NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 987

HOUSE BILL 708

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO ASSIST IN THE CONTINUED RESTORATION AND REHABILITATION OF STONEWALL IN NASH COUNTY.

 

Whereas, Stonewall in the City of Rocky Mount in Nash County was built about 1830 for Bennett Bunn as the seat of his Little Falls Plantation; and

Whereas, Stonewall is the finest surviving federal style structure in Nash County and one of the finest interpretations of the federal style in North Carolina; and

Whereas, the size and sophistication of Stonewall are of such high quality that very few of the great plantation houses of the State can surpass its elegance; and

Whereas, Stonewall is presently leased to the Nash County Historical Association, Inc., by Rocky Mount Mills, which has agreed to convey the property to the association; and

Whereas, the Nash County Historical Association, Inc., has implemented plans to preserve Stonewall through the letting of a construction contract for the exterior restoration, which said work is presently underway; and

Whereas, the Nash County Historical Association, Inc., is preserving Stonewall as one of the chief architectural monuments of North Carolina and will open the house to the public for its educational and historical value; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, for the 1979-80 fiscal year the sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for the purpose of continuing the restoration and interior rehabilitation of Stonewall provided an amount of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) is raised by the Nash County Historical Association, Inc. Funds appropriated in this act shall be expended only in accordance with G.S. 121-11 and G.S. 143-31.2.

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective on July 1, 1979.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1979.