Orange County Indexed

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

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Dabbs, A. P. 1 entry, 1944
- February 5, 1944: Piedmont Electric members hear Gregg Cherry at their annual meeting in Hillsboro
Dabbs, George 1 entry, 1955
- by September 29, 1955: Scouting in Orange County grows, with new Black troops and packs at three schools
Dabbs, James McBride 1 entry, 1959
- October 29, 1959: James McBride Dabbs speaks to the Chapel Hill Fellowship for School Integration
Dabney, Charles W., Jr. 1 entry, 1877
- 1877-1881: State experiment station opens at Chapel Hill
Dabney, Charles William 2 entries, 1880

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Daggett, P. H. 2 entries, 1919–1923
- March 15, 1919: A Chapel Hill committee opens the town canvass for the Graham Memorial fund
- February 12, 1923: Rural Orange schools open a composition contest on electricity and running water on the farm
Daily, Dallas T. 1 entry, 1954
- February 2, 1954: State development officials hold an industrial development workshop in Hillsborough
Daingerfield, Elliott 1 entry, 1931
- April 23 to May 3, 1931: The North Carolina Association of Professional Artists holds its first exhibition, in the music building
Dalton, Pleasant Hunter 4 entries, 1874–1886

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Dalzell, J. P. 1 entry, 1940
- by April 12, 1940: University law professors agree to staff the reopening law school of the North Carolina College for Negroes
Dameron, E. S. W. 1 entry, 1907
- May 1, 1907: The University Dramatic Club stages a student show
Daniel 1 entry, 1794
- February Term 1794: The court licenses three men enslaved by Richard Bennehan to carry guns
Daniel, Chesley 1 entry, 1804
- winter of 1804: Twelve-year-old William Hooper enters the university's preparatory school
Daniel, George 1 entry, 1793
- April 1793: Building commissioners contract with George Daniel for 350,000 bricks for the university
Daniel, George B. 1 entry, 1964
- January 24, 1964: The Hillsborough Historical Society presents Ladies in the Making, a history of the Nash and Kollock School
Daniel, Mrs. George B., Jr. 1 entry, 1966
- Spring 1966: Laurence E. Hensley is named supervising contractor for the Burwell School restoration
Daniel, J. R. J. 1 entry, 1834
- by January 7, 1834: The legislature elects J. R. J. Daniel, Hugh McQueen and William H. Battle trustees of the university
Daniel, John 3 entries, 1799–1885
- March 2, 1799 (February Term 1799): The court orders a road laid off from Franklin Street to the old Raleigh road
- May Term 1805: The court lets John Daniel build a public grist mill on Morgan's Creek
- by June 1885: A Memorial Hall tablet names the eleven donors of the university's land
Daniel, John R. J. 1 entry, 1843
- August 3, 1843: Orange County gives Whig Henry K. Nash a majority, but Democrat John R. J. Daniel wins the district
Daniel, Jonathan 1 entry, 1792
- December 5, 1792: Trustees fix the university at Chapel Hill and list its Orange County land donors
Daniel, Robert T. 1 entry, 1803
- 1803: Mount Carmel Baptist Church is organized
Daniel, Vance 1 entry, 1892
- about 1892: The Vance Daniel Farm is built
Daniels, Bain 1 entry, 1988
- July 1988: Mount Adar opens its building to Spanish-language services for migrant farmworkers
Daniels, Frank A. 1 entry, 1916
- by December 14, 1916: A court order stops Sheriff Bain's tax collecting in a fight with the new sheriff
Daniels, Gabrielle 1 entry, 2019
- November 2019: The Orange County Community Remembrance Coalition collects soil at the site of Manly McCauley's lynching
Daniels, Jonathan 1 entry, 1937

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Daniels, Josephus 18 entries, 1890–2020

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Dannel, John 1 entry, 1795
- May 27, 1795 to February Term 1798: The county court proves a run of deeds to and from the University's trustees
Dansby, David 1 entry, 1963
- April 1963: NAACP chapter pickets North Carolina Memorial Hospital over segregated rooms and wards
Danziger, Edward 1 entry, 1972
- 1972: Restaurateur Edward "Papa D" Danziger is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
Danziger, Edward G. 5 entries, 1939–1972

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Danziger, Ted 3 entries, 1948–1963
- 1948: Ted Danziger names the passage to his Rathskeller Amber Alley
- January 1960: Ted Danziger opens the Zoom-Zoom, a carryout restaurant on West Franklin Street
- August 22, 1963: Fire breaks out in the Rathskeller and spreads through its East Franklin Street building
Danziger, Theodore 1 entry, 1948
- 1948: Ted Danziger opens the Rathskeller in the basement of his father's candy shop
Darden, Thomas H. 1 entry, 1954
- 1954: A Modernist split-level with a butterfly roof is built on Fern Lane for Thomas H. Darden
Darity, Evangeline 1 entry, 1961
- November 27, 1961: The Varsity Theatre agrees to admit Black university students
Dark, Harold W. 1 entry, 1957
- May 6, 1957: Carrboro reelects Mayor R. B. Todd over Grover C. Brookbank
Darnall, H. T. 1 entry, 1884
- May 18, 1884: W. F. Wilhelm is installed pastor of the Hillsborough and Chapel Hill Presbyterian churches
Daugherty, John 1 entry, 1884
- 1884: Carpenter John Daugherty finishes Memorial Hall after architect Samuel Sloan dies
Daughtry, E. L. 1 entry, 1919
- June 1919: The university's School of Education publishes a study of the Orange County public schools
Daves, I. A. 2 entries, 1936–1940
- by October 9, 1936: A state dental surgeon begins treating children in Orange County's 29 Black schools
- by November 8, 1940: A state dentist finishes a seven-week dental program in Orange County's Black schools
Davey, Ashbourn 1 entry, 1820
- by May 17, 1820: A new seminary opens on Jane Burrough's land in Orange County under Ashbourn Davey
David 1 entry, 1804
- 1804: Suit by William Kirkland and others leads to the sale of Hannah and her children
David 1 entry, 1809
- November Term 1809: The court lets four enslaved men on the Bennehan and Cameron lands carry guns
Davidson, C. 1 entry, 1892
- July 3, 1892: Mount Adar Baptist Church dedicates its first building
Davie, Allen J. 2 entries, 1834–1837
- July 4, 1834: Hillsborough celebrates the Fourth of July with an oration and a dinner at the Masonic Hall
- by November 3, 1837: Allen J. Davie imports English blooded stock and cattle
Davie, Hyder Ally 2 entries, 1804
- July 1804: A quarrel at the 1804 commencement ball ends in a stabbing and a trial before the trustees
- July 4, 1804 (as Hooper recalled it): William Hooper recalls student 'General' Thomas Brown's Fourth of July parade in 1804
Davie, Preston 1 entry, 1925
- 1925: Preston Davie starts the Governor William Richardson Davie Carolina Collection at the University library
Davie, William Richardson 25 entries, 1782–1925

