GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

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HOUSE BILL 948

Short Title:  Quaker Meadows Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representative Fletcher.
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Referred to:  Basic Resources.
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March 29, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE RESTORATION OF QUAKER MEADOWS IN BURKE COUNTY.
Whereas, the Quaker Meadows property in Morganton, Burke County, was built in approximately 1820 by the famous McDowell family; and
Whereas, Quaker Meadows overlooks the Catawba River floodplain of the same name, a place justly famous from North Carolina's early history; and
Whereas, Quaker Meadows is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, is included in the national Overmountain Victory Trail, and is owned by the award-winning, nonprofit Historic Burke Foundation, Inc.; and
Whereas, for three years, the Division of Archives and History of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources has worked with the Historic Burke Foundation on the Quaker Meadows property in the study and preservation of this important structure, which is to be developed as a public resource and regional historic site; and
Whereas, the Historic Burke Foundation, Inc., pledges to raise one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) toward the restoration of, and an educational program for, this important historic property; Now, therefore,
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Historic Burke Foundation, Inc., the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the 1989-90 fiscal year for the restoration of the Quaker Meadows property in Burke County.
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1989.