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• Babb, Herman H. 1 entry, 1961
  • July 7, 1961: Architect Herman H. Babb dies after collapsing at a Chapel Hill school board meeting
• Bacon, David 1 entry, 1977
  • 1977: David Bacon opens the Pyewacket, a vegetarian restaurant on West Franklin Street
• Bacon, J. G. 1 entry, 1825
  • 1825: The Orange County Sunday School Union asks the Assembly to fund its schools

  May be the same person as Bacon, Joseph G.

• Bacon, J. W. 1 entry, 1881
  • March 12, 1881: Little River Township votes down the no-fence law
• Bacon, Joseph G. 1 entry, 1823
  • February 1823: Dr. James Webb deeds Hillsborough's Methodists a lot and house on Tryon Street

  May be the same person as Bacon, J. G.

• Bacon, W. M. 1 entry, 1934
  • August 4, 1934: The Farmers Mutual Exchange holds its fifth annual meeting at Hogan's Lake
• Bacon, Wallace 1 entry, 1963
  • October 31, 1963: St. Mary's wins the county's 1963 community development contest
• Baddour, Allen 2 entries, 2019–2020
  • November 27, 2019: The UNC System gives Silent Sam to the Sons of Confederate Veterans with a $2.5 million trust in a same-day consent judgment
  • February 12, 2020: Judge Allen Baddour voids the Silent Sam settlement in Hillsborough for lack of standing
• Baddour, Dick 4 entries, 1998–2011

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• Bader, Jesse M. 1 entry, 1938
  • January 23-28, 1938: The Federal Council of Churches holds a Religion-in-Life week at the University
• Badger, George E. 10 entries, 1818–1844

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• Badger, Richard C. 1 entry, 1873
  • August 1873: A constitutional amendment returns the election of university trustees to the General Assembly
• Baer, Mrs. Herbert R. 1 entry, 1949
  • early March 1949: Faculty wives and women faculty form the University Woman's Club at Chapel Hill
• Bagby, English 1 entry, 1936
  • May 11, 1936: University Lake opens to anglers for a season-long fishing year
• Bagley, Dudley 2 entries, 1939
  • July 1, 1939: Rural power lines approved in Orange County reach 271 miles and 1,157 customers
  • January 19, 1939: The federal government approves the Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation's application

  May be the same person as Bagley, Dudley W.

• Bagley, Dudley W. 1 entry, 1937
  • February 1937: Duke Power agrees to bring electricity to Caldwell School

  May be the same person as Bagley, Dudley

• Bahnson, Henry T. 1 entry, 1903
  • May 7, 1903: The university confers its first Doctor of Medicine degrees
• Bailey, Brian 1 entry, 1987
  • December 2, 1987: Student Congress passes a resolution on AIDS condemning a Deacs Have AIDS homecoming float
• Bailey, Delores 1 entry, 2023
  • October 17, 2023: EMPOWERment broke ground on PEACH apartments at the former Pine Knolls Community Center
• Bailey, J. O. 2 entries, 1931–1937

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• Bailey, John L. 4 entries, 1845–1859
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  • May 30, 1845: John L. Bailey announces a law school at Hillsborough
  • by June 26, 1850: Frederick Nash and John L. Bailey form a law school at Hillsborough
  • December 31, 1851: Nash and Bailey's Hillsborough law school promises a weekly moot court
  • 1859: John L. Bailey leaves Hillsborough and moves his law teaching to Buncombe County

  May be the same person as Bailey, John Lancaster

• Bailey, John Lancaster 1 entry, 1854
  • 1854: Judge John L. Bailey buys the Norwood house south of the Eno and names it Eno Lodge

  May be the same person as Bailey, John L.

• Bailey, Josiah 3 entries, 1931–1936
  • September 8-10, 1931: Coates opens his first statewide school for law officers in Manning Hall
  • June 23-24, 1933: More than a thousand people attend the Institute of Government's second statewide conference
  • Summer 1936: The PWA withdraws its grant for the Institute of Government building
• Bailey, Josiah William 4 entries, 1925–1942

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• Bailey, Loretto Carroll 4 entries, 1929–1936

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• Bailey, Neil P. 1 entry, 1929
  • by July 26, 1929: The university's engineering school adds a course in aeronautics
• Bailey, Tamara 3 entries, 1998
  • by October 19, 1998: The BSM executive board suspends the funds of four of its subgroups
  • November 1998: BSM members march through the Pit for affirmative action during BSM Month
  • November 11, 1998: Chancellor Hooker answers BSM members' questions on the 22 demands
• Bailey, Thomas B. 1 entry, 1849
  • March 15, 1849: Orange County railroad meeting backs a central route through Orange and Guilford
• Bailey, William H. 2 entries, 1856–1859
  • April 23, 1856: Logs laid across the railroad west of Hillsborough strike the passenger train
  • 1859: John L. Bailey leaves Hillsborough and moves his law teaching to Buncombe County
• Bain, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1941
  • May 19, 1941: Chapel Hill organizes a chapter of Federal Union (Union Now)
• Bain, Ellen 1 entry, 1858
  • May 11, 1858: John H. Webb buys 9 9/16 acres from Ellen Bain for the St. Mary's congregation
• Bain, James M. 2 entries, 1867–1870
  • September 1, 1867: The wardens' yearly count finds 21 people in the poorhouse
  • 1870: Orange County reports on its poorhouse to the new Board of Public Charities
• Bain, N. D., Sr. 1 entry, 1887
  • August 1887: Farmers of the Fairfield neighborhood organize a Farmers' Club at Fairfield Church
• Bain, Nathaniel 1 entry, 1857
  • May 1857: The wardens of the poor order poorhouse repairs and a $1,000 loan

  May be the same person as Bain, Nathaniel L.

• Bain, Nathaniel D. 14 entries, 1844–1889

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• Bain, Nathaniel L. 1 entry, 1873
  • December 1873: The Eno Grange is organized at Cedar Grove

  May be the same person as Bain, Nathaniel

• Bain, Robert D. 14 entries, 1895–1919

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• Baine, R. D. 1 entry, 1905
  • early 1900s: Martha Hall sells the Ellis house to Sheriff R. D. Baine
• Baird, David 1 entry, 1957
  • February 18, 1957: Orange poultrymen form a county unit of the Central Carolina Poultry Association
• Baity, Elizabeth Chesley 2 entries, 1978–2005
  • September 25, 1978: Neighbors oppose the university's request to rezone the former Baity land
  • 2005: Baity Hill graduate and family housing opens on former Baity land
• Baity, Mrs. H. G. 1 entry, 1941
  • by January 31, 1941: Friends of Person Hall is organized to support the University art gallery
• Baity, Herman G. 25 entries, 1930–2005

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• Baker, Buck 4 entries, 1956–1959
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  • May 13, 1956: Buck Baker wins the spring 100-lap race at Orange Speedway
  • September 30, 1956: Fireball Roberts wins the fall race at Orange Speedway
  • March 23, 1958: Sunday stock car racing returns to Orange Speedway, and Buck Baker wins the 100-mile race
  • January 1959: A Hollywood crew films a racing drama at Orange Speedway and the Colonial Inn
• Baker, Charlotte Loomis 1 entry, 1917
  • June 29, 1917: The King's Daughters stage the musical comedy Carmena for charity
• Baker, Foy 1 entry, 1939
  • by December 21, 1939: Black Masons of North Carolina hold their Grand Lodge convention in Chapel Hill
• Baker, Julian Meredith 1 entry, 1877
  • June 1877: The reopened university graduates its first class
• Baker, Lawrence 1 entry, 1801
  • 1801-1802: The university raises money for the Main Building by lottery
• Baker, Mary 1 entry, 1896
  • February 1896: A $3,000 gift turns the old gymnasium into Commons Hall
• Baker, Newton D. 2 entries, 1917
  • June 6, 1917: Secretary of War Newton D. Baker gives the wartime commencement address
  • Early 1917: Students form volunteer companies and drill on Emerson Field
• Baker, Quentin 1 entry, 1964
  • April 23 to 24, 1964: Judge Mallard sentences fasters Pat Cusick and John Dunne to a year in jail
• Baker, Quinton 3 entries, 1963–1965

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• Baker, Robert 1 entry, 1777
  • August 1777: The county court binds James Empey not to recruit soldiers for another state
• Baker, Simmons J. 2 entries, 1822–1831
  • January 1822: Faculty send ten new students out of Chapel Hill in a smallpox scare
  • June 22, 1831: Friends of education organize the North Carolina Institute of Education at Chapel Hill
• Balch, Hezekiah 1 entry, 1770
  • Fall 1770: Orange Presbytery holds its first meeting at Hawfields Church
• Balderas, Ben 2 entries, 1999–2007
  • 1999–November 2009: El Centro Latino serves Latino residents from Carrboro
  • November 2007: Carrboro adopts an anti-lingering ordinance at the Jones Ferry and Davie roads day-labor corner
• Baldridge, James 2 entries, 1796–1798
  • May Term 1796: James Baldridge is appointed treasurer of the county's public buildings
  • March 3, 1798: The court allows the treasurer of public buildings for repairs to the jail and court house
• Baldwin, Alice 1 entry, 1943
  • May 12, 1943: Women organize the Chapel Hill Business and Professional Women's Club
• Baldwin, H. B. 1 entry, 1900
  • early twentieth century: A Black congregation builds Neville's Chapel outside Chapel Hill
• Baldwin, Henry 1 entry, 1935
  • 1935: St. Joseph CME builds its first church on West Rosemary Street

  May be the same person as Baldwin, Henry W.

• Baldwin, Henry W. 1 entry, 1977
  • 1977–1979: St. Joseph CME sold Henry W. Baldwin's Broad Street land to Carrboro for a park

  May be the same person as Baldwin, Henry

• Baldwin, James 1 entry, 1984
  • November 12, 1984: James Baldwin speaks in Memorial Hall to open Human Rights Week
• Baldwin, Pam 1 entry, 2020
  • March 16, 2020: Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and Orange County Schools close under a statewide order
• Baldwin, Rebecca 2 entries, 1810–1829
  • May Term 1810: The court binds three-year-old Rebecca Baldwin to her mother, Elizabeth Woods
  • August Term 1829: The court frees Rebecca Baldwin, jailed for refusing to name her child's father
• Balk, Julia 2 entries, 1991
  • by January 1991: Chancellor Hardin decides to move The Student Body statues
  • January 11-13, 1991: Vandals knock the basketball player from The Student Body statues
• Ball, F. K. 1 entry, 1880
  • 1880: F. K. Ball builds a shingled house on East Franklin Street

  May be the same person as Ball, Francis K.

• Ball, Francis K. 1 entry, 1886
  • 1886: The university begins leasing its Franklin Street land to faculty for houses

  May be the same person as Ball, F. K.

• Ball, J. H. 1 entry, 1944
  • April 18, 1944: Hillsborough's town board accepts Police Chief John E. Sharpe's resignation and reorganizes the job
• Ballance, Cutlar 1 entry, 1950
  • February 2, 1950: Orange breeders hold a Spotted Poland China hog show and sale at Hillsboro
• Ballance, Frank 1 entry, 1973
  • February 10, 1973: The law school's Student Bar Association holds a minority law day
• Ballance, Laura 8 entries, 1989–2024

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• Ballard, John P. 1 entry, 1938

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  • August 5, 1938: John Parker becomes the first Black Orange County farmer to get a Farm Security Administration purchase loan
• Ballard, John P. 11 entries, 1943–1958

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• Ballentine, L. Y. 3 entries, 1945–1953
  • February 3, 1945: The Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation holds its annual meeting at Hillsboro
  • April 19, 1947: Chapel Hill dedicates its new bus station
  • November 30, 1953: About 2,000 farm people gather in Hillsborough for Rural Progress Night
• Ballinger, Susan 1 entry, 2005
  • October 12, 2005 – February 28, 2006: UNC Libraries opens the exhibit Slavery and the Making of the University
• Bane, John 1 entry, 1849
  • November 21, 1849: John Bane advertises his apprentice John (Jack) Stout, a youth of color, as a runaway
• Banes, Tildea 1 entry, 1831
  • May Term 1831: The grand jury asks the court to take charge of a girl living with Bartlet Walden, a man of color
• Bankhead, William B. 1 entry, 1939
  • November 29, 1939: House Speaker William Bankhead dedicates the Institute of Government building
• Banks, Charles A. 1 entry, 1904
  • November 11, 1904: Federal officers raid two Hillsborough places for illegal whiskey
• Banks, Sherrod 3 entries, 1983–1985
  • October 11, 1983: The BSM holds a press conference on the future of Upendo Lounge
  • September 17, 1984: The BSM opens a campaign for UNC to divest from South Africa
  • March 19, 1985: Student leaders release a report opposing the mandatory meal plan
• Baraka, Amiri 1 entry, 1973
  • late January 1973: Imamu Amiri Baraka speaks at UNC on a Black revolutionary party
• Barakat, Deah 1 entry, 2015

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• Barakat, Deah 3 entries, 2015

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• Barakat, Deah Shaddy 1 entry, 2015
  • February 10, 2015: Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha and Razan Abu-Salha are killed in Chapel Hill
• Barakat, Farris 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
• Barbee, Alfred David, Jr. 1 entry, 1965
  • 1965 to 1967: Black masons build Troy and Roberta Andrews's Sidler-designed house on the family farm
• Barbee, Alfred David, Sr. 3 entries, 1928–1965

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• Barbee, Algernon 1 entry, 1918
  • 1918: Former mayor Algernon Barbee is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
• Barbee, Algernon S. 16 entries, 1875–1939

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• Barbee, Arthur 1 entry, 1930
  • February 24, 1930: A Black janitor shot by a Chapel Hill policeman is tried in recorder's court
• Barbee, C. Page 1 entry, 1842
  • February 5-12, 1842: Students form the University Temperance Society
• Barbee, Christopher 11 entries, 1779–1898

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• Barbee, Christopher 1 entry, 1834

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  • January 22, 1834: A notice offers Christopher Barbee's livestock and household goods for sale at his late home
• Barbee, Francis 1 entry, 1779
  • 1779: Christopher Barbee buys his brother Francis's share of their father's land grant east of Chapel Hill
• Barbee, George W. 1 entry, 1878
  • May 13, 1878: Chapel Hill's new town board chooses John H. Watson mayor
• Barbee, Jessie 1 entry, 1870
  • 1870: Mount Sinai Baptist Church is organized
• Barbee, King 2 entries, 1839–1847
  • February Term 1839: The court binds the Corn children under bonds not to take them out of the county
  • 1 December 1847: John Shepard advertises for William Harriss and Liza Corn, two free bound apprentices who left together
• Barbee, Reuben 1 entry, 1821
  • May Term 1821: The court orders Reuben Barbee to bring his apprentice Charles Ashley into court or go to jail
• Barbee, S. M. 1 entry, 1879
  • November 6, 1879: University Railroad corporators open subscription books for a line from Chapel Hill to Durham

  May be the same person as Barbee, Sidney Mulholland

• Barbee, S. M., Jr. 1 entry, 1879
  • April 12, 1879: Corporators of the State University Railroad meet at Chapel Hill and open books for stock
• Barbee, Samuel 1 entry, 1862
  • 1862: A carved brownstone headstone marks Thomas Fletcher's grave in the enslaved people's section
• Barbee, Seaton 1 entry, 1874
  • mid-1870s: Seaton Barbee opens a drugstore on Franklin Street
• Barbee, Sidney Mulholland 2 entries, 1839–1844
  • 1839: Sidney Mulholland Barbee and L. S. Tower buy Zachariah Trice's store
  • 1844: Sidney Mulholland Barbee builds a house and three stores on Franklin Street

  May be the same person as Barbee, S. M.

• Barbee, Thomas 1 entry, 1919
  • December 1919: Orange Superior Court convicts Thomas Barbee of manslaughter in the death of John Claytor
• Barbee, William 14 entries, 1793–1849

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• Barbee, Willis Edward 1 entry, 1965
  • 1965 to 1967: Black masons build Troy and Roberta Andrews's Sidler-designed house on the family farm
• Barber, William 1 entry, 2010
  • September 2010: UNC honors its first three Black undergraduates, 55 years on
• Barber, William J., II 5 entries, 2010–2025

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• Barbour, Josephine 2 entries, 1962
  • November 6, 1962: Democrats carry Orange County's general election as Republicans gain ground
  • October 1, 1962: Orange County Republicans open a county headquarters in Chapel Hill
• Barclay, George 1 entry, 1934
  • January 16, 1934: Carl Snavely becomes head football coach at UNC
• Barclift, C. D. 3 entries, 1957–1958
  • August 18, 1957: Carrboro Methodist Church dedicates its new building
  • April 13, 1958: Amity Methodist Church is organized in north Chapel Hill
  • March 9, 1958: Hillsborough and New Sharon Methodists dedicate the parsonage they built together
• Bard, Ralph A. 1 entry, 1942
  • November 21, 1942: Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ralph A. Bard inspects the Pre-Flight School
• Barefoot, Stephen 1 entry, 1981
  • October 1981: Stephen's...after all opens as a cafe and supper club in Village Plaza
• Barfield, J. Franklin 1 entry, 1925
  • April 22, 1925: Robert L. Strowd's 1,200-acre farm on Chapel Hill's eastern edge is sold at auction
• Barfield, Ruby D. 1 entry, 1940
  • June 1940: The 1940 census counts 3,653 people in Chapel Hill and 1,455 in Carrboro
• Barham, David 2 entries, 1830–1904
  • 1830: Professor James Phillips hires David Barham from his owner as a college servant
  • 1904: The old Joseph Caldwell obelisk is taken down, later to stand for four college servants
• Barham, J. E. C. 1 entry, 1888
  • January 20, 1888: Hillsborough's Black Independent Literary Society installs its officers at the A.M.E. church
• Barham, Odell 2 entries, 1958
  • May 20, 1958: Carrboro and White Cross voters reject joining the Chapel Hill school district
  • April 1958: Opponents of the school merger form the Carrboro School Development Council
• Barham, Roy 1 entry, 1946
  • December 4, 1946: Chapel Hill opens a joint fund drive for its recreation center, Black community center and nursery
• Barham, William 1 entry, 1830
  • 1830: Professor James Phillips hires David Barham from his owner as a college servant
• Barker, Oscar 1 entry, 1926
  • by October 8, 1926: Oscar Barker starts a new Hillsboro weekly, the Recorder

  May be the same person as Barker, Oscar G.

• Barker, Oscar G. 1 entry, 1938
  • November 8, 1938: Chapel Hill pharmacist Carl T. Durham is elected to Congress from the Sixth District

  May be the same person as Barker, Oscar

• Barker, Sidney 2 entries, 1951–1953
  • May 8, 1951: J. Sullivan Gibson unseats Mayor I. F. Hardee in Carrboro
  • May 4, 1953: Carrboro reelects Mayor J. Sullivan Gibson and fills its first six-member town board
• Barnard, Linda 1 entry, 1969
  • 1968-69 school year: Chapel Hill High holds its first Humanities Festival
• Barnes, A. D. 1 entry, 1947
  • October 1947: The university buys land on the University Lake road for a new filter plant
• Barnes, E. P. 8 entries, 1944–1954
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  • August 11, 1944: Hillsborough's community cannery opens at the school for Black and white canners
  • February 27, 1946: Farmers organize the Orange County Farm Bureau at Aycock School
  • 1946: Farmers organize an Orange County Farm Bureau with 300 members
  • 1946-1947: John W. Umstead Jr. sponsors hybrid corn demonstrations for Orange County 4-H boys
  • by December 7, 1950: County agents report Orange's 1950 tobacco crop brought $2,758,000, more than five times the 1940 crop
  • by March 27, 1952: Chapel Hill 4-H and FFA members start a strawberry plant chain
  • December 1, 1952: County agents report a $722,000 fall in Orange tobacco income after the 1952 drought
  • April 1954: Planting begins on the old courthouse grounds with the county's Rural Progress prize money
• Barnes, Ed 6 entries, 1955–1963
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  • by March 7, 1955: Orange County's farm agents launch the Farm and Home Efficiency Program
  • July 6, 1955: About 100 tobacco growers see an irrigation demonstration at Cedar Grove
  • March 17, 1962: Bobby Nichols of Cedar Grove is named North Carolina's Outstanding Young Farmer
  • September 3, 1963: The county agent reports the summer drought will cost Orange tobacco farmers about $1 million
  • June 30, 1963: Orange County farm people honor retiring county agent Don Matheson
  • September 26, 1963: A feeder calf sale at the Hillsboro livestock market sells 1,345 calves for $140,178

  May be the same person as Barnes, Ed P.