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Davies, F. A. 1 entry, 1855
- after 1855: Chapel Hill merchants, John W. Carr among them, agree not to sell to minor students on credit
Davies, Franklin 1 entry, 1880
- by May 29, 1880: Franklin Davies and H. H. Patterson form Franklin Davies & Company
Davies, W. A. 2 entries, 1905–1951
- by September 28, 1905: Three rural free delivery routes run out of Hillsborough
- September 2, 1951: Former Elm Grove School pupils hold their first reunion and form an association
Davis, A. R. 3 entries, 1924
- 1924-1925: A new consolidated school for white children is built at Efland
- 1924-1925: A new consolidated school is built at Orange Grove
- 1924-1925: A new consolidated school is built at White Cross on the Saxapahaw road
Davis, Alexander Jackson 13 entries, 1830–1856

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Davis, Alfonso 1 entry, 1878
- October 16, 1878: Orange Superior Court convicts three men of the Hendon burglary and sentences them to hang
Davis, Angela 3 entries, 1974–1997
- November 1974: Angela Davis speaks in Memorial Hall
- early September 1976: Angela Davis comes to Chapel Hill to rally support for a Labor Day march
- November 17, 1997: Angela Davis gives the fourth annual Sonja Haynes Stone Memorial Lecture
Davis, Archie 7 entries, 1935–1963
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Davis, Archie Royal 66 entries, 1921–1975

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Davis, B. W. 1 entry, 1937
- January 1937: The Chapel Hill Scout district organizes for 1937 with three troops, one of them Black
Davis, Bonnie 1 entry, 1951
- May 1951: Orange County's seventeen home demonstration clubs count 443 members
Davis, Bonnie B. 13 entries, 1950–2021

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Davis, Butch 1 entry, 2010
- 2010: UNC discloses possible academic misconduct in its football program
Davis, C. L. 1 entry, 1888
- March 4, 1888: Bud of Hope Lodge of Black Odd Fellows marks its second anniversary with a procession
May be the same person as Davis, Charles L.
Davis, C. W. 16 entries, 1946–1964
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May be the same person as Davis, Charles W.
Davis, Carl 2 entries, 1945–1955
- November 8, 1945: The Orange County Red Cross chapter elects Rev. R. C. Masterton chairman
- week of November 28, 1955: Orange County commissioners decide the county does not need a county manager
May be the same person as Davis, Carl C.
Davis, Carl C. 3 entries, 1936–1959
- 1936: The sheriff stops serving as the county's tax collector
- March 2, 1959: Tax collector Carl C. Davis resigns to become manager of the county ABC system
- March 16, 1959: Commissioners name Hortense Copeland Dickson tax collector and create a property appraiser post
May be the same person as Davis, Carl
Davis, Charles 1 entry, 1880
- about 1880: The Charles Davis Farm is built
Davis, Charles L. 1 entry, 1957
- November 25, 1957: Black farm families hold the Blue Ribbon Farm Program's annual meeting at Cedar Grove School
May be the same person as Davis, C. L.
Davis, Charles W. 2 entries, 1945–1953
- by March 8, 1945: The school board names Charles W. Davis of Roanoke Rapids superintendent
- November 24, 1953: The two school superintendents lay $2.4 million in building needs before the commissioners
May be the same person as Davis, C. W.
Davis, Charlie 1 entry, 1952
- February 22, 1952: Chapel Hill holds an open house in its new high school building
Davis, Debra 1 entry, 2003
- 2003: The GLBT-SA holds the first Unity Conference
Davis, Mrs. Douglas 4 entries, 1948–1952
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Davis, Dowd 1 entry, 1974
- 1974: Antioch Baptist Church opens a new sanctuary
Davis, E. H. 2 entries, 1889–1890
- April 1889 to February 1891: Seven Black members are moved from the Methodist roll to the new Congregational church, then restored
- December 15, 1890: The Methodist conference sends J. E. Bristowe to the Hillsborough Circuit
Davis, Elizabeth Rhodes 1 entry, 1839
- May Term 1839: The court binds Sally Davis's four children to their mother after her husband deserts the family
Davis, Elsie 1 entry, 1969
- February 23 – March 21, 1969: UNC food workers' strike
Davis, Ervin 1 entry, 1947
- September 1947: James and Ervin Davis open the Barrel Lick
Davis, Erwin 1 entry, 1947
- April 28, 1947: Black World War II veterans form Hillsboro's first organization for Black ex-servicemen
Davis, G. E. 1 entry, 1925
- April 9, 1925: Orange County's Black schools hold their county commencement at the Orange County Training School
Davis, G. Obie 3 entries, 1941–1953
- May 6, 1941: Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor John M. Foushee and elects Fitch, Bowman, and Davis aldermen
- May 8, 1951: Chapel Hill elects William S. Stewart judge as Fred Edwards runs for alderman
- February 9, 1953: Chapel Hill aldermen ask for a new, smaller perimeter zoning act
Davis, George 1 entry, 1932
- December 8, 1932: A gravel-pit cave-in on the Durham road kills a Black relief worker
May be the same person as Davis, George W.
Davis, George W. 2 entries, 1954–1961
- September 11, 1954: Rev. George W. Davis of Durham becomes pastor of Jones Grove
- June 11, 1961: Jones Grove dedicates a concrete-block church built by its own members
May be the same person as Davis, George
Davis, Grady 1 entry, 1972
- February 8-10, 1972: The BSM holds its first Black History Week
Davis, Harry 4 entries, 1933–1941
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May be the same person as Davis, Harry E.
Davis, Harry E. 2 entries, 1932–1959
- April 12, 1932: Harry Davis organizes the Junior Carolina Playmakers, a children's theatre
- 1959: Samuel Selden leaves the Playmakers and Harry E. Davis takes over the Department of Dramatic Art
May be the same person as Davis, Harry
Davis, Henry A. 1 entry, 1879
- April 11, 1879: Judge Buxton resentences the three Chapel Hill burglars to hang after the Supreme Court upholds their conviction
Davis, Herbert 1 entry, 1980
- reported September 1980: Only four of UNC's Black freshmen come from Orange County
Davis, J. B. 1 entry, 1921
- 1921: Toney and William Strayhorn begin Carrboro Baptist's brick church
Davis, J. J. 1 entry, 1874
- April 8, 1874: University trustees declare the presidency vacant and order legal action against Solomon Pool
Davis, Jackson 1 entry, 1917
- by November 29, 1917: State and General Education Board agents visit R. E. Malone's school for Black pupils at Chapel Hill
Davis, James 2 entries, 1775

