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1. Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865

2. December 30, 1844
   Slavery and freedom · Hillsborough Frances Devereux deeds Primus to Dr. Edmund Strudwick

   Five months after her husband died, Frances Devereux of Raleigh deeded Primus to Dr. Edmund Strudwick of Hillsborough. Primus later drove and gardened at the Burwell School and, after emancipation, worked at the Nash and Kollock School as Primus Smith.

3. 1859
   Construction or physical change · Nash Law Office, 143 West Margaret Lane, Hillsborough The Nash and Kollock School turns the old Nash law office into a music room

   After Chief Justice Frederick Nash died, his daughters Sally and Maria Nash and their cousin Sarah Kollock began holding their school's music lessons in his former law office on Margaret Lane.

4. July 15, 1859
   Founding or opening · Frederick Nash House, Hillsborough Nash and Kollock School for young ladies opens in Hillsborough

   After Chief Justice Frederick Nash died in 1858, his daughters Sarah and Maria Nash and their cousin Sarah Kollock opened a select boarding and day school for girls in the Nash home.

5. about 1863
   Construction or physical change · Nash Law Office, 143 West Margaret Lane, Hillsborough Two rooms are added to the Nash law office for music practice and Sarah Kollock's lodging

   Two rooms were built onto the west side of the old Nash law office to give the Nash and Kollock School more practice rooms and to house Sarah Kollock.

6. Reconstruction and the New South · 1866–1899

7. 1875-1877
   Property or economic transaction · Chapel Hill Women's groups give scientific apparatus to the reopened university

   At the board's request Cornelia Phillips Spencer gathered gifts of instruments from women around the state, including Plateau's apparatus from the pupils of the Nash and Kollock school in Hillsborough. The women of Hillsborough gave a Holtz electrical machine in memory of William A. Graham, which Paul C. Cameron presented at the 1877 commencement.

8. 1891
   Closing or ending · Frederick Nash House, Hillsborough Nash and Kollock School closes as a boarding school

   The Nash and Kollock boarding school closed at the end of its 1890 to 1891 session after thirty-one years. The Misses Nash and Kollock went on with a day school from August 6, 1891.

9. Early twentieth century · 1900–1944

10. 1907
    Closing or ending · Nash Law Office, 143 West Margaret Lane, Hillsborough Sarah Kollock dies and the Nash law office stops serving as a music studio

    The former Nash law office remained a music studio until the death of Sarah Kollock, the last of the teachers of the Nash and Kollock School.

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