Chronology

Joffre Coe publishes an archaeological survey of the Occoneechee Hills area

Coe's study The Cultural Sequence of the Carolina Piedmont, in a volume edited by James B. Griffin, reported a survey and excavation near the Occoneechee Hills outside Hillsborough carried out under the Archaeological Society of North Carolina.

Orange County sells $250,000 in bonds for a new courthouse

The courthouse bonds brought the county's net bonded debt to $1,378,000 at the end of 1952. The new courthouse was then rising beside the old one on the same axis, sharing a courtyard.

Subject: Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough

Service station operator Roseman builds a brick Ranch house on West Tryon Street

Mr. Roseman, who ran a gas station downtown, built a brick Ranch house with an attached carport at 311 West Tryon Street in 1952, replacing an earlier frame house.

The county builds the classroom building and cafeteria later used by A. L. Stanback School

A classroom building and a cafeteria on the Hillsborough campus that became A. L. Stanback School, the grades 6-7 school by 1983, date from 1952 under Superintendent G. Paul Carr.

Hillsborough Baptist Church ordains J. G. Goodwin Jr.

J. G. Goodwin Jr. was ordained in the Hillsborough church and later went as a missionary to Korea.

Tim Flock wins the 100-mile Grand National at Occoneechee

Tim Flock, driving a 1951 Hudson Hornet, took the lead on the 45th lap and won the 100-mile NASCAR Grand National race at Occoneechee Speedway before 5,000 spectators, with his brother Fonty second.

People: Fonty Flock

Subject: Occoneechee Speedway

Orange Speedway, Inc. takes over the Hillsborough track

Bill France Sr. became president of the new Orange Speedway, Inc., with Ann France as secretary-treasurer and Enoch Staley as vice-president; the other three original partners were no longer with the track. It was known as Orange Speedway from 1954.

Part of Occoneechee Speedway, Hillsborough · 34 events

People: Enoch Staley

Subject: Occoneechee Speedway

Orange County commissioners turn to professional appraisers for a property revaluation

In August 1952 the commissioners heard a representative of the Southern Mapping and Engineering Company and told county accountant and tax supervisor Ira Ward to draft a contract. By January 1953 they had decided with Ward that values would be set at current market value as of January 1, 1953, with a board of assessors overseeing the appraisers.

The county board buys the Cameron Park property in Hillsborough for a new elementary school

The board paid Rebecca Wall $18,000 for the Cameron Park property and named the school to be built there Cameron Park.

Subject: Cameron Park School

About forty groups report on the Rural Progress Program at a county meeting in Hillsborough

In 1952 farm, civic and church groups competed to raise family farm income by $1,000, improve every home and finish a community project. Results and awards were given at a county-wide meeting in Hillsborough on October 30, and the program was repeated in 1953.

Fairview Baptist Church is organized in Hillsborough

Fairview Baptist Church was organized in Hillsborough in October 1952 under pastor James Clegg and put up a 250-seat building that year.

People: James John Freeland

Fonty Flock wins at Occoneechee weeks after his Darlington victory

Fonty Flock, winner of the Southern 500 at Darlington, won the October Grand National race at Occoneechee Speedway weeks after his 500-mile Darlington victory.

Part of Occoneechee Speedway, Hillsborough · 34 events

Subject: Occoneechee Speedway

Hillsborough Heights is laid out, with a street named for James J. Freeland

The African American neighborhood on Terrell, Central, Forrest, Coley and Freeland streets, below US 70 on the west side of North Nash Street, was laid out in the 1950s. Its Freeland Street was named for the builder, who probably put up houses there.

People: James John Freeland

Hillsborough Presbyterian Church adds Strudwick Hall, a fellowship hall named for Shepperd Strudwick

In C. H. Reckard's pastorate the church built a fellowship hall to his drawings and named it for Shepperd Strudwick, elder, Sunday school superintendent and clerk of session.

People: C. H. Reckard

Subject: Hillsborough Presbyterian Church

Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church builds a parsonage on West Corbin Street

Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church builds a brick parsonage at 211 West Corbin Street in 1953, under its pastor the Rev. J. R. Bridges. The church still owns the house.

The Bellevue mill employs 355 workers on two shifts

In 1953 the mill had 355 workers on two shifts, and the company still owned its mill village, whose houses now had indoor plumbing.

Subject: Bellevue Mill

Fire damages the Hillsboro Lunch on West King Street

A Sunday night fire, blamed on spontaneous combustion, broke a front plate glass window and damaged the partition between the kitchen and the lunch room. Owner Bill Chance said he was fully insured and would reopen once repairs were made.

Subject: Hillsboro Lunch

Matthew Strum takes over Dud's Tavern

Dud's Tavern advertised that it was under the new ownership and management of Matthew Strum, offering home-cooked food along with gas, oil and auto service.

Subject: Dud’s Tavern

Masons lay the cornerstone of the new Orange County courthouse at the county bicentennial

On the opening day of the county's bicentennial week, Grand Master Edwin T. Howard and Eagle Lodge No. 19 laid the cornerstone in the half-finished courthouse. Chief Justice William A. Devin gave the address.

Subject: Eagle Lodge

First Baptist Church of Hillsborough celebrates its centennial

The congregation marked its hundredth year in November 1953 under Charles E. Maddry, with its new educational building finished for the occasion.

People: Charles Edward Maddry

First Baptist Church of Hillsborough completes its educational building

First Baptist Church finished a brick educational building at the rear of its sanctuary at West King and South Wake streets, about a year after work began, in time for the church's centennial in November 1953.

William Sterling Roulhac dies and leaves the Ruffin house to his wife Charlotte

William Sterling Roulhac died and left the property to his wife, Charlotte Trant Roulhac, who owned it when the town of Hillsborough began negotiating to buy it for government offices.

Subject: Ruffin-Roulhac House (Little Hawfields)

Rev. Joe B. Brooks, founding pastor of Jones Grove, dies

Joe Bethel Brooks, a farmer who helped found Jones Grove Missionary Baptist Church in 1926, led it as pastor until his death.

Subject: Jones Grove Missionary Baptist Church

Dr. Robert Murphy and his wife move into the Peter Taylor house on King Street

Dr. and Mrs. Robert Murphy moved from Chapel Hill into the Peter Taylor house on King Street in Hillsborough, and Mrs. M. B. Roberts gave a tea to welcome them. The Murphys went on to restore the house, later known as Seven Hearths.

Subject: Seven Hearths (William Reed’s Ordinary)

Dud's Tavern reopens after a July fire

Mr. and Mrs. Dud Walters thanked the Hillsborough and Mebane fire departments for helping save Dud's Tavern from a July fire and announced that business would resume on Sunday, August 1.

Subject: Dud’s Tavern

Rev. George W. Davis of Durham becomes pastor of Jones Grove

Rev. George W. Davis took charge of the Jones Grove congregation after Joe Brooks's death and served for twenty years, a period that saw the frame church replaced.

Subject: Jones Grove Missionary Baptist Church

Hillsboro leases the Exchange Club twelve acres for a community park

The town board gave the Hillsboro Exchange Club a fifteen-year lease at $1 a year on a twelve-acre tract bought for cemetery use, north of the town cemetery on Highway 70, so the club could develop a community park.

