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• Cabarrus, Stephen 3 entries, 1788–1790
  • July 22, 1788: William Lenoir brings a petition against the Dobbs County election before the convention
  • December 18, 1789: The university's trustees hold their first meeting, at Fayetteville
  • November 25, 1790: William Lenoir is chosen the first president of the university's trustees
• Cabe, Barnaby 4 entries, 1758–1780

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• Cabe, Betsy Perkins 1 entry, 1758
  • 1758: Barnaby McCabe settles on the Eno on land bought from William Few
• Cabe, Jamima 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
• Cabe, John 4 entries, 1785–1816
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  • July 25, 1785: William Cabe and thirty neighbors on the Eno post a warning against hunters
  • 1796: John Cabe, Gilbert Strayhorn's son-in-law, sits in the legislature
  • May Term 1816: The court cancels the Bennehan's mill bridge contract and orders it let again
  • March 1, 1816: The court names a committee to contract for an Eno bridge near Bennehan's mill
• Cabe, Nancy 1 entry, 1860
  • 1860: James H. Pratt buys the Jehu Brown tract and a second share of the Cabe land
• Cabe, William 5 entries, 1785–1829

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• Cadmus, Robert 1 entry, 1963
  • April 1963: NAACP chapter pickets North Carolina Memorial Hospital over segregated rooms and wards
• Cadmus, Robert R. 4 entries, 1950–1955
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  • September 1, 1950: Dr. Robert R. Cadmus becomes director of the University's new teaching hospital
  • April 23-24, 1953: North Carolina Memorial Hospital is dedicated
  • February 11, 1954: The Chapel Hill American Legion post is to give an iron lung to N.C. Memorial Hospital
  • late December 1955: Money is set aside to finish the psychiatric wing at North Carolina Memorial Hospital
• Cadmus, Robert T. 1 entry, 1952
  • 1952: Dr. Robert T. Cadmus, first director of Memorial Hospital, builds a colonial Ranch on Iris Lane
• Cain, Ephraim 1 entry, 1817
  • November Term 1817: The court licenses Sam, the enslaved man who ran Ephraim Cain's Eno plantation, to carry a gun
• Cain, Hugh 3 entries, 1809–1816
  • 7 December 1809: Hugh Cain marries Sally Allen a week after his bastardy bond for her child
  • May Term 1816: The court cancels the Bennehan's mill bridge contract and orders it let again
  • March 1, 1816: The court names a committee to contract for an Eno bridge near Bennehan's mill
• Cain, James F. 2 entries, 1859–1862
  • April 1, 1859: Corporators organize the Hillsborough Savings Institution
  • March 8, 1862: The Orange Light Artillery organizes at Hillsborough under Capt. William Cameron
• Cain, Jerry 2 entries, 1889–1890
  • June 3, 1889: Hillsborough holds the first Orange County cattle show
  • August 27, 1890: Jerry Cain, a Black schoolteacher, dies near Hillsborough
• Cain, John W. 1 entry, 1855
  • February 1855: The legislature charters four plank road companies through Orange County
• Cain, R. H. 1 entry, 1878
  • mid-November 1878 (adjourned November 19): The AME Church's annual conference meets at Hillsborough
• Cain, William 26 entries, 1778–1930
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  • August 1778: John Hogan is appointed trustee for Orange County
  • 1779: William Cain acquires the Pleasant Grove plantation on the Trading Path
  • 1792: Hillsborough builders add a Federal-style house at Cain's Pleasant Grove
  • July 1793: Orange County leads the state in pledges to the university
  • February Term 1794: The court licenses three men enslaved by Richard Bennehan to carry guns
  • 1800: William Cain is the largest landowner in Orange County, enslaving 30 people
  • October 16, 1801: Hillsborough Academy reopens for boys and girls under Andrew Flinn
  • August 26, 1802: The court lets Jack and Sam, enslaved by William Cain, carry guns to hunt
  • December 1, 1803 (November Term 1803): The court binds Johney Revill, a free boy of color, and three other Revill boys to William Cain
  • March 18, 1803: Hillsborough Academy trustees engage Thomas Baron after George Johnston fails to arrive
  • August Term 1810: The court orders a road laid out from Cain's mill on Little River across Flat River to the Granville line
  • about 1813: William Cain builds Sans Souci
  • July 28, 1834: William Cain Sr. dies at ninety-one
  • January 1839: Maria L. Spear heads the Hillsborough Female Seminary
  • by June 24, 1841: Hillsborough's female seminary engages Moses Ashley Curtis as superintendent
  • September 27, 1857: William Cain dies and leaves Sans Souci to his son-in-law Pride Jones
  • winter of 1888-89: James Lee Love takes over the mathematics courses during Ralph Graves's last illness
  • 1889: William Cain is elected to head mathematics and engineering
  • 1900: Marcia Louise Latham wins the mathematics department's Holt Medal
  • May 10, 1905: The Leonidas Polk Chapter of the UDC holds Confederate memorial exercises
  • 1918: Trustees name the first five Kenan professors
  • May 10, 1919: Chapel Hill welcomes home its World War soldiers alongside Confederate veterans
  • 1920–1948: Archibald Henderson heads UNC's mathematics department
  • May 10, 1928: Camp Ashe, Chapel Hill's Confederate veterans' camp, disbands
  • January 28, 1929: Portrait of Major William Cain is presented to the University's school of engineering
  • December 6, 1930: Major William Cain, Confederate veteran and engineer, is killed by an automobile
• Cain, William, Sr. 8 entries, 1778–1834

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• Calabria, Matt 1 entry, 2005
  • March 1, 2005: About 500 people hold a vigil and speak-out and march to Top of the Hill after a Franklin Street attack
• Caldwell, D. E. 1 entry, 1923
  • October 3, 1923: Parents reorganize the Parent-Teacher Association at the Orange County Training School
• Caldwell, David 8 entries, 1753–1810

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• Caldwell, David 5 entries, 1954–2016

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  • September 18-19, 1954: Jeff Foushee retires from the police and James Council is sworn in
  • June 30-July 1, 1962: Two Chapel Hill patrolmen are elected officers of the state association of Black law officers
  • 1963: David Caldwell's family bought a home on Rogers Road
  • June 19, 1996: Four governing boards hold a unified public hearing on a new landfill next to the Eubanks Road site
  • May 2016: RENA and the Jackson Center published the Rogers Road community plan commissioned by the three governments
• Caldwell, David, Jr. 5 entries, 1963–2016

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• Caldwell, David, Sr. 1 entry, 1972
  • 1972: Rogers Road landfill opens
• Caldwell, Ed 1 entry, 1987
  • November 16, 1987: Hilliard Caldwell tells a Chapel Hill forum that local schools still fail Black students
• Caldwell, Edwin 2 entries, 1932–1960

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• Caldwell, Edwin 1 entry, 1950

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  • by November 18, 1950: Chapel Hill's Community Chest drive passes its $13,500 goal
• Caldwell, Harry 1 entry, 1957
  • by March 14, 1957: The Caldwell community organizes a Grange

  May be the same person as Caldwell, Harry B.

• Caldwell, Mrs. Harry B. 2 entries, 1946–1949
  • August 9, 1946: Farmers organize a Grange at New Hope
  • December 31, 1949, to January 1, 1950: The State Grange Youth Conference meets at the new Schley Grange Hall
• Caldwell, Harry B. 6 entries, 1948–1956
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  • November 6, 1948: National judges tour the Schley community's Grange projects
  • September 26, 1949: Citizens set up township committees to choose Orange County roads for paving
  • August 1950: The newly organized Calvander Grange receives its charter
  • August 21, 1953: Buckhorn farmers organize a Grange with 42 charter members
  • by January 12, 1956: Reid Roberts is named State Grange deputy for Orange and Durham counties
  • September 30, 1956: Schley Grange celebrates its 25th anniversary

  May be the same person as Caldwell, Harry

• Caldwell, Helen 4 entries, 1830–1858
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  • 1830: Anne Royall publishes a hostile account of Chapel Hill
  • January 27, 1835: President Joseph Caldwell dies
  • October 30, 1846: Helen Caldwell dies and is buried with her husband at his monument
  • June 2, 1858: A marble monument to Joseph Caldwell is dedicated in McCorkle Place
• Caldwell, Helen Hogg 4 entries, 1830–1858

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• Caldwell, Hilliard 17 entries, 1955–2025

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• Caldwell, J. H. 1 entry, 1926
  • July 27-29, 1926: The New Hope district's Black Sunday schools hold their convention at Rock Hill Baptist Church
• Caldwell, James R. 1 entry, 1964
  • October 12, 1964: Secretary of State Dean Rusk receives an honorary degree on University Day
• Caldwell, John 2 entries, 1795–1938

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  • May 27, 1795 to February Term 1798: The county court proves a run of deeds to and from the University's trustees
  • by April 1, 1938: Dentist J. P. Jones buys a 7 1/2-acre tract from Black preacher John Caldwell
• Caldwell, John 8 entries, 1927–1940

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• Caldwell, John H. 2 entries, 1884–1941
  • 1884: John H. Caldwell, born in Chapel Hill in 1862, enters the Baptist ministry
  • February 2, 1941: Rev. John H. Caldwell, Black Baptist minister, dies in Chapel Hill
• Caldwell, John L. 25 entries, 1925–1944

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• Caldwell, Joseph 68 entries, 1794–1928

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• Caldwell, Julia 1 entry, 1946
  • by December 1946: The Training School's student council forms a student court
• Caldwell, Kia 1 entry, 2020
  • October 12, 2020: African, African American, and Diaspora Studies faculty ask the university to take Battle's name off Battle Hall
• Caldwell, Larry 1 entry, 2013
  • 2013–2014: Neighbors form the Rogers Road Community Unity Board
• Caldwell, Livery D. 1 entry, 1928
  • April 1928 (the week before April 20): Orange County Training School students win offices at the state conference of Black vocational schools
• Caldwell, Lucille 4 entries, 1951–1960

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• Caldwell, November 3 entries, 1869–1904
  • August 1869: Klansmen from Chatham County stone November Caldwell's house by mistake
  • 1872: November Caldwell, once enslaved by President Joseph Caldwell, dies
  • 1904: The old Joseph Caldwell obelisk is taken down, later to stand for four college servants
• Caldwell, Rose 1 entry, 2013
  • 2013–2014: Neighbors form the Rogers Road Community Unity Board
• Caldwell, Rosie 1 entry, 2021
  • May 1, 2021: Pop-up vaccine clinic held at the Rogers Road Community Center
• Caldwell, S. J. 2 entries, 1925–1926
  • by June 26, 1925: Black citizens of Chapel Hill organize a Community Fair Association to support the Orange County Training School
  • August 29, 1926: Chapel Hill's True Reformers hold their annual thanksgiving celebration
• Caldwell, Sam 1 entry, 1929
  • by April 26, 1929: Black Chapel Hill committee organizes to pay its share of the nurse's salary
• Caldwell, Sarah 1 entry, 1929
  • by November 29, 1929: Black residents of Chapel Hill canvass the town to support their health nurse
• Caldwell, Tod Robinson 3 entries, 1868–1874

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• Caldwell, W. E. 1 entry, 1951
  • April 1951: The Grand Lodge of North Carolina meets in Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Caldwell, Wallace E.

• Caldwell, Wallace E. 1 entry, 1935
  • fall 1935: The University adds three courses in the Bible

  May be the same person as Caldwell, W. E.

• Caldwell, Wilson 1 entry, 1953
  • May 5, 1953: Hubert Robinson and Paul Wager are elected to the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen
• Caldwell, Wilson Swain 15 entries, 1795–1932

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• Calhoun, Lou 2 entries, 1963–1964
  • 1963–1964: Floyd McKissick sends organizers to Chapel Hill and defends arrested demonstrators
  • January–July 1964: Watts Restaurant protests
• Calhoun, Louis S., Jr. 2 entries, 1964
  • March 28, 1964: A Klan rally gathers at the post office fast and a UNC student is struck
  • April 1964: Chapel Hill Recorder's Court fines the man who struck a student at the post office fast
• Callaghan, Kevin 1 entry, 1998
  • about March 1998: Kevin Callaghan opens Acme Food and Beverage Company at 110 East Main Street in Carrboro
• Callahan, J. Nelson 1 entry, 1969
  • April 30, 1969: Mayoral and aldermanic candidates answer questions at the Institute of Government
• Callahan, Nelson 1 entry, 1944
  • December 1944: Nelson Callahan and Morris Timmons open the Village Printshop next to the Porthole
• Callihan, Margaret Webb 1 entry, 1905
  • 1905: Roy Thayer builds a Queen Anne house on McCauley Street for William H. Haward
• Cameron, Allan 2 entries, 1884
  • November 12, 1884: Hillsborough holds a torchlight jubilee for the Democratic victory
  • October 17, 1884: Orange County sends an exhibit and a large party to the State Exposition
• Cameron, Anne 1 entry, 1891
  • by January 17, 1891: Paul C. Cameron's will is read and his executors qualify
• Cameron, Anne Call 1 entry, 1856
  • June 1856: Anne Call Cameron, piano teacher to Burwell School students, dies
• Cameron, Anne Ruffin 3 entries, 1837–1897
  • 1837: Paul C. Cameron moves to Fairntosh to manage the Cameron plantations
  • 1856: Paul C. Cameron repurchases Burnside and moves back to Hillsborough
  • May 29, 1897: Anne Ruffin Cameron, widow of Paul C. Cameron, dies in Hillsborough
• Cameron, Annie 5 entries, 1928–1955
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  • September 1928: Orange County welfare board takes up the county home's condition
  • 1942: Marinda McPherson starts a library for Black readers in Hillsborough
  • June 10, 1945: The Orange County Council of Churches renews its Bible teacher for the county schools
  • 1945: A Negro library committee was already running library service for Black readers in Orange County
  • August 14, 1955: Annie Cameron receives the Hillsboro Exchange Club's first Book of Golden Deeds award
• Cameron, Annie Sutton 12 entries, 1916–1964

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• Cameron, Bennehan 7 entries, 1880–1925

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• Cameron, Clifford 1 entry, 1998
  • April 28, 1998: State and university leaders welcome UNC President Molly Broad at a dinner in Chapel Hill
• Cameron, Duncan 47 entries, 1752–1848

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• Cameron, Duncan 1 entry, 1882

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  • November 7, 1882: Republican Isaac R. Strayhorn and Democrat C. N. B. Evans win the district's Senate seats
• Cameron, E. A. 1 entry, 1955
  • mid-October 1955: The new Greater Chapel Hill Fire District Commission organizes with E. A. Cameron as chairman
• Cameron, Ed 1 entry, 1950
  • 1950: William Van Sprinkle designs a shingled Colonial Ranch on Laurel Hill Road for math professor Ed Cameron
• Cameron, Francis H. 1 entry, 1900
  • April 3, 1900: Gen. Francis H. Cameron is buried at St. Matthew's in Hillsborough
• Cameron, Frank 1 entry, 1934
  • September 8, 1934: Catholics organize a congregation in Chapel Hill
• Cameron, John 6 entries, 1807–1847
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  • May Term 1807: The court appoints James Webb treasurer of public buildings
  • April 24, 1841: Hillsborough holds funeral honors for President Harrison
  • June 20, 1846: Volunteers of the 47th Regiment draw lots and organize John Cameron's company
  • February 1847: The Orange Volunteers are broken up to fill other companies of the North Carolina Regiment
  • January 16, 1847: The Orange Volunteers dine at the Hillsborough House and elect John Cameron captain
  • January 21, 1847: The Orange Volunteers leave Hillsborough for the Mexican War
• Cameron, John D. 3 entries, 1874–1897
  • November 3, 1874: Orange citizens meet at the courthouse to urge a constitutional convention
  • spring term, April 30 to May 5, 1877: Orange Superior Court quashes the libel indictment brought for Josiah Turner against the Raleigh News
  • December 11, 1897: Former Recorder owner John D. Cameron is buried at St. Matthew's

  May be the same person as Cameron, John Donald

• Cameron, John Donald 2 entries, 1872–1879
  • 1872: John D. Cameron becomes editor and publisher of the Recorder
  • 1879: John D. Cameron moves the Recorder from Hillsborough to Durham, ending fifty-nine years of publication in the county seat

  May be the same person as Cameron, John D.

• Cameron, John L. 1 entry, 1953
  • by December 3, 1953: State school planners urge a new Carrboro school site and a merger with the Chapel Hill unit
• Cameron, Loren 1 entry, 2004
  • January 16, 2004: Photographer Loren Cameron presents his portraits of transgender people
• Cameron, Mildred C. 3 entries, 1874–1892
  • summer 1874: Commissioner's report keeps the campus and 600 acres for the university
  • Christmas 1892: A brass altar rail is given to St. Matthew's in memory of Mildred Cameron
  • 1892: Mildred C. Cameron gives St. Matthew's a new altar and reredos
• Cameron, Mrs. P. C. 1 entry, 1864
  • by October 5, 1864: Merchant Henry N. Brown gives $5,000 to the Hillsborough Soldiers' Aid Society
• Cameron, Paul 1 entry, 1840
  • 1840: Three planters grow nearly all of Orange County's cotton
• Cameron, Paul C. 69 entries, 1821–1897

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• Cameron, Rebecca 6 entries, 1893–1921
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  • March 6, 1893: Rebecca Cameron opens an Orange County subscription for the state Confederate monument
  • October 26, 1899: Hillsborough women organize the Gen. George Burgwyn Anderson Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy
  • by June 15, 1908: The Anderson Chapter of the UDC marks the Confederate graves in Hillsborough's cemeteries
  • July 18, 1912: The Hillsboro Daughters of the Confederacy appeal for a monument to Orange's Confederate soldiers
  • May 1917: The Daughters of the Confederacy in Hillsborough move to start a Red Cross chapter
  • July 30, 1921: Fire destroys Rebecca Cameron's Hillsboro home and her Confederate records
• Cameron, Rebecca Bennehan 1 entry, 1810
  • 1810–1811; enlarged 1818–1821: Cameron builds Fairntosh east of the Stagville house
• Cameron, William 2 entries, 1862–1893
  • March 8, 1862: The Orange Light Artillery organizes at Hillsborough under Capt. William Cameron
  • February 6, 1893: Dr. William Cameron, Hillsborough physician and Confederate battery commander, dies
• Campbell, Catlet 4 entries, 1802–1816
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  • May Term 1802: The court names commissioners to let repairs to the courthouse and pillory
  • May Term 1805: The court orders a public clock for the courthouse and levies a tax for it
  • May Term 1813: The court names Thomas Ruffin and three others to draft rules for the patrols
  • May Term 1816: The court names election inspectors for the county's polling places
• Campbell, Catlett 6 entries, 1803–1845
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  • May Term 1803: The court frees George, Cate, Sally, young George and Jack under Absalom Tatom's will
  • 1804: Suit by William Kirkland and others leads to the sale of Hannah and her children
  • May 27, 1834: An Orange County internal improvement meeting at Hillsborough asks the state to fund a steam route to the coast
  • October 1838: Commissioners seek bids to repair the Eno bridge at Hillsborough
  • May 26, 1843: Orange Whigs nominate Henry K. Nash for Congress
  • January 18, 1845: Catlett Campbell, long chairman of the Orange County Court, dies
• Campbell, Charles 1 entry, 1946
  • April 1946: Carrboro veterans organize American Legion Post 283
• Campbell, Donald 1 entry, 1850
  • 1850s: Signed marble obelisks go up in the Dialectic and Philanthropic plots
• Campbell, Edgar 1 entry, 1946
  • by October 1946: The New Hope Grange opens a recreation center in the Presbyterian church hut
• Campbell, George Preston 1 entry, 1948
  • 1948: George Campbell and his father build a stone house on North Graham Street
• Campbell, Handy 2 entries, 1945–1959
  • 1945: Black mason John Wesley Campbell and his sons build the stone Neville House in Carrboro
  • 1959: Chapel Hill's city directory lists sixteen bricklayers, twelve in Black neighborhoods
• Campbell, John Wesley 6 entries, 1945–1968

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• Campbell, Leo 1 entry, 1959
  • 1959: Chapel Hill's city directory lists sixteen bricklayers, twelve in Black neighborhoods
• Campbell, Malcolm E. 1 entry, 1948
  • June 12, 1948: Belle-Vue Manufacturing Company gives service pins to 220 workers
• Campbell, Orville 5 entries, 1947–1959
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  • September 1947: Orville Campbell starts the Colonial Press in Carrboro
  • September 1954: Chapel Hill's Colonial Records issues Dizzy Dean singing 'Wabash Cannonball'
  • June 12, 1958: The Carrboro Festival raises money for the Carrboro Cubs with banjo player George Pegram
  • by June 26, 1958: Mayor Todd names a committee to find a new industry for the Carrboro mill buildings
  • October 27, 1959: The Research Triangle Regional Planning Commission organizes
• Campbell, P. C. 1 entry, 1945
  • April 13-20, 1945: Carrboro munitions workers triple their Seventh War Loan quota in a week
• Campbell, Peter 2 entries, 1947
  • June 20, 1947: Peter Campbell opens Campbell's Inc., a clothing store, in Carrboro
  • by November 1947: A. B. Whitfield and Roy W. Oakley buy Campbell's clothing store in Carrboro
• Campbell, Robert 2 entries, 1789–1802

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  • May 26, 1789: The court names the men to take the tax lists in the county's eight districts
  • February Term 1802: The court orders a bridge over New Hope Creek on the road from the University to Raleigh
• Campbell, Robert 14 entries, 1967–2017

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• Campbell, Thomas Joseph 1 entry, 1916
  • March 1916: Thomas J. Campbell arrives as the university's first athletic director
• Campbell, W. R., Jr. 1 entry, 1953
  • August 2, 1953: Carrboro Methodist Church holds its first service in its new $75,000 building
• Canada, Charles S. 1 entry, 1896
  • about 1896: John W. Canada starts the Canada School in Chapel Hill
• Canada, John William 5 entries, 1896–1901

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• Canaday, W. N. 1 entry, 1926
  • November 1926: Lueco Lloyd buys the old Purefoy place on the Pittsboro road
• Canady, Mark 5 entries, 1979–1981
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  • November 30, 1979: About 200 Black students rally at South Building for Sonja Stone's tenure
  • October 30, 1980: BSM and student government leaders object to parts of the new curriculum plan
  • April 1980: The BSM protests the yearbook's photos of a mock lynching
  • January 15, 1981: The BSM holds an evening memorial program for Martin Luther King's birthday
  • June-July 1981: The UNC system settles the federal desegregation case with a consent decree
• Candler, Thomas T. 2 entries, 1897–1898
  • May 24, 1897: Caldwell Institute's trustees accept J. H. McCracken's resignation and elect Thomas T. Candler principal
  • May 1898: Caldwell Institute trustees vote to build a new academy
• Cannada, C. S. 1 entry, 1900
  • February 9, 1900: The school board rules the Cannadas' Chapel Hill school is not a public school
• Cannada, Frank 1 entry, 1919
  • June 29, 1919: Frank Cannada, longtime operator of the Pritchard mill, dies
• Cannada, J. W. 1 entry, 1900
  • February 9, 1900: The school board rules the Cannadas' Chapel Hill school is not a public school
• Cannady, A. G. 1 entry, 1910
  • 1910: The First Pentecostal Holiness Church of West Hillsborough is organized
• Cannady, Bruce 1 entry, 1946
  • January 1946: Bruce Cannady opens the Hillsboro Dry Cleaning and Laundry on King Street
• Cannady, Claudia 3 entries, 1956–1959
  • June 22, 1956: The Carrboro Cubs stage a folk festival at the Lions park
  • June 12, 1958: The Carrboro Festival raises money for the Carrboro Cubs with banjo player George Pegram
  • May 22, 1959: The Carrboro Festival talent show raises $300 for an injured man's medical fund
• Cannady, Corinne 1 entry, 1935
  • May 1935: A runaway tells a Greensboro official that the new Efland Home matron whipped her with a board
• Cannady, Ed 1 entry, 1910
  • 1910: The First Pentecostal Holiness Church of West Hillsborough is organized
• Cannon, Mrs. Charles 2 entries, 1949–1950
  • by May 19, 1949: The Hillsboro Garden Club wins a national purple ribbon for its flower show
  • March 30, 1950: The Hillsboro Garden Club receives a key said to have locked the Regulators in jail
• Cannon, Robert 1 entry, 1983
  • fall 1983 to fall 1987: The Black share of UNC undergraduates falls from 10 to 8.3 percent

  May be the same person as Cannon, Robert J.