• Barnes, Ed P. 1 entry, 1964
  • March 1964: Edmund Strudwick finishes a portrait of retired farm agent Don S. Matheson

  May be the same person as Barnes, Ed

• Barnes, Edwin P. 3 entries, 1935–1956
  • 1935: M. C. Burt begins work as the county's agent for Black farmers
  • February 25, 1954: County of the Year prizes are presented to Orange farm leaders at the courthouse
  • by January 12, 1956: County agents report a million-dollar gain in the 1955 tobacco crop
• Barnes, J. P. 1 entry, 1842
  • January 29-May 2, 1842: Students kill two of Professor Mitchell's hogs and leave them in the chapel
• Barnes, O. B. 1 entry, 1917
  • March 10, 1917: The Roberson field is cut into 122 building lots and sold at auction
• Barnes, W. S. 4 entries, 1896–1897
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  • by January 7, 1896: The Alliance Weekly is published at Hillsborough for the Farmers' State Alliance
  • May 1896: The State Alliance builds a tannery at its Hillsborough headquarters
  • May 23, 1896: The State Alliance buys a shoe factory plant for its Hillsborough headquarters
  • August 10-12, 1897: The Farmers' State Alliance meets at Hillsborough and elects John Graham president
• Barnett, D. Kelley 1 entry, 1944
  • July 30, 1944: The Chapel Hill Baptist Church dedicates its paid-off building
• Barnett, Das Kelley 1 entry, 1946
  • October 14, 1946: The Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church opens a nursery school for student veterans' children
• Barnett, Kelly 1 entry, 1943
  • June 6, 1943: Rev. Kelly Barnett preaches his first sermon as pastor of the Chapel Hill Baptist Church
• Barnett, Ross 1 entry, 1964
  • April 27, 1964: Former Mississippi governor Ross Barnett speaks in Memorial Hall
• Barnhill, M. V. 3 entries, 1927–1933
  • November 2, 1927: The Chapel Hill Insurance and Realty Company goes into receivership
  • by July 24, 1929: Court receivers wind up the bankrupt Chapel Hill Insurance and Realty Company
  • March 1933 (suit denied March 28, 1933): Thomas Hocutt sues to enter the University's school of pharmacy and is refused
• Barnwell, James A. 7 entries, 1949–1952
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  • by December 22, 1949: Highway commissioner Barnwell picks 42.9 miles of Orange County roads for the first paving
  • September 26, 1949: Citizens set up township committees to choose Orange County roads for paving
  • March 6, 1950: County commissioners approve a 76.4-mile list of rural roads for bond paving
  • October 1950: State crews pave 6.7 more miles of Orange County secondary roads in October
  • by September 1, 1950: Newly paved Orange Grove, Antioch and Jones Ferry roads open
  • September 1952: The state paves the Cedar Grove-Caldwell road and the Camp Hollowrock road
  • June 1952: The state paves Jones Ferry Road out to the Chatham County line
• Barnwell, James H. 1 entry, 1952
  • April 14, 1952: The school board withdraws its choice of a northern route for an all-weather road between Aycock and Caldwell
• Baron, Thomas 1 entry, 1803
  • March 18, 1803: Hillsborough Academy trustees engage Thomas Baron after George Johnston fails to arrive
• Barr, Phoebe 2 entries, 1932–1935
  • July 11-12, 1932: The Playmakers perform Alcestis in Kenan Stadium with choric dances by Phoebe Barr
  • May 25 and 27, 1935: The Carolina Playmakers stage Hamlet in the Forest Theatre, with Frederick Koch as Hamlet
• Barr, Roger 1 entry, 1996
  • February 12, 1996: Chapel Hill Town Council recommends site OC-17 beside the Eubanks Road landfill for the next county landfill
• Barrett, George 1 entry, 2016
  • May 2016: RENA and the Jackson Center published the Rogers Road community plan commissioned by the three governments
• Barrett, Grainger 1 entry, 1986
  • February 21, 1986: Estes Drive and Burlage Circle residents reach an agreement with Hakan-Corley over the Siena Hotel
• Barringer, Daniel A. 1 entry, 1835
  • August 13, 1835: Dr. William Montgomery of Orange is elected to Congress
• Barringer, Daniel L. 2 entries, 1829–1832
  • August 13, 1829: Daniel L. Barringer keeps the Hillsborough district seat in Congress over Orange's James A. Craig
  • late summer 1832 (by September 26): An Orange County meeting at the court house condemns nullification
• Barringer, Daniel M. 1 entry, 1866
  • 1866: Trustees mortgage all university property to settle its debts
• Barringer, Rufus 1 entry, 1849
  • January 18, 1849: The House of Commons passes the North Carolina Railroad bill brought in by Orange's member Mebane
• Barringer, Victor C. 1 entry, 1868
  • late 1868 or early 1869: Trustees vote to found a university branch for Black students near Raleigh
• Barringer, William 1 entry, 1861
  • October 6, 1861: Presiding elder William Barringer dedicates the new Methodist church in Hillsborough
• Barrios, Jarrett 1 entry, 2004
  • October 11, 2004: Massachusetts State Senator Jarrett Barrios gives the GLBT-SA's National Coming Out Day keynote
• Barron, Vance 5 entries, 1954–1961
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  • August 15, 1954: Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church calls the Rev. Vance Barron as minister
  • October 5, 1959: Chapel Hill school board moves high school baccalaureate services out of the churches
  • October 18, 1959: Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church dedicates its new student center and educational wing
  • July 10, 1961: Thirteen Chapel Hill ministers publicly back the school board's desegregation plan
  • February 9, 1961: UNC moves the Mitchell family graves from the campus to the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
• Barrymore, Ethel 1 entry, 1931
  • March 11, 1931: Irish poet George W. Russell (A. E.) visits and lectures in Chapel Hill
• Barton, Agnes 1 entry, 1916
  • October 4, 1916: Women students organize a co-ed club at the university
• Barton, William 2 entries, 1836–1850
  • May Term 1836: Jemima Mitchell arranges for her son William Barton, a boy of color, to be bound to Aquilla Compton
  • February Term 1850: The court binds Henry Mitchell, son of Eliza Mitchell, to William Barton
• Barton, Wm. 1 entry, 1883
  • May 29, 1883: Court-appointed commissioners award damages to landowners along the University Railroad
• Barton, Zeb C. 1 entry, 1949
  • May 2, 1949: Orange County's new Board of Education organizes with Kemp S. Cate as chairman
• Basile, David 1 entry, 1968
  • 1968: Binkley Church adds a classroom wing
• Basker, Bob 1 entry, 1977
  • April 1977: The Carolina Gay Association hosts the second Southeastern Gay Conference
• Baskerville, Charles 11 entries, 1886–1905

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• Baskin, E. L. 1 entry, 1923
  • October 7, 1923: Chapel Hill Baptists formally open their new church
• Basnight, Jesse 1 entry, 1963
  • April 9, 1963: County commissioners name the outside members of Carrboro's new planning and zoning boards
• Basnight, S. H. 3 entries, 1932–1956
  • March 26, 1932: Orange County Republicans meet in Hillsboro and endorse Hoover
  • February 26, 1951: Orange Fire Protective Association elects T. C. Ellis its first president
  • by April 12, 1956: S. H. Basnight and Sons buys the Colonial Press building in Carrboro
• Basnight, W. D. 1 entry, 1956
  • by June 28, 1956: S. H. Basnight and Sons moves its builders' hardware business to Carrboro

  May be the same person as Basnight, William D.

• Basnight, William D. 1 entry, 1956
  • by April 12, 1956: S. H. Basnight and Sons buys the Colonial Press building in Carrboro

  May be the same person as Basnight, W. D.

• Bason, Cecilia Hatrick 1 entry, 1927
  • June 1927: Trustees appoint Sallie Belle Marks and Cecilia Hatrick Bason, the first women on the faculty
• Bason, Earl 1 entry, 1957
  • December 16, 1957: Bason Chevrolet takes over Hillsborough's Chevrolet dealership
• Bason, George F. 1 entry, 1934
  • September 1934: George and Mabel Bason open Whitehall in the old MacRae house
• Bason, Mabel 1 entry, 1934
  • September 1934: George and Mabel Bason open Whitehall in the old MacRae house
• Bason, S. M. 2 entries, 1938
  • December 20, 1938: Chapel Hill and Durham men form a committee to push a four-lane highway between the towns
  • May 1938: The University and the highway commission agree to widen the Pittsboro road underpass by the Carolina Inn
• Bass, Chesley 1 entry, 1858
  • 1858 or early 1859: The court orders Chesley Bass hired out to pay a bastardy judgment
• Bass, Dee 1 entry, 1880
  • about 1880: Glenn's Grove Baptist Church is organized
• Bass, Eliza 1 entry, 1845
  • May Term 1845: The court calls in the children of six free families of color to be bound out and tells the parents they may object
• Bass, John 1 entry, 1845
  • May Term 1845: The court calls in the children of six free families of color to be bound out and tells the parents they may object
• Bass, Mariah 1 entry, 1845
  • May Term 1845: The court calls in the children of six free families of color to be bound out and tells the parents they may object
• Bass, Stephen 1 entry, 1845
  • May Term 1845: The court calls in the children of six free families of color to be bound out and tells the parents they may object
• Batchelor, J. B. 1 entry, 1874
  • about November 5, 1874: Orange Superior Court refuses to send the suit against the North Carolina Railroad lease to federal court
• Bateman, Flicka 1 entry, 2012
  • July 2012: Refugee Support Center opens in Carrboro
• Bates, Bill 2 entries, 1975
  • mid-September 1975: More than 200 Black students march on South Building over frozen BSM funds
  • by October 1975: A Black woman becomes UNC's student attorney general for the first time
• Bates, Sanford 1 entry, 1935
  • March 31 to April 6, 1935: University holds its third Human Relations Institute
• Batterson, R. D. 1 entry, 1877
  • September 5, 1877: The school board approves Piney Mountain as school District 53
• Battle, C. C. 1 entry, 1834
  • July 4, 1834: Chapel Hill celebrates the Fourth of July with a student oration and a dinner

  May be the same person as Battle, Christopher C.

• Battle, Christopher C. 1 entry, 1833
  • November 1833: Students win the use of Steward's Hall for the commencement ball

  May be the same person as Battle, C. C.

• Battle, Elisha 2 entries, 1788
  • July 24, 1788: The convention resolves itself into a committee of the whole with Elisha Battle in the chair
  • July 21, 1788: The convention names a select committee to draft its rules of debate
• Battle, Fred 11 entries, 1970–2022

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• Battle, George E., III 1 entry, 1994
  • February 1994: George E. Battle III wins the UNC student body presidency
• Battle, Gordon 1 entry, 1992
  • July 9, 1992: Orange County jury finds three former UNC officials discriminated against police officer Keith Edwards
• Battle, H. B. 2 entries, 1891–1896
  • July 6, 1891: The state experiment station director certifies an analysis of the Occoneechee mineral spring water
  • by September 3, 1896: Hillsborough has its town pump water analyzed and the well cleaned
• Battle, Hinton 1 entry, 1982
  • November 12, 1982: Memorial Hall shows Sophisticated Ladies live by satellite from Broadway
• Battle, Junius C. 1 entry, 1866
  • April 16, 1866: Bodies of Junius and Wesley Lewis Battle brought home for burial
• Battle, Kemp D. 1 entry, 1934
  • June 11, 1934: Former students give the University a portrait of Horace Williams
• Battle, Kemp P. 1 entry, 1915
  • by November 4, 1915: Nell Battle opens a kindergarten in Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Battle, Kemp Plummer

• Battle, Kemp P., Jr. 1 entry, 1879
  • November 8, 1879: The University Gun Club holds its first ball shoot
• Battle, Kemp Plummer 110 entries, 1843–2020

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• Battle, Kemp Plummer 1 entry, 1920

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  • 1920s: Dr. John Booker remodels Senlac on Battle Lane

  May be the same person as Battle, Kemp P.

• Battle, Lewis 1 entry, 1863
  • July 1 to 3, 1863: Chapel Hill counts its dead and wounded from Gettysburg
• Battle, Lucy Martin 1 entry, 1851
  • 1851: Isaac J. Collier finishes a house for Elizabeth Nunn
• Battle, Lucy Martin Plummer 2 entries, 1843–1845
  • 1843: William Horn Battle moves his family to Chapel Hill and buys a house beside the campus
  • March 1845: Enslaved workers build and tend the Battle household in Chapel Hill
• Battle, Nell 1 entry, 1915
  • by November 4, 1915: Nell Battle opens a kindergarten in Chapel Hill
• Battle, Richard H. 8 entries, 1854–1912

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• Battle, T. H. 1 entry, 1879
  • November 8, 1879: The University Gun Club holds its first ball shoot

  May be the same person as Battle, Thomas; Battle, Thomas H.

• Battle, Thomas 1 entry, 1943
  • by February 19, 1943: Civilian Defense gives arm bands to twelve Black volunteer fire-fighters in Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Battle, T. H.; Battle, Thomas H.

• Battle, Thomas H. 1 entry, 1880
  • about March 10, 1880: Seniors begin the class tree and Class Day custom

  May be the same person as Battle, T. H.; Battle, Thomas

• Battle, Wesley Lewis 1 entry, 1866
  • April 16, 1866: Bodies of Junius and Wesley Lewis Battle brought home for burial
• Battle, William Horn 31 entries, 1818–1879

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• Battle, William Horne 1 entry, 1927
  • February 8, 1927: A portrait of Judge William Horne Battle is dedicated in Manning Hall
• Battle, William James 1 entry, 1890
  • 1890: William James Battle publishes a register of the Dialectic Society
• Baucom, Walt 1 entry, 1956
  • December 3, 1956: Chapel Hill freeholders petition for a recreation district vote
• Baugh, J. A. 1 entry, 1929
  • September 1929: Chase refuses a mill official's demand that Frank Graham be fired
• Baxter, H. H. 1 entry, 1949
  • November 1, 1949: The Institute of Government delivers its Charlotte-Mecklenburg consolidation study
• Baxter, Nancy 1 entry, 1810
  • November Term 1810: Short Vaughan, jailed on a bastardy charge, is freed on the insolvent debtor's oath
• Bayley, William 1 entry, 1930
  • April 28, 1930: Children's library board makes a $1,500 Bayley gift its first endowment
• Beam, Jeffery 4 entries, 1998–2006

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• Beard, Charles A. 1 entry, 1933
  • February 21 to 23, 1933: Charles A. Beard gives the Weil lectures on national interest
• Beard, Gladys Angel 1 entry, 1932
  • 1932: Gladys Angel Beard is hired to direct physical education for women
• Beard, Grover 1 entry, 1942
  • January 26, 1942: Would-be vegetable gardeners organize in Chapel Hill and are offered plots
• Beard, Joe 1 entry, 1957
  • July 19, 1957: Hearing on the interstate route south of Hillsboro draws protests
• Beard, John Grover 3 entries, 1931–1940

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• Beard, L. E. 15 entries, 1929–1959

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• Beard, Mrs. Thomas 1 entry, 1952
  • February 18, 1952: Teachers and parents organize a county unit of the United Forces for Education
• Beard, William H. 1 entry, 1825
  • August and September 1825: Fever outbreak kills three university students
• Beasley, Charles T. 1 entry, 1906
  • by August 2, 1906: Charles T. Beasley resigns as cashier of the Bank of Chapel Hill
• Beasley, Oscar 8 entries, 1949–1966
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  • May 1949: Arthur Wells is listed for the advisory committee of the Sartin school
  • November 5, 1951: School board accepts the new Cedar Grove school for Black children
  • by November 5, 1953: A Cedar Grove delegation asks the school board for an eighth grade and more classrooms at its Black school
  • May 1955: Arthur Wells is named to the Cedar Grove school advisory committee
  • March 1955: Five Black farm communities organize for the county Farm and Home Efficiency program
  • April 9, 1956: A Cedar Grove committee asks for classrooms, a lunchroom and playground land
  • April 6, 1959: Cedar Grove's advisory committee asks for two more classrooms
  • February 7, 1966: Cedar Grove's advisory council asks for a painted lunchroom and a paved playground
• Beasley, Oscar Carver 7 entries, 1949–1966

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• Beasley, Yvonne 1 entry, 1981
  • November 15, 1981: The Black Interdenominational Student Association holds its first worship service
• Beatty, Grace 1 entry, 1936
  • February 1936: Grace Beatty appointed supervising nurse of the district health unit
• Beaty, Eliza 1 entry, 1870
  • late nineteenth century: Eliza Beaty keeps a boarding house in the William Whitted House
• Beaumont, Arthur 2 entries, 1966–1969
  • March 2, 1966: Barred from Carroll Hall, Frank Wilkinson speaks to about 350 people at the Hillel House
  • March 13, 1969: State troopers clear Manning Hall on Governor Scott's orders

  May be the same person as Beaumont, Arthur J.

• Beaumont, Arthur J. 1 entry, 1966
  • March 9, 1966: Herbert Aptheker speaks to students across the McCorkle Place wall

  May be the same person as Beaumont, Arthur

• Becketti, Nick 1 entry, 2008
  • 2008: Three alumni recreate the walk attributed to Hinton James and finish at the Old Well
• Beckham 1 entry, 1891
  • by February 28, 1891: A New York lawyer named Beckham buys three pieces of Chapel Hill property
• Beckum, William Gaston 1 entry, 1846
  • May Term 1846: The court binds William Gaston Beckum to Thomas Speed to learn tobacco manufacturing
• Becton, Charles L. 2 entries, 1972–1973
  • September 1972: Charles Becton and Adam Stein open a Chapel Hill office of the Chambers, Stein law firm
  • February 10, 1973: The law school's Student Bar Association holds a minority law day
• Bedell, G. T. 1 entry, 1819
  • 1819: Visiting Episcopal clergy hold the first recorded services of the revived church in Hillsborough
• Beech, Harvey 2 entries, 1949–1988
  • October 1949–June 1951: Black law students sue to enter UNC's Law School
  • by December 1988: Black students start a scholarship named for Harvey Beech
• Beech, Harvey E. 5 entries, 1949–2002

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• Beers, Clifford 1 entry, 1936
  • April 21, 1936: Clifford Beers speaks in Chapel Hill for mental hygiene societies in North Carolina
• Belaunde, Victor Andres 2 entries, 1941
  • January 30, 1941: The General Assembly meets in Chapel Hill to honor the University's South American visitors
  • January to February 28, 1941: The university hosts 108 South American students in its Winter-Summer School
• Belk, Donald 1 entry, 1999
  • August 1999: A county survey proposes a St. Mary's Road rural historic district
• Bell, Al 1 entry, 1940
  • by April 19, 1940: Work begins on the stone seats of the new Forest Theatre
• Bell, Albert Q. 1 entry, 1941
  • May 3, 1941: Rebuilt Forest Theatre holds its first public event, the University May Day
• Bell, B. H. 2 entries, 1880
  • December 6, 1880: Newly elected county commissioners take office and re-elect Jones Watson chairman
  • September 4, 1880: Orange Democrats nominate their county ticket at Hillsborough
• Bell, Cecil E. 1 entry, 1955
  • March 11, 1955: Carrboro's new industry committee elects officers to court manufacturers
• Bell, Derrick 1 entry, 1960
  • December 20, 1960: Final arguments are heard in Stanley Vickers's suit against the Chapel Hill schools
• Bell, J. Y. 1 entry, 1952
  • by February 1952: The Lincoln-Northside PTA borrows $1,600 from the Quaker Fund for band instruments
• Bell, James Munsie 6 entries, 1918–1934

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• Bell, Mark 1 entry, 2021
  • March 8, 2021: Hillsborough renames Thomas Ruffin Street as Lydia Lane
• Bell, Robert 1 entry, 1804
  • 1804: Suit by William Kirkland and others leads to the sale of Hannah and her children
• Bella 1 entry, 1818
  • August 28, 1818: The county pays the coroner for the inquest on Bella, held by Samuel Strudwick
• Bellamy, J. D., Jr. 1 entry, 1891
  • February 19-20, 1891: A legislative committee inspects the university's buildings and grounds
• Bello, Tom 9 entries, 1970–1971

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• Belton, Donald 1 entry, 1957
  • February 1, 1957: Sophie Livas sells the Carolina Coffee Shop to Donald Belton
• Ben 1 entry, 1845
  • March 1845: Enslaved workers build and tend the Battle household in Chapel Hill
• Benbury, Thomas 5 entries, 1775–1784

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• Bennehan, Richard 16 entries, 1768–1816

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• Bennehan, Richard 1 entry, 1776

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  • December 10, 1776: Orange County votes again after the Halifax Congress voids its October return
• Bennehan, Thomas D. 1 entry, 1837
  • 1837: Paul C. Cameron moves to Fairntosh to manage the Cameron plantations
• Bennett, Art 1 entry, 1954
  • October 2, 1954: Orange District Boy Scouts hold a 'Gold Rush' field day at the old iron mines
• Bennett, Bert 1 entry, 1960
  • January 19, 1960: Terry Sanford takes his campaign for governor to 200 Orange backers at Camp New Hope
• Bennett, Caroline 1 entry, 1862
  • 1862: Caroline Bennett and Sallie Brooks, free Black women, join the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church
• Bennett, David 2 entries, 1937
  • fall 1937: Chapel Hill High School starts a band with instruments from the Carrboro mill
  • September 6, 1937: Chapel Hill's schools start bands under David Bennett
• Bennett, Harvey 16 entries, 1930–1969

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• Bennett, Harvey 2 entries, 1939

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  • June 19, 1939: Bennett and Blocksidge open a coal yard beside the railroad in Carrboro
  • June 26, 1939: The University gives up its coal and appliance trade to Bennett and Blocksidge under a new state law
• Bennett, H.D. 1 entry, 1972
  • November 30, 1972: Officials signed the landfill agreement that carried promises to the Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood
• Bennett, Hugh H. 1 entry, 1948
  • by November 11, 1948: Soil Conservation Service grows Kentucky 31 fescue seed at its Mason Farm nursery
• Bennett, J. W. 2 entries, 1923–1927
  • February 5, 1923: County commissioners vote to route a new road past J. W. Bennett's to the Pittsboro road
  • by April 22, 1927: New county tax supervisor names Chapel Hill Township's assessors
• Bennett, John S. 38 entries, 1916–1962

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• Bennett, L. Kenneth 1 entry, 1977
  • 1977–1979: St. Joseph CME sold Henry W. Baldwin's Broad Street land to Carrboro for a park
• Bennitt, James 3 entries, 1865

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• Bennitt, Nancy 2 entries, 1865
  • April 18, 1865: Johnston accepts Sherman's basis of agreement at the Bennitt farm
  • April 26, 1865: Johnston surrendered to Sherman at the Bennett farm, then in Orange County
• Bens, Philip 1 entry, 1979
  • between 1979 and 1983: The old Samuel Phillips law office on East Franklin is enlarged as a home
• Benson, Edward 1 entry, 1851
  • 1850-51 session: The Assembly confirms the line between Orange and Alamance
• Benson, Laura Hutchins 1 entry, 1917
  • May 2, 1917: Laura Hutchins Benson of Chapel Hill joins the Army Nurse Corps
• Benson, R. R. 1 entry, 1934
  • by November 2, 1934: R. R. Benson closes his Chapel Hill plumbing and heating business
• Benton, Ann Gooch 1 entry, 1782
  • March 14, 1782: Jesse Benton's son Thomas Hart Benton is born near Hillsborough
• Benton, Diannah 1 entry, 1866
  • September 17, 1866: Peter and Diannah Benton acquire land south of Hillsborough
• Benton, Fannie 1 entry, 1918
  • October 1918: A Black committee of the women's Liberty Loan organization raises $1,350 in Hillsborough Township
• Benton, Jesse 14 entries, 1757–1890

