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Key events from Orange County history: 100 highlights to start, then the full chronology of 6,171 dated events and 63 storylines, each connected to the index. A storyline gathers many dated events into one history, such as the Regulator crisis.

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1952Civil rights era
  1. Civil rights era · 1945–1975
  2. The county board buys the Cameron Park property in Hillsborough for a new elementary school

    Property or economic transaction · Hillsborough

    The board paid Rebecca Wall $18,000 for the Cameron Park property and named the school to be built there Cameron Park.

    Subject: Cameron Park School

  3. Cameron Park School opens in Hillsborough with the lower grades from Hillsboro High

    Founding or opening · Hillsborough

    The new Cameron Park School took all of grades one through four from the Hillsboro High School building, leaving grades five through twelve there, with Fred Rogers, formerly of Efland, as principal. Transfer requests from other districts poured in and drew pupils away from West Hillsborough School.

    Subject: Cameron Park School · Hillsborough High School

  4. Cameron Park School in Hillsborough gets its first addition

    Construction or physical change · Hillsborough

    Three years after it opened, the county enlarged Cameron Park School with a second section of building, raised under Superintendent G. Paul Carr to plans by the architect Archie Royal Davis.

    People: Archie Royal Davis

    Subject: Cameron Park School

  5. Orange County Board of Education closes Caldwell School

    Closing or ending · Caldwell

    In 1961 the county board weighed a proposal to close White Cross School at once and Caldwell School later. In March 1963, in the consolidation that came with the new Orange High School, it voted to close the white-only Caldwell School, built in 1925, and from that fall its pupils went to Aycock and Cameron Park. The county could not sell the building until 1973.

    Subject: Caldwell School · Orange High School · Aycock School · Cameron Park School · White Cross School

  6. Orange County Schools regroup pupils by grade across the Hillsborough schools to complete integration

    Law, policy or court · Hillsborough

    For 1969-70 the county put all its pupils outside the Efland area into Hillsborough schools, each serving set grades: kindergarten at Central Elementary, grades 1-2 at Cameron Park, 3-4 at Central, 5-6 at the old Orange Junior High, 7-9 at a new Orange Junior High and 10-12 at Orange High. Efland-Cheeks took kindergarten through third grade and Efland Elementary grades 4-6, and Aycock, Cedar Grove and West Hillsborough dropped out as separate schools.

    Subject: Orange High School · Central High and Central Elementary, Hillsborough · Efland schools · Cameron Park School · Cedar Grove schools · Aycock School

  7. Recent decades · 1976–2026
  8. Cameron Park School is enlarged again under Superintendent Michael Simmons

    Construction or physical change · Hillsborough

    A further addition to Cameron Park Elementary in Hillsborough went up in 1978, the third stage of the building, which by the early 1980s housed kindergarten through fifth grade.

    Subject: Cameron Park School

  9. Cameron Park School is enlarged again in the late

    Construction or physical change · Cameron Park School, St. Mary's Road, Hillsborough

    Following its 1978 addition, Cameron Park School on St. Mary's Road in Hillsborough received further additions on its north and south sides in the late 1980s.

    Subject: Cameron Park School

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