Orange County Indexed

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The chronology’s 16,421 dated events and 425 storylines name 10,876 people. 1,260 of them have a page of their own: their names link to it, and to the entries filed under them. Other names appear as written in the chronology, with links to the entries that name them.

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Abbott, Peyton 1 entry, 1943
- 1943: The General Assembly passes a resolution commending the Institute of Government
AbdelBaky, Omar 1 entry, 2015
- September 17, 2015: UNC dental students hold the first DEAH DAY of service
Abele, Patrick 1 entry, 2020
- March 16, 2020: Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and Orange County Schools close under a statewide order
Abercrombie, Robert, Jr. 1 entry, 1776
- April 22, 1776: The Provincial Congress divides the Orange County militia into Northern and Southern regiments
Abernathy, Ernest H. 1 entry, 1920
- by February 8, 1920: Students charter the Carolina Tar Baby Company to publish the Tar Baby
Abernathy, Ralph 1 entry, 1969
- November 7 – December 9, 1969: UNC foodworkers strike a second time
May be the same person as Abernathy, Ralph David
Abernathy, Ralph David 2 entries, 1969–1974
- December 6, 1969: Ralph David Abernathy joins the striking cafeteria workers in Chapel Hill
- by December 1974: SCLC president Ralph David Abernathy speaks at UNC
May be the same person as Abernathy, Ralph
Abernethy, Eric 2 entries, 1926–1933
- December 20, 1926: University service plants banquet includes a blackface act
- March 23, 1933: University physician Eric Abernethy is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
Abernethy, Eric A. 17 entries, 1907–1959

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Abernethy, J. A. 1 entry, 1922
- September 1922: Hillsboro finishes its new $100,000 school building
Abernethy, Milton 5 entries, 1931–1958

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Abernethy, Minna 1 entry, 1931
- April 27, 1931: Contempo and the Intimate Bookshop begin in Chapel Hill
Abernethy, Mrs. W. W. 1 entry, 1944
- April 18, 1944: Hillsborough's town board accepts Police Chief John E. Sharpe's resignation and reorganizes the job
Abernethy, W. W. 2 entries, 1945–1946
- December 6, 1945: Hillsborough Boy Scouts hold their first court of honor in almost 32 years
- September 19, 1946: The new Hillsboro Youth Center opens with a Scout court of honor
Abernethy, William B. 1 entry, 1933
- January 1933: Dr. Eric A. Abernethy resigns as university physician
Abram 1 entry, 1834
- 1834: Samuel Hancock goes bankrupt and Dr. James Webb buys his house and the enslaved man Abram
Abromson, S. 1 entry, 1917
- by May 31, 1917: S. Abromson opens a junk shop at McDade's store
Abu-Salha, Razan 1 entry, 2015

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Abu-Salha, Razan Mohammad 1 entry, 2015
- February 10, 2015: Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha and Razan Abu-Salha are killed in Chapel Hill
Abu-Salha, Yusor 4 entries, 2015

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Abu-Salha, Yusor Mohammad 1 entry, 2015
- February 10, 2015: Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha and Razan Abu-Salha are killed in Chapel Hill
Ackland, William Hayes 3 entries, 1942–1958

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Ackland, William Hayes 1 entry, 1958

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Ackles, William 1 entry, 1786
- November Term 1786: The court binds Frank, a five-year-old child of color, to William Ackles
Adams, Agatha Boyd 1 entry, 1950
- March 17, 1950: Author and university librarian Agatha Boyd Adams dies in Chapel Hill
Adams, Ben P. 1 entry, 1957
- September 14, 1957: Highway Post Office service replaces the railway mail cars through Hillsboro
Adams, Charlotte 6 entries, 1935–2009

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Adams, Diannah 1 entry, 1822
- 29 August 1822: Diannah Adams names Chesley F. Faucett as her child's father
Adams, E. M 4 entries, 1964

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Adams, Harriet Dyer 4 entries, 1940–1943
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Adams, John 1 entry, 1780
- early December 1780: Civil authorities hold four Maryland soldiers for robbing a house south of Hillsborough
Adams, John, Jr. 1 entry, 1837
- August Term 1837: The court holds John Adams Jr. in custody until he gives bond for Mary Brown's child
Adams, Junius G. 1 entry, 1932
- May 6-7, 1932: About two hundred officials organize and name the Institute of Government
Adams, Mrs. N. B. 1 entry, 1929
- October 1-2, 1929: The council of the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs meets in Chapel Hill
Adams, Nicholson B. 1 entry, 1931

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Adams, Nicholson B. 1 entry, 1950

