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hundred property owners already interviewed for the inventory have expressed interest in obtaining the publication, and many other individuals have also indicated they would like to purchase copies. There will also be demand for the book from churc~ groups, school ~ibraries, local and regional public libraries, city, county and regional planning agencies, real estate firms, and members of the general public. It is instructive to note that a locally produced survey of historic houses, which included far fewer properties than will the present inventory, has sold over 400 copies entirely by word of mouth. A more actively promoted collection of historical vignettes, J.K. Rouse's Historical Shadows or Cabarrus County, sold at a printing of 500 copies within a month of publication in 1970. Finally, it should be noted that the application guidelines of the Survey and Plann'ing Branch suggest a publication of at least 1,O00 copies for county inventories. 3. To facilitate, where necessary, the conversion of historically significant properties to new income-producing uses by private individuals and firms. (Under the provisions of the Federal Tax Reform Act of 1976, as amended, favorable tax treatment is available to owners of National Register properties who rehabilitate them s~mpathetically for an Income-producing use.) 4. To enable City, County and Regional planning agencies to adequately consider historic preservation in their land use, housing and district revitalization policies. (See the section "Evaluation" below for full discussion of this goal.) 5. To assist the North Carolina Division of Arcqives and History in meeting the goals of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966~ and to provide procedural protectio~ of historically and architecturally significant properties thal may be adversely affected by state and/or federally supported projects. 6. It is a~ticipated ~hat much of the nomination work will focus on two residential historic districts in the City of Concord: an area of approximately 20 block fac~s, consisting of North Union St., From Grove Avenue to Buffalo Street and Spring St., N.W., from Cabarrus Avenue to Marsh Avenue, as well as several side streets; and an area of 3 to 6 block faces along South Dnion Street. These districts are felt to be worthy of inclusion in the ~ational Register because they contain many excellent examples of nationally popular architectural styles, as well as noteworthy vernacular dewellings. Just as important, these neighborhoods reflect the circumstances and outlook of the men who, as the owners and mangers of textile mills, were leading the movement to place the "~ew South" in the american industrial mainstream during the last two decades of the nineteenth century and the first two decades of the twentieth. Within the City of Concord, in Kannapolis and in the eovirons of these towns, at least two historic districts of housing built for textile mill workers will be included in the multiple resource nomination. These districts are good examples of early twentieth century mill housing. The proposed Kannapolis districts will be especially significant, for in its ambitious scale, J.W. Cannon's Kannapolis represents the full flowering of the North Carolina textile town. A historic district in the small town of Nt. Pleasant, in eastern Cabarrus County, will also be included in the nomination. This district will include commercial, residential and ecclesiastical buildings of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Mount Pleasant was the seat of a school supported by the Evangelical