• Cannon, Robert J. 1 entry, 1984
  • August 15, 1984: Robert J. Cannon becomes UNC's affirmative action officer

  May be the same person as Cannon, Robert

• Cannon, Y. Z. 3 entries, 1939–1961
  • February 14, 1939: A joint banquet of the Chapel Hill and Hillsborough civic clubs features a blackface act
  • by October 12, 1944: Chapel Hill's Kiwanis and Rotary clubs buy football uniforms for the high school
  • February 7, 1961: John Foushee is elected president of the Chapel Hill Parking Association
• Cansler, James 2 entries, 1977–1984
  • by September 1977: The rebuilding of Chase and Upendo Lounge's move upstairs are put off a year
  • October-December 1984: Jim Heavner urges limits on sales at the UNC Student Stores

  May be the same person as Cansler, James O.

• Cansler, James O. 1 entry, 1954
  • by September 30, 1954: The Chapel Hill Baptist Church takes on James O. Cansler as student chaplain under state BSU authority

  May be the same person as Cansler, James

• Cantwell, Edward 2 entries, 1868–1869
  • 1868 or 1869: A trustee committee including Albion W. Tourgee finds the university not bound to pay its bank debt
  • 1869-1871: Federal court dismisses the state's suit to void the university's bank mortgage
• Capecchi, Mario R. 1 entry, 2007
  • October 8, 2007: Oliver Smithies wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Capps, J. A. 2 entries, 1919
  • June 1919: The university's School of Education publishes a study of the Orange County public schools
  • by March 6, 1919: The University School of Education begins a survey of the Orange County schools
• Captain, George J. 1 entry, 1947
  • October 2, 1947: The Terrace View supper club opens a new building beside its first one
• Carden, Mrs. Billie 1 entry, 1955
  • April 1955: Caldwell neighbors finish their community house
• Carden, Robert 1 entry, 1881
  • February 7, 1881: The county commissioners form Rice's school district
• Carey, John F. 1 entry, 1841
  • November 10-13, 1841: Hillsborough men form the Washington Temperance Society of Orange County
• Carey, Moses 1 entry, 1996
  • June 19, 1996: Four governing boards hold a unified public hearing on a new landfill next to the Eubanks Road site
• Carle, James 3 entries, 1868
  • February 1868: Bureau agent James Carle reports five freedmen's day schools and fifty districts without schools in Orange
  • January 29, 1868: Mayor Calvin E. Parish reports that no Hillsborough commissioner can take the test oath
  • February 27, 1868: The Bureau assigns agent Charles B. Whittemore to Hillsborough in charge of Orange and Person counties
• Carlisle, Jack 1 entry, 1963
  • April 15, 1963: Chapel Hill aldermen approve two apartment projects on Hillsboro Street
• Carlton, John D. 1 entry, 1846
  • June 20, 1846: Volunteers of the 47th Regiment draw lots and organize John Cameron's company
• Carlton, Lewis 2 entries, 1878–1879
  • October 16, 1878: Orange Superior Court convicts three men of the Hendon burglary and sentences them to hang
  • April 11, 1879: Judge Buxton resentences the three Chapel Hill burglars to hang after the Supreme Court upholds their conviction
• Carlton, Louis 1 entry, 1878
  • September 9, 1878: The coroner holds an inquest on the exhumed body of Louis Carlton's wife at Chapel Hill
• Carlyle, Irving 1 entry, 1956
  • July 2, 1956: Irving Carlyle attacks the Pearsall school plan at a Chapel Hill forum
• Carmichael, James 4 entries, 1888–1890
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  • by February 9, 1888: James Carmichael and Devereux Turner become internal revenue storekeepers and gaugers
  • April 19, 1889: Hillsborough's town commissioners first meet in the new brick mayor's office and guard house
  • May 6, 1889: Hillsborough re-elects Mayor Joseph A. Harris over Devereux Turner
  • February 10, 1890: Hillsborough's commissioners close barber shops on Sunday and bar the public from bar rooms that day
• Carmichael, Katherine Kennedy 5 entries, 1946–1987

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• Carmichael, L. 1 entry, 1856
  • July 29, 1856: Hillsborough's commissioners pass ordinances against nuisances
• Carmichael, Levin 2 entries, 1856–1862
  • February 2, 1856: Hillsborough re-elects Josiah Turner Sr. a town commissioner
  • March 19, 1862: Levin Carmichael advertises a ten-dollar reward for his runaway apprentice John Reeves
• Carmichael, Stokely 2 entries, 1975–1977

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• Carmichael, Thomas C. 1 entry, 1862
  • September 17, 1862: The Orange Guards lose three killed and about twenty wounded at Sharpsburg
• Carmichael, Mrs. W. D. 1 entry, 1941
  • by January 31, 1941: Friends of Person Hall is organized to support the University art gallery
• Carmichael, W. D., Jr. 5 entries, 1942–1953
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  • September 23, 1942: Dynamite blasts at the University's new athletic field shower stones on nearby homes
  • March 22, 1949: Governor Kerr Scott appoints UNC President Frank Graham to the U.S. Senate
  • July 14, 1949: A trustees' committee hears Chapel Hill on the future of the University's utilities
  • May 24, 1950: Hillsboro High School graduates 59 seniors
  • May 1953: Edmund Strudwick's portrait of C. T. Council is given to the School of Pharmacy
• Carmichael, W. D., Sr. 1 entry, 1945
  • April 1945: Orange County joins the United National Clothing Collection for war victims
• Carmichael, William 1 entry, 1942
  • January 1942: J. Spencer Love's $15,000 gift carries the Institute of Government into the university

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• Carmichael, William D. 1 entry, 1934
  • September 8, 1934: Catholics organize a congregation in Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Carmichael, William

• Carmichael, William D., Jr. 13 entries, 1934–1965

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• Carnegie, Andrew 5 entries, 1905–1907

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• Carney, Gloria 2 entries, 1975–1976
  • November 24, 1975: Gloria Carney becomes the first woman to lead the Black Student Movement
  • January 1976: UNC drops its National Achievement weekend after student government refuses its share
• Carney, Thomas 1 entry, 1825
  • April 21-25, 1825: St. Matthew's in Hillsborough is admitted into union with the diocesan convention
• Carpenter, Bruce 1 entry, 1930
  • November 1, 1930: An Efland merchant kills a robber outside the Bank of Efland
• Carpenter, C. C. 1 entry, 1938
  • by December 9, 1938: A state commission recommends a four-year medical school, its majority favoring Chapel Hill
• Carr, A. H. 1 entry, 1919
  • November 29, 1919: The Bank of Chapel Hill opens a branch, the Bank of Carrboro
• Carr, Brodie S. 7 entries, 1925–1961

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• Carr, Elizabeth Bullock 1 entry, 1843
  • 1843: John Wesley Carr buys his mother-in-law's Franklin Street house
• Carr, G. Paul 76 entries, 1951–1969

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• Carr, George Watts 4 entries, 1920–1954
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  • late 1920s: Anatomy professor Wesley George builds a Colonial Revival cottage in Gimghoul
  • by October 7, 1938: The PWA approves three more dormitories and a Carolina Inn addition for the University
  • 1948: Lt. Gov. Alexander Graham has Watts Carr remodel Montrose as a Colonial Revival house
  • 1954: George Watts Carr designs a Cape Cod house on Country Club Road for religion professor Bernard Boyd
• Carr, George Watts, Sr. 3 entries, 1920–1954

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• Carr, J. M. 3 entries, 1905–1925
  • August 14, 1905: Hillsborough voters reject a town liquor dispensary
  • June 26, 1922: Hillsboro's commissioners pass an ordinance for $40,000 in street improvement bonds
  • by April 30, 1925: Brown and Lloyd put up a brick store on the site of Hillsboro's old livery stable

  May be the same person as Carr, James M.

• Carr, James M. 1 entry, 1956
  • March 11, 1956: New Hope Presbyterian Church holds its first service in its fifth building

  May be the same person as Carr, J. M.

• Carr, John 1 entry, 1868
  • June 27, 1868: The Court of Wardens of the Poor holds its last meeting
• Carr, John W., III 2 entries, 1958–1960
  • November 1958: The University acquires a $2.4 million Univac computer
  • by May 5, 1960: The journal Computing Reviews begins publication with a UNC editor
• Carr, John Wesley 18 entries, 1843–1893

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• Carr, John Wesley 2 entries, 1847–1879

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• Carr, Julian S. 76 entries, 1793–2020

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• Carr, Julian S., Jr. 2 entries, 1899–1919
  • June 1899: The class of 1899 gives a bronze bust of Zebulon Vance and plants ivy from Lee's tomb
  • July 1919: Julian S. Carr Jr. starts the Industrial Democracy plan in Durham Hosiery's mills
• Carr, Leo 5 entries, 1948–1963
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  • by December 16, 1948: Grand jury urges the school board to consolidate seventeen small schools for Black children
  • October 8, 1954: Judge Leo Carr rules on the split in West Hillsboro's Pentecostal Holiness church
  • October 4, 1954: Orange County formally opens its new courthouse in Hillsborough
  • week of December 14, 1959: Judge Leo Carr bars Caswell County from enrolling Orange pupils at Prospect Hill School
  • December 12, 1963: Orange Superior Court convicts Pat Cusick and three others for the Merchants Association sit-in
• Carr, Marvin 1 entry, 1895
  • May 25, 1895: Julian S. Carr's new club house at Occoneechee Farm is shown to an excursion from Raleigh
• Carr, R. E. 1 entry, 1888
  • June 27, 1888: Chapel Hill Democrats organize a Cleveland, Fowle and Bunn Club
• Carr, Sarah 1 entry, 2009
  • November 2009: Flyleaf Books opens
• Carr, W. F. 1 entry, 1938
  • December 10, 1938: Chapel Hill and Carrboro leaders meet to find work for the jobless Carrboro mill hands
• Carr, Watts 5 entries, 1936–1940
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  • April 1936: Chapel Hill relaxes its zoning line for the Village Apartments
  • April–September 1936: The McClamrochs build the Village Apartments on East Franklin Street
  • November 1938 to early 1939: Harold W. Brown of the public health faculty builds a red brick house on Laurel Hill Road
  • March 1939: Muirhead Construction Company of Durham gets the contract for the Carolina Inn addition and a medical students' dormitory
  • January 22, 1940: The Carolina Inn completes the first of its rear additions
• Carr, William 1 entry, 1788
  • February Term 1788: The court orders a road from Davis's Shop to Hillsborough over the public bridge on Flat River
• Carr, William F. 3 entries, 1929–1939
  • by September 20, 1929: Carl Durham's diggers find Dr. Bartlett Durham's grave in southwestern Orange
  • April 10, 1939: Chapel Hill dedicates its new Town Hall
  • by June 2, 1939: Durham Hosiery Mills gives its Carrboro playground equipment to the University Lake picnic ground
• Carraway, Ruby C. 2 entries, 1944–1947
  • September 1, 1944: Orange County's Black home demonstration clubs hold their first dress contest in Hillsboro
  • November 1, 1947: Sarah L. Lawson becomes home demonstration agent for Orange County's Black families
• Carreon, Adrianna 1 entry, 2021
  • May 2021: Panciuto reopens after its pandemic closure, now sharing space with the Hillsborough Bakeshop
• Carrigan, Nancy 1 entry, 1801
  • February Term 1801: Nancy Carrigan wins execution against Christopher Stubbins for unpaid support
• Carrigan, William A. 4 entries, 1846–1849
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  • September 19, 1846: Citizens organize a new Orange County Bible Society
  • April 30, 1849: Commissioners to lay off the new Alamance County meet at New Providence Church
  • by July 19, 1849: Commissioners sell the first fifty lots in Graham, the new Alamance seat
  • March 15, 1849: Orange County railroad meeting backs a central route through Orange and Guilford
• Carrington, Holly 1 entry, 1867
  • 18 December 1867: Holly Carrington, a freedwoman, names Samuel Tilley, a freedman, as her child's father
• Carrington, James 3 entries, 1787–1788
  • February 28, 1787: The court orders a bridge over the Flat River at Island Ford
  • February Term 1788: The court orders a road from Davis's Shop to Hillsborough over the public bridge on Flat River
  • February 27, 1788: A county bridge over the Flat River at Island Ford is finished
• Carrington, John 4 entries, 1787–1795
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  • February 28, 1787: The court orders a bridge over the Flat River at Island Ford
  • February Term 1788: The court orders a road from Davis's Shop to Hillsborough over the public bridge on Flat River
  • February 27, 1788: A county bridge over the Flat River at Island Ford is finished
  • May 27, 1795 to February Term 1798: The county court proves a run of deeds to and from the University's trustees
• Carrington, Nathaniel 1 entry, 1811
  • August Term 1811: The court takes Franky Weaver, a girl of color, from Edward Harris and binds her to Nathaniel Carrington
• Carrington, William 1 entry, 1859
  • 1859: New Bethel Methodist Church is organized
• Carroll, Charles F. 1 entry, 1955
  • April 4, 1955: The county school board puts off naming school committees while the legislature acts on segregation
• Carroll, Clyde 1 entry, 1942
  • August 1942: W. F. Lathan and a student repair furniture saved from the high school fire
• Carroll, Mrs. D. D. 2 entries, 1936–1942
  • November 17, 1936: Chapel Hill's new Health and Welfare Council elects officers and committees
  • by December 18, 1942: Citizens Service Corps canvasses Chapel Hill homes for the share-the-meat plan
• Carroll, David Donald 1 entry, 1927
  • March 1927: James Weldon Johnson speaks at the YMCA's Institute of Human Relations
• Carroll, Dean D. 1 entry, 1953
  • April 1, 1953: The commissioners name a Board of Tax Assessors to oversee the county revaluation
• Carroll, Delia Dixon 1 entry, 1932
  • March 1, 1932: The state League of Women Voters meets in Chapel Hill and backs a test case on women jurors
• Carroll, Dudley 1 entry, 1918
  • November 21, 1918: The Chapel Hill Red Cross elects A. H. Patterson chairman at its annual meeting
• Carroll, Dudley Dewitt 43 entries, 1915–1964

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• Carroll, Eleanor Elliott 1 entry, 1924
  • 1924: Commerce dean Dudley D. Carroll and Eleanor Carroll build a house on Ridge Lane in Gimghoul
• Carroll, Georgia 1 entry, 1948
  • November 19, 1948: Kay Kyser leads a rained-out pep rally in Memorial Hall
• Carroll, J. L. 1 entry, 1894
  • October 23-25, 1894: The Mount Zion Baptist Association meets at Mount Moriah church
• Carroll, Kate 2 entries, 2013–2024
  • March 26, 2013: Radius Pizzeria opens in the old savings and loan building on North Churton Street
  • December 29, 2024: Radius Pizzeria & Pub closes after more than eleven years
• Carroll, Lemuel 1 entry, 1846
  • September 1846: Union Grove Methodist Church is organized
• Carroll, Louise 1 entry, 1939
  • May–July 1939: A lent library truck carries books to schools and crossroads stores across Orange County
• Carroll, Mick 2 entries, 2013–2024
  • March 26, 2013: Radius Pizzeria opens in the old savings and loan building on North Churton Street
  • December 29, 2024: Radius Pizzeria & Pub closes after more than eleven years
• Carson, Eve 7 entries, 2007–2010

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• Carson, Eve 1 entry, 2008

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• Carson, James 1 entry, 1787
  • May Term 1787: The court orders a public bridge over the Eno at the Town Ford
• Carson, Warren 2 entries, 1972
  • fall 1972: The BSM wins a late-night slot for Black Sounds on WCAR
  • September 4, 1972: Coach Bill Dooley red-shirts the team's Black quarterback, and the BSM objects
• Carswell, John 2 entries, 1960–1963
  • February 29, 1960: Lincoln High students picket Colonial Drug and sit in at the Bus Station Cafe
  • August 12, 1963: Opponents of a public accommodations law give the Chapel Hill aldermen about 870 signatures
• Carter, Betty 1 entry, 1981
  • April 5, 1981: Betty Carter sings a jazz concert in Memorial Hall
• Carter, Clyde 2 entries, 1960–1962
  • November 1960: Orange County's write-in election for justice of the peace is found void
  • May 12, 1962: Chapel Hill Township's mass re-registration ends with 6,208 voters

  May be the same person as Carter, Clyde C.

• Carter, Clyde C. 4 entries, 1950–1962
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  • April 15 to May 13, 1950: Orange County registers close to 9,000 voters in a complete new registration
  • February 5, 1959: Elections board votes to divide the Hillsboro voting precinct
  • March 24, 1960: County elections board splits the Hillsboro precinct into Hillsboro, West Hillsboro and Cameron Park
  • February 28, 1962: Elections board splits Chapel Hill Township into new precincts and orders re-registration

  May be the same person as Carter, Clyde

• Carter, David M. 1 entry, 1875
  • August 19, 1875: Trustees burn the repudiated railroad bonds
• Carter, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1853
  • May Term 1853: The court binds John D. Carter, a free boy of color, to Josiah Turner Sr. over a carriage maker's offer to teach him
• Carter, Mrs. H. D. 5 entries, 1924–1929
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  • January 1, 1924: Community Club hires a nurse to serve Chapel Hill's Black community
  • February 23, 1925: A state orthopedic surgeon holds a free clinic for crippled children in Chapel Hill
  • May 12, 1926: Orange County Training School students show their Red Cross home nursing training
  • late July 1928: Chapel Hill charities agree to keep the nurse serving the Black community
  • by November 29, 1929: Black residents of Chapel Hill canvass the town to support their health nurse
• Carter, H. D. 46 entries, 1925–1941

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• Carter, H. M. 1 entry, 1953
  • August 21, 1953: Buckhorn farmers organize a Grange with 42 charter members

  May be the same person as Carter, Hubert; Carter, Hubert M.

• Carter, H. W. 1 entry, 1923
  • Summer 1923: Students place the first marker at Governor Thomas Burke's grave
• Carter, Hodding, III 1 entry, 2006

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• Carter, Hubert 1 entry, 1957
  • September 1957: Buckhorn Grange places second in the state Grange community service contest

  May be the same person as Carter, H. M.; Carter, Hubert M.

• Carter, Hubert M. 1 entry, 1956
  • August 1956: Buckhorn Grange opens its new Grange Hall and community center

  May be the same person as Carter, H. M.; Carter, Hubert

• Carter, Jimmy 1 entry, 1984
  • October 23, 1984: Former president Jimmy Carter gives the Weil Lecture on American Citizenship
• Carter, Jody 1 entry, 1992
  • October 1992 to July 1993: Jody Carter and Todd Peck survey rural Orange County buildings
• Carter, Joel 3 entries, 1949–1958

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• Carter, John D. 1 entry, 1853
  • May Term 1853: The court binds John D. Carter, a free boy of color, to Josiah Turner Sr. over a carriage maker's offer to teach him
• Carter, Mandy 1 entry, 2005
  • February 2005: The GLBT-SA plans its third Unity Conference, widened to the whole Southeast
• Carter, Patsy 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
• Carter, Ruth 1 entry, 1846
  • August Term 1846: The court binds Stephen Wilson, a boy of color, to his late master's widow, Nancy Pratt

  May be the same person as Carter, Ruth Adaline

• Carter, Ruth Adaline 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

  May be the same person as Carter, Ruth

• Carter, William 1 entry, 1846
  • 31 January 1846: James Jackson Jr. conveys the services of William Carter, a free bound boy, in a deed of trust with two enslaved men
• Carter, William Gaston 2 entries, 1845–1853
  • 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
  • May Term 1853: The court binds John D. Carter, a free boy of color, to Josiah Turner Sr. over a carriage maker's offer to teach him
• Cartmell, N. J. 1 entry, 1910
  • 1910: N. J. Cartmell takes charge of track athletics
• Caruthers, E. B. 2 entries, 1935
  • August 1935: Orange-Person District Health Department organized with Dr. Malcolm Rourk as health officer
  • July 1, 1935: Temporary county health unit starts work in Orange during a typhoid outbreak
• Caruthers, E. P. 2 entries, 1936–1937
  • January 15, 1936: Aldermen back the new district health department after recorder's court setbacks
  • February 1937: The district health department opens an office in Hillsboro
• Caruthers, Glenn 1 entry, 1964
  • February 1964: Glenn Caruthers's Cedar Grove dairy herd is named the most productive in North Carolina
• Carver, George Washington 1 entry, 1925
  • 1925: George Washington Carver speaks in Gerrard Hall
• Casey, Willis 1 entry, 1945
  • February 1945: Chapel Hill High forms its first swimming team under UNC coach Willis Casey
• Cassidy, Lula 4 entries, 1915–1917
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  • December 4, 1915: Superintendent Lockhart's first township teachers' meeting meets at the Carrboro school
  • July 12, 1915: The school board names Lula Cassidy rural supervisor and county canning agent
  • May 1916: The Orange County school board asks Superintendent Lockhart to resign, and he refuses
  • August 1, 1917: Orange County women organize the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense
• Cassidy, Lula M. 5 entries, 1915–1917

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• Castanis 1 entry, 1842
  • January 24-25, 1842: A Greek visitor named Castanis lectures at the university on Greece and Homer
• Castro, Estefania 1 entry, 2024
  • Early 2024: El Futuro launches Mentes Fuertes, a Spanish-language mental health program in Orange County
• Caswell, Benjamin 1 entry, 1788
  • July 22, 1788: William Lenoir brings a petition against the Dobbs County election before the convention
• Caswell, Richard 20 entries, 1752–1783

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• Cate 1 entry, 1789
  • August 29, 1789: The court gives Thomas Burke's executor leave to sell four enslaved people to pay the estate's debts
• Cate 1 entry, 1803
  • May Term 1803: The court frees George, Cate, Sally, young George and Jack under Absalom Tatom's will
• Cate, E. P. 1 entry, 1919
  • by July 31, 1919: Brick goes up for E. P. Cate's new store on the old pressing club lot in Chapel Hill
• Cate, Kemp 5 entries, 1950–1953
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  • August 31, 1950: The county school board drops its bid to redraw the Aycock school lines
  • March 6, 1950: A packed hearing airs the fight over the Hillsboro and Aycock high school districts
  • April 17, 1950: The county school board keeps the Hillsboro and Aycock high school lines nearly unchanged
  • March 31, 1950: A state review panel approves Orange County's building plans for Black schools
  • April 15, 1953: Clarence D. Jones joins the county Board of Education in place of Kemp Cate
• Cate, Kemp S. 11 entries, 1942–1953

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• Cate, Neverson C. 1 entry, 1864
  • 28 September 1864: N. C. Cates advertises for a runaway bound girl
• Cate, O. B. 1 entry, 1896
  • 1896: The Elm Grove school district builds a new schoolhouse on the New Hope road
• Cate, R. O. 1 entry, 1923
  • by April 26, 1923: Orange Telephone Company president R. O. Cate resigns

  May be the same person as Cate, Robert Oscar

• Cate, Robert Oscar 1 entry, 1929
  • 1929: Robert Oscar Cate builds a bungalow and dairy barn on his farm near Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Cate, R. O.