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- March 17, 1950: Author and university librarian Agatha Boyd Adams dies in Chapel Hill
Adams, Philip 1 entry, 1778
- 1778: Methodists divide their North Carolina circuit and form the New Hope Circuit, taking in part of Orange
Adams, Mrs. Raymond 2 entries, 1940–1958
- July 17, 1940: Chapel Hill groups form a joint committee to find homes for British refugee children
- October 23, 1958: Chapel Hill marks United Nations Day by planting a tree at the elementary school
Adams, Raymond 1 entry, 1951
- 1951: The Unitarian Fellowship of Chapel Hill is organized
Adams, S. D. 1 entry, 1879
- early December 1879: The Methodist conference returns J. F. Heitman to Chapel Hill and names Orange appointments
Adams, Samuel L. 1 entry, 1893
- August 8, 1893: The Orange County Sunday School Association holds its fourth annual convention at Hillsborough
Adams, Spencer 1 entry, 1896
- August 20, 1896: Fifth District Republicans meet at Hillsborough and nominate Spencer Adams for judge
May be the same person as Adams, Spencer B.
Adams, Spencer B. 1 entry, 1897
- January 4, 1897: Two added county commissioners named by Judge Spencer Adams take their seats
May be the same person as Adams, Spencer
Adams, Thomas A. 1 entry, 1857
- 1857: Paul Cameron brings English gardener Thomas A. Adams to plant the Burnside grounds
Adams, William 2 entries, 1821–1823
- 1821: Tavern keeper William Adams builds the house that became the Burwell School
- June 21, 1823: The Presbyterian session admonishes two men for trading in enslaved people
Adams, William H. 3 entries, 1821–1825
- November 1821: William H. Adams buys the lots that became the Burwell School site
- February 2, 1822: Hillsborough elects Jonathan P. Sneed magistrate of police and seven town commissioners
- 1825: Sarah Grove buys lots 152 and 153 for $800
Adcock, James 2 entries, 1836
- late May 1836: James Adcock is hanged at Hillsborough for burglary
- March 14-19, 1836: Superior court sentences James Adcock to hang for burglary
Adler, Stuart 1 entry, 1955
- by June 23, 1955: Stuart Adler buys and runs Hillsboro's Hickory House restaurant
Africa 1 entry, 1795
- August 25, 1795: A jury convicts Isaac, a man enslaved by William Lytle, on a charge the minutes do not name
Agar, Herbert 1 entry, 1941
- April 6 to 11, 1941: University holds its sixth Human Relations Institute on the war and democracy
Agger, Robert 1 entry, 1956
- September 17, 1956: Chapel Hill annexes 65 acres around Glenwood School at the request of the Chapel Hill Housing Group
Aggy 1 entry, 1818
- August 18, 1818: Mary Walker is born into an enslaved family held by the Bennehans and Camerons
Aiken, Sandy 1 entry, 1892
- 1892: Harvey's Chapel AME Church is organized
Ailey, Alvin 1 entry, 1988
- February 1, 1988: The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performs in Memorial Hall
Akers, Susan Grey 4 entries, 1932–1942

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Albers, Anni 1 entry, 1943
- November 7-28, 1943: Person Hall Art Gallery shows Josef and Anni Albers and Bauhaus-trained artists
Albers, Josef 1 entry, 1943
- November 7-28, 1943: Person Hall Art Gallery shows Josef and Anni Albers and Bauhaus-trained artists
Albert 3 entries, 1840–1846

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Albert 1 entry, 1844

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- 1844–1848: Dabney Cosby takes the masonry subcontract for the lengthening of Old East and Old West
Albert 1 entry, 1845

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- 1845 to 1846: Brothers Albert and Osborne, enslaved by Dabney Cosby, plaster the lengthened Old East
Albert 1 entry, 1846

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- May 11, 1846: Albert joins his brother Osborne to plaster the halls at the university
Albert, Fred 1 entry, 1964
- May 7, 1964: Kenan Oil Company advertises the opening of its Colonial Phillips 66 station at Churton and Tryon
Albert, James 1 entry, 1823
- 9 April and 2 May 1823: Mary Albert swears that her son James, a soldier who died in service, was born outside marriage
Albert, Lovi 1 entry, 1823
- 9 April and 2 May 1823: Mary Albert swears that her son James, a soldier who died in service, was born outside marriage
Albert, Mary 1 entry, 1823
- 9 April and 2 May 1823: Mary Albert swears that her son James, a soldier who died in service, was born outside marriage
Albird, Mary 1 entry, 1784
- 16 February 1784: Mary Albird refuses to name her child's father and gives the bastardy bond herself
Albright, Daniel 2 entries, 1813–1816
- May Term 1813: The court orders a road laid off from Michael Holt's old place toward the Guilford road
- May Term 1816: The court names election inspectors for the county's polling places
Albright, George 2 entries, 1811–1833
- February 28, 1811: The court orders a public bridge over the Great Alamance at Elfand's mill
- February Term 1833: The court takes Mary Revill, a child of color, from Thomas D. Watts and binds her to Mary Palmer
Albright, Henry 2 entries, 1841
- May Term 1841: The court binds Isaac Albright's sons to learn spinning in a cotton factory
- 18 August 1841: Jesse McCuistion offers to give the Albright boys back to their returning father
Albright, Isaac 2 entries, 1841
- May Term 1841: The court binds Isaac Albright's sons to learn spinning in a cotton factory
- 18 August 1841: Jesse McCuistion offers to give the Albright boys back to their returning father
Albright, Jacob 1 entry, 1776
- summer 1776: Orange County militia join Griffith Rutherford's campaign against the Cherokee
Albright, Jesse 2 entries, 1841
- May Term 1841: The court binds Isaac Albright's sons to learn spinning in a cotton factory
- 18 August 1841: Jesse McCuistion offers to give the Albright boys back to their returning father
Albright, William 1 entry, 1840
- September 19, 1840: Whigs hold a log cabin festival at Chapel Hill
Alden, Dorothy 1 entry, 1957
- December 17, 1957: Chapel Hill Elementary pupils play carols with professional musicians at the school Christmas program
Alderman, Edwin 1 entry, 1897
- February 1897: Trustees vote to admit women to the university's post-graduate courses
Alderman, Edwin Anderson 20 entries, 1877–1937

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Alderman, John T. 1 entry, 1940
- by November 22, 1940: Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation lets a contract for rural lines in northern Orange
Alderman, L. R. 1 entry, 1938
- week of October 31, 1938: Eighty volunteers go out across Orange County to teach adults to read
Alemán, Marco 2 entries, 2004–2008
- 2004: UNC School of Medicine starts CAMPOS to train Spanish-speaking physicians
- 2008: UNC opens the Center for Latino Health for Spanish-speaking patients
Alexander, Charles F. 1 entry, 1962
- April 12, 1962: W. T. Grant opens a department store at Eastgate Shopping Center
Alexander, Chester 1 entry, 1953
- January 20, 1953: Orange Presbytery gives its judicial commission final authority over Charles M. Jones
Alexander, Eben 13 entries, 1886–1939

