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27 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY LOCAL LANDMARK APPLICATION <br /> A commemorative granite marker has been placed at an entrance opening in the south wall. <br /> (Photo 1) The south side of the marker states, "Eno Quaker Meeting 1754-1847 and Burial <br /> Ground est. 1761 Affiliated with Cane Creek Monthly Meeting 1754-1793 and Spring Monthly <br /> Meeting 1793-1847." The north side of the marker states: "Known Families: Burney, Burnsides, <br /> Chambers, Chancey, Cloud, Courtney, Embree, Few, .Frasier, Husband, Jackson, Maddock, <br /> Miller, Mooney, Neal, Palmer, Pearson, Pugh, Stubbs, Taylor, Thompson, Wiley, Wilkinson. <br /> Erected 2011 by N.C. Yearly Meeting of Friends and Cane Creek Monthly Meeting." Beyond <br /> the north property line are the remains of the Quaker school chimney and a small collection of <br /> stones believed to be the remains of the original meeting house chimney. These features are not <br /> included in this landmark application as they are located partly on a privately-owned 10-acre lot <br /> within the adjacent subdivision of Sterling Farms, as well as on an access easement owned by the <br /> subdivision's association. <br /> Within the walls of the cemetery are numerous gravestones— around fifty-seven that are marked, <br /> and close to twenty that are barely marked or unreadable. There may be others not yet <br /> discovered. The stones are located throughout the cemetery, though primarily near the center and <br /> in the southeast quadrant. The burials are arranged in more or less regular rows running <br /> approximately north-south and delineated by regular shallow depressions of the many unmarked <br /> graves interspersed with the visible stones. The readable stones range in date from 1791 to 1910, <br /> with most dating from the early-nineteentb century. Following the Quaker tradition, all are <br /> modest in design and very few have ornamentation of any sort. Most are of the <br /> 5 <br />