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• Benton, Jesse 2 entries, 1782–1789

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  • Fall 1782 to spring 1783: Drought leaves the Hartford mills without water and crops short around Hillsborough
  • November 21, 1789: Hillsborough's delegate Samuel Benton votes to ratify the Constitution at Fayetteville
• Benton, Nancy 2 entries, 1790–1801
  • Late 1790: Jesse Benton dies at Hartford
  • By 1801: Nancy Benton takes her family from Hartford to Tennessee
• Benton, Peter 2 entries, 1866–1889
  • September 17, 1866: Peter and Diannah Benton acquire land south of Hillsborough
  • by March 30, 1889: Black builders James Nichols, Peter Benton and Alex Webb form a contracting firm
• Benton, Samuel 9 entries, 1794–1809
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  • May Term 1794: The court orders Thomas Nelson to bring in the child Patty Williams says he took from her
  • February 23, 1796: The court licenses William Nunn to keep a tavern at his house at the University
  • February Term 1797: The court levies a tax to build a county jail in Hillsborough
  • August Term 1798: The court orders Samuel Benton, as reputed father, to support Alsey Murphey's child
  • 27 June 1799: Samuel Benton deeds Hillsborough lot 86 to Alice Murphey
  • May 28, 1800: County auditors report nearly £1,000 through the public buildings treasury
  • May Term 1802: The court names commissioners to let repairs to the courthouse and pillory
  • May Term 1804: The court orders a bridge across the Eno at Hillsborough and levies a tax for it
  • May Term 1809: The court names a committee to draft rules for the patrols
• Benton, Samuel, Jr. 2 entries, 1788–1789
  • 1788: The county court rules Jesse Benton owes no tax on his unsurveyed western claims
  • November 21, 1789: Hillsborough's delegate Samuel Benton votes to ratify the Constitution at Fayetteville
• Benton, Thomas Hart 5 entries, 1782–1801
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  • March 14, 1782: Jesse Benton's son Thomas Hart Benton is born near Hillsborough
  • September 1790: Richard Stanford opens an academy in the Hawfields
  • January 1799: Thomas Hart Benton of Hillsborough enters the university
  • March 19-21, 1799: Thomas Hart Benton is expelled from the Philanthropic Society for stealing from his roommates
  • By 1801: Nancy Benton takes her family from Hartford to Tennessee
• Benton, Mrs. W. D. 2 entries, 1918–1919
  • September 2, 1918: The Hillsborough Community Chorus formally organizes
  • by May 29, 1919: The Hillsboro Community Chorus turns its concerts to a Confederate memorial library
• Benton, William D. 3 entries, 1917–1925
  • 1917-1933: William D. Benton serves sixteen years as rector of St. Matthew's
  • August 24, 1924: St. Matthew's Church celebrates the hundredth anniversary of its organization
  • 1925: St. Matthew's vestry publishes Bishop Cheshire's centennial history of the parish
• Berge, A. John 1 entry, 1930
  • February 12-13, 1930: Realtors hold a two-day real estate institute at Chapel Hill with the University extension division
• Bergen, George B. 1 entry, 1870
  • August 5–19, 1870: Kirk's militia arrests Josiah Turner Jr. at Hillsborough
• Berini, Louis 1 entry, 1946
  • October 31, 1946: The U.S. Employment Service closes its Chapel Hill office
• Berkowitz, Lee R. 1 entry, 1982
  • by February 23, 1982: UNC physicians begin clinical trials of cetiedil for sickle cell crises
• Berkut, M. K. 1 entry, 1957
  • November 1957: Four families hold the first study meeting toward a new Baptist church in Chapel Hill
• Berman, S. 6 entries, 1914–1930
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  • 1914: S. Berman opens a department store at Franklin and Columbia streets
  • by October 18, 1917: S. Berman buys W. H. Parker's store stock in Carrboro
  • by July 3, 1924: S. Berman reopens his Chapel Hill department store
  • June 17, 1929: Judge Devin throws out S. Berman's suit over the sale of the People's Bank building
  • October 5, 1929: Chapel Hill's Jewish merchants close their stores for Rosh Hashanah
  • February-March 1930: S. Berman's Franklin Street store fails and goes into receivership
• Berman, Sam 1 entry, 1927
  • February 1927: Sam Berman moves his department store into the old Pope Mattress building
• Berman, Samuel 1 entry, 1961
  • July 29, 1961: Samuel Berman, retired Chapel Hill department store owner, dies
• Bernard, Adeline Claypoole 1 entry, 1935
  • May 29, 1935: Adeline Claypoole Bernard, state president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, dies
• Bernard, S. G. 1 entry, 1931
  • July 23-25, 1931: The North Carolina Bar Association holds its convention in Chapel Hill
• Bernard, Mrs. W. S. 5 entries, 1923–1934
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  • November 1923: The Chapel Hill chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy puts up four Jefferson Davis Highway markers
  • March 31, 1925: Gutzon Borglum's Gerrard Hall talk raises money for Orange County's Confederate veterans
  • March to May 1925: Clubwomen and Boy Scouts clear advertising signs from the Chapel Hill-Durham road
  • May 11, 1932: Chapel Hill aldermen pledge support for clearing billboards from the roads
  • by July 27, 1934: Orange County women organize under the Reporter Plan to study New Deal agencies

  May be the same person as Bernard, Mrs. William S.

• Bernard, Mrs. William S. 1 entry, 1934
  • October 9 to 11, 1934: The United Daughters of the Confederacy hold their state convention in Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Bernard, Mrs. W. S.

• Bernard, William S. 1 entry, 1935
  • May 29, 1935: Adeline Claypoole Bernard, state president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, dies
• Bernard, William Stanly 9 entries, 1900–1938

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• Bernholz, Steve 1 entry, 1969
  • April 30, 1969: Mayoral and aldermanic candidates answer questions at the Institute of Government
• Bernstein, Pinkney 1 entry, 1946
  • early July 1946: Reserve officers organize an Orange County chapter at Chapel Hill
• Berry, Annie 2 entries, 1893–1919
  • July 30, 1893: Lisbon P. Berry organizes a Sunday school for Black residents at Hillsborough
  • July 16, 1919: Black women of Hillsborough serve the homecoming dinner for Black soldiers and sailors
• Berry, Charles 2 entries, 1944–1946
  • October 21, 1944: The Caldwell Educational Association votes to build a school and community gymnasium
  • June 3, 1946: Caldwell loses its high school when the state allots it no teachers
• Berry, Harriet Morehead 11 entries, 1883–1986

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• Berry, Henry 1 entry, 1808
  • November Term 1808: The court makes Henry Berry pay for the keep of Robert Alves Pinkerton
• Berry, Jerome Floyd, Jr. 1 entry, 1951
  • June 24, 1951: A military funeral at Little River Presbyterian Church honors Cpl. Jerome Floyd Berry Jr., killed in Korea
• Berry, Job 13 entries, 1823–1872

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• Berry, John 66 entries, 1788–1993

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• Berry, John 3 entries, 1880–1890

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  • by October 23, 1880: Independents put up W. W. Allison, Josiah Turner and John Berry against the Democratic ticket
  • March 11, 1884: The Hillsborough firm of Strayhorn & Parish is dissolved
  • June 2, 1890: Census enumerators begin the 1890 count in Orange County

  May be the same person as Berry, Dr. John

• Berry, Dr. John 1 entry, 1883
  • 1883: The Berry family moves to Sunnyside south of Hillsborough

  May be the same person as Berry, John

• Berry, Joshua 1 entry, 1838
  • October 1, 1838: Joshua Berry is killed at his grog shop near the Person County line
• Berry, Lisbon 3 entries, 1881–1884
  • July 9, 1881: A. S. Merrimon and Lisbon Berry speak for prohibition at the courthouse
  • April 26, 1884: Orange County Republicans name state convention delegates, Lisbon Berry among them
  • late September 1884: Orange County Republicans nominate Enoch Sykes for the House
• Berry, Lisbon P. 8 entries, 1882–1899

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• Berry, Martha 1 entry, 1930
  • June 10, 1930: Faculty present Francis P. Venable a loving cup for fifty years of service

  May be the same person as Berry, Martha McChesney

• Berry, Martha McChesney 1 entry, 1930
  • June 10, 1930: Commencement is held outdoors at the Davie Poplar, and Chase receives an honorary degree

  May be the same person as Berry, Martha

• Berry, Mary 1 entry, 1882
  • by June 3, 1882: Mary Berry is appointed postmistress at Hillsborough
• Berry, Mary E. Strayhorn 4 entries, 1870–1934

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• Berry, Mary Frances 3 entries, 1986–1994
  • March 25-27, 1986: UNC holds its first Black Women's Leadership Symposium
  • March to April 7, 1986: Students build anti-apartheid shanties in front of South Building
  • January 1994: Mary Frances Berry speaks at UNC's week-long King birthday celebration
• Berry, Rhody 1 entry, 1805
  • about 1805: A brick house is built on West Queen Street for Rhody Berry, mother of builder John Berry
• Berry, Richard 3 entries, 1887–1919
  • September 5, 1887: County commissioners order repairs to the court house cupola
  • June 3, 1889: Hillsborough holds the first Orange County cattle show
  • July 16, 1919: Black women of Hillsborough serve the homecoming dinner for Black soldiers and sailors
• Berry, W. P. 13 entries, 1930–1936

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• Berry, W. P., Jr. 1 entry, 1952
  • October 1952: Fairview Baptist Church is organized in Hillsborough
• Berry, Woodrow 1 entry, 1953
  • March 9, 1953: The Caldwell community lets the contract for its community house
• Berryhill, Reece 1 entry, 1933
  • by July 28, 1933: Dr. Reece Berryhill is chosen as University physician
• Berryhill, W. Reece 16 entries, 1920–1970

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• Berryhill, Mrs. W. Reece 1 entry, 1949
  • early March 1949: Faculty wives and women faculty form the University Woman's Club at Chapel Hill
• Bess, Millard Lee 1 entry, 1952
  • September 1952: Millard Lee Bess joins the Cedar Grove School staff
• Best, Claude 1 entry, 1935
  • February 6, 1935: Fire damages the University Shoe Shop in the Tankersley building
• Best, T. E., Jr. 1 entry, 1935
  • February 6, 1935: Fire damages the University Shoe Shop in the Tankersley building
• Best, Theodore E. 1 entry, 1940
  • September 21, 1940: Theodore Best, who ran an early automobile passenger line to Durham, dies
• Best, W. C. 1 entry, 1935
  • February 6, 1935: Fire damages the University Shoe Shop in the Tankersley building
• Bethea, Margaret E. 1 entry, 1945
  • March 26, 1945: Jessie Rehder buys the Chapel Hill Flower Shop
• Betts, A. D. 1 entry, 1878
  • December 31, 1878: Chapel Hill Methodists hold the town's first watch night service
• Betts, Doris 1 entry, 1984

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• Betts, W. A. 3 entries, 1878–1879
  • October 5, 1878: Sunday schools organize an Orange County Sunday School Convention at Orange Church
  • April 12, 1879: The Orange Sunday School Convention meets at New Hope Church and names a committee to write its constitution
  • by May 31, 1879: The university YMCA fits up a reading room and asks the public to help furnish it

  May be the same person as Betts, William A.

• Betts, William A. 1 entry, 1880
  • by March 20, 1880: Student William A. Betts teaches singing and leads the Delta Glee Club

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• Beust, Nora 4 entries, 1929–1937
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  • early October 1929: The Mary Bayley Pratt Memorial children's library opens in the Chapel Hill school
  • June 5, 1929: A children's library opens in the Episcopal parish house, and its subscribers form a library association
  • May 19, 1930: Mary Bayley Pratt Library Association adopts a constitution and dues
  • October 14 and 15, 1937: The North Carolina Library Association holds its biennial meeting in Chapel Hill
• Beverley, Haywood 2 entries, 1869–1871
  • August 1869, the morning after the jail raid: Orange sheriff's posse tracks the Hillsborough jail raiders' horses toward Alamance
  • March 8, 1871: Three Black witnesses from Orange testify at Holden's trial on the Morrow hanging and the jail raid
• Beverly, Creig 1 entry, 1986
  • March 21, 1986: The School of Social Work holds its seventh Black Experience Workshop
• Beverly, Haywood 3 entries, 1874–1888
  • May 4, 1874: Haywood Beverly and Lewis Jenkins run for Hillsborough town commissioner as Black Republicans
  • October 16-18, 1880: Orange Republicans endorse Henry N. Brown for the state House at court-house meetings
  • May 5, 1888: Orange Republicans name convention delegates and back James B. Mason for state auditor
• Biberstein, Richard C. 1 entry, 1905
  • 1905 to 1907: Mill engineer Richard C. Biberstein lays out the machinery for the Bellevue mill
• Bickett, Mrs. T. W. 2 entries, 1922–1928
  • November 1922: Black clubwomen sell two-cent stamps across the state to build the first cottage at Efland
  • June 11-13, 1928: Orange County holds a child health clinic and parents' institute in Hillsboro
• Bickett, Thomas W. 9 entries, 1917–1920

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• Bickett, Thomas Walter 1 entry, 1917

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• Bickett, William Y. 1 entry, 1962
  • by June 28, 1962: Judge Bickett lets Reverie Lingerie's damage suits against the garment workers' union go forward
• Biggs, J. Crawford 2 entries, 1925–1930
  • April 28, 1925: The cornerstone of the new Chapel Hill Methodist church is laid
  • December 9, 1930: Phi Beta Kappa initiates ten alumni who graduated before the chapter existed
• Biggs, Loretta Copeland 1 entry, 2002
  • 2002: North Carolina recognizes the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation
• Billey 1 entry, 1799
  • November Term 1799: The court leaves Rachel, Suckey and Billey in Mary Doherty's care while their freedom petition is heard
• Billingsley, Everett 2 entries, 1982–1983
  • September 29, 1982: Opponents sue in federal court, arguing the dam permit has lapsed
  • October 13, 1983: State commission grants OWASA condemnation power for the third time
• Billy 1 entry, 1845
  • March 1845: Enslaved workers build and tend the Battle household in Chapel Hill
• Bingham, Herbert 3 entries, 1891–1896
  • 1891: Bingham School leaves Orange County for Asheville
  • March 1896: Herbert Bingham becomes principal of the Presbyterian High School at Mebane
  • October 16, 1896: Herbert Bingham dies months after taking charge of the school
• Bingham, Hiram 1 entry, 1942
  • September 28 and 29, 1942: Former Senator Hiram Bingham tells Pre-Flight cadets that Navy fliers will win the Pacific war
• Bingham, John A. 4 entries, 1844–1855
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  • by December 3, 1844: Hillsborough Academy appoints the Rev. John Witherspoon principal
  • July 9, 1845: Caldwell Institute reopens in Hillsborough after leaving Greensboro
  • by June 19, 1845: Orange Presbytery votes to move Caldwell Institute to Hillsborough
  • October 28, 1855: Rev. John A. Bingham, former Latin professor at the Caldwell Institute, dies at his brother's home
• Bingham, Mary Lily Kenan Flagler 1 entry, 1917
  • July 27, 1917: Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham dies, leaving the university a fund for professors
• Bingham, Minerva 1 entry, 1916
  • September 1916: Women register in every department of the university, including pharmacy
• Bingham, Robert 29 entries, 1800–1939

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• Bingham, Robert Worth 4 entries, 1890–1929

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• Bingham, William 5 entries, 1800–1826

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  • 1800: The Rev. William Bingham teaches ancient languages at the university
  • February 1812: Rev. William Bingham takes charge of Hillsborough Academy
  • about 1815 to 1826: William Bingham runs his school at Mount Repose northwest of Hillsborough
  • 1825: The Orange County Sunday School Union asks the Assembly to fund its schools
  • February 8, 1826: Rev. William Bingham dies at his Mount Repose academy

  May be the same person as Bingham, William J.

• Bingham, William 19 entries, 1835–1896

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• Bingham, Mrs. William 1 entry, 1892
  • October 1892 to 1897: A Presbyterian high school takes over the old Bingham School grounds near Mebane
• Bingham, William J. 9 entries, 1825–1855
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  • June 1825: The university graduates its class of 1825 and gives Nathaniel Macon an honorary LL.D.
  • by July 2, 1828: The Orange County Bible Society sets out to put a Bible in every home that lacks one
  • October 17, 1829: The Orange County Bible Society finds a thousand families without a Bible
  • June 22, 1831: Friends of education organize the North Carolina Institute of Education at Chapel Hill
  • January 30, 1835: Hillsborough citizens meet to mourn university president Joseph Caldwell
  • About 1836: Schoolmaster William J. Bingham repeatedly beats Elizabeth Hobbs at Anna Burwell's urging
  • May 14, 1842: Delegates form the Orange County Temperance Society at Hillsborough
  • September 19, 1846: Citizens organize a new Orange County Bible Society
  • October 28, 1855: Rev. John A. Bingham, former Latin professor at the Caldwell Institute, dies at his brother's home

  May be the same person as Bingham, William

• Bingham, William James 16 entries, 1815–1903

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• Binkley, O. T. 1 entry, 1933
  • by July 14, 1933: O. T. Binkley accepts the pastorate of the Chapel Hill Baptist church
• Binswanger, Frank G., Jr. 1 entry, 1959
  • January 30, 1959: Jefflene Corporation buys the two Carrboro mill plants
• Bird, Jehu 1 entry, 1812
  • May 28, 1812: The court levies a patrol tax on Black polls and names patrols in the captains' companies
• Birdsall, Stephen 2 entries, 1984–1996
  • by November 1984: UNC adds two faculty positions to a fast-growing African and Afro-American Studies curriculum
  • January 31, 1996: Assistant Dean Sibby Anderson-Thompkins resigns from the Office for Student Counseling
• Birdseye, Irving E. 14 entries, 1947–1953

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• Bisher, Furman 1 entry, 1985
  • April 9, 1985: Jeff MacNelly is named to the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame
• Bishop, Calvin 1 entry, 1846
  • September 1846: Union Grove Methodist Church is organized
• Bishop, George 1 entry, 1862
  • August 18, 1862: The Baptists sell their old courthouse church to George Bishop of New Bern
• Bishop, James, Jr. 1 entry, 1936
  • by August 28, 1936: The Graham Production Credit Association reports its loans to Orange farmers
• Bishop, Soky 1 entry, 1843
  • March Term 1843: The Superior Court convicts Soky Bishop of concealing the birth of a child
• Bissell, Whitner 1 entry, 1931
  • November 7, 1931: Chapel Hill play-reading club is formed at Dr. P. C. Farrar's home
• Bissette, Lou 1 entry, 2017
  • August 2017: UNC leaders warn Governor Cooper that Silent Sam may be pulled down
• Bivens, C. A. 3 entries, 1925–1948
  • May 5, 1925: Hillsboro re-elects Mayor T. M. Arrasmith and a five-man council
  • by March 29, 1940: The Orange County board of elections orders a re-listing of voters, with new registration in three precincts
  • by September 16, 1948: Shops open in the new brick building on Weaver and Main streets in Carrboro
• Bivens, G. G. 1 entry, 1934
  • November 6, 1934: Democrats sweep Orange County in the 1934 general election
• Bivens, John 1 entry, 1888
  • May to June 1888: John Bivens builds a new house for S. T. Smith on the burned corner
• Bivins, C. A. 4 entries, 1905–1942
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  • May 14, 1905: Efland Methodist Church is organized
  • March 28, 1929: Orange County delegation studies the Vance County hospital as a model
  • March 12, 1941: Fire destroys the Bivins Basket Factory east of Hillsboro
  • by April 24, 1942: Orange County's officers face no opposition in the Democratic primary

  May be the same person as Bivins, Claude A.

• Bivins, Carl E. 1 entry, 1948
  • May 27, 1948: Hillsboro stores and county offices close for the funeral of the Bivins brothers, returned war dead
• Bivins, Claude A. 3 entries, 1920–1956
  • by February 1920: The Bivins brothers' tobacco basket factory is running in Hillsboro
  • January 4, 1956: Marshall Cates Jr. and Dr. N. L. Mauroner buy Bivins Furniture Company
  • November 8, 1956: Claude A. Bivins, Hillsboro furniture manufacturer, dies

  May be the same person as Bivins, C. A.

• Bivins, Emily 1 entry, 2012
  • June 7, 2012–August 26, 2013: School Board converts Frank Porter Graham Elementary into a Spanish dual-language magnet school
• Bivins, G. G. 4 entries, 1924–1944
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  • Late August 1924: The grand jury urges a new county home near Hillsborough and a secure jail
  • June 2, 1928: Orange County Democrats choose county nominees in the June primary
  • June 6, 1936: Orange Democrats nominate Sheriff S. T. Latta Jr. and give Sandy Graham a large county vote
  • November 7, 1944: Orange County votes Democratic in the 1944 general election

  May be the same person as Bivins, Grover G.

• Bivins, Mrs. Grover 2 entries, 1931–1932
  • September 1931: The Orange County Council of Parent-Teacher Associations names a committee to find work for the unemployed
  • mid-January 1932: County Parent-Teacher Council meets at Carrboro and backs a county nurse
• Bivins, Grover C. 1 entry, 1938
  • November 8, 1938: Orange County Democrats sweep the county offices
• Bivins, Grover G. 1 entry, 1950
  • February 22, 1950: Grover G. Bivins, county treasurer from 1928 to 1946, dies

  May be the same person as Bivins, G. G.