Orange County formally opens its new courthouse in Hillsborough

About 500 people came to the opening ceremonies and open house, held on the first day of the first court term in the new building. County offices had finished moving in from the old courthouse the week before.

The county school superintendent's office moves into the old courthouse

Superintendent G. P. Carr and his staff finished moving into the first floor of the 1845 courthouse, which had been renovated after the other county offices left for the new building in October.

Subject: Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough

The Bellevue company's stock is worth $219,600, well under half its 1926 value

Still listed under the Bellevue name in 1955, the company had stock valued at $219,600, with 14,712 spindles and 499 looms.

Subject: Bellevue Mill

First Salk polio vaccinations given to Orange County first and second graders

Local physicians working under the county health department gave the first round of Salk polio vaccine to more than 1,150 Orange County first and second graders. The work began on Monday, April 18, 1955 with about 500 Chapel Hill area children and finished on April 21 with the Hillsboro, Efland and Aycock schools.

People: O. David Garvin

A quarter-mile track opens inside Orange Speedway

A new quarter-mile track built inside the Orange Speedway mile opened with a seven-event NASCAR sportsman and amateur racing program under the direction of Bill France and Enoch Staley.

Part of Occoneechee Speedway, Hillsborough · 34 events

People: Bill France Sr.

Subject: Occoneechee Speedway

Orange County first and second graders get their second Salk shots

The district health department gave second Salk vaccine doses to children who had their first shot in the spring: in Chapel Hill on July 21 and 22 for pupils of the Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Glenwood, Northside, White Cross and Little Red Schoolhouse schools, and in Hillsboro on July 27, with school buses sent to county schools. Turnout at Hillsboro was low, with only 65 children by 11 a.m.

Part of Public health in rural Orange County · 26 events

The county board deeds the old Gravelly Hill School ground to Mrs. George McAdams

While disposing of closed schools in September 1955, the county board deeded the old Gravelly Hill School ground to Mrs. George McAdams. Gravelly Hill had taught Black children until the Efland-area schools were merged into Efland-Cheeks in 1952-53.

Cameron Park School opens in Hillsborough with the lower grades from Hillsboro High

The new Cameron Park School took all of grades one through four from the Hillsboro High School building, leaving grades five through twelve there, with Fred Rogers, formerly of Efland, as principal. Transfer requests from other districts poured in and drew pupils away from West Hillsborough School.

Subject: Cameron Park School · Hillsborough High School

Charles Blake and his wife buy the Coach House and rename it Chatwood

Charles Blake, a retired MIT professor who banded birds as a hobby, and his wife bought the Faucett House tract in 1956 and named it Chatwood for their interest in birds. In the 1950s they began the rose and perennial garden that became a noted heritage rose garden.

Subject: Faucett Mill (Chatwood)

Curtis Turner wins both NASCAR convertible races at Orange Speedway

Curtis Turner of Roanoke won both NASCAR convertible circuit races held at Orange Speedway in 1956 and set the convertible qualifying record there.

Part of Occoneechee Speedway, Hillsborough · 34 events

Subject: Occoneechee Speedway

Eno Mill houses are relocated

Most company houses moved into nearby neighborhoods.

Subject: Eno Mill

Fire guts Dr. Marion B. Roberts's house at King and Hassell streets

An early-morning fire gutted the two-story house of Dr. and Mrs. Marion B. Roberts on the corner lot at West King and Hassell streets. The News of Orange County called it the worst fire in the Hillsboro Fire Department's history; firemen fought it for more than four hours in sub-freezing weather.

Patriots of North Carolina hold a mass meeting in Hillsborough and form an Orange County unit

An overflow crowd of about 300, observers said all white, filled the courtroom in Hillsborough for a Patriots of North Carolina meeting where I. Beverly Lake urged abandoning the public schools for a private system rather than integrate. W. C. George, the Patriots' state president, presided as members named an Orange County executive committee.

Part of School desegregation in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, 1959–1967 · 24 events

People: I. Beverly (Isaac Beverly) Lake

Subject: Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough

Hillsboro Presbyterian pastor preaches against local stock car racing

The Rev. C. H. Reckard, pastor of the Hillsboro Presbyterian Church, delivered a sermon criticizing local stock car racing and its effect on young people, one of the clergy protests against Sunday races at Orange Speedway.

Part of Occoneechee Speedway, Hillsborough · 34 events

Subject: Hillsborough Presbyterian Church · Occoneechee Speedway

Orange County pastors form a ministerial association

Pastors of 18 churches in northern and central Orange County met at the Hillsboro Presbyterian Church and formed an Orange County Ministerial Association, electing the Rev. C. H. Reckard president and the Rev. Lawton Pettit of St. Matthew's Episcopal secretary.

Subject: Hillsborough Presbyterian Church · St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church

Buck Baker wins the spring 100-miler at Orange Speedway

Buck Baker, driving a 1956 Chrysler, beat Lee Petty, Fireball Roberts and 29 other drivers in the 100-mile Grand National race at Orange Speedway on Mother's Day.

People: Lee Petty · Fireball Roberts

Subject: Occoneechee Speedway

The Hillsboro Building and Loan Association becomes Hillsboro Savings and Loan Association

On a vote of its stockholders, the association changed its name to Hillsboro Savings and Loan Association, announced alongside the largest dividend in its history.

People: Ira Ward

Subject: Hillsboro Building and Loan (Savings and Loan)

Fireball Roberts wins the fall race at Orange Speedway

Fireball Roberts, driving a 1956 Ford, won the 110-lap fall race at Orange Speedway, setting the track record for that distance, with Buck Baker second.

Part of Occoneechee Speedway, Hillsborough · 34 events

Subject: Occoneechee Speedway

Northern Heights is developed as a Black neighborhood north of US 70

The subdivision on Rainey, Harper, Homemont, Riddle and Dixie streets followed the usual post-war pattern of curving streets and even lots, but like neighboring Homemont it sat beside a dump and went without paved streets or town services until the 1970s.

Shepperd Strudwick carves the cross for the Hillsborough Methodist sanctuary

Shepperd Strudwick, a Presbyterian elder who took up wood carving late in life, made the cross for the Methodist sanctuary as well as one for his own church.

Subject: Hillsborough Methodist Church

Workers at the Reverie Lingerie plant in Hillsborough go on strike for a union

Employees of Reverie Lingerie, a New York-owned undergarment plant opened in Hillsborough in 1955, walked out and set up a picket line to win recognition for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. The company asked for a labor board election, which the union opposed, and the strike lasted about six months.

Subject: Reverie Lingerie plant

The General Assembly lets Hillsboro convey the library lot to the Hillsboro Library Association

A 1957 act authorized the Hillsboro town commissioners to convey the lot at Tryon and Churton streets holding the Hillsboro Library to the Hillsboro Library Association, and an adjoining lot to the Presbyterian church. Either lot would revert to the town if it stopped being used for the purpose named in the act.

