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Key events from Orange County history: 100 highlights to start, then the full chronology of 9,006 dated events and 77 storylines, each connected to the index. A storyline gathers many dated events into one history, such as the Regulator crisis. Browse all 77 storylines. Every entry names its source. See all 667 sources.

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1977Recent decades
  1. Recent decades · 1976–2026
  2. Planning begins for Carrboro’s farmers’ market

    Carrboro

    UNC organizing and town funding efforts supported a formal market.

    Subject: Carrboro Farmers’ Market

  3. Carrboro Farmers’ Market is established

    Founding or opening · Carrboro

    After organizing and planning in 1977, the Carrboro Farmers' Market began business in 1978, once the town amended its permit in February 1978 to allow the market at Carr Mill.

    Subject: Carrboro Farmers’ Market · Carr Mill

  4. Grant supports new farmers’ market shelters

    Property or economic transaction · Carrboro

    Funding enabled preparation of the Town Commons location.

    Subject: Carrboro Farmers’ Market

  5. Farmers’ Market moves to Town Commons

    Construction or physical change · Carrboro

    The market opened at its new town-center site.

    Subject: Carrboro Farmers’ Market

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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 4, 2026.

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