• Cates, A. O. 1 entry, 1896
  • 1896: Ebenezer Baptist Church is organized
• Cates, A. P. 4 entries, 1888–1893
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  • May 18, 1888: The Orange County Farmers' Alliance organizes with Sheriff John K. Hughes as president
  • June 11, 1892: Orange People's Party holds its county convention and votes to nominate a full county ticket
  • March 26, 1892: Orange County citizens ratify the People's Party platform at Hillsborough
  • April 1893: The Orange County Farmers' Alliance condemns legislators who voted to repeal the State Alliance charter
• Cates, Alice 1 entry, 1928
  • about 1928: H. Scott and Alice Cates build a stone house on South Hillsborough Avenue
• Cates, Anne 1 entry, 2000
  • April 14, 2000: The Board of Governors elects James Moeser chancellor at the Carolina Inn
• Cates, Arch 1 entry, 1900
  • early 1900s: Arch Cates's I-house goes up on what became Arthur Minnis Road
• Cates, Bernard 1 entry, 1789
  • 1789: Cane Creek Baptist Church is organized
• Cates, C. G. 1 entry, 1917
  • May 7, 1917: Carrboro elects T. N. Mann mayor over two rivals
• Cates, C. H. 1 entry, 1947
  • January 1947: Cates's Esso station in Hillsborough is named the cleanest Esso station in North Carolina
• Cates, C. S. 1 entry, 1946
  • April 18, 1946: C. S. Cates advertises a new movie theater in the old Hollywood Theatre building in West Hillsborough

  May be the same person as Cates, Clarence S.

• Cates, Chandler 1 entry, 1972
  • September 1972 to February 1973: Efland and Orange Grove volunteer fire departments are incorporated

  May be the same person as Cates, Chandler J.

• Cates, Chandler J. 1 entry, 1918
  • November 20, 1918: Chandler J. Cates of Hillsborough dies of wounds after the armistice

  May be the same person as Cates, Chandler

• Cates, Clarence S. 1 entry, 1946
  • May 14, 1946: Hillsboro veterans organize the county's first Veterans of Foreign Wars post

  May be the same person as Cates, C. S.

• Cates, Clyde L. 1 entry, 1917
  • July 9, 1917: The county Board of Education names a committee to find a school superintendent
• Cates, E. N. 1 entry, 1902
  • September 18, 1902: Orange Republicans name a county ticket

  May be the same person as Cates, Ed. N.

• Cates, Ed. N. 1 entry, 1917
  • December 3, 1917: County commissioners order a road laid off from Dodson's Crossroads and pay on the Hall's Mill bridge

  May be the same person as Cates, E. N.

• Cates, Fred 4 entries, 1957–1963
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  • 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
  • February 12, 1959: County commissioners and school board name the Orange County ABC board
  • September 3, 1963: Orange Democrats choose Edwin J. Hamlin for the state House by one vote
• Cates, Fred, Jr. 3 entries, 1948–1963
  • by September 23, 1948: Fred Cates Jr. buys the Gem Theater in West Hillsboro and starts Sunday movies
  • October 8, 1957: Hillsboro's town board protests a post office site by the Eno River bridge
  • July 30, 1963: Hillsboro's new bi-racial committee holds its first meeting

  May be the same person as Cates, Fred S., Jr.

• Cates, Mrs. Fred, Jr. 1 entry, 1959
  • April 25-26, 1959: The Hillsboro Garden Club holds its Historic Homes and Gardens Tour
• Cates, Fred S., Jr. 1 entry, 1959
  • May 5, 1959: Hillsboro reelects Mayor Ben Johnston over Fred S. Cates Jr.

  May be the same person as Cates, Fred, Jr.

• Cates, Fred S., Sr. 1 entry, 1955
  • July 14, 1955: Fred S. Cates Sr., one of Hillsboro's largest property owners, dies
• Cates, G. W. P. 1 entry, 1906
  • September 8, 1906: Orange Republicans name their county ticket
• Cates, H. M. 2 entries, 1867–1909
  • 1867: Rock Spring Academy advertises under principal H. M. Cates
  • February 27, 1909: The Orange County Farmers' Alliance is reorganized at the Barracks
• Cates, H. Scott 3 entries, 1915–1945
  • June 1915: H. S. Cates builds a picture-show hall near the Hillsboro depot
  • about 1928: H. Scott and Alice Cates build a stone house on South Hillsborough Avenue
  • March 10, 1945: H. Scott Cates, who brought electric lights to Hillsborough, dies
• Cates, Ione 2 entries, 1921–1930
  • September 1921: Ione Cates opens a cafeteria in Chapel Hill that feeds the University's overflow
  • March 26, 1930: The Bank of Chapel Hill forecloses on the University Cafeteria and sells it to the Friendly Cafeterias
• Cates, Iris 1 entry, 1948
  • by July 22, 1948: The county elections board finds 176 valid Orange County signers on the Progressive Party petition
• Cates, James L., Jr. 16 entries, 1970–2025

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• Cates, James Lewis, Jr. 2 entries, 1970
  • November 21, 1970: James Cates is killed outside the UNC Student Union
  • November 21, 1970: Durham motorcycle gang member charged with murder in the Cates stabbing
• Cates, John A. 1 entry, 1963
  • April 15, 1963: Chapel Hill aldermen approve two apartment projects on Hillsboro Street
• Cates, Joseph 1 entry, 1789
  • 1789: Cane Creek Baptist Church is organized
• Cates, L. M. 2 entries, 1890
  • the week of March 17, 1890: An Orange County grand jury indicts five revenue officers for the murder of Henry McMannen
  • February 25, 1890: Revenue officers kill Henry McMannen, a Black man, at his house in Little River township
• Cates, M. L., Jr. 2 entries, 1958–1959
  • March 1, 1958: Orange County Republicans split at their county convention and elect rival chairmen
  • February 5, 1959: Elections board votes to divide the Hillsboro voting precinct
• Cates, M. L., Sr. 2 entries, 1952–1960
  • 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
• Cates, Macon 1 entry, 1947
  • by November 6, 1947: Macon Cates opens Hillsborough's first self-service laundry
• Cates, Marshall 1 entry, 1946
  • May 14, 1946: Hillsboro veterans organize the county's first Veterans of Foreign Wars post
• Cates, Marshall, Jr. 3 entries, 1955–1956
  • November 8, 1955: Hillsboro's town board agrees to widen Calvin Street by 25 feet
  • January 4, 1956: Marshall Cates Jr. and Dr. N. L. Mauroner buy Bivins Furniture Company
  • by March 8, 1956: Hillsboro merchants take telephone complaints to the State Utilities Commission
• Cates, Marshall, Sr. 1 entry, 1958
  • March 1, 1958: Orange County Republicans split at their county convention and elect rival chairmen
• Cates, Neverson P. 1 entry, 1869
  • August 5, 1869: Orange County holds its first township elections
• Cates, P. M. 1 entry, 1909
  • February 27, 1909: The Orange County Farmers' Alliance is reorganized at the Barracks
• Cates, Paul 1 entry, 1957
  • by March 14, 1957: The Caldwell community organizes a Grange
• Cates, Richard 1 entry, 1789
  • 1789: Cane Creek Baptist Church is organized
• Cates, Robert 1 entry, 1789
  • 1789: Cane Creek Baptist Church is organized
• Cates, S. S. 1 entry, 1883
  • 1883: Cross Roads Baptist Church is organized as Betheden
• Cates, Scott 1 entry, 1948
  • by September 23, 1948: Fred Cates Jr. buys the Gem Theater in West Hillsboro and starts Sunday movies
• Cates, Thomas 2 entries, 1789–1806
  • 1789: Cane Creek Baptist Church is organized
  • 1806: Cane Creek Baptists organize the Haw River Mountain Church, later Antioch
• Cathcart, Mrs. L. M. 1 entry, 1957
  • October 7, 1957: Black parents petition the school board against the Odd Fellows Hall annex to Central School
• Cathcart, Narviar 1 entry, 1963
  • Fall 1963: Orange High School begins desegregation
• Cathcart, Tonya 1 entry, 1963
  • Fall 1963: Orange High School begins desegregation
• Cathcart, W. K. 1 entry, 1863
  • March 5, 1863: Military Academy cadets take up a subscription for the Tew monument
• Cathey, Virginia 1 entry, 1951
  • May 1951: Orange County's seventeen home demonstration clubs count 443 members
• Cathy, C. O. 1 entry, 1950
  • 1950: A brick Colonial Revival house is built at the entrance to Laurel Hill for Dean C. O. Cathy
• Causby, Jim 1 entry, 2020
  • July 30, 2020: Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools extends online-only classes into 2021
• Cave, Hudson 1 entry, 1827
  • 1827: Dr. Hudson Cave builds a house on Franklin Street
• Caviness, D. N. 3 entries, 1893–1896
  • early January 1893: Rev. D. N. Caviness takes charge of the Hillsborough Methodist church
  • May 24, 1894: Caldwell Institute holds its closing exercises
  • December 23, 1896: D. N. Caviness leaves the Hillsborough Methodist charge after four years
• Caviness, Zebulon Marvin 1 entry, 1903
  • May 7, 1903: The university confers its first Doctor of Medicine degrees
• Cecil, J. K. 1 entry, 1927
  • December 13, 1927: The state highway commission lets contracts for the Chapel Hill-Nelson short cut to Raleigh
• Cell, Gillian 8 entries, 1965–1991
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  • 1965: The history department hires Gillian Cell, its first woman on the tenure track
  • January 15, 1981: Gillian Cell becomes UNC's first full-time affirmative action officer
  • 1985: Gillian Cell becomes the first woman dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
  • April 22, 1986: Vice Chancellor Boulton sets out a plan for a Black Cultural Center in the Carolina Union
  • spring 1988 (by April 20): Dean Gillian Cell drops her plan to restructure the Office for Student Counseling
  • by March 1989: Rosalind Fuse-Hall is named associate dean for the Office for Student Counseling
  • by February 11, 1991: Dean Cell and Chancellor Hardin accept a student proposal for a multicultural course requirement
  • February 12, 1991: Students vote to fund a full-time APPLES service-learning coordinator
• Cernich, Zora 1 entry, 1944
  • by July 15, 1944: Twelve WAVES live on the third deck of Alexander Hall
• Certain, C. C. 1 entry, 1926
  • September 13, 1926: The Chapel Hill school opens under its cooperative plan with the University's school of education
• Chace, Richard A. 1 entry, 1930
  • September 1930: Writers in Chapel Hill launch a literary magazine, The Agora
• Chalmers, Charles 1 entry, 1833
  • by August 27, 1833: Patridge succeeds Charles Chalmers as Chapel Hill postmaster
• Chamberlain, Hope Summerell 2 entries, 1926–1936

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• Chambers, Alex A. 1 entry, 1965
  • February 11, 1965: Mayor Sandy McClamroch attends Lincoln High's Negro History Week program
• Chambers, Henry 3 entries, 1804–1805
  • February 1804: Nervous fever kills a student
  • July 1804: A quarrel at the 1804 commencement ball ends in a stabbing and a trial before the trustees
  • December 1805: Trustees repeal the monitor ordinance that set off the student secession
• Chambers, Julius 4 entries, 1962–2001
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  • 1962: Julius Chambers graduates first in his class from the UNC School of Law
  • February 23 – March 21, 1969: UNC food workers' strike
  • November 1977: Julius Chambers tells a Memorial Hall audience the UNC system still fails Black citizens
  • 2001: UNC's School of Law founds the Center for Civil Rights with Julius Chambers as its first director
• Chambers, Julius L. 3 entries, 1962–2001

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• Chambers, Lenoir 1 entry, 1919
  • 1919: Lenoir Chambers is hired to teach journalism and run the University news service
• Chambers, Maxwell 1 entry, 1808
  • 1808: Thirty-eight students petition the faculty over food at Steward's Hall
• Chambers, Samuel 2 entries, 1787–1799
  • May Term 1787: The court orders a road laid off from the end of Queen Street to the Halifax road
  • May 31, 1799: The court releases Betsey and Sarah Jackson from their binding to Samuel Chambers
• Chamblee, William 1 entry, 1828
  • February 25, 1828: Lucy Morgan, a free woman of color, asks the court to bind her children to William Chamblee
• Chan, Francis 2 entries, 1982–2000
  • November 1982: Francis Chan opens the Jade Palace Chinese and Seafood Restaurant on East Main Street in Carrboro
  • January 20, 2000: Fire guts the Jade Palace restaurant on East Main Street in Carrboro
• Chan, Jenny 2 entries, 1982–2000
  • November 1982: Francis Chan opens the Jade Palace Chinese and Seafood Restaurant on East Main Street in Carrboro
  • January 20, 2000: Fire guts the Jade Palace restaurant on East Main Street in Carrboro
• Chance, Bill 2 entries, 1951–1953
  • October 1951: Bill Chance opens the Hillsboro Lunch on West King Street
  • March 22, 1953: Fire damages the Hillsboro Lunch on West King Street
• Chance, Charles W. 1 entry, 1947
  • by June 19, 1947: Hillsboro men organize an Exchange Club
• Chance, W. M. 4 entries, 1949–1958
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  • June 1949: Owner W. M. Chance puts a neon marquee on the Osbunn Theater
  • May 5, 1953: Hillsboro reelects Mayor Ben Johnston in a 56-vote town election
  • May 3, 1955: Hillsboro re-elects Mayor Ben Johnston to a twelfth term
  • August 1958: The Osbunn Theater reopens under a new operator after W. M. Chance's death
• Chance, William C., Jr. 1 entry, 1951
  • May to June 1951: Dean Brandis handles the applications of Pauli Murray and three other Black students to the law school
• Chandler, J. I. 1 entry, 1936
  • March 20, 1936: D. R. Brooks opens his cafeteria in the later Porthole building
• Chaney, Bethany 1 entry, 2019
  • November 19, 2019: Carrboro's Board of Aldermen votes to rename itself the Town Council
• Chang, Stephanie 1 entry, 2003
  • Spring 2003: UNC opens its LGBTQ Office in the Steele Building
• Chanlett, Emil 1 entry, 1939
  • fall 1939: The Division of Public Health begins its full-year graduate course
• Chapin, Charles 1 entry, 1959
  • July 1, 1959: The Chapel Hill Art Gallery opens on West Franklin Street
• Chapin, F. Stuart 1 entry, 1961
  • June 30, 1961: R. D. Smith is named to a new Chapel Hill Planning Board
• Chapman, Margaretta 1 entry, 1814
  • about 1814: Margaretta Chapman's marble headstone becomes the oldest surviving monument in the Chapel Hill graveyard
• Chapman, Robert H. 1 entry, 1815

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• Chapman, Robert Hett 9 entries, 1799–1816

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• Chapman, Yonni 7 entries, 1978–2011

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• Chapman, Yonnie 1 entry, 1983
  • May 29-August 27, 1983: Chapel Hill-Carrboro coalition organizes for the 20th anniversary March on Washington
• Charest, Laurie T. 1 entry, 1992
  • January 22, 1992: UNC housekeepers rally and file a step 3 grievance
• Charles 1 entry, 1822
  • 1822 to May 1823: Trustee William Polk hires out five enslaved men to build Old West
• Charles, Clifford 2 entries, 1989–1993
  • September 21, 1989: Brothers, a weekly discussion group for Black male students, begins
  • by November 22, 1993: Students form the Umoja Council to unite UNC's Black organizations
• Charles, Michael 1 entry, 1813
  • May Term 1813: The court orders a road laid off from Michael Holt's old place toward the Guilford road
• Chase, Mrs. H. W. 2 entries, 1917
  • May 3, 1917: The Chapel Hill Community Club and the university host the state Federation of Women's Clubs
  • June 5, 1917: Orange County men register on the first draft registration day
• Chase, Harry Woodburn 115 entries, 1901–1943

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• Chase, Richard 2 entries, 1934–1935
  • April 13 to 15, 1934: Chapel Hill holds its second Dogwood Festival
  • April 25 to 28, 1935: Chapel Hill holds its third Dogwood Festival, with a Cherokee ball game on Emerson Field
• Chatham, Thomas 1 entry, 1841
  • Superior Court week, March 8-13, 1841: A Person County murder case moved to Orange ends in a manslaughter verdict against Jarrot
• Chatman, Elfreda A. 1 entry, 1985

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• Chavers, Currie 1 entry, 1852
  • May Term 1852: The court binds Currie Chavers, a youth of color, to carriage maker Merrill Utley
• Chavers, Jenny 1 entry, 1852
  • May Term 1852: The court binds Currie Chavers, a youth of color, to carriage maker Merrill Utley
• Chavers, John 1 entry, 1861
  • May 31, 1861: George Laws, an orphan of color aged seven, is apprenticed to John Chavers
• Chavers, Polly 2 entries, 1828–1837
  • February 1828: The court calls in children to be bound out, among them two boys of color
  • 19 May 1837: Thomas King offers five dollars for Ruffin Chavers, a bound youth of color he says ran away
• Chavers, Ruffin 2 entries, 1828–1837
  • February 1828: The court calls in children to be bound out, among them two boys of color
  • 19 May 1837: Thomas King offers five dollars for Ruffin Chavers, a bound youth of color he says ran away
• Chavers, Sarah 1 entry, 1858
  • May Term 1858: The court binds three Chavis children, the youngest 15 months old, to Farthing Garrard
• Chaves, Jinney 1 entry, 1849
  • February Term 1849: The court binds three children of Jinney Chaves, a free woman of color, to Stephen Moore
• Chavions, Martin 1 entry, 1918
  • October 1918: A Black committee of the women's Liberty Loan organization raises $1,350 in Hillsborough Township
• Chavious, Ken 1 entry, 2002
  • February 14, 2002: State reviewers approve the Occoneechee Speedway nomination despite Hillsborough's objection
• Chavious, Martha 1 entry, 1929
  • by December 20, 1929: Three Orange County women win prizes in the national canning contest
• Chavis, Ben 1 entry, 1981
  • February 6-8, 1981: Ben Chavis gives the keynote at the BSM's Discovery conference for Black History Month
• Chavis, Eliza 2 entries, 1854–1865
  • May Term 1854: The court weighs undoing Fanny Chavis's binding to Dr. Thomas H. Turner and confirms it
  • November Term 1865: The court rescinds the 1861 binding of John Chavis, a free child of color, to George Laws
• Chavis, Fanny 1 entry, 1854
  • May Term 1854: The court weighs undoing Fanny Chavis's binding to Dr. Thomas H. Turner and confirms it
• Chavis, George 1 entry, 1858
  • May Term 1858: The court binds three Chavis children, the youngest 15 months old, to Farthing Garrard
• Chavis, Henderson 1 entry, 1858
  • May Term 1858: The court binds three Chavis children, the youngest 15 months old, to Farthing Garrard
• Chavis, Hinton 1 entry, 1858
  • May Term 1858: The court binds three Chavis children, the youngest 15 months old, to Farthing Garrard
• Chavis, John 1 entry, 1865
  • November Term 1865: The court rescinds the 1861 binding of John Chavis, a free child of color, to George Laws
• Chavis, Juddie M. 1 entry, 1956
  • February 13, 1956: Black women at Mars Hill organize a home demonstration club
• Chavis, Julia Mae 1 entry, 1951
  • April 22, 1951: A courthouse song service closes the drive to finish the Negro library building
• Chavis, Laura 1 entry, 1858
  • May Term 1858: The court binds three Chavis children, the youngest 15 months old, to Farthing Garrard
• Chavis, Lucy 1 entry, 1849
  • February Term 1849: The court binds three children of Jinney Chaves, a free woman of color, to Stephen Moore
• Chavis, Nancy 1 entry, 1849
  • February Term 1849: The court binds three children of Jinney Chaves, a free woman of color, to Stephen Moore
• Chavis, Ruffin 1 entry, 1849
  • February Term 1849: The court binds three children of Jinney Chaves, a free woman of color, to Stephen Moore
• Chavis, Susan M. 1 entry, 1858
  • May Term 1858: The court binds three Chavis children, the youngest 15 months old, to Farthing Garrard
• Chavis, Theophilus 1 entry, 1868
  • October 1868: Three justices, one of them Black, investigate a fight and a shooting at Durham's
• Chavis, William 1 entry, 1768
  • August 27, 1768: William Chavis of Granville County sells 320 acres on the Haw River
• Chavis, William H. 1 entry, 1858
  • May Term 1858: The court binds three Chavis children, the youngest 15 months old, to Farthing Garrard
• Cheek, A. K. 1 entry, 1948
  • first Sunday in May 1948: Mount Adar holds its first service in a new auditorium
• Cheek, A. M. 1 entry, 1951
  • October 1, 1951: The county sells the First Mountain tract it bought for a smallpox pest house in 1900
• Cheek, A. S. 1 entry, 1934
  • June 2, 1934: Orange County Democrats renominate Sheriff Sloan and back Owen Robertson for the state senate
• Cheek, Burrhus 1 entry, 1841
  • November 10-13, 1841: Hillsborough men form the Washington Temperance Society of Orange County
• Cheek, Clem 2 entries, 1944–1952
  • February 24, 1944: Orange County FSA honors 15 Black farm ownership borrowers
  • August 4, 1952: County commissioners name a committee to plan Orange County's 200th anniversary

  May be the same person as Cheek, Clem M.

• Cheek, Clem M. 1 entry, 1952
  • September 11, 1952: County commissioners name 55 citizens to committees for the bicentennial

  May be the same person as Cheek, Clem

• Cheek, E. D. 1 entry, 1886
  • February 18, 1886: John Cheek and E. D. Cheek form a buggy and wagon works in Hillsborough
• Cheek, E. M. 1 entry, 1915
  • May 4, 1915: Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor Roberson over W. H. Boger and chooses a new board of aldermen
• Cheek, Everett 1 entry, 1950
  • April to May 1950: Farm families around Calvander and Orange Church organize the Calvander Grange
• Cheek, J. Clyde 4 entries, 1897–1903
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  • by July 15, 1897: Postmaster Cheek moves the Hillsborough post office back to King Street
  • by July 1, 1897: J. Clyde Cheek succeeds Eugene L. Hassell as Hillsborough postmaster
  • February 15, 1900: Smallpox reaches Hillsborough and the postmaster's house is quarantined
  • May 15, 1903: Charles G. Rosemond takes charge of the Hillsborough post office
• Cheek, J. L. 1 entry, 1906
  • September 8, 1906: Orange Republicans name their county ticket

  May be the same person as Cheek, June L.

• Cheek, J. M. 4 entries, 1898–1923
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  • by November 4, 1898: J. L. Hutchings takes over J. M. Cheek's building supply and coffin business
  • May 6, 1919: Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor W. S. Roberson and elects five aldermen
  • 1922-23: Mrs. T. J. Wilson Jr. serves as Chapel Hill's director of the cemetery
  • May 8, 1923: Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor W. S. Roberson over Carl Wiegand
• Cheek, J. M., Jr. 1 entry, 1883
  • May 7, 1883: Chapel Hill elects John Manning and Professor Graves to its town board
• Cheek, J. Marion 1 entry, 1938
  • May 14, 1938: J. Marion Cheek, called Orange County's last Confederate veteran, dies
• Cheek, J. Paul 1 entry, 1954
  • August 16, 1954: J. Paul Cheek is sworn in as acting postmaster of Chapel Hill
• Cheek, J. W. 1 entry, 1917
  • December 3, 1917: County commissioners order a road laid off from Dodson's Crossroads and pay on the Hall's Mill bridge
• Cheek, James A. 45 entries, 1875–1919

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• Cheek, John 7 entries, 1828–1920
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  • October 4, 1828: Citizens of western Orange meet at the Hawfields to back Andrew Jackson for president
  • May Term 1852: The court binds Currie Chavers, a youth of color, to carriage maker Merrill Utley
  • August 18, 1862: The Baptists sell their old courthouse church to George Bishop of New Bern
  • early May 1875 (reported May 5): Hillsborough elects John M. Blackwood magistrate of police on a mixed-party ticket
  • February 12, 1886: Eagle Lodge No. 71 of Masons is revived at Hillsborough
  • February 18, 1886: John Cheek and E. D. Cheek form a buggy and wagon works in Hillsborough
  • 1920: Cane Creek Baptist Church buys its first organ
• Cheek, June L. 1 entry, 1930
  • April 2, 1930: Census takers begin the 1930 enumeration in Chapel Hill and the Orange County townships

  May be the same person as Cheek, J. L.

• Cheek, Kennon 16 entries, 1898–2020

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• Cheek, L. C. 1 entry, 1952
  • by April 10, 1952: Bethel Baptist Church calls the Rev. L. C. Cheek as its full-time pastor

  May be the same person as Cheek, Leon C.

