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Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865
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Cedar Grove Methodist Church is organized
The Cedar Grove Methodist Episcopal Church was organized on July 23, 1832.
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Cedar Grove Methodist Episcopal Church builds its first church
The congregation put up a small frame sanctuary facing east on what is now Efland-Cedar Grove Road, on land given by Joseph Allison and John Kelly. It was enlarged on the south side in 1876 and later torn down; its site lies just east of the 1939 stone church.
Reconstruction and the New South · 1866–1899
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Eno Presbyterian builds at Cedar Grove
The replacement church was constructed over three years.
Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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The Oliver family takes over the Cedar Grove crossroads store
The Oliver family acquired the frame store the Allison family had built at the Cedar Grove crossroads in the 1880s. They kept it until C. H. Pender and his wife Irene Oliver took it over in the 1960s.
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The Cedar Grove pharmacy where Dr. C. M. Hughes practiced is moved beside his house
The early 1900s pharmacy building at the Cedar Grove crossroads, where Dr. Claude M. Hughes kept his medical practice, was moved in 1913 to the lot east of his new house so a three-story flour mill could go up on its site. The mill burned about 1931.
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Ellis Store and post office opens
Allen A. Ellis built a new crossroads store.
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Cedar Grove Methodist Church's stone building goes up
The stone church replaced earlier facilities serving the congregation. Masons laid its cornerstone in late November 1939 at the request of the pastor, S. F. Nicks.
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Census finds nearly half of Orange County's Black-owned farms in Cedar Grove Township
The 1940 census counted 1,753 Black and 1,671 white residents in Cedar Grove Township, the county's only township with a near-even racial balance, and about three-fourths of the township lived on farms. Nearly half of Orange County's 503 Black-owned farms were in the township, which also had the county's highest share of Black tenant farmers.
Civil rights era · 1945–1975
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Charles Crisp Oliver builds an auto and tractor repair shop at the Cedar Grove crossroads
Oliver put up a one-story concrete block garage with a stepped parapet on the lot where his father, T. L. Oliver, had kept a blacksmith shop early in the century.
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Carr Store Road is paved through Cedar Grove
Carr Store Road, the east-west road through the Cedar Grove crossroads, was paved in 1958, about a decade after the north-south Efland-Cedar Grove Road. Until then farmers in the area could find farm-to-market roads impassable for months of the year.
Recent decades · 1976–2026
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A hurricane destroys the old Thomas Cox Ellis wing of the Dr. C. M. Hughes House
The mid-1800s frame house of Thomas Cox Ellis, kept as the kitchen ell when his son-in-law Dr. Claude M. Hughes built his larger house beside it in 1912, was destroyed by a hurricane in 1996.
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