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Alexander, Elam 1 entry, 1825
- 1825: The Orange County Sunday School Union asks the Assembly to fund its schools
Alexander, Elreta 1 entry, 1974
- February 9, 1974: Judge Elreta Alexander speaks at UNC's Women's Festival
Alexander, H. Q. 1 entry, 1915
- July 5 to 10, 1915: The University Summer School holds a Rural Life Conference
May be the same person as Alexander, Henry Quincy
Alexander, Henry Quincy 1 entry, 1913
- November 1913: Graham proposes a statewide civic service week in a Charlotte speech
May be the same person as Alexander, H. Q.
Alexander, J. C. 1 entry, 1958
- 1958: Orange Methodist Church leaves a three-point charge for its own student minister
Alexander, J. M. 2 entries, 1880–1884
- August 28, 1880: Chapel Hill Township Democrats hold their first primary election
- August 16, 1884: Chapel Hill Democrats organize a Cleveland and Scales Club
May be the same person as Alexander, James M.
Alexander, James M. 1 entry, 1878
- September 2, 1878: Chapel Hill commissioners set the town tax and elect a town attorney
May be the same person as Alexander, J. M.
Alexander, Joseph 1 entry, 1770
- Fall 1770: Orange Presbytery holds its first meeting at Hawfields Church
Alexander, Kelly, Jr. 2 entries, 1971–1972
- late August 1971: UNC holds its first Black pre-orientation for entering freshmen
- February 11-12, 1972: An NAACP youth conference on politics meets at UNC
Alexander, Lewis 1 entry, 1930
- by May 16, 1930: Carolina Magazine publishes its annual issue of Black writers
Alexander, Marion 1 entry, 1938
- 1938: With its money gone, the Institute's first staff leave for state jobs
Alexander, Mark 1 entry, 1808
- 1808: Thirty-eight students petition the faculty over food at Steward's Hall
Alexander, O. R. 1 entry, 1958
- by July 3, 1958: Southern Garment Company starts making dresses in the Roberts building west of Efland
Alexander, Will W. 3 entries, 1929–1949

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Alexander, William 1 entry, 1955

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Alexander, William Julius 1 entry, 1833
- December 1833: Trustees make the senior professor Caldwell's deputy and add an adjunct professor
Ali, Muhammad 1 entry, 1975
- October 31, 1975: Muhammad Ali visits UNC and speaks in Carmichael Auditorium
Allcott, John V. 3 entries, 1940–1941

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Allen, A. T. 3 entries, 1926–1932
- May 1926: County and town school officials meet all day on a Chapel Hill township school district
- May 10, 1930: North Carolina Federation of Students is organized at Chapel Hill
- July 14-15, 1932: The state Conference on Elementary Education meets in Chapel Hill on schools in the Depression
Allen, Abraham 1 entry, 1795
- November Term 1795: The court orders a road from the east end of Franklin Street into the New Hope road from Raleigh
Allen, Arch 1 entry, 1966
- February 7, 1966: UNC trustees' executive committee bars Frank Wilkinson and Herbert Aptheker from the Chapel Hill campus
Allen, Arthur 1 entry, 1955
- March 1955: Five Black farm communities organize for the county Farm and Home Efficiency program
May be the same person as Allen, Arthur A.
Allen, Arthur A. 1 entry, 1948
- March 20, 1948: The North Carolina Bird Club meets in Chapel Hill and votes to merge with South Carolina's club
May be the same person as Allen, Arthur
Allen, Beverly 1 entry, 1778
- 1778: Methodists divide their North Carolina circuit and form the New Hope Circuit, taking in part of Orange
Allen, Mrs. C. E. 1 entry, 1925
- October 13-14, 1925: Mount Adar hosts the Mount Zion Baptist Association for the first time
Allen, Capt. 1 entry, 1917
- mid-October 1917: The Carolina battalion begins digging practice trenches east of the campus
Allen, Charity 1 entry, 1864
- 28 September 1864: N. C. Cates advertises for a runaway bound girl
Allen, D. C. 1 entry, 1945
- May 9-11, 1945: UNC holds its sesquicentennial research conference
Allen, E. D. 1 entry, 1897
- February 15, 1897: Teacher London A. Whitted dies at Chapel Hill
Allen, Edmond 1 entry, 1813
- May 28, 1813: The county pays the sheriff for executing Edmond Allen
Allen, Edwin 1 entry, 1864
- 1864: Black and Native American worshippers in Chapel Hill gather under a grape arbor and form the congregation that became St. Paul AME
Allen, George, Jr. 1 entry, 1814
- 1814: George Allen Jr. and Solomon Debow deed seven acres to Hawfields Church
Allen, Harry 1 entry, 1990
- October 22, 1990: Harry Allen of Public Enemy leads a Black Cultural Center discussion on hip-hop
Allen, Hilda C. 6 entries, 1935–1937

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Allen, J. Stuart 5 entries, 1917–1918