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Davis, James 3 entries, 1801–1947

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- February 7, 1801: William D. Paisley buys the farm where the Paisley-Rice log house stands
- September 1854: Joseph Brockwell's murder case is moved to Chatham and ends in a manslaughter verdict
- September 1947: James and Ervin Davis open the Barrel Lick
Davis, Jefferson 5 entries, 1863–1866
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Davis, Joseph J. 1 entry, 1878
- November 5, 1878: Orange votes for Joseph J. Davis over Josiah Turner for Congress
Davis, Julia C. 2 entries, 1944–1947
- February 24, 1944: Orange County FSA honors 15 Black farm ownership borrowers
- February 6, 1947: Nine Black farm families report their federal farm-purchase loans paid in full
Davis, Lambert 1 entry, 1948
- 1948 (reported January 1949): Lambert Davis is named director of the University of North Carolina Press
Davis, Mary 1 entry, 1839
- May Term 1839: The court binds Sally Davis's four children to their mother after her husband deserts the family
Davis, Melinda Ellenor 1 entry, 1839
- May Term 1839: The court binds Sally Davis's four children to their mother after her husband deserts the family
Davis, Rev. Mr. 1 entry, 1891
- by January 12, 1891: A new pastor, Mr. Davis, takes charge of the Chapel Hill Methodist church
Davis, Nate 4 entries, 1962–2022

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Davis, Obie 6 entries, 1941–1948
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Davis, Ora Mae 2 entries, 1931–1935
- 1931: Ora Mae Davis builds the Playmakers' costume department
- May 25 and 27, 1935: The Carolina Playmakers stage Hamlet in the Forest Theatre, with Frederick Koch as Hamlet
Davis, Oroondates 1 entry, 1780
- September–November 1780: Board of War, led by Alexander Martin, directs the war effort from Hillsborough
Davis, Ossie 1 entry, 1978
- March 15, 1978: Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee appear in Memorial Hall
Davis, Pleasant Rhodes 2 entries, 1839–1848
- May Term 1839: The court binds Sally Davis's four children to their mother after her husband deserts the family
- August Term 1848: The court hears a charge that Kendal B. Wait ill-used his apprentice Pleasant Davis and clears him
Davis, Q. C. 1 entry, 1916
- October 3-4, 1916: The Mount Zion Baptist Association holds its annual meeting at the Carrboro Baptist church
Davis, R. O. E. 1 entry, 1907
- June 1, 1907: Masons lay the cornerstone of the Carnegie library
Davis, R. P. Stephen, Jr. 1 entry, 1983
- 1983–1986: The Fredricks site is found and excavated and Occaneechi Town is located
Davis, Robert 3 entries, 1818–1890
- 1818: St. Jude's Church on Stony Creek is admitted to the Episcopal diocesan convention
- September 28, 1877: Hickory Grove Baptist Church is organized
- November 8, 1890: The Colored Farmers' Alliance calls meetings at Chapel Hill and Hillsborough for its state lecturer
Davis, Roling 1 entry, 1839
- May Term 1839: The court binds Sally Davis's four children to their mother after her husband deserts the family
Davis, Sally 1 entry, 1839
- May Term 1839: The court binds Sally Davis's four children to their mother after her husband deserts the family
Davis, Simon 1 entry, 1818
- November Term 1818: The court takes Elizabeth Revill, a free girl of color, from Simon Davis
Davis, Susan C. 1 entry, 1880
- early February 1880: Susan C. Davis, whose house was long Chapel Hill's Methodist meeting place, dies
Davis, T. J. 1 entry, 1945
- late May 1945: The Terrace View supper club opens on the Greensboro road west of Chapel Hill
Davis, Tarleton 1 entry, 1965
- July 15, 1965: The board names the first principals of Stanford Junior High and Central Elementary
Davis, Thadious 1 entry, 1981
- early April 1981: A conference on Black scholarship honors Blyden Jackson, UNC's first Black full professor
May be the same person as Davis, Thadious M.
Davis, Thadious M. 1 entry, 1986
- September 25, 1986: Jill McCorkle reads To Kill a Mockingbird at a Banned Books Week protest in the Pit
May be the same person as Davis, Thadious
Davis, Thomas 3 entries, 1782–1915
- May 18, 1782: The Assembly names Thomas Davis state printer and tells him to set up his press at Hillsborough
- 1785 or early 1786: The North Carolina Gazette begins publication at Hillsborough
- January 21, 1915: An old fiddlers' convention is held at the Colonial Theatre in Carrboro
Davis, Thomas C. 1 entry, 1850
- August Term 1850: The court has Chapel Hill children of color brought in and binds Jack Evans to John Turner
Davis, Tom 3 entries, 1952–1963
- October 1, 1952: The News of Orange County reports its owners and a paid circulation of 2,545
- July 23, 1963: A petition with 1,080 signatures for a public accommodations law goes to the Chapel Hill aldermen
- July 12, 1963: A Committee for Open Business mass meeting authorizes nonviolent direct action
Davis, Walter Royal 2 entries, 1972–1984

