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Carpenter 1975 ) . This site has not been located . Two saw mill sites were found in the vicinity of Buckwater Creek (3 1 Or494 * * and 31Or495 * * ) . They are believed to date to the late nineteenth and/or early twentieth centuries . Although important, historic mill sites are described in this report , only one , John Berry ' s Private Mill, appears to be located within the project corridor. The others are found along the Eno River. The project area M. is shown on historic maps as being along Strouds Creek, south of St . Marys Road . The potential mill site is in heavy woods west of S . R. 1561 . The actual site was not discovered during a windshield survey of the site vicinity. This mill is associated with John Berry ( i. e . , nineteenth century, Sunnyside Plantation) . Farmsteads and Plantations- Farmsteads and plantations dominate the landscape of the project area (Table 1 , Table 2) . Early settlers were able to purchase large tracts (e . g. , 500- 600 acres) through the Granville grants . Some of the project area holdings remained large , but ' some of those initial eighteenth-century grants were broken into smaller farmsteads . By the decade before the Civil War the majority of farmers were living in small to medium farms . After that war more holdings were divided into smaller farms, many of them run by tenant labor . After World War II a pattern of re- consolidation emerged . This aggregation was the result of converting from animal to machine power, and from transforming fields of grains and tobacco to pastures for dairy, or by building compounds for poultry. By the last quarter of the twentieth century the St. Mary' s countryside was primarily a patchwork of horse farms, cattle farms , and residential homes . i Besides the tavern sites (e . g . , Few ' s Tavern; the Wilson Norman tavern site, 31 Or501 * * ) the earliest known farmstead is Hill Farm ( Or659) which has extant building components dating to about 1780 . Ayr Mount (Or2) , although found west of the project area, is a fine example of an early nineteenth- century plantation located along the Trading Path. Early nineteenth-century farmsteads and plantations in the project corridor are represented by four architectural sites ( Or652 , 0010, 0018 , and Or1450) . A potential log cabin site/farmstead is noted as being in a field just south of Finches Branch on ° Lockhill Farm (Mary Jane Lockhart Gosling, personal communication 1999) . This is the purported early nineteenth- century home site of the Lockhart family (Mary Jane ' s grandfather ' s homestead) . Although the archaeologist visited this field, visibility was too poor to judge if the site remained, and if so , where it was definitely located. No structure is shown on the 1918 soil map in this vicinity, which indicates that the house was no longer standing by that date . The John Berry plantation ( Sunnyside , Or692) , dates to at least 1848 . The Caine Roberts farm ( Or673 , 31 Or486 * * ) dates to about the last quarter of the nineteenth century, as does the Dunlop House ( Orl451 ) , the Latta Farm (Or658 ) , and the Jacob ' s Farm (Or1453 ) . An archaeological cabin site, 31Or487 * * , likely dates to 1891 . Numerous other archaeological home sites are estimated to date to the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries, in part based on the presence of structural notations on the 1918 soil map . These areas follows : 31 Or483 * * , 31 Or490 * * , 31 Or491 * * , 31Or492 * * 3lOr493 * * 3lOr500 * * 31 * * * *Or502 , and 310r503 The abandoned Walker House/farmstead ( Or1455 , 3lOr489 * * ) dates to the late nineteenth and/or early twentieth centuries . 44