Fire destroys the old West Hillsboro School, then a mill-owned apartment house

About 11:30 on a Monday night the three-story frame building that had been the West Hillsboro School, later made into 13 apartments, burned to the ground. A taxi driver saw the flames and woke the five people inside, who escaped.

Subject: West End Graded School (West Hillsborough School)

The General Assembly bans Sunday racing in Orange County

After protests by the Rev. C. H. Reckard and other Orange County clergy, the legislature passed a law on May 8, 1957 banning racing on Sundays, though Sunday races were being advertised again at Orange Speedway by 1961.

Part of Occoneechee Speedway, Hillsborough · 34 events

Subject: Occoneechee Speedway

Work begins on a two-story gymnasium building for Hillsboro High School

T. W. Poe and Sons of Durham won the contract on June 10, 1957 and began a $180,000 physical education building with classrooms and locker rooms below and a gymnasium above, due for completion in December.

Subject: Hillsborough High School

The county takes bids for a gymtorium and twelve classrooms at Central High School

H. F. Mitchell Construction Company was low bidder for two buildings at Central High, a twelve-classroom addition and a gymtorium seating about 1,200, designed by Archie Royal Davis. The whole project came to $266,094, and the gymtorium was nearly finished in February 1958.

People: Archie Royal Davis

Subject: Central High and Central Elementary, Hillsborough

An explosion and fire destroy the strikebound Reverie Lingerie plant

On a Friday night an explosion and fire wrecked the Reverie Lingerie plant, ending the six-month strike and the jobs of about eighty workers. The paper counted a lost local payroll of about $173,000 a year.

Subject: Reverie Lingerie plant

Bozo and Lillian Taylor open a second dining room at the Hillsboro Lunch

R. T. (Bozo) Taylor Jr. and Lillian Taylor, then running the Hillsboro Lunch, opened a newly renovated dining room next to their old quarters, giving them two dining rooms for daily meals and catering. The Hillsboro Merchants Association soon began holding its luncheon meetings there.

Subject: Hillsboro Lunch

Central High's new gymnasium is finished after the fire

After the main building of Central High School burned in 1958, Archie Royal Davis designed a new school building and a gymnasium for the site; the gymnasium was finished in late 1958.

People: Archie Royal Davis

Subject: Central High and Central Elementary, Hillsborough

Hillsborough Presbyterian Church builds and moves into a new manse

A new manse drawn by pastor C. H. Reckard was finished and occupied early in 1958.

People: C. H. Reckard

Subject: Hillsborough Presbyterian Church

Mount Bright Baptist Church buys its first electronic organ and moves to full-time services

In Fred J. Boddie Jr.'s three-year pastorate the congregation bought its first electronic organ and moved to a full-time schedule of services.

Subject: Mount Bright Baptist Church

The Bellevue mill village is platted and its houses sold to private owners

After the mill company had been sold by 1956, its village was surveyed into lots in 1958 so the houses could be sold. Unlike the Eno mill houses, which were carried off to new sites, the Bellevue houses stayed where they were, which is why the village keeps its original streets but has irregular lot lines.

Subject: Bellevue Mill

The school board orders a new main building for Central High on the day of the fire

The night the old Central High building burned, the county board set aside $214,892 for a new 18-classroom building designed by Archie Royal Davis's firm. Construction went on through 1958.

People: Archie Royal Davis

Subject: Central High and Central Elementary, Hillsborough

Portrait painter Clement Strudwick dies and is buried in Hillsborough

Clement Read Strudwick, who had painted in a workshop behind his parents' Hillsborough home, died on February 26, 1958. His funeral was held in the Hillsborough Presbyterian Church and he was buried in the Hillsborough cemetery.

Subject: Hillsborough Presbyterian Church

Hillsborough and New Sharon Methodists dedicate the parsonage they built together

The two churches put up a new parsonage on lot 94 in 1957-58 at a cost of about $22,000 and dedicated it on a Sunday afternoon in March 1958, with W. A. Seawell as pastor and Taylor Bivins chairing the building committee.

Subject: New Sharon Methodist Church

The Hillsboro post office moves into Fred Cates's new building on South Churton Street

The post office moved to a new air-conditioned building by the Eno at the south edge of town, which Fred Cates built for about $25,000 and leased to the government over the objections of the mayor and town board. It was dedicated on August 9 before about 200 people.

The Osbunn Theater reopens under a new operator after W. M. Chance's death

The Osbunn Theater, closed for several months after the death of its owner W. M. Chance, reopened under Sam R. Owens of Durham, who leased it from the Chance family. Owens had run drive-in theaters in Durham, Burlington and Fayetteville.

Subject: Osbunn Theater

Bill France leases Orange Speedway to the Orange County Board of Education

Bill France signed a ten-year lease letting Hillsboro High School use the Orange Speedway grounds as its athletic field, for $100 a year, while races continued.

Part of Occoneechee Speedway, Hillsborough · 34 events

People: Enoch Staley

Subject: Occoneechee Speedway · Hillsborough High School

Archie Royal Davis's new main building for Central High goes up

After the 1958 fire, Archie Royal Davis designed a two-story, flat-roofed brick main building and a barrel-roofed gymnasium for Central High School. The main building went up in 1959-60; the campus is now Hillsborough Elementary.

People: Archie Royal Davis

Subject: Central High and Central Elementary, Hillsborough

Cameron Park School in Hillsborough gets its first addition

Three years after it opened, the county enlarged Cameron Park School with a second section of building, raised under Superintendent G. Paul Carr to plans by the architect Archie Royal Davis.

People: Archie Royal Davis

Subject: Cameron Park School

J. H. and Pauline McAdams build a Ranch house on Revere Road

Their brick house at 418 Revere Road, with its shallow hipped roof, banks of awning windows and built-in carport, is the survey's model example of the Ranch house in Hillsborough.

Mary Claire Engstrom and her husband buy the Nash-Hooper House in Hillsborough

In 1959 Mary Claire Engstrom, who had earned a UNC doctorate in English literature in 1939, and her husband, UNC French professor Alfred G. Engstrom, bought the Nash-Hooper House in Hillsborough. From then on she turned her research to the history of Hillsborough and its surroundings.

People: Alfred G. Engstrom

Subject: Nash-Hooper House

Mount Herman Baptist Church leases the closed Murphey School

Once the school closed, the county board leased the empty building to Mt. Herman Baptist Church for one year at $25 a month.

Subject: Murphey School

Murphey School closes and its pupils go to Hillsborough

After years of falling attendance the county closed Murphey School in 1959 and moved its pupils to the elementary schools in Hillsborough.

Subject: Murphey School

The Fairview Extension is platted and filled with look-alike Ranch houses

The south end of Fairview, west of North Nash Street and south of US 70, was platted in 1959. Its houses are three variations on one Ranch design that differ only in their outside materials, which suggests they were built on speculation.

A Hollywood crew films a racing drama at Orange Speedway and the Colonial Inn

A film company shot scenes for a television drama starring James Whitmore at Orange Speedway and the Colonial Inn in Hillsborough. Speedway co-owner Enoch Staley brought in several well-known drivers, among them Buck Baker, for close-up scenes.

