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Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865
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John Kirkland builds a two-story frame farmhouse near Calvander
A two-story frame house apparently built for John Kirkland in the 1850s stands at Old NC 86 and Homestead Road. It was enlarged about 1900 and later; three early log outbuildings remain.
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Thomas and Mary Hogan build a farmhouse at Calvander
About 1860, around the time Thomas J. Hogan married Mary, the couple built a story-and-a-half frame farmhouse with Greek Revival trim on the old Hillsborough Road at Calvander; family tradition has their first child born there in 1862. Thomas served in the Civil War, and about 1890 the Hogans raised the house to two stories in the Queen Anne style.
Reconstruction and the New South · 1866–1899
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A Hogan family log house goes up on Homestead Road
In the 1890s a one-room log house was built for one of the Hogans, a family with homes all along the road. About 1935 it was built over and enlarged.
Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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William D. Hogan builds a frame I-house on Homestead Road
In 1908 a small two-story frame house was built for William D. Hogan near Calvander. It was still well kept in 1992, with two later outbuildings.
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Student YMCA members run eight Sunday schools around Chapel Hill
In 1910-11 the university YMCA organized Sunday schools at Calvander, Clark's Chapel, Williams' Chapel, Ephesus, Mount Carmel, Orange Church, Rankin's Chapel and Smith's Level, enrolling 321 pupils.
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The Chapel Hill Red Cross gathers country women into auxiliaries across southern Orange County
Auxiliaries of the Chapel Hill chapter formed at Bethel Church, Calvander, Antioch, Williams Chapel, Smith Level, Mount Moriah, Union Grove, Damascus, Carrboro and Orange Church, and among Chapel Hill women who could not come to the workroom. They sewed hospital shirts and refugee garments, paid for supplies by selling eggs, jelly and apples, and passed magazines and papers to families who could not buy them; Mrs. H. C. Hogan of the Calvander circle made 100 hospital bed shirts in 100 days.
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Farmer and lumber dealer Brodie Lloyd builds a large bungalow at Calvander
Around 1918 Brodie Lloyd, who farmed and ran a lumber business in Carrboro, had a roomy bungalow built on Old NC 86. The report ranks it among the biggest and best kept in the township.
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The Booker family opens a crossroads store on Old NC 86
Around 1920 the Bookers built a small frame pyramidal cottage and, beside it, a gable-front rural store with a shed canopy over the front, near the Arthur Minnis Road junction.
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Clay Hogan builds a large dairy complex off Homestead Road
In the 1930s a notable group of frame dairy buildings went up for Clay Hogan on what is now Lake Hogan Farm Road. By 1992 the farmhouse had apparently been lost.
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A three-mile rural power line from Chapel Hill to Calvander is built with federal money
Built in 1933 as a Civil Works Administration project, the line ran three miles from Chapel Hill to Calvander, and the Hogan brothers supplied cedar poles when funds ran short. The book says it was the first rural electric line in the United States built with federal funds.
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Carl Durham serves on the Orange County Board of Commissioners
Durham joined the Orange County Board of Commissioners in 1933 or 1934, probably in the seat R. A. Eubanks gave up in April 1933 to become Chapel Hill postmaster, and served until 1938, when he was elected to Congress. In 1935 he proposed and secured $22,000 in federal aid for a rural electrification line in the Calvander-Orange Grove area, and in 1937 he was elected a UNC trustee.
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Farmers pay to carry the rural power line on to Orange Grove
Soon after the federally funded line from Chapel Hill to Calvander was built in 1933, a second line paid for by local farmers' donations carried power on from Calvander to Orange Grove.
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Lloyd descendants dedicate a memorial stone to Thomas Lloyd north of Chapel Hill
The Thomas Lloyd Memorial Association set up a granite marker to Thomas Lloyd near Old Highway 86 at Stony Hill Road, northwest of Calvander. Its inscription mixes in details from the life of a different Thomas Lloyd of New Hanover County.
Civil rights era · 1945–1975
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Franc Sidler meets Troy and Robin Andrews on their farm and sketches a house for it
In the summer of 1954 the Swiss architect Franc Sidler, a guest of anthropologists renting a small house on the Andrews farm, met Troy and Robin Andrews there and drew a floor plan for a house they might build later. The sketch grew into the house finished on the farm in 1967.
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Troy and Robin Andrews return to the farm and enlarge the old Lloyd log house
After Troy Andrews retired in 1961 and inherited the farm with his sister Nita, he and Robin moved back and renovated and enlarged the early nineteenth-century hewn log house built for the Lloyd family, living there while they planned their new house.
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Mrs. Troy Andrews asks the county commissioners to pave SR 1111 near Calvander
Mrs. Troy Andrews brought the Orange County commissioners a petition from residents asking them to pave SR 1111, a two-mile road between Calvander and the Union Church road. The commissioners agreed to send the petition on to state highway officials.
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Black masons build Troy and Roberta Andrews's Sidler-designed house on the family farm
Working from plans by Swiss architect Franc Sidler, a former Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice, builder Carl Ellington and the African American masons Willis, Alfred Sr. and Alfred Jr. Barbee raised the Andrews House from stone gathered on the farm, starting in 1965 and finishing in 1967. It is Sidler's only building in the United States and one of the few architect-designed Modernist houses in rural Orange County.
Recent decades · 1976–2026
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The Emily Dickinson Centennial Conference holds sessions at Bolin Brook Farm
Sessions of the Emily Dickinson Centennial Conference met at Bolin Brook Farm, the Andrews home near Calvander, in April 1986. The Andrewses often opened the property to meetings and house tours.
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The Earnhardt family gives Triangle Land Conservancy an easement on the Andrews farm
Jean and John Earnhardt, Troy and Robin Andrews's daughter and son-in-law, and their sons' families donated a conservation easement to Triangle Land Conservancy in March 1998, protecting 120 acres of the old Andrews farm around Bolin Creek from development.
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The Thomas Jefferson Hogan House joins the Study List
The National Register Advisory Committee placed the Thomas Jefferson Hogan House near Calvander on North Carolina's Study List, its list of properties likely to qualify for the National Register.
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