NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 1295

HOUSE BILL 707

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE HOME OF GENERAL WILLIAM LENOIR IN CALDWELL COUNTY.

WHEREAS, General William Lenoir came as a young man to the Yadkin Valley in 1775, became a General in the Revolutionary War, served as a leader in state government for many years and was President of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina; and

WHEREAS, the well-preserved home of General Lenoir has been acquired by the Caldwell County Historical Society and is now being restored; and

WHEREAS, the State appropriated $20,000 in 1965 and $14,400 in 1967 toward the acquisition, repair and restoration of this house; and

WHEREAS, the Richardson Foundation has made a grant of $5,000 in 1965 and made available $5,000 in 1969 for the repair and restoration of the Lenoir House; and

WHEREAS, the aforesaid Caldwell County Historical Society is ready and willing to raise the additional sum of $40,000 for the restoration of this house; and

WHEREAS, the William Lenoir home is one of the very earliest historic shrines in the northwestern part of the State;

NOW, THEREFORE,

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the State Department of Archives and History for the repair and restoration of the William Lenoir House in Caldwell County the sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000.00), upon the condition that forty thousand dollars ($40,000.00) be raised in non-state matching funds by the Caldwell County Historical Society.

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of July, 1969.