Part of Occoneechee Speedway, Hillsborough · 34 events

Subject: Occoneechee Speedway · Colonial Inn

Orange County's first ABC liquor store opens north of Hillsboro

Two months after voters approved county liquor stores on February 3, the first ABC store opened in a new building that also held the county ABC warehouse, near where Highways 70 and 86 meet. It was the county's first legal whiskey sale in the modern era.

Duke Power opens its remodeled Hillsboro office on King Street

Duke Power Company held an open house at its newly remodeled Hillsboro office, then numbered 110 King Street, showing new facilities and electric appliances. Manager C. B. Parris had served the town's customers since 1936.

Health officer asks county commissioners for money to buy polio vaccine

District health director O. David Garvin asked the Board of County Commissioners for a special appropriation to buy Salk vaccine for schoolchildren and pregnant women who could not pay, after federal vaccine allotments were cut and shots became required for school entry. The board agreed to provide funds if needed but told him to seek March of Dimes money from the county polio chapter first.

People: O. David Garvin

A mill house is moved from South Wake Street to West Orange Street

The small house at 330 West Orange Street, built around 1941, is a mill house moved in the 1960s from the 200 block of South Wake Street.

A nursing home is built at 401 North Churton Street

A one-story brick nursing home, built in the form of the Ranch houses of its day, goes up about 1960 at 401 North Churton Street.

A two-story lodge for Prince Hall Masons and the Eastern Star is built on West Orange Street

A concrete-block lodge was built in the 1960s at 210 West Orange Street for St. James Lodge No. 494 of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge and the St. Anita Maria chapter No. 622 of the Eastern Star. It stands on the site of a school for Black children shown on the 1924 Sanborn map and gained a rear wing in 1991.

A vocational building is added at Central High School

Between 1960 and 1962 the county added a one-story, flat-roofed, brick-veneered vocational building with metal awning windows to the Central High campus in Hillsborough.

Subject: Central High and Central Elementary, Hillsborough

Central High builds its "300" elementary wing

Another classroom building, the "300" wing or Elementary School building, went up at Central High from 1960 to 1962. With a vocational and band building finished in 1962, the campus reached the six buildings that stand today.

Subject: Central High and Central Elementary, Hillsborough

Hillsborough and New Sharon Methodist churches each become a station church

Two years after they finished their shared parsonage, Hillsborough and New Sharon left the charge arrangement and each became a station church with its own pastor.

Subject: Hillsborough Methodist Church · New Sharon Methodist Church

James J. Freeland develops Holiday Park with a swimming pool

In the 1960s Freeland built Holiday Park northwest of town, a development with its own pool and other amenities; some of its houses were former Eno Mill village houses moved to the site.

People: James John Freeland

Subject: Eno Mill

James J. Freeland remodels and sells the Colonial Inn

Freeland, who also restored and moved old buildings, owned the Colonial Inn on West King Street for a time and remodeled it before selling it in the 1960s.

People: James John Freeland

Subject: Colonial Inn

Mrs. Erle G. Hill restores the Patterson-Palmer House with architect Archie Royal Davis

Owner Mrs. Erle G. Hill restored the Federal house on West Margaret Lane with architect Archie Royal Davis, replacing the roof, dormers, front portico, shutters and siding and returning the rooms to their first plan. By 1963 it was shown on Hillsborough's spring pilgrimage.

People: Archie Royal Davis

The Bellevue mill changes hands and runs as Hillsboro Mills

In the 1960s the mill was sold to investors from the Northeast, and trade directories list it as Hillsboro Mills.

Subject: Bellevue Mill

The Haralson-Strudwick House on West Queen Street is torn down

The antebellum house that Dr. Edmund Strudwick had enlarged was razed in 1960. Its brick kitchen was kept and enlarged as a residence, and a Dutch Colonial Revival house went up on the site in 1969.

Subject: Haralson-Strudwick House and brick kitchen

The Piedmont Electric office on East Tryon Street is raised to two stories

The flat-roofed brick office built for the Piedmont Electric Company around 1950 as a one-story building was enlarged to two stories in 1960.

Subject: Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation

The open court in the middle of the Bellevue mill is roofed over for storage

For more storage, the owners roofed the space inside the U-shaped mill with open-web steel trusses running from the main mill to the weaving room and closed its east side with a new wall, removing the 1923 stair tower.

Subject: Bellevue Mill

The Gormleys take over Dud's Tavern as Gormley's Truck Stop and Restaurant

Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Gormley, who had run the Castle Steak House in Durham, took over Dud's Tavern on Highway 70 and advertised it as Gormley's Truck Stop and Restaurant.

Subject: Dud’s Tavern

W. C. George and Lucius Cheshire are named Orange County managers of I. Beverly Lake's campaign

I. Beverly Lake named W. C. George of Chapel Hill and Lucius M. Cheshire of Hillsborough, both directors of the pro-segregation North Carolina Defenders of States Rights, co-managers of his campaign for governor in Orange County.

People: I. Beverly (Isaac Beverly) Lake

Lee Petty wins at Orange Speedway from the front row beside his son Richard

Lee Petty, 46, led all 110 laps to win the May race at Orange Speedway. His son Richard Petty had the pole, the first time the father and son started together on the front row.

Part of Occoneechee Speedway, Hillsborough · 34 events

People: Richard Petty

Subject: Occoneechee Speedway

The county board buys 100 acres from S. T. Latta for a new consolidated high school

The board bought 100 acres from S. T. Latta in August 1960 for a new county high school, set aside $100,000 toward the building in July 1961 and accepted construction bids in May 1962. The school opened as Orange High School in 1963.

Subject: Orange High School

The Hillsboro Savings and Loan Association lays the cornerstone of its North Churton Street office

Cornerstone ceremonies were set for the association's new office on the east side of North Churton Street, half a block north of the court square, under construction since early June. Charles C. Hartmann of Greensboro designed the one-story Colonial Revival building with a drive-in window.

Subject: Hillsboro Building and Loan (Savings and Loan)

An Orange County jury convicts four men of arson and conspiracy in the Reverie plant fire

After a three-day trial in Orange County Superior Court, a jury found four men, among them an ILGWU representative from Atlanta, guilty of burning the Reverie Lingerie plant. Judge Raymond Mallard sentenced them the next day to five to twelve years, and all appealed.

Subject: Reverie Lingerie plant

Richard Petty wins his first race at Orange Speedway

Richard Petty, 23, took the pole and led all 110 laps of the September 100-mile race at Orange Speedway, finishing a lap ahead of Ned Jarrett. His father Lee had won the track's May race.

Part of Occoneechee Speedway, Hillsborough · 34 events

People: Lee Petty

Subject: Occoneechee Speedway

The Dickson house near Hillsborough is left empty when its last tenant moves out

The last tenant left the Dickson house, General Johnston's headquarters in 1865, and the house owned by Mary R. Few stood vacant beside the new Interstate 85 interchange. In March 1961 the News of Orange reported it crumbling while a motel site next door was offered for sale.