• Bivins, H. O. 1 entry, 1935
  • July 1935: W. E. Thompson is elected commander of the Chapel Hill American Legion post
• Bivins, J. Taylor 1 entry, 1958
  • March 14, 1958: Taylor Bivins, owner of the Hillsboro Manufacturing Company, dies
• Bivins, Lillie 1 entry, 1917
  • 1917: Hillsborough children aged six to sixteen learn to knit for soldiers in a Red Cross class
• Bivins, O. E. 5 entries, 1905–1963

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• Bivins, Robert P. 1 entry, 1948
  • May 27, 1948: Hillsboro stores and county offices close for the funeral of the Bivins brothers, returned war dead
• Bivins, Taylor 1 entry, 1958
  • March 9, 1958: Hillsborough and New Sharon Methodists dedicate the parsonage they built together
• Bivins, Thomas E. 1 entry, 1963
  • March 4, 1963: Former postmaster Thomas E. Bivins is named county veterans service officer
• Bivins, Tom 7 entries, 1948–1956
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  • September 1, 1948: Tom Bivins becomes postmaster at Hillsboro
  • October 25, 1948: Hillsboro organizes a chapter of the North Carolina Symphony Society
  • by July 8, 1948: President Truman appoints Tom Bivins postmaster of Hillsboro
  • January 3, 1950: Hillsboro's postmaster opens seven bids for the new post office site
  • June 8, 1950: The Hillsboro Lions Club elects the Rev. Charles S. Hubbard president
  • November 5, 1951: The Red Cross Bloodmobile collects 151 pints at Hillsboro
  • June 6, 1956: Hillsboro postmaster Tom Bivins resigns
• Bizzell, Margaret 1 entry, 1953
  • by December 10, 1953: A Central High School drive pays off the school's lunchroom debts
• Bizzell, W. R. 1 entry, 1960
  • September 15, 1960: Chapel Hill moves up to a Class Six fire insurance rating
• Blackburn, Dean 1 entry, 2006
  • by December 2006: UNC housing lets transgender students request accommodations through a life circumstances section
• Blackburn, L. C. 1 entry, 1948
  • by September 16, 1948: Shops open in the new brick building on Weaver and Main streets in Carrboro
• Blackmon, G. F. 1 entry, 1892
  • July 3, 1892: Mount Adar Baptist Church dedicates its first building
• Blackmon, Laura 1 entry, 2009
  • March–June 2009: Commissioners reject closing the Carrboro and Cedar Grove branch libraries
• Blackwelder, Ruth 1 entry, 1961
  • by October 26, 1961: Ruth Blackwelder's history The Age of Orange is published
• Blackwell, Gordon 3 entries, 1943–1955
  • by November 19, 1943: Gordon Blackwell is named to succeed Howard W. Odum at the Institute for Research in Social Science
  • January 12-13, 1949: PTA spokesmen lay Orange County's school needs before the fact-finding committee
  • mid-October 1955: The Ford Foundation gives UNC's Institute for Research in Social Science $246,000

  May be the same person as Blackwell, Gordon W.

• Blackwell, Gordon W. 1 entry, 1948
  • by September 9, 1948: A university sociology class surveys what townspeople think of Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Blackwell, Gordon

• Blackwell, James 1 entry, 1928
  • 1928-1940: Black stonemasons build the stone walls of Rocky Ridge Farm
• Blackwell, Nancy 2 entries, 1877–1878
  • August 26, 1877: Nancy Blackwell and her two children are murdered and their house burned near Durham
  • October 15-19, 1878: Robert Boswell is convicted of the Blackwell murders and sentenced to hang
• Blackwell, W. T. 7 entries, 1870–1880
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  • about 1870: Julian S. Carr buys a third of Blackwell and Day's tobacco business at Durham
  • June 13, 1871: W. T. Blackwell has rival tobacco maker Wright arrested at Hillsborough in the Durham brand dispute
  • by February 14, 1872: W. T. Blackwell's new tobacco warehouse at Durham fills to overflowing
  • late October 1873: The Blackwell v. Wright trademark case is moved from Orange to Alamance
  • October 1878: W. T. Blackwell and Julian S. Carr buy out a partner in W. T. Blackwell & Co.
  • March 1879: W. T. Blackwell & Co. let the contract for a block of brick stores on Durham's Main Street
  • June 10, 1880: The Durham Light Infantry and Durham Band parade at the university commencement
• Blackwell, William 1 entry, 1844
  • September 1844 term: Henry, enslaved by William Blackwell, is convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to branding
• Blackwood, A. D. 1 entry, 1888
  • March 2, 1888: Baptist minister A. D. Blackwood dies at Chapel Hill
• Blackwood, A. J. 2 entries, 1914–1917
  • 1914: A. J. Blackwood recruits Cora Oakley's family from Burlington to the Carrboro mills
  • May 7, 1917: Carrboro elects T. N. Mann mayor over two rivals
• Blackwood, A. S. 1 entry, 1934
  • by November 2, 1934: R. R. Benson closes his Chapel Hill plumbing and heating business
• Blackwood, Alice 1 entry, 1906
  • 1906: Herbert and Alice Blackwood purchase and revitalize the farm
• Blackwood, Mrs. Arthur 1 entry, 1918
  • October 1918: Carrboro opens an influenza diet kitchen in the mill club rooms
• Blackwood, David K. 1 entry, 1912
  • 1912: David K. Blackwood is moved from a family burying ground to New Hope churchyard
• Blackwood, Herbert 1 entry, 1906
  • 1906: Herbert and Alice Blackwood purchase and revitalize the farm
• Blackwood, J. H. 1 entry, 1896
  • 1896: The Elm Grove school district builds a new schoolhouse on the New Hope road

  May be the same person as Blackwood, John H.

• Blackwood, J. M. 2 entries, 1857–1868
  • November 17, 1857: Chapel Hill forms a volunteer military company
  • March to April 1868: Agent Whittemore makes a planter divide a crop with two freedmen after two former Confederate officers vouch for them
• Blackwood, Janie 1 entry, 1935
  • September 24, 1935: Women of New Hope and Blackwood Station organize a home demonstration club
• Blackwood, John 1 entry, 1812
  • May 28, 1812: The court levies a patrol tax on Black polls and names patrols in the captains' companies
• Blackwood, John H. 1 entry, 1953
  • March 29, 1953: Orange Methodist Church dedicates three memorial stained glass windows

  May be the same person as Blackwood, J. H.

• Blackwood, John M. 3 entries, 1859–1876
  • 1859: James B. McDade serves as Chapel Hill's magistrate of police
  • early May 1875 (reported May 5): Hillsborough elects John M. Blackwood magistrate of police on a mixed-party ticket
  • by January 12, 1876: Town commissioners choose A. W. Graham mayor of Hillsborough
• Blackwood, M. C. 1 entry, 1926
  • March 1, 1926: The county agrees to widen the road from Chapel Hill to Blackwood's school house

  May be the same person as Blackwood, Malcolm C.

• Blackwood, Malcolm C. 1 entry, 1953
  • March 29, 1953: Orange Methodist Church dedicates three memorial stained glass windows

  May be the same person as Blackwood, M. C.

• Blackwood, Mary 1 entry, 2001
  • 2001: Orange County purchases Blackwood Farm
• Blackwood, Nannie 1 entry, 2001
  • 2001: Orange County purchases Blackwood Farm
• Blackwood, Rebecca 1 entry, 1825
  • 7 June 1825: Rebecca Blackwood names Dr. Charles R. Yancey as her child's father
• Blackwood, Richard 1 entry, 1812
  • May 28, 1812: The court levies a patrol tax on Black polls and names patrols in the captains' companies
• Blackwood, S. B. 1 entry, 1920
  • February 15, 1920: The Employes Supply Company of Carrboro dissolves
• Blackwood, Samuel D. 2 entries, 1871–1889
  • June 1871: John T. Hogan and Samuel D. Blackwood are ordained elders at New Hope
  • May 16, 1889: Orange Presbytery removes all six active elders of New Hope
• Blackwood, William 2 entries, 1741–1752
  • about 1741 to 1743: Craig, Blackwood and Kirkland families come down from Pennsylvania to the Hawfields
  • 1752: William Blackwood's grant on Buffalo Creek is entered
• Blackwood, William C. 1 entry, 1840
  • May 9, 1840: Four elders are ordained at New Hope
• Blair, Bill 1 entry, 1951
  • April 1951: Fonty Flock wins the spring race at Occoneechee
• Blair, Francis P. 1 entry, 1865
  • April 17–May 3, 1865: Union troops occupy Chapel Hill
• Blair, Mott 1 entry, 1963
  • April 15, 1963: Chapel Hill aldermen approve two apartment projects on Hillsboro Street
• Blake, Charles 1 entry, 1956
  • 1956: Charles Blake and his wife buy the Coach House and rename it Chatwood

  May be the same person as Blake, Charles H.

• Blake, Charles H. 2 entries, 1962–1963
  • April 6, 1962: The new Hillsborough Historical Society holds its first public meeting
  • February 1963: The Hillsborough Historical Society publishes Historic Hillsborough, a walking-tour guide

  May be the same person as Blake, Charles

• Blake, Eubie 1 entry, 1979
  • December 1-2, 1979: The touring revue Eubie! plays Memorial Hall
• Blake, John 1 entry, 2010
  • 2010: UNC discloses possible academic misconduct in its football program
• Blake, John C. 1 entry, 1879
  • April 1, 1879: John C. Blake deeds Eno River land to the Catholic diocese
• Blake, John D. 1 entry, 1941
  • April 1, 1941: Chapel Hill sets a one-dollar penalty for overtime parking
• Blake, W. D. 6 entries, 1958–1964
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  • December 10-12, 1958: Telephoned bomb threats empty Saunders and Bingham halls at the University
  • September 1960: Chapel Hill's aldermen adopt an ordinance that regulates and protects pickets
  • by April 26, 1960: Chapel Hill protesters end their picketing and hand out leaflets instead
  • February 10, 1964: Chapel Hill aldermen vote to limit picketing to daytime hours
  • November 10, 1964: Chapel Hill Exchange Club gives Police Chief W. D. Blake its Book of Golden Deeds award
  • August 20, 1964: Chapel Hill police name Lindy Pendergrass Patrolman of the Year

  May be the same person as Blake, William D.

• Blake, William D. 3 entries, 1958
  • July 17, 1958: The AAA cites Chapel Hill for sixteen years without a pedestrian death
  • July 14, 1958: Chapel Hill aldermen name William D. Blake police chief
  • January 8-30, 1958: A string of set fires strikes the UNC campus and Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Blake, W. D.

• Blake, William W. 1 entry, 1960
  • April 11, 1960: Chapel Hill aldermen refuse Chief Blake's picketing-control ordinance
• Blakely, E. T. 1 entry, 1918
  • August 1918: Palmer Grove Methodist Church is organized
• Blalock, J. E. 1 entry, 1920
  • about 1920: The Hillsborough Methodist parsonage is remodeled and raised to two stories
• Blalock, Lewis 1 entry, 1944
  • October 21, 1944: The Caldwell Educational Association votes to build a school and community gymnasium
• Blalock, Lois 1 entry, 1958
  • by March 1958: Caldwell School opens a central library built by its PTA
• Blalock, M. V. 1 entry, 1869
  • December 25, 1869: Barkeeper M. V. Blalock is murdered and robbed in Hillsborough
• Blanchard, B. C. 1 entry, 1925
  • by April 23, 1925: The county lets the contract for the new Caldwell school in Little River Township
• Blanchard, B. F. 1 entry, 1925
  • June 20, 1925: The county board merges Little River Township's schools into a new Caldwell School
• Bland, Thomas 1 entry, 1948
  • May 25, 1948: The Carrboro P.-T. A. honors retiring principal Mrs. L. R. Sturdivant
• Blee, Margaret 2 entries, 1940–1942
  • 1940: Rosenau recruits Ruth Hay from Berkeley to head a new Department of Public Health Nursing
  • June 9, 1942: Twenty public health nurses graduate from the University
• Blevins, John 1 entry, 1992
  • April 5, 1992: Binkley's church conference votes to license John Blevins to preach
• Blieden, J. M. 3 entries, 1946–1948
  • October 7, 1946: Hillsboro merchants drop their fall festival and go on record against carnivals
  • by April 11, 1946: Hillsboro lays the foundation of a Youth Center behind the Methodist church
  • January 15, 1948: J. M. Blieden sells Hillsboro's Dollar Store to J. Martin Crabtree
• Blieden, Jack 1 entry, 1946
  • August 5, 1946: Hillsboro merchants are asked to raise $1,000 toward buying the Nash-Kollock building
• Bloch, C. C. 2 entries, 1944–1945
  • by August 10, 1944: The National Munitions plant at Carrboro wins a third star for its Army-Navy E flag
  • by January 10, 1945: The Carrboro munitions plant wins a fourth renewal of its Army-Navy E
• Bloch, Erich 1 entry, 1985
  • 1985: Frederick P. Brooks Jr. receives the National Medal of Technology
• Blocksidge, Frank 2 entries, 1939
  • June 19, 1939: Bennett and Blocksidge open a coal yard beside the railroad in Carrboro
  • June 26, 1939: The University gives up its coal and appliance trade to Bennett and Blocksidge under a new state law

  May be the same person as Blocksidge, Frank C.

• Blocksidge, Frank C. 1 entry, 1930
  • 1930: The University gives up its Service Plants appliance business to two employees

  May be the same person as Blocksidge, Frank

• Blouin, Robert A. 1 entry, 2020
  • October 7, 2020: UNC School of Law dedicates a portrait of Charles E. Daye
• Blount, Ann C. 1 entry, 1862
  • November 1862: The Collins family buys the former Burwell School and calls it the Beehive
• Blount, David 1 entry, 1900
  • July 16, 1900: David Blount, sexton of St. Matthew's, dies in Hillsborough
• Blount, Frances 2 entries, 1830
  • 1830: Frances Blount buys the Hawks house and the lot beside it
  • about 1830: Frances Blount enlarges the house to a center-passage plan
• Blount, James 1 entry, 1775
  • September 9, 1775: Provincial Congress at Hillsborough makes Thomas Benbury a Chowan militia major and a district committee of safety member
• Blount, Samuel M. 1 entry, 1890
  • 1890: The trustees ban intercollegiate athletic contests
• Blount, Thomas 3 entries, 1792–1793

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• Blount, William 1 entry, 1782

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• Blue, Bill 2 entries, 1970
  • December 1970: Chapel Hill aldermen approve a student Christmas street party on Franklin Street
  • April 2, 1970: Tom Bello is sworn in as student body president
• Blue, Chris 1 entry, 2024
  • June 3, 2024: Chapel Hill breaks ground on the Trinity Court redevelopment
• Blue, Jean 1 entry, 1918
  • May 27, 1918: Jean Blue enlists as a Red Cross nurse and goes to France
• Blue, John Henry 1 entry, 1931
  • 1931-1932: John Henry Blue and his wife take charge of the Efland Home
• Bly, Robert 1 entry, 1983
  • March 16, 1983: Annie Dillard reads at UNC during a two-week campus visit
• Bob 1 entry, 1798
  • August 31, 1798: The court sentences Bob, an enslaved man, to whipping, mutilation and branding
• Bobbitt, W. H. 1 entry, 1866
  • November 1866: The Methodist conference forms a Hillsborough District, with Hillsborough heading a station of five churches
• Bobbitt, William H. 1 entry, 1919

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• Boddie, Fred J., Jr. 2 entries, 1958–1961
  • about 1958-1961: Mount Bright Baptist Church buys its first electronic organ and moves to full-time services
  • 1961: Mount Bright Baptist Church buys the Ellison lot and builds its first parsonage
• Boddie, Viola 1 entry, 1906
  • July 21, 1906: Several hundred people attend a Farmers' Institute at Occoneechee Farm
• Boettcher, Carl 2 entries, 1948–1992

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• Boger, John Charles 1 entry, 2001
  • 2001: UNC's School of Law founds the Center for Civil Rights with Julius Chambers as its first director
• Boger, W. H. 1 entry, 1915
  • May 4, 1915: Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor Roberson over W. H. Boger and chooses a new board of aldermen
• Boger, W. J. 4 entries, 1942–1943
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  • by October 23, 1942: A ceiling-price committee is named for Chapel Hill and Bingham townships
  • May 4-8, 1942: Chapel Hill and Bingham townships register for sugar ration books
  • week of May 11, 1942: Chapel Hill teachers issue gasoline ration cards
  • August 9, 1943: W. J. Boger resigns as principal of the Chapel Hill elementary school
• Boger, W. W. 1 entry, 1959
  • February 1959: Grand jury calls a new county jail an urgent need
• Boggs, Cashe 1 entry, 1956
  • March 19, 1956: Cashe Boggs becomes Orange County dog warden
• Boggs, Charles L. 1 entry, 1907
  • January 28, 1907: S. T. Forrest buys out his partners in S. T. Forrest & Co. at Efland
• Bogle, Donald 1 entry, 1976
  • early April 1976: Film critic Donald Bogle lectures at the fifth Black Arts Cultural Festival
• Boland, Haywood 1 entry, 1893
  • July 30, 1893: Lisbon P. Berry organizes a Sunday school for Black residents at Hillsborough
• Bolden, Bill 1 entry, 1878
  • about 1878: Hillsborough's Black Presbyterians build their church on Orange Street
• Boman, T. E. 1 entry, 1935
  • 1935: A Church of God congregation is organized in West Hillsborough
• Bomar, Cora Paul 7 entries, 1947–1951

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• Bomford, J. V. 1 entry, 1868
  • January 29, 1868: Mayor Calvin E. Parish reports that no Hillsborough commissioner can take the test oath
• Bond, Charles 1 entry, 1875
  • September 1875: Francis D. Winston is the first student to arrive for the reopening
• Bond, Edward 1 entry, 1917
  • June 4, 1917: A Red Cross mass meeting at the Hillsborough court house enrolls new members
• Bond, Hugh L. 3 entries, 1869–1874
  • 1869-1871: Federal court dismisses the state's suit to void the university's bank mortgage
  • summer 1874: Commissioner's report keeps the campus and 600 acres for the university
  • June 1874: Federal court rules the campus cannot be sold for the bank debt
• Bond, Julian 2 entries, 1974–2000
  • late 1974: Georgia legislator Julian Bond speaks at UNC's colloquium on student rights
  • January 2000: Julian Bond gives the lecture of UNC's King birthday week
• Bond, Marjorie 1 entry, 1937
  • 1937: William Van Sprinkle designs a brick Colonial Revival house on Pine Lane for Richmond and Marjorie Bond
• Bond, Nat 1 entry, 1949
  • January 23, 1949: A youth council of the Chapel Hill NAACP is organized
• Bond, Richmond 1 entry, 1937
  • 1937: William Van Sprinkle designs a brick Colonial Revival house on Pine Lane for Richmond and Marjorie Bond
• Bond, Mrs. Richmond 3 entries, 1962–1964
  • April 2, 1962: Chapel Hill Public Library asks the county commissioners for support
  • by January 11, 1962: Chapel Hill Public Library wins a Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award
  • November 12, 1964: The State Library Commission again turns down federal aid for the Chapel Hill Public Library

  May be the same person as Bond, Mrs. Richmond P.

• Bond, Mrs. Richmond P. 1 entry, 1966
  • 1966: Don Stewart designs the Chapel Hill Public Library building on East Franklin Street

  May be the same person as Bond, Mrs. Richmond

• Bondurant, Russell 1 entry, 1956
  • by October 18, 1956: Orange Textile Products starts making lingerie in the old Midway Building Supply building near Efland
• Bone, Walter J. 1 entry, 1947
  • August 18, 1947: Superior court continues the Journey of Reconciliation bus seating case
• Bonitz, J. A. 1 entry, 1890
  • November 4, 1890: Students start the Chapel Hillian newspaper
• Bonnell, Dorothy 1 entry, 1939
  • September 19, 1939: Chapel Hill branch of the Women's International League writes Congressman Durham against repealing the arms embargo
• Bonner, Thomas 1 entry, 1775
  • September 9, 1775: Provincial Congress at Hillsborough makes Thomas Benbury a Chowan militia major and a district committee of safety member
• Bonnet, John 1 entry, 1880
  • about 1880: Glenn's Grove Baptist Church is organized
• Booker, John 1 entry, 1920
  • 1920s: Dr. John Booker remodels Senlac on Battle Lane
• Booker, John M. 17 entries, 1920–1950

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• Booker, Kristi 1 entry, 2001
  • late November 2001: About 150 students walk out of David Horowitz's speech in Memorial Hall
• Boone, Daniel 1 entry, 1918

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• Boone, J. S. 8 entries, 1940–1964
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  • week of August 12, 1940: Chapel Hill puts a closed garbage truck with a locally invented loader into service
  • June 1, 1942: The Orange Bus Line begins local service between Carrboro and Chapel Hill
  • by July 7, 1955: Chapel Hill reorganizes its fire department under a full-time chief
  • August 17, 1957: Buckhorn Grange holds a health fair
  • November 16, 1959: Chapel Hill opens its Glen Lennox fire station
  • November 2, 1960: Fire damages the University's Tin Can athletic building
  • by September 13, 1962 (effective September 16): James Stewart is named Chapel Hill fire chief as J. S. Boone steps back to assistant
  • January 16, 1964: Chapel Hill firemen honor retired fire chief J. S. Boone
• Boone, John 1 entry, 1987
  • December 1, 1987: Eleanor Kinnaird is sworn in as mayor of Carrboro
• Boone, R. H. 1 entry, 1894
  • September 8, 1894: Democrats of the 18th Senatorial District meet at Hillsborough and nominate R. H. Boone and E. L. Mitchell
• Boone, Sarah A. 1 entry, 1942
  • June 1, 1942: The Orange Bus Line begins local service between Carrboro and Chapel Hill
• Boone, Mrs. W. A. 1 entry, 1925
  • October 13-14, 1925: Mount Adar hosts the Mount Zion Baptist Association for the first time
• Booth, Daniel 1 entry, 1795
  • May 27, 1795 to February Term 1798: The county court proves a run of deeds to and from the University's trustees
• Booth, Thomas 2 entries, 1925–1934
  • September 14, 1925: Orange County Training School opens its year with its largest attendance and a drive for auditorium chairs
  • July 30, 1934: Black Chapel Hill families send the first schoolchildren to Lincoln Hospital for tonsil operations
• Booth, Thomas, Sr. 1 entry, 1937
  • October 1937: Second Baptist Church is organized in Chapel Hill
• Booth, Tom 1 entry, 1927
  • March 27, 1927: Black quartets sing at Paul Green's reading of The Field God

  May be the same person as Booth, Tom Lewis

• Booth, Tom Lewis 1 entry, 1926
  • by February 26, 1926: Howard W. Odum builds a stone arch bridge to carry Ransom Street south

  May be the same person as Booth, Tom

• Boothe, Glenn 1 entry, 1992
  • 1992: Local 506 opens on West Franklin Street
• Borders, William L. 1 entry, 1939
  • February 15, 1939: An interracial meeting at the Graham Memorial asks the legislature to open graduate study to Black students
• Boren, John A. 1 entry, 1951
  • October 1, 1951: The county sells the First Mountain tract it bought for a smallpox pest house in 1900
• Borglum, Gutzon 1 entry, 1925
  • March 31, 1925: Gutzon Borglum's Gerrard Hall talk raises money for Orange County's Confederate veterans
• Borland, Mrs. Amick 1 entry, 1957
  • September 14, 1957: The Chapel Hill women's curb market reports $23,127 in sales for the year
• Borland, Haywood Craig 1 entry, 1945
  • 1945: Haywood Craig Borland, born enslaved, is buried beside New Hope Presbyterian Church
• Borland, John 1 entry, 1890
  • about 1890: John Borland builds a two-story log house on his 100-acre farm
• Borland, Tony 1 entry, 1883
  • October 7 to 10, 1883: An Orange jury convicts Tony Borland of manslaughter after a confused verdict
• Borman, Frank 1 entry, 1963
  • January 30, 1963: Nine astronauts in training meet the press at Morehead Planetarium
• Bornstein, Kate 1 entry, 2004
  • October 4-11, 2004: The GLBT-SA holds Coming Out Week, opening with a talk by Kate Bornstein
• Borst, William Alvard 1 entry, 1953
  • May 11, 1953: A fire in a Carolina Inn guest room fatally burns a visiting publisher's representative
• Bost, Mrs. R. W. 1 entry, 1943
  • November 2, 1943: The Chapel Hill Needlework Guild gathers 996 garments for the needy of Orange County
• Bost, R. W. 1 entry, 1946
  • July 21, 1946: Lutherans organize Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Bost, Ralph W.

