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53 <br />1 <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br />26 <br />27 <br />28 <br />29 <br />30 <br />31 <br />32 <br />33 <br />34 <br />35 <br />36 <br />37 <br />38 <br />39 <br />40 <br />41 <br />42 <br />HPC has also been working to develop a new heritage/scenic corridor <br />program As development continues to occur rural roads and their <br />associated agricultural vistas may become compromised unless <br />additional measures are adopted. <br />The North Carolina Scenic Byways <br />Program offers another form of ~ ~"'~ <br />recognition to special road corridors ~~Y- ~== ~ -- <br />that contribute to the visual ~ E - -`~-=''~~~= ...~ ~' ~-- ~ ~-~°] <br />character of a community. Honorary ~ ~~~~~ <br />in nature• there is no regulatory <br />component to the program, nor any <br />preemptive development ~ - ' -~ ~-- --•-~- <br />restrictions. Three North Carolina <br />Scenic Byways pass through Orange County-the Colonial Heritage <br />may the Football Road and the Scots-Welsh Byway. tSee Map 6-3 in <br />the Summary section of this Element.) <br />HIGHWAY MARKER PROGRAM <br />The North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program was established <br />in 1935, based on the marker program in Virginia established -in 1926. <br />The Department of Cultural Resources' Research Branch and the <br />Department of Transportation's Traffic Engineering Branch, Division of <br />Highways administer the program jointly. Eligibility is subject to <br />specific criteria based on state significance. Unlike the recognition of <br />historic structures or archaeological sites, the markers typically <br />commemorate important individuals who have been dead for twenty- <br />five or more years. Today there are more than 1,400 state markers <br />throughout North Carolina, at least one in every county. Orange <br />County currently has twenty-four markers, including those within the <br />towns of Chapel Hill and Hillsborough.s <br />S The twenty-four North Carolina State Highway Historical Markers located in Orange County <br />include: G-3 Thomas Burke; G-4 William Hooper 1742-1790; G-9 Archibald Debow Murphey; <br />G-10 Francis Nash; G-11 Thomas Ruffin; G-16 Thomas Burke; G-19 Edmund Fanning; F-23 <br />Regulators Hanged; G-26 Thomas H. Benton; G-33 Occaneechi; G-37, G-38, G-39 Bingham <br />School; G-40 William A. Graham; G-48 Paper Mill; G-64 Moses A. Curtis; G-66 Hughes <br />Academy; G-84 Old Eno Church and Cemetery; G-88 North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati; <br />G-90 St. Mary's Chapel; G-92 University of N.C. at Chapel Hill; G-100 Harriet M. Berry 1877- <br />1940; G-103 J~ G. de Roulhac Hamilton; G-108 James Hogg 1972-1804; G-115 Elizabeth <br />Keckly ca. 1820-1907; G-122 Hart's Mill. <br />0~~•aau~iCvy.~vity Ca~v~he~.~r'~v~.~rra~w Public Hearing Draft 5-6-OS Page 6- 46 <br />