This study aims to use cultural memory as a tool for better understanding of a rural cultural landscape by focusing on its intangible qualities, and present a new method for evaluating significance of these heritage places. It focusses on one of the Lazi villages of Fındıklı-Rize, as the smallest component of the Eastern Black Sea Region's cultural landscape: Hara village. It characterizes the indicators that play role in sustaining the cultural memory in Hara rural life. The way followed is literature review on cultural memory and cultural landscape, determination of the parameters on sustaining memory with the tools of Social Sciences and Humanities, historical research, in-depth interviews and visual questionnaire with Hara people, analysis with scatter graphics, and comparative study with similar cases. Twelve cultural memory concepts were identified as representatives of Hara rural way of life. These concepts are assessed through reconstruction levels of its community. The sustaining of cultural memory in Hara depends on the factors of age and duration of living in Hara. Accordingly, the concepts that have transformed according to modern life, has been generally sustained at a low level. The emigration has caused a low rate of sustaining of cultural memory on the Laz language. The other concepts were slightly forgotten because of the alteration in the rural way of life. Moreover, tea monoculture has a great influence on the sustaining of cultural memory in Hara, due to the physical changes it creates in the landscape, and the social and economic changes in the community.