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but researchers do know that the Few farm later became part of the Kirkland ' s Ayr Mount ( Or2 ; 31Or480 * * ) holdings . Churches and Schools- The St . Mary ' s Project Corridor is defined as a community in part due to the eighteenth- through twentieth-century presence of a school and a chapel located in the northeast quadrant of the intersection of St . Mary' s Road and S . R. 1548 . This area contains the remains of previous versions of both the chapel and the school as well as later, extant examples of each. These institutions (e . g . , St . Mary ' s Chapel- 31Or496 * * and St. Mary' s Scho & Or657) have served as a focal point for group activities and fostered a strong sense of community. The African- American community appears to have found a focal point at two early twentieth- century churches . These are the Flat Rock A. M . E . church and the Libscomb Church. The Flat Rock Church moved northward to a new location on New Sharon Church Road (original location at Or665 on Figure 1 ) in the early decades of the twentieth century (Henry 1999) . The original church location become a second church, the Temple of Truth Church. No cemetery is associated with the original church site . A cemetery is associated with the second major African American area church, the Libscomb Church on S . R. 1574 . This church is found north of St . Mary' s Road, but in the eastern side of the project area. It was visited by the architectural historian, but is considered too far from the project corridor to be considered part of the proposed St. Mary ' s rural historic landscape (Henry, personal communication 1999) . This church was i not visited by the field archaeologists . Cemeteries- St. Mary ' s Chapel is associated with an historic cemetery with graves dating from the eighteenth century through the early twentieth century (31 Or496 * It is an example of an important area cemetery containing the graves of the ancestors of many of the modern-day area St . Mary ' s Corridor residents. Two family cemeteries have been recorded during the architectural survey. These are the eighteenth- through twentieth- century Hill farm and cemetery ( Or659) and the nineteenth through twentieth-century Walker Farm and cemetery (0018 ) . An additional cemetery was found during the archaeological reconnaissance, at the Davis property (3lOr497 * * ) . Although it contained numerous graves, only one appears to have an inscription ("White Age 109 died 1898 '� . Another burial ground containing numerous fieldstone markers, no inscriptions, is reported to be found on a wooded knoll near the eastern boundary of Lockhill Farm (Mary Jane Lockhart Gosling , personal communication 1999) . Although the archaeologist surveyed this area with the landowner, the gravesites have yet to be relocated . Quarries and Mills- Two quarry sites have been identified in the project area, a large, presumed twentieth-century crushed stone quarry complex (31Or488 * * ) and a small fieldstone quarry used, in part , to provide stone for the Caine Roberts House in 1873 ( 31Or484 * * ) . An "abandoned " copper mine is listed on a geologic map of the region somewhere north of St. Mary ' s Road and west of S . R. 1548 , east of an unnamed branch (Wilson and ' 43