• Bost, Ralph W. 1 entry, 1940
  • by September 13, 1940: The national defense commission assigns five research projects to UNC

  May be the same person as Bost, R. W.

• Bost, Mrs. W. T. 1 entry, 1935
  • May 1935: A runaway tells a Greensboro official that the new Efland Home matron whipped her with a board
• Bostic, Wade D. 1 entry, 1899
  • by August 24, 1899: Wade D. Bostic becomes pastor of the Hillsborough Baptist Church
• Boswell, Martha 1 entry, 1924
  • November 1924: The Carolina Playmakers prepare Robert W. Winston's play The Honor of Bonava
• Boswell, Robert 3 entries, 1878–1879
  • October 15-19, 1878: Robert Boswell is convicted of the Blackwell murders and sentenced to hang
  • October 4, 1879: Becky Lyon is acquitted of the Blackwell murders
  • October 31, 1879: Robert Boswell is hanged at Hillsborough for the Blackwell murders
• Botsford, James B. 1 entry, 1963
  • July 13, 1963: A Chapel Hill repair shop owner turns away Black customers in protest against the demonstrations
• Boulton, Donald 12 entries, 1975–1993
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  • January 16, 1975: Protesters stop Klan leader David Duke from speaking in Memorial Hall
  • October 25, 1976: The BSM refuses new Upendo space until it gets an apology
  • October 12, 1976: Black students march in silent protest at University Day over Upendo Lounge
  • September 16, 1976: The University Space Committee votes to move the Chase cafeteria into Upendo Lounge's space
  • April 19, 1984: A planning committee for a Black Cultural Center holds its first meeting
  • July 1, 1988: UNC opens the Black Cultural Center in temporary space in the Carolina Union
  • fall 1991: The BSM keeps Black Cultural Center programs in the center's cramped Union office to press for a building
  • August 1991: The Campus Y and the BSM dedicate the 1991-92 year to Sonja Haynes Stone
  • February 24, 1992: Student coalition presents demands to Chancellor Hardin for a freestanding Black Cultural Center
  • by August 1992: Chancellor Hardin proposes clearing the back of the Carolina Union for the Black Cultural Center
  • March 17, 1992: Chancellor Hardin says he does not support a freestanding Black Cultural Center
  • October 1993: UNC begins a campuswide diversity training program for employees

  May be the same person as Boulton, Donald A.

• Boulton, Donald A. 3 entries, 1978–1986
  • September 17, 1978: Dean Hayden Renwick charges that UNC is turning away qualified Black applicants
  • by September 1979: Harold G. Wallace is named assistant vice chancellor for student affairs
  • April 22, 1986: Vice Chancellor Boulton sets out a plan for a Black Cultural Center in the Carolina Union

  May be the same person as Boulton, Donald

• Boulton, Marilyn 1 entry, 1977
  • November 8, 1977: Bill Thorpe leads the voting for the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen
• Boulware, C. E. 1 entry, 1946
  • January 1, 1946: Chapel Hill's Black community celebrates Emancipation Day at the Community Center
• Bourne, Katherine 1 entry, 1918
  • October 1918: Chapel Hill women nurse influenza patients as volunteers in the University hospital
• Bouseman, James 2 entries, 1974–1989
  • 1974 to 1976: Cane Creek Baptist Church holds an annual Old Timers' Day
  • 1989: Cane Creek Baptist Church marks its two hundredth year
• Boushall, Thomas C. 1 entry, 1915
  • November 1, 1915: University students open moonlight schools in six Chapel Hill Township schoolhouses
• Bovian, E. O. 1 entry, 1950
  • by May 1950: Forty-two veterans are enrolled in Lincoln High's farmer training program
• Bowden, Abby 1 entry, 1845
  • May Term 1845: The court calls in the children of six free families of color to be bound out and tells the parents they may object
• Bowden, Albert 1 entry, 1922
  • November 12, 1922: Confederate veteran Albert Bowden dies
• Bowden, Bobby 1 entry, 2001
  • September 2001: Bunting's Tar Heels beat sixth-ranked Florida State 41-9 at home
• Bowden, Harriet 1 entry, 1845
  • May Term 1845: The court calls in the children of six free families of color to be bound out and tells the parents they may object
• Bowden, Henry A. 1 entry, 1928
  • about 1928: Henry A. Bowden builds a bungalow farm on Bowden Road
• Bowden, Ingram 1 entry, 1845
  • May Term 1845: The court calls in the children of six free families of color to be bound out and tells the parents they may object
• Bowden, J. D. 2 entries, 1919
  • August 29, 1919: Lightning burns the engine house at Pritchard's mill
  • by July 24, 1919: The Pritchards sell their mill and cotton gin to Bowden and Poythress
• Bowden, Leroy 1 entry, 1957
  • June 25, 1957: Carrboro commissioners appoint a zoning board of appeals
• Bowen, Harriett 1 entry, 1925
  • September 7, 1925: Chapel Hill school opens a junior high school unit for the sixth through eighth grades
• Bowers, Claude 1 entry, 1954
  • November 15, 1954: Chapel Hill aldermen pledge $1,000 to bring a National Guard medical battalion to town

  May be the same person as Bowers, Claude G.

• Bowers, Claude G. 1 entry, 1931
  • June 9, 1931: UNC holds its 1931 commencement, with Claude G. Bowers as speaker

  May be the same person as Bowers, Claude

• Bowers, Henry 1 entry, 1951
  • November 1951: Black students sit with whites at a UNC football game for the first time
• Bowers, J. S. 1 entry, 1934
  • April 1934 (begun by April 6): State highway crews begin paving East Franklin Street from curb to curb
• Bowers, W. E. 1 entry, 1935
  • by February 22, 1935: Federal Soil Erosion Service finds nearly a quarter of Orange County's land badly eroded
• Bowie, T. C. 1 entry, 1897
  • about 1897: The university begins intercollegiate debates with the University of Georgia
• Bowles, Hargrove 1 entry, 1972
  • February 11-12, 1972: An NAACP youth conference on politics meets at UNC
• Bowles, S. McK. 1 entry, 1878
  • by August 31, 1878: Chapel Hill's A.M.E. Sunday school reorganizes under new officers
• Bowley, Albert Jesse 1 entry, 1924
  • February 1924: General Albert J. Bowley warns of campus radicals in a Memorial Hall address
• Bowman, Fred 1 entry, 1944
  • November 8, 1944: Chapel Hill's aldermen decide to enlarge the town sewage plant
• Bowman, Frederick O. 15 entries, 1926–1946

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• Bowman, James 1 entry, 1795
  • November 18, 1795: Orange Presbytery holds its earliest recorded meeting at New Hope

  May be the same person as Bowman, James H.

• Bowman, James H. 3 entries, 1794–1802
  • 1794 to 1815: James H. Bowman becomes pastor of Eno and Little River
  • from about 1795: A school begins to be kept at New Hope church
  • about 1802 to 1815: James H. Bowman becomes stated supply at New Hope

  May be the same person as Bowman, James

• Bowman, William 1 entry, 1952
  • May 4, 1952: The Carrboro Church of God holds its first service in its new church
• Box, Klay 1 entry, 1961
  • May 1, 1961: Carrboro Elementary adopts the ungraded primary plan

  May be the same person as Box, Klay K.

• Box, Klay K. 1 entry, 1958
  • June 30, 1958: Klay K. Box is named principal of the new Carrboro Elementary School

  May be the same person as Box, Klay

• Boy, Sam 1 entry, 1959
  • Summer 1959: The Oh Boy Drive-In opens at West Rosemary and Church streets
• Boyce, Bob 1 entry, 1963
  • by January 30, 1963: The Chapel Hill Recreation Commission runs on a cut budget and campaigns for a recreation tax
• Boyd, Adam 2 entries, 1775–1783

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• Boyd, Bernard 2 entries, 1959
  • February 2, 1959: County commissioners name a citizens committee to study school finance
  • November 12, 1959: J. Robert Oppenheimer gives the McNair Lecture in Memorial Hall
• Boyd, Bernard H. 2 entries, 1954–1957

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• Boyd, C. T. 2 entries, 1927–1942
  • December 27, 1927: The Church of God of Carrboro is organized
  • December 7, 1942: Chapel Hill aldermen hold a hearing and find police mistreatment charges not sustained
• Boyd, Celia 1 entry, 1927
  • December 27, 1927: The Church of God of Carrboro is organized
• Boyd, James 1 entry, 1937
  • October 14 and 15, 1937: The North Carolina Library Association holds its biennial meeting in Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Boyd, James E.

• Boyd, James E. 3 entries, 1869–1888
  • December 1869–January 1870: Klansmen from Hillsborough ride to kill Senator T. M. Shoffner and turn back
  • July 1870: Josiah Turner Jr. tells James E. Boyd at Hillsborough of a planned election-eve Klan ride
  • September 1, 1888: Orange County Republicans nominate Wilson Brown for sheriff and a full county ticket

  May be the same person as Boyd, James

• Boyd, Lydia 1 entry, 2020
  • October 12, 2020: African, African American, and Diaspora Studies faculty ask the university to take Battle's name off Battle Hall
• Boyd, Thelma 1 entry, 1954
  • 1954: George Watts Carr designs a Cape Cod house on Country Club Road for religion professor Bernard Boyd
• Boyd, William K. 1 entry, 1935
  • May 20 and 21, 1935: A state conference on race relations meets in Chapel Hill and at Duke
• Boyden, V. S. 1 entry, 1891
  • April 13, 1891: Students organize the University German Club
• Boyden, Victor H. 1 entry, 1894
  • by November 2, 1894: A branch of the Mechanics and Masters Union is formed at Chapel Hill
• Boyer, Charles H. 2 entries, 1902–1903
  • August 18-23, 1902: Orange County holds separate institutes for its white and Black teachers
  • week of July 27, 1903: Orange County's Black teachers hold their institute at Hillsborough
• Boykin, E. T. 1 entry, 1891
  • March 16-18, 1891: Spring term of Orange Superior Court is not held because Judge Boykin is ill
• Boykin, Judge 1 entry, 1891
  • August 10, 1891: Orange Superior Court opens its summer term under Judge R. W. Winston
• Bozeman, Bruce L. 11 entries, 1919–1928

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• Bozeman, L. M. 1 entry, 1923
  • October 3, 1923: Parents reorganize the Parent-Teacher Association at the Orange County Training School
• Bracken, John 2 entries, 1822
  • February 6, 1822: A coroner's jury finds John Bracken murdered at a still house near the High Rock Ford
  • March 18-23, 1822: Superior court acquits Joseph Cook and sends Thomas Palmer's murder case to Guilford
• Bracken, Julius C. 3 entries, 1840–1842
  • May 27, 1840: Orange Democrats nominate Gen. Joseph Allison and a full legislative ticket
  • April 30, 1842: A meeting at the High Falls of Haw River demands a central division of Orange County
  • August 4, 1842: Orange County sends Democrat Joseph Allison to the state Senate while voting for Whig governor John M. Morehead
• Braden, Carl 1 entry, 1958
  • September 8, 1958: The county school board denies the Vickers family's appeal for a place at Carrboro Elementary
• Bradford, David 1 entry, 1794
  • August Term 1794: The court sends Laban Taborn, a free apprentice of color held in jail, back to the Granville court
• Bradley, Dan 1 entry, 1983
  • March 25 to 27, 1983: The first North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Conference meets at UNC
• Bradley, Dennis 1 entry, 1768
  • September 1768: Dennis Bradley is acquitted at Hillsborough of burning the Granville jail
• Bradley, Polly 1 entry, 1817
  • February Term 1817: A jury finds John Robinson Jr. the father of Polly Bradley's child after he denies it
• Bradley, Rufus 1 entry, 1903
  • by April 30, 1903: Hillsborough Methodists sell their Churton Street parsonage lot to Shepperd Strudwick
• Bradshaw, C. M. 1 entry, 1946
  • by March 21, 1946: The Carrboro Knitting Mill starts up on Main Street
• Bradshaw, Francis 6 entries, 1928–1943
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  • May 10, 1928: Camp Ashe, Chapel Hill's Confederate veterans' camp, disbands
  • November 18, 1930: Art Students' Club organizes at the University
  • by December 24, 1937: The town and the University agree to split the cost of shared services
  • June 4, 1940: Chapel Hill American Legion post calls for a national emergency and conscription
  • by June 28, 1940: President Graham names a University faculty committee on national defense
  • July 22, 1943: The University opens an Army Area and Language School

  May be the same person as Bradshaw, Francis F.

• Bradshaw, Francis F. 1 entry, 1939
  • July 6, 1939: Rev. Harvey Bradshaw, pastor of the Hillsborough Presbyterian Church for 42 years, dies

  May be the same person as Bradshaw, Francis

• Bradshaw, Francis Foster 7 entries, 1924–1943

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• Bradshaw, George 2 entries, 1868
  • February 1868: Bureau agent James Carle reports five freedmen's day schools and fifty districts without schools in Orange
  • November 30, 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay counts about 330 day pupils in Orange County's freedmen's schools
• Bradshaw, George W. 1 entry, 1868
  • August 1868: Freedpeople at Durham's Station buy land and build a school house
• Bradshaw, H. S. 13 entries, 1879–1918

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• Bradshaw, Harvey 1 entry, 1939
  • July 6, 1939: Rev. Harvey Bradshaw, pastor of the Hillsborough Presbyterian Church for 42 years, dies
• Bradshaw, Mrs. James 1 entry, 1958
  • June 7, 1958: The Buckhorn Grange holds its second community health fair
• Bradshaw, M. 1 entry, 1925
  • April 28, 1925: The cornerstone of the new Chapel Hill Methodist church is laid

  May be the same person as Bradshaw, Mary Nash

• Bradshaw, Mary Nash 1 entry, 1905
  • July 1905 to July 1938: H. S. Bradshaw returns to the Hillsborough Presbyterian pulpit for a 33-year second pastorate

  May be the same person as Bradshaw, M.

• Brady, A. G. 2 entries, 1866
  • June 1866: The Bureau office at Hillsborough reviews apprenticeships made by the Orange County court
  • August 1866: Bureau headquarters declines to overturn a magistrate's judgment against a freedman
• Bragg, John 1 entry, 1802
  • February Term 1802: The court orders a bridge over New Hope Creek on the road from the University to Raleigh
• Bragg, Mrs. 1 entry, 1886
  • 1886 to at least 1911: Miss Heartt keeps a private primary school in Hillsborough, later with Mrs. Bragg
• Bragg, Thomas 7 entries, 1854–1871

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• Brainerd, Lavinia 1 entry, 1825
  • August 1825: Hillsborough Female Seminary opens under Lavinia Brainerd
• Bramham, W. G. 1 entry, 1911
  • June 16, 1911: Hillsboro presses its claim to the Central Highway route
• Branch, J. A. 2 entries, 1960
  • November 11, 1960: The university's attorney finds the trustees never deeded the cemetery to the town
  • March 1960: The university counts its Black employees after federal contracts bar job discrimination
• Branch, J. Arthur 1 entry, 1953
  • November 19, 1953: Catholic men of Chapel Hill organize and call for a parish church
• Branch, John 1 entry, 1808
  • 1808: Thirty-eight students petition the faculty over food at Steward's Hall
• Branch, Lawrence O'B. 3 entries, 1855–1860

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• Branch, Taylor 1 entry, 1965
  • October 1965: Medford is named to the student government State Affairs committee
• Branch, Waverly 1 entry, 1957
  • 1957: Waverly Branch and his wife build a Williamsburg-style house on Laurel Hill Road
• Brandis, Henry 5 entries, 1941–1962
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  • July 2, 1941: Chapel Hill forms a United Service Organizations committee with Mayor Foushee as chairman
  • December 14, 1952: Chapel Hill Presbyterians vote 156 to 14 to keep the Rev. Charles M. Jones
  • January 20, 1953: Orange Presbytery gives its judicial commission final authority over Charles M. Jones
  • August 3, 1959: Chapel Hill school board refuses Stanley Vickers a transfer to all-white Carrboro Elementary and adopts a first-grade proximity policy
  • March 1962: Chapel Hill parents raise money to restore teachers' supplements
• Brandis, Henry, Jr. 4 entries, 1950–1963
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  • October 24, 1950: Chapel Hill and rural Orange observe United Nations Day with flags sewn by home demonstration club women
  • May 5, 1959: Chapel Hill district voters elect the Rev. J. R. Manley to the city school board
  • March 1962: Law dean Henry Brandis Jr. turns down Albert Coates's last appeal for a merger
  • by July 31, 1963: Nearly 200 university faculty members back a public accommodations law in a paid advertisement
• Brandis, Henry P., Jr. 12 entries, 1933–1962

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• Brandom, Leroy 1 entry, 1821
  • 22 August 1821: John Young advertises for Leroy Brandom, a free Black apprentice he says ran away
• Brandon, John Lewis 4 entries, 1933–2016

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• Branson, E. C. 5 entries, 1913–1919

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• Branson, Elizabeth 4 entries, 1932–1951
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  • September 1932: Elizabeth Branson opens The Little Shop for women's clothing
  • May 29, 1949: The Altrusa Club honors photographer Bayard Wootten with an exhibit and tea
  • by February 1, 1951: Elizabeth Branson is named chairman of Chapel Hill's 1951 Red Cross drive
  • November 27, 1951: Chapel Hill-Carrboro merchants elect Elizabeth Branson president and vote Friday night openings

  May be the same person as Branson, Elizabeth Lanier

• Branson, Elizabeth Lanier 1 entry, 1933
  • late 1933: Beppie Branson moves The Little Shop to 142 East Franklin Street as sole owner

  May be the same person as Branson, Elizabeth

• Branson, Eugene Cunningham 27 entries, 1913–1933

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• Branson, Taylor 1 entry, 1929
  • November 14, 1929: The United States Marine Band plays in Kenan Stadium and the Tin Can
• Brantley, A. P. 2 entries, 1936–1937
  • 1936: Bowman and Gordon Gray give the Chapel Hill Methodist church a pipe organ
  • May 11, 1937: Oil is smeared on the Methodist churchyard wall where Black nurses sat

  May be the same person as Brantley, Allen P.

• Brantley, Allen P. 1 entry, 1935
  • December 8, 1935: Allen P. Brantley succeeds W. A. Jenkins as Chapel Hill's Methodist pastor

  May be the same person as Brantley, A. P.

• Brauer, John 1 entry, 1951
  • November 26, 1951: Chapel Hill aldermen approve adding fluorine to the town water

  May be the same person as Brauer, John C.

• Brauer, John C. 2 entries, 1950–1953
  • 1950: UNC establishes its School of Dentistry
  • October 24-25, 1953: A plaque honoring Hillsborough dentist J. S. Spurgeon is given to the UNC School of Dentistry

  May be the same person as Brauer, John

• Braune, Gustave M. 14 entries, 1922–1930

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• Bray, Ray 1 entry, 1943
  • January 7 to February 6, 1943: Charlie Gehringer and Hal Schumacher take Navy officer training at the Pre-Flight School
• Bream, Charles 1 entry, 1960
  • 1960: William Van Sprinkle designs a long Contemporary Ranch on Buttons Road for Charles and Kay Bream
• Bream, Kay 1 entry, 1960
  • 1960: William Van Sprinkle designs a long Contemporary Ranch on Buttons Road for Charles and Kay Bream
• Brecht, E. A. 3 entries, 1953–1963

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• Brecht, Edward 1 entry, 1921
  • 1921: Alice Noble joins the UNC School of Pharmacy staff
• Breckenridge, Mrs. M. S. 5 entries, 1930–1941
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  • by December 5, 1930: Christmas seal fund pays $300 toward the nurse for Black residents
  • November 5, 1935: Chapel Hill women organize a branch of the Needlework Guild of America
  • July 17, 1940: Chapel Hill groups form a joint committee to find homes for British refugee children
  • July 23, 1940: Chapel Hill women open a war relief sewing room in the University dining hall
  • February 10, 1941: Chapel Hill women's war relief workroom displays and ships its winter's garments
• Breckenridge, M. S. 2 entries, 1937–1945
  • by May 28, 1937: Chapel Hill faculty members incorporate a cooperative buying group
  • September 1945: Chapel Hill citizens organize a housing corporation to build homes
• Breckenridge, Millard 1 entry, 1933
  • June 6, 1933: Coates and law dean Van Hecke withdraw their resignations after meeting with President Graham
• Breckinridge, John C. 1 entry, 1865
  • April 1865: Confederate leaders gather at Hillsborough
• Breckinridge, Madeline McDowell 1 entry, 1915
  • April 1, 1915: Madeline McDowell Breckinridge speaks for woman suffrage at the university Y.M.C.A.
• Breeze, A. J. 2 entries, 1949–1961
  • May 1949: The county board names A. J. Breeze, James Clark and Otho Thompson to the Ridge Road school committee
  • June 11, 1961: Jones Grove dedicates a concrete-block church built by its own members
• Breeze, A. W. 1 entry, 1904
  • September 9, 1904: Deputy Sheriff Joseph Nichols is shot dead serving a warrant
• Breeze, Fannie 1 entry, 1832

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• Breeze, Harry 3 entries, 1945–1958
  • April 13-20, 1945: Carrboro munitions workers triple their Seventh War Loan quota in a week
  • January 4, 1954: Cedar Grove School's six-classroom north wing is finished
  • September 2, 1958: The county school board appoints a twenty-member Citizens Committee for Schools

  May be the same person as Breeze, Harry P.