Subject: Alexander Dickson House (Johnston’s headquarters)

Mount Bright Baptist Church buys the Ellison lot and builds its first parsonage

Under its pastor Fred J. Boddie Jr. the congregation bought the Ellison home lot and put up its first parsonage there.

Subject: Mount Bright Baptist Church

Kenan Oil Company buys A. J. Snipes Jr.'s oil business and brings Phillips 66 to Hillsboro

Kenan Oil Company of Durham, the Phillips 66 franchise holder, bought A. J. Snipes Jr.'s Esso distributorship on Highway 70, its first foothold in Hillsboro, and kept Snipes on as its local agent.

Carr's Super Market opens its new store across the street in Hillsboro

Carr's Super Market began a six-week grand opening of its new $250,000 store, five times the size of its old one across the street, with a terrazzo floor. Building began in April 1960, and Brodie Carr's son saw it through after his father had a stroke.

Subject: Carr’s Super Market

The Hillsboro Savings and Loan Association opens its new downtown office

The association held a public open house with prize drawings at its new office on North Churton Street, the building later known as the Hillsborough Savings Bank. Its 1950 office stayed open as a second location.

People: Ira Ward

Subject: Hillsboro Building and Loan (Savings and Loan)

The county board votes to close White Cross School and send its white pupils to Hillsborough

Rather than admit the Black children, the Orange County school board decided to close White Cross School at the end of the school year and move its 75 white pupils to Cameron Park School in West Hillsboro, a step it tied to its ten-year building program.

Subject: White Cross School

Jones Grove dedicates a concrete-block church built by its own members

Congregants Otha Thompson and A. J. Breeze served as general contractors and Thomas Watkins supplied lumber for a front-gable concrete-block sanctuary paid for with members' gifts. The 1928 frame church to the west was torn down when it was done.

Subject: Jones Grove Missionary Baptist Church

Joe Weatherly wins the first 150-miler at Orange Speedway

Joe Weatherly won the 150-mile race that closed the 1961 Grand National season at Orange Speedway, the first race of that length at the track, setting a lap record of 95.15 miles per hour and a race average of 86.11.

Part of Occoneechee Speedway, Hillsborough · 34 events

Subject: Occoneechee Speedway

Dud Walters reopens his old tavern as Dud's Fish House

J. Dud Walters and his wife reopened the former Dud's Tavern and Truck Stop after renovations as Dud's Fish House and Restaurant, serving fish and seafood with curb service and take-home orders.

Subject: Dud’s Tavern

Kenan Oil opens its new bulk plant and warehouse north of Hillsborough

Work began in September on a bulk plant and warehouse on the north side of Highway 70 behind the Phillips 66 station, and the company invited the public to inspect the finished plant and offices on Saturday, November 11.

Godfrey's Home Supply Store moves into a new building on Highway 70

E. W. "Booster" Godfrey opened a new, larger building for his hardware, clothing and household goods store next door to his old location on Highway 70 north of Hillsboro, with Esso gas out front.

Hyconeechee Regional Library director David Flick writes a books column for the News of Orange County

By January 1962 the News of Orange County was running "Between the Covers," a column of news and comment on books in the public library by the director of the Hyconeechee Regional Library. The North Carolina Library Association's 1962 directory lists David Flick as the region's director, at Yanceyville.

Subject: Orange County Public Library · The News of Orange County

James Riley opens the Hillsboro Fish Market in the old Godfrey's store on Highway 70

James Riley opened the Hillsboro Fish Market on Highway 70 West, in front of Kenan Oil Company in the former Godfrey's Home Supply store, selling fresh fish cleaned free. By August 1962 it had moved to his old market next to Eno Methodist Church.

Portrait of the late Sheriff Oddie Clayton is hung in the sheriff's office

A portrait of the late Orange County sheriff Oddie Clayton, painted by Hillsborough artist Edmund Strudwick and paid for by public subscription in a drive led by ABC Police Chief Burch Compton, was hung in the county sheriff's office before members of his family.

Subject: Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough

Orange County was still running a separate library for Black readers

The county bookmobile schedule printed in March 1962 listed a Thursday stop from 1:30 to 2:00 at the Orange Co. Negro Public Library. The previous year's vacation reading club invited children to register either at the Confederate Memorial Public Library or at the Orange County Negro Public Library in Hillsboro.

Subject: Orange County Public Library

The Orange County Council on Alcoholism opens its headquarters in an addition to Calvin Burch's cabinet shop

The council's rehabilitation committee moved into a new office built onto Calvin Burch's cabinet shop on old NC 86, rented as a round-the-clock place for counseling and advice. Burch chaired the committee, which reported 54 cases in its first year there.

Edmund Strudwick speaks against a new federal access road and bridge into Hillsborough

At a public hearing in Hillsborough on a proposed $338,000 federal project for a new access road and bridge into the town, artist Edmund Strudwick opposed it, saying he did not want more cars coming up Churton Street. The News of Orange County called the opposition thin.

Charles E. Maddry's funeral is held at Hillsborough Baptist Church

Charles E. Maddry, pastor of the church at the start and end of his fifty-three-year ministry and former head of the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board, died on September 17 and was buried at Richmond after a funeral in the Hillsborough church.

James J. Freeland's Dixie Motor Inn opens at Interstate 85 and NC 86

The Dixie Motor Inn, owned by James J. and James Rae Freeland, opened two miles south of Hillsborough where Interstate 85 meets NC 86. It had 16 air-conditioned units and was the sixth motel the elder Freeland had built in Orange, Durham and Wake counties.

People: James John Freeland

Neal's Restaurant opens beside the Dixie Motor Inn south of Hillsborough

Neal Humphries, a Durham restaurant man for 15 years, opened Neal's Restaurant next to the new Dixie Motor Inn at I-85 and NC 86. It seated 75, stayed open around the clock and served steaks, seafood and fried chicken.

Aycock and Hillsborough High schools are consolidated into Orange High School

When Orange High School opened in 1963, the county consolidated the high school grades of Aycock School in Cedar Grove and Hillsborough High School into it, and the older buildings became junior high or elementary schools. Some Aycock seniors went to Eastern Alamance High School in Mebane, but most went to Orange High.

Subject: Orange High School · Hillsborough High School · Aycock School

Governor Terry Sanford establishes the Historic Hillsborough Commission

Interest stirred by the county and town bicentennials led to the commission, whose first projects included buying and restoring the Burwell School in 1965.

Mary Claire Engstrom documents 122 Hillsborough sites for the Historic American Buildings Survey

From 1963 to 1965 Mary Claire Engstrom documented 122 old structures and historic sites in and around Hillsborough for the Historic American Buildings Survey. Her research helped many of them reach the National Register, including the Nash-Hooper House as a National Historic Landmark, and helped establish two Hillsborough historic districts.

Subject: Nash-Hooper House

Mary Claire Engstrom helps found the Hillsborough Historical Society

Mary Claire Engstrom was instrumental in founding the Hillsborough Historical Society, which filed National Register applications for local buildings, led walking tours and published newsletters and journals. It merged with the Orange County Historical Museum in 2007.

Subject: Orange County Historical Museum

Orange Junior High School opens in the old Hillsborough High School building

When the county consolidated its white high schools into Orange High in 1963, it organized Orange Junior High School for grades six through nine in the old Hillsborough High School building, with Ted Shoaf as principal.

