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<br />Orange County <br />Environment and Resource Conservation Department <br />P. n. Rcrx s.~8~ <br />Hilltiharouglt, NC?7?i8 <br />Phone: ('919) 732-3131 nr ~~67-9251, x2583 <br />Fret: (919) 6=14-300? <br />Email: cnu~nn~Aco.nran~e.n~.us <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: David Stancil, Director, Environment & Resource Conservation Department <br />T~ <br />FROM: Tina Moon, band Use/ Preservation Planner <br />DATE: 16 February 2000 <br />SUBJECT: Archaeological Report of the Greene Tract <br />Per your request I have reviewed the archaeological report prepared by TRC Garrow Associates, <br />Inc., which analyses the survey results for the Greene Tract. The survey uncovered two historic <br />sites, two prehistoric sites, and four "isolated finds." In the conclusion of the report, Senior <br />Archaeologist, Heather Millis, determined that the two historic sites-the Byrd House and the <br />Potts House--warranted further research before potentially disturbing land use activity occurred. <br />These two sites are potentially eligible for the National Register of Historic Places under criterion <br />D-properties that have yielded or are likely to yield important information to prehistory or <br />history. In addition, completing a Phase II level of investigation, for these two sites, could <br />provide further information about the rural lifestyle of average (middle to small scale) Orange <br />County farmer during the mid-nineteenth century tomid-twentieth century period. <br />It appears, from my efforts to overlay the limits of the proposed extension to the Orange County <br />solid waste deposal system with the archaeological shovel test pit (STPs) grid map that the <br />development project will terminate just north of the boundaries of the Byrd House site. While it <br />is possible that further subsurface investigation would enlarge the Byrd area to include the <br />foundations of other structures such as agricultural and domestic outbuildings, the proposed <br />development plan does not intrude on the Byrd House site as it is currently defined by the <br />archaeologists: As the county continues to work with the towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro to <br />develop this site care should be taken to ensure that the southern boundary of the project area <br />remains consistent with this original proposal. Should future develop occur south of this <br />boundary line, the county may wish to pursue a Phase II survey for the Byrd and Potts House <br />sites. <br />Enclosures <br />