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Dawson, Joe Buck 1 entry, 1946
- April 9, 1946: Colonial Ice Company buys a Carrboro site for an ice plant
Dawson, M. J. 1 entry, 1939
- by July 14, 1939: The old firehouse and jail in the middle of Columbia Street is torn down
May be the same person as Dawson, Marvin J.
Dawson, Marvin J. 2 entries, 1915–1939
- between 1915 and 1925: Durham Hosiery Mills builds a house on West Main Street for its Carrboro superintendent
- 1939: Durham Hosiery Mills sells its Carrboro houses and land at auction
May be the same person as Dawson, M. J.
Day 1 entry, 1873
- late October 1873: The Blackwell v. Wright trademark case is moved from Orange to Alamance
Day, Adeline 1 entry, 1845
- 1845 to 1861: The county court binds more free children of the Day family to Harrison Parker
Day, Adolphus 1 entry, 1847
- February Term 1847: The court has Harrison Parker give the bonds it failed to take when it bound two free children of color in 1843
Day, Caroline 1 entry, 1847
- February Term 1847: The court has Harrison Parker give the bonds it failed to take when it bound two free children of color in 1843
Day, Charles 1 entry, 1856
- November Term 1856: The court binds Charles Day, a free boy of color, to Dr. B. L. Durham
Day, Edward 2 entries, 1940
- by November 22, 1940: Nine volunteers fill Orange County's draft quota for 1940
- December 10-13, 1940: Orange County sends three volunteers to Fort Bragg under the new draft
Day, Fanny 1 entry, 1850
- February Term 1850: The court cancels Thomas Day's indenture and lets him return to his mother, a free woman of color
Day, Henry 1 entry, 1845
- 1845 to 1861: The county court binds more free children of the Day family to Harrison Parker
Day, J. R. 2 entries, 1870–1878
- about 1870: Julian S. Carr buys a third of Blackwell and Day's tobacco business at Durham
- May 6, 1878: Durham elects D. C. Parrish mayor and a new board of commissioners
May be the same person as Day, James R.
Day, James R. 1 entry, 1880
- by January 10, 1880: Durham tobacco manufacturer James R. Day fails
May be the same person as Day, J. R.
Day, Jane 1 entry, 1845
- 1845 to 1861: The county court binds more free children of the Day family to Harrison Parker
Day, John 2 entries, 1845–1864
- 1845 to 1861: The county court binds more free children of the Day family to Harrison Parker
- November Term 1864: The court orders Harrison Parker's executors to produce Nancy and John Day, free children of color
Day, Mary 1 entry, 1845
- 1845 to 1861: The county court binds more free children of the Day family to Harrison Parker
Day, Nancy 3 entries, 1845–1865
- 1845 to 1861: The county court binds more free children of the Day family to Harrison Parker
- November Term 1864: The court orders Harrison Parker's executors to produce Nancy and John Day, free children of color
- February Term 1865: The court binds Nancy Day, twelve, a girl of color, to John W. Roberts
Day, Nathan 1 entry, 1845
- 1845 to 1861: The county court binds more free children of the Day family to Harrison Parker
Day, Reuben 1 entry, 1822
- August 28, 1822: Reuben Day advertises his apprentice James Wells, a youth of color, as a runaway
Day, Roan 1 entry, 1845
- 1845 to 1861: The county court binds more free children of the Day family to Harrison Parker
Day, T. A. 1 entry, 1879
- January 1, 1879: The Durham Light Infantry gives a New Year's ball at Duke's Hall
Day, Thomas 5 entries, 1821–2005