• Breeze, Harry P. 9 entries, 1950–1960
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  • May 27, 1950: Orange County turns out in record numbers for the 1950 Democratic primary
  • by December 3, 1951: Most county teachers vote down the Kellogg school evaluation plan
  • May 7, 1951: Charles W. Stanford succeeds Kemp S. Cate as chairman of the county Board of Education
  • March 1952: Kemp S. Cate says he will not run again for the county Board of Education
  • July 27, 1953: County commissioners adopt a record $782,068 budget and keep the $1 tax rate
  • November 27, 1956: Hillsborough dedicates the new Cameron Park School
  • January 24, 1956: County Democrats name John Hawkins to the school board seat left by Harry Breeze
  • February 2, 1959: County commissioners name a citizens committee to study school finance
  • August 15, 1960: Democrats name Delmar Brown to the Orange County Board of Education

  May be the same person as Breeze, Harry

• Breeze, John 1 entry, 1787
  • August Term 1787: Thomas and Mary Curtis win support from John Breeze for Mary's child
• Breeze, John Henry 1 entry, 1947
  • March 20, 1947: A Superior Court jury convicts John Henry Breeze of murder, and he is sentenced to death
• Breeze, Mary E. 1 entry, 1944
  • December 4, 1944: The county school board sells the closed Harvey's Chapel schoolhouse
• Breeze, Samuel H. 2 entries, 1832–1885
  • 1832: Fannie Breeze is born enslaved in the household of Samuel Breeze
  • March 27, 1885: Court officer Samuel H. Breeze dies
• Brendel, Ford P. 1 entry, 1944
  • December 1944: Sunset Drive property owners ask Chapel Hill for sewer lines
• Brendle, F. P. 1 entry, 1945
  • April 23 to May 9, 1945: Chapel Hill's Black community health club runs a neighborhood clean-up campaign
• Breschi, Joe 1 entry, 2016
  • May 30, 2016: UNC men’s lacrosse wins the 2016 NCAA national championship
• Brewer, Ezekiel 1 entry, 1828
  • 1828: Orange Superior Court tries Jim, Sherod and Harry, three enslaved men
• Brewer, Fisk P. 3 entries, 1868–1871

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• Brewer, Greene 1 entry, 1869
  • July 17, 1869: Chapel Hill's town board holds the earliest meeting with surviving minutes
• Brewer, James 1 entry, 1969
  • 1969: UNC starts its Afro-American Studies curriculum

  May be the same person as Brewer, James H.

• Brewer, James H. 1 entry, 1974
  • March 1974: UNC mourns Afro-American Studies director James H. Brewer

  May be the same person as Brewer, James

• Brewer, Kidd 1 entry, 1942
  • September 19, 1942: The Pre-Flight School's weekly Cloudbuster begins publication
• Brewer, Maggie 1 entry, 1898
  • October 26, 1898: Manly McCauley and Maggie Brewer leave the Brewer farm west of Chapel Hill
• Brewer, Mary 1 entry, 1785
  • May Term 1785: The court takes the Brewer orphans from Sackfield Brewer and gives them to James and Delilah Lindsey
• Brewer, Milton 1 entry, 1898
  • October 26, 1898: Manly McCauley and Maggie Brewer leave the Brewer farm west of Chapel Hill
• Brewer, Pat 5 entries, 1886–1887
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  • November 8-12, 1886: The grand jury indicts five Black men in the killing of student Jacob Freeze
  • October 10, 1886: Student Jacob A. Freeze is shot dead during a clash between students and Black residents
  • May 8, 1887: Prisoners in the Freeze case try to break out of the Hillsborough jail
  • December 8, 1887: Three Black men convicted in the killing of student Freeze go to the penitentiary
  • March 30-April 2, 1887: Three Black men are convicted of manslaughter in the killing of student Jacob Freeze
• Brewer, Peter 1 entry, 1785
  • May Term 1785: The court takes the Brewer orphans from Sackfield Brewer and gives them to James and Delilah Lindsey
• Brewer, Sackfield 1 entry, 1785
  • May Term 1785: The court takes the Brewer orphans from Sackfield Brewer and gives them to James and Delilah Lindsey
• Brewer, Thomas 1 entry, 1852
  • 1852: Cane Creek Baptist Church buys ten acres from Thomas Brewer
• Bricker, John W. 1 entry, 1944
  • March 4, 1944: Ohio Governor John W. Bricker, a presidential hopeful, speaks in Memorial Hall
• Bridger, Colleen 1 entry, 2017
  • December 18, 2017: Quintana Stewart becomes Orange County's health director
• Bridgers, H. C. 1 entry, 1893
  • 1893: University tennis players beat Virginia and join the Intercollegiate Tennis Association
• Bridges, Benjamin 1 entry, 1816
  • August Term 1816: The court takes Emily Underhill from her master pending a hearing and gives her to her guardian
• Bridges, Henry 1 entry, 1959
  • February 1959: A state audit reports irregularities in the Institute of Government's accounts
• Bridges, J. R. 1 entry, 1953
  • 1953: Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church builds a parsonage on West Corbin Street
• Briggs, Sandra Hawkins 1 entry, 1988
  • October 23, 1988: Sandra Hawkins Briggs is ordained Mount Adar's first woman deacon
• Bright, Alfred 1 entry, 1875
  • 1875: Mount Bright Baptist Church builds its church in Hillsborough
• Bright, Alfred E. 1 entry, 1866
  • 1866 or about 1868: Twenty Black members leave First Baptist Church of Hillsborough and organize Mount Bright Baptist Church
• Brim, Jack 1 entry, 1880
  • 1880s (after about 1886): Jack Brim, a Black blacksmith, and then Bennie F. Ray open smithies at West End
• Brinkhous, Frances 1 entry, 1950
  • 1950: James Webb designs a house on Dogwood Drive for Kenneth and Frances Brinkhous
• Brinkhous, Kenneth M. 4 entries, 1946–1983

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• Brinkley, Martin H. 1 entry, 2020
  • October 7, 2020: UNC School of Law dedicates a portrait of Charles E. Daye
• Bristowe, J. E. 6 entries, 1890–1891
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  • December 15, 1890: The Methodist conference sends J. E. Bristowe to the Hillsborough Circuit
  • August 30-31, 1891: Black Methodists hold a two-day Grand Rally at Hillsborough and raise about $175
  • January 11, 1891: J. E. Bristowe preaches his first sermon as pastor of the Hillsboro Circuit
  • February 14-15, 1891: Hillsborough Circuit holds its first quarterly meeting of the year at the Methodist church
  • December 13, 1891: Rev. J. M. Lowder preaches his first sermon as pastor of the Hillsborough Circuit
  • January 15, 1891: Hillsborough Methodists hold a pound party for their new pastor at the parsonage
• Britt, Bill B. 1 entry, 1971
  • 1971: Robert Wells Jr. is mayor of Carrboro and Bill B. Britt its town manager
• Britt, Bob 1 entry, 1991
  • 1991: Robin and Bob Britt buy Merritt's store from the Merritt family
• Britt, Robin 1 entry, 1991
  • 1991: Robin and Bob Britt buy Merritt's store from the Merritt family
• Brittain, James 1 entry, 1964
  • February 24, 1964: Gloria Williams asks the school board to readmit boycotting Lincoln High students
• Brittain, Joseph 1 entry, 1808
  • May to November 1808: Patsy Crowder attaches Joseph Brittain's property and wins her suit
• Brittian, James 5 entries, 1963–2009

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• Britton, E. E. 1 entry, 1916
  • December 7-9, 1916: The state Press Association holds a Newspaper Institute at the university
• Broad, Molly Corbett 3 entries, 1998–2000

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• Broadfoot, Charles W. 1 entry, 1875
  • May to August 1875: Kemp Battle's subscription drive raises $20,167 and Paul Cameron repairs the campus for the reopening
• Broadhurst, E. D. 1 entry, 1897
  • about 1897: The university begins intercollegiate debates with the University of Georgia
• Broadwell, H. 3 entries, 1947–1950
  • May 6, 1947: Hillsboro elects a new board of town commissioners
  • by June 19, 1947: Hillsboro men organize an Exchange Club
  • August 15, 1950: Hillsboro lowers its speed limit and orders a stop light at King and Hazel streets
• Brockenbrough, E. H. 1 entry, 1928
  • by December 7, 1928: Five planes are based in the new hangar at the airport north of Chapel Hill
• Brocker, Edith 2 entries, 1949–1952
  • March 31, 1949: District health department takes UNC public health students for field training
  • October 11, 1952: The Orange County health department wins the state public health association's merit award
• Brockwell, A. J. 1 entry, 1884
  • by October 14, 1884: A. J. Brockwell completes a grist mill near Chapel Hill
• Brockwell, Frances 1 entry, 1953
  • March 29, 1953: Orange Methodist Church dedicates three memorial stained glass windows
• Brockwell, Joseph 1 entry, 1854
  • September 1854: Joseph Brockwell's murder case is moved to Chatham and ends in a manslaughter verdict
• Brockwell, Judge 2 entries, 1917–1923
  • mid-October 1917: The Carolina battalion begins digging practice trenches east of the campus
  • about 1923: "Judge" Brockwell's cabin at the edge of Battle Park burns
• Brockwell, Samuel J. 1 entry, 1953
  • March 29, 1953: Orange Methodist Church dedicates three memorial stained glass windows
• Brockwell, Samuel Jackson 19 entries, 1902–1940

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• Brockwell, Sherwood 1 entry, 1929
  • December 3, 1929: Residents beyond the town limits meet with a state fire expert on fire protection
• Broe, Helen B. 1 entry, 1961
  • by August 17, 1961: The Chapel Hill Public Library opens all day six days a week
• Brogan, Lawrence 1 entry, 1959
  • September 17, 1959: The News of Orange County turns tabloid and names Roland Giduz editor
• Brogan, Wesley G. 1 entry, 1959
  • by June 18, 1959: The North Carolina Methodist Conference opens Camp Chestnut Ridge
• Brogden, Blackwell 1 entry, 1962
  • February 28, 1962: Opponents of the county zoning plan meet at Palmer's Grove
• Brogden, L. C. 1 entry, 1916
  • October 10, 1916: State and university educators set up a teacher-training program for Orange County
• Brogden, W. J. 2 entries, 1923
  • September 2, 1923: Mount Moriah church celebrates its centennial
  • October 7, 1923: Chapel Hill Baptists formally open their new church

  May be the same person as Brogden, Willis J.

• Brogden, Willis J. 1 entry, 1929
  • August 1929: Coates holds a Law School Association conference on criminal justice

  May be the same person as Brogden, W. J.

• Brokenshire, Norman 1 entry, 1948
  • December 16-18, 1948: The documentary film This Is Chapel Hill plays at the Carolina Theatre
• Brombaugh, John 1 entry, 1987
  • December 1, 1987: New Hope Presbyterian Church installs a Brombaugh tracker organ
• Brookbank, Grover C. 1 entry, 1957
  • May 6, 1957: Carrboro reelects Mayor R. B. Todd over Grover C. Brookbank
• Brooks, A. L. 2 entries, 1898–1908
  • November 7, 1898: W. A. Guthrie urges Chapel Hill voters to the polls for the white supremacy ticket the day after McCauley's body is found
  • August 29, 1908: Orange County Democrats nominate S. M. Gattis and the 1908 county ticket

  May be the same person as Brooks, Aubrey Lee

• Brooks, Andrew 4 entries, 1789–1799
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  • August 29, 1789: The court orders the apprentice William McIntire back to his master
  • November Term 1796: The court binds Charity Revill, not yet three, daughter of Peggy Revill, to Andrew Brooks
  • February Term 1797: The court calls Andrew Brooks to show why his apprentice Jonathan Johnston should not be removed
  • May Term 1799: The court binds James and John, sons of a woman called Free Mary, to learn carpentry
• Brooks, Aubrey Lee 1 entry, 1955
  • December 7, 1955: Aubrey Lee Brooks sets up a scholarship foundation for students from Orange and ten other counties

  May be the same person as Brooks, A. L.

• Brooks, B. U. 4 entries, 1927–1935
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  • May 16, 1927: Clinic for Black babies opens at Rock Hill Baptist Church
  • June 11-13, 1928: Orange County holds a child health clinic and parents' institute in Hillsboro
  • by July 21, 1933: Public health nurse Compton holds three clinics for Black babies in Chapel Hill
  • by July 12, 1935: A clinic examines 19 Black babies in Chapel Hill
• Brooks, Catherine 1 entry, 1990
  • spring 1990 to January 1991: Jones Grove builds a fellowship hall on land given by the Brooks family
• Brooks, Charles 1 entry, 1942
  • by January 16, 1942: Orange County Training School opens defense trade classes for Black youth
• Brooks, Charlie 1 entry, 1924
  • July 4, 1924: The Standard, a movie theatre owned by and for Black residents, opens on West Franklin Street
• Brooks, D. R. 1 entry, 1936
  • March 20, 1936: D. R. Brooks opens his cafeteria in the later Porthole building
• Brooks, Deborah 1 entry, 2014
  • May 6, 2014: Mark Chilton wins the register of deeds primary on a same-sex marriage pledge
• Brooks, E. C. 2 entries, 1932–1934
  • November 14, 1932: Trustees elect Frank P. Graham president of the consolidated University
  • June 5, 1934: University trustees retire Brooks and Foust and replace vice-presidents with deans of administration
• Brooks, Elizabeth 3 entries, 1969

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• Brooks, Frederick P., Jr. 5 entries, 1962–2015

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• Brooks, George 1 entry, 1952
  • November 13, 1952: Black farm families hold their Rural Progress Night at Cedar Grove School
• Brooks, George W. 3 entries, 1869–1874
  • 1869-1871: Federal court dismisses the state's suit to void the university's bank mortgage
  • August 5–19, 1870: Kirk's militia arrests Josiah Turner Jr. at Hillsborough
  • June 1874: Federal court rules the campus cannot be sold for the bank debt
• Brooks, Gwendolyn 1 entry, 1973
  • October 11, 1973: Gwendolyn Brooks reads her poetry in Memorial Hall
• Brooks, Hassie 2 entries, 1948
  • by August 26, 1948: Hassie Brooks gives a lot for a library building for Black readers
  • October 28, 1948: Black library committee moves to reopen the county's library for Black readers in the Hillsboro Community Center
• Brooks, Jacob 1 entry, 1770
  • April 23-24, 1770: Orange justices take sworn statements for Herman Husband's defense
• Brooks, Joab 1 entry, 1770
  • April 23-24, 1770: Orange justices take sworn statements for Herman Husband's defense
• Brooks, Joe Bethel 6 entries, 1926–1954

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• Brooks, John C. 1 entry, 1971
  • January 28, 1971: Chancellor Sitterson tells Tom Bello the university will control student activity fees
• Brooks, L. L. 1 entry, 1906
  • July 21, 1906: Several hundred people attend a Farmers' Institute at Occoneechee Farm
• Brooks, L. M. 2 entries, 1939–1940
  • June 9, 1939: Chapel Hill high school graduates a class of 66, twice the year before
  • March 11, 1940: A town meeting hears a federal housing official on clearing Chapel Hill's slums

  May be the same person as Brooks, Lee M.

• Brooks, Lee M. 1 entry, 1933
  • August 28, 1933: Ronald J. Tamblyn leaves Chapel Hill after Orange Presbytery refuses to receive him

  May be the same person as Brooks, L. M.

• Brooks, Luther A. 1 entry, 1990
  • spring 1990 to January 1991: Jones Grove builds a fellowship hall on land given by the Brooks family
• Brooks, Robert G. 1 entry, 1956
  • July 4, 1956: The Tar-Heel Motor Lodge opens on the Chapel Hill bypass
• Brooks, Sallie 1 entry, 1862
  • 1862: Caroline Bennett and Sallie Brooks, free Black women, join the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church
• Brooks, William 2 entries, 1927–1928
  • March 10, 1927: Joseph H. Jones deeds a quarter acre of his farm to the Jones Grove church trustees
  • March 11, 1928: Jones Grove Missionary Baptist Church dedicates its first sanctuary
• Broughton, J. Melville 16 entries, 1941–1947

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• Broughton, N. B. 1 entry, 1878
  • August 27-29, 1878: The Mount Zion Baptist Association meets at Bethel Church west of Chapel Hill
• Broun, Joal 2 entries, 1999–2021
  • August 17, 1999: Carrboro aldermen vote 4-3 against renaming themselves the Board of Councillors
  • March 22, 2021: Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools students return for hybrid classes
• Broun, Joal Hall 11 entries, 1969–2021

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• Broun, Ken 1 entry, 1992
  • November 20-22, 1992: The Eighth International Conference of Lesbian and Gay Officials meets in Chapel Hill
• Brower, J. L. 1 entry, 1875
  • July 24, 1875: A new academy building is finished at Caldwell
• Brown, A. 1 entry, 1823
  • July 4, 1823: Citizens near Murphey's mills hold a Fourth of July muster, oration and dinner
• Brown, Aaron V. 1 entry, 1857
  • June 4, 1857: The university gives Postmaster General Aaron V. Brown an honorary LL.D. and William Hooper a D.D.
• Brown, Allen 1 entry, 1854
  • October 26-27, 1854: Orange County holds its first agricultural fair at Hillsborough
• Brown, Ashbel G. 1 entry, 1848
  • 1848: Literary societies move into new halls in the enlarged Old East and Old West
• Brown, B. C. 1 entry, 1919
  • October 28, 1919: Chapel Hill veterans form an American Legion post
• Brown, Bedford 1 entry, 1840
  • September 15-16, 1840: Willie P. Mangum and Bedford Brown debate for two days at the Masonic Hall in Hillsborough
• Brown, C. S. 1 entry, 1926
  • January 1926: The county commissioners replace road supervisor C. S. Brown with Dave Woods
• Brown, C. W. 2 entries, 1887–1888
  • August-October 1887: C. M. Parks builds a two-story brick addition to his Bazar
  • by April 26, 1888: C. W. Brown begins making brick near the Hillsborough railroad bridge
• Brown, Mrs. C. W. 1 entry, 1887
  • November 12, 1887: Hillsborough women form a Woman's Christian Temperance Union
• Brown, Carl F. 1 entry, 1953
  • January 25, 1953: Covenant Presbyterian Church is organized in Chapel Hill
• Brown, Charles C. 1 entry, 1962
  • April 2, 1962: County school board reorganizes bus maintenance after a state inspection
• Brown, Charlotte Hawkins 1 entry, 1919

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• Brown, Charlotte Hawkins 6 entries, 1919–1925

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• Brown, Clark E. 2 entries, 1942–1943
  • November 1942: Chapel Hill builds up a community blood bank with Pre-Flight donors
  • February 1943: The Pre-Flight School's new Navy hospital opens behind the university's medical building
• Brown, Claudia Roberts 1 entry, 1983
  • September 1983: The Carrboro Appearance Commission publishes the town's architectural and historical inventory
• Brown, Delmar 5 entries, 1955–1961
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  • August 1955: The county board names a committee to study school segregation after Brown
  • August 15, 1960: Democrats name Delmar Brown to the Orange County Board of Education
  • May 2, 1961: The Cameron Park PTA honors retiring teachers Jessie Latta and Mamie Ray
  • July 21, 1961: The county school board again refuses nine Black children places at the closed White Cross School
  • May 29, 1961: The county school board hires Archie Royal Davis to design the new Orange high school
• Brown, E. A. 4 entries, 1922–1960
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  • by July 6, 1922: The Chapel Hill Funeral Home takes over E. A. Brown's undertaking business
  • March 1925: E. A. Brown sells his Chapel Hill furniture and hardware business to Pendergraft and McCauley
  • January 16, 1952: Orange County Republicans elect M. L. Cates Sr. chairman
  • January 30, 1960: A Republican county convention led by Col. H. L. Robb takes over the Orange GOP

  May be the same person as Brown, Edward Arthur

• Brown, Edward Arthur 1 entry, 1910
  • 1910: Edward Arthur Brown opens a hardware and furniture store

  May be the same person as Brown, E. A.

