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3 <br /> ORD-2023-031 <br /> Attachment 1 <br /> AN ORDINANCE OF THE ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br /> DESIGNATING THE PROPERTY KNOWN AS THE <br /> HARVEY'S CHAPEL AME CHURCH (PIN: 9853837051)AND <br /> THE ORIGINAL CHURCH SITE AND CEMETERY (PIN 9853593781) <br /> IN ORANGE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA <br /> AS A HISTORIC LANDMARK <br /> WHEREAS, all of the prerequisites to the adoption of this ordinance prescribed in <br /> Chapter 160D, Article 9, as amended(Historic Districts and Landmarks) of the General Statutes <br /> of North Carolina and an Ordinance Creating the Historic Preservation Commission of Orange <br /> County(the "Historic Preservation Ordinance") have been met; and <br /> WHEREAS, the members of the Orange County Board of County Commissioners have <br /> taken into full consideration all statements and information presented by the Orange County <br /> Historic Preservation Commission at a joint public hearing held on the 10h day of May, 2023, on <br /> the question of designating the property known as the Harvey's Chapel AME Church and its <br /> original site and cemetery as a historic landmark; and <br /> WHEREAS, the property known as the Harvey's Chapel AME Church and its original <br /> site and cemetery, located in Cheeks Township in the County of Orange and more particularly <br /> described in Attachments A and B, attached hereto, are significant for the history of its <br /> congregation as well as for its importance as the most intact surviving example of a small frame <br /> carpenter-Gothic-style Black church in Orange County; and <br /> WHEREAS, Harvey's Chapel AME Church was founded in the late 19th century by a <br /> group of African-American families descended from formerly enslaved workers who gathered to <br /> worship together in the woods overlooking Crabtree Creek as a"brush arbor" community; and <br /> WHEREAS, the Harvey's Chapel AME congregation built their first church in 1892 on <br /> the site of their brush arbor and created a cemetery for members and their families; and <br /> WHEREAS, the 1940s Harvey's Chapel AME congregation moved their church to its <br /> present site on Dimmock's Mill Road due to poor road maintenance; and <br />