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1891 . The cabin once had a porch overlooking terraced lands that fall gently to an east/west trending creek, an unnamed tributary to Buckquarter Creek . This is the same creek that is fed by the springheads on the Caine Roberts farm. St. Mary 's Sites 9, 114 6, 18 (31 Or488 *; 310r490 * *-310r495 * *; 31 Or497 * *) On July 2 Deborah Joy was invited to the home of Worth and Liz Lutz on Buckquarter Road. The Lutz family shared historical information and then led Deborah on a daylong hike to various sites . The Lutz' s lands were once part of Michael Synnott ' s (or Synott , or Synnod) Granville grant property in the 1750s . This plat shows the old Trading Path following the general trend of present day St. Mary ' s road, just north of Mount Misery. The Lutz ' s have moved two log structures on to their property and restored them (one barn, one shed) . The log house at the bottom of the driveway is on its original site and has been extensively restored ( St. Mary ' s Site 11 ; 31Or490 * * ) . No artifacts were observed in the area. The Lutz ' s took Deborah to an old stone quarry ( St. Mary ' s Site 9031 Or488 * * ) west of their house on top of a large hill ( is this Mount Misery?, see Synnott Grant) . The quarry site is listed (Wilson and Carpenter 1975) as an abandoned crushed stone quarry. It is believed that the stone was quarried by the State of North Carolina to provide gravel for roadways (Mary Jane Lockhart Gosling, personal communication 1999) . The large quarry site has several associated cabin ruins. A return visit by Stine and student volunteers to the quarry area revealed that the southeast trending road to the quarry is in relatively good shape . The quarry entrance road is illustrated on the 1918 soil map (Vanatta, Brinkley and Davidson 1921 ) . During i the early twentieth century this road appears to have continued southwest across Buckquarter Creek, intersecting Pleasant Green Road near Pleasant Green Church. This roadway bisected an area marked as a possible location of the original Trading Path, based on deed research and on inspection of 1938 aerial photographs . Although the place where this quarry road supposedly crossed remnants of the Trading Path was visually searched for clues, no evidence of the Great Trading Path was seen on the ground. The Lutz family showed Deborah two saw mill sites consisting of rectangular saw pits and sawdust piles ( St . Mary' s sites 15 - 310r494 * * and 16- 31Or495 * * ) , and two standing structures on the north side of Happy Valley Farm Road ( St. Mary ' s Site 12 ; 31 Or491 * * ) . On the south side of the road she noted a house site with two brick chimney stacks, and a wood frame shed, grape arbor, and tobacco barn foundations known as the Rhew Place ( St . Mary' s Site 13 ; 31Or492 * * ) . She was also told to visit the nearby Blackley Place which has an old house on it, now renovated, but she could not get access to it . Deborah was also taken to a house site on the Hinds property ( St. Mary' s Site 14 ; 31 Or493 * * ) which had an extensive scatter of brick and rock from chimney falls and a foundation, a large pit that might be a well, and also saw several small rock dams located along the creek. This site is apparently going to be protected, as Eno River Park personnel are negotiating for its purchase . The Lutz family also introduced Deborah to Mrs. Davis, the owner of a house on the corner of Pleasant Green Road and the entrance drive called Buckquarter Road. She observed a family burial ground ( St . Mary ' s Site 18 ; 31Or497 * * ) close to Mrs . Davis ' house . She estimates that at least twenty graves are located in Mrs . Davis ' front yard. The fieldstone marker placement suggests that the graves face east . One stone marker had aninscription "white age 109 died 1898 . " A return inspection of the site showed that 37 r