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Allen, J. W. 1 entry, 1887
- by May 28, 1887: J. W. Allen, a Black barber, opens a shop in Hillsborough
Allen, Jackie Hawkins 1 entry, 1987
- April 5, 1987: Mount Adar ordains Jackie Hawkins Allen, the first woman it ordained
Allen, James 2 entries, 1880–1888
- 1880: Five custom grist mills work the creeks of Cedar Grove Township
- week of March 19, 1888: Superior court jury acquits James Allen of murder
Allen, Mrs. Jule 1 entry, 1957
- September 16, 1957: Cedar Grove Community Choir organizes
Allen, Lake 1 entry, 1940
- 1940–1950: UNC School of Public Health runs a Rockefeller-funded syphilis study in Orange and neighboring counties
Allen, Mrs. Marvin 1 entry, 1959
- October 5, 1959: Chapel Hill school board moves high school baccalaureate services out of the churches
Allen, Mary 1 entry, 1864
- 28 September 1864: N. C. Cates advertises for a runaway bound girl
Allen, Miss 1 entry, 1868
- June 30, 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay praises Hillsborough's Howard Freedmen's School and asks the Philadelphia Friends for more teachers
Allen, O. H. 1 entry, 1897
- March 15-17, 1897: Wash Atwater gets fifteen years for an assault near Chapel Hill
Allen, Robert 1 entry, 1868
- April 20 to May 13, 1868: Robert Allen is driven from his farm near Ridge Meeting House over his Republican vote
Allen, Sally 1 entry, 1809
- 7 December 1809: Hugh Cain marries Sally Allen a week after his bastardy bond for her child
Allen, Stuart 1 entry, 1917
- October 11, 1917: The Orange County Red Cross reports 455 members at its first annual meeting
Allen, Victor 1 entry, 1920
- January 30, 1920: Fire destroys N. W. Brown's store building at West Hillsboro
Allison, Augustus 1 entry, 1868
- November 17, 1868: A Cedar Grove meeting expels Samuel H. Martin from the freedmen's school committee
Allison, B. J. 2 entries, 1975–1976
- about 1975: Southern Real Estate and the EDY Corporation form the Carr Mill partnership
- August 1976: Work begins on the shopping mall in Carr Mill and its new grocery and drug store building
Allison, E. Lavonia 1 entry, 1978
- by September 15, 1978: The North Carolina Health Manpower Development Program wins a federal grant for minority pre-health students
Allison, Harper 1 entry, 1832
- May 1832: White Cross Church, later an AME congregation, is organized
Allison, Herman 1 entry, 1955
- March 1955: Five Black farm communities organize for the county Farm and Home Efficiency program
Allison, J. 1 entry, 1839
- by January 8, 1839: A bill to divide Orange County fails in the state Senate by four votes
Allison, J. J. 1 entry, 1870
- February 1870: Frederick Strudwick takes an unexpired Orange County seat in the House
Allison, John 3 entries, 1788–1805
- August 26, 1788: John Allison is appointed register of Orange County after the death of Josiah Watts
- May Term 1792: County officers take the oath to support the Constitution of the United States
- May Term 1805: The court orders a public clock for the courthouse and levies a tax for it
Allison, John J. 2 entries, 1867–1868
- late 1860s: Allison and Corbin run a plug tobacco factory at Cedar Grove
- 1868: Josiah Turner Jr. wins Orange's Senate seat but is excluded under the Fourteenth Amendment
Allison, Joseph 23 entries, 1759–1861

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Allison, M. E. 1 entry, 1890
- June 2, 1890: Census enumerators begin the 1890 count in Orange County
May be the same person as Allison, Marion E.
Allison, Mrs. M. L. 1 entry, 1946
- July 22, 1946: Women organize an American Legion Auxiliary unit for Hillsboro Post No. 85
Allison, M. L. 2 entries, 1948
- May 29, 1948: Orange County voters return the incumbent board of commissioners in the Democratic primary
- April 17, 1948: Orange County Republicans file a nearly full slate as filing closes
Allison, Marion E. 1 entry, 1957
- December 1, 1957: The Hillsboro Exchange Club gives Sydney Green its Book of Golden Deeds
May be the same person as Allison, M. E.
Allison, Owen 1 entry, 1951
- August 1951: Owen Allison succeeds H. G. Laws as Hillsboro's police chief
Allison, W. A. 1 entry, 1896
- November 3, 1896: Orange County voters elect township magistrates and constables
Allison, W. W. 2 entries, 1880–1887
- by October 23, 1880: Independents put up W. W. Allison, Josiah Turner and John Berry against the Democratic ticket
- September 12, 1887: W. W. Allison, long a magistrate in Cedar Grove Township, dies
May be the same person as Allison, William W.
Allison, William W. 1 entry, 1867
- late 1860s: Allison and Corbin run a plug tobacco factory at Cedar Grove
May be the same person as Allison, W. W.
Allsbrook, Julian 1 entry, 1924
- February 1924: Chase and Coates rally students to revive the Graham Memorial drive
Allsbrook, R. G. 1 entry, 1898
- January 1898 (by January 20): R. G. Allsbrook moves the Hillsboro Male Academy into the Barracks
Alsobrook, David B. 1 entry, 1822
- 1822: David B. Alsobrook buys Taylor's tavern and makes it a hotel
Alsobrook, S. B. 1 entry, 1826
- July 4, 1826: Chapel Hill celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of independence
Alston, A. 1 entry, 1913
- 1913: Mebane Chapel is organized in Hillsborough
Alston, B. F. 1 entry, 1914
- 1914: Mebane Chapel builds its church in Hillsborough under its first pastor, B. F. Alston
Alston, Benjamin 1 entry, 1837
- late August 1837: Benjamin Alston is killed in the upper end of Orange County
Alston, Gene 1 entry, 1980
- March 28, 1980: UNC housekeepers present grievances to the Physical Plant
Alston, John 1 entry, 1893
- March 23, 1893: John Alston pleads guilty in the arson case over E. H. Cooley's property and gets ten years
Alston, Squire 1 entry, 1869
- 1869 or 1870: An Orange grand jury finds no bill against John A. Thompson in the Squire Alston raid
Alston, Mrs. William 1 entry, 1945
- May 1, 1945: Black citizens of Hillsboro organize a health committee with Roosevelt Warner as chairman
Altvater, F. Vernon 1 entry, 1938
- 1938 to 1940: F. Vernon Altvater restores the Faucett House and joins a moved early house to it as a wing
Alves 1 entry, 1857
- October 1, 1857: Alves, an enslaved man sentenced to death, is baptized at St. Matthew's
Alves, Walter 10 entries, 1790–1805

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Amana, Harry 8 entries, 1979–2001
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Amick, George Crawford 2 entries, 1948–2011
- 1948: Charlie McAdams and George Crawford Amick open the A & M Grill in Mebane
- June 26, 2011: The A & M Grill in Mebane closes after 63 years
Amiker, Mrs. A. B. 1 entry, 1962
- by April 5, 1962: Black parent-teacher groups form an Orange County PTA council
Amis, James S. 2 entries, 1850–1861
- week of September 9, 1850: Orange Superior Court sentences an enslaved man named Ellick to hang
- August Term 1861: The court binds Fanny Taborn, a free girl of color, to Julia Minor
Anderson, Alice 1 entry, 1945
- first week of January 1945: Hillsboro High opens a lunchroom under the federal child feeding program
Anderson, Arthur 1 entry, 1868
- November 17, 1868: A Cedar Grove meeting expels Samuel H. Martin from the freedmen's school committee
Anderson, Bob 3 entries, 1958–1968
- 1958: Engineer Bob Anderson joins City Planning and Architecture Associates
- mid-1960s: Stewart and Anderson build a new office on Estes Drive as Webb stays in the old Methodist church
- 1968: Don Stewart designs a house on stilts over Booker Creek for his partner Bob Anderson
Anderson, David 2 entries, 1875–1877
- early May 1875 (reported May 5): Hillsborough elects John M. Blackwood magistrate of police on a mixed-party ticket
- May 7, 1877: Hillsborough elects C. S. Cooley mayor and a new board of commissioners
Anderson, Esther 1 entry, 1868
- September 25, 1868: Esther Anderson arrives to teach Hillsborough's freedmen's school
Anderson, Hank 7 entries, 1969–2009

