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architectural properties also have the potential for containing intact historic archaeological deposits . Cemetery Site Files- Cemetery sites are usually recorded as part of a separate inventory. When contacted, the State Archives in Raleigh did not report the existence of any recorded cemeteries in their files along St . Mary' s Road besides St. Mary ' s Chapel. They noted, however, that Dr. Mary Engstrom, Jean Anderson, and many local volunteers recorded over 300 sites in Orange County as part of the North Carolina cemetery survey. The Engstrom/Anderson inventory is maintained at the Orange County Courthouse in the Deed section. These cemeteries are listed by church name or by family cemetery name, not by location. This makes it difficult to determine if any additional cemeteries may be located along the corridor, besides those cemeteries described above . A total listing of the St. Mary' s Chapel (near St. Mary' s school) headstones is found in those records: A description of these stones and of the St . Mary' s chapel cemetery is found in Joy ( 1995) . The Hill and Walker family cemeteries are listed in the Engstrom records (Henry, personal communication 1999) . Results of Town hall/Collectors Survey At the June meeting of the Tar Heel Archeological Society in Burlington Stine asked members if any of them knew anything about sites along St. Mary ' s Road. One gentleman did say he recalled fining tractors at the large farm near the corner of Pleasant Green and St. Mary' s roads, about 25 years ago (Steve Wood, personal communication June 21 , 1999) . He used to see prehistoric artifacts in the driveway but the owners would not give him permission to "hunt" for artifacts . He also mentioned he used to bring a scout troop to a quarry site in the vicinity to "harden the boys up" for hiking elsewhere . He noted a few prehistoric artifacts on those trails near Buckquarter (e. g. , Buckwater) Creek. No one else could recall hearing about collections from the St . Mary' s Road vicinity. An important part of the present project was to hold an open house . A Town Hall meeting was held in Hillsborough on June 23rd, 1999 . About 15 individuals attended the meeting, besides the archaeologists and Orange County planners . A general overview of the project was given, and the audience asked questions about the prehistory and history of the area. Only one individual brought an object with them for identification and it proved to be a non- artifact . During the meeting a number of local landowners invited the archaeologists to meet with them on their lands . The Lutz family, who own land along Pleasant Green Road in the Buckquarter Creek area, and the Anderson family, who own the Caine Roberts farm (Or673 ) proved particularly informative . The archaeologists made appointments to field- check their properties and ended up with an overwhelming amount of information ( see discussion of field results) . Results of Historical Map , Aerial Photographic , and Deed Research The path of much of the St. Mary ' s Road corridor was predicated on the route of the preceding Great Trading Path (Figure 2) . This makes this project area rich in potential prehistoric , contact period, and historic sites . In order to better assess the location of possible sites, historic maps ( 1733 Mosley , 1775 Mouzon, 1770 Collet in 25