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8 <br /> ORD-2023-032 <br /> Attachment 2 <br /> AN ORDINANCE OF THE ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br /> DESIGNATING THE PROPERTY KNOWN AS THE <br /> ENO QUAKER BURYING GROUND (PIN: 9876100265) <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 16th day of May, 2023, on <br /> the question of designating the property known as the Eno Quaker Burying Ground as a historic <br /> landmark; and <br /> WHEREAS, the property known as the Eno Quaker Burying Ground, located in <br /> Hillsborough Township in the County of Orange and more particularly described in Attachment <br /> A attached hereto, is significant as one of the very few rural cemeteries in Orange County dating <br /> from the eighteenth century and as the most intact tangible reminder of the numerous Quakers <br /> who settled in the county in the area north of Hillsborough; and <br /> WHEREAS, the Quakers who settled in Orange County founded the Eno Friends <br /> Meeting in 1754 and in 1759 established their meeting house, school and the Eno Quaker <br /> Burying Ground at this site; and <br /> WHEREAS, the Eno Quaker Burying Ground contains a significant collection of locally- <br /> carved gravestones surrounded by an rare surviving 18th century stone wall; and <br /> WHEREAS, based on the additional information further detailed in the landmark <br /> designation report for the Eno Quaker Burying Ground, all of which is incorporated herein by <br /> reference, the Orange County Historic Preservation Commission has demonstrated that the <br /> property known as the Eno Quaker Burying Ground possesses special significance in terms of its <br /> historic, architectural and/or cultural significance and has recommended that the property be <br />