• Cheek, Lemuel 1 entry, 1914
  • about 1914: An I-house front is added to the Lloyd family's log house on Dairyland Road
• Cheek, Leon C. 1 entry, 1951
  • August 3, 1951: Bethel Baptist Church plans its hundredth anniversary

  May be the same person as Cheek, L. C.

• Cheek, M., Jr. 1 entry, 1879
  • early November 1879: M. Cheek Jr. builds a new store at the west end of Franklin Street
• Cheek, Marion 1 entry, 1928
  • May 10, 1928: Camp Ashe, Chapel Hill's Confederate veterans' camp, disbands
• Cheek, Marshall Reid 1 entry, 1943
  • August 22, 1943: Army navigator Marshall Reid Cheek of Route 1, Chapel Hill, dies in the Pacific
• Cheek, Merritt 16 entries, 1869–1905

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• Cheek, Ola 1 entry, 1914
  • about 1914: An I-house front is added to the Lloyd family's log house on Dairyland Road
• Cheek, P. Tinsley 2 entries, 1904
  • April 30, 1904: Orange Republicans meet in convention and endorse Roosevelt
  • July 23, 1904: Republican county convention nominates P. Tinsley Cheek and D. S. Miller
• Cheek, Rubin 1 entry, 1920
  • About 1920: Kennon Cheek joins the janitorial staff of Venable Hall
• Cheek, Ruffin 3 entries, 1879–1880
  • early November 1879: Ruffin Cheek opens a beef market in the McDade brick store
  • 1880s: Ruffin Cheek and then Hiram Stone open West End's first general stores
  • by January 24, 1880: Ruffin Cheek buys out Merritt Cheek's store in Chapel Hill
• Cheek, S. P. 1 entry, 1925
  • finished by May 1925: Contractor James Henry Liner and others finish the Efland Home cottage
• Cheek, Thomas M. 6 entries, 1886–1908
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  • January 2, 1886: Hillsborough men incorporate the Orange County Tobacco Association to buy and sell leaf tobacco
  • November 6, 1888: Orange County gives Cleveland and Fowle majorities and re-elects Sheriff John K. Hughes
  • August 11, 1888: Orange County Democrats nominate their county ticket and leave the sheriff's race open
  • September 10, 1892: Democrats of the 18th Senatorial District meet at Hillsborough and nominate two candidates for the State Senate
  • August 17, 1892: Orange County Democrats hold their county convention and name a ticket
  • August 29, 1908: Orange County Democrats nominate S. M. Gattis and the 1908 county ticket
• Cheek, William 1 entry, 1853
  • by February 16, 1853: Hillsborough orders lamps for its main street

  May be the same person as Cheek, William S.

• Cheek, William S. 1 entry, 1853
  • May Term 1853: The court binds John D. Carter, a free boy of color, to Josiah Turner Sr. over a carriage maker's offer to teach him

  May be the same person as Cheek, William

• Cheek, Willis 1 entry, 1878
  • December 28, 1878: Julian S. Carr buys a lot of the A. S. Lee property at auction and gives it to Willis Cheek
• Chen, Victor 1 entry, 2016
  • 2016: The Nash house is rehabilitated to its 1926 appearance from Arthur Nash's own blueprints
• Cherry, Bill 1 entry, 1962
  • May 7, 1962: Chapel Hill Housing Authority holds its first meeting and seeks a charter
• Cherry, R. Gregg 9 entries, 1944–1948
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  • October 21, 1944: R. Gregg Cherry speaks to a full courtroom in Hillsboro
  • May 27, 1944: Orange County Democrats give Gregg Cherry a heavy majority in the primary for governor
  • February 5, 1944: Piedmont Electric members hear Gregg Cherry at their annual meeting in Hillsboro
  • by May 3, 1945: Governor Cherry names A. H. Graham of Hillsborough chairman of the State Highway Commission
  • January 22, 1946: Governor Cherry honors three Orange draft board members
  • October 13, 1946: The Institute of Government's first State Highway Patrol school opens in Chapel Hill
  • December 17, 1946: The state gives Orange Furniture Craftsmen its first Certificate of Safety Achievement
  • January 24, 1947: The News of Orange County wins the state press association's general excellence award
  • March 30, 1948: Governor Cherry orders an SBI inquiry into a thirty-year sentence given a Black fourteen-year-old in Orange County
• Cherry, William 1 entry, 1962
  • September 4, 1962: Chapel Hill Housing Authority applies for a planning loan for 200 low-rent apartments

  May be the same person as Cherry, William R.

• Cherry, William R. 1 entry, 1962
  • April 9, 1962: Mayor McClamroch names Chapel Hill's first public housing authority members

  May be the same person as Cherry, William

• Cheshire, James W. 2 entries, 1937
  • by August 20, 1937: Hillsboro's Confederate Memorial Library receives $1,000 for a furnace
  • by July 30, 1937: The state lends a book truck to the Orange County Library Association for August
• Cheshire, James Webb 3 entries, 1848–1936
  • 1848: James Webb Jr. and his wife buy Over-the-River from the Norwoods and enlarge it
  • September 12, 1918: A War Savings rally in Hillsborough welcomes home wounded volunteer Jim Cheshire
  • 1936: Mr. and Mrs. James Webb Cheshire buy Over-the-River
• Cheshire, Joseph Blount 2 entries, 1879–1897

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• Cheshire, Joseph Blount, Jr. 15 entries, 1868–1932

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• Cheshire, Lucius 3 entries, 1953–1965
  • October 20, 1953: Samuel M. Gattis becomes county accountant and tax supervisor
  • March 16, 1956: Patriots of North Carolina hold a mass meeting in Hillsborough and form an Orange County unit
  • 1965: Lucius and Nellie Cheshire buy and restore the Commandant's House

  May be the same person as Cheshire, Lucius M.

• Cheshire, Lucius M. 2 entries, 1956–1960
  • July 2, 1956: Irving Carlyle attacks the Pearsall school plan at a Chapel Hill forum
  • April 1960: W. C. George and Lucius Cheshire are named Orange County managers of I. Beverly Lake's campaign

  May be the same person as Cheshire, Lucius

• Cheshire, Nellie 1 entry, 1965
  • 1965: Lucius and Nellie Cheshire buy and restore the Commandant's House
• Cheshire, Sarah 1 entry, 1917
  • June 1, 1917: Hillsborough residents meet at the Session House library to organize a Red Cross chapter
• Chesley, C. D. 1 entry, 1957
  • December 7, 1957: The first televised ACC regular season game is played at Woollen Gym
• Chester, S. H. 1 entry, 1884
  • September 26 to 30, 1884: Orange Presbytery holds its fall session at Hillsborough
• Child, Frances 3 entries, 1798–1800
  • May 31, 1798: The court frees Sam, son of Rachel, and names him Samuel Freeman
  • November Term 1799: The court leaves Rachel, Suckey and Billey in Mary Doherty's care while their freedom petition is heard
  • February 25, 1800: The court frees Rachel and her children Billy and Sukey, who take the name Joel
• Child, James 4 entries, 1813–1822
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  • May Term 1813: The court names a committee to have the Eno bridge at Hillsborough repaired
  • November 13, 1820: Child and Clancy dissolve and join John Van Hook in a new mercantile firm
  • by November 13, 1821: John Van Hook & Co. dissolves and Thomas Clancy & Co. takes over its store
  • February 2, 1822: Hillsborough elects Jonathan P. Sneed magistrate of police and seven town commissioners
• Child, Samuel 8 entries, 1814–1835

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• Child, Thomas 2 entries, 1748–1759
  • 1748–1763: The Granville District land office grants the land that became Orange County
  • 1759: The town on the Eno is incorporated as Childsburg
• Childress, Gran 3 entries, 1955–1957
  • April 4, 1955: Carrboro's town board asks to be left out of the proposed Chapel Hill recreation district
  • January 25, 1957: Carrboro and rural neighbors petition to be left out of the recreation district
  • February 4, 1957: Commissioners call an April 2 recreation vote in a reduced Chapel Hill district
• Childs, Francis 1 entry, 1790
  • 1790: The county tax list counts 36 white polls and 82 taxable enslaved people in Hillsborough town
• Chilton, Mark 14 entries, 1991–2014

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• Chinny, Samuel 1 entry, 1799
  • 1799: Samuel Chinny buys the East Tryon Street land later called BelleVue
• Chipman, Christine F. 1 entry, 1956
  • May 1956: Dr. Sidney and Christine Chipman move into their new house on Dogwood Drive
• Chipman, Sidney 2 entries, 1964
  • December 3, 1964: A businessmen's group comes forward against Chapel Hill's public housing project
  • by November 3, 1964: Chapel Hill Housing Authority buys its first public housing sites, including the disputed Abernethy tract

  May be the same person as Chipman, Sidney S.

• Chipman, Sidney S. 2 entries, 1950–1956
  • 1950: The school founds a Department of Maternal and Child Health
  • May 1956: Dr. Sidney and Christine Chipman move into their new house on Dogwood Drive

  May be the same person as Chipman, Sidney

• Chisholm, Shirley 1 entry, 1983
  • September 29, 1983: Shirley Chisholm speaks in Memorial Hall on minorities and women in politics
• Chitwood, Michael 1 entry, 1995
  • 1995: Randall Kenan returns to UNC as a visiting professor
• Chivers, Warren H. 3 entries, 1943
  • by January 23, 1943: William C. Coker lends fourteen acres on the Raleigh Road for a Pre-Flight victory garden
  • April 5, 1943: Pre-Flight cadets put out a forest fire near Horace Williams Airport
  • late June 1943: The Pre-Flight School's victory garden begins feeding the cadets
• Choplin, T. W. 1 entry, 1950
  • July 1950: The Carrboro Church of God is organized
• Chorlton, Tom 1 entry, 1984
  • November 26 to 30, 1984: The Carolina Gay Association holds a fall Gay Awareness Week with a talk by Tom Chorlton
• Chrisey, Doug 1 entry, 2025
  • August 28, 2025: A memorial garden and bench for Zijie Yan are dedicated at Caudill Labs
• Chrisman, George 1 entry, 1945
  • December 1945: The Chapel Hill Rotary Club gives its first pedigreed pigs to Orange farm boys
• Chrisman, W. G. 4 entries, 1936–1948
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  • by May 1, 1936: The district health department adds an assistant health officer and a veterinarian
  • by June 19, 1936: Rabid dogs at White Cross and Calvander lead to a thirty-day dog quarantine
  • April 1 to May 8, 1942: Orange County holds rabies vaccination clinics for dogs
  • July 6, 1948: County commissioners order strict enforcement of the dog vaccination law against rabies

  May be the same person as Chrisman, William George

• Chrisman, William George 1 entry, 1950
  • February 2, 1950: Orange breeders hold a Spotted Poland China hog show and sale at Hillsboro

  May be the same person as Chrisman, W. G.

• Christenberry, D. K. 1 entry, 1950
  • July 30, 1950: Union Grove Methodist Church dedicates its new stone building
• Christmas, James 1 entry, 1800
  • February 27, 1800: The court orders James Christmas brought before it to test his jailing for debt
• Christmas, John 1 entry, 1846

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  • 1846: John Christmas builds new gallows at Hillsborough
• Christmas, John 10 entries, 1892–1915

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• Christmas, Mary 1 entry, 1789
  • 1789: Cane Creek Baptist Church is organized
• Christmas, Obadiah 1 entry, 1859
  • March 17-19, 1859: Orange Superior Court tries Obadiah Christmas for the murder of an enslaved man
• Christopher, Fannie Hicks 1 entry, 1892
  • July 3, 1892: Mount Adar Baptist Church dedicates its first building
• Christy, A. G. 1 entry, 1941
  • November 15, 1941: Black CCC enrollees put out a forest fire below the Gimghoul castle
• Chu, Herbert 1 entry, 1982
  • Christmas break, 1982-83: Herbert Chu opens the Four Five Six Chinese restaurant at 118 East Franklin Street
• Chur, Jacob F. 1 entry, 1868
  • September 2, 1868: Raleigh ends the Hillsborough Bureau clerk's post, citing the Bureau's coming close
• Churton, William 8 entries, 1748–1759

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• Cicero 1 entry, 1797
  • May 25, 1797: The court frees Cicero under James Armstrong's will
• Cifers, Ed 1 entry, 1943
  • January 7 to February 6, 1943: Charlie Gehringer and Hal Schumacher take Navy officer training at the Pre-Flight School
• Clancey, Thomas 1 entry, 1845
  • February 1, 1845: Lemuel Lynch becomes Hillsborough's first mayor
• Clancy, James 1 entry, 1835
  • June 19, 1835: Lightning kills James Clancy in his Hillsborough house
• Clancy, Thomas 19 entries, 1814–1845
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  • May 26, 1814: The court orders a new bridge across the Eno at Hillsborough and levies a tax for it
  • May Term 1815: The court names a committee to confer with the adjoining counties on copying the register's books
  • February Term 1815: The court orders an inquiry into the state of the register's records
  • May Term 1817: The court orders the bar and jury boxes in the courthouse rebuilt
  • November 13, 1820: Child and Clancy dissolve and join John Van Hook in a new mercantile firm
  • May 26, 1820: County justices elect Thomas Clancy sheriff and John F. Forest state's attorney
  • July 3, 1820: Samuel Hancock is elected a Hillsborough town commissioner
  • by November 13, 1821: John Van Hook & Co. dissolves and Thomas Clancy & Co. takes over its store
  • by June 18, 1822: Thomas D. Watts becomes sheriff of Orange County
  • July–November 1823: James S. Smith's building commission starts Hillsborough's brick Masonic Hall
  • July 4, 1828: Hillsborough celebrates Independence Day with a procession, an oration and a Masonic Hall dinner
  • November 18, 1829: Thomas Clancy advertises Lucy and her five children for sale
  • by April 7, 1836: Hillsborough commissioners forbid hitching horses to street trees
  • September 1, 1837: Hillsborough bans plank kilns near houses
  • July 3, 1841: The Hillsborough Debating Society leads the town's Independence Day celebration
  • February 5, 1842: Hillsborough elects Thomas Clancy magistrate of police and chooses its town commissioners
  • July 26, 1842: Hillsborough citizens adopt an address urging voters to reject a central division of Orange County
  • May 14, 1842: Delegates form the Orange County Temperance Society at Hillsborough
  • late April 1845: Hillsborough postmaster Thomas Clancy dies
• Clapp, Ludwig 1 entry, 1752
  • 1752: Ludwig Clapp's 640-acre grant on the Alamance is recorded
• Clark, A. D. 3 entries, 1946–1960
  • January 14, 1946: Chapel Hill aldermen order a blinker light and street work after a Black civic club petition
  • January 1, 1946: Chapel Hill's Black community celebrates Emancipation Day at the Community Center
  • by January 20, 1960: Chapel Hill-Carrboro Swimming Pool Association is chartered to build a pool for the Black community
• Clark, Adolphus 9 entries, 1931–1960
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  • by May 22, 1931: Black veterans in Chapel Hill organize the John Allen Post of the American Legion
  • by May 3, 1935: Black citizens of Chapel Hill organize the Colored Civic Club
  • November 10, 1939: Library janitor Adolphus Clark describes the work of the University Janitors' Association
  • by February 19, 1943: Civilian Defense gives arm bands to twelve Black volunteer fire-fighters in Chapel Hill
  • August 16, 1943: The Chapel Hill school board and its Black advisory committee agree to hire an attendance officer
  • November 17, 1943: The aldermen and school board hire an attendance officer for the Orange County Training School
  • December 4, 1946: Chapel Hill opens a joint fund drive for its recreation center, Black community center and nursery
  • by July 14, 1960: An anonymous donor offers $40,000 for a swimming pool for Chapel Hill's Black community
  • August 17, 1960: Cornelia S. Love is named as the donor of the pool at Chapel Hill's Negro Community Center
• Clark, Adolphus D. 1 entry, 1961
  • June 15, 1961: A.D. Clark Pool opens
• Clark, B. W. 1 entry, 1949
  • June 1, 1949: Chapel Hill's new zoning ordinance takes effect
• Clark, Barrett H. 1 entry, 1943
  • March 25, 1943: Carolina Playmakers mark their 25th anniversary
• Clark, C. W. 1 entry, 1954
  • by December 23, 1954: Carrboro bars its fire department from calls outside town except for paying subscribers
• Clark, D. D. 1 entry, 1944
  • April 13, 1944: Black veterans form the Craige-Allen post of the American Legion in Chapel Hill
• Clark, Dan W. 1 entry, 1905
  • February 1, 1905: Rural Free Delivery Route No. 1 opens out of Efland
• Clark, David 1 entry, 1935
  • May 14, 1935: Textile editor David Clark charges radicalism among UNC professors in a Gerrard Hall talk
• Clark, Ethel Stanton 1 entry, 1951
  • end of the 1950-51 term: Ethel Stanton Clark retires from the Merritt School after 43 years of teaching
• Clark, George L. 1 entry, 1924
  • by February 28, 1924: George L. Clark joins the university law school to teach the late Dean McGehee's courses
• Clark, Gilbert 1 entry, 1957
  • October 1957: State civil defense planners shift Orange County from a reception area to an evacuation area
• Clark, Henry T., Jr. 2 entries, 1950–1953

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• Clark, Henry Toole, Jr. 1 entry, 1953
  • April 23-24, 1953: North Carolina Memorial Hospital is dedicated
• Clark, J. H. 1 entry, 1887
  • by October 20, 1887: J. H. Clark leases a mill on Little River and sets out to repair it
• Clark, J. M. 1 entry, 1888
  • by February 16, 1888: Millwright J. M. Clark leases and repairs a long-neglected mill

  May be the same person as Clark, James M.

• Clark, J. N. 1 entry, 1881
  • early July 1881: Prohibition supporters organize a county committee at the Hillsborough courthouse
• Clark, J. Walter 2 entries, 1957–1961
  • by June 6, 1957: Carrboro PTA committee asks for a vote on joining the Chapel Hill school district
  • February 6, 1961: The Chapel Hill school board puts a Smith Level school and a new junior high at the top of its building list
• Clark, J. Walter, Jr. 1 entry, 1959
  • September 7, 1959: J. Walter Clark Jr. of Carrboro is elected to the Chapel Hill school board in Henry Brandis's seat
• Clark, James 1 entry, 1949
  • May 1949: The county board names A. J. Breeze, James Clark and Otho Thompson to the Ridge Road school committee
• Clark, James H. 1 entry, 1953
  • November 25, 1953: Rep. John W. Umstead Jr. shares the Progressive Farmer's Man of the Year award
• Clark, James M. 1 entry, 1863
  • 18 March 1863: James M. Clark advertises that his apprentice left while he was away in the army

  May be the same person as Clark, J. M.

• Clark, James P. 3 entries, 1838–1868
  • 1838: James P. Clark opens Fairfield School northwest of Hillsborough
  • July 1866: A Hillsborough meeting backs the National Union Convention and names district delegates
  • June 27, 1868: The Court of Wardens of the Poor holds its last meeting
• Clark, John 3 entries, 1868–1941
  • November 17, 1868: A Cedar Grove meeting expels Samuel H. Martin from the freedmen's school committee
  • March 15-17, 1897: The solicitor drops the murder case against John Clark for lack of evidence
  • by August 1, 1941: Black University janitors move into the first houses of the Knolls home colony
• Clark, John Edward 2 entries, 1905–1920
  • about 1905: Merchant John Edward Clark builds a two-room schoolhouse on Old Oxford Road
  • about 1920: The Old Oxford Road schoolhouse closes as children are bused to town
• Clark, John H. 1 entry, 1943
  • by February 19, 1943: Civilian Defense gives arm bands to twelve Black volunteer fire-fighters in Chapel Hill
• Clark, John W., Jr. 2 entries, 1955–1958
  • May 2, 1955: Carrboro's school committee asks the county board to drop Archie Davis as architect for its schools
  • June 2, 1958: Carrboro parents, Black and white, ask the county board to release their children to Chapel Hill schools
• Clark, Julia 1 entry, 2022
  • November 21, 2022: UNC dedicates the James L. Cates Jr. Memorial in the Pit
• Clark, Kenneth B. 1 entry, 1980
  • November 20, 1980: Psychologist Kenneth B. Clark lectures in Memorial Hall
• Clark, LeRoy 1 entry, 1943
  • July 26, 1943: CIO Local 403 demands vacations for janitors and equal pay for women campus workers
• Clark, Loryn 1 entry, 2020
  • May 22, 2020: Drive-through food distribution at Chapel Hill Public Library serves 576 households
• Clark, Mac 1 entry, 1913
  • 1913: Mebane Chapel is organized in Hillsborough
• Clark, Neil 1 entry, 1959
  • February 3, 1959: Orange County voters approve ABC liquor stores
• Clark, Rebecca 10 entries, 1932–2020

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• Clark, Sarah 1 entry, 1805
  • April to June 1805 (4th to 6th month): Cane Creek Friends read out a testimony against Miriam Lamb
• Clark, Thomas 3 entries, 1771–1915

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  • September 1771: The Hillsborough superior court holds its first term since the 1770 riot
  • October 23, 1783: Continental officers organize the North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati at James Hogg's cabin
  • January 21, 1915: An old fiddlers' convention is held at the Colonial Theatre in Carrboro
• Clark, Thomas 4 entries, 1895–1910

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• Clark, W. 1 entry, 1887
  • by early October 1887: Whitfield and Brown begin rebuilding B. D. Patterson's mill on New Hope Creek
• Clark, W. C. 1 entry, 1944
  • November 28, 1944: Army troops stage a chemical warfare show and war bond rally at Fetzer Field

  May be the same person as Clark, William C.

• Clark, Walter 12 entries, 1860–1924

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• Clark, Walter 1 entry, 1955

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  • September 2, 1955: Carrboro and White Cross school committeemen weigh joining the Chapel Hill tax district
• Clark, Walter E., Jr. 1 entry, 1954
  • December 6, 1954: Odell H. Clayton is sworn in as sheriff with three new deputies

  May be the same person as Clark, Walter, Jr.

• Clark, Walter, Jr. 3 entries, 1953–1955
  • by October 8, 1953: Carrboro parents ask the county for a new school building to relieve crowding
  • November 1, 1955: Carrboro parents fill the school auditorium to debate joining the Chapel Hill school district
  • October 17, 1955: Carrboro's district school committee votes to stay in the county unit and seek a 15-cent school tax

  May be the same person as Clark, Walter E., Jr.

• Clark, William C. 1 entry, 1942
  • August 27 to September 26, 1942: The Pre-Flight School holds its first indoctrination course for 135 new Navy athletic instructors

  May be the same person as Clark, W. C.

• Clark, William R. 1 entry, 1891
  • July 18, 1891: A federal hearing at Hillsborough holds William R. Clark for selling liquor without a license
• Clark, Wilson 3 entries, 1966
  • February 13, 1966: Nicholson rebuts the Conservative Club chairman's charge about Forum speakers
  • March 15, 1966: Gary Waller debates Wilson Clark at the first Di-Phi Senate debate
  • February 7, 1966: Gary Waller joins a student panel on the Speaker Ban in Memorial Hall
• Clarke, A. W. 1 entry, 1915
  • March 2, 1915: A. W. Clarke becomes Orange County's superintendent of roads
• Clarke, George 1 entry, 1798
  • 1798: George Clarke is buried in the ground that becomes the Chapel Hill town cemetery
• Clarke, Lewis 1 entry, 1955
  • April 28, 1955: The Hillsboro Exchange Club buys a site for a community recreation park on the Chapel Hill road
• Clarke, Rev. Mr. 1 entry, 1886
  • early November 1886: A new rector, Rev. Mr. Clarke, takes charge of the Episcopal church at Chapel Hill
• Clarke, Thomas 1 entry, 1899
  • 1899: The university starts a course in dyeing and bleaching
• Clarke, William J. 1 entry, 1870
  • 1870 (the 15th and 16th of a month the record does not name, before August): Josiah Turner Jr. turns down a militia guard after shots are fired into his Hillsborough house
• Clarkson, Heriot 1 entry, 1934
  • February 10, 1934: The Sons of the Revolution give the law school portraits of Justices Iredell and Moore
• Claxton, P. P. 1 entry, 1894
  • summer 1894: The university opens a Summer School for Teachers and Students to women and men

  May be the same person as Claxton, Philander P.

