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oRANG~ couNT~r BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS WORK SESSION AGENDA ABSTRACT Meeting Date: August 29, 2002 - Action Agenda Item No. ~,,, SUBJECT: Oran a Count 250' Anniversa Celebration DEPARTMENT: Economic Development Commission PUBLIC HEARING: ~1(/N) No ATTACHMENTS): INFORMATION CONTACT:. Dianne Reid, ext 2325 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968,4509 Durham 688-7331 - Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: Ta update the Board on plans for the celebration of Orange County's 250' anniversary. BACKGROUND: September 9, 2002 marks the 250"' anniversary of the first colonial court of the County of Orange, held at Grayfields along the Eno River. A planning group -The Orange County 250 Committee ~- has been meeting regularly to plan a series of celebration activities for the year. Plans for the kickoff celebration have been finalized, as follows: On Sunday, September $, the public is invited to celebrate Orange County's 250th Anniversary with a walk through history. Attendees may park vehicles in the lot by the Orange County Sheriff s Department on East Margaret Lane in downtown Hillsborough. Shuttles will begin leaving at 92:30 pm to take people to Moorefields, near the site of the first colonial court in Orange County. At Moorefields, the Orange County 4-H will provide a presentation an farming in Orange County. At 1:00 prn, participants join in a 3.5-mile hike back to downtown Hillsborough, stopping along the way to experience Orange County history. John Blackfeather Jeffries, of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, will discuss Native American history in Qrange County. Hikers will pass the old slave cemetery on West Margaret Lane and hear Jack Payne, an African American storyteller. The hike is sponsored by the Trading Path Preservation Association. After the walk, participants can return to the Old Orange County Courthouse on King Street at 4:00 pm to hear a keynote address by Harry L. Watson, PhD. Mr. Watson serves as Director of the UNC Center for the Study of the American South and .co-editor of its journal, Southern Cultures. He is also a professor in the UNC-Chapel Hitl Department of History. His specialties are the antebellum South, Jacksonian America, and the history of North Carolina. The Hillsborough Historical Society is sponsoring the address.