• Brown, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1854
  • 21 May and 1 July 1854: Elizabeth Brown refuses to name her child's father and pays a bastardy fine to the county
• Brown, Esther 1 entry, 1942
  • by May 29, 1942: A Girl Scout troop for Black girls is organized in Chapel Hill
• Brown, Frank 5 entries, 1925–1992
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  • January 31, 1925: J. Cheshire Webb takes options on the Hillsborough quarry farm that supplied stone for Duke
  • 1983: Frank Brown becomes dean of the UNC School of Education
  • April 1988: The Black Faculty/Staff Caucus publicly backs Education dean Frank Brown
  • 1990: Frank Brown is named Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Educational Leadership
  • March 27, 1992: UNC holds the naming ceremony for the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center
• Brown, Gattis 1 entry, 1953
  • July 2, 1953: Five Forks Baptist Church is organized in a converted pack barn
• Brown, George 1 entry, 1905
  • 1905: Patterson Mill miller George Brown buys a farm on Mount Moriah Road
• Brown, George H., Jr. 1 entry, 1893
  • October 30-31, 1893: Superior Court convicts Umstead Jones of second-degree murder for killing Bob Morrow
• Brown, Grady 1 entry, 1964
  • February 3, 1964: County schools add distributive education, manual arts and diversified occupations departments
• Brown, Grady A. 22 entries, 1925–1974

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• Brown, H. D. 2 entries, 1898–1917
  • by January 13, 1898: Blacksmith H. D. Brown becomes postmaster at Efland
  • September 3, 1917: H. D. Brown becomes superintendent of the Orange County Home
• Brown, H. H. 3 entries, 1946–1948
  • by April 11, 1946: Hillsboro lays the foundation of a Youth Center behind the Methodist church
  • September 20, 1946: Orange County Republicans name a ticket and adopt a five-point platform
  • April 17, 1948: Orange County Republicans file a nearly full slate as filing closes
• Brown, Mrs. H. K. 1 entry, 1887
  • November 12, 1887: Hillsborough women form a Woman's Christian Temperance Union
• Brown, H. N. 4 entries, 1874–1884
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  • May 4, 1874: Haywood Beverly and Lewis Jenkins run for Hillsborough town commissioner as Black Republicans
  • early May 1875 (reported May 5): Hillsborough elects John M. Blackwood magistrate of police on a mixed-party ticket
  • July 1, 1876: Orange County Republicans meet and come out against the constitutional amendments
  • July 13, 1884: Hillsborough Methodists report their Sunday school's hundredth anniversary
• Brown, H. N., Jr. 2 entries, 1891–1907
  • May 4, 1891: Hillsborough re-elects Mayor Joseph A. Harris and chooses a seven-man town board
  • January 9, 1907: Stockholders organize the Hillsboro Clay Manufacturing Company and elect Shepperd Strudwick president

  May be the same person as Brown, Henry N., Jr.

• Brown, H. N., Sr. 4 entries, 1889–1891
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  • January 1889 to April 1891: C. M. Parks gives the Hillsboro Circuit its first parsonage
  • early June 1890: The Corner store of H. N. Brown Jr. & Bro. fails and assigns to a trustee
  • August 30, 1890: Orange County Republicans reorganize and elect James A. Cheek county chairman
  • January 15, 1891: Hillsborough Methodists hold a pound party for their new pastor at the parsonage

  May be the same person as Brown, Henry N., Sr.

• Brown, Harold W. 9 entries, 1937–1943

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• Brown, Hattie 2 entries, 1933–1945
  • March 3, 1933: Hattie Brown opens the Orange Specialty Shop, a Hillsboro dress shop
  • November 1, 1945: Mrs. Will Smith takes over Miss Hattie Brown's dress shop as Smith's Ready-To-Wear

  May be the same person as Brown, Hattie V.

• Brown, Hattie V. 1 entry, 1932
  • February 25, 1932: Hattie V. Brown buys the Nash law office

  May be the same person as Brown, Hattie

• Brown, Henry N. 13 entries, 1860–1888
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  • February 4, 1860: Hillsborough elects Andrew Murdock magistrate of police and seven town commissioners
  • January-July 1862: The Hillsborough Soldiers' Aid Society reports six months of gifts to companies, hospitals and soldiers' families
  • April 18, 1863: A county meeting at Hillsborough condemns bread riots and buys corn and bacon for the needy
  • by October 5, 1864: Merchant Henry N. Brown gives $5,000 to the Hillsborough Soldiers' Aid Society
  • October 9, 1865: Job Berry buys an acre on South Wake Street
  • June 19 to July 28, 1868: Destitute Orange residents, white and Black, apply to the Bureau office at Hillsborough for rations
  • March 5, 1870: Hillsborough men ask Governor Holden to commission Pride Jones against the Klan
  • October 16-18, 1880: Orange Republicans endorse Henry N. Brown for the state House at court-house meetings
  • September 24-26, 1881: Hillsborough closes its stores for President Garfield's funeral
  • May 27, 1882: Hillsborough Republicans recommend Albert Haughawout, a Black man, for the state House
  • August to December 1883: Work begins on the Gray school and church for Black residents at Brownsville
  • September 18, 1886: Orange Republicans name James B. Mason for the Senate and back Cheek and Hughes
  • May 5, 1888: Orange Republicans name convention delegates and back James B. Mason for state auditor
• Brown, Henry N., Jr. 4 entries, 1889–1894
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  • August 1889: Henry N. Brown Jr. adds a room to his Hillsborough plug tobacco factory
  • early June 1890: The Corner store of H. N. Brown Jr. & Bro. fails and assigns to a trustee
  • May 5, 1890: Hillsboro re-elects Mayor Joseph A. Harris with a seven-man town board
  • November 6, 1894: Republicans and Populists sweep Orange County's election, leaving the Democrats only the sheriff and register of deeds

  May be the same person as Brown, H. N., Jr.

• Brown, Henry N., Sr. 3 entries, 1889–1902
  • May 13, 1889: Nathan W. Brown takes over the Hillsborough post office and moves it to the Cheek building
  • September 3, 1892: Orange County Republicans hold their county convention
  • August 23, 1902: Orange Republicans elect Luico Lloyd county chairman

  May be the same person as Brown, H. N., Sr.

• Brown, J. L. 2 entries, 1934–1936
  • by March 30, 1934: Marvin Utley is appointed to the Orange County board of elections
  • by April 3, 1936: The state board names the Orange County board of elections
• Brown, J. L., Jr. 9 entries, 1945–1960
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  • August 13, 1945: Hillsboro commissioners order a double seal coat for the town's surfaced streets
  • April 15 to May 13, 1950: Orange County registers close to 9,000 voters in a complete new registration
  • January 16, 1952: Orange County Republicans elect M. L. Cates Sr. chairman
  • June 14-15, 1954: Hillsboro's Ground Observer post stands a 24-hour watch in Operation Alert
  • April 6, 1954: Hillsboro's town board sets a two-hour parking limit downtown
  • March 23-25, 1955: Hillsboro's Ground Observer post goes on a 72-hour round-the-clock alert
  • December 13, 1956: The Exchange Club enters Grady A. Brown in its Book of Golden Deeds
  • February 1956: Hillsboro's Ground Observer Corps post goes on a 24-hour watch
  • by November 24, 1960: The Hillsboro Exchange Club gives J. L. Brown Jr. its Book of Golden Deeds award
• Brown, James 2 entries, 1757–1778

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• Brown, Jehu 2 entries, 1820–1829
  • 1820s: A hall-and-parlor farmhouse is built on the Cabe land by the Eno
  • February 1829: Commissioners divide William Cabe's 1,389 acres among his heirs
• Brown, Jimmie 1 entry, 1925
  • May 11, 1925: A bus line between Hillsboro and Chapel Hill begins running
• Brown, John 2 entries, 1944–1946
  • October 21, 1944: The Caldwell Educational Association votes to build a school and community gymnasium
  • June 3, 1946: Caldwell loses its high school when the state allots it no teachers
• Brown, John H. 2 entries, 1945–1951
  • 1945: Four Orange County farmers run hybrid corn demonstrations
  • March 21, 1951: Orange sets up a County Agricultural Mobilization Committee
• Brown, John M. 1 entry, 1878
  • mid-November 1878 (adjourned November 19): The AME Church's annual conference meets at Hillsborough
• Brown, Joseph 1 entry, 1855
  • mid-March 1855: Mrs. Margaret Woods dies when her house on Little River burns
• Brown, Mrs. K. J. 4 entries, 1917–1919
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  • February 1917: A graduate nurse starts a first aid class for the Chapel Hill Community Club
  • October 1917: The Chapel Hill Red Cross re-elects its officers and names delegates to the state Red Cross congress
  • October 1918: Chapel Hill women nurse influenza patients as volunteers in the University hospital
  • April 12, 1919: The Chapel Hill Red Cross reports 66 cases of supplies shipped since its founding
• Brown, Katherine 1 entry, 1930
  • September 8, 1930: The Chapel Hill school opens with music and physical training restored
• Brown, L. Ames 1 entry, 1932
  • January 29, 1932: Graham Memorial is dedicated as the student union
• Brown, L. C. H. 1 entry, 1886
  • by February 20, 1886: A. A. Springs of Winston leases the old Pogue factory to make plug tobacco
• Brown, Lightning 1 entry, 1987
  • November 3, 1987: Joe Herzenberg wins election to the Chapel Hill Town Council
• Brown, Lucius 3 entries, 1945–1948
  • June 26, 1945: Orange County's wartime farm transportation committee holds its last meeting
  • May 8, 1945: Hillsboro reelects Mayor Ben Johnston and seats an all-new board of commissioners
  • July 1, 1948: Polio fears call off Hillsboro's first high school band festival
• Brown, Lucius, Jr. 2 entries, 1947–1948
  • by June 19, 1947: Hillsboro men organize an Exchange Club
  • September 29, 1948: Remus Smith becomes chairman of the county board of elections
• Brown, Mary 1 entry, 1837
  • August Term 1837: The court holds John Adams Jr. in custody until he gives bond for Mary Brown's child
• Brown, Maude 5 entries, 1956–1958
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  • October 5, 1956: Maude Brown is sworn in as acting postmaster of Hillsboro
  • December 1957: The Post Office Department approves Fred Cates's Churton Street building for Hillsborough's post office
  • July 17, 1958: The Hillsboro post office moves into Fred Cates's new building on South Churton Street
  • by June 5, 1958: President Eisenhower nominates Maude Brown as Hillsboro postmaster
  • May 1958: A postal inspector says Hillsboro needs street signs and house numbers before city mail delivery

  May be the same person as Brown, Maude T.

• Brown, Maude T. 1 entry, 1959
  • by February 12, 1959: President Eisenhower nominates Maude T. Brown as Hillsboro postmaster

  May be the same person as Brown, Maude

• Brown, N. W. 24 entries, 1889–1954

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• Brown, Peyton 1 entry, 1890
  • early January 1890: Conductor George N. Waitt is moved to the University Railroad
• Brown, R. Eugene 1 entry, 1954
  • September 14, 1954: County commissioners again refuse more money for the welfare deficit
• Brown, Rose Butler 2 entries, 1952
  • November 30, 1952: Orange County dedicates a new elementary school for Black children
  • by September 11, 1952: Orange County schools join a four-year UNC and Kellogg Foundation improvement program
• Brown, Roy M. 4 entries, 1928–1940
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  • September 1928: Orange County welfare board takes up the county home's condition
  • November 3, 1930: County commissioners and welfare board appeal for help for the jobless
  • by June 17, 1932: A relief committee seeks easier paving payments for Black homeowners on West Franklin Street
  • by August 30, 1940: Charles Craig draws the plans for Chapel Hill's Negro Community Center, and the state WPA approves them
• Brown, Sterling 1 entry, 1930
  • by May 16, 1930: Carolina Magazine publishes its annual issue of Black writers
• Brown, Susan 1 entry, 2004
  • August 30, 2004: The Carrboro Cybrary opens in the Century Center
• Brown, T. N. 1 entry, 1944
  • April 13, 1944: Two Orange County farm families receive the REA's War Food Production award
• Brown, Thomas 1 entry, 1804
  • July 4, 1804 (as Hooper recalled it): William Hooper recalls student 'General' Thomas Brown's Fourth of July parade in 1804
• Brown, Tony 1 entry, 1982
  • March 25, 1982: Tony Brown keynotes the School of Social Work's third Black Experience Workshop
• Brown, W. V. 1 entry, 1944
  • October 1, 1944: E. D. Young takes up the pastorate of West Hill Baptist Church
• Brown, William 2 entries, 1771–1832
  • December 14, 1771: Tryon, now governor of New York, asks the King's free pardon for the six reprieved Regulators
  • February 1, 1832: Five elders are ordained at New Hope during the revival

  May be the same person as Brown, William H.

• Brown, William H. 1 entry, 1768

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  • about 1768: A house is built for Catherine Lockhart at Churton and Tryon streets

  May be the same person as Brown, William

• Brown, William H. 15 entries, 1839–1866

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• Brown, Wilson 5 entries, 1886–1890
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  • September 18, 1886: Orange Republicans name James B. Mason for the Senate and back Cheek and Hughes
  • November 6, 1888: Orange County gives Cleveland and Fowle majorities and re-elects Sheriff John K. Hughes
  • May 5, 1888: Orange Republicans name convention delegates and back James B. Mason for state auditor
  • September 1, 1888: Orange County Republicans nominate Wilson Brown for sheriff and a full county ticket
  • August 30, 1890: Orange County Republicans reorganize and elect James A. Cheek county chairman
• Browne, E. T. 3 entries, 1939–1940
  • mid-February 1939: East-end homeowners organize against routing a new Chapel Hill to Durham highway past their homes
  • January 7, 1940: Allison W. Honeycutt is elected chairman of Boy Scout work in the Chapel Hill district
  • by April 26, 1940: Mary Bayley Pratt Children's Library Association raises money for school library books
• Browne, Rose Butler 2 entries, 1953–1955
  • April 17-18, 1953: Central High hosts a Kellogg Project leadership conference for Black educators of three counties
  • April 4-7, 1955: Lincoln High holds its first Career Week
• Browne, T. E. 1 entry, 1915
  • July 5 to 10, 1915: The University Summer School holds a Rural Life Conference
• Browning, A. Max 2 entries, 1950–1951
  • November 6, 1950: A new board of Hillsboro's Legion Memorial Hut reverses the decision to sell the hut
  • by September 1951: Browning-Cain Company starts making barrel heading in West Hillsboro
• Browning, Alan 1 entry, 1910
  • August 24, 1910: District Democrats nominate John W. Graham and Dr. Hurdle for the state Senate at Hillsboro
• Browning, Allan 1 entry, 1912
  • August 10, 1912: Orange County Democrats nominate George C. Pickard for the House and renominate the county officers
• Browning, Allen 1 entry, 1918
  • Mid-August 1918: A four-church committee raises $504 for Jewish war relief
• Browning, Anna 1 entry, 1858
  • 1858 or early 1859: The court orders Chesley Bass hired out to pay a bastardy judgment
• Browning, Hugh Conway 3 entries, 1951–1983

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• Browning, James 1 entry, 1832
  • September Term 1832: The Superior Court convicts James Browning and Frances Hutchins of adultery
• Browning, S. 1 entry, 1924
  • June 7, 1924: Orange Democrats nominate L. B. Lloyd for sheriff over Jug Whitaker
• Browning, Sidney 1 entry, 1864
  • May 19-20, 1864: Company A of the 56th North Carolina, an Orange company, loses two killed near Ware Bottom Church
• Browning, Sterling 6 entries, 1905–1920
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  • June 6, 1905: County commissioners refuse to license saloons in Hillsborough
  • May 1, 1905: The county puts its public roads under road supervisors
  • April 2, 1906: Orange County's commissioners decide to buy a road machine and order a bridge over Back Creek
  • November 6, 1906: Democrats carry every county office in Orange
  • May 3, 1916: Orange County holds a county-wide school commencement at Hillsboro
  • February 7, 1920: Carrboro School District voters approve $25,000 in school bonds
• Brownlee, Mrs. M. R. 1 entry, 1942
  • August 7 to October 16, 1942: The Consumers Association of Chapel Hill and Orange County is organized
• Brownstein, Michelle 1 entry, 2016
  • March 3, 2016: Joal Broun is sworn in to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board
• Broyles, McBurney 1 entry, 1865
  • April 14, 1865: Wheeler's cavalry reaches Chapel Hill and posts a guard on the university
• Bruce, Abner B. 5 entries, 1792–1809
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  • May Term 1792: County officers take the oath to support the Constitution of the United States
  • November 29, 1799: The court elects Abner B. Bruce public register
  • May Term 1804: The court orders a bridge across the Eno at Hillsborough and levies a tax for it
  • May Term 1805: The court orders a public clock for the courthouse and levies a tax for it
  • May Term 1809: The court names a committee to draft rules for the patrols
• Bruce, George W. 1 entry, 1841
  • August 5, 1841: Orange County voters re-elect Joseph C. Norwood and John Taylor as court clerks
• Brummitt, D. G. 1 entry, 1929
  • August 1929: Coates holds a Law School Association conference on criminal justice

  May be the same person as Brummitt, Dennis G.

• Brummitt, Dennis G. 3 entries, 1929–1934
  • August 14, 1929: The university opens a ten-day police school for officers from North Carolina and beyond
  • July 14-15, 1932: The state Conference on Elementary Education meets in Chapel Hill on schools in the Depression
  • April 1934: Coates moderates a debate on proposed constitutional amendments and keeps the Institute neutral

  May be the same person as Brummitt, D. G.

• Bruton, David 1 entry, 1994
  • January 28, 1994: Perry Deane Young speaks at Chapel Hill High School after gay-authored books are pulled from a reading list
• Bryan, A. Hughes 1 entry, 1946
  • 1946: The school opens a Department of Public Health Nutrition under A. Hughes Bryan
• Bryan, H. R. 1 entry, 1893
  • March 23, 1893: John Alston pleads guilty in the arson case over E. H. Cooley's property and gets ten years

  May be the same person as Bryan, Henry R.

• Bryan, Henry R. 1 entry, 1904
  • August 9, 1904: Lewis Ruffin is sentenced to thirty years in the penitentiary

  May be the same person as Bryan, H. R.

• Bryan, J. A. 1 entry, 1884
  • February 22, 1884: University students mark Washington's Birthday with an oration and field-day contests
• Bryan, James 1 entry, 1972
  • April 14-15, 1972: The BSM holds a sickle cell conference and tests about 200 people
• Bryan, James W. 1 entry, 1824
  • 1824: James W. Bryan speaks at commencement on a law professorship for the university
• Bryan, John H. 3 entries, 1846–1856
  • June 8, 1846: William Mercer Green pledges fifteen enslaved people and his Bolin Creek land for a loan
  • week of September 9, 1850: Orange Superior Court sentences an enslaved man named Ellick to hang
  • October 11, 1856: The trustees' executive committee rules that Hedrick has destroyed his usefulness to the university
• Bryan, Rose Elwood 1 entry, 1934
  • August 4, 1934: The Farmers Mutual Exchange holds its fifth annual meeting at Hogan's Lake
• Bryan, Shepard 1 entry, 1891
  • April 15, 1891: The class of 1891 holds its Class Day in Memorial Hall
• Bryan, William Jennings 4 entries, 1896–1915

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• Bryant, Angela 2 entries, 1981–1991
  • about 1981: UNC's first Black Alumni Reunion is held
  • July 14, 1991: Angela Bryant joins the UNC Board of Trustees
• Bryant, Dixie Lee 3 entries, 1894–1897

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• Bryant, Mrs. L. B. 1 entry, 1957
  • October 1, 1957: Parents vote to form an Orange County chapter of the N.C. Association for Retarded Children
• Bryant, Paul 1 entry, 1944
  • August 1944: All-American Otto Graham reports to the Pre-Flight School as a cadet

  May be the same person as Bryant, Paul W.

• Bryant, Paul W. 1 entry, 1945
  • by February 2, 1945: Paul Bryant becomes head of football at the Navy Pre-Flight School

  May be the same person as Bryant, Paul

• Bryant, Robby 1 entry, 1920
  • April 18, 1920: Mount Olive Baptist Church is organized at Efland
• Bryant, Victor 7 entries, 1919–1956
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  • February to May 1919: Richard H. Lewis chairs the trustees' search for a new university president
  • by March 1, 1935: Chapel Hill Community Club calls for a divorce law fairer to women
  • April 3, 1950: County commissioners decline to oppose the route of the new Durham to Chapel Hill highway
  • February 6, 1950: University trustees elect Gordon Gray president
  • July 9, 1951: Chapel Hill aldermen revoke the Curve Inn building permit after Strowd Hill residents protest
  • by June 18, 1953: Will Ed Thompson's estate inventory comes to $174,185, far below the first estimate
  • March 1, 1956: William Friday becomes acting president of the Consolidated University

  May be the same person as Bryant, Victor S.

