GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

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HOUSE BILL 1903

Short Title:  Horne Creek Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representative Diamont.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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May 10, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE DEVELOPMENT FUNDS FOR HORNE CREEK FARM STATE HISTORIC SITE.
Whereas, Horne Creek Farm in the Yadkin River Section of Pilot Mountain State Park, Surry County, typifies North Carolina small farms of the late nineteenth century, and
Whereas, the North Carolina Historical Commission has designated Horne Creek Farm as a State historic site, and
Whereas, the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History has researched and documented the farm and has planned for its use as a working farm of ca. 1900, and
Whereas, the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources and the North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community Development have agreed that Horne Creek Farm shall be managed by the Department of Cultural Resources as a State historic site, and
Whereas, the North Carolina Living Historical Farm Committee, Inc., a nonprofit group with widespread public membership, supports this effort and has agreed to raise private funds to cover approximately one-half the cost of developing the site for public use, and
Whereas, initial preservation needs at the farm are for restoration of the main house and barn supported by archaeology, interpretation and development of adjacent lands as historic fields, and
Whereas, according to an interagency agreement between the Department of Cultural Resources and the Department of Natural Resources and Community Development, additional land must be purchased for the adjacent Pilot Mountain State Park; Now, therefore,
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Cultural Resources, the sum of $210,000 for the 1989-90 fiscal year and the sum of $95,000 for the 1990-91 fiscal year for general site development, restoration, and land purchase for the initial development of Horne Creek Farm State Historic Site.
Sec. 2.  These funds shall be available to the Department of Cultural Resources as soon as the North Carolina Living Historical Farm Committee, a nonprofit corporation, provides the State with equal amounts of matching aid in funds or in-kind services, such aid specifically to include the entrance road donated to Horne Creek Farm by the Farm Committee and valued at $150,000.
Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1989.