to serve the community until 1943 . At that time students were sent to school in Hillsborough. In 1970 St. Mary' s School was reopened as a private school. It continues to serve that purpose , and has expanded in size ' with the addition of new buildings . Other Postbellum historic properties consist primarily of farmsteads (n- 11 ) . These range from vernacular expressions of typical farmhouses, such as the c . 1873 Caine -Roberts Triple A I -house ( Or673 ) to early twentieth- century Bungalows . The majority of these properties include outbuildings that reflect the changing land-patterns in the region. Henry ( 1999) notes that many area farm families have adapted their agrarian practices to transforming markets. In this region grain and tobacco production was replaced by an emphasis on dairy production in the early decades of the twentieth century. A decade later many farmers switched to egg and chicken production, with j concomitant changes in land-use and outbuilding functions . Since the 1960s many project area farmers have switched to beef production and/or to the breeding, raising, training , and boarding of horses (Henry 1999 , Mary Jane Lockhart Gosling , personal communication 1999) . These cultural transformations are reflected in the changing farm landscape , remnants of which can be seen in scattered outbuildings . The final type of historic property noted through the architectural survey is a Postbellum church, Or665 . This cinderblock church was originally described as the Temple of Truth Holiness Church, c . 1931 . It is now believed that this is the original site of the A. M. E . Flat Rock Church, built in 1915 (Henry 1999) . No cemetery is associated with this historic property Most of the St . Mary ' s Road inventorysite forms includephotographs and/or descriptions of extant outbuildings as well as outbuilding ruins . The majority of these sites were briefly visited during the archaeological survey to assess their potential for containing archaeological deposits . It was determined that all of these historic 24