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R. Marina Riley, A Strategy to Protect the Environmental and Cultural Values of Occoneechee Mountain in Orange County, North Carolina (1994).Open the sourceAll sources
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Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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The Southern Stone Company works a quarry on Occoneechee Mountain
A quarry begun on the mountain in the late 1800s was run around the turn of the century by the Southern Stone Company of Culpeper, Virginia. Convicts did much of the work, and a narrow-gauge rail bed ran on three levels down to a rock crusher by the river. Quarrying went on at least until about 1910.
Civil rights era · 1945–1975
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Botanists list Occoneechee Mountain as a potential ecological natural landmark
A. E. Radford and D. L. Martin included the mountain in their 1975 survey of potential ecological natural landmarks of the Piedmont. UNC botany graduate student R. David Whetstone then studied its north-facing slopes in 1974-1977 to confirm its value.
Recent decades · 1976–2026
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A countywide inventory of natural areas singles out Occoneechee Mountain
Dawson Sather and Stephen Hall's inventory of Orange County's natural areas and wildlife habitats, sponsored by the Triangle Land Conservancy and the state Natural Heritage Program, identified 64 sites, among them Occoneechee Mountain and four other places on the Eno outside the state park.
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The Eno River Association buys timber rights on Occoneechee Mountain
To stop logging on about 96 acres along the summit, where the mountain's rarest plant communities grow, the association bought the timber rights the owners had sold to a timber company, holding them for 18 months while it negotiated to buy the land.
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Piedmont Minerals grants easements for an Occoneechee Mountain parking lot and trail
The mining company, which owned about 40 acres on the mountain's north side, gave easements for a one-acre parking lot on the floodplain by SR 1148 and a narrow trail linking it to the Town of Hillsborough's 28-acre Occoneechee Park.
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