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Anderson, Jess 1 entry, 2024
- June 3, 2024: Chapel Hill breaks ground on the Trinity Court redevelopment
Anderson, Joe 1 entry, 1867
- 9 October 1867: Thomas J. Anderson advertises for Joe Anderson, a bound boy he says ran away
Anderson, John 2 entries, 1755–1756
- August 1755: Hugh McAden preaches to the Eno and Hawfields settlements
- April 27-28, 1756: Hugh McAden returns to preach at the Hawfields and on the Eno
Anderson, Mrs. John 2 entries, 1929–1931
- by November 1, 1929: Chapel Hill's UDC chapter stakes out 3,000 crepe myrtles along the Jefferson Davis Highway
- April 17, 1931: The Daughters of the Confederacy plant a George Washington memorial elm at Spencer Hall
May be the same person as Anderson, Mrs. John H.
Anderson, John H. 1 entry, 1931
- February 2, 1931: University Lodge No. 408 dedicates its new hall in the old Baptist church
Anderson, Mrs. John H. 1 entry, 1934
- February 27, 1934: The American Legion Auxiliary holds an Americanism program in Hillsboro
May be the same person as Anderson, Mrs. John
Anderson, Kenneth 1 entry, 1801
- August 27, 1801: A jury finds Africa Parker did not escape the prison bounds
Anderson, R. M. 1 entry, 1945
- 1945: Four Orange County farmers run hybrid corn demonstrations
Anderson, Robert W. 2 entries, 1873–1898
- November 1873: Eno Church elects its first deacons
- January 31, 1898: Robert W. Anderson is the first person buried in Eno Church's new cemetery at Cedar Grove
May be the same person as Anderson, Robert Walker
Anderson, Robert Walker 1 entry, 1864
- May 5-12, 1864: Capt. Robert Walker Anderson of Hillsborough is killed at the Wilderness and other town men are wounded
May be the same person as Anderson, Robert W.
Anderson, Sherwood 2 entries, 1928–1937

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Anderson, Thomas 1 entry, 1872
- June 1, 1872: The school board refuses back pay to a Mangum Township teacher accused of misconduct
Anderson, Thomas J. 1 entry, 1867
- 9 October 1867: Thomas J. Anderson advertises for Joe Anderson, a bound boy he says ran away
Anderson, Tom 1 entry, 1945
- December 6, 1945: Hillsborough Boy Scouts hold their first court of honor in almost 32 years
Anderson, W. 1 entry, 1830
- 1830: W. Anderson opens a female boarding school near Hillsborough
Anderson, W. H. 1 entry, 1884
- June 2, 1884: Orange County magistrates enlarge the board of commissioners from three to five
Anderson, W. N. 1 entry, 1884
- May 5, 1884: Hillsborough re-elects Mayor George C. Corbin and a seven-man town board
Anderson, Walker 12 entries, 1799–1835

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Anderson, William 1 entry, 1886
- May 3, 1886: D. C. Parks is elected a Hillsborough town commissioner
Anderson, William E. 2 entries, 1833–1837
- October 19, 1833: William E. Anderson and Samuel J. Johnston take over the female boarding school near Hillsborough
- December 1837: Manuel Fetter is elected professor of ancient languages
Anderson, William N. 1 entry, 1875
- September 18, 1875: The Orange Guards reorganize at Hillsborough with Halcott P. Jones as captain
Anderson, Wm. N. 1 entry, 1883
- May 7, 1883: Hillsborough elects George O. Corbin mayor
Anderson-Thompkins, Sibby 4 entries, 1991–1996
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Andresen, Julie 1 entry, 1987
- November 3, 1987: Jonathan Howes is elected mayor of Chapel Hill
Andrews, Alexander Boyd 3 entries, 1880–1934

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Andrews, Benny 1 entry, 1977
- March 22-23, 1977: Alice Walker and Benny Andrews appear at UNC with Black Student Movement backing
Andrews, C. F. 1 entry, 1898
- 1898: Chesley Foster Andrews builds a frame farmhouse near Union Grove
Andrews, Calvin 2 entries, 1908–1928
- January 29, 1908: Calvin Andrews, one of the county's best-known educators, dies in Chapel Hill Township
- June 8, 1928: Wilton V. Andrews, longtime teacher and county school board chairman, dies
Andrews, Charles M. 4 entries, 1908–1925

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Andrews, David 1 entry, 2013
- 2013: Walter Horton becomes Carrboro's first African American police chief
Andrews, Dick 2 entries, 1935–1939
- mid-1930s: Andrews and Lloyd sell their North Greensboro Street cedar mill site to Fitch Lumber
- 1939: Durham Hosiery Mills sells its Carrboro houses and land at auction
Andrews, Dora R. 1 entry, 1943
- January 10, 1943: Dora R. Andrews, who taught in the Orange County schools for 50 years, dies
Andrews, E. A. 2 entries, 1822–1828

