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1. Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865

2. about 1833
   Construction or physical change · Turner-Strudwick House, 404 North Churton Street, Hillsborough The house of tinner Josiah Turner Sr. is built on North Churton Street

   The Turner house at 404 North Churton Street is built about 1833 on a five-acre lot bounded by Churton, Orange and Union streets. It appears on John L. Bailey's 1839 map and was the home of Josiah Turner Sr., a tinner, and his family.

3. Reconstruction and the New South · 1866–1899

4. 1872
   Property or economic transaction · Turner-Strudwick House, 404 North Churton Street, Hillsborough The Turner family goes bankrupt and its North Churton Street estate is sold at auction

   In 1872 the Turner family goes bankrupt and its estate around the house at 404 North Churton Street is sold at auction. Edmund Strudwick of Norfolk bought the house in 1887.

5. 1887
   Property or economic transaction · 404 North Churton Street, Hillsborough Edmund Strudwick of Norfolk buys the Turner house on North Churton Street for his mother and sisters

   Norfolk cotton merchant Edmund Strudwick bought the house built for tinner Josiah Turner Sr. and enlarged it for his mother and sisters, apparently adding the gables, bay windows and new sash that give it a Victorian look.

6. 1889
   Construction or physical change · 110 East Orange Street, Hillsborough A small office from the Turner-Strudwick grounds is moved to East Orange Street

   A one-story frame office on the Turner-Strudwick House lot, shown on John Bailey's 1839 map when the lot belonged to Josiah Turner Sr., was moved next door to 110 East Orange Street, two years after Edmund Strudwick of Norfolk bought the property. It was later enlarged into a house and rebuilt in 1987. It is not Dr. Edmund Strudwick's medical office on West King Street.

7. Early twentieth century · 1900–1944

8. 1911
   Property or economic transaction · Block of North Churton, East Orange and East Union streets, Hillsborough The Turner-Strudwick block is cut into house lots as the J. A. Hogan subdivision

   The five-acre lot around the Turner-Strudwick House, bounded by Churton, Orange and Union streets, was divided into smaller lots as the J. A. Hogan subdivision, and houses later filled the land around it.

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