Subject: Hillsborough High School · Orange High School

The Colonial Dames erect a marble monument to the hanged Regulators beside the Hughes Academy schoolhouse

In 1963 the North Carolina Society of the Colonial Dames of America erected a marble slab monument to the six Regulators hanged at Hillsborough in June 1771, placing it next to the historic Hughes Academy schoolhouse in Hillsborough. The men's grave, thought to lie near the Eno, has never been found.

Part of The Regulator crisis, 1766–1771 · 90 events

The Underwood family buys Murphey School at public auction

The school property was sold at public auction in 1963 to the Underwood family.

Subject: Murphey School

The Torian family deeds a lot beside Ridge Road School to Emma Torian Jones and Rev. Walter Jones

Maggie Torian and her children conveyed 0.79 acre west of the school, on Coleman Loop Road, to her daughter Emma and Emma's husband, Rev. Walter Warren Jones, who built a frame house there. Walter and Maggie Torian, Black farmers, had owned the land the school stood on and supplied its water.

Subject: Ridge Road School

Jayne Mansfield rides in the pace car at Orange Speedway

Film star Jayne Mansfield, in North Carolina for a nightclub date in Greensboro, rode in the pace car to start the 150-mile race at Orange Speedway. Orange County sheriff's deputies Will Gilmore and Avery Maddry acted as her bodyguards, and she watched from the judges' stand, signing autographs.

Part of Occoneechee Speedway, Hillsborough · 34 events

Subject: Occoneechee Speedway

Junior Johnson wins the spring 150-miler at Orange Speedway

Junior Johnson won the spring 150-mile Grand National race at Orange Speedway in March 1963.

Subject: Occoneechee Speedway

Orange County completes a new Agricultural Building in Hillsborough

The county's new Agricultural Building, designed by Archie Davis, passed final inspection and the county's agricultural offices moved in. A dedication and open house were set for April 1.

People: Archie Royal Davis

Roosevelt Warner is elected the first Black member of the Hillsboro Board of Commissioners

Roosevelt Warner, a masonry contractor and business owner, led the field of eleven candidates with 281 votes for the five-member Board of Town Commissioners on his second try, unseating incumbent Herman H. Strayhorn. Two years earlier he had been the town's first Black candidate, finishing last with 180 votes.

Charles M. Walker Jr. announces that Walker Milling Co. will close

Walker said he would close the milling business in the three-story landmark on Court Square, which his father and uncle had run for decades before he bought it after World War II, and take a job in Battleboro. He pointed to changes in the farm economy.

Warner's Motel and Warner's Wash-eteria invite the public to see their facilities

An advertisement invited everyone to visit Warner's Motel and Warner's Wash-eteria on Highway 70-A in Hillsboro on Friday, August 2, and inspect their modern facilities.

Joe Weatherly wins his last race at Orange Speedway

Joe Weatherly won the fall 150-mile race at Orange Speedway, the last victory of his career; he was killed in a crash at Riverside, California, in January 1964.

Part of Occoneechee Speedway, Hillsborough · 34 events

Subject: Occoneechee Speedway

The A&P opens its first Hillsborough supermarket at US 70 and Churton Street

The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company opened a supermarket of about 10,000 square feet in a red-brick "Early American" building with a cupola and parking for 165 cars. It was the chain's first store in Hillsborough and the first major unit of the North Hills Shopping Center.

Walker's Funeral Home dedicates its chapel at 204 North Churton Street

On its 41st anniversary Walker's Funeral Home held an open house and dedicated the chapel in its brick building on North Churton Street, finished late in 1962, honoring founder Houston J. Walker and his late wife Minnie Montgomery Walker.

Subject: Walker’s Funeral Home

A bronze plaque honoring builder John Berry is placed on the Old Orange County Courthouse

A bronze plaque naming John Berry a contributor to the tradition of American architecture was fixed to the 1845 courthouse he built in Hillsborough.

Subject: Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough

Allen A. and Pauline O. Lloyd publish a history of the town of Hillsborough

Pharmacist Allen A. Lloyd published a 200-page, illustrated History of the Town of Hillsborough, with his wife Pauline O. Lloyd named as co-author, after working on it since 1945. He paid about $2,500 to print it and sold copies at James Pharmacy, which he ran.

Central High principal A. L. Stanback dies

Albert Leon Stanback, who came to Central as a coach and mathematics teacher and led it for more than twenty years, died after a short illness. His funeral was held in the school's auditorium. Under him the school grew to about 1,200 students.

Subject: Central High and Central Elementary, Hillsborough

James J. Freeland builds his third family house on Highway 70

After homes near Fairview and in his Mountain View development, Freeland built the family's third house in 1964 on Highway 70 a little northwest of that subdivision, and lived there the rest of his life.

People: James John Freeland

Mary Claire Engstrom chairs the Historic Hillsborough Commission

Mary Claire Engstrom chaired the Historic Hillsborough Commission, a state-appointed body created in 1963, from 1964 to 1966 and again from 1976 to 1983. Her research files for the commission and other projects cover deeds, cemeteries, mills, inns, Quaker settlements and schools such as the Hillsborough Academy and the Burwell School.

Subject: Burwell School

Morris Telephone Company builds a larger exchange on East King Street

As part of a half-million-dollar improvement program around Hillsborough, the Morris Telephone Company put up a new telephone building on East King Street about twice the size of the old exchange. Subscribers got new numbers on May 17, and in November the company moved its business office into the new building.

Orange High and Orange Junior High win accreditation from the state and the Southern Association

Between about 1964 and 1969 Orange High School and Orange Junior High were accredited by the state and by the Southern Association, so every county pupil in grades 7 through 12 attended a regionally accredited school. A push to accredit the elementary schools was put off by integration.

Subject: Orange High School

Villines Rest Home opens on Occoneechee Street in Hillsborough

A notice in February 1964 announced that the Villines Rest Home on Occoneechee Street was open to anyone who could no longer care for themselves.

The last Southern Railway passenger trains run through Hillsborough

Trains 13 and 16, the daily Greensboro-Goldsboro round trip, made their final runs, ending more than a century of passenger service in Orange County. Hillsborough had been a flag stop without ticket sales for two years.

Subject: North Carolina Railroad

More than 25,000 Orange County residents take Sabin oral polio vaccine on one Sunday

The Durham-Orange County Medical Foundation ran a Sunday oral polio vaccine campaign at eight public school feeding stations in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough, Cedar Grove and Efland. A total of 25,679 people took the vaccine on a sugar cube, about 56 percent of the county, with Glenwood School alone serving 5,063; a second dose was set for May 17.

Edmund Strudwick finishes a portrait of retired farm agent Don S. Matheson

Hillsborough artist Edmund Strudwick finished a portrait of Don S. Matheson, who retired in 1963 after 34 years as Orange County farm agent. Paid for by public gifts, it was hung in the county agricultural building, and further gifts founded a 4-H fund.