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Day, Thomas 1 entry, 1824

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Day, Thomas 1 entry, 1850

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- February Term 1850: The court cancels Thomas Day's indenture and lets him return to his mother, a free woman of color
Day, Vicey 1 entry, 1841
- February Term 1841: The court binds Washington and William Day, boys of color, to two masters
Day, Washington 2 entries, 1841–1866
- February Term 1841: The court binds Washington and William Day, boys of color, to two masters
- November 1866 (court term): A jury finds Washington Day, a freedman, not the father of Betsy Payne's child
Day, Wesley 1 entry, 1911
- September 3, 1911: A prisoner cuts through the south wall of the county jail and escapes
Day, William 4 entries, 1840–1845
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Day, Willie 1 entry, 1952
- August 21, 1952: Farmers Home Administration pushes livestock to raise tenant incomes near Cedar Grove
Daye, Charles 2 entries, 1886–1973
- January 28, 1886: Dickerson's Chapel trustees buy the old courthouse from the Philadelphia Friends
- February 10, 1973: The law school's Student Bar Association holds a minority law day
Daye, Charles E. 5 entries, 1972–2020

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Daye, Daniel 1 entry, 1880
- about 1880: Glenn's Grove Baptist Church is organized
Daye, Franklin W. 1 entry, 1886
- January 28, 1886: Dickerson's Chapel trustees buy the old courthouse from the Philadelphia Friends
de Gaulle, Philippe 1 entry, 1945
- July 9 to August 6, 1945: Philippe de Gaulle, son of General de Gaulle, trains at the Pre-Flight School with 29 other French naval officers
de Kalb, Johann 1 entry, 1780
- June 20, 1780: Baron de Kalb halts at Hillsborough with 2,000 Continental troops
de Kauffmann, Henrik 1 entry, 1943
- April 27, 1943: Danish minister Henrik de Kauffmann inspects the Pre-Flight School
De Lacey, Phillipe 1 entry, 1943
- March 1943: A March of Time crew films the Pre-Flight School's training
De Rosset, Lewis Henry 1 entry, 1768
- September 20, 1768: At the Hillsborough camp, Robert Palmer is named one of six lieutenants general
de Schweinitz, Emile Alexander 1 entry, 1885
- June 4, 1885: Emile Alexander de Schweinitz is awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree
Deal, William S. 1 entry, 1949
- March 3, 1949: The Pilgrim Holiness Church in West Hillsborough announces its first service in a new building
Dean, H. B. 1 entry, 1957
- December 1957: The Post Office Department approves Fred Cates's Churton Street building for Hillsborough's post office
Dean, Phillip Hayes 1 entry, 1974
- October 31-November 10, 1974: The Carolina Playmakers stage their first play with an all-Black cast
Deardeuff, Leslie W. 1 entry, 1945
- March 1, 1945: The Marine detachment that taught Pre-Flight cadets small arms is disbanded
Dearmin, Seth 2 entries, 2005
- February 1, 2005: The GLBT-SA questions student body president candidates at its forum in Murphey Hall
- March 1, 2005: About 500 people hold a vigil and speak-out and march to Top of the Hill after a Franklin Street attack
Deaton, T. Paul 2 entries, 1948–1950
- May 27, 1948: Hillsboro stores and county offices close for the funeral of the Bivins brothers, returned war dead
- October 1, 1950: The Rev. T. Paul Deaton resigns as pastor of Hillsboro's First Baptist Church
DeBow, John 4 entries, 1753–1783

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Debow, Solomon 1 entry, 1814
- 1814: George Allen Jr. and Solomon Debow deed seven acres to Hawfields Church
Decker, J. S. T. 1 entry, 1958
- February 9, 1958: A. L. Stanback receives the Silver Beaver for his scouting work
Decker, Ralph 1 entry, 1945
- September 3-8, 1945: The American Legion stages a week-long fair on Chapel Hill's Airport Road
Dee, Ruby 1 entry, 1978
- March 15, 1978: Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee appear in Memorial Hall
Deems, Charles F. 8 entries, 1840–1879

