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35 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY LOCAL LANDMARK APPLICATION <br /> isolated until new roads were constructed in the area in conjunction with Lake Orange. After <br /> becoming overgrown, the cemetery was "restored" in 1965, and in 1996 was again cleaned up. <br /> Photographs show the gravestones to be in neat rows. Whether or not that was the original <br /> arrangement is not known. A number of the stones are intact, but many more appear broken. A <br /> chain link fence surrounds much of the cemetery.I I <br /> Little River Presbyterian Church was organized in 1761, but there was no meeting house for the <br /> first four years. Presumably, the cemetery was established around the same time. Located near <br /> the North Fork of the Little River in Little River Township in northeastern Orange County,the <br /> present church, which was erected in 1944, faces away from the road and toward the cemetery, <br /> which spreads outward to the south and west. Unlike the other old cemeteries, this one kept <br /> growing at its original site. Still an active cemetery, it is now very large with over 1,000 <br /> gravestones, only sixty of which are unmarked. Many of the gravestones date from the <br /> nineteenth century, but old and new are mixed. That, along with the sheer size of the cemetery, <br /> give it a very different feel from the other cemeteries established in Orange County during the <br /> eighteenth century.12 <br /> By contrast, the cemetery at St. Mary's Episcopal Chapel,which started out in 1759 as an <br /> Anglican chapel, is the smallest of the eighteenth-century rural cemeteries in Orange County. <br /> sr Cemetery Census: Orange County North Carolina Cemeteries: 020:Eno Presbyterian Church Cemetery(org. <br /> 1.755)"Old Eno." https://cemeterycensus.com/nc/om--/cemO2O.htm.Accessed 5-18-2020;Mrs.A. A.and T. C.Ellis <br /> (1933),Annie H.Hughes(1955),and Mrs.R.W.Isley(1980),History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, <br /> North Carolina 1755-1980. On Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/histo , orenopres00elli/.Accessed 5-19- <br /> 2020. <br /> 12 Cemetery Census:Orange County North Carolina Cemeteries:039:Little River Presbyterian Church Cemetery <br /> (1761).https://cemeterycensus.com/nc/omg/cem039.htm.Accessed 5-19-2020;Madelaine Hall Latta,History of <br /> Little River Presbyterian Church, Hurdle Mills, N.C. On Internet Archive: <br /> hitps://archive.org,/details/historyoflittler001att/page/nl/mode/2up. Accessed 5-19-2020. <br /> 13 <br />