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44 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY LOCAL LANDMARK APPLICATION <br /> time in Georgia, the Quakers there had troubles with the Creek Indians as well as with patriots <br /> who did not understand or appreciate their pacifist views concerning war. Most of the Georgia <br /> Quakers moved on to meetings in Ohio and Indiana, although a few returned to the Eno River <br /> Valley.27 <br /> All of the turmoil over the Regulator movement and the departure of the Eno leader Joseph <br /> Maddock, his family, and many other Quakers for Georgia left the Eno Meeting of.Friends <br /> broken. It is evident from the Cane Creek Women's Minutes of 1767 and 1765 that <br /> representatives of the Eno Meeting were no longer attending the monthly meetings at Cane <br /> Creek. The Minutes of the Western Quarterly Meeting also make no mention of the Eno Meeting <br /> from 1772 through 1777, suggesting that it was dwindling away for lack for good leadership, <br /> lack of members, and the impact of the Regulator conflict and the onset of the Revolutionary <br /> War. On May 19, 1768, the Eno Meeting was reduced from its status as a preparative meeting, <br /> becoming once again a particular meeting. In 1793, what was left of the Eno Meeting became <br /> affiliated with the newly established Spring Meeting in southeastern Alamance County. For the <br /> next half century, it seems to have lingered on in name only, and for a consistent lack of activity, <br /> the Yearly Meeting at New Garden "laid down" the Eno Friends Meeting in November 1847. Of <br /> the tangible assets of the Eno Friends Meeting, the frame Meeting House burned ca. 1877. A <br /> handful of small stones from its fieldstone chimney are believed to remain north of the cemetery. <br /> The log school House became the Mars Hill Public School, popularly called "Tidy Hall,"used <br /> until the 1920s. It was later demolished, and its stone chimney stack collapsed in 1967, leaving <br /> only the stone chimney base as a reminder of the school. However, the Eno Quaker Burying <br /> "Engstrom,28-29. <br /> 22 <br />