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86 <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 /> Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for nominations to the National Register of Historic <br /> Places to nominate properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing,to list properties,and to amend existing listings. Response <br /> to this request is required to obtain a benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act,as amended(16 U.S.C.460 <br /> et seq.).We may not conduct or sponsor and you are not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a <br /> currently valid OMB control number. <br /> Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for each response using this form is estimated to be between the Tier 1 <br /> and Tier 4 levels with the estimate of the time for each tier as follows: <br /> Tier 1 —60-100 hours <br /> Tier 2—120 hours <br /> Tier 3—230 hours <br /> Tier 4—280 hours <br /> The above estimates include time for reviewing instructions,gathering and maintaining data,and preparing and transmitting <br /> nominations.Send comments regarding these estimates or any other aspect of the requirement(s)to the Service Information <br /> Collection Clearance Officer, National Park Service, 1201 Oakridge Drive Fort Collins,CO 80525. <br /> ENDNOTES <br /> ' The 1972 nomination did not establish boundaries or acreage for Moorefields' designation. This additional <br /> documentation sets boundaries and acreage(9.15)for a proposed historic district within the larger(76-acre) <br /> property,hence the technical correction. <br /> 2 U.S.Department of the Interior,U.S. Geological Survey,"Elfland Quadrangle,North Carolina—Orange County," <br /> 7.5-Minute Series,2022. <br /> 3 Richard P.Adamczyk and Jenifer C.Elam[Richard Grubb&Associates],Archaeological Ground-Truthing of <br /> Select Geophysical Anomalies:Moorefields, Town of Hillsborough, Orange County,North Carolina. ER No.21- <br /> 1343;RGA Technical Report No.2022-335NC.Prepared for Friends of Moorefields(Hillsborough,North Carolina, <br /> May 2024)2-1. <br /> a Douglas R.Yarborough[Landmark Surveying,Inc.],"Final Exempt Plat Boundary,Easement,and Recombination <br /> Survey,Property of Friends of Moorefields,"Cheeks Township,Orange County,North Carolina.27 April 2024. <br /> 5 Ibid. <br /> 6 Adamczyk and Elam 2024:2-1. <br /> 1 Although no pre-Contact sites have been recorded on Moorefields property, 13 pre-Contact artifacts—quartz and <br /> rhyolite debris—were found areas north of the house in 2023. See Adamczyk and Elam 2024: 5-1,5-7. <br /> 8 Cayla M.Cannon,Olivier Vansassenbrouck,Meagan Ratini and Olivia Heckendorf[Richard Grubb&Associates], <br /> Historic Moorefields:Manor House, Yard Areas, and Cameron-Moore-Waddell Cemetery.RGA Technical Report <br /> No.2022-335NC.Prepared for Friends of Moorefields(Hillsborough,North Carolina, September 2023)4-38,4-42, <br /> 4-44.Adamczyk and Elam 2024:2-1,3-1 to 3-11. <br /> 9 The house's construction date of 1785-1788 has been maintained by previous scholarship(see endnote 8 for <br /> citations).This beginning date of construction is likely predicated Moore's purchased of 1,200 acres in early January <br /> 1784.However,no documentary evidence(e.g.tax assessment/land records from 1784-1800)has been located that <br /> would help verify this assertion.Family letters prove that the house was on the ground by 1805.Therefore,based on <br /> this evidence(or lack thereof),a more conservative construction range would be 1784-1805.Barry Jacobs,"A Brief <br /> History of Moorefields"(Unpublished white paper,2023) 1.Historic American Building Survey,"Moorefields: <br /> Photographs and Written Historical and Descriptive Data,"HABS NC-271 (or HABS NC 68-HILBO-9) <br /> (Washington,D.C.:National Park Service,Historic American Buildings Survey, 1968) 1.Accessed 24 June 2024: <br /> https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/master/pnp/habshaer/nc/nc0000/nc0064/data/nc0064data.pdf.John B.Wells,III <br /> [Survey and Planning Unit Staff,State Department of Archives and History],"Moorefields,"Orange County,North <br /> Carolina.National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form(Washington,D.C.:U.S.Department of <br /> the Interior,National Park Service, 1972)Section 8-1. <br /> 10 The 1966 plan of Moorefields drawn by Harold Ogburn for North Carolina State University's School of Design <br /> names this space the"Great Hall,"but this nomination will use the term"parlor"to describe this room hence. <br /> " Historic American Building Survey, 1968: 1-2.Wells 1972: Section 7-1. <br /> 12 Jacobs 2023:4. <br /> Sections 9-11 page 84 <br />