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been noted for future research. Near the county line a segment of St. Marys Road was seen to deviate from the present route of the road to the north. This road segment , shaped like an inverted "V" shows up on the modern topographic map as an old road trace . It has been assigned archaeological site number 31Or498 * * . 1938 Aerial Photographs- A series of aerial photographs dating to1938 were examined at the North Carolina State Archives in Raleigh. These photographs depict a patchwork of small farms, roads, streams, and forest in the project area. These photographs were examined to search for evidence of where the modern route of St. Mary ' s Road deviates from the route in 1938 . The road segment mentioned above near the county line was seen in the 1938 photograph as still "unstraightened. " The Granville grant maps were compared to these photographs to see if researchers could ascertain dark, linear traces of the Trading Path in those portions of.the project area where that Path deviates from the modern road. This can be seen clearly in Figure 7 , where the Trading Path once continued straight by Ayr Mount ' s entrance , instead of curving to the north as the modern road does today . In three other photographs one can see a similar dark line heading straight in the 1938 version of St . Mary ' s Road, in three places where the modern road takes a curve to the north before rejoining the original straight line of the Path. This is particularly clear in the area of the curve south of the Caine Robert ' s historic property, between Buckwater Creek and the modern . route of St . Mary ' s Road. This potential site area corresponds with the traces of the old road depicted on John Dennis ' 1759 Granville grant . These linear landscape features also are evident on modern orthophoto graphs supplied for comparative study by the County. Results of Archaeological Reconnaissance The archaeological reconnaissance fieldwork began with an initial windshield survey of the corridor . This enabled the investigators to search for remnant landscape features, chimney stacks , and graveyards . Newly bulldozed/scraped areas west of Strouds Creek and north of St. Mary ' s Road were walked to search for disturbed features and/or artifacts . No artifacts or features were observed while monitoring these bulldozing activities or while searching the red clay land surface . A total of 13 architectural survey properties (from the 1991 - 1992 survey) were briefly visited by archaeologist Stine in company with the architectural historian (Geoffrey Henry) and the Orange County project liaison (Don Belk) . As feasible some of the property owners were later interviewed to help determine the archaeological potential of these historic places . When questioned most historic homeowners stated that they have found occasional historic artifacts while gardening, etc . The majority of owners indicated that prehistoric projectile points had been found occasionally, but were relatively rare . Some of the architectural properties , such as Maple Hill (0010) , have seen extensive land altering modifications during twentieth- century renovations . In one case , Latta Farm, the house has been torn down (Or658 ) , although its outbuildings remain in relatively good condition (Henry 1999) . Nonetheless , until each historic property' s subsurface resources are assessed through systematic archaeological survey, each must be judged as having moderate to high archaeological potential . . 32