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Forged in the Spirit
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Tar Heel Bred
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Vignettes
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Vignettes
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Bean Woman
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Sheer Resilience
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Sheer Resilience : An Untold Story of A Free Community of Color in Orange County, N.C
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Working for A Living
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Working for A Living
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Putting Down Roots
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Saving the Eno River
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This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew
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View in Catalog →A Consequential Life: David Lowry Swain, Nineteenth-Century North Carolina, and Their University
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Fair-skinned Brunette With the Por
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Ghost Fields
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Ribbons of Color Along the Eno Riv
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To Drink from the Well: The Struggle for Racial Equality at the Nation’s Oldest University
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Hillsborough Artists Cooperative a
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Hillsborough Artists Cooperative and Skylight Gallery, 1990-2020
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Goat light
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Goat light
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Family History of William Walter H
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Family History of William Walter Hawkins and Lottie Rountree Hawkins of Orange County, North Carolina, and Their Jones, Murphy, and Wheeley, Compton Ancestors and Descendants
View in Catalog →Antebellum Hillsborough, Slavery, and Enslaved and Free People of Color Who Worked at the Burwell School, 1837-1857
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The Harris Family of Orange County
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Print news and raise hell: the Daily Tar Heel and the evolution of a modern university
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Historic Moorefields
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Historic Moorefields : Unique Event Space In Hillsborough, NC
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Looking Down 2017
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Looking Down 2017: Bike Lane Art 9 -- Through the Looking Glass, Gone Fishing
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Hannah Clark Of Orange County Nort
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Hannah Clark Of Orange County North Carolina And Family
View in Catalog →Hillsborough, North Carolina : history of town lots : the complete reference guide
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Durham-Orange Light Rail Transit P
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Durham-Orange Light Rail Transit Project: Combined Final Environmental Impact Statement and Record of Decision
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Hillsborough, North Carolina Histo
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The Impact of Slavery on the Education of Blacks in Orange County, North Carolina 1619-1970
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Many Alarm Clocks
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Orange County N. C. Ejectments
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Orange County N. C. Ejectments
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Orange County N. C. Miscellaneous
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Orange County N. C. Miscellaneous Deeds (1764-1925)
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Durham-Orange Light Rail Transit P
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Durham-Orange Light Rail Transit Project: Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Draft Section 4(f) Evaluation
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Orange County North Carolina Lost
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Orange County North Carolina Lost Deed Records (1752-1769, 1793)
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Orange County, N.C. Bridge Records
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Orange County, N.C. Bridge Records 1787-1865
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Goodnight Carolina
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The Land Grant Atlas of Old Orange
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The Land Grant Atlas of Old Orange County
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Orange County , N.C. Land Records
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Orange County , N.C. Land Records
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Orange County, N.C., Superior Cour
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Orange County, N.C., Superior Court Civil Action Concerning Land
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Orange County, North Carolina
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Orange County, North Carolina
View in Catalog →27 Views of Chapel Hill: A Southern University Town in Prose & Poetry
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View in Catalog →Farming Dissenters: The Regulator Movement in Piedmont North Carolina
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Hillsborough District Court Civil
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Hillsborough District Court Civil Action Concerning Land (1778-1806)
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Life and Times of Edmund Fanning,
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Orange County Court Civil Action C
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Orange County Court Civil Action Concerning Land (1778-1832)
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Suspended state land grants of Ora
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Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small
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Rogers Road
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Rogers Road
View in Catalog →Undaunted heart : the true story of a Southern belle & a Yankee general
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Hark the Sound of Tar Heel Voices
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Orange County, N.C. Road Records
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Orange County, N.C. Road Records
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Round Hillsborough
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Round Hillsborough
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Orange County, North Carolina
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Orange County, North Carolina: 2030 Comprehensive Plan
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Going to Carolina Del Norte
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Going to Carolina Del Norte
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Hillsborough Historic District Inv
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Hillsborough Historic District Inventory
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Journey to New Hope
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A House in the South
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A House in the South: Old-fashioned Graciousness for New-fashioned Times
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When the Roll Is Called up Yonder
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When the Roll Is Called up Yonder
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Where My Feet Have Taken Me
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Where My Feet Have Taken Me
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Inventory of the Natural Areas and
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Inventory of the Natural Areas and Wildlife Habitats for Orange County, North Carolina
View in Catalog →Orange County Trio: Hillsborough, Chapel Hill, and Carrboro, North Carolina, Histories and Tour Guides
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View in Catalog →Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave