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Deems, Theodore Disosway 1 entry, 1879
- December 20, 1879: Charles F. Deems starts the Deems Fund for student loans
Deer, Carl Standing 1 entry, 1935
- April 25 to 28, 1935: Chapel Hill holds its third Dogwood Festival, with a Cherokee ball game on Emerson Field
Dees, Morris 1 entry, 2001
- January 16, 2001: Morris Dees speaks in Memorial Hall during UNC's King celebration
DeFrantz, Thomas 1 entry, 2019
- February 26, 2019: Hillsborough holds a celebration of Billy Strayhorn
Delily, Ruth 1 entry, 1808
- November 1808: On a grand jury presentment, the court orders orphans and children of single mothers brought in to be bound out
Dellums, Ron 1 entry, 1974
- April 10, 1974: Congressman Ron Dellums speaks at the third Black Arts Cultural Festival
DeLon, Arthur 1 entry, 1949
- July 1, 1949: Hillsboro's high school for Black students opens a vocational agriculture department
DeLon, Luther 2 entries, 1955
- by May 5, 1955: The Central School PTA starts a Cub Scout pack for Black boys in Hillsboro
- May 1955: Roosevelt Warner is named to the advisory committee of Hillsboro's Central school
DeMaine, Robert B. 1 entry, 1969
- November 1969: The Research Triangle Regional Planning Commission issues Development Alternatives for Chapel Hill
Demerath, N. J. 1 entry, 1955
- June 7, 1955: Chapel Hill's Citizens' Committee for Better Schools asks for a 20-cent school supplement tax
D'Emilio, John 1 entry, 1983
- fall 1983: Historian John D'Emilio speaks at UNC to nearly 200 people at a Carolina Gay Association program
Dempsey, Jack 1 entry, 1942
- September 1942: Jack Dempsey spends four days at the Pre-Flight School
Denholm, John S. 1 entry, 1939
- February 27 to March 1, 1939: A tuberculosis clinic tests 636 Chapel Hill schoolchildren
Denman, Susan 1 entry, 2010
- 2010: El Centro Hispano opens a Carrboro office
Denny, Emery 1 entry, 1961
- May 18, 1961: The Orange Industrial Development Corporation opens its stock drive with a rally at Carrboro School
Denny, Emery B., Jr. 2 entries, 1954–1955
- by August 12, 1954: Suburban residents circulate petitions for a Greater Chapel Hill Fire District
- February 28 to March 3, 1955: Orange County begins suing over taxes five or more years overdue
Denny, Emery V., Jr. 1 entry, 1963
- April 1, 1963: The county commissioners name W. Marshall Smith judge of the Orange County Recorder's Court
Denny, Emory B., Jr. 2 entries, 1954
- December 6, 1954: The county's new five-member board of commissioners takes office and elects R. J. M. Hobbs chairman
- by May 6, 1954: The Ogburn Furniture Company of Chapel Hill goes into receivership
Denny, George V. 3 entries, 1924–1943
- 1924: George V. Denny becomes the Playmakers' first staff member
- by April 9, 1926: The Reviewer magazine leaves Chapel Hill for Dallas
- April 8, 1943: Institute of Human Relations opens with a Town Meeting of the Air broadcast from Memorial Hall
Denny, George V., Jr. 1 entry, 1939
- March 30, 1939: America's Town Meeting of the Air broadcasts from Memorial Hall as the Institute of Human Relations opens
Denoyer, Pierre 1 entry, 1945
- February 4, 1945: Seven French journalists, among them Jean-Paul Sartre, visit the Pre-Flight School and its French cadets
Derby, Chris 1 entry, 1993
- March 8, 1993: Carolina Dining Services adds sexual orientation to its nondiscrimination policy
DeRosset, Armand J. 2 entries, 1862–1889
- 1862: Dr. Armand J. DeRosset of Wilmington buys a West Franklin house as a wartime refuge
- June 5, 1889: The university celebrates the centennial of its charter
DeRosset, Mrs. William L. 1 entry, 1885
- Easter (April 5), 1885: Mrs. William L. DeRosset and others give St. Matthew's a Bible
DesJardins, Bob 1 entry, 1970
- July 18, 1970: Binkley votes to join the new American Baptist Churches of the South
DeSombre, Karen 1 entry, 2018
- 2018: Burwell School Historic Site marks the bicentennial of Elizabeth Keckly
Dessen, Sarah 1 entry, 1968
- 1968–2009: Daphne Athas teaches creative writing at UNC
Devane, Thomas 1 entry, 1788
- July 25, 1788: The convention rules that Fayetteville has no right to a delegate and seats Thomas Devane for New Hanover
Devereux, Fanny 1 entry, 1803
- November 26, 1803: Women of New Bern give the university a quadrant
Devereux, Frances 1 entry, 1844

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Devin, W. A. 4 entries, 1928–1932
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Devin, William A. 2 entries, 1941–1953
- June 10, 1941: The University gives Louis Graves an honorary degree
- October 7, 1953: Masons lay the cornerstone of the new Orange County courthouse at the county bicentennial
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Devinney, Samuel 3 entries, 1768–1771

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DeVitto, John 1 entry, 1992
- July 9, 1992: Orange County jury finds three former UNC officials discriminated against police officer Keith Edwards
Dewey, Charles 1 entry, 1874
- June 1874: Federal court rules the campus cannot be sold for the bank debt
DeWitt, Bryce 1 entry, 1958
- 1958 to 1959: George Matsumoto draws plans for a Chapel Hill house for Cecile and Bryce DeWitt
DeWitt, Cecile 1 entry, 1958
- 1958 to 1959: George Matsumoto draws plans for a Chapel Hill house for Cecile and Bryce DeWitt
Dey, Mrs. W. M. 1 entry, 1929
- late October 1929: The Chapel Hill Red Cross chapter plans its roll call and public health work
May be the same person as Dey, Mrs. William M.
Dey, Mrs. William M. 1 entry, 1925
- March to May 1925: Clubwomen and Boy Scouts clear advertising signs from the Chapel Hill-Durham road
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Dey, William Morton 3 entries, 1875–1940

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Dezarn, John 1 entry, 1850
- November Term 1850: The court cancels Matthew Crowder's indenture and gives him back to his mother
Dibbert, Debbie 1 entry, 1989
- February 13, 1989: Downtown Commission asks for a special tax district for downtown Chapel Hill and Carrboro
Dick 1 entry, 1841
- April 16, 1841: Dick is executed for the killing of John Tapp and his son
Dick 1 entry, 1844
- March 1844 term: Superior Court sentences Green and Dick, two enslaved men, to hang
Dick 1 entry, 1844
- April 26, 1844: Green and Dick, enslaved men, are hanged
Dick, Judge 1 entry, 1890
- April 7, 1890: Federal judge Dick discharges the revenue officers who killed Henry McMannen
Dick, Samuel 1 entry, 1798
- August 31, 1798: The court sentences Bob, an enslaved man, to whipping, mutilation and branding
Dickens, Alexander 1 entry, 1873
- March 7, 1873: John T. Hogan is chosen school committeeman for Hillsborough Township
Dickens, Roy S. 1 entry, 1983

