Historic Preservation Commission
Orange County ·
Historic Preservation Commission
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
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What's on this agenda
No items for decision, and two of the discussion items are about the same piece of ground: how to recognise the County Poor House Cemetery and the lynching of Cyrus Guy, who is buried there, and how to pay for a ground penetrating radar survey of the site. Also on the agenda: the landmark designation process for Montrose, a funding delay at the historic courthouse, and a new proposal for the historic buildings at the future Twin Creeks park.
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Meeting recap
What happened, drawn from the records published after the meeting.
The Poor House Cemetery items are the commission's most consequential work. A county poor house was where people with nowhere else to go were sent, and its burial ground holds those who died there - unmarked, largely unrecorded, and in this case including a man who was lynched. Ground penetrating radar is how a cemetery with no surviving markers gets mapped without disturbing it, and it costs money the commission does not obviously have; the funding question is on the agenda alongside the recognition concepts because neither works without the other.
The historic courthouse item pairs a funding delay for architectural planning with court staff security requirements - two pressures pulling in opposite directions on the same building, since security work in a historic courthouse is exactly the kind of alteration that needs the architectural planning being delayed.
The Montrose item concerns landmark designation for a property inside Hillsborough's extraterritorial jurisdiction, which means county and town processes both bear on it.
The commission takes no meeting in July by its approved calendar, so nothing here returns before 26 August.
Who spoke
No members of the public spoke.
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Speaking at this meeting
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Agenda items (5)
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6.a Concepts for recognizing the County Poor House Cemetery and the lynching of Cyrus GuyStaff concepts for marking the county Poor House Cemetery, where Cyrus Guy, a lynching victim, is buried.
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6.b Funding for ground penetrating radar survey of the Poor House cemetery sitePaying for a radar survey to locate unmarked graves at the cemetery.
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6.c Montrose: process for proposed landmark designation within the Hillsborough ETJHow a landmark designation would proceed for Montrose, which sits in Hillsborough's extraterritorial jurisdiction rather than the town itself.
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6.d Historic Courthouse: funding delay for architectural planningA delay in funding architectural planning for the historic courthouse, and the court staff security requirements bearing on it.
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6.e New proposal for historic buildings at Twin Creeks future park siteA new proposal for what to do with the historic buildings on the site of the future Twin Creeks park.
Agenda changes
What moved between published versions of this agenda. Item numbers shift constantly as things are inserted, so only genuine additions and removals are listed.
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45 days ago
- Retitled to "Historic Preservation Commission".
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