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1. Recent decades · 1976–2026

2. November 5, 1981
   Founding or opening · Countywide Friends of the Orange County Public Library is founded

   Residents organized the Friends of the Orange County Public Library on November 5, 1981, to raise money and advocate for a county library preparing to move into larger quarters in Hillsborough. The group incorporated on May 3, 1982, and the IRS recognized it as a 501(c)(3) charity in June 1983.

3. August 1996
   Law, policy or court · Orange and Alamance counties The Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation becomes a tax-exempt nonprofit

   IRS records list the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, based in Mebane, as a tax-exempt nonprofit since August 1996. The group had taken that name in 1994 and in January 1996 filed to contest the state Commission of Indian Affairs' denial of its petition for recognition.

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