NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1965 SESSION
CHAPTER 1013
HOUSE BILL 681
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE $20,000.00 TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE GENERAL WILLIAM LENOIR HOME.
WHEREAS, William Lenoir came to Yadkin Valley in 1775 as a young Captain of Militia; and
WHEREAS, he constructed his home in Caldwell County in 1789 and gave it the name "Fort Defiance"; and
WHEREAS, General William Lenoir's home is older by fifty years than the County of Caldwell itself; and
WHEREAS, it has been occupied continuously by descendants of the builder and still holds many of the original furnishings; and
WHEREAS, General Lenoir was active for many years in State government and was President of the first Board of Trustees of The University of North Carolina; and
WHEREAS, the restoration of the William Lenoir home, Fort Defiance, would be of great historical value to the State of North Carolina: Now, therefore,
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of North Carolina to the North Carolina Department of Archives and History a sum not to exceed twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) if matched by other funds, to be used for the purchase and restoration of the General William Lenoir home, Fort Defiance, in Caldwell County.
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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 14th day of June, 1965.