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View in Catalog →Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina
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Descendants of Matthew McCauley
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Descendants of Matthew McCauley
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Freedmen's Marriage Records Index
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Freedmen's Marriage Records Index
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Freedmen's Marriage Records, Orang
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Freedmen's Marriage Records, Orange County, North Carolina, 1866-1868
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Hillife
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Hillife
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Hillsborough River Walk Feasibilit
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Hillsborough River Walk Feasibility Study Report
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Orange County, NC Estate Records I
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Orange County, NC Estate Records Index
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Slaves From Orange County, North C
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Slaves From Orange County, North Carolina
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James J. Freeland
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James J. Freeland
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Orange County, N.C. Deeds
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Orange County, N.C. Deeds
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The Chronicles of the Bicentennial
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The Chronicles of the Bicentennial Observance of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Many Things Never Before Remembere
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Many Things Never Before Remembered in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Hillsborough, North Carolina
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The Young Man From Mitre Court
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The Young Man From Mitre Court
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Hillsborough Negro School 1936-196
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Hillsborough Negro School 1936-1968: The First State Supported Negro School in Orange County, North Carolina
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The young man from Mitre Court
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The young man from Mitre Court : William Churton, surveyor, 1710-1767
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Lynn, Barbee, Miller, Mayton, Hutc
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Lynn, Barbee, Miller, Mayton, Hutchins, Rhodes, Nicholls, Herndon, Blake, Clifton, Vickers, Trice, Patterson, Proctor, Dollar, and allied families of Durham, Or
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Death and Marriage Notices From th
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Death and Marriage Notices From the Hillsborough Recorder, Published 1820-1879, Hillsborough, North Carolina, and the Hillsboro Recorder, Published 1887-1888
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John Theophilus Thompson (1750s-18
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John Theophilus Thompson (1750s-1826): some ancestors and descendants in Frederick County, Maryland, Orange County, North Carolina, Bedford County, Tennessee
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Orange County, North Carolina Deed
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Orange County, North Carolina Deed Books 15 and 16, 1815-1819
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Historic preservation element
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Historic preservation element : Orange County comprehensive plan, Orange County, North Carolina
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Archaeological Assessment of St. M
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Archaeological Assessment of St. Mary's Chapel Cemetery, Hillsborough Vicinity, Orange County, North Carolina
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Occoneechee-Orange Speedway
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Occoneechee-Orange Speedway
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First Women of Orange County
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First Women of Orange County
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Inventories & Accounts of Sales, 1
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Inventories & Accounts of Sales, 1758-1785
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Nutt/McNutt
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Nutt/McNutt: descendants of David Nutt of Orange County, North Carolina
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A Backward Glance
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A Backward Glance
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Hillsborough District, North Carol
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Hillsborough District, North Carolina Superior Court Minutes
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The history of Eagle Lodge No. 19,
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The history of Eagle Lodge No. 19, A.F. & A.M
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Deed Books
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Deed Books: 6 & 7
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Deed Books
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Deed Books: 8 & 9
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The history of Eagle Lodge No. 19,
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The history of Eagle Lodge No. 19, A.F. & A.M
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Facing Tomorrow, Understanding Yes
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Facing Tomorrow, Understanding Yesterday
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Appointments of Postmasters, 1825-
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Appointments of Postmasters, 1825-1929, Orange County, North Carolina
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Deed Book 5 Abstracts
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Deed Book 5 Abstracts
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Granville Proprietary Land Office
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Granville Proprietary Land Office
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Occaneechi-Saponi Descendants in t
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Occaneechi-Saponi Descendants in the North Carolina Piedmont: the Texas Community
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Orange County records
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Orange County records: volume VII ; Granville Proprietary Land Office miscellaneous records
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Orange County, North Carolina Cour
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Orange County, North Carolina Court Minutes
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Orange County, North Carolina Taxp
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Orange County, North Carolina Taxpayers, 1784-1793
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Paths of Least Resistance
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Paths of Least Resistance
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Photocensus
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Photocensus
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Sense of Place
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Sense of Place
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State Land Grants,1-500, 501-1000
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State Land Grants,1-500, 501-1000
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Many Missions
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Many Missions: Research Triangle Institute's First 31 Years
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Abstracts of Land Entries
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Land Grant Records of North Caroli
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Land Grant Records of North Carolina
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Monk Family History
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Monk Family History
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The Twelfth Lantern