• Bryant, Victor S. 1 entry, 1949
  • July 14, 1949: A trustees' committee hears Chapel Hill on the future of the University's utilities

  May be the same person as Bryant, Victor

• Bryant, Victor Silas 6 entries, 1894–1919

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• Bryant, Victor, Sr. 1 entry, 1962
  • January 31 to February 2, 1962: Land commissioners hear Duke Power's condemnation cases against Morgan Creek owners
• Bryson, D. R. 1 entry, 1893
  • 1893: University tennis players beat Virginia and join the Intercollegiate Tennis Association
• Bryson, Nancy 1 entry, 2009
  • February 20, 2009: Rebuilt Boshamer Stadium opens on Ridge Road
• Bryson, Vaughn 1 entry, 2009
  • February 20, 2009: Rebuilt Boshamer Stadium opens on Ridge Road
• Buansi, Allen 2 entries, 2019–2025
  • November 2019: Chapel Hill creates a poet laureate post and names CJ Suitt the first
  • October 5, 2025: State law removes Chapel Hill's zoning control over UNC projects
• Bubberly, Allan 1 entry, 1811
  • 1811: Allan Bubberly sells the future Weaver House property to Thomas Weaver
• Buchanan, Daniel Huston 1 entry, 1937
  • about 1937: Daniel Huston Buchanan builds a two-story house with a gallery on Laurel Hill Road
• Buchanan, James 4 entries, 1841–1859

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• Buck, M. W. 1 entry, 1921
  • October 11 to 13, 1921: The Mount Zion Baptist Association, meeting at Bethel, endorses the Washington arms conference
• Buckner, C. E. 2 entries, 1942–1944
  • late June 1942: The Chapel Hill school board chooses C. E. Buckner as high school principal
  • September 29, 1944: C. E. Buckner, principal of Chapel Hill High through the years after the fire, dies
• Buckner, Jesse 1 entry, 1806
  • 1806: Cane Creek Baptists organize the Haw River Mountain Church, later Antioch
• Budd, W. P. 1 entry, 1926
  • February 10, 1926: The state highway commission backs a numbered national route through Chapel Hill
• Buff, H. C. 1 entry, 1941
  • October 1941: Chapel Hill grocers report sharp rises in food prices
• Buford, A. S. 2 entries, 1875
  • by May 5, 1875: The railroad agrees to build a depot at University Station to ship iron ore
  • early June 1875 (finished by June 16): The railroad's lessees change the North Carolina Railroad's gauge through Orange County
• Buice, G. Y. C. 1 entry, 1925
  • August 10, 1925: The store bearing A. A. Kluttz's name closes
• Bullard, Leon 1 entry, 1957
  • October 1957: State civil defense planners shift Orange County from a reception area to an evacuation area
• Bullard, Leonard 1 entry, 1959
  • April 10, 1959: Orange County's first ABC liquor store opens north of Hillsboro
• Bullitt, J. M. 1 entry, 1917
  • October 1917: The Chapel Hill Red Cross re-elects its officers and names delegates to the state Red Cross congress
• Bullitt, James Bell 9 entries, 1917–1983

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• Bullock, Ben 1 entry, 1977
  • February 7-11, 1977: Chapel Hill High's Afro-American Club holds Black History Week
• Bullock, Captain 1 entry, 1771
  • May 12-14, 1771: Tryon's army halts at Colonel Mebane's for Sunday worship on the march to Alamance
• Bullock, Hal 1 entry, 1891
  • May 16, 1891: A coal car axle breaks and wrecks seven freight cars west of Hillsborough
• Bullock, John 1 entry, 1798
  • August 31, 1798: The court binds Moses, a free Black boy, to potter John Bullock
• Bullock, Martha 1 entry, 1843
  • 1843: John Wesley Carr buys his mother-in-law's Franklin Street house
• Bunch, Henry 1 entry, 1750
  • 1750s: Orange County tax lists record Bunch, Gibson and Collins families as mulatto
• Bunch, Jeremiah 1 entry, 1750
  • 1750s: Orange County tax lists record Bunch, Gibson and Collins families as mulatto
• Bunch, Joseph M. 1 entry, 1841
  • September 3-4, 1841: A pistol drawn in the Philanthropic hall leads to a street fight and two dismissals
• Bunch, W. H. 1 entry, 1870
  • 1870-1871: Trustees refuse land for a Black school in Chapel Hill
• Bunker, Ben 1 entry, 1939
  • 1939: Bayard Wootten and Ben Bunker publish Ways and Byways of Chapel Hill
• Bunn, B. H. 1 entry, 1890
  • October 16-18, 1890: Congressional candidates B. H. Bunn and Alexander McIver hold joint debates across Orange County
• Bunn, Creighton 1 entry, 1960
  • by November 24, 1960: Mrs. Creighton Bunn is named Orange County welfare superintendent
• Bunting, John 4 entries, 1971–2006

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• Burch, A. P. 1 entry, 1893
  • October 1893: A. P. Burch and Brother of Chapel Hill make an assignment for their creditors
• Burch, C. H. 2 entries, 1899–1900
  • April 10, 1899: A legislature-appointed Board of School Directors takes over the Orange County schools
  • January 1, 1900: A state Supreme Court ruling unseats a legislature-named school director in Orange
• Burch, C. P. 1 entry, 1897
  • June to July 1897: A new state act restores the Orange County Board of Education under C. P. Burch
• Burch, Calvin 6 entries, 1941–1962
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  • February 1941: Forty-five Chapel Hill and Carrboro men commute daily to building jobs at Fort Bragg
  • July 29, 1958: The county board names three new members to the Carrboro school committee
  • May 24, 1960: The new Carrboro Chamber of Commerce holds its first banquet
  • March 1960: Carrboro businessmen organize a chamber of commerce to seek new industry
  • November 2, 1960: The National Guard approves a rifle platoon for Orange County, based in Carrboro
  • August 15, 1962: The Orange County Council on Alcoholism opens its headquarters in an addition to Calvin Burch's cabinet shop
• Burch, D. W. 1 entry, 1903
  • January 12, 1903: The county board of education apportions the school fund and sets aside $1,000 for new schoolhouses

  May be the same person as Burch, David; Burch, David W.

• Burch, David 1 entry, 1900
  • January 1, 1900: A state Supreme Court ruling unseats a legislature-named school director in Orange

  May be the same person as Burch, D. W.; Burch, David W.

• Burch, David W. 1 entry, 1928
  • by November 30, 1928: A copy of the 1857 Chapel Hill Literary Gazette is found and given to the University

  May be the same person as Burch, D. W.; Burch, David

• Burch, H. A. 1 entry, 1934
  • January 30, 1934: Chapel Hill holds a President's birthday party for the Warm Springs Foundation
• Burch, J. S. 1 entry, 1939
  • July 9, 1939: The Burch family holds a reunion at the Cedar Grove Methodist church
• Burch, Lillian 1 entry, 1939
  • July 9, 1939: The Burch family holds a reunion at the Cedar Grove Methodist church
• Burch, Peter L. 52 entries, 1915–1955

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• Burch, Robert 1 entry, 1925
  • January and February 1925: The Chapel Hill post office adds a third carrier for the campus and puts up street letter boxes
• Burch, T. L. 2 entries, 1946
  • January 14, 1946: Chapel Hill aldermen order a blinker light and street work after a Black civic club petition
  • January 14, 1946: Chapel Hill aldermen pass a strict taxicab ordinance
• Burchette, Winfred 1 entry, 1960
  • November 29, 1960: Northside School's PTA opposes a new site for a Black elementary school
• Burdick, Julia 1 entry, 1919
  • by June 5, 1919: UNC establishes the Burdick Prize in Journalism
• Burge, Gregg 1 entry, 1982
  • November 12, 1982: Memorial Hall shows Sophisticated Ladies live by satellite from Broadway
• Burgen, B. G. 2 entries, 1870
  • August 5, 1870: Captain Hancock at Hillsborough wires Burgen that he has news he cannot send without breaking orders
  • August 5, 1870: Lieutenant Hunnicutt wires from Hillsborough that he has Turner under guard, and Burgen orders anyone who tries to free him shot
• Burgess, Cale K. 2 entries, 1921–1922
  • September 23, 1921: Chapel Hill's American Legion post votes to adopt a ward in a veterans' hospital
  • November 11, 1922: Chapel Hill and the University hold a joint Armistice Day parade and exercises
• Burgess, Rembert 1 entry, 1953
  • September 22, 1953: The Chapel Hill Kiwanis Club celebrates its 25th anniversary
• Burgest, David 1 entry, 1986
  • March 21, 1986: The School of Social Work holds its seventh Black Experience Workshop
• Burgwin, George W. B. 1 entry, 1835
  • June 1835: The diocesan convention meets in St. Matthew's for the second and last time
• Burgwyn, George W. B. 1 entry, 1833
  • October 6, 1833: Job, later Rev. Job Berry, is baptized at St. Matthew's
• Burgwyn, William H. S. 6 entries, 1860–1924

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• Burke, Andrew 2 entries, 1791
  • December 1, 1791: The court orders a pillory and stocks built on the public lot in Hillsborough
  • May 27, 1791: The court orders the road east of Hillsborough turned along the road to the mineral spring on James Hogg's land
• Burke, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1950
  • by December 14, 1950: Hillsboro women organize Occoneechee Temple of the Pythian Sisters
• Burke, Evelyn 1 entry, 1945
  • July 25, 1945: University of Virginia researchers study Hillsboro's Black health club for a book
• Burke, James W. 1 entry, 1839
  • 12 March 1839: Elizabeth Clemons names James W. Burke, a former university student, as her child's father
• Burke, Mary 8 entries, 1810–1840

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• Burke, Mary Williams 1 entry, 1832

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• Burke, Thomas 45 entries, 1754–1957

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• Burnett, A. C. 1 entry, 1903
  • week of July 27, 1903: Orange County's Black teachers hold their institute at Hillsborough
• Burnett, Caroline 1 entry, 1853
  • 1853: Ellington Burnett's grave becomes the earliest dated African American burial in the Chapel Hill graveyard
• Burnett, Cornelius 1 entry, 1853
  • 1853: Ellington Burnett's grave becomes the earliest dated African American burial in the Chapel Hill graveyard
• Burnett, Dallas Sheppherd 1 entry, 1951
  • October 1951: Cedar Grove parents ask for a say in hiring teachers and get a Black building committee
• Burnett, Daniel 3 entries, 1833–1837
  • 3 June 1833: Zedekiah Husbands petitions the Superior Court to stop his nephew Daniel Burnett's binding to John Jones
  • August Term 1834: The court binds Daniel Burnett to his uncle Zedekiah Husbands, a free millwright of color
  • 10 March 1837: John Jones swears the county court had refused to bind Daniel Burnett to Zedekiah Husbands because Husbands was a man of color
• Burnett, Ellington 1 entry, 1853
  • 1853: Ellington Burnett's grave becomes the earliest dated African American burial in the Chapel Hill graveyard
• Burnett, Isiah 1 entry, 1965
  • July 8, 1965: A Committee of Janitors asks the university for a hearing on treatment by supervisors
• Burnett, J. C. 1 entry, 1962
  • January 1, 1962: Black churches of Chapel Hill hold their Emancipation Day service
• Burnett, Jinny 1 entry, 1834
  • August Term 1834: The court binds Daniel Burnett to his uncle Zedekiah Husbands, a free millwright of color
• Burnett, Shepherd 3 entries, 1951–1955
  • November 5, 1951: School board accepts the new Cedar Grove school for Black children
  • by November 5, 1953: A Cedar Grove delegation asks the school board for an eighth grade and more classrooms at its Black school
  • May 1955: Roosevelt Warner is named to the advisory committee of Hillsboro's Central school
• Burnette, Abner 1 entry, 1855
  • 1855 and 1860: Abner Burnette is twice prosecuted for carrying a gun and once recorded as Indian
• Burnette, Margaret 1 entry, 1935
  • 1935: St. Joseph CME builds its first church on West Rosemary Street
• Burnham, Mark 1 entry, 1969
  • July 22, 1969: County planning board recommends rezoning the Blackwood Station tract for Fiber Industries
• Burnham, Roger Noble 1 entry, 1922
  • April 1922: The Susan Graham memorial fountain replaces the old town well on Franklin Street
• Burns, Robert 1 entry, 1962
  • 1962: Robert Burns and Brian Shawcroft design a house for Robert Work on Hillcrest Circle
• Burnside 1 entry, 1840
  • May 4, 1840 (first session closed August 28, 1840): One of Orange County's first common schools opens in the Hawfield district near Gravelly Hill
• Burrington, George 1 entry, 1754

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• Burroughs, Augusten 1 entry, 2004
  • April 6, 2004: Augusten Burroughs gives the Celebration Week keynote
• Burroughs, Ferdinand W. 1 entry, 1824
  • November Term 1824: The court binds Ferdinand W. Burroughs to Dennis Heartt to learn printing
• Burroughs, J. E. 1 entry, 1929
  • by July 5, 1929: Southern Airways, Incorporated, takes over the Chapel Hill airport
• Burroughs, Smith 1 entry, 1824
  • November Term 1824: The court binds Ferdinand W. Burroughs to Dennis Heartt to learn printing
• Burrows, Barnabas 1 entry, 1794
  • July 1794: A called court discharges Moses, a man enslaved by William Mangom, when no one proves the charge
• Burt, Alethea Anne Arrington 5 entries, 1935–1969

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• Burt, M. C., Jr. 1 entry, 1958
  • about August 1958: The Hillsboro Improvement Association is organized

  May be the same person as Burt, Moses C., Jr.

• Burt, Moses 1 entry, 1964
  • November 18, 1964: Defense lawyers file State Supreme Court appeals for eleven Chapel Hill civil rights defendants

  May be the same person as Burt, Moses L.

• Burt, Moses C., Jr. 1 entry, 1955
  • September 1955: Moses C. Burt Jr. is one of the first three Black students admitted to UNC law as first-year students

  May be the same person as Burt, M. C., Jr.

• Burt, Moses Cimuel 26 entries, 1935–1959

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• Burt, Moses L. 1 entry, 1964
  • March 20, 1964: Federal court sends 217 Chapel Hill demonstrators' cases back to Orange County Superior Court

  May be the same person as Burt, Moses

• Burton, Frank 1 entry, 1795
  • October 1795: Joseph Green becomes the first student dismissed from the university
• Burton, John 1 entry, 1860
  • 1860: James H. Pratt buys the Jehu Brown tract and a second share of the Cabe land
• Burton, Mrs. 1 entry, 1819
  • 1819: The university stops running Steward's Hall and lets students board where they choose
• Burton, T. A. 5 entries, 1957–1959
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  • July 19, 1957: Hearing on the interstate route south of Hillsboro draws protests
  • March 31, 1958: County commissioners approve Orange County's first secondary road plan under the new state procedure
  • July 13, 1959: County commissioners approve the state's 1959-60 secondary road program for Orange
  • week of December 7, 1959: The State Highway Commission approves a northern bypass around Chapel Hill and Carrboro
  • October 1959: State lets a $2.5 million contract to finish four-laning US 70 from Efland to Durham

  May be the same person as Burton, Thomas A.

• Burton, Thomas A. 1 entry, 1942
  • week of July 6, 1942: Clearing begins for the new road to the Horace Williams airport

  May be the same person as Burton, T. A.

• Burton, Tom 2 entries, 1958
  • June 30, 1958: Commissioners approve the 1958-59 secondary road program
  • January 6, 1958: The state hands the county a priority list for paving 79 secondary roads
• Burton, Z. C. 5 entries, 1942–1957
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  • by April 10, 1942: Orange County farm neighborhoods collect 357,000 pounds of scrap iron
  • April 4, 1949: A Cedar Grove delegation asks the school board how to keep Aycock High School
  • July 23, 1949: Orange tobacco growers vote almost unanimously for quotas and Tobacco Associates
  • April 17, 1950: The county school board keeps the Hillsboro and Aycock high school lines nearly unchanged
  • October 31, 1957: County agents report a $1 million drop in Orange County tobacco income

  May be the same person as Burton, Zeb; Burton, Zeb C.

• Burton, Zeb 2 entries, 1949
  • May to July 1949: Blue mold leaves Orange tobacco growers short of plants
  • March 18, 1949: Zeb Burton of Cedar Grove is chosen for the county Board of Education

  May be the same person as Burton, Z. C.; Burton, Zeb C.

• Burton, Zeb C. 10 entries, 1945–1963
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  • June 26, 1945: Orange County's wartime farm transportation committee holds its last meeting
  • January 1947: The county begins its first full reassessment of real property
  • June 25 to August 11, 1947: Orange County revalues its real property and hears taxpayers' complaints
  • November 16, 1949: Governor Scott urges Orange farmers to back the school and courthouse bonds
  • August 31, 1950: The county school board drops its bid to redraw the Aycock school lines
  • May 27, 1950: Orange County turns out in record numbers for the 1950 Democratic primary
  • August 6, 1951: The county school board lets contracts for the Aycock School gymnasium
  • April 1, 1953: The commissioners name a Board of Tax Assessors to oversee the county revaluation
  • November 1955: Orange County farm leaders draw up a five-year plan to raise farm income by $2 million
  • October 26, 1963: Zeb C. Burton, longtime school board member and farm leader, dies

  May be the same person as Burton, Z. C.; Burton, Zeb

• Burwell, Anna 3 entries, 1835–1838
  • 1835: Elizabeth Hobbs is brought to Hillsborough in the household of Robert and Anna Burwell
  • About 1836: Schoolmaster William J. Bingham repeatedly beats Elizabeth Hobbs at Anna Burwell's urging
  • April 10, 1838: Elizabeth Hobbs writes to her mother from Hillsborough
• Burwell, Anna Robertson 1 entry, 1856
  • July 1856: A Black child and then a student die of illness at the Burwell School
• Burwell, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1838
  • April 10, 1838: Elizabeth Hobbs writes to her mother from Hillsborough
• Burwell, Frances Armistead 2 entries, 1838–1856

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• Burwell, Margaret Anna 13 entries, 1835–1857

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• Burwell, Mary Susan 1 entry, 1854
  • June 27, 1854: Mary Burwell marries Frederick Nash Strudwick
• Burwell, Molly 1 entry, 1848
  • 1848-1851: Sarah Kollock becomes the Burwell School's teacher of French and drawing
• Burwell, Robert 9 entries, 1835–1857
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  • 1835: Elizabeth Hobbs is brought to Hillsborough in the household of Robert and Anna Burwell
  • 1835: Robert Burwell becomes pastor of the Hillsborough Presbyterian Church
  • About 1836: Schoolmaster William J. Bingham repeatedly beats Elizabeth Hobbs at Anna Burwell's urging
  • July 1837: Anna Burwell opens a school for girls in Hillsborough
  • July 3, 1841: The Hillsborough Debating Society leads the town's Independence Day celebration
  • January 20, 1842: Hillsborough Literary Association forms with Dennis Heartt as secretary
  • September 19, 1846: Citizens organize a new Orange County Bible Society
  • January 21, 1847: The Orange Volunteers leave Hillsborough for the Mexican War
  • 1857: Burwell School closes as the Burwells move to Charlotte
• Burwell, Robert Armistead 19 entries, 1815–1862

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• Busbee, F. H. 1 entry, 1886
  • February 12, 1886: Eagle Lodge No. 71 of Masons is revived at Hillsborough

  May be the same person as Busbee, Fabius H.

• Busbee, Fabius H. 3 entries, 1879–1892
  • June 4, 1879: Solicitor General Samuel F. Phillips addresses the university alumni
  • June 3, 1885: Trustees thank Paul C. Cameron for the loan that finished Memorial Hall
  • November 1, 1892: Orange County Democrats hold a mounted parade and rally at Hillsborough

  May be the same person as Busbee, F. H.

• Busbee, Perrin 2 entries, 1891–1905
  • April 17-18, 1891: Chapel Hill celebrates the university baseball team's win over Trinity
  • 1905: The General Assembly votes $50,000 for a chemistry building
• Bush, Earl 1 entry, 1954
  • December 6, 1954: Odell H. Clayton is sworn in as sheriff with three new deputies
• Bush, F. L. 1 entry, 1887
  • July 17, 1887: Bishop Lyman ordains William L. Reaney a priest at St. Matthew's
• Bush, George 1 entry, 1992

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• Bush, George W. 1 entry, 2005
  • November 9, 2005: Andy Griffith receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Bush, Gilbert 1 entry, 1937
  • December 15, 1937: The Rotary Club takes on Chapel Hill's second Boy Scout troop
• Butler, Algernon L. 1 entry, 1967
  • February 21, 1967: A three-judge federal court hears arguments in Dickson v. Sitterson at Greensboro
• Butler, George 1 entry, 1970
  • December 1970: Chapel Hill aldermen approve a student Christmas street party on Franklin Street
• Butler, J. K. 1 entry, 1957
  • March 25, 1957: Hillsboro's livestock market holds a feeder pig show and sale
• Butler, John 23 entries, 1752–1786

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• Butler, Marion 5 entries, 1890–1906

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• Butler, Tait 2 entries, 1904–1905

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• Butler, William 22 entries, 1752–1771

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• Buttitta, Anthony J. 1 entry, 1931
  • April 27, 1931: Contempo and the Intimate Bookshop begin in Chapel Hill
• Buttler, Jessa 1 entry, 1883
  • March 3, 1883: Tenant farmer Jessa Buttler mortgages his horse and crop to landowner C. R. Miller
• Buttrick, George 1 entry, 1959
  • October 18, 1959: Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church dedicates its new student center and educational wing
• Buttrick, Wallace 1 entry, 1920
  • November 1920: A General Education Board grant pays for 25 percent faculty raises
• Buxton, Ralph P. 2 entries, 1879
  • April 11, 1879: Judge Buxton resentences the three Chapel Hill burglars to hang after the Supreme Court upholds their conviction
  • late March or early April 1879: Josiah Turner Jr. wins a jury verdict against W. W. Holden over his 1870 arrest
• Byars, Woodward 14 entries, 1935–1945

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• Bynum, John Gray 1 entry, 1836
  • June 1836: The university confers master of arts degrees at its 1836 commencement
• Bynum, Turner 1 entry, 1860
  • about 1860: The brick Mason-Lloyd-Wiley House is built on West Cameron Avenue
• Bynum, W. P., Jr. 3 entries, 1894–1897
  • October 2, 1894: Populist district conventions at Hillsborough nominate William Merritt for Congress and W. P. Bynum Jr. for solicitor
  • March 15-17, 1897: The solicitor drops the murder case against John Clark for lack of evidence
  • March 15-17, 1897: Wash Atwater gets fifteen years for an assault near Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Bynum, William Preston, Jr.

• Bynum, William 4 entries, 1979–1980
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  • November 30, 1979: About 200 Black students rally at South Building for Sonja Stone's tenure
  • January 30, 1980: Andrew Young gives the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture
  • January 24, 1980: Kappa Alpha Psi roasts Dean Hayden B. Renwick in Great Hall
  • by January 1980: Chancellor Taylor names a faculty committee to rehear the Stone tenure case
• Bynum, William Preston 1 entry, 1905
  • May 1905: Judge W. P. Bynum gives the university a gymnasium
• Bynum, William Preston, Jr. 1 entry, 1905
  • May 1905: Judge W. P. Bynum gives the university a gymnasium

  May be the same person as Bynum, W. P., Jr.

• Byrd, Betsy 1 entry, 1961
  • by November 27, 1961: Chapel Hill High begins teaching Russian
• Byrd, Flossie A. 1 entry, 1915
  • January 10, 1915: A Chapel Hill Baraca and Philathea Union is organized
• Byrd, Harry 2 entries, 1953–1954
  • 1953: Harry Byrd becomes Cane Creek Baptist Church's first full-time pastor
  • May 13, 1954: Cane Creek Baptist Church sets the dedication of its new church
• Byrd, J. F. 1 entry, 1942
  • June 23, 1942: Chapel Hill's Model Market closes for lack of help and tires
• Byrd, Jehu 2 entries, 1825–1833
  • May 26, 1825: Orange citizens resolve to stop candidates from treating voters with liquor
  • October 16, 1833: Maj. Gen. Jehu Byrd dies in Orange County
• Byrd, Mutt 1 entry, 1959
  • August 1959: Orange County builds its third ABC store near the Alamance line at Carr
• Byther, Paul F. 1 entry, 1961
  • January 24, 1961: A federal inspector looks over the new National Guard rifle platoon in Carrboro