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Andrews, Eugene 5 entries, 1922–1940
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Andrews, H. C. 1 entry, 1870
- 1870-1871: Trustees refuse land for a Black school in Chapel Hill
Andrews, Henry 1 entry, 1878
- October 16, 1878: Orange Superior Court convicts three men of the Hendon burglary and sentences them to hang
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Andrews, Henry F. 1 entry, 1879
- April 11, 1879: Judge Buxton resentences the three Chapel Hill burglars to hang after the Supreme Court upholds their conviction
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Andrews, Ike F. 1 entry, 1970
- October 1, 1970: Tom Bello asks students to nominate candidates for chancellor
Andrews, Ira E. D. 4 entries, 1904–1906
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Andrews, Jack 3 entries, 1930–1934
- March 10, 1930: A midget golf course opens on the lot behind the Chapel Hill post office
- September 13, 1933: Bonner Sawyer resigns as prosecutor of Chapel Hill's recorder's court
- March 18, 1934: Fire damages the M System store on Franklin Street
Andrews, James Clarence 1 entry, 1939
- about 1939: Architect Bradford Eddy designs James Clarence Andrews's house on Buttons Road
Andrews, James Lee 2 entries, 1940
- by November 22, 1940: Nine volunteers fill Orange County's draft quota for 1940
- December 10-13, 1940: Orange County sends three volunteers to Fort Bragg under the new draft
Andrews, Julius 1 entry, 1954
- May 13, 1954: Cane Creek Baptist Church sets the dedication of its new church
Andrews, Levi 1 entry, 1834
- June 1834: Members of Cane Creek organize Mars Hill Baptist Church
Andrews, Mark 1 entry, 1806
- 1806: Cane Creek Baptists organize the Haw River Mountain Church, later Antioch
Andrews, Miles 2 entries, 1910–1920
- about 1910: Carrboro businessman Miles Andrews builds a frame house on East Main Street
- early 1920s: Merchant Dwight Ray builds a bungalow on Hillsborough Road
Andrews, Nellie 1 entry, 1924
- between 1924 and 1928: Eugene Andrews turns his West Franklin Street home into a funeral home
Andrews, Nita 2 entries, 1925–1961
- 1925: A UNC study counts forty-seven rural schools and ninety teachers in Orange County
- 1961: Troy and Robin Andrews return to the farm and enlarge the old Lloyd log house
Andrews, Phillip 1 entry, 1949
- July 7, 1949: Phillip Andrews opens a Gulf service station at 214 West Franklin Street
Andrews, R. C. 2 entries, 1942–1964
- November 1, 1942: Orange County register of deeds S. W. Andrews dies
- May 1964: Chapel Hill merchant R. C. "Jack" Andrews dies
Andrews, R. P. 2 entries, 1919–1923
- May 6, 1919: Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor W. S. Roberson and elects five aldermen
- May 8, 1923: Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor W. S. Roberson over Carl Wiegand
Andrews, R. S. 1 entry, 1910
- 1910: The First Pentecostal Holiness Church of West Hillsborough is organized
Andrews, Raymond 6 entries, 1930–1958
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Andrews, Raymond L. 1 entry, 1948
- June 10, 1948: The Carrboro Lions Club elects Lloyd Senter president
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Andrews, Roberta C. 6 entries, 1954–1986

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Andrews, Samuel Weldon 42 entries, 1887–1942

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Andrews, T. Wingate 4 entries, 1909–1928
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Andrews, Thomas Wingate 2 entries, 1908–1911
- July 6, 1908: Thomas Wingate Andrews is elected superintendent of the Orange County schools
- July 3, 1911: Samuel Paul Lockhart rejects the school board's re-election of Superintendent T. Wingate Andrews
Andrews, Troy M. 3 entries, 1954–1965
- summer 1954: Franc Sidler meets Troy and Robin Andrews on their farm and sketches a house for it
- 1961: Troy and Robin Andrews return to the farm and enlarge the old Lloyd log house
- 1965 to 1967: Black masons build Troy and Roberta Andrews's Sidler-designed house on the family farm
Andrews, W. H. 1 entry, 1908
- about 1908: C. M. and W. H. Andrews take over the West End Drug Company in West Hillsboro
Andrews, W. J. 1 entry, 1910
- 1910: The First Pentecostal Holiness Church of West Hillsborough is organized
Andrews, W. W. 1 entry, 1888
- July 2-7, 1888: Superintendent Currie holds the county teachers' institute for white teachers at Hillsborough
Andrews, Wilton V. 11 entries, 1846–1928

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Angell, Norman 1 entry, 1917
- October 26, 1917: Norman Angell speaks at the University on American policy at the peace
Angelou, Maya 1 entry, 1981
- November 10, 1981: Maya Angelou speaks in Memorial Hall on the state of the performing arts
Angier, A. M. 1 entry, 1863
- August 5, 1863: Assessors announce the listing of Orange County property under the Confederate tax
Angier, M. A. 6 entries, 1863–1879
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Ann, Mary 1 entry, 1846
- February 9, 1846: Mitchell asks the Burwells to sell his wife Mary Ann with him
Ansley, William 2 entries, 1786–1789
- August 1786: The county court names a jury to lay off a road from McCauley's mill to Hillsborough
- May 26, 1789: The court names the men to take the tax lists in the county's eight districts
Antepli, Abdullah 1 entry, 2015
- February 11, 2015: About 2,000 people hold a vigil in UNC's Pit for Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha and Razan Abu-Salha
Aptheker, Herbert 15 entries, 1962–1991

