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- Colonial and Regulator years · 1680–1774
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The Earl Granville grants 371 acres on the Eno to John Tinnin and James Taylor
The land that became the Faucette farm, lying on both sides of the Eno, began as a 371-acre Granville grant to John Tinnin and James Taylor.
Subject: David Faucette House (The Elms)
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Richard Faucette buys part of the Tinnin and Taylor land on the Eno
The Faucettes, a Huguenot family by way of Ireland, reached Orange County in the 1760s. In 1768 Richard Faucette bought part of the Tinnin and Taylor grant, where his family would farm for two centuries.
Subject: David Faucette House (The Elms)
- Revolution and early republic · 1775–1799
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David Faucette buys the home tract and a grist mill from his father
David Faucette paid his father Richard 400 pounds for two adjoining tracts of 100 acres where he was already living, with a grist mill and other improvements. He later built the two-story frame house that still stands above the Eno.
Subject: David Faucette House (The Elms)
- Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865
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David Faucette builds his farmhouse above the Eno
David Faucette built a two-story frame farmhouse above the Eno about 1820. It gained Greek Revival trim in the mid-1800s and a front porch about 1880. Placed on the state Study List in April 1992, it was listed in the National Register in 1999 as the David Faucette House; the name The Elms was given by owners in 1977.
Subject: David Faucette House (The Elms)
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The 1850 census lists four enslaved people on Joseph Faucette's farm
Joseph Faucette, David's son, grew wheat, corn, oats, potatoes and hay on the home farm and held four enslaved people in one household, a number the nomination calls typical of a yeoman farmer.
Subject: David Faucette House (The Elms)
- Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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A Mr. Graham grains the doors and wainscot of the Faucette House
The six-panel doors and pine wainscot of the house were given their combed graining in 1904-05, work that survives.
Subject: David Faucette House (The Elms)
- Civil rights era · 1945–1975
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Teacher Maude Faucette retires after a long career in elementary schools
Maude Faucette, the last of the family at the house on the Eno, taught elementary school, seventh grade above all, in Orange and Caswell counties and in Arkansas before retiring in 1961.
Subject: David Faucette House (The Elms)
- Recent decades · 1976–2026
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Wiley and Erika Shearin buy the Faucette House and name it The Elms
Maude Faucette sold the house and about thirty acres to Dr. Wiley Shearin and his wife Erika, who shared the house with her, called it The Elms and added a one-story east wing in the 1970s.
Subject: David Faucette House (The Elms)
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Maude Faucette dies at 97 and leaves part of her estate to Fairfield Presbyterian Church
The last descendant of builder David Faucette died in the family house in 1983. Her will gave a quarter of her property, with family portraits, to Fairfield Presbyterian Church near Efland, where she had been a lifelong member; silver spoons by Lemuel Lynch found in her papers went to the Hillsborough Historical Museum.
Subject: Fairfield Presbyterian Church · David Faucette House (The Elms)
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The state adds the Elms, Little Ayr Mount and Maple Hill near Hillsborough to the Study List
Public requests for three houses outside Hillsborough came before the committee on April 9, 1992: the Faucette House, known as the Elms; Little Ayr Mount; and Maple Hill. Staff raised no questions about them, and the committee approved them with the other central and southeastern applications.
Subject: Jacob Jackson Farm (Maple Hill) · David Faucette House (The Elms) · Rev. Ira Ellis House (Little Ayr Mount)
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The David Faucette House is listed in the National Register
On November 22, 1999 the National Park Service listed the David Faucette House near Efland in the National Register of Historic Places.
Subject: David Faucette House (The Elms)
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