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1. Early twentieth century · 1900–1944

2. September 1931
   Founding or opening · Schley Schley Grange No. 710 is chartered

   Thirty residents of the Schley farming community north of Hillsborough chartered Schley Grange No. 710, one of five Orange County Granges formed in the state Grange revival of 1929 to 1931. The county board had merged Schley School into the Hillsboro school that June, and on November 2 it sold the Schley School building for $122 to Charles Wilson, who bought it for the Grange.

3. Civil rights era · 1945–1975

4. November 1948–December 1949
   Award or honor · Schley Schley Grange brings telephones to fifty-one families and wins a national community award

   For a National Grange and Sears-Roebuck Foundation contest, Schley Grange members cleared right-of-way, cut cedar poles and strung three miles of wire so the telephone company could give service to 51 families; they also held a soil conservation workshop with the extension service. Schley won the national prize in November 1948, and the new brick Grange hall it paid for was dedicated on December 6, 1949 before about five hundred people.

5. December 1949
   Founding or opening · Schley Grange Hall, Schley Schley Grange dedicates the hall it won in a national contest

   National Grange master Albert S. Goss and Governor W. Kerr Scott were set to take part in the dedication of the new $50,000 Schley Grange Hall. Sears-Roebuck Foundation built and furnished the hall after the Grange won the 1948 national community service contest.

6. Recent decades · 1976–2026

7. October 11, 2018
   Naming or commemoration · Schley Grange Hall, Hurdle Mills vicinity Schley Grange Hall near Hurdle Mills joins the Study List

   Staff proposed the grange hall as eligible for its place in the social history of the area. With no questions from members or the audience, the committee approved it by a 7-0 roll call vote on October 11, 2018.

8. April 23, 2020
   Naming or commemoration · Schley Grange Hall, Schley vicinity The Schley Grange Hall is listed in the National Register

   On April 23, 2020 the National Park Service listed the Schley Grange Hall near Schley in the National Register of Historic Places.

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