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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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1834Antebellum and Civil War
  1. Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865
  2. Fairfield Presbyterian Church is organized

    Founding or opening · Fairfield Presbyterian Church

    Fairfield Presbyterian Church was organized with Samuel Paisley as its first pastor.

    Subject: Fairfield Presbyterian Church

  3. Reconstruction and the New South · 1866–1899
  4. Fairfield Presbyterian Church builds a new Gothic frame church north of Efland

    Construction or physical change · north of Efland

    The Fairfield congregation, dating to 1834, put up a new steep-roofed church with Gothic windows in the 1880s, sheathed inside with flush boards.

    Subject: Fairfield Presbyterian Church

  5. Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
  6. Fairfield Presbyterian Church is remodeled with pointed Gothic windows

    Construction or physical change · Fairfield Presbyterian Church, near Cedar Grove

    The one-story frame church near Cedar Grove, built about 1834, kept its gable-front shape but got pointed-arch windows and doorway in a 1901 renovation.

    Subject: Fairfield Presbyterian Church

  7. The county board sells four rural schools closed by consolidation

    Property or economic transaction · Orange County

    Consolidation had emptied the Fairfield, Fairview, South View and Sunnyside schoolhouses, and the superintendent was ordered to sell them. Fairfield went to the trustees of Fairfield Presbyterian Church for $200 and Sunnyside to Ivan Lloyd for $115.

    Subject: Fairfield Presbyterian Church

  8. Recent decades · 1976–2026
  9. Maude Faucette dies at 97 and leaves part of her estate to Fairfield Presbyterian Church

    Life event · David Faucette House, 1830 Halls Mill Road at the Eno River, north of Efland

    The last descendant of builder David Faucette died in the family house in 1983. Her will gave a quarter of her property, with family portraits, to Fairfield Presbyterian Church near Efland, where she had been a lifelong member; silver spoons by Lemuel Lynch found in her papers went to the Hillsborough Historical Museum.

    Subject: Fairfield Presbyterian Church · David Faucette House (The Elms)

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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 2, 2026.

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