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The Twelfth Lantern
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Early Quakers in the Eno River Val
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Early Quakers in the Eno River Valley
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Mount Adar Baptist Church, 1889-19
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Mount Adar Baptist Church, 1889-1989
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Orange County, North Carolina Deed
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Orange County, North Carolina Deed Books 1, 2 and 3, 1752-1786
View in Catalog →The Pelican Guide to Hillsborough, Historic Orange County, North Carolina
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Granville Proprietary Land Office
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Granville Proprietary Land Office: Deeds & Surveys, 1752-1760
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Granville Proprietary Land Office
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Granville Proprietary Land Office: Deeds & Surveys, 1761-1763
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An Inventory of Sites of Cultural,
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An Inventory of Sites of Cultural, Historic, Recreational, Biological, and Geological Significance in the Unincorporated Portions of Orange County
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Hard Circus Road
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Hard Circus Road: The Odyssey of the North Carolina Symphony
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Thomas Thompson and Ann Finney of
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Thomas Thompson and Ann Finney of Colonial Pennsylvania and North Carolina
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Granville Proprietary Land Office
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Granville Proprietary Land Office: Abstracts of Loose Papers
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A Folklore Study of West Hillsboro
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A Folklore Study of West Hillsborough, N.C
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Little River Presbyterian Church H
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Little River Presbyterian Church History
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Orange County Voices
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Orange County Voices
View in Catalog →Piedmont Plantation: The Bennehan-Cameron Family and Lands in North Carolina
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Who's Gonna Cover 'em Up?!
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The Couch tract of the Durham divi
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The Couch tract of the Durham division of the Duke Forest: a history of agricultural land-use patterns, 1750-1950
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The Rays (Reas) down through the y
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The Rays (Reas) down through the years
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Register of Orange County, North C
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Register of Orange County, North Carolina Deeds, 1752-1768, and 1793
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Abstracts from newspapers of Edent
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Abstracts from newspapers of Edenton, Fayetteville, & Hillsborough, North Carolina, 1785-1800 (BOX D-F)
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Carrboro, N.C
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Carrboro, N.C
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Fall Tour Of Historic Churches And
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Fall Tour Of Historic Churches And Sites
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A History of Orange County Schools
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A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983
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An Orange County Childhood
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An Orange County Childhood
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History of the Town of Hillsboroug
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History of the Town of Hillsborough, 1754-1982
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An Index to the Town Lots of Hills
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An Index to the Town Lots of Hillsborough
View in Catalog →Poor Carolina: Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729-1776
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History of Eno Presbyterian Church
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History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina
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Bill Prouty's Chapel Hill
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Bill Prouty's Chapel Hill
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Eno River State Park Master Plan
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Eno River State Park Master Plan
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Tombstone Inscriptions
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Tombstone Inscriptions
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Tombstone Inscriptions
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Tombstone Inscriptions: Recorded from Private or Abandoned Cemeteries in Alamance and Orange Counties, North Carolina
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Nashville
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Nashville: a family town
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Growing up With Chapel Hill
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Growing up With Chapel Hill
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Life on the Eno and Other Stories
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Life on the Eno and Other Stories
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The Oral History of James Nunn
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The Oral History of James Nunn: A Unique North Carolinian
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Soil Survey of Orange County, Nort
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Soil Survey of Orange County, North Carolina
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Louis Round Wilson’s Historical Sk
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The War of the Regulation and the
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The War of the Regulation and the Battle of Alamance, May 16, 1771
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The Battle of Lindley's Mill
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The Battle of Lindley's Mill
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The Cameron Plantation in Central
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The Cameron Plantation in Central North Carolina (1776-1973) and Its Founder Richard Bennehan
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Hillsborough's Haunted House and A
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Hillsborough's Haunted House and Aunt Mary's Adoption
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Historic Buildings and Landmarks o
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Historic Buildings and Landmarks of Chapel Hill, N.C
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Valley Of The Eno
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Valley Of The Eno : Some Of Its Lands - Some Of Its People - Some Of Its Mills
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1820 federal census North Carolina
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1820 federal census North Carolina
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Authentic Southern Recipes From Th
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Authentic Southern Recipes From The Colonial Inn
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The First State University
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These Old Stone Walls
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These Old Stone Walls
View in Catalog →Abstracts of wills recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1752-1800 and (202 marriages not shown in the Orange County marriage bonds) and Abstracts of wills recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800-1850
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Gardens of old Hillsborough
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Gardens of old Hillsborough