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Dickens, Roy S., Jr. 1 entry, 1983
- 1983–1986: The Fredricks site is found and excavated and Occaneechi Town is located
Dickens, Samuel 2 entries, 1833–1835
- November 21, 1833: The university treasurer reports the trustees nearly clear of bank debt
- March to November 1835: Trustees sell off the university's Tennessee lands
Dickey, C. H. 1 entry, 1925
- by August 7, 1925: Safety Coach Line buys out every bus and car service between Chapel Hill and Durham
Dickey, James 1 entry, 1753
- December 1753: Justices recommend John Gray for sheriff
Dickey, Joseph 1 entry, 1816
- May 1816 (court term): A jury finds Joseph Dickey to be the father of Mary Elliott's child
Dickinson, George H. 2 entries, 1935–1940
- from November 29, 1935: Chapel Hill plants 300 willow oaks along its streets
- June 30, 1940: Forest fire burns about 56 acres near Laurel Hill south of Chapel Hill
Dickinson, Melody 1 entry, 1964
- March 29, 1964: The Holy Week fast ends on Easter Sunday and the Rev. LaVert Taylor is hospitalized
Dickinson, Todd 1 entry, 1985
- 1985: Richard Jenrette buys Ayr Mount
May be the same person as Dickinson, Todd W.
Dickinson, Todd W. 1 entry, 1999
- August 1999: A county survey proposes a St. Mary's Road rural historic district
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Dickson, Alexander 7 entries, 1839–1983

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Dickson, Alexander 1 entry, 1983

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- 1983: The Alexander Dickson House is moved into Hillsborough to East King Street
Dickson, E. A. 3 entries, 1900–1903
- June 2, 1900: Orange Democrats nominate Samuel M. Gattis and the 1900 county ticket
- August 16, 1902: Orange Democrats name their 1902 county ticket
- by March 26, 1903: Orange County receives $1,315 in state aid to keep its schools open four months
May be the same person as Dickson, Ed. A.
Dickson, Ed. A. 2 entries, 1898–1903
- by September 29, 1898: Orange Democrats name their 1898 county ticket with S. M. Gattis for the House
- September 7-9, 1903: M. A. McCauley resigns as county treasurer and Ed. A. Dickson is elected
May be the same person as Dickson, E. A.
Dickson, Henry 1 entry, 1862
- March 8, 1862: The Orange Light Artillery organizes at Hillsborough under Capt. William Cameron
Dickson, Hortense Copeland 1 entry, 1959
- March 16, 1959: Commissioners name Hortense Copeland Dickson tax collector and create a property appraiser post
Dickson, J. W. 1 entry, 1955
- May 3, 1955: Hillsboro re-elects Mayor Ben Johnston to a twelfth term
May be the same person as Dickson, John W.
Dickson, John W. 3 entries, 1955–1960
- August 23, 1955: Hillsboro bars anyone under 18 from its poolrooms
- May 7, 1957: Hillsboro reelects Mayor Ben Johnston and seats John P. Ballard on the town board
- October 1960: The Dickson house near Hillsborough is left empty when its last tenant moves out
May be the same person as Dickson, J. W.
Dickson, Josias 1 entry, 1755
- Spring 1755: Mark Morgan fails to qualify for his captaincy at the Orange regiment's general muster
Dickson, Paul, III 16 entries, 1965–1968

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Dickson, Robert 1 entry, 2011
- October 12, 2011: Speaker Ban marker dedicated at the McCorkle Place wall
Dickson, S. 1 entry, 1863
- October 14, 1863: The Orange Guards lose seven killed at Bristoe Station
Dickson, Thomas 1 entry, 1862
- March 8, 1862: The Orange Light Artillery organizes at Hillsborough under Capt. William Cameron
May be the same person as Dickson, Thomas H.
Dickson, Thomas H. 1 entry, 1905
- May 8, 1905: Hillsborough's town board elects George A. Durham treasurer
May be the same person as Dickson, Thomas
Dickson, W. J. 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
Dickson, William 1 entry, 1896
- early December 1896: Orange electors seek two more county commissioners from the minority party
Dieckhoff, Hans 1 entry, 1938
- February 16, 1938: German ambassador Hans Dieckhoff speaks in Memorial Hall
Dietrich, Robert L. 1 entry, 1969
- August 1969: Fiber Industries withdraws its New Hope Creek rezoning request; commissioners chairman Carl Smith blames opponents
Diggs, D. Lester 1 entry, 1975
- mid-September 1975: More than 200 Black students march on South Building over frozen BSM funds
Diggs, Edward O. 2 entries, 1951–1955
- April 24, 1951: UNC admits Edward O. Diggs, its first Black medical student
- 1955: Edward O. Diggs becomes UNC's first Black medical graduate
Dike, James 1 entry, 1879
- by March 1, 1879: James Dike opens a bookstore in Durham
Dillard, Annie 5 entries, 1975–2015

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Dillard, John H. 1 entry, 1879
- June 5, 1879: The university gives honorary doctorates of laws to Samuel F. Phillips and Justices Ashe and Dillard
Dixon, A. C. 5 entries, 1876–1880

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Dixon, Anna 1 entry, 1956
- November 17, 1956: Cone Mills honors Anna Dixon for fifty years at the Eno plant
Dixon, B. F. 1 entry, 1906
- July 16, 1906: The county teachers' institute opens at Hillsboro
Dixon, David 1 entry, 1847
- by February 22, 1847: David Dixon and his brothers form a firm to build threshing machines at Snow Camp
Dixon, Ella Boone 1 entry, 1938
- March 4, 1938: Chapel Hill rededicates its Daniel Boone Trail marker opposite the post office
Dixon, George 3 entries, 1866–1868

