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Wednesday, March 26, 2003

The News & Observer

By LESLIE BROWN, Staff Writer

Students at the N.C. School of Science and Mathematics spent valuable class time this month studying one of Durham's oldest roads while helping a local preservation group record history. For two weeks this month, 23 students investigated the origins of Fish Dam Road, a local throughway in northeastern Durham that is several hundred years old, as part of a school project.

Students recorded the history of the road, which once connected an Indian village on the Neuse River near Cheek Road to an Occaneechi Indian village near the Eno River in Hillsborough. They also interviewed residents who lived in the area when Model T's fought for road space with horse-drawn carriages.

Much of the information including students' drawings, photographs and archival research will be used for the 2005 Eno Association calendar.

The association, founded in 1965, raises money to buy land to protect the Eno River. Since 1972, the association has produced an annual calendar with themes associated with the Eno River.