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fire-places, all necessary out -houses, miller ' s house, wagoner ' s house, and overseer ' s house . There would be employment in the mills and land for seven or eight hands . There is a Threshing Machine , Saw Mill, Cotton Gin, two Wool- Carding machines, Oil Mill, Corn and Flour Mill well known to the community. The Carding Machines have carded in one season from four to six thousand pounds of wool, at from 7 V2 to 10 cents per pound . The Oil Mill has manufactured in one season 800 bushels of flaxseed, at an advance of 75 to 100 per cent . The Merchant Mill has manufactured 800 pounds of flour in the year. Holden was living in Milton, North Carolina at the time, so he directed inquiries to his partner at the mill, Mr . J. F . Lyon (Anderson 1979 : 33 ) . Apparently this partner * acquired the mill, since Mr. Lyon was listed as the owner in the 1860 federal census . ill in this area but calls it "Cole ' s Mill. " This site is Tate ' s 1891 map shows a m located .in the Eno River State Park. Few 's 111i11- This mill site is also located in the Eno River State Park. This was a grist mill that operated from about 17594 811 . William Few, his brother James Few, and John Wood built grist and saw 111111s at Few' s Ford on the Eno . William sold his share of the mill in 1763 , a year after he started the tavern mentioned earlier (near present - day Ayr Mount) : This mill was replaced by a second mill owned by William McMillen and James Strayhom, who built a forge with a water-powered tilt-hammer . The mill went through a number of changes in partnership until leased in 1831 and 1832 by William Piper. At that time the complex included the forge and blacksmith shop , a saw mill, grist mill, woolcarder, an oil mill , and a wheat thresher: After the failure of Piper ' s mill business, the mill was acquired by Allen Brown, who added a cotton gin. Alexander Dickson became the owner in the 1840s, when he renamed it Eno Mountain Mills . Dickson sold the mill complex in 1863 . Afterwards it passed through several hands . Tate ' s 1891 map shows a mill in this location as " Cox ' s Mill . " Tate Map of Orange County in 1891 - This map shows St . Mary ' s Road as the Oxford Road. It lists various mill sites (see above) , St. Mary ' s Chapel, the homes of I . Hill ( Or659) and G. Douglass , and St . Mary ' s Chapel (c . 1859) . It also lists a "Jackson' s Shop" on the north side of St. Mary' s Road, just east of its intersection with the road (modern-day Durmont' s Drive) to C- Mill on the Eno River (Cox ' s Mill?) . The function of this shop remains undetermined ( i . e . , not listed in Branson ' s 1890 or 1896 business directories) . One suspects that it might have been a blacksmith shop . 1918 Soil Map This soil map ( scale 1 ` 1 mile ) illustrates the project area in 1918 (Vanatta, Brinkley, and Davidson 1921 ) . It was examined to search for landscape features such as the path of St. Mary ' s Road and for the presence of structures . These potential site locations were compared to structures depicted on the U . S . G. S . Hillsborough 7 . 5 ' and Northwest Durham quadrangle topographic maps and to the state architectural survey maps . Those building locations that do not correspond with a known historic site have been circled as potential historic archaeological sites . Approximately 30 potential site locations have 31