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Dixon, Josiah 2 entries, 1754–1755
- 1754: The county court names trustees for Corbin Town
- 1755: Alexander Mebane, Josiah Dixon and William Churton lay out Hillsborough's first prison
Dixon, Polley 1 entry, 1801
- February 1801 (court term): The court orders Bolling Jolley to pay support for Polly Dixon's child to her and her new husband
Dixon, Price 1 entry, 1953
- March 9, 1953: The Caldwell community lets the contract for its community house
Dixon, William Henry 1 entry, 1955
- November 19, 1955: Cone Mills holds its first service-award dinner for Eno plant workers
Doar, Harriet 1 entry, 1951
- 1951: The Unitarian Fellowship of Chapel Hill is organized
Dobbins, J. T. 7 entries, 1933–1961
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Dobbins, Preston 6 entries, 1967–1969

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Dobbins, Wilson 1 entry, 1936
- by November 6, 1936: June Fisher opens a riding academy on the William McCauley farm
Dobbs, Arthur 5 entries, 1737–1763

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Dobson, Ervin G. 4 entries, 1971–1976
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Doby, Walter F. 1 entry, 1929
- August 14, 1929: The university opens a ten-day police school for officers from North Carolina and beyond
Dockery, Alfred 1 entry, 1854
- August 3, 1854: Orange elects William A. Graham to the state Senate and Phillips and Turner to the Commons
Dockery, Claudius 1 entry, 1887
- 1887-1888: Stephen B. Weeks teaches as the university's instructor in English
Dockery, Oliver H. 1 entry, 1888
- September 4, 1888: Fowle and Dockery debate the governor's race at Hillsborough
Dodd, William E. 1 entry, 1937
- September 27, 1937: Ambassador William E. Dodd speaks on democracy in Memorial Hall
Dodds, Harold W. 1 entry, 1943
- October 12, 1943: UNC marks 150 years since the Old East cornerstone was laid
Dodson, A. J. 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
Dodson, Albert 1 entry, 1900
- early 1900s: Arch Cates's I-house goes up on what became Arthur Minnis Road
Dodson, Elias 5 entries, 1842–1868

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Dodson, N. F. 1 entry, 1946
- week of September 29, 1946: Former Marines charter the John Umstead post of the Marine Corps League in Chapel Hill
Dodson, T. J. 1 entry, 1884
- April 26, 1884: Orange County Republicans name state convention delegates, Lisbon Berry among them
Dodson, Willie 1 entry, 1822
- mid-September 1822: Superior court at Hillsborough sentences Willie Dodson to the whip and the pillory
Doherty, Allen Thomas 1 entry, 1955
- November 19, 1955: Cone Mills holds its first service-award dinner for Eno plant workers
Doherty, George 1 entry, 1791
- 1791: Eagle Lodge is chartered at Hillsborough
Doherty, Mary 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
Doherty, Mary Burke 1 entry, 1787
- about 1787: A one-story Federal house is built on West Queen Street, later the John Newman House
Doherty, Matt 6 entries, 1982–2003

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Dolan, Margaret Baggett 1 entry, 1959

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Dollar, Hampton 1 entry, 1839
- February Term 1839: The court binds the Corn children under bonds not to take them out of the county
Dollar, W. J. 1 entry, 1896
- 1896: Ebenezer Baptist Church is organized
Dollar, William 1 entry, 1838
- May 22, 1838: William Dollar marries Jane Sparks three weeks after she names him as her son's father
Dollarhide, Betsy 1 entry, 1830
- August Term 1830: The court binds Lawrence Dollarhide, son of a free woman of color, at nearly eighteen
Dollarhide, Lawrence 1 entry, 1830
- August Term 1830: The court binds Lawrence Dollarhide, son of a free woman of color, at nearly eighteen
Donaldson, Robert 3 entries, 1830–1843
- 1830s: Robert Donaldson has A. J. Davis design a campus hall for the Philanthropic Society that is never built
- November 28, 1843: Swain authorizes Donaldson to bring architect A. J. Davis to the university
- October 1843: Trustees tell Swain to ask Robert Donaldson about plans for society halls and a landscape gardener
Donaldson, Robert, Jr. 4 entries, 1830–1843

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Donnelly, G. L. 1 entry, 1933
- May 17, 1933: Chapel Hill aldermen bar new apartment houses from the Residence A zones
Donnelly, James B. 2 entries, 1848–1855
- 1848-1855: James B. Donnelly serves as rector of St. Matthew's
- October 31, 1855: Rev. James B. Donnelly, rector of St. Matthew's Church, dies
Dooley, Bill 7 entries, 1967–1977

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Dooley, Bill 1 entry, 1969

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Dore, Florence 1 entry, 2020
- July 31, 2020: North Carolina musicians release Cover Charge to benefit the Cat's Cradle
Dorka, Lilian S. 1 entry, 2019
- September 11, 2019: EPA closed the Rogers Road civil rights complaint as moot
Dorrance, Anson 28 entries, 1977–2024

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Dorsett, Clyde 1 entry, 1957
- January 7, 1957: The school board approves plans for a new Carrboro Elementary School
Dorsett, H. G. 2 entries, 1912–1924
- August 3, 1912: Orange County Republicans nominate H. G. Dorsett for the House
- April 21, 1924: R. M. Trimble plats the Kittrell Mill Property for H. G. Dorsett
Dorsett, J. Dewey 1 entry, 1932
- August 13, 1932: Orange County Young Democrats organize at Hillsborough and elect L. J. Phipps president
Dortch, Hugh 1 entry, 1959
- February 28, 1959: A Civil War Centennial Conference meets at Chapel Hill
Dossett, Ava 1 entry, 1852
- November 1852 (court term): A jury finds Levin Weaver to be the father of Ava Dossett's child
Doster, Johnny 1 entry, 1940
- by February 16, 1940: Civil Aeronautics Authority flight training begins at the Chapel Hill airport
Doub, Peter 1 entry, 1854
- November 1854: The Chapel Hill Methodist church is made a charge separate from Hillsborough
Dougherty