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Arant, Anamerle 2 entries, 1952–1956
- November 3, 1952: Ruth Thompson is named Orange County's home demonstration agent
- by June 21, 1956: Home demonstration agent Ruth Thompson resigns to go to Guilford County
Archer, Fannie G. 1 entry, 1907
- 1907: The Archer family builds a house on South Columbia Street that becomes a student boarding house
Archer, Fred 1 entry, 1921
- September 1921: Ione Cates opens a cafeteria in Chapel Hill that feeds the University's overflow
Archer, Joseph 1 entry, 1907
- 1907: The Archer family builds a house on South Columbia Street that becomes a student boarding house
Archer, Mrs. Joseph 1 entry, 1925
- February 6, 1925: Community Club women carry household goods and books to the Orange County Training School
Archer, Waine 1 entry, 1906
- by August 2, 1906: Charles T. Beasley resigns as cashier of the Bank of Chapel Hill
Arey, John 1 entry, 1932
- March 11, 1932: Orange County dairymen meet in Hillsboro and organize to get a fairer milk price
Argo, F. H. 1 entry, 1890
- November 4, 1890: Students start the Chapel Hillian newspaper
Argo, T. M. 1 entry, 1870
- March 30–April 1, 1870: Rival claimants to Chapel Hill's town offices are told to stand down
Argo, Thomas M. 2 entries, 1868–1875
- 1868: Josiah Turner Jr. wins Orange's Senate seat but is excluded under the Fourteenth Amendment
- September 15, 1875: The Dialectic and Philanthropic societies meet again
Armfield, Billy 1 entry, 1997
- December 2, 1997: Former UNC police officer C. E. Swain sues the university
Armfield, Eugene M. 1 entry, 1904
- August 1904: Eugene M. Armfield gives $5,000 for books in English philology
Armfield, R. F. 3 entries, 1890
- March 11, 1890: Judge Armfield's hearing at Hillsborough on the McMannen killing ends with the officers in federal hands
- the week of March 17, 1890: Robert Foster is convicted of manslaughter for the killing of Thomas Day
- March 10, 1890: A special term of Orange Superior Court opens to clear the civil docket
Armstrong, Anderson 1 entry, 1838
- February 15, 1838: A temperance convention at Green Spring takes aim at treating by candidates
Armstrong, James 1 entry, 1797
- May 25, 1797: The court frees Cicero under James Armstrong's will
Armstrong, John 4 entries, 1764–1789

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Armstrong, Joseph 1 entry, 1838
- April 7, 1838: A Cedar Grove muster-day meeting names the Democratic ticket for Orange
Armstrong, Marcus 1 entry, 1838
- October 1, 1838: Joshua Berry is killed at his grog shop near the Person County line
Armstrong, Nancy 1 entry, 1977
- September 26, 1977: Court of Appeals lets OWASA survey Cane Creek land over owners' objections
Armstrong, Norman 1 entry, 1952
- October 6, 1952: County commissioners order the big elm on the courthouse yard cut down
Armstrong, Ray 1 entry, 1956
- April 26, 1956: Carrboro Lions Club opens its new Boy Scout hut
Armstrong, Roy 3 entries, 1942–1955
- by September 25, 1942: T. J. Wilson Jr. becomes University archivist as Husbands, Armstrong and Parker take new posts
- 1953: The Chapel Hill Methodist church installs a Standaart organ
- March 10, 1955: Hillsboro High holds its first Career Day
Armstrong, William 1 entry, 1777
- August 1777: The county court binds James Empey not to recruit soldiers for another state
Arnold, John 1 entry, 1816
- November Term 1816: The court pays for the finished Eno bridge at Bennehan's and Cameron's mills
Arnold, Land 1 entry, 2009
- November 2009: Flyleaf Books opens
Arnoud, Raymond L. 2 entries, 1944
- early May 1944: Free French naval aviation cadets begin training at the Pre-Flight School
- early August 1944: The French naval aviation training program moves its national headquarters out of Chapel Hill
Arrasmith, T. E. 1 entry, 1922
- March 3, 1922: Hillsborough's town commissioners deplore the effigy burning but vow to keep fighting the highway route in court
Arrasmith, T. M. 2 entries, 1925–1926
- May 5, 1925: Hillsboro re-elects Mayor T. M. Arrasmith and a five-man council
- June 5, 1926: Orange County Democrats nominate A. W. Kenion for clerk and a new board of commissioners
Arrasmith, T. W. 1 entry, 1927
- by April 22, 1927: New county tax supervisor names Chapel Hill Township's assessors
Arrasmith, Thomas 1 entry, 1929
- early January 1929: County board of health names Dr. S. A. Nathan quarantine officer
Arrasmith, William S. 1 entry, 1949
- October 23, 1949: Dr. D. Efland Forrest opens the Forrest Clinic, Hillsborough's first private hospital
Arrington, A. H. 1 entry, 1861
- November 6, 1861: Orange's Josiah Turner Jr. loses the Fifth District race for the Confederate Congress
Arrington, Arthur 1 entry, 1878
- June 5, 1878: Judge Grant of Iowa addresses the alumni at the university's commencement
Arrington, Katherine 1 entry, 1937
- January 15, 1937: The University opens the Person Hall Art Gallery
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Arrington, Katherine Pendleton 3 entries, 1933–1934
- by December 8, 1933: Katherine Pendleton Arrington gives the University two gargoyles and a bishop from Westminster
- March 1934: Civil Works crews begin turning Person Hall into the University's art museum
- December 3, 1934: President Graham and Leila Mechlin announce plans for a fine arts center in Person Hall
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Arrowood, M. C. 4 entries, 1905–1910
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Arthur, Dave 1 entry, 1946
- by May 2, 1946: Carrboro Woolen Mills enlarges its plant in its first year
Arthur, David E. 1 entry, 1948
- May 30, 1948: The Junior Service League deeds the Carrboro Health Center to the Carrboro Civic Association
Arthur, Gabriel 1 entry, 1674
- May or June 1674: Gabriel Arthur leaves his trade goods at the Eno town
Asbury, Francis 2 entries, 1780–1800
- August 2, 1780: Francis Asbury preaches to about 200 people at a Hillsborough tavern
- 1800: Francis Asbury visits Chapel Hill and the university
Ashe, Arthur 1 entry, 1981
- February 1981: Arthur Ashe talks to minority students about careers in Great Hall
Ashe, John 6 entries, 1768–1771

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Ashe, John 1 entry, 1870

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- August 1870: Students of the Pool university board chiefly with Black families
Ashe, Paoli 1 entry, 1818
- May Term 1818: The court binds Samuel Strudwick over to the Superior Court for the death of an enslaved woman he whipped
Ashe, Richard 4 entries, 1817–1866
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Ashe, Richard J. 1 entry, 1857
- 1857: Trustees buy Elisha Mitchell's books and minerals after his death
Ashe, S. A., Jr. 1 entry, 1890
- November 4, 1890: Students start the Chapel Hillian newspaper
Ashe, Samuel 7 entries, 1767–1796

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Ashe, Samuel A. 1 entry, 1874

