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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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1987Recent decades
  1. Recent decades · 1976–2026
  2. Valerie Foushee works as an administrative officer for the Chapel Hill Police Department

    Appointment, election or service · Chapel Hill

    Foushee spent 21 years as an administrative officer with the Chapel Hill Police Department, from 1987 to 2008.

  3. Valerie Foushee is elected to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board

    Appointment, election or service · Chapel Hill

    Foushee was elected to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro city schools board in 1997 and served until 2004, pressing for equity in the schools. It was the first of the local offices she held over 25 years in local and state government.

    Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools

  4. Valerie Foushee is elected to the Orange County Board of Commissioners

    Appointment, election or service · Orange County

    Foushee served on the Orange County Board of Commissioners from 2004 to 2012. Her official House biography says she was the first African American woman to chair the county commission.

  5. Valerie Foushee finishes her UNC degree

    Life event · Chapel Hill

    Foushee had left the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after two years and returned later to finish, graduating in 2008 with a degree in political science and African and Afro-American studies. She was by then an Orange County commissioner.

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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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