• Claxton, Philander P. 1 entry, 1925
  • October 1925: University Day marks fifty years since the 1875 reopening

  May be the same person as Claxton, P. P.

• Clay, John Randolph 2 entries, 1841–1842
  • November 1841: University buys the Vienna cabinet of minerals
  • February 10, 1842: The university's Vienna mineral cabinet arrives at Chapel Hill
• Clayter, Samuel S. 1 entry, 1834
  • July 17, 1834: Heavy rains break three mill dams near Chapel Hill
• Clayton, Ann 1 entry, 1963
  • May 3, 1963: Ann Clayton of Hillsboro wins the first Miss Orange County pageant
• Clayton, David Benjamin 1 entry, 1999
  • September 23, 1999: A Clayton estate bequest completes the money for a freestanding Stone Center
• Clayton, J. I. 1 entry, 1920
  • September 1920: The Bank of Efland receives its state charter
• Clayton, John 2 entries, 1949–1952
  • June 1949: The Hillsboro Building and Loan Association wins federal insurance for its accounts
  • January 27, 1952: Episcopalians organize the Church of the Holy Family in Chapel Hill
• Clayton, Joyce 4 entries, 1975–1984
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  • fall 1975: Chapel Hill High adds Advanced Placement physics and biology and an American Studies program
  • spring 1977: Chapel Hill High forms a student relations committee after a racial incident
  • August 1, 1979: Joyce Clayton becomes an assistant dean of the General College
  • March 1984: Joyce Clayton becomes director of UNC's Upward Bound program
• Clayton, Louise R. 1 entry, 1964
  • late November 1964: Hillsborough's historical groups petition to restore the spelling Hillsborough
• Clayton, Oddie 1 entry, 1962
  • March 16, 1962: Portrait of the late Sheriff Oddie Clayton is hung in the sheriff's office
• Clayton, Odell 5 entries, 1956–1958
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  • April 3, 1956: Pastor asks the commissioners to stop Sunday jalopy races at a new track
  • September 14, 1957: Highway Post Office service replaces the railway mail cars through Hillsboro
  • October 28, 1957: Judge Clawson Williams upholds the Orange County racing law against Orange Speedway
  • November 25, 1958: Orange Democrats name Ross Porter to the county school board
  • April 6, 1958: Sheriff's deputies destroy a 24-box liquor still south of Hillsboro
• Clayton, Odell H. 25 entries, 1938–1962

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• Clayton, Patrick L. 1 entry, 1925
  • April 1925: Patrick L. Clayton sells his farm northwest of Hillsboro to James B. Duke's agents for $4,000
• Clayton, W. John 7 entries, 1950–1961
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  • October 5, 1950: The Hillsboro Building and Loan Association announces an open house for its first office building, on Calvin Street
  • January 15, 1952: Hillsboro Building and Loan reports its biggest year
  • by May 10, 1956: Ira Ward and John Clayton lay out the Dimmocks Mill subdivision west of Hillsboro
  • week of November 12, 1956: Hillsboro buys 15 acres around its water plant to guard the town water supply
  • September 22, 1959: Hillsboro Savings and Loan buys a Churton Street lot for a downtown office
  • August 19, 1960: The Hillsboro Savings and Loan Association lays the cornerstone of its North Churton Street office
  • April 15, 1961: The Hillsboro Savings and Loan Association opens its new downtown office
• Claytor, D. C. 1 entry, 1896
  • September 23, 1896: Orange County Republicans nominate B. E. Teague for the House and a county ticket
• Claytor, David A. 1 entry, 1889
  • May 16, 1889: Orange Presbytery removes all six active elders of New Hope
• Claytor, Fred 6 entries, 1958–1964
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  • December 5, 1958: Hillsboro High School dedicates its new gymnasium
  • September 16, 1958: Bill France leases Orange Speedway to the Orange County Board of Education
  • by June 7, 1962: Hillsboro's town board urges the governor to build the I-85 access road into town
  • by December 13, 1962: A federal grant clears the way for Hillsboro's sewage treatment plant
  • April 24, 1962: Hillsboro voters approve $190,000 in sewer bonds
  • May 19, 1964: Hillsborough's new sewage treatment plant goes into operation

  May be the same person as Claytor, Fred T.

• Claytor, Fred T. 10 entries, 1959–1963
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  • May 5, 1959: Hillsboro reelects Mayor Ben Johnston over Fred S. Cates Jr.
  • March 3, 1959: Hillsboro commissioners elect Fred T. Claytor to the town board
  • May 2, 1961: Hillsboro voters elect teacher Fred Claytor mayor over 13-term Mayor Ben Johnston
  • June 6, 1961: Hillsboro's new town board raises the tax rate by a third and out-of-town water rates by half
  • November 6, 1961: Hillsboro renames streets and adopts a house numbering system
  • by July 4, 1963: A Black citizens' committee asks the Hillsboro town board for a public accommodations law
  • July 30, 1963: Hillsboro's new bi-racial committee holds its first meeting
  • early March 1963: Hillsboro wins federal approval for a sewage treatment plant and calls for bids
  • late May 1963: The state postpones the I-85 access road into Hillsborough
  • April 1, 1963: Orange County dedicates its new agricultural building on courthouse square

  May be the same person as Claytor, Fred

• Claytor, John 1 entry, 1919
  • December 1919: Orange Superior Court convicts Thomas Barbee of manslaughter in the death of John Claytor
• Claytor, N. R. 1 entry, 1905
  • September 1905: The Chapel Hill school committee buys the Canada building for its high school
• Claytor, R. H. 49 entries, 1911–1956

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• Claytor, R. H., Sr. 1 entry, 1947
  • between 1947 and 1953: Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Fryer give a Baldwin organ to the Hillsborough Presbyterian Church
• Claytor, Samuel S. 2 entries, 1846–1859
  • 24 February 1846: Two Chapel Hill justices ask the county court to hold Lucy Truelove's case until the child's parentage is clearer
  • September 1859: Five elders are ordained at New Hope
• Claytor, W. C. 1 entry, 1874
  • October 7, 1874: Orange County Granges form a county council of the Patrons of Husbandry

  May be the same person as Claytor, William C.

• Claytor, William C. 3 entries, 1877–1889
  • July 8, 1877: William C. Claytor, Nettleton G. Craig and Charles W. Johnston are ordained elders at New Hope
  • May 25, 1889: New Hope re-elects three of its removed elders
  • May 16, 1889: Orange Presbytery removes all six active elders of New Hope

  May be the same person as Claytor, W. C.

• Cleary, Art 1 entry, 1996
  • June 23, 1996: Frances Hargraves carries the Olympic torch down Franklin Street
• Cleaveland, Frederic 2 entries, 1955–1961
  • August 5, 1955: The Chapel Hill district planning board swears in Ben Potter and Roy Cole
  • June 30, 1961: R. D. Smith is named to a new Chapel Hill Planning Board
• Cleaver, Kathleen Neal 1 entry, 1998
  • by December 1998: Kathleen Neal Cleaver gives the Sonja Haynes Stone Memorial Lecture
• Clegg, Bertha 1 entry, 1945
  • first week of January 1945: Hillsboro High opens a lunchroom under the federal child feeding program
• Clegg, Hugh H. 2 entries, 1937–1940
  • January 1937: The Institute of Government opens its first ten-day school for police officers
  • October 20 to 26, 1940: The Institute of Government opens a series of FBI-taught police schools
• Clegg, James 1 entry, 1952
  • October 1952: Fairview Baptist Church is organized in Hillsborough
• Clements, Anderson 1 entry, 1820
  • 11 December 1820: Sarah Rhodes names Anderson Clements, who denies it and appeals to the Superior Court
• Clements, Peyton 1 entry, 1821
  • 1821: The university rents the empty Grammar School house to hunter Peyton Clements
• Clements, W. C. 2 entries, 1910–1915
  • May 10, 1910: A Christian Church congregation is organized in Chapel Hill
  • May 16, 1915: A Christian Church congregation is organized near Mebane
• Clemons, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1839
  • 12 March 1839: Elizabeth Clemons names James W. Burke, a former university student, as her child's father
• Clendenin, Alexander 1 entry, 1818
  • February Term 1818: The grand jury presents John Little, a child of color living south of the Haw River
• Clendenin, Joseph 1 entry, 1818
  • February Term 1818: The grand jury presents John Little, a child of color living south of the Haw River
• Clendening, Joseph 1 entry, 1809
  • May Term 1809: The court orders an inquiry into the wardens of the poor's money
• Clendenning, Joseph 1 entry, 1797
  • May 23, 1797: The court names poll inspectors for elections at Hillsborough and southwest of Haw River
• Clenny, Rebeckah 1 entry, 1820
  • 5 September 1820: Rebeckah Clenny names Chesley F. Faucett as her child's father
• Cleveland, G. B. 1 entry, 1969
  • April 19, 1969: A faculty committee proposes 23 courses in African and Afro-American studies

  May be the same person as Cleveland, Gordon; Cleveland, Gordon B.

• Cleveland, Gordon 9 entries, 1960–1969
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  • 1960: Political scientist Gordon Cleveland designs his own Colonial Revival house on Pine Lane
  • March 10, 1961: Aycock School parents petition against folding their high school into a new northern Orange high
  • May 26, 1962: Carl Smith leads the Democratic primary for Orange County commissioner
  • November 6, 1962: Democrats carry Orange County's general election as Republicans gain ground
  • September 8, 1964: County commissioners vote to set up an advisory committee for the antipoverty program
  • April 6, 1964: County commissioners table a request to endorse Community Action, Inc.
  • December 7, 1964: County commissioners agree to buy the historic bricks of the Walker Milling building
  • February 3, 1964: County commissioners endorse a joint Orange-Chatham antipoverty proposal to the North Carolina Fund
  • 1969: UNC starts its Afro-American Studies curriculum

  May be the same person as Cleveland, G. B.; Cleveland, Gordon B.

• Cleveland, Gordon B. 1 entry, 1959
  • March 26, 1959: The General Assembly enlarges the Orange County Board of Education to five members

  May be the same person as Cleveland, G. B.; Cleveland, Gordon

• Cleveland, Martha 1 entry, 1960
  • 1960: Political scientist Gordon Cleveland designs his own Colonial Revival house on Pine Lane
• Clift, David 2 entries, 1975–1982
  • June 1975 to June 1985: David Clift begins a ten-year pastorate at Orange Methodist Church
  • May 23, 1982: Orange Methodist Church celebrates its 150th anniversary
• Clifton, William 1 entry, 1820
  • by April 10, 1820: A. Mason and William Clifton buy a Hillsborough tavern stand and open it as the Traveller's Inn
• Cline, George 1 entry, 1945
  • by July 12, 1945: Work begins on the Farmers Cooperative Dairy's milk plant on West Franklin Street
• Cline, Marshall E. 1 entry, 1954
  • March 26, 1954: Orange County lawyers revive the Orange County Bar Association
• Clingman, T. L. 1 entry, 1878

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• Clinton, Bill 5 entries, 1993–2000

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• Clinton, Hillary 1 entry, 1997
  • September 29, 1997: William C. Friday receives the National Humanities Medal
• Clinton, Marie Clay 1 entry, 1929
  • December 1929: Marie Clay Clinton of Charlotte becomes interim superintendent of the Efland Home
• Clop, Morgan 2 entries, 1873
  • March 5, 1873: The Board of Education divides the 1872 school fund among the townships by race
  • August 8, 1873: The Board of Education appoints Hazel Norwood county examiner
• Clopton, Abner Wentworth 2 entries, 1818–1819

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• Close, John 1 entry, 1814
  • 1814: Students move into the finished South Building
• Closs, Morgan 2 entries, 1866–1870
  • August Term 1866: The court binds Dilcy Henderson, an eight-year-old girl of color, to Morgan Closs until eighteen
  • 1870-1871: Trustees refuse land for a Black school in Chapel Hill
• Closs, Wyatt 1 entry, 1984
  • spring 1984: Three Black students hold the Campus Governing Council's top posts for the first time
• Coates, Albert 95 entries, 1914–2002

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• Coates, Albert 1 entry, 1931

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• Coates, Mrs. Albert 1 entry, 1949
  • May 29, 1949: The Altrusa Club honors photographer Bayard Wootten with an exhibit and tea
• Coates, Gladys Hall 12 entries, 1930–2002

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• Coates, Lacy 1 entry, 1951
  • March 21, 1951: Orange sets up a County Agricultural Mobilization Committee
• Coates, Thomas 1 entry, 1858
  • 1858 to 1861: New East and New West are built to William Percival's design

  May be the same person as Coates, Thomas H.

• Coates, Thomas H. 1 entry, 1860
  • 1860: New belfry built on South Building

  May be the same person as Coates, Thomas

• Cobb, Collier 18 entries, 1892–1952

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• Cobb, Mrs. Collier 1 entry, 1929
  • January 10, 1929: Davie Poplar chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution is organized in Chapel Hill
• Cobb, Collier 2 entries, 1930–1932

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  • February 7, 1930: Humorist Irvin S. Cobb speaks to a packed Gerrard Hall
  • by May 13, 1932: Collier Cobb, Jr., and W. deR. Scott form the Service Insurance and Realty Company
• Cobb, Collier, Jr. 91 entries, 1921–1963

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• Cobb, Mrs. Collier, Jr. 1 entry, 1941
  • by January 31, 1941: Friends of Person Hall is organized to support the University art gallery
• Cobb, Mrs. Collier, Sr. 1 entry, 1962
  • November 2, 1962: The Chapel Hill Community Club marks its 50th anniversary
• Cobb, George 1 entry, 1955
  • by January 13, 1955: The new Orange Country Club buys 151 acres for a golf course
• Cobb, Irvin S. 1 entry, 1930
  • February 7, 1930: Humorist Irvin S. Cobb speaks to a packed Gerrard Hall
• Cobb, James 1 entry, 1931
  • by May 22, 1931: Black veterans in Chapel Hill organize the John Allen Post of the American Legion
• Cobb, Lucy 1 entry, 1925
  • October 8, 1925: Carolina Playmakers give a free performance for freshmen in their new theatre
• Cobb, Mary 2 entries, 1939–1940
  • July 13, 1939: The D.A.R. dedicates a marker at Matthew McCauley's grave beside University Lake
  • July 17, 1940: Chapel Hill groups form a joint committee to find homes for British refugee children
• Cobb, Mary Louisa 2 entries, 1914–1917

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• Cobb, N. H. 2 entries, 1881–1899
  • early July 1881: Prohibition supporters organize a county committee at the Hillsborough courthouse
  • March 26, 1899: Dr. N. H. Cobb resigns as pastor of the Hillsborough Baptist church
• Cobb, Needham Bryan 1 entry, 1880
  • December 1880: The Chapel Hill Baptist Church petitions the legislature against liquor
• Cobey, Bill 1 entry, 1978
  • 1978: UNC hires Willie Scroggs to coach men's lacrosse
• Coble, John M. 1 entry, 1895
  • April 8, 1895: Surveyors start the Alamance-Chatham line at the Hillsborough courthouse
• Cochran, Johnnie 1 entry, 2000
  • February 20, 2000: Johnnie Cochran speaks in Memorial Hall on race and the justice system
• Cochrane, Haywood 2 entries, 2017–2018
  • August 2017: UNC leaders warn Governor Cooper that Silent Sam may be pulled down
  • August 21, 2018: UNC leaders ask the SBI to help investigate the toppling of Silent Sam
• Cochrane, William 3 entries, 1939–1950
  • 1939: Law students Terry Sanford and William Cochrane join the Institute's legislative team
  • January 1946: Popular Government resumes regular publication under William Cochrane
  • May 16, 1950: The League of Women Voters holds a forum for county candidates in Chapel Hill
• Coe, E. M. 1 entry, 1879
  • June 17, 1879: The University Normal School opens its third session, with women admitted on equal terms

  May be the same person as Coe, Emily M.

• Coe, Emily M. 1 entry, 1878
  • June 18 to July 26, 1878: Summer Normal School offers the state's first kindergarten training

  May be the same person as Coe, E. M.

• Coe, Joffre 2 entries, 1938–1952
  • 1938–1941: Archaeologists excavate the wall site believing it to be Occaneechi Town
  • September 11, 1952: County commissioners name 55 citizens to committees for the bicentennial

  May be the same person as Coe, Joffre L.

• Coe, Joffre L. 2 entries, 1952–1961
  • 1952: Joffre Coe publishes an archaeological survey of the Occoneechee Hills area
  • February 9, 1961: UNC moves the Mitchell family graves from the campus to the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

  May be the same person as Coe, Joffre

• Coffey, E. P. 1 entry, 1940
  • October 20 to 26, 1940: The Institute of Government opens a series of FBI-taught police schools
• Coffin, James P. 1 entry, 1865
  • April 14, 1865: Wheeler's cavalry reaches Chapel Hill and posts a guard on the university
• Coffin, Oscar J. 4 entries, 1928–1956
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  • August 27-31, 1928: University holds a school for chamber of commerce secretaries
  • April 20 to 21, 1939: The University Press, the journalism department and the news bureau move into the rebuilt Bynum Gymnasium
  • September 29, 1944: Republican Senate candidate A. I. Ferree opens the Orange campaign at the Carrboro school
  • October 1956: O. J. "Skipper" Coffin, longtime UNC journalism dean, dies
• Cogburn, Max O., Jr. 1 entry, 2014
  • October 13, 2014: Same-sex couples begin receiving marriage licenses in Orange County
• Coggin, George T. 1 entry, 1857
  • July 16, 1857: Elder George T. Coggin of the Primitive Baptist Church dies
• Coggins, Ellen 1 entry, 1866
  • 1 May 1866: Ellen Coggins names Stanford Henderson, a freedman, as her child's father
• Cogswell, Arthur 12 entries, 1960–1997

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• Cogswell, Arthur, Jr. 1 entry, 1997
  • 1997: Beta Theta Pi alumni begin renovating the chapter house
• Cohen, Gerry 1 entry, 1977
  • November 8, 1977: Bill Thorpe leads the voting for the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen
• Coker, Louise Venable 1 entry, 1934
  • October 28, 1934: Botanist William C. Coker marries Louise Venable
• Coker, R. E. 26 entries, 1922–1945

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• Coker, William 1 entry, 1922
  • Spring 1922: John M. Booker outlines sixteen more buildings for the growing campus
• Coker, William Chambers 69 entries, 1903–2017

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• Cole, A. W. 1 entry, 1917
  • July 1917: County commissioners order a road near the Caldwell road straightened

  May be the same person as Cole, Anthony; Cole, Anthony W.

• Cole, Anthony 1 entry, 1888
  • September 3, 1888: The school board creates Cole's District at Walnut Grove on Anthony Cole's petition

  May be the same person as Cole, A. W.; Cole, Anthony W.

• Cole, Anthony W. 1 entry, 1893
  • October 29, 1893: Walnut Grove Methodist Church dedicates its frame church

  May be the same person as Cole, A. W.; Cole, Anthony

• Cole, Arthur 1 entry, 1948
  • April 5, 1948: Orange County commissioners name county electrical inspectors and require wiring permits
• Cole, Charlotte M. 1 entry, 1955
  • March 8, 1955: Hillsborough sets its $50,000 water bond vote for the May town election
• Cole, E. H. 1 entry, 1870
  • 1870: Mount Sinai Baptist Church is organized
• Cole, E. Wilson 4 entries, 1950–1956
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  • December 31, 1950: S. A. Johnson retires as manager of the Durham Bank and Trust Company's Hillsborough branch
  • by March 15, 1951: Orange Fire Protective Association buys Orange County's first rural fire truck
  • December 13, 1956: The Exchange Club enters Grady A. Brown in its Book of Golden Deeds
  • January 17, 1956: Hillsboro businessmen move to build a new plant for Reverie Lingerie
• Cole, Eddie H. 1 entry, 1865
  • September 3, 1865: First Baptist Church organizes independently
• Cole, Eula 1 entry, 1965
  • 1965: Lucius and Nellie Cheshire buy and restore the Commandant's House
• Cole, George 1 entry, 1943
  • by February 19, 1943: Civilian Defense gives arm bands to twelve Black volunteer fire-fighters in Chapel Hill
• Cole, Harriet 1 entry, 1912
  • 1912: Harriet Cole's house is moved to clear a site for a public school
• Cole, Henry 1 entry, 1880
  • late 1800s: Henry Cole runs a general store near Caldwell
• Cole, J. N. 1 entry, 1893
  • May 18, 1893: Caldwell Institute holds its commencement, with an address by Trinity College president John F. Crowell
• Cole, J. W. 1 entry, 1893
  • June 5, 1893: Orange justices and commissioners elect a new county Board of Education
• Cole, James 1 entry, 1894
  • December 3, 1894: James Long is elected to the county Board of Education after James Cole resigns
• Cole, John 2 entries, 1805–1985
  • August Term 1805: The court jails four men for gaming
  • fall 1985: Marilyn Gist joins the business school as its only active Black professor
• Cole, John P. 1 entry, 1915
  • January 8, 1915: The Bank of Chapel Hill elects Milton E. Hogan cashier
• Cole, K. B. 1 entry, 1948
  • June 10, 1948: The Carrboro Lions Club elects Lloyd Senter president
• Cole, K. H. 1 entry, 1955
  • by April 14, 1955: The State Utilities Commission orders the Dogwood Acres water system improved
• Cole, Kemp 1 entry, 1946
  • April 9, 1946: Colonial Ice Company buys a Carrboro site for an ice plant
• Cole, Martin 1 entry, 1787
  • March 1, 1787: The court names four patrollers for the town of Hillsborough
• Cole, Richard 1 entry, 1983
  • fall 1983: Regina Sherard joins the UNC journalism faculty
• Cole, Roy 7 entries, 1949–1963
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  • late July 1949: Roy Cole opens the Cole Piano Company on Carrboro's Main Street
  • August 5, 1955: The Chapel Hill district planning board swears in Ben Potter and Roy Cole
  • December 11, 1956: Commissioners name Roy Cole county court solicitor over John Q. LeGrand
  • December 28, 1956: A cross is burned at the Hillsborough home where Frank Graham was a guest
  • December 9, 1957: Commissioners name Roy Cole assistant solicitor for Orange County Superior Court
  • December 1, 1958: County commissioners begin new terms and name F. Lloyd Noell recorder's court solicitor
  • August 1963: Recorder's Court convicts most of the Merchants Bureau sit-in demonstrators
• Cole, S. E. 4 entries, 1898–1912
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  • May 3, 1898: John T. Shaw unseats Mayor Joseph A. Harris by one vote
  • August 11, 1908: Orange County Republicans nominate Thomas Sparrow for the House
  • by July 20, 1911: Merchant S. E. Cole puts a hired automobile into service at Hillsboro
  • August 3, 1912: Orange County Republicans nominate H. G. Dorsett for the House

  May be the same person as Cole, Stephen E.

• Cole, S. R. 1 entry, 1919
  • by February 20, 1919: Orange County students at the University organize a county club
• Cole, Stephen E. 1 entry, 1905
  • May 2, 1905: Hillsborough elects a town board expected to license saloons

  May be the same person as Cole, S. E.

• Cole, T. R. 1 entry, 1896
  • 1896: The Elm Grove school district builds a new schoolhouse on the New Hope road
• Cole, W. C. 5 entries, 1889–1945
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  • July 5, 1889: The Orange County Farmers' Alliance elects S. T. Forrest president and keeps W. V. Andrews as secretary
  • August 5, 1890: The Orange County Farmers' Alliance names H. P. Jones its crop statistician
  • April 6, 1891: Alliance lecturer Terrell addresses Orange farmers at the court house
  • May 21, 1898: Orange Democrats choose convention delegates and back S. M. Gattis for solicitor
  • 1945: Four Orange County farmers run hybrid corn demonstrations

  May be the same person as Cole, William Clarence

• Cole, W. P. 1 entry, 1890
  • the week of March 17, 1890: Register of Deeds John Laws is found liable for licensing an underage marriage
• Cole, William 2 entries, 1880–1900
  • 1880s: William Cole buys the Smith plantation seat on Smith Level Road
  • 1900: William Cole builds a house near Chapel Hill as a wedding present for his daughter
• Cole, William Clarence 1 entry, 1920
  • about 1920: William Clarence Cole builds a Craftsman farmhouse on Smith Level Road

  May be the same person as Cole, W. C.

