Search and filters
Search and filters · 1 active
7 dated events match your filters.
Searched the full chronology of 6,368 dated events and 63 storylines, not only the highlights. Showing 1–7.Back to highlights
- Reconstruction and the New South · 1866–1899
-
Robert Allen Eubanks opens a general store on Franklin Street
Robert Allen Eubanks opened a general store in the Franklin Street building that Dr. Abner B. Roberson had left when he moved his drugstore into the Central Hotel. He kept the store until 1933.
- Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
-
R. A. Eubanks serves on the Orange County Board of Commissioners
Lefler and Wager's list of Orange County commissioners gives R. A. Eubanks a term from 1932 to 1934, alongside Carl T. Durham and W. P. Berry.
-
Robert A. Eubanks closes his general store when he becomes postmaster
Eubanks shut his long-running general store on the south side of East Franklin when he took over the Chapel Hill post office. The building was razed in 1934.
People: Robert A. Eubanks
-
Robert A. Eubanks's old general store is torn down
The store on the south side of East Franklin was razed. The new Carolina Theatre went up on the site in 1942.
People: Robert A. Eubanks
Subject: Carolina Theatre (1942)
-
Robert A. Eubanks receives his regular appointment as Chapel Hill postmaster
Eubanks, acting postmaster since April 5, 1933, was given his regular appointment on January 16, 1935. He held the office until he resigned in 1939.
Subject: Chapel Hill Post Office and Peace and Justice Plaza
-
The first air mail leaves Chapel Hill by plane
Mayor Foushee, Postmaster Robert A. Eubanks, Assistant Postmaster William S. Hogan and other residents went to the airport to see off the first mail to leave Chapel Hill by plane.
People: Robert A. Eubanks
Subject: Horace Williams Airport
-
William S. Hogan is appointed Chapel Hill postmaster
President Roosevelt appointed Hogan, assistant postmaster, to succeed Robert A. Eubanks on the nomination of Congressman Carl Durham, and the Senate confirmed him. Durham waived an examination because Hogan had served in the office about twenty years.
People: Robert A. Eubanks
Subject: Chapel Hill Post Office and Peace and Justice Plaza
Suggest a correction to an entry →
A dated event is a fact, filed on the page of the subject it belongs to: a person, a place, a theme, or a named event or history. Pages are subjects, with their own works and sources; the Place, community, or institution filter also gathers the institutions that recur in the entries without a page of their own. The page opens on the highlights; a search or any filter looks through every dated event and storyline, and each filter’s counts say how many entries choosing it would show alongside the others. A storyline is a longer history that gathers related dated events, and each storyline’s page lists its own. Counts give dated events and storylines separately. Dates come from the sources named on the cards and from the index’s event pages; where sources disagree, the card follows the county records. Entries marked approximate or needing research say so on the card; the rest were checked against the source named on it. The correction link under the entries opens the contact form; name the entry and its date and the Friends will check the source. Suggest an event →
Compiled and maintained by the Friends of the Orange County Public Library from county records, the sources named on each card, and the index’s event pages. Last updated October 2, 2026.
