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Geoffrey B. Henry (GAI Consultants), Architectural Survey and National Register Evaluation of St. Mary's Road (S.R. 1002), Orange County (1999).Open the sourceAll sources
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- Revolution and early republic · 1775–1799
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The oldest frame section of the Hill Farm house is built on St. Mary's Road
The earliest part of the Hill Farm house, a frame section on a stone foundation with a double-shouldered chimney nearly eight feet wide, may go back to the 1780s, making it one of the few eighteenth-century buildings along the road.
Subject: Hill Farm (Roland Hill House)
- Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865
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A saddle-notched log house is built on the Webb Farm on St. Mary's Road
The Webb Farm's one-room log house, with a fieldstone chimney, dates from the early nineteenth century; a two-story frame house was built across its front late in the century with no inside door between them.
- Reconstruction and the New South · 1866–1899
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The Jacobs farmhouse is built on St. Mary's Road
A two-story frame farmhouse of the Triple-A type was built in the 1890s on what the 1999 survey called the Jacobs property, where three barns and a silo also stand.
- Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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The George Washington Walker Farm is laid out on St. Mary's Road
A farm of nearly 75 acres was set up on both sides of St. Mary's Road around 1900, with a one-story house and frame barns that still stand. Its later buildings follow the county's shifts from grain to dairy, poultry and beef.
Subject: George Washington Walker Farm
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The Freeland farmhouse and outbuildings are built on St. Mary's Road
A one-and-a-half-story Triple-A farmhouse with a wraparound porch, garages and a tractor shed went up together on a small hill above St. Mary's Road between about 1910 and 1920.
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Flat Rock church builds its frame church at St. Mary's and New Sharon Church roads
Soon after the congregation formed in 1915, members of Flat Rock church built a one-story frame church in a plain Gothic style at the corner of St. Mary's and New Sharon Church roads, the center of one of two Black settlements that grew up along the road after emancipation.
Subject: Flat Rock AME Church
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The Bacon farm on St. Mary's Road takes up dairying
After the First World War the owners of the Bacon Farm switched to dairying, building a large gambrel-roofed dairy barn and two frame milking parlors behind the house, which was remodeled as a bungalow in the same years.
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The Walker farm on St. Mary's Road switches from grain to dairy cattle
Around 1920 the Walker family gave up grain for dairying and built a large gambrel-roofed dairy barn, milking parlors and feed barns on the St. Mary's Road farm.
Subject: George Washington Walker Farm
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The Walker farm builds cinder-block chicken houses
In the late 1930s the Walker farm moved from dairying to poultry and put up several cinder-block chicken houses in 1938. The farm turned to beef cattle in the 1960s.
Subject: George Washington Walker Farm
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St. Mary's Road is paved and straightened
The old Trading Path route east of Hillsborough, later the Oxford Road, was paved and straightened in sections around 1940, though its side roads stayed dirt.
- Recent decades · 1976–2026
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A county survey proposes a St. Mary's Road rural historic district
With a state Certified Local Government grant won in late 1998, Orange County hired GAI Consultants to survey six miles of St. Mary's Road from US 70 to the Durham line. Its August 1999 report recorded 20 historic places and recommended a rural historic district along the old Trading Path route.
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