• Cole, William H. 1 entry, 1942
  • October 15, 1942: The Pre-Flight School's Black Navy band holds a formal party at its community center quarters
• Cole, Wilson 4 entries, 1955–1958
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  • April 28, 1955: The Hillsboro Exchange Club buys a site for a community recreation park on the Chapel Hill road
  • April 29-30, 1955: The Hillsboro Exchange Club stages a blackface minstrel show to raise money for its park
  • November 22, 1957: Hillsborough citizens launch a $25,000 loan drive to rebuild Reverie Lingerie
  • May 19, 1958: Hillsboro organizes a Little League, and 98 boys turn out for its first practice
• Coleman, A. B. 1 entry, 1967
  • March 6, 1967: Charles W. Stanford resigns from the county school board after 26 years
• Coleman, Dan 2 entries, 2006–2007
  • May 16, 2006: Carrboro aldermen bar police arrests based solely on civil immigration violations
  • November 2007: Lydia Lavelle is elected to the Carrboro Board of Aldermen
• Coleman, H. G. 5 entries, 1925–1956
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  • by April 2, 1925: Hillsboro's old Webb store is sold and becomes the Sharp-Coleman Company
  • November 12, 1934: The Chapel Hill Legion post marks Armistice Day at the Hillsboro Amusement Club
  • May 22, 1936: Orange County war veterans organize at Hillsboro to back Sandy Graham for governor
  • June 25, 1945: Thieves break into the Hillsboro ration board office
  • December 31, 1956: Claude W. Sharpe sells the Young Men's Shop to his son
• Coleman, H. G., Jr. 2 entries, 1952–1961
  • August 12, 1952: Hillsboro merchants vote a second protest against the Morris Telephone Company's repair service
  • April 20, 1961: The reorganized Hillsboro Merchants Association and Chamber of Commerce adopts by-laws

  May be the same person as Coleman, Harlan G., Jr.

• Coleman, H. G., Sr. 1 entry, 1956
  • by February 23, 1956: Orange Farm Equipment Company takes over Coleman-Laws in Hillsboro
• Coleman, Harlan G., Jr. 1 entry, 1946
  • May 14, 1946: Hillsboro veterans organize the county's first Veterans of Foreign Wars post

  May be the same person as Coleman, H. G., Jr.

• Coleman, J. F. 1 entry, 1913
  • November 15, 1913 - October 31, 1914: Hillsboro township records 72 births and 39 deaths in its first year of registration
• Coleman, Joe 2 entries, 1943–1956
  • May 6, 1943: Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky and Johnny Sain report to the Pre-Flight School as aviation cadets
  • by February 23, 1956: Orange Farm Equipment Company takes over Coleman-Laws in Hillsboro
• Coleman, Larry 1 entry, 1957
  • February 18, 1957: Orange poultrymen form a county unit of the Central Carolina Poultry Association
• Coleman, Milton 1 entry, 1980
  • November 1980: An Afro-American Studies panel weighs what the 1980 election means for Black Americans
• Collett, John 1 entry, 1770
  • 1770: John Collett's map of North Carolina shows a row of mills on the Eno and Little River
• Collier, Charles 1 entry, 1807
  • May Term 1807: The court orders a road laid out to the New Hope bridge near Captain Collier's
• Collier, Isaac 1 entry, 1853
  • between 1853 and 1858: Isaac Collier builds an I-house on East Rosemary Street
• Collier, Isaac J. 11 entries, 1830–1853

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• Collier, John 2 entries, 1934–1937
  • 1934–1935: The Texas community asks the Bureau of Indian Affairs for an Indian school
  • September 1 to October 2, 1937: An international conference on education in Africa and the American South meets at the Carolina Inn
• Collins, Charles C. 1 entry, 1933
  • December 11, 1933: The athletic council declines to renew football coach Chuck Collins's contract
• Collins, Cliff 1 entry, 2009
  • February 2009: Cliff's Meat Market is honored for serving Carrboro's Spanish-speaking customers
• Collins, Eli 1 entry, 1801
  • August 27, 1801: A jury finds Africa Parker did not escape the prison bounds
• Collins, Elizabeth Alethea 2 entries, 1862–1866
  • November 1862: The Collins family buys the former Burwell School and calls it the Beehive
  • 1866: The Collins women sell their shares of the Beehive to Dr. Thomas D. Warren
• Collins, Elizabeth H. 1 entry, 1963
  • October 11, 1963: Mrs. Alfred G. Engstrom is elected president of the Hillsborough Historical Society
• Collins, Enoch 1 entry, 1799
  • November 29, 1799: The court elects Abner B. Bruce public register
• Collins, G. K. 2 entries, 1917–1918
  • November 11-19, 1917: Orange County raises about $2,000 in a Y.M.C.A. war fund drive
  • Mid-August 1918: A four-church committee raises $504 for Jewish war relief
• Collins, George P. 2 entries, 1866–1903
  • November 20, 1866: Seventeen freedpeople at Hillsborough seek passage to a Mississippi plantation
  • August 30, 1903: Major George P. Collins dies at Hillsborough
• Collins, George Reeves 1 entry, 1863
  • 18 March 1863: James M. Clark advertises that his apprentice left while he was away in the army
• Collins, Henrietta P. 7 entries, 1917–1918

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• Collins, J. G. 1 entry, 1949
  • by June 30, 1949: Hillsboro's Odd Fellows offer a lot for the Black public library
• Collins, James 2 entries, 1841–1942
  • July 3, 1841: The Hillsborough Debating Society leads the town's Independence Day celebration
  • about 1942: James Collins buys the closed Black Presbyterian church and its lot
• Collins, John 1 entry, 1799
  • November 29, 1799: The court elects Abner B. Bruce public register
• Collins, John Ed 1 entry, 1908
  • July 19, 1908: John Ed Collins kills Monroe Walker in Cedar Grove Township
• Collins, L. B. 1 entry, 1949
  • May 3, 1949: Carrboro voters elect I. F. Hardee mayor over Mayor I. A. West
• Collins, Lewis Bascom 1 entry, 1867
  • August Term 1867: The court binds Lewis B. Collins, bound in 1864 as a minor of color, to John B. Leathers
• Collins, Lizzie Mae 1 entry, 1992
  • August 21, 1992: Lizzie Mae Collins opens Lizzie Mae's Southern Kitchen
• Collins, Margaret 1 entry, 1849
  • August Term 1849: A jury finds Leonard Laws is not the father of Margaret Collins's son
• Collins, Mary Jackson 1 entry, 1798
  • August Term 1798: The court binds Nancy Jackson to Levi Whitehead, named as her reputed father
• Collins, Mildred W. 3 entries, 1944–1945
  • by December 21, 1944: The Orange draft board reopens about 300 farm deferments
  • April 26, 1944: Orange County's draft board sends its largest group yet, 302 men, for preinduction examinations
  • October 30, 1945: The Orange draft board counts 3,110 men drafted since 1940
• Collins, Paul 2 entries, 1910–1944
  • about 1910: Banker Paul Collins builds a Queen Anne house on North Churton Street
  • July 1944: L. E. Beard becomes chairman of the Hillsboro price panel of the county ration board
• Collins, Paul C. 21 entries, 1902–1918

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• Collins, Sally 1 entry, 1890
  • the week of March 17, 1890: The court holds the bondsmen of former clerk Pride Jones liable on his accounts
• Collins, Samuel P. 1 entry, 1864
  • May 16, 1864: Capt. Samuel P. Collins of Orange is killed leading Company A, 31st N.C., near Drewry's Bluff
• Collins, Ted 1 entry, 1942
  • November 13, 1942: Kate Smith broadcasts her network radio hour twice from Memorial Hall
• Collins, Thomas 1 entry, 1958
  • April 13, 1958: Amity Methodist Church is organized in north Chapel Hill
• Colon, Ivelisse 1 entry, 2021
  • February 2021: County commissioners name the new agricultural center for Bonnie B. Davis
• Colson, John 1 entry, 1961
  • by October 13, 1961: The Chapel Hill city schools form a civil defense committee
• Colston, R. C. 1 entry, 1866
  • 1866: General Colston takes charge of the reopened Hillsborough Military Academy
• Colston, R. E. 1 entry, 1866
  • November 1866: General Colston offers the state free scholarships at the Hillsborough Military Academy

  May be the same person as Colston, Raleigh Edward

• Colston, Raleigh Edward 1 entry, 1865
  • spring to October 1865: Hillsborough Military Academy closes for a time at the end of the Civil War

  May be the same person as Colston, R. E.

• Coman, James H. 1 entry, 1963
  • April 27-28, 1963: Hillsborough opens its historic houses for a spring pilgrimage
• Coman, James H., Jr. 1 entry, 1963
  • December 6, 1963: Orange County celebrates the Carolina Charter Tercentenary at Hillsborough
• Comb, Polley 1 entry, 1813
  • February Term 1813: The court binds John and Nancy Whittaker, children of color, to James Forsyth and Polley Comb
• Comb, Polly 1 entry, 1818
  • February Term 1818: The court cancels Nancy Whitaker's indenture to Polly Comb and binds her to Henry Thompson Jr.
• Combs, Mary 1 entry, 1790
  • February Term 1790: The court has Mary Combs's child brought in by habeas corpus and gives it to her
• Comer, Donald 1 entry, 1935
  • March 31 to April 6, 1935: University holds its third Human Relations Institute
• Comer, Mrs. H. F. 1 entry, 1925
  • October 29, 1925: Clubwomen of District 8 of the state federation hold their annual meeting in Chapel Hill
• Comer, Harry 5 entries, 1927–1941
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  • 1927–1941: Annual benefit football games fund Chapel Hill's Black public health nurse
  • November 14, 1929: The United States Marine Band plays in Kenan Stadium and the Tin Can
  • November 22, 1940: A Training School football game raises $200 for Chapel Hill's Black community nurse
  • November 28, 1941: Benefit football game raises $275 for the Black public health nurse fund
  • April 6 to 11, 1941: University holds its sixth Human Relations Institute on the war and democracy
• Comer, Harry F. 23 entries, 1921–1947

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• Compton 1 entry, 1926
  • May 12, 1926: Orange County Training School students show their Red Cross home nursing training
• Compton, A. D. 2 entries, 1936–1937
  • by December 4, 1936: Nurse A. D. Compton sets up a clinic room at Chapel Hill's Black school
  • by June 18, 1937: Black garden clubs in Chapel Hill start a garden and nutrition project
• Compton, A. J. 2 entries, 1889–1892
  • 1889: Mount Adar Baptist Church is organized
  • July 3, 1892: Mount Adar Baptist Church dedicates its first building
• Compton, Aquilla 1 entry, 1836
  • May Term 1836: Jemima Mitchell arranges for her son William Barton, a boy of color, to be bound to Aquilla Compton

  May be the same person as Compton, Aquilla C.

• Compton, Aquilla C. 1 entry, 1857
  • October 29-30, 1857: The Orange County Agricultural Society holds its fourth fair near Hillsborough

  May be the same person as Compton, Aquilla

• Compton, Artemus A. 1 entry, 1890
  • September 1, 1890: Cedar Grove Academy is incorporated
• Compton, Burch 3 entries, 1957–1962
  • November 1957: The sheriff asks Orange County newsstands to drop magazines on a banned list
  • December 1, 1959: The county ABC board's new liquor-law enforcement officers are sworn in
  • March 16, 1962: Portrait of the late Sheriff Oddie Clayton is hung in the sheriff's office

  May be the same person as Compton, Burch C.

• Compton, Burch C. 1 entry, 1963
  • by August 1, 1963: Young men of Hillsboro organize a Jaycees club

  May be the same person as Compton, Burch

• Compton, Mrs. Clyde 1 entry, 1918
  • May 31, 1918: The Orange County Red Cross sends literature to women in outlying communities to start Red Cross work
• Compton, Cooper 1 entry, 1952
  • February 18, 1952: Teachers and parents organize a county unit of the United Forces for Education
• Compton, James 1 entry, 1947
  • May 12, 1947: The county school board stands by Glenn T. Proffit after a petition for R. H. Claytor
• Compton, James S. 16 entries, 1940–1955

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• Compton, James S., Sr. 1 entry, 1957
  • March 28, 1957: James S. Compton, former chairman of the county school board, dies at Cedar Grove
• Compton, Nurse 7 entries, 1927–1939
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  • May 16, 1927: Clinic for Black babies opens at Rock Hill Baptist Church
  • during 1932 (reported December 2, 1932): The nurse serving Black Chapel Hill holds a baby clinic and typhoid stations
  • by August 13, 1937: Eighty-eight Black families enter a health department garden contest in Chapel Hill and Carrboro
  • summer 1938: Black families in Chapel Hill and Carrboro raise gardens and put up 2,000 quarts in a nurse-led contest
  • by August 4, 1939: The Wayside Beautification Club of Black residents plants iris by the A.M.E. church and cleans its clubhouse
  • December 1, 1939: Nurse Compton reviews her years of public health work among Chapel Hill's Black residents
  • summer 1939: Nurse Compton surveys underweight children getting free milk at the Black school
• Compton, Oscar 1 entry, 1962
  • March 19, 1962: Orange County Farm Bureau opposes the zoning ordinance in its present form
• Compton, Ralph 1 entry, 1947
  • by August 28, 1947: Black shank spreads to a third of the tobacco farms around Cedar Grove
• Compton, Wayne 5 entries, 1951–1959
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  • October 1951: Cedar Grove parents ask for a say in hiring teachers and get a Black building committee
  • November 5, 1951: School board accepts the new Cedar Grove school for Black children
  • May 1955: Arthur Wells is named to the Cedar Grove school advisory committee
  • 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
• Condoret, Jon Andre 1 entry, 1972
  • 1972: Jon Condoret designs a Modernist house for Drs. Jerome and Jacqueline Harris
• Cone, Ben 1 entry, 1933
  • Early 1933: Ben Cone pledges $5,000 a year for three years to the Institute of Government
• Cone, Benjamin 1 entry, 1956
  • November 17, 1956: Cone Mills honors Anna Dixon for fifty years at the Eno plant
• Cone, Bernard M. 1 entry, 1930
  • February 3, 1930: Textile manufacturer Bernard M. Cone speaks at Chapel Hill against mill unions
• Cone, Caesar 4 entries, 1935–1950
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  • 1935: Caesar Cone sells the former Hume house, a Zeta Beta Tau home, to the University
  • October 1943: Chapel Hill High School moves into the old Hume house on West Franklin Street
  • by July 30, 1943: The Hume place beside the elementary school is chosen for the new Chapel Hill High School
  • June 1950: The pre-Civil War Hume house is moved across the Chapel Hill High School grounds
• Cone, Ceasar, II 1 entry, 1933
  • Early 1933: Ben Cone pledges $5,000 a year for three years to the Institute of Government
• Cone, Herman 1 entry, 1955
  • November 19, 1955: Cone Mills holds its first service-award dinner for Eno plant workers
• Cone, Julius 1 entry, 1917
  • Early 1917: Students form volunteer companies and drill on Emerson Field
• Coney, Mrs. Donald 1 entry, 1931
  • March 24, 1931: The Pratt family gives $500 to the Mary Bayley Pratt children's library
• Conklin, Edwin Grant 1 entry, 1920
  • Spring 1920: Biologist Edwin Grant Conklin gives the McNair lectures on evolution
• Conners, J. L. 1 entry, 1955
  • June 15, 1955: Herring-Conners Chevrolet takes over Hillsboro's Chevrolet dealership
• Conners, Jake 1 entry, 1954
  • September 11, 1954: Harriss-Conners Chevrolet takes over the Hazzard Motor Company in Chapel Hill
• Connet, Alfred 1 entry, 1883
  • August to December 1883: Work begins on the Gray school and church for Black residents at Brownsville
• Connor, George Whitfield 1 entry, 1929

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• Connor, Henry Groves 3 entries, 1886–1923

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• Connor, Henry Groves, Jr. 2 entries, 1925
  • February 10, 1925: Chase speaks against the Poole antievolution resolution at a legislative hearing
  • February 1925: The state House defeats the Poole antievolution resolution
• Connor, Louis M., Jr. 1 entry, 1975
  • September 11, 1975: The North Caroliniana Society is chartered
• Connor, Luke 1 entry, 1953
  • October 5, 1953: County commissioners name the rural members of Chapel Hill's enlarged planning and zoning boards

  May be the same person as Connor, Luke L.

• Connor, Luke L. 1 entry, 1952
  • February 4, 1952: County commissioners put three farmers on the Chapel Hill zoning commission

  May be the same person as Connor, Luke

• Connor, R. D. W. 27 entries, 1899–1950

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• Connor, Mrs. R. D. W. 1 entry, 1929
  • October 1-2, 1929: The council of the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs meets in Chapel Hill
• Conover, Pamela 2 entries, 2002–2004
  • Spring 2002: The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender - Straight Alliance forms at UNC
  • Spring 2004: UNC sets up a minor in Sexuality Studies
• Conrad, Jim 1 entry, 1975
  • January 16, 1975: Protesters stop Klan leader David Duke from speaking in Memorial Hall
• Conrad, Walter, Jr. 1 entry, 1939
  • June 9, 1939: Chapel Hill high school graduates a class of 66, twice the year before
• Considine, Becky 1 entry, 1976
  • fall 1976: Chapel Hill High offers a coeducational gym class under Title IX
• Conway, W. I. 2 entries, 1956
  • May 5, 1956: Opponents of auto racing form the Orange County Anti-Racing Association
  • April 3, 1956: Pastor asks the commissioners to stop Sunday jalopy races at a new track
• Cook, Barbara 1 entry, 1981
  • October 1981: Stephen's...after all opens as a cafe and supper club in Village Plaza
• Cook, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1857
  • August Term 1857: Solomon Shepherd appeals a bastardy verdict to the Superior Court
• Cook, George T. 1 entry, 1866
  • about December 1, 1866: A Black newspaper editor from Baltimore canvasses Hillsborough for subscribers
• Cook, J. S. 2 entries, 1944–1945
  • November 1944: The Orange County Council of Churches hires a Bible teacher for four county schools
  • June 10, 1945: The Orange County Council of Churches renews its Bible teacher for the county schools
• Cook, Joseph 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
• Cook, Kathryn 1 entry, 1947
  • by November 18, 1947: An Altrusa club is organized in Chapel Hill
• Cook, Olan V. 2 entries, 1940–1941

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• Cooke, William D. 1 entry, 1852
  • February 1852: Students revive the University Magazine
• Cooley, C. S. 1 entry, 1890
  • by August 30, 1890: C. S. Cooley & Son put a new two-horse hearse into service

  May be the same person as Cooley, Charles S.

• Cooley, Charles Loveland 2 entries, 1860–1861

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• Cooley, Charles S. 2 entries, 1877–1895
  • May 7, 1877: Hillsborough elects C. S. Cooley mayor and a new board of commissioners
  • January 19, 1895: Orange County citizens organize corn relief for drought-stricken Nebraska

  May be the same person as Cooley, C. S.

• Cooley, E. F. 1 entry, 1940
  • January 2, 1940: The University's new dining hall serves its first meal
• Cooley, E. L. 2 entries, 1888–1898
  • July 3, 1888: Hillsborough Township Democrats organize a Cleveland and Fowle Club
  • January 17, 1898: The Junior Order council moves into the Presbyterian session house
• Cooley, E. S. 1 entry, 1901
  • January 14, 1901: The Hillsboro school committee buys the town's first public schoolhouse and lot
• Cooley, Ed. L. 1 entry, 1895
  • by March 23, 1895: The Fusion legislature names new magistrates for Orange County's townships
• Cooley, Edward L. 1 entry, 1899
  • March 16-30, 1899: Hillsborough quarantines itself against smallpox in Alamance County
• Cooley, Erett 1 entry, 1930
  • May 1930: The Friendly Cafeteria opens on East Franklin Street in the old University Cafeteria space
• Cooley, J. G. B. 1 entry, 1868
  • about 1868: Hillsborough Methodist Church opens a lending library for its members
• Cooley, Joseph G. 13 entries, 1871–1894

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• Cooper, Charles Parton 1 entry, 1834
  • 1834 to 1841: English Record Commission sends its publications to the university library
• Cooper, Claytor S. 1 entry, 1907
  • June 2, 1907: The campus YMCA building is dedicated
• Cooper, E. C. 2 entries, 1946–1953
  • September 15, 1946: The Rev. E. C. Cooper arrives as Chapel Hill's new Lutheran pastor
  • March 15, 1953: E. C. Cooper resigns as pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Chapel Hill
• Cooper, G. M. 1 entry, 1923
  • September 30, 1923: League of Nations health officials visit the University
• Cooper, Henry 1 entry, 1777
  • August 1777: Merchants who traded with Britain are ordered to swear allegiance or leave
• Cooper, J. F. 1 entry, 1928
  • August 21, 1928: The Southland Motor Company opens a Studebaker and Erskine agency on Rosemary Street
• Cooper, Major 1 entry, 1879
  • about 1879: Latta Grove Baptist Church is organized
• Cooper, Mary Jane 1 entry, 1894
  • about 1894: Adam A. Kluttz buys the old Sam Phillips house and law office
• Cooper, Roy 5 entries, 2017–2023
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  • August 2017: UNC leaders warn Governor Cooper that Silent Sam may be pulled down
  • March 30–April 29, 2020: Governor Cooper's statewide stay-at-home order takes effect
  • March 16, 2020: Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and Orange County Schools close under a statewide order
  • June 18, 2021: Governor Cooper appoints Joal Broun a district court judge for Orange and Chatham counties
  • January 24, 2023: John Blackfeather Jeffries dies, and state flags are lowered in his honor
• Cooper, T. D., Jr. 1 entry, 1958
  • March 19, 1958: A labor board examiner finds Reverie Lingerie guilty of unfair labor practices

  May be the same person as Cooper, Thomas D., Jr.

• Cooper, Thomas 2 entries, 1971
  • March 22, 1971: Trial of three Storm Troopers for the death of James Cates opens
  • March 25, 1971: All-white jury acquits three men in the killing of James Cates
• Cooper, Thomas D., Jr. 2 entries, 1964
  • November 18, 1964: Defense lawyers file State Supreme Court appeals for eleven Chapel Hill civil rights defendants
  • March 2, 1964: A special Superior Court session opens at Hillsborough to try the Chapel Hill civil rights cases

  May be the same person as Cooper, T. D., Jr.

• Cooper, W. A. 1 entry, 1903
  • March 26, 1903: A passenger train kills two Caswell County farmers at Scarlett's crossing
• Cooper, W. J. A. 1 entry, 1899
  • April 15, 1899: L. B. Whitted & Co., general merchants at Carr, dissolve

  May be the same person as Cooper, William J.

• Cooper, William J. 1 entry, 1929
  • May 20 to 23, 1929: American Association for Adult Education holds its annual meeting at Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Cooper, W. J. A.

