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MdM Historical Consultants, Historic Structures Survey Report, Replace Bridge No. 11 on Hall's Mill Road (SR 1336) over the Eno River, Orange County (2016), filed as ER 17-0159.Open the sourceAll sources
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- Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865
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The Rev. Ira Ellis buys 300 acres on the Eno near Hall's Mill Road
Ira Ellis, a minister and farmer then in his fifties, bought 300 acres on the Eno River and added 184 more four years later. His three-part Federal brick house, later called Little Ayr Mount, is usually dated to this purchase, and local tradition holds that it took in stagecoach travelers.
- Reconstruction and the New South · 1866–1899
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Nelson P. Hall buys the Ellis house and 267 acres on the Eno
Nelson Parrish Hall bought 267 acres of the Ellis land with the brick house, though his family may have lived there since about 1870, when his son Simeon was listed as a miller. The mill on the Eno across the road took the Hall name as Hall's Mill.
- Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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Martha Hall sells the Ellis house to Sheriff R. D. Baine
After Nelson Hall died, his widow Martha bought the house and farm from his estate and sold them two years later to Orange County sheriff R. D. Baine.
- Recent decades · 1976–2026
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Thomas S. Rankin buys the Ira Ellis House
Thomas S. Rankin bought the Ellis house and its mostly wooded 60-acre tract on the Eno, where he lives with his wife Jill McCorkle. The owners later paid for a history of the house (2012) that the state's 2016 survey drew on.
People: Jill McCorkle
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Two large rear wings are added to the Ira Ellis House
Owner Thomas Rankin added two-story weatherboarded wings at the back of the brick house, one in 1999 and one in 2005, forming a U around a rear courtyard; a darkroom and a large pond came about 2000. The state later judged the additions too large for the house to qualify for the National Register.
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The state finds the Ira Ellis House and Hall's Mill site not eligible for the National Register
Reviewing a survey for replacing the Hall's Mill Road bridge over the Eno, the State Historic Preservation Office agreed that the Ellis House, the Hall's Mill site and a proposed rural district around them did not qualify for the National Register, while the David Faucette House across the road remained eligible.
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