The state announced Thursday, February 4th that it has dropped plans for a controversial bypass around historic Churton Street in Hillsborough that would have cut through the Ayr Mount property and the Occonneechee-Orange Speedway.

Read more about the decision here...

To learn more about how the property was threatened, read this previous article.

Ayr Mount is a stewardship property of Preservation North Carolina and includes the Historic Occoneechee Speedway Trail.  Learn more about it here...