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25 <br /> Slide #24 <br /> x <br /> r �Y <br /> �•'fir S '.. � <br /> + r _ <br /> jidii <br /> i <br /> t.i:•s�..'S'. <br /> Peter Sandbeck said that NCDOT will be replacing this bridge and because it will be a <br /> landmark, DOT will have to come to the Historic Preservation Committee for approval. <br /> Commissioner Hamilton asked for clarification if the tax benefits could last forever. <br /> Peter Sandbeck said yes, in theory, as long as the landmark was maintained. He said <br /> that the tax deferral is 50%. He said that investment in historic properties can actually increase <br /> the value, offsetting the tax deferral. He said the net cost to the county is about $20,000-$30,000 <br /> per year. <br /> Commissioner Greene thanked Peter Sandbeck for the presentation. She asked if he was <br /> aware of a paper written by Mark Chilton, the Register of Deeds, about Herman Husband and <br /> how he was disowned. She asked if he would consider adding his paper to the resources list. <br /> Peter Sandbeck said he was aware and had been provided with the paper by Mark Chilton. <br /> He said it was a complicated thing being a Quaker in society. He said that Mark Chilton endorses <br /> this project. <br /> Commissioner Greene said she learned a new word "apotropaic"when reading the history <br /> and that it is something that wards off bad spirits. <br /> Peter Sandbeck said that it is almost a hex sign and other signs used to ward bad spirits. <br /> He said this was very common over doors of old buildings as well. <br /> Vice-Chair McKee said he was familiar with the type of stone used at older cemeteries. <br /> He said he is the cemetery committee chairman at Little River Presbyterian and has been for 50 <br /> plus years. He said that Little River Presbyterian was built two years after the Quaker church. He <br /> said they do not know how many stones may be there but there is about a 2-acre section that is <br /> full of graves with no stones. He said that years ago he was told by older members that the <br /> process of keeping up a graveyard was a twice per year"scraping" of the graveyard. He said this <br /> would be people that had family buried and those that were caretakers of the space would take <br /> their hoes and tools to clean it off completely. He said that Thomas Miller told him that as a youth <br /> he remembered finding broken stones, stones that had fallen down, and that were moved out of <br /> the way because there were no markers on them. He said if you go into the east parking lot at the <br /> church you will still see blank stones sitting in rows. He said there are probably 1000 grave sites <br /> there. He said that when the Hillsborough church was going to expand, they found that the corner <br /> of the church would have been on what is assumed to be two unmarked slave graves and because <br />