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St. Mary 's Site 1 (31Or480 * *) Ayr Mount is the original plantation complex constructed by the Kirkland family ' beginning in 1815 . The house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 (the grounds, including the Trading Path, are not mentioned on the nomination form) . This site includes the Palladian T- Plan brick villa (Flemish bond) , the family cemetery, an approximately 40 ft north/south by 20 ft east/west stone foundation (nineteenth- century barn and/or perhaps Few' s eighteenth- century tavern) , and the subsurface remnants of associated outbuildings . Local tradition places the location of Few' s tavern on the knoll just east of the Kirkland mansion. Examination of the Sauthier ( 1768 ) map of Hillsborough indicates that that tavern may have been located on the knoll to the west of the Kirkland home (built some decades afterwards) . In either case the complex would be found on the southern side of the Trading Path. St. Marys Site 2 (31Or481 * *) There is a fine extant example of the Trading Path that extends from just below Ayr Mount Plantation where it disappears into the swamps along St . Mary' s Road northwards to just behind a commercial building (tire place) at the intersection with Hwy 70 . This can be seen on certain maps of Hillsborough (i. e . 1988 Hillsborough General Development Plan 196 & 1998 ) and on the Sauthier Map of 1768 ("Road to Halifa)C") . It also is clearly seen on the 1938 aerial photograph (Figure 7) . The road depression is at least 10 ft deep and about 50 ft wide at Ayr Mount . The Trading Path segment on the northern boundary of Ayr Mount lands is being preserved as part of that plantation complex . St. Mary 's Site 3 (31 Or482 * *) This is a small, burned house site, consisting of a brick chimney- stack in a residential lot . No symbol for a structure was observed in the site area on the 1918 soil map . There are frame outbuildings behind the house that may have been associated with twentieth-century farming activities at nearby Sunnyside Plantation ( Or692) . ( Sunnyside was the plantation seat of local builder John Berry in the nineteenth century, and continued as a farm in the twentieth century. ) St. Marys Site 4 (31Or483 * *) This consists of an old house site east of Temple of Truth Church that was located through inspection of the 1918 soil map . No structure or artifacts are visible at this site, which is now in pasture . There is a grove of large hardwoods demarcating the location of the original farmstead . A large farm pond has been constructed just west of the main house site . St. Mary 's Sites 5- 7(31Or484 * *, 31Or485 * *, 31Or486 * *) Archaeologists spent the day with Nels and Nancy Anderson, meeting at their potentially eligible historic property- , the Caine Roberts House, OR673 (St . Mary' s Site 7931Or486 * * ) . The house is a fine example of a traditional I house, with "strong gable returns. " It was built in 1873 by Addison Holding (Andersons, personal communication 1999 ) . It has numerous outbuildings , such as an office , cooling house, garage w/crib remains attached, a granary, chicken houses, and the remnants of a packing house for 35