Orange Speedway names its spring race the Joe Weatherly Memorial

Orange Speedway scheduled its spring 1964 150-mile Grand National race as the inaugural Joe Weatherly Memorial, honoring the late national champion who held both track speed records and had won his last race there.

Part of Occoneechee Speedway, Hillsborough · 34 events

Subject: Occoneechee Speedway

Judge Mallard sentences fasters Pat Cusick and John Dunne to a year in jail

In Orange County Superior Court at Hillsborough, Judge Raymond B. Mallard gave Pat Cusick a year in jail on April 23 and John Dunne twelve months on April 24 for the February street-blocking demonstrations, among a dozen active sentences and about 100 suspended ones that stripped the Chapel Hill movement of its leaders four weeks after the fast.

Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 35 events

People: Pat Cusick

Kenan Oil Company opens the Colonial Phillips 66 service station at Churton and Tryon

Kenan Oil Company held a grand opening for its new Colonial Phillips 66 station on Churton Street at Tryon, with Fred Albert as station manager and door prizes drawn Friday night. The station opened for business the next day; Odis Johnson of Mebane was the builder.

The new high bridge over the Eno opens on South Churton Street

The 375-foot bridge, 55 feet above the river and built for about $450,000 with state and federal money, opened with the new access road from Interstate 85 into Hillsborough in the summer of 1964, taking traffic off the 1922 bridge.

Subject: Eno River road bridge, Hillsborough

The old Walker Milling Co. building on courthouse square is torn down

Orange County, which bought the mill property in August 1963 for $25,000, had a Wilmington contractor raze the building to clear the lot for parking. Historical groups asked the commissioners to save it, but they would only agree, by a split vote, to buy the old handmade bricks for resale.

People: Mary Claire Engstrom

Central Elementary School is built north of West Hillsborough

Planned as a segregated school for Black pupils next to Central High School, the flat-roofed brick and concrete building designed by Archie Royal Davis was finished a few years before desegregation and then served an integrated student body. Additions followed in 1975 and during the 1990s.

People: Archie Royal Davis

Subject: Central High and Central Elementary, Hillsborough

Col. and Mrs. Jacob Moon buy the Ruffin-Hill House

In 1965 the Ruffin-Hill House on St. Mary's Road, with 2.96 acres, was conveyed to Col. and Mrs. Jacob Moon.

Subject: Ruffin-Hill House

Lucius and Nellie Cheshire buy and restore the Commandant's House

Eula Cole, who had bought the house from John W. Hill's estate in 1938, sold it in 1965 to Lucius and Nellie Cheshire. By 1972 they had restored it to excellent condition.

Subject: Hillsborough Military Academy

The Historic American Buildings Survey documents the Berry Brick House

In 1965 the Historic American Buildings Survey recorded the Berry Brick House, the earliest surviving brick house in the original town, built about 1805 for Rhody Berry.

Subject: Berry Brick House

The Historic Hillsborough Commission buys the Burwell School

The commission bought the house from the Spurgeon children and began restoring it to look as it had after the 1848 enlargement.

Part of Orange County’s nineteenth-century academies · 102 events

Subject: Burwell School

The Occoneechee Steakhouse and a ten-room motel go up on South Churton Street

Among the restaurants that grew up around Daniel Boone Village was the Occoneechee Steakhouse, across South Churton Street, with a second small motel of ten rooms built beside it.

The former Military Academy dining hall is turned into a church

The one-story board-and-batten building beside Barracks Road, thought to be a surviving piece of the long frame service building that stood behind the barracks, became a church building in 1965.

Subject: Hillsborough Military Academy

The board names the first principals of Stanford Junior High and Central Elementary

Paul Raspberry was chosen to lead the new Stanford Junior High, and Tarleton Davis was picked to open Central Elementary as its first principal.

Subject: Central High and Central Elementary, Hillsborough

A House committee names the Sportsman's Lakeside Lodge as the Klan unit in Orange County

The House Un-American Activities Committee, investigating the Ku Klux Klan, named the Sportsman's Lakeside Lodge as the Klan organization in Orange County. Sheriff C. B. Knight told the Daily Tar Heel that three Klan meetings had been held in the county recently.

Hillsborough makes its first annexations beyond the one-square-mile town

In 1966 the town began extending its limits past the square mile platted in 1754, first taking in homes on Cameron and Ruffin streets to the northeast and the Bellevue mill and its village to the west. Annexations have continued since, most of them under ten acres.

Subject: Bellevue Mill

Interstate 85 is completed south of Hillsborough

The interstate linking Charlotte and Durham by way of Greensboro was finished in 1966 about a mile and a quarter south of downtown, and a commercial strip grew up along South Churton Street between the town and the interchange.

James J. Freeland opens the Daniel Boone Inn and restaurant at South Churton Street and I-85

A 1966 plat of the "Daniel Boone Inn and Restaurant Tract", eleven acres lying behind the Shell station on the northeast side of the interchange, shows a pond, a general store, a restaurant later known as the D. B. Cafeteria and a long two-story motel. It was the start of Daniel Boone Village.

People: James John Freeland

Subject: Daniel Boone Village

Richard Petty wins the Hillsborough 150 during his ten-race streak

Richard Petty's win in the Hillsborough 150 at Orange Speedway was the eighth of ten straight victories in 1967, the season he won a record 27 races.

Part of Occoneechee Speedway, Hillsborough · 34 events

Subject: Occoneechee Speedway

Central High School becomes A. L. Stanback School

After Central High's last high school class graduated in 1968 and its older students moved to Orange High School, the school was renamed for its longtime principal A. L. Stanback and became an elementary school.

Subject: Central High and Central Elementary, Hillsborough

Stanford Junior High School is built near Hillsborough with two classroom buildings and a gymnasium

Under Superintendent G. Paul Carr the county finished Stanford Junior High, a main classroom building for about 800 pupils, a second for about 225 and a gymnasium, on the 100-acre tract it shares with Orange High.

Subject: Orange High School

Cone Mills honors Eno plant workers, most of them women, for fifty years at the mill

At the Eno Plant's seventieth anniversary celebration in Hillsborough, Cone Mills recognized at least six of its 385 employees for fifty or more years of work at the mill, five of them women.

Subject: Eno Mill

A new iron railroad bridge is built over the Eno at Hillsborough

An iron railroad bridge on poured concrete piers, bearing a plaque of the Virginia Bridge Iron Company of Roanoke dated 1969, is built across the Eno at the south end of the district near Gold Park.

Alethea Burt retires from teaching at Central High School

Alethea Burt, who had led Ridge Road School until it closed in 1951 and then moved with her pupils to teach the elementary grades at Central High School in Hillsboro, retired at the end of the 1968-69 year.

Subject: Central High and Central Elementary, Hillsborough

Orange County Schools regroup pupils by grade across the Hillsborough schools to complete integration

For 1969-70 the county put all its pupils outside the Efland area into Hillsborough schools, each serving set grades: kindergarten at Central Elementary, grades 1-2 at Cameron Park, 3-4 at Central, 5-6 at the old Orange Junior High, 7-9 at a new Orange Junior High and 10-12 at Orange High. Efland-Cheeks took kindergarten through third grade and Efland Elementary grades 4-6, and Aycock, Cedar Grove and West Hillsborough dropped out as separate schools.