• Coor, James 1 entry, 1775
  • September 9, 1775: Provincial Congress at Hillsborough elects a Provincial Council to govern between sessions
• Copeland, G. Ed. 1 entry, 1918
  • March 30, 1918: Farmers' Union delegates at Schley ask that no wheat be threshed before July 15
• Copeland, J. Isaac 2 entries, 1967–1975

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• Copeland, James 1 entry, 1771
  • December 14, 1771: Tryon, now governor of New York, asks the King's free pardon for the six reprieved Regulators
• Copeland, Will 1 entry, 1898
  • 1898: Antioch Baptist Church completes a new sanctuary
• Copenhaver, Harris 1 entry, 1917
  • May 3-5, 1917: The community spring festival in Battle Park stages student plays, one of them by Paul Green
• Copley, Anderson 1 entry, 1850
  • August Term 1850: The court undoes William Couch's binding within the term and returns him to his mother
• Copley, Jane 2 entries, 1821–1822
  • November Term 1821: The court binds Walter Copley to John Rhodes Jr., named as his reputed father
  • February Term 1822: Jane Copley wins execution against John Rhodes Jr. for unpaid support
• Copley, Polley 1 entry, 1814
  • May Term 1814: The court binds Peter, a boy of color, to John Redmond and requires a bond for his delivery at the end of the term
• Copley, Walter 1 entry, 1821
  • November Term 1821: The court binds Walter Copley to John Rhodes Jr., named as his reputed father
• Coppin, L. J. 1 entry, 1911
  • May 14-15, 1911: Bishop L. J. Coppin preaches and lectures on Africa at Hillsboro
• Coppridge, W. C. 1 entry, 1938
  • by December 9, 1938: A state commission recommends a four-year medical school, its majority favoring Chapel Hill
• Corbett, B. C. 1 entry, 1948
  • October 4, 1948: County commissioners and school board name a citizens' committee to study capital needs
• Corbett, Bedford 1 entry, 1878
  • about 1878: Mount Zion AME Church is organized at Martinsville
• Corbett, Kizzmekia 3 entries, 2021

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• Corbett, Yahyah 1 entry, 2019
  • February 26, 2019: Hillsborough holds a celebration of Billy Strayhorn
• Corbin, Francis 2 entries, 1748–1754
  • 1748–1763: The Granville District land office grants the land that became Orange County
  • 1754: The county court names trustees for Corbin Town
• Corbin, Geo. C. 1 entry, 1881
  • by May 21, 1881: Young men of Hillsborough organize a brass band
• Corbin, George C. 5 entries, 1884–1890

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• Corbin, George O. 1 entry, 1883
  • May 7, 1883: Hillsborough elects George O. Corbin mayor
• Corbin, John D. 1 entry, 1869
  • by July 28, 1869: Post office opens at Cedar Grove with John D. Corbin as postmaster
• Corbin, Thomas A. 2 entries, 1908
  • February to May 1908: Thomas A. Corbin reopens the old Occoneechee Hotel as the Corbinton Inn
  • February 1908: D. C. Parks sells the Occoneechee Hotel and it closes
• Cordal, Alexander 1 entry, 1931
  • by May 22, 1931: Black veterans in Chapel Hill organize the John Allen Post of the American Legion
• Cordal, Green 5 entries, 1864–2021

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• Cordle, Green 1 entry, 1823
  • May Term 1823: The court binds Green Cordle, a six-year-old boy of color, to John Holden
• Cordle, Rebeckah 1 entry, 1823
  • May Term 1823: The court binds Green Cordle, a six-year-old boy of color, to John Holden
• Cordon, Norman 1 entry, 1956
  • December 2, 1956: Les Petites Musicales stages The Magic Flute in Hill Hall
• Corless, Inge 1 entry, 1988
  • December 1, 1988: UNC holds a World AIDS Day fair in the Student Union
• Corn, Eliza 1 entry, 1839
  • February Term 1839: The court binds the Corn children under bonds not to take them out of the county
• Corn, James 1 entry, 1839
  • February Term 1839: The court binds the Corn children under bonds not to take them out of the county
• Corn, Liza 1 entry, 1847
  • 1 December 1847: John Shepard advertises for William Harriss and Liza Corn, two free bound apprentices who left together
• Corn, William 1 entry, 1839
  • February Term 1839: The court binds the Corn children under bonds not to take them out of the county
• Cornelius, Elizabeth 2 entries, 1918
  • October 1918: Eno Mill opens an influenza diet kitchen at West Hill school
  • September 19, 1918: Orange County organizes for the United War Work drive
• Cornell, Julius 1 entry, 1972
  • April 14-15, 1972: The BSM holds a sickle cell conference and tests about 200 people
• Cornwallis, Charles 7 entries, 1781

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• Cornwell, Dean 1 entry, 1941
  • March 10, 1941: Dean Cornwell installs his mural of Davie laying the Old East cornerstone in the post office
• Cornwell, Oliver 1 entry, 1939
  • by June 9, 1939: Chapel Hill men organize a faculty club to occupy the Archer house
• Cornwell, Oliver K. 23 entries, 1935–1961

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• Cornwell, Ollie 1 entry, 1960
  • April 11, 1960: Chapel Hill aldermen refuse Chief Blake's picketing-control ordinance
• Corpening, Cora Zeta 1 entry, 1914
  • Fall 1914: Cora Zeta Corpening enrolls as the university's first woman candidate for a medical degree
• Cortez, Jayne 1 entry, 1976
  • early April 1976: Film critic Donald Bogle lectures at the fifth Black Arts Cultural Festival
• Corwin, Norman 1 entry, 1967
  • 1967–1968: Carolyn Kizer is a visiting writer-in-residence at UNC
• Cosby, Bill 1 entry, 2001
  • September 21, 2001: Bill Cosby performs two benefit shows for the renovation of Memorial Hall
• Cosby, Dabney 11 entries, 1840–1848

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• Costigan, Edward P. 1 entry, 1927
  • October 25, 1927: The League of Women Voters holds a conference on living costs at the Carolina Inn
• Cotten, Elizabeth 3 entries, 1893–1984

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• Cotten, Elizabeth Henderson 5 entries, 1927–1963

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• Cotten, Mrs. Lyman 3 entries, 1933–1934
  • by October 20, 1933: A Chapel Hill NRA compliance board takes complaints
  • By June 7, 1934: Emma Long gives the university library a collection on her father, Dr. Crawford W. Long
  • February 27, 1934: The American Legion Auxiliary holds an Americanism program in Hillsboro
• Cottom, Tressie McMillan 2 entries, 2020

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• Cotton, Christine 1 entry, 2020
  • March 13, 2020: Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools launches Food for Students meal distribution
• Cotton, Henry 1 entry, 1898
  • 1898: Cotton Chapel CME Church, the forerunner of St. Joseph CME, was organized
• Couch, A. B. 1 entry, 1880
  • by May 29, 1880: Census enumerators are named for Orange County's eleven districts
• Couch, Darius N. 1 entry, 1865
  • May 5, 1865: General Couch leads 12,000 Union troops through Chapel Hill
• Couch, John 4 entries, 1910–1956
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  • about 1910: Brothers John and Page Couch add a frame front to a log house on Cornwallis Road
  • 1928: Botanist John Couch builds an Elizabethan Revival house on Ridge Road
  • about 1942: A filling station is built at 212 North Churton Street
  • by February 9, 1956: Veterans of Foreign Wars organize an Orange County post
• Couch, John N. 7 entries, 1920–1982

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• Couch, Johnnie 1 entry, 1931
  • by May 22, 1931: Black veterans in Chapel Hill organize the John Allen Post of the American Legion
• Couch, Nancy 1 entry, 1850
  • August Term 1850: The court undoes William Couch's binding within the term and returns him to his mother
• Couch, Page 1 entry, 1910
  • about 1910: Brothers John and Page Couch add a frame front to a log house on Cornwallis Road
• Couch, Samuel 1 entry, 1848
  • 1848: Samuel Couch builds a two-story hall-parlor farmhouse near Durham
• Couch, William 2 entries, 1850–1867
  • August Term 1850: The court undoes William Couch's binding within the term and returns him to his mother
  • about 1867: Civil War veteran William Couch builds a frame farmhouse east of Hillsborough
• Couch, William T. 16 entries, 1922–1946

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• Council, Floyd 1 entry, 1920

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• Council, Mildred 5 entries, 1976–2018

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• Council, Zeb P. 25 entries, 1915–1950

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• Court, U.S. Supreme 1 entry, 1966
  • December 8, 1966: Supreme Court hears Klopfer v. North Carolina
• Courtney, Joseph 1 entry, 1801
  • 1801: William Courtney Jr. deeds the Yellow House on East King Street to his brother Joseph
• Courtney, William 12 entries, 1777–1798

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• Courtney, William, Jr. 1 entry, 1801
  • 1801: William Courtney Jr. deeds the Yellow House on East King Street to his brother Joseph
• Courts, Ben 1 entry, 1964
  • January 27, 1964: Chapel Hill merchants name 93-year-old druggist Clyde Eubanks Merchant of the Year
• Courts, Benjamin 1 entry, 1964
  • January 1964: Clyde Eubanks sells his drugstore to Benjamin and Ellyn Courts, who rename it Courts' Drugs
• Courts, Daniel W. 1 entry, 1856
  • October 11, 1856: The trustees' executive committee rules that Hedrick has destroyed his usefulness to the university
• Courts, Ellyn 1 entry, 1964
  • January 1964: Clyde Eubanks sells his drugstore to Benjamin and Ellyn Courts, who rename it Courts' Drugs
• Cowan, C. C. 1 entry, 1891
  • February 19-20, 1891: A legislative committee inspects the university's buildings and grounds
• Cowden, Dudley 1 entry, 1938
  • 1938: Dudley Cowden builds a galleried house with a specimen garden on Country Club Road
• Cox, Albert G. 1 entry, 1880
  • by February 21, 1880: Albert G. Cox & Co. of Orange Factory buys out Gammon's store at Durham
• Cox, Bob 3 entries, 1952–1962
  • 1952: Bob Cox and Monk Jennings open Town & Campus in place of Wilbur Kutz's Varsity Shop
  • July 1955: Chapel Hill Jaycees petition for a Chapel Hill-Carrboro recreation district
  • March 12, 1962: Chapel Hill aldermen order a fire station on the new mid-town site
• Cox, Charles 1 entry, 1847
  • February Term 1847: The court binds Andrew Jackson, a boy of color raised at the poorhouse, to Charles Cox
• Cox, Ernest P. 1 entry, 1918
  • about 1918: The Ernest P. Cox House is built on Bellevue Street
• Cox, Harmon 2 entries, 1768–1771
  • May 21, 1768: Regulators meeting at George Sally's appoint a committee of eight to petition Governor Tryon
  • December 14, 1771: Tryon, now governor of New York, asks the King's free pardon for the six reprieved Regulators
• Cox, Isham 1 entry, 1879
  • early February 1879: Federal revenue officers raid a still near Chapel Hill
• Cox, J. D. 1 entry, 1891
  • February 19-20, 1891: A legislative committee inspects the university's buildings and grounds
• Cox, Jim 1 entry, 1863
  • June 1863: Jim, an enslaved tobacco worker leased to Washington Duke, flees toward Union lines
• Cox, John A. 1 entry, 1854
  • June 15, 1854: Hillsborough lays off its common in lots and names Hillsborough Avenue and Calvin Street
• Cox, Sudie D. 1 entry, 1940
  • by February 23, 1940: Orange County's social agencies organize a council in Hillsboro
• Cox, T. R. 1 entry, 1945
  • October 8, 1945: Ideal Dry Cleaners opens in Hillsborough
• Cox, William 3 entries, 1766–1924
  • 1766: A Deep River meeting drafts Regulator Advertisement Number Two
  • May 21, 1768: Regulators meeting at George Sally's appoint a committee of eight to petition Governor Tryon
  • November 1924: The Carolina Playmakers prepare Robert W. Winston's play The Honor of Bonava
• Cox, William R. 4 entries, 1882–1886

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• Coxhead, George 4 entries, 1961–1969
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  • August 22, 1961: Carrboro votes to join the Chapel Hill Community Chest
  • July 12, 1963: A Committee for Open Business mass meeting authorizes nonviolent direct action
  • May 12, 1969: Howard Lee takes the oath as mayor of Chapel Hill at Town Hall
  • April 30, 1969: Mayoral and aldermanic candidates answer questions at the Institute of Government
• Crabtree, A. F. 1 entry, 1903
  • May 5, 1903: Hillsborough votes for prohibition for the first time and elects Joseph A. Harris mayor
• Crabtree, A. W. 2 entries, 1953–1959
  • May 5, 1953: Hillsboro reelects Mayor Ben Johnston in a 56-vote town election
  • May 5, 1959: Hillsboro reelects Mayor Ben Johnston over Fred S. Cates Jr.

  May be the same person as Crabtree, Arthur; Crabtree, Arthur W.

• Crabtree, Arthur 2 entries, 1925–1958
  • April 1925: Lawyer J. Clyde Ray finishes a two-story office building with a restaurant on Churton Street
  • August 5, 1958: Hillsboro's town board adopts leave and personnel rules for town employees

  May be the same person as Crabtree, A. W.; Crabtree, Arthur W.

• Crabtree, Arthur W. 1 entry, 1957
  • May 7, 1957: Hillsboro reelects Mayor Ben Johnston and seats John P. Ballard on the town board

  May be the same person as Crabtree, A. W.; Crabtree, Arthur

• Crabtree, Bynum G. 1 entry, 1943
  • August 19, 1943: Technical Sergeant Bynum G. Crabtree of Chapel Hill is killed when his bomber is shot down over Holland
• Crabtree, Charles F. 1 entry, 1887
  • September 5, 1887: County commissioners order repairs to the court house cupola
• Crabtree, Dalphus 1 entry, 1896
  • 1896: Ebenezer Baptist Church is organized
• Crabtree, Ellen 1 entry, 1858
  • 16 November 1858: Ellen Crabtree names Josiah Turner Sr. as her child's father
• Crabtree, Garland 1 entry, 1935
  • 1935: A Church of God congregation is organized in West Hillsborough
• Crabtree, Henry 2 entries, 1851–1853
  • March Term 1851: The court binds James and William Mayo to Dr. Edmund Strudwick, to be hired out for their blind grandfather
  • February Term 1853: The court finds James Mayo of age and frees him from his indentures as two men claim his services
• Crabtree, J. Martin 1 entry, 1948
  • January 15, 1948: J. M. Blieden sells Hillsboro's Dollar Store to J. Martin Crabtree
• Crabtree, Jackson 2 entries, 1893–1906
  • October 21, 1893: Jackson Crabtree's Hillsboro Roller Mills starts grinding flour
  • by March 15, 1906: The Hillsboro Milling and Manufacturing Company buys the old river mill from Jackson Crabtree
• Crabtree, O. L. 3 entries, 1933–1937
  • by August 18, 1933: The National Re-Employment Service opens Orange County offices in Hillsborough and Chapel Hill
  • July 1937: The county welfare department is reorganized under Social Security
  • by June 4, 1937: Orange County's new Board of Public Welfare says old-age aid is relief, not a pension
• Crabtree, Ormond 1 entry, 1915
  • June 1915: H. S. Cates builds a picture-show hall near the Hillsboro depot
• Crabtree, Sidney W. 1 entry, 1903
  • 1903: Sidney W. Crabtree starts a farm on land from the Smith plantation
• Crabtree, Susan 1 entry, 1824
  • May Term 1824: A jury finds Robert Scarlett is not the father of Susan Crabtree's son
• Craig, Abram 1 entry, 1816
  • March 1, 1816: The court names commissioners to repair or rebuild the Ben's Creek and New Hope bridges
• Craig, Alex 1 entry, 1870
  • 1870: Mount Sinai Baptist Church is organized
• Craig, B. J. 1 entry, 1879
  • August 1879: Chapel Hill's Black Baptist and Methodist Sunday schools hold a union celebration
• Craig, Ben F. 1 entry, 1868
  • October 1868: Trustees open a freedmen's school at a chapel near Chapel Hill
• Craig, Ben J. 1 entry, 1868
  • September to December 1868: Chapel Hill's freedmen's school gets Bureau money for repairs and desks
• Craig, Benjamin 8 entries, 1826–2021

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• Craig, Braxton 2 entries, 1910–1913
  • about 1910: Braxton Craig and partners build a small Queen Anne house on McCauley Street
  • 1913: The Braxton Craig House on McCauley Street is sold to E. G. Norwood
• Craig, Charles 13 entries, 1925–1943
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  • by August 14, 1925: Black contractor Charles Craig builds a new settlement on North Avenue, and neighbors propose to call it Craigtown
  • by June 26, 1925: Black citizens of Chapel Hill organize a Community Fair Association to support the Orange County Training School
  • by November 18, 1927: Black Chapel Hill residents build a country club southwest of the village
  • by October 16, 1931: Bill McDade and Charles Craig become custodians of the new Graham Memorial
  • by May 3, 1935: Black citizens of Chapel Hill organize the Colored Civic Club
  • by November 29, 1935: Colored Civic Club thanks the town for police work in the Black neighborhood
  • May 8, 1940: Chapel Hill aldermen vote to take title to the Negro Community Center land and sponsor the project
  • May 14, 1940: Black residents hold a mass meeting to back the Negro Community Center
  • by August 30, 1940: Charles Craig draws the plans for Chapel Hill's Negro Community Center, and the state WPA approves them
  • November 14, 1940: President Roosevelt approves a WPA grant for the Negro Community Center in Chapel Hill
  • March 11, 1940: A town meeting hears a federal housing official on clearing Chapel Hill's slums
  • January 9, 1941: Construction begins on the Negro Community Center
  • September 1, 1943: The Orange County Training School opens its fall term in a repaired building
• Craig, Charles C. 22 entries, 1922–1943

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• Craig, D. I. 4 entries, 1879–1905

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• Craig, David 5 entries, 1785–1893
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  • November 2, 1785: David Craig's 1785 stone is the oldest dated marker in New Hope's old graveyard
  • March 2, 1799 (February Term 1799): The court orders a road laid off from Franklin Street to the old Raleigh road
  • May 9, 1840: Four elders are ordained at New Hope
  • January 1, 1869: New Hope's present graveyard is begun
  • September 30, 1893: David Craig, for many years an elder of New Hope church, dies
• Craig, Dilsey 10 entries, 1818–1930

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• Craig, Dilsy 1 entry, 1878
  • April 15, 1878: St. Paul AME buys a church lot from Benjamin and Dilsy Craig
• Craig, Eleanor 1 entry, 1946
  • March 21, 1946: Nellie Strayhorn of Carrboro recounts her childhood in slavery
• Craig, Gilbert 1 entry, 1919
  • September 1, 1919: Carrboro's graded school opens its term with Gilbert Craig as principal
• Craig, Haywood 1 entry, 1886
  • May 27, 1886: Haywood Craig, a Black man, is received into the Hillsborough Presbyterian Church
• Craig, J. N. 2 entries, 1855–1882
  • October 25-26, 1855: The Orange County agricultural society holds its second annual fair at Hillsborough
  • by June 3, 1882: Mary Berry is appointed postmistress at Hillsborough
• Craig, James 5 entries, 1758–1885
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  • June 1758: James Craig buys back the Richland Fork tract on New Hope Creek
  • March 2, 1799 (February Term 1799): The court orders a road laid off from Franklin Street to the old Raleigh road
  • about 1826: Young Andrew Johnson, walking from Raleigh to Tennessee, is fed and lodged at James Craig's
  • June 1867: President Andrew Johnson attends commencement
  • by June 1885: A Memorial Hall tablet names the eleven donors of the university's land
• Craig, James A. 10 entries, 1820–1849

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• Craig, James Henry 1 entry, 1781

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• Craig, James N. 1 entry, 1857
  • October 29-30, 1857: The Orange County Agricultural Society holds its fourth fair near Hillsborough
• Craig, James Newton 1 entry, 1869
  • January 1, 1869: New Hope's present graveyard is begun
• Craig, John 6 entries, 1793–1918
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  • November Term 1793: The court orders roads laid out to the University from Hillsborough and the Chatham line
  • May Term 1809: The court orders an inquiry into the wardens of the poor's money
  • 1813: Hillsborough men organize a company to build a cotton and woolen factory
  • February 1816: John Craig, a founder and first elder of New Hope church, dies
  • March 19, 1859: Chapel Hill fixes its village limits as a rectangle of 839 acres
  • October 15 to 16, 1918: Two Elm Grove soldiers, Carl Lloyd and John Craig, die of influenza at Camp Greenleaf
• Craig, Leroy 2 entries, 1879–1889
  • July 17, 1879: Samuel Kirkland and Leroy Craig are ordained elders at New Hope
  • May 16, 1889: Orange Presbytery removes all six active elders of New Hope
• Craig, Locke 6 entries, 1880–1915

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• Craig, Luther 1 entry, 1911
  • about 1911: The Luther Craig farmhouse is built on Old Hillsborough Road
• Craig, M. E. 1 entry, 1890
  • June 2, 1890: Census enumerators begin the 1890 count in Orange County

  May be the same person as Craig, Milton E.

• Craig, Manuel 1 entry, 1925
  • by August 14, 1925: Black contractor Charles Craig builds a new settlement on North Avenue, and neighbors propose to call it Craigtown
• Craig, Milton E. 1 entry, 1888
  • September 1, 1888: Orange County Republicans nominate Wilson Brown for sheriff and a full county ticket

  May be the same person as Craig, M. E.

• Craig, Nettleton G. 1 entry, 1877
  • July 8, 1877: William C. Claytor, Nettleton G. Craig and Charles W. Johnston are ordained elders at New Hope
• Craig, O. F. 1 entry, 1917
  • July 9, 1917: The Council of Defense forms a committee to handle soldiers' business affairs

  May be the same person as Craig, Oscar F.

• Craig, Oscar C. 1 entry, 1924
  • 1924 (several months before October): Fire destroys Oscar C. Craig's store and post office at University Station
• Craig, Oscar F. 2 entries, 1899–1934
  • by August 31, 1899: Oscar F. Craig succeeds Flora Shumaker as postmaster at University Station
  • March 19, 1934: Former University Station postmaster Oscar F. Craig dies

  May be the same person as Craig, O. F.

• Craig, Thomas J. 1 entry, 1917
  • July 10, 1917: Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsboro men help fill a National Guard field artillery battery
• Craig, Victoria 1 entry, 1949
  • May 22, 1949: The Orange County Negro Public Library held its grand opening at the community center in Hillsboro
• Craig, William 1 entry, 1754
  • 1754 and 1755: William Craig and Richard Caswell take up land in the New Hope area
• Craige, Burton 1 entry, 1941
  • September 1941–1949: Connor returns to the UNC faculty as Craige professor
• Craige, Charles 1 entry, 1922
  • Between about 1922 and 1925: Contractor Charles Craige builds a gambrel-roofed bungalow for mason William Strayhorn
• Craige, James F. 1 entry, 1869
  • July 17, 1869: Chapel Hill's town board holds the earliest meeting with surviving minutes
• Craige, William 3 entries, 1741–1758
  • about 1741 to 1743: Craig, Blackwood and Kirkland families come down from Pennsylvania to the Hawfields
  • about 1750: Hawfields families move to New Hope Creek over doubts about their Granville titles
  • June 1758: James Craig buys back the Richland Fork tract on New Hope Creek
• Craighead, Frank 1 entry, 1943
  • September 11, 1943: The Craighead twins take 600 cadets into the woods to start "self-preservation" training
• Craighead, John 1 entry, 1943
  • September 11, 1943: The Craighead twins take 600 cadets into the woods to start "self-preservation" training
• Cram, Ralph Adams 1 entry, 1903
  • 1903 to about 1908: Shepperd Strudwick builds a Churton Street house designed by Ralph Adams Cram
• Crane, George L. 2 entries, 1947–1948
  • late November 1947: Dr. George L. Crane moves to Carrboro as its only doctor
  • June 10, 1948: The Carrboro Lions Club elects Lloyd Senter president
• Crane, Thomas D. 1 entry, 1842
  • December 1842: James Jackson Jr. buys the Hillsborough House tavern on King Street
• Cranwell, J. E. 1 entry, 1899
  • late October 1899: The Inter-State Telephone Company strings its line through Hillsborough
• Craven, Avery 1 entry, 1945
  • May 9-11, 1945: UNC holds its sesquicentennial research conference
• Craven, Braxton 2 entries, 1873–1877
  • July 1873: State educational convention calls for reviving the university
  • June 1, 1877: Caldwell Institute holds its closing exercises, with an address by Braxton Craven
• Craven, Jean 1 entry, 1933
  • May 16, 1933: Free health examination clinic for children entering school in Chapel Hill
• Craven, John 2 entries, 1790–1801
  • November 25, 1790: William Lenoir is chosen the first president of the university's trustees
  • 1801-1802: The university raises money for the Main Building by lottery
• Craven, Peter 3 entries, 1768

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• Crawford 1 entry, 1890
  • February 14, 1890: Federal revenue officers break up a still on Little River northeast of Hillsborough
• Crawford, Betty 1 entry, 1944
  • by July 15, 1944: Twelve WAVES live on the third deck of Alexander Hall
• Crawford, C. M. 1 entry, 1930
  • April 9, 1930: Chapel Hill aldermen grant a franchise to the Durham Gas Company

  May be the same person as Crawford, Charlie M.

