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18 <br /> United States Department of the Interior <br /> National Park Service/National Register of Historic Places Registration Form <br /> NPS Form 10-900 OMB Control No.1024-0018 <br /> Moorefields (Additional Documentation) Orange County, N.C. <br /> Name of Property County and State <br /> The mounded, rubble stone wall that currently circumscribes the Cameron-Moore-Waddell <br /> Cemetery was likely constructed in the mid- to late 20th century. It overlays and, in many places, <br /> truncates the earlier area demarcation made with quartz stones set flush into the earth. The <br /> boundaries of the rectangular rubble wall most likely do not conform to the true size of the burial <br /> ground and the stones may in fact obscure important landscape and archaeological features. The <br /> design of the wall, which reaches approximately two feet in height (although that is variable), <br /> suggests the wall is dry-stacked(without mortar). It gives the appearance of a careless stacking of <br /> fieldstones,likely because the wall had completely collapsed by the time of Draper-Savage's death <br /> in 1978, and was loosely restacked in the 1980s. This rubble wall is not a contributing component <br /> of the Cameron-Moore-Waddell Cemetery as it has lost structural integrity. <br /> Barn Site: 1 Non-contributing site <br /> (Ca. 1949-2014) <br /> The foundations of a former wooden barn, a portion of which was used by Draper-Savage as an <br /> art studio, lie northwest of the house. The agricultural barn likely predated Draper-Savage's <br /> ownership of Moorefields but was on the landscape by 1955, when an oblique aerial photograph <br /> was taken that shows a double-height agricultural building capped in a side-gable roof and flanked <br /> by single-height wings with shed roofs on the east and west elevations (see Figure 1). The north <br /> elevation of the central volume held a full-height, multi-light window. A second aerial view from <br /> 1955 shows the drive extending north, past the house's west elevation, to access the barn (Figure <br /> 7). The barn was demolished after 2014. In 2020, Terrell opened a test unit of the barn site and <br /> found no evidence of historically significant material.20 In 2023,RGA identified seven geophysical <br /> anomalies within or adjacent to the former barn site and each was probed with a 50x5Ocm shovel <br /> test pits (STPs). The excavations identified two features, both likely associated with the former <br /> barn structure. Among the cultural materials recovered, 11 are diagnostic artifacts with dates <br /> potentially overlapping with the site's period of significance, with one of these having dates <br /> entirely within the period of significance. However,all artifacts were recovered from disturbed fill <br /> or plow zone soils and cannot be confidently associated with the former barn or any other <br /> preexisting structure at this location.21 <br /> Figure 7:Aerial view of Moorefields, showing barn to northwest of house, 1955. Courtesy Friends of Moorefields. <br /> Section 7 page 16 <br />