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Hillsborough, North Carolina Gener
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Hillsborough, North Carolina General Development Plan 1968-1988
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Hillsborough, North Carolina Subdi
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Hillsborough, North Carolina Subdivision Regulations 1968
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Chapel Hill Carousel
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Chapel Hill Carousel
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Papa D
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Papa D
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Abstracts of the Minutes of the In
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Abstracts of the Minutes of the Inferior Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions of Orange County, N.C
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The Black Poet
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The Black Poet: Being the Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton, a North Carolina Slave
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History of the Town of Hillsboroug
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History of the Town of Hillsborough, 1754-1966
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The Free Men
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The Free Men
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Hillsborough and the Regulators
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Hillsborough and the Regulators
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Ladies in the Making (also A Few G
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Ladies in the Making (also A Few Gentlemen) at the Select Boarding and Day School of the Misses Nash and Miss Kollock, 1859-1890, Hillsborough, North Carolina
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Blood on the Old Well
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Blood on the Old Well
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History of the Town of Hillsboroug
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History of the Town of Hillsborough, 1754-1963
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Church in the Old Fields
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Church in the Old Fields: Hawfields Presbyterian Church and Community in North Carolina
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History of the Churches of Hillsbo
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History of the Churches of Hillsborough, N.C. Ca., 1766-1962
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The Age of Orange
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The Age of Orange: Political and Intellectual Leadership in North Carolina, 1752-1861
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Final Report of Orange Curriculum
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Final Report of Orange Curriculum Study 1960-1961
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The Light That Shines
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The Light That Shines
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Choo Choo, The Charlie Justice Sto
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Choo Choo, The Charlie Justice Story
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Schley, 1958
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Schley, 1958
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The University of North Carolina,
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The University of North Carolina, 1900-1930
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History of Eno Presbyterian Church
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History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, N. C
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A Documentary History of the Unive
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A Documentary History of the University of North Carolina
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Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolution
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Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary
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History of the Town of Hillsboro
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History of the Town of Hillsboro
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Orange County, 1752-1952
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Orange County, 1752-1952
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Paul Green of Chapel Hill
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Paul Green of Chapel Hill
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The Papers Of Willie Person Mangum
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The Papers Of Willie Person Mangum
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The Campus of the First State Univ
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The Campus of the First State University
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From Whence We Came
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From Whence We Came: Cane Creek Meeting Sesquibicentennial Remembrance Book
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Horace Williams
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Horace Williams
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The historical records of North Ca
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The historical records of North Carolina
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History of Eagle Lodge
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History of Eagle Lodge : Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, Hillsboro, N. C., 1791-1937
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History of the Historic Town of Hi
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History of the Historic Town of Hillsboro
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Old Days in Chapel Hill
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Old Days in Chapel Hill
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News of Orange County on Microfilm
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News of Orange County on Microfilm
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News of Orange County
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News of Orange County
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The History of Orange County
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The History of Orange County
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History of the University of North
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History of the University of North Carolina
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A Historical Sketch of New Hope Ch
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A Historical Sketch of New Hope Church, in Orange County, N.C
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Orange County (N.C.) Minutes, Boar
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Orange County (N.C.) Minutes, Board of Education on Microfilm
View in Catalog →Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
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Southern Literary Messenger
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Southern Literary Messenger
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County Indexes for G.P. Stout Hist
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County Indexes for G.P. Stout Historical Research Maps of North Carolina
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Efland Family History
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Efland Family History
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Orange County, North Carolina, Mil
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Orange County, North Carolina, Mill Records (1782-1859)
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A Sketch of the School of the Miss
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A Sketch of the School of the Misses Nash and Miss Kollock, Hillsboro, North Carolina
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Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection
The library's own local history room at the Main branch in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm from the area, and the shelf where many of the works above live. Librarians also hold regular Local History Help Hours.
