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28 <br /> NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.1024-0018 <br /> (8-86) <br /> United States Department of the Interior <br /> National Park Service <br /> National Register of Historic Places <br /> Continuation Sheet <br /> Section number 9 Page 22 Ridge Road School <br /> Orange County, NC <br /> Section 40. Geographical Data <br /> Latitude/Longitude Coordinates <br /> Latitude: 36.128256/Longitude: -79.119553 <br /> Boundary Description <br /> The 1.75-acre National Register boundary encompasses three Orange County tax parcels: 9866457651 <br /> (school, 0.93 acres), 9866454477 (triangular 0.03-acre tract at the school parcel's southwest corner), and <br /> 9866454437 (0.79-acre parcel where Walter and Emma Torian Joneses' no-longer-extant dwelling was <br /> located) as indicated by the heavy solid line on the enclosed map. The Torian family conveyed the west <br /> and school parcels to Jones Grove Missionary Baptist Church, but still owns the 0.03-acre tract. Scale: <br /> one inch equals approximately fifty feet. <br /> Boundary Justification <br /> The nominated area includes Ridge Road School as well as the wooded lot extending to Coleman Loop <br /> Road formerly owned by farmers Walter and Maggie Torian, upon whose land the school was built. <br /> During the period of significance, the school and Jones Grove Missionary Baptist Church stood in a <br /> clearing bordered by woodlands. The Torian residence, outbuildings including tobacco and livestock <br /> barns, and sorghum mill to the south were flanked by fields, pastures, and wooded areas. The dwelling <br /> that Walter and Maggie Torian's daughter Emma and her husband Walter Jones erected in the wooded <br /> area west of the school around 1963 was demolished in the early twenty-first century, returning the parcel <br /> to its condition during the school's operation. The nominated area encompasses the full extent of the <br /> property the Torian family conveyed to the Joneses in February 1963 as well as the tract historically <br /> associated with the school, providing an appropriate setting.39 The remainder of the Torian farm has been <br /> gradually subdivided to facilitate residential development fronting Coleman Loop Road and NC Highway <br /> 86. <br /> 39 It does not appear that Walter and Maggie Torian conveyed the land on which the school was built to the Orange <br /> County Board of Education. No deeds have been located,there is no mention of the property's acquisition or sale in OCBE <br /> meeting minutes,and family members inherited the land. <br />