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19 <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 /> Kitchen Yard Site: 1 Contributing site <br /> (Ca. 1784-1966) <br /> Directly east of the house and adjacent to the Kitchen Garden is the site of a former, freestanding <br /> kitchen and at least one other outbuilding that may have housed enslaved laborers. The 1966 <br /> measured drawing set includes a title sheet depicting a site section, in which the house is drawn <br /> (in section) on a gentle rise,just east of which are two smaller, one-story buildings depicted with <br /> dotted lines. Under the profile, the buildings are labeled "Dwelling," "Kitchen," and "Slave <br /> Quarters."22 (Figure 8) An aerial view from 1955 does not show any smaller structures east or <br /> southeast of the house (see Figure 7). Draper-Savage is known to have demolished derelict <br /> buildings utilized as chicken coops east and southeast of the house soon after acquiring the <br /> property. In 2020, Terrell conducted an STP survey of the kitchen yard area and determined that <br /> "human-altered topography further confirms the likelihood of buildings at this location."23 <br /> Artifacts suggesting building materials (i.e.,remnants of brick and mortar as well as historic nails) <br /> were found in 27 STPs dug in this vicinity, as were artifacts suggesting a domestic occupation, <br /> such as pottery sherds, a shoe or clothing buckle, a horse bit, and a porcelain doll's head. The <br /> ceramic fragments came from pottery originating locally as well as in England and China and were <br /> dated from the late 1700s to the late 1800s. Terrell concluded that the kitchen yard area contained <br /> important archaeological potential for future investigations. <br /> MOOREFIELDS " 1785 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY , NORTH CAROL] NA <br /> SUM MFR HOME FOR JUSTICE ALFRED MOORE <br /> S1TE SECTION I 100, DWELLING WCHEN SLAVE QUARTERS SPRING <br /> Figure 8:Except of title page from measured drawing set, showing Site Section with "Dwelling,Kitchen, Slave <br /> Quarters"demarcated. Harold Ogburn, 1966.North Carolina State University Libraries, Historic Architecture <br /> Research Project Records. <br /> The geophysical survey conducted by RGA in 2023 identified seven anomalies to the east and <br /> southeast of the house.A total of 12 50x5Ocm test units were placed for the ground-truthing phase. <br /> Section 7 page 17 <br />