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Orange County Historical Museum
Collecting the county's history since 1954, with archives open to researchers by appointment when a book's trail leads past the printed record.
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DigitalNC's newspaper archive
Digitized local newspapers reaching back to the 1820s, the place to follow any subject in this bibliography through the weekly news it once was.
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Open Orange
A community archive tracing the county building by building, and open to your own stories and photographs.
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Alliance for Historic Hillsborough
The county seat's preservation alliance: historic sites, tours, and programs in the district where much of this bibliography is set.
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Durham-Orange Genealogical Society
The genealogical society for the two counties, with publications and research help for tracing the families behind the names in these books.
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Orange County History Guide
Wilson Library's annotated guide to the county's histories, church records, genealogy, and maps: a curated shortlist where our database aims for breadth.
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Southern Historical Collection
Wilson Library's manuscript collections, home to letters, diaries, ledgers, and family papers from the county; many of the archival items in the search above are consulted here.
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NCpedia
The state's encyclopedia, with entries on the county's towns, people, and institutions to give any book here its statewide backdrop.
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Documenting the American South
UNC's digital library of Southern texts, where many of the state's earliest books, narratives, and documents are free to read in full, including the Colonial and State Records of North Carolina.
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Internet Archive
Millions of digitized books free to read or borrow; the "read free" links on the cards above lead here and to NC LIVE.
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North Carolina Digital Collections
The State Archives and State Library's shared holdings online: state publications, photographs, and records from two centuries of government.
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About the bibliography, sources, and corrections
What is included. Books and substantial publications about Orange County, its communities, institutions, people, and history, from the colonial era to today. Campus and university material, government documents, and archival items are all part of the record; each group sits behind its own filter in the search above so the everyday view stays focused on the county's story. Editions are listed as their source catalogs record them, and a work missing here is a gap in the sources or in our matching, not a judgment.
How the record was compiled. The bibliography began with curated sources: the North Carolina Literary Map, a project of the UNC Greensboro University Libraries and the State Library of North Carolina; Read North Carolina Novels, a UNC Libraries project cataloguing fiction set in each county; the county histories in the Orange County history guide kept by the North Carolina Collection at UNC's Wilson Library; and an August 2026 gap review that added verified works on subjects those lists under-covered, including the Regulator movement, Black history and civil rights, foodways, and the Occaneechi record. A systematic harvest then swept the catalogs of six library systems: OCPL, UNC, Duke, NC State, NC Central, and NC Cardinal, the State Library's consortium of more than forty North Carolina library systems. Working from more than two thousand Orange County subject headings, it gathered every cataloged work those headings describe, verified each against its Library of Congress subject data, and screened out the other Hillsboroughs and Orange Counties of the world. Most works added this way carry topic and town tags derived from cataloger-assigned headings rather than hand review, so treat them as good approximations. Works OCPL holds link to the catalog; the rest show which libraries hold them, one interlibrary loan request away, and "read free" links go to NC LIVE's HomeGrown collection, open to every North Carolina library cardholder. The record will be re-swept against the same catalogs periodically, so it grows as libraries acquire and catalog new work. It is extensive but surely not complete.
Corrections and additions. This page is provided as a community research and discovery tool; collection selection and catalog records are managed by the Orange County Public Library. Know of a work we missed or a record that needs correcting? Suggest an addition or update → The Literary Map also welcomes additions at nclitmap@uncg.edu.
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Updated August 2026 · 8,662 records, every stratum included
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