Subject: Orange High School · Central High and Central Elementary, Hillsborough · Efland schools · Cameron Park School · Cedar Grove schools · Aycock School

Orange High School is enlarged with new buildings

Six years after it opened as the county's consolidated high school, Orange High near Hillsborough added buildings in 1969 under the new superintendent George F. Williams.

Subject: Orange High School

West End Graded School closes

The West Hillsborough elementary school closed in 1969, perhaps because the new Central Elementary School took its pupils once schools were integrated. The main building later burned, leaving only the rear wings.

Subject: Central High and Central Elementary, Hillsborough · West End Graded School (West Hillsborough School)

Eight men charged during the cafeteria strike appear in Orange County District Court

Howard Fuller of Malcolm X Liberation University, two of its students, AFSCME official Gene Gore and four others charged with disorderly conduct, riot, failure to disperse or interfering with officers during the strike appeared before Judge D. M. McLellan, who continued the cases to January 7, 1970 at the defendants' request.

Part of UNC food workers’ and housekeepers’ struggles, 1969 to 1996 · 13 events

A government grant paves Fairview's streets and repairs its houses

Fairview, then outside the town and known to residents as a mud hole with bad septic systems and no paved streets or streetlights, had its streets paved in the 1970s with a government grant, which also paid to repair houses that lacked indoor plumbing.

James J. Freeland remodels the William Whitted House on East Queen Street

In the 1970s Freeland remodeled the William Whitted House, one of several historic Hillsborough buildings he restored or moved.

People: James John Freeland

Subject: William Whitted House

Mary Claire Engstrom surveys the family graveyards of Orange County

In the 1970s the Hillsborough historian Mary Claire Engstrom recorded cemeteries across the county, many of them private burial grounds on farms. Her index was kept at the Register of Deeds in Hillsborough.

The Hillsborough Historical Society buys the Nash Law Office

After several private owners, the Hillsborough Historical Society bought the Nash Law Office on West Margaret Lane, the oldest law office in town. It had served as a music studio for the Nash and Kollock School until 1907.

Subject: Nash Law Office

The former Bellevue mill is sold again and runs as Falk Fibers and Fabrics

In the 1970s northeastern investors bought the mill again; directories list it as Falk, Fibers, and Fabrics, with a dyeing and finishing subsidiary at the same site.

Subject: Bellevue Mill

The former Murphey School becomes a nightclub

From some time in the early 1970s until the mid-1980s the old school was run as a nightclub. It stood empty from 1986.

Subject: Murphey School

Burwell School is listed in the National Register

On September 15, 1970 the National Park Service listed Burwell School in Hillsborough in the National Register of Historic Places.

Subject: Burwell School

Three Durham men bound over to the grand jury in the Cates killing

At a preliminary hearing in Hillsborough, Ronnie Broadwell, Rufus Nelson and William Johnson were bound over to the Orange County Grand Jury on murder charges and held without bond. Medical testimony indicated that immediate care could have prevented Cates's death.

Orange High School gets a gymnasium

The Orange High gymnasium, the fourth building on the campus plan, is dated 1971 under Superintendent George F. Williams.

Subject: Orange High School

Student Donnie Riddle is stabbed to death at Orange High School

Donnie Riddle was killed in the Orange High bus parking lot while trying to shield the assistant principal from three former students who had dropped out. The school stayed closed until February 7, when enough officers were on hand to keep out anyone without business there.

Subject: Orange High School

Trial of three Storm Troopers for the death of James Cates opens

Ronnie Broadwell, Rufus Paul Nelson and William Johnson went on trial in Orange County Superior Court in Hillsborough before Judge Thomas Cooper on second-degree murder charges, reduced from first degree. District Solicitor Herbert Pierce prosecuted, and prosecution witnesses placed the three defendants around Cates with weapons.

All-white jury acquits three men in the killing of James Cates

A jury of 11 men and one woman, all white, found Ronnie Broadwell, Rufus Paul Nelson and William Johnson not guilty after about an hour and a half of deliberation. The defense called no witnesses.

The Hazel-Nash House is listed in the National Register

On March 31, 1971 the National Park Service listed the Hazel-Nash House in Hillsborough in the National Register of Historic Places.

Subject: Hasell-Nash House

Eagle Lodge is listed in the National Register

On April 16, 1971 the National Park Service listed Eagle Lodge in Hillsborough in the National Register of Historic Places.

Subject: Eagle Lodge

Saint Matthew's Episcopal Church and Churchyard is listed in the National Register

On June 24, 1971 the National Park Service listed Saint Matthew's Episcopal Church and Churchyard in Hillsborough in the National Register of Historic Places.

Subject: St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church

The Old Orange County Courthouse is listed in the National Register

On June 24, 1971 the National Park Service listed the Old Orange County Courthouse in Hillsborough in the National Register of Historic Places.

Subject: Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough

The Ruffin-Roulhac House is listed in the National Register

On August 5, 1971 the National Park Service listed the Ruffin-Roulhac House in Hillsborough in the National Register of Historic Places.

Subject: Ruffin-Roulhac House (Little Hawfields)

Ayr Mount is listed in the National Register

On August 26, 1971 the National Park Service listed Ayr Mount in Hillsborough in the National Register of Historic Places.

Subject: Ayr Mount

Sans Souci is listed in the National Register

On August 26, 1971 the National Park Service listed Sans Souci in Hillsborough in the National Register of Historic Places.

Subject: Sans Souci

The Nash Law Office is listed in the National Register

On September 28, 1971 the National Park Service listed the Nash Law Office in Hillsborough in the National Register of Historic Places.

Subject: Nash Law Office

The Nash-Hooper House is listed in the National Register

On November 11, 1971 the National Park Service listed the Nash-Hooper House in Hillsborough in the National Register of Historic Places.

Subject: Nash-Hooper House

Daniel Boone Village grows into an amusement park

By 1972 the Daniel Boone Recreation Park had a roller rink, an ice rink, a ski lift, a refrigerated toboggan slide, an antique car and wax museum, a fort, an amphitheater and a campground, circled by a small railroad on which costumed performers staged holdups. With relocated log cabins and false-front shops it looked like a frontier town, and Freeland was dubbed the "Walt Disney of Hillsborough."

People: James John Freeland

Subject: Daniel Boone Village

Jon Condoret designs a Modernist house for Drs. Jerome and Jacqueline Harris

Chapel Hill architect Jon Andre Condoret, an Algerian-born graduate of the Ecole Speciale d'Architecture, designed an L-shaped brick and cedar house with clerestory windows for Duke physicians Jerome and Jacqueline Harris on a wooded tract of nearly fifty acres northeast of Hillsborough.

Marinda Dunnigan McPherson is recorded singing songs she learned from her family

McKellar Israel recorded McPherson in the fall of 1972 and the fall of 1973, singing children's games, play party songs and spirituals she learned from family members, among them songs she first recalled hearing her grandmother Marinda Hart sing about 1920. Israel also interviewed her and her husband David McPherson about community events and history.