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Ashe, Thomas S. 2 entries, 1868–1879
- April 21-23, 1868: Orange County votes against the 1868 constitution and for Thomas S. Ashe over Holden
- June 5, 1879: The university gives honorary doctorates of laws to Samuel F. Phillips and Justices Ashe and Dillard
Ashe, W. W. 1 entry, 1933

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Ashe, William Sheppard 1 entry, 1849

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Asheim, Lester 2 entries, 1975–1990

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Ashley, Charles 1 entry, 1821
- May Term 1821: The court orders Reuben Barbee to bring his apprentice Charles Ashley into court or go to jail
Athas, Daphne 5 entries, 1938–2020

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Atkins, Eleanor Swain 1 entry, 1865
- August 23, 1865: General Smith D. Atkins married Eleanor Swain, daughter of the university president
Atkins, J. W. 1 entry, 1926
- January 13-15, 1926: The North Carolina Press Association holds a Newspaper Institute in Chapel Hill
Atkins, Smith D. 6 entries, 1865

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Atkins, Thomas 1 entry, 1816
- November Term 1816: The court pays for the finished Eno bridge at Bennehan's and Cameron's mills
Atkins, W. E. 1 entry, 1924
- 1924: W. E. Atkins of the Atwood and Nash firm builds a Craftsman cottage on Gimghoul Road
Atkinson, George Francis 3 entries, 1881–1888

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Atkinson, John 4 entries, 1775–1776
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Atkinson, John W. 1 entry, 1886
- Thanksgiving Day 1886: Students hold the first of a series of gymnastic contests
Atkinson, Thomas 2 entries, 1859–1878
- November 25, 1859: Bishop Atkinson consecrates St. Mary's Chapel
- May 1878: Joseph Blount Cheshire is assigned to the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill
Atwater, Albert 2 entries, 1878–1879
- October 16, 1878: Orange Superior Court convicts three men of the Hendon burglary and sentences them to hang
- May 16, 1879: Three men hanged for a string of Chapel Hill burglaries
Atwater, Charity 1 entry, 1897
- by June 17, 1897: Charity Atwater leaves Chapel Hill to rejoin a husband taken from her in slavery
Atwater, Emerson 1 entry, 1954
- May 1954: The Pride of Orange Elks lodge clears ground for its hall on South Merritt Mill Road
Atwater, Esther 1 entry, 1962
- June 1962: Chapel Hill Human Relations Committee asks for a Black nurse on the district health staff
Atwater, Hubert 1 entry, 1940
- January 23, 1940: An eleven-inch snow paralyzes Chapel Hill and closes the schools
Atwater, James 1 entry, 1902

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Atwater, Jehiel 1 entry, 1863
- late May 1863: The county court sets up commissioners to direct the Soldiers' Fund
Atwater, Laura 1 entry, 1928
- March 10, 1928: White Rock Church is organized
Atwater, Luther 1 entry, 1940
- January 23, 1940: An eleven-inch snow paralyzes Chapel Hill and closes the schools
Atwater, Mathew 1 entry, 1870
- May 21-23, 1870: Orange Conservative convention nominates its 1870 county ticket
Atwater, Matthew 14 entries, 1863–1900

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Atwater, Thomas A. 2 entries, 1911
- September 4, 1911: County commissioners call off the November vote on $250,000 in road bonds
- 1911-1914: J. D. Webb chairs the Orange County board of commissioners
Atwater, Tom 1 entry, 1937
- August 21–22, 1937: Racial violence erupts in western Chapel Hill and Carrboro
Atwater, Wash 1 entry, 1897
- March 15-17, 1897: Wash Atwater gets fifteen years for an assault near Chapel Hill
Atwater, Wilson 1 entry, 1885
- July 31, 1885: Rev. Wilson Atwater dies at his Orange County home
Atwood, Anne 1 entry, 1795
- August 24, 1795: Jane Atwood declines to name the father and gives her own bond
Atwood, Jane 1 entry, 1795
- August 24, 1795: Jane Atwood declines to name the father and gives her own bond
Atwood, Thomas 1 entry, 1795
- August 24, 1795: Jane Atwood declines to name the father and gives her own bond
Atwood, Thomas C. 21 entries, 1919–1943

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Augustine, Joe 5 entries, 1960–1963
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Auman, D. Glenn 1 entry, 1948
- May 10, 1948: Hillsborough Presbyterian Church begins its educational building
Auman, Glenn 5 entries, 1949–1973
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Auman, Mrs. Glenn 1 entry, 1955
- April 30-May 1, 1955: About 450 visitors take the Hillsboro Garden Club's historic homes and gardens tour
Austin, Lewis 1 entry, 1954
- June 25, 1954: High Rock and Harmony families hold their second Farm and Home Tour
Autry, J. W. 1 entry, 1925
- November 1925: J. F. Starnes becomes Methodist pastor at Carrboro and Orange Church
Avent, E. R. 1 entry, 1948
- March 1948: An Orange County Superior Court jury convicts Felmet and the other three Chapel Hill bus defendants
Avent, E. W. 1 entry, 1955
- December 9, 1955: James S. Compton is honored on giving up the chairmanship of the county ASC committee after 21 years
Avery, A. C. 1 entry, 1857
- June 4, 1857: Ten senior orators, John W. Graham and the valedictorian speak on commencement day
Avery, Gladys 1 entry, 1916
- October 4, 1916: Women students organize a co-ed club at the university
Avery, J. A. 1 entry, 1944
- by September 21, 1944: Black farmers of the Carr and White Oak neighborhoods hold their first dairy heifer show
Avery, Waightstill 3 entries, 1775–1778

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Avery, William W. 2 entries, 1833–1837
- 1833: The university has five buildings, nine teachers and about 1,900 library books
- June 1837: The university graduates nine seniors and makes Basil Manly a Doctor of Divinity
Avery, Willoughby F. 1 entry, 1861

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Aycock, Charles B. 17 entries, 1879–2021

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Aycock, William 1 entry, 1946
- 1946: Victory Village is built to house married veterans at UNC
Aycock, William B. 19 entries, 1946–1964

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Ayscue, Ann 1 entry, 1798
- November Term 1798: The court releases John Justice when Ann Ayscue's child is shown to be a child of color