• Crawford, Cecil 2 entries, 1981–1989
  • July 21, 1981: Court of Appeals throws out the state's approval of the Cane Creek project
  • 1989: Cane Creek Baptist Church marks its two hundredth year
• Crawford, Charles M., Jr. 1 entry, 1953
  • by January 8, 1953: Charles M. Crawford buys the Colonial Inn in Hillsboro
• Crawford, Charlie M. 1 entry, 1941
  • 1941: Fitch Lumber buys the Crawford brothers' spoke plant on Lloyd Street

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

• Crawford, D. F. 3 entries, 1896–1902
  • September 1, 1896: Clerk names registrars for an entirely new registration of voters
  • February 19, 1896: The clerk of court redraws Orange County's election precincts
  • August 23, 1902: Orange Republicans elect Luico Lloyd county chairman
• Crawford, D. Frank 3 entries, 1894–1895
  • December 8, 1894: New clerk of court D. Frank Crawford and treasurer William F. Jackson take office
  • November 6, 1894: Republicans and Populists sweep Orange County's election, leaving the Democrats only the sheriff and register of deeds
  • January 19, 1895: Orange County citizens organize corn relief for drought-stricken Nebraska
• Crawford, E. B. 1 entry, 1941
  • April 15, 1941: Hospital Saving Association passes $1,500,000 in payments to hospitals
• Crawford, E. B., Jr. 1 entry, 1964
  • January 1964: Survey finds N.C. Memorial Hospital still separates patients by race
• Crawford, E. F. 1 entry, 1891
  • by July 11, 1891: E. F. Crawford of Hillsborough becomes deputy collector for Chatham and Orange
• Crawford, E. K. 1 entry, 1943
  • by October 22, 1943: The Chapel Hill-based Hospital Saving Association reaches 205,000 members
• Crawford, E. M. 1 entry, 1940
  • May 1940: The Chapel Hill-based Hospital Saving Association pays out its millionth dollar
• Crawford, Eugene, Jr. 1 entry, 1965
  • May 1965: Memorial Hospital ends racial segregation
• Crawford, Henderson 1 entry, 1844
  • July 1844: The Hawfields Presbyterian session clears James C. Patton on Nancy Wicks's charge
• Crawford, J. A. 1 entry, 1947
  • July 1947: The Crawfords charter Carr Street Apartments, Inc., in Chapel Hill
• Crawford, J. F. 1 entry, 1948
  • April 17, 1948: Orange County Republicans file a nearly full slate as filing closes
• Crawford, John 3 entries, 1817–1895
  • May Term 1817: The court rebinds Zedekiah and Alexander Husbands, boys of color, after their masters leave the county
  • November 11 or 12, 1886: A jury acquits Ann Eliza Lawrence and John Crawford of poisoning her husband
  • April 22, 1895: John Crawford opens a grocery store opposite the Hillsborough court house
• Crawford, Kaye 1 entry, 1989
  • March 1989: James Freeland is buried after a funeral at Fairview Baptist Church
• Crawford, Lonnie A. 2 entries, 1917–1919
  • by July 19, 1917: Lonnie A. Crawford contracts to build a sand-clay road from Dodson's Cross Roads
  • by July 10, 1919: County commissioners award the national highway contract through Hillsboro to the Crawford brothers
• Crawford, Margo 12 entries, 1988–1996
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  • July 1, 1988: UNC opens the Black Cultural Center in temporary space in the Carolina Union
  • December 1989: The African Studies Club brings Kwanzaa to UNC for the first time
  • November 1989: Planners release a feasibility study for a permanent Black Cultural Center
  • by November 1990: Afro-One starts a Chapel Hill class under the Black Cultural Center's artist-in-residence program
  • November 8, 1990: The BSM's Umoja series takes up the need for a Black Cultural Center
  • October 22, 1990: Harry Allen of Public Enemy leads a Black Cultural Center discussion on hip-hop
  • fall 1991: The BSM keeps Black Cultural Center programs in the center's cramped Union office to press for a building
  • 1991–1993: Students campaign for a freestanding Black Cultural Center
  • August 20 to September 5, 1991: Students hold a two-week celebration of Sonja Haynes Stone's life and legacy
  • March 27, 1992: UNC holds the naming ceremony for the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center
  • January 15, 1993: UNC housekeepers hold a Unity Day celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.
  • January 1996: Gerald Horne becomes director of the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center
• Crawford, Mary Whittington 1 entry, 1954
  • November 9, 1954: Mary Whittington Crawford, one of Hillsboro's best-known citizens, dies at 81
• Crawford, Moses 1 entry, 1789
  • May 26, 1789: A jury assesses damages for the wardens of the poor against two former wardens
• Crawford, Nancy 1 entry, 1861
  • August 2, 1861: Women of southwest Orange form a Soldiers' Relief Society
• Crawford, Roy 3 entries, 1953–1956
  • February 13, 1953: Hillsborough citizens form a committee to keep the Forrest Clinic open
  • by March 29, 1956: St. Mary's Road residents start a six-inch water line from Hillsboro
  • May 31, 1956: St. Mary's Road residents finish a new water line on Hillsboro's system
• Crawford, S. S. N. 1 entry, 1890
  • by March 22, 1890: The government gives the Hillsborough depot mail route to a new low bidder
• Crawford, Sam 2 entries, 1887–1891

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  • by September 15, 1887: Sam Crawford adds a flour bolt to his mill south of Hillsborough
  • March 8-16, 1891: A mad dog bites a boy at Hillsborough and is killed, and a second dog is killed a week later
• Crawford, Sam 3 entries, 1982–1985

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• Crawford, W. S., Jr. 1 entry, 1947
  • July 1947: The Crawfords charter Carr Street Apartments, Inc., in Chapel Hill
• Crawford, Walter 2 entries, 1906–1940
  • by August 23, 1906: A new Orange Grove school building goes up at Cane Creek
  • June 30, 1940: Forest fire burns about 56 acres near Laurel Hill south of Chapel Hill
• Crawford, Walter S. 11 entries, 1919–1947

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• Crayton, Margaret 1 entry, 1801
  • May Term 1801: The court binds Margaret Crayton, Elizabeth Wells's daughter, to Levi Gifford
• Crayton, Thomas 2 entries, 1799–1801
  • March 1799: The Cane Creek women's meeting disowns Elizabeth Wells
  • February Term 1801: Elizabeth Wells gets a writ to arrest Thomas Crayton in Chatham County
• Credle, W. F. 1 entry, 1950
  • May 1950: Archie Royal Davis replaces H. Raymond Weeks as architect of the Cedar Grove school
• Creech, Jimmy 2 entries, 2005–2008
  • January 31 to February 7, 2005: The GLBT-SA holds its first Ally Week
  • January 28 to February 1, 2008: Jimmy Creech opens the GLBT-SA's Ally Week in Murphey Hall
• Creech, Walter 1 entry, 1941
  • 1941: Walter Creech rebuilds a moved antebellum house as a Colonial Revival home on NC 54
• Creecy, Richard B. 1 entry, 1834
  • July 4, 1834: Chapel Hill celebrates the Fourth of July with a student oration and a dinner
• Creel, T. B. 2 entries, 1942–1952
  • May 4-9, 1942: Chapel Hill canvassers seek war bond pledges house to house
  • April 19, 1952: William B. Umstead opens his Orange County campaign for governor at a rally at Occoneechee Speedway
• Creel, William 3 entries, 1879–1880
  • May 6, 1879: The new Chapel Hill board elects Merritt Cheek mayor and William Creel constable
  • November 9, 1879: Officers recapture jailbreaker and liquor seller Graham Sykes near Chapel Hill
  • August 24, 1880: The Mount Zion Baptist Association meets at Durham
• Creery, Ryan 1 entry, 2016
  • Fall 2016: Cup-A-Joe moves down West King Street to a larger shop at number 112
• Crenshaw, William M. 1 entry, 1836
  • June 1836: The university confers master of arts degrees at its 1836 commencement
• Cresson, Bruce 1 entry, 1957
  • January 6, 1957: Charles E. Maddry resigns the First Baptist pulpit in Hillsborough
• Creswell, James 2 entries, 1768–1770
  • August 1768: Presbyterian ministers, among them Henry Pattillo of Orange, write against the Regulation
  • Fall 1770: Orange Presbytery holds its first meeting at Hawfields Church
• Crews, Ruby 2 entries, 1941–1942
  • 1941: Ruby Crews becomes the county's first home demonstration agent for Black women
  • March 1942: Orange County's Black farm neighborhoods are mapped and elect their own neighborhood leaders
• Cripps, Thomas 1 entry, 1981
  • February 16-26, 1981: Two curricula hold a lecture series on Black and white relations in Gerrard Hall
• Crisfield, Beatrice 1 entry, 1930
  • April 1930: The Philanthropic Society votes to admit women
• Crisp, R. L. 1 entry, 1889
  • October 29, 1889: The Hillsborough tobacco manufacturers Hooker & Crisp dissolve their firm
• Crittenden, C. C. 4 entries, 1902–1957
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  • August 18-23, 1902: Orange County holds separate institutes for its white and Black teachers
  • by March 17, 1949: Civic groups join a central committee to preserve Hillsboro's historic places
  • by April 6, 1950: Hillsboro's restoration committee and state officials agree to seek a survey of historic sites
  • by April 4, 1957: County commissioners set aside the old courthouse courtroom for a historical museum
• Crittenden, Christopher 4 entries, 1957–1963
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  • March 7, 1957: The Hillsboro Garden Club meets with state archives officials to plan a historical museum
  • February 28, 1959: A Civil War Centennial Conference meets at Chapel Hill
  • June 5, 1961: The university gives Christopher Crittenden an honorary doctor of laws
  • October 12, 1963: The new Historic Hillsborough Commission holds its first meeting at the courthouse
• Crittenden, William B. 1 entry, 1832
  • March 1832: William B. Crittenden proposes a newspaper called the Harbinger for Chapel Hill
• Crockett, Capt. 1 entry, 1868
  • October to December 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay cancels apprenticeships made by an earlier Bureau officer and returns children to their parents
• Crockett, N. N. 1 entry, 1866
  • November 1866 to August 1867: The Hillsborough Bureau office hears about twenty freedpeople's claims for wages and crops
• Crockford, Mrs. H. D. 5 entries, 1934–1944
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  • July 30, 1934: Black Chapel Hill families send the first schoolchildren to Lincoln Hospital for tonsil operations
  • October 16, 1934: The PTA reports summer health examinations, including 142 children at the Black school
  • August 11, 1942: Chapel Hill women's organizations start a drive to replace the burned high school library
  • by January 29, 1943: Rebuilding Chapel Hill High School library receives an anonymous $3,000 gift
  • by October 1944: Chapel Hill High rebuilds its library to more than 4,000 volumes after the fire
• Crockford, Horace D. 1 entry, 1940
  • about 1940: William Van Sprinkle designs a Colonial Revival house for Horace Crockford on Country Club Road
• Crofford, Margaret 1 entry, 1788
  • November Term 1788: The court discharges Richard Stanford from a bastardy recognizance
• Croft, Jack 1 entry, 1957
  • January 7, 1957: The school board approves plans for a new Carrboro Elementary School
• Croft, John 1 entry, 1964
  • December 2, 1964: Chapel Hill school board lets contracts for an eight-classroom addition to Carrboro Elementary
• Cromartie, W. J. 1 entry, 1959
  • June 8, 1959: About 150 Chapel Hill school supporters press the county commissioners for more school money
• Cromwell, Doris Duke 1 entry, 1943
  • June 23, 1943: Doris Duke Cromwell goes to work as a laboratory technician in the University medical building
• Cromwell, Margaret 1 entry, 1929
  • 1928-1929: The Efland Home's farm cuts its yearly cost per girl
• Cromwell, Oliver K. 1 entry, 1945
  • by July 12, 1945: Mayor Madry names a citizens committee to study Chapel Hill's postwar housing
• Crook, Rachel 6 entries, 1934–1952
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  • March 6, 1934: Chapel Hill women organize a current events club
  • by March 2, 1934: Free federal adult classes open in the Peabody building
  • April 8, 1938: Carrboro's federal community school stages two folk plays at the Carrboro school
  • 1943: Rachel Crook opens a fish and produce market on West Franklin Street
  • August 1951: Produce seller Rachel Crook is abducted and murdered
  • March 21, 1952: A Superior Court jury acquits the man tried for the murder of Rachel Crook
• Croslan, Donnella 1 entry, 1986
  • fall 1986: Black Women United forms at UNC
• Crouse, Roy 1 entry, 1956
  • August 22, 1956: Orange County farmers tour aromatic tobacco plots at Cedar Grove and Schley
• Crowder, J. F. 1 entry, 1926
  • by April 9, 1926: G. M. Pope sells his share of the Pope-Crowder Furniture Company to J. F. Crowder
• Crowder, John P. 1 entry, 1927
  • February 1927: Sam Berman moves his department store into the old Pope Mattress building
• Crowder, Matthew 1 entry, 1850
  • November Term 1850: The court cancels Matthew Crowder's indenture and gives him back to his mother
• Crowder, Patsy 1 entry, 1808
  • May to November 1808: Patsy Crowder attaches Joseph Brittain's property and wins her suit
• Crowell, G. L. 1 entry, 1930
  • March 10, 1930: A midget golf course opens on the lot behind the Chapel Hill post office
• Crowell, John F. 1 entry, 1893
  • May 18, 1893: Caldwell Institute holds its commencement, with an address by Trinity College president John F. Crowell
• Crowley, James H. 1 entry, 1942
  • September 12 to November 28, 1942: The Pre-Flight Cloudbusters finish their first football season at 8-2-1
• Crowther, Bill 1 entry, 1985
  • 1985: Richard Jenrette buys Ayr Mount
• Crudup, Josiah 1 entry, 1821
  • August 1821 (reported August 22, 1821): Josiah Crudup wins the Hillsborough district's seat in Congress
• Crumby, Charles Appa 1 entry, 1765
  • 1765: A deputy sheriff takes John McVay's deer skins for one levy
• Crutchfield, G. W. 1 entry, 1953
  • October 31-November 1, 1953: The Methodist conference sends new pastors to four Orange County charges
• Crutchfield, George 2 entries, 1894–1910
  • September 8, 1894: The Orange County People's Party nominates its county ticket
  • 1910-1912: The county board builds a new school for white children at Efland

  May be the same person as Crutchfield, George F.

• Crutchfield, George F. 1 entry, 1950
  • July 4, 1950: Efland teacher and farmer George F. Crutchfield dies at 82

  May be the same person as Crutchfield, George

• Crutchfield, James 1 entry, 1836
  • April 1, 1836: James Crutchfield advertises a five-cent reward for his runaway apprentice Green O'Daniel
• Crymble, Murray 1 entry, 1737
  • May 19, 1737: An order in Council grants Henry McCulloh's associates warrants for 1,200,000 acres along the Yadkin, Eno and Catawba
• Cude, E. F. 6 entries, 1944–1947
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  • by March 23, 1944: Aycock School's Fourth War Loan sales pay for a trainer plane
  • January 8-11, 1946: Muddy roads close Orange County schools after the holidays
  • spring 1946: Orange County's white high schools hold no graduation as the twelfth grade begins
  • February 21, 1946: Orange County school principals form the United Principals Association
  • by July 1947: A community cannery is set up at Aycock School
  • May 12, 1947: The county school board stands by Glenn T. Proffit after a petition for R. H. Claytor
• Culbertson, Anna E. 1 entry, 1825
  • February 1825: Spring women's meeting of Friends disowns Anna Culbertson
• Culbreth, Grey 14 entries, 1951–1963
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  • June 25, 1951: Chapel Hill names Mrs. O. David Garvin and Grey Culbreth to its school board
  • July 6, 1954: County commissioners cut the Chapel Hill school supplement from 20 to 12 cents
  • November 18, 1957: Commissioners authorize moving graves from the Estes Hills school tract
  • by July 17, 1958: County commissioners refuse the Chapel Hill school district a five-cent tax increase
  • by June 12, 1958: Chapel Hill accepts the county's terms for Carrboro and White Cross pupils at $30 tuition
  • June 8, 1959: About 150 Chapel Hill school supporters press the county commissioners for more school money
  • February 2, 1959: County commissioners name a citizens committee to study school finance
  • May 5, 1959: Chapel Hill district voters elect the Rev. J. R. Manley to the city school board
  • March 6, 1961: The Chapel Hill school board hires John D. Latimer and Associates to design a new junior high
  • September 26, 1961: Chapel Hill school board recommends a Pearsall Plan tuition grant
  • July 7, 1961: The Chapel Hill school board admits a Black eighth grader to the white junior high and fixes first-grade districts
  • August 5, 1963: The Chapel Hill school board starts toward selling its downtown high school to build a new one
  • December 9, 1963: The Chapel Hill school board orders its downtown school property put up for auction again
  • early November 1963: UNC trustees turn down the Chapel Hill school board's bid for a high school site on airport land
• Culbreth, Harold 1 entry, 1963
  • July 1963: O. E. Bivins builds the cabin at Hillsboro's new Girl Scout camp
• Culver, Fannie 1 entry, 1868
  • November 30, 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay counts about 330 day pupils in Orange County's freedmen's schools
• Cummings, William 1 entry, 1787
  • March 1, 1787: The court names four patrollers for the town of Hillsborough
• Cummins, George W. 3 entries, 1944–1945
  • June 6, 1944: The Pre-Flight School holds D-Day vespers in Emerson Stadium
  • April 14 or 15, 1945: More than 6,000 Navy men, students and townspeople mourn President Roosevelt in Kenan Stadium
  • May 8, 1945: The Pre-Flight School marks the German surrender with vesper services in Memorial Hall
• Cuni, Sera 1 entry, 2013
  • January 2013: Foster's Market in Chapel Hill passes to Sera Cuni and Susan White
• Cunninggim, Jesse A. 1 entry, 1861
  • October 6, 1861: Presiding elder William Barringer dedicates the new Methodist church in Hillsborough
• Cunninggim, W. H. 1 entry, 1889
  • March 8, 1889: Methodist trustees sell the old Rosemary Street church to the American Missionary Association
• Cunningham, Alex. 1 entry, 1863
  • March 5, 1863: Military Academy cadets take up a subscription for the Tew monument
• Cunningham, Bubba 8 entries, 2011–2025

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• Cureton, William 1 entry, 1960

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• Curl, David 1 entry, 1960
  • September 24, 1960: Young and Wilkins open the Better Homes and Gardens Idea Home on Christopher Road
• Currence, Benjamin A. 1 entry, 1978
  • by October 27, 1978: A legal aid lawyer challenges WUNC-FM over its lack of Black staff
• Currie, A. 3 entries, 1879–1884
  • April 23, 1879: Orange Presbytery holds its 318th session at Eno Church and approves the church order sent down by the General Assembly
  • January 14, 1884: The Rev. A. Currie opens a school at Caldwell Institute with 21 pupils
  • May 18, 1884: W. F. Wilhelm is installed pastor of the Hillsborough and Chapel Hill Presbyterian churches
• Currie, Archibald 3 entries, 1846–2008
  • 1846 to 1866: Archibald Currie begins a twenty-year pastorate at Eno
  • 1876: James L. Currie becomes pastor of Eno Presbyterian Church
  • October 16, 2008: Reviewers reject the Reverend Archibald Currie House
• Currie, Daniel J. 2 entries, 1894–1930
  • September 30, 1894: Daniel J. Currie is ordained and installed as pastor of the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church
  • August 24, 1930: New Hope Presbyterian Church holds a homecoming
• Currie, Ezekiel B. 3 entries, 1819–1843
  • 1819 to 1843: Ezekiel B. Currie takes charge of the Hawfields and Cross Roads churches
  • July 14, 1823: The Orange County Bible Society holds its first anniversary meeting
  • October 21, 1843, to June 15, 1873: Anderson G. Hughes, born near Eno, is installed pastor of Hawfields and Cross Roads
• Currie, James L. 34 entries, 1846–1889

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• Currie, W. P. M. 1 entry, 1891
  • February 19-20, 1891: A legislative committee inspects the university's buildings and grounds
• Curry, J. L. 1 entry, 1879
  • April 12, 1879: The Orange Sunday School Convention meets at New Hope Church and names a committee to write its constitution
• Curry, Michael B. 1 entry, 2003
  • September 19-21, 2003: Orange County Episcopalians celebrate 250 years of Anglican witness
• Curry, Miriam 1 entry, 1928
  • January 27, 1928: Chapel Hill girls organize a Girl Scout troop
• Curry, Renwick 1 entry, 1943
  • August 22-28, 1943: Tar Heel Boys' State delegates take a week of Pre-Flight training
• Curtain, Tyler 1 entry, 2005
  • March 3, 2005: Biologist Joan Roughgarden lectures on sexual diversity in nature in the Great Hall
• Curtin, Phyllis 1 entry, 1961
  • January 14, 1961: Everett Thomas sings in the chorus of UNC's La Traviata
• Curtis, Charles 2 entries, 1872–1873
  • 1872: Orange County names a three-man Board of Education and a panel of teacher examiners
  • March 5, 1873: The Board of Education divides the 1872 school fund among the townships by race

  May be the same person as Curtis, Charles J.; Curtis, Charles Jared

• Curtis, Charles J. 2 entries, 1879–1880
  • April 30 to May 2, 1879: The Episcopal Convocation of Raleigh meets at the Chapel of the Cross
  • July 24, 1880: Charles J. Curtis resigns as rector of St. Matthew's

  May be the same person as Curtis, Charles; Curtis, Charles Jared

• Curtis, Charles Jared 1 entry, 1872
  • August 7, 1872 to July 24, 1880: Charles Jared Curtis takes charge of St. Matthew's after his father's death

  May be the same person as Curtis, Charles; Curtis, Charles J.

• Curtis, Courtland 1 entry, 1930
  • 1930: Alpha Tau Omega builds a Tudor Gothic house on East Franklin Street
• Curtis, Don 1 entry, 1996
  • 1996: The Village Companies sells WCHL to Curtis Media Group
• Curtis, John 1 entry, 1865
  • March 25, 1865: Gen. Hardee's son is buried with military honors at Hillsborough

  May be the same person as Curtis, John Henry

• Curtis, John Henry 1 entry, 1878
  • Easter Day (April 21), 1878: St. Matthew's rings its new bell, a memorial to Confederate dead

  May be the same person as Curtis, John

• Curtis, Mary 2 entries, 1787–1878
  • August Term 1787: Thomas and Mary Curtis win support from John Breeze for Mary's child
  • Easter Day (April 21), 1878: St. Matthew's rings its new bell, a memorial to Confederate dead
• Curtis, Moses Ashley 14 entries, 1823–1880

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• Curtis, Nathaniel Cortlandt 1 entry, 1914

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• Curtis, Thomas 1 entry, 1787
  • August Term 1787: Thomas and Mary Curtis win support from John Breeze for Mary's child
• Curtiss, C. C. 1 entry, 1956
  • January 9, 1956: Federal roads bureau approves four-laning US 70 north of Hillsboro
• Cushman, Rebecca 1 entry, 1916
  • May 3, 1916: Orange County holds a county-wide school commencement at Hillsboro
• Cusick, Pat 12 entries, 1962–1965

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• Cutten, George 1 entry, 1946
  • January-February 1946: Orange County finishes its part of the Victory Clothing Collection
• Czajkowski, Matt 1 entry, 2009
  • November 3, 2009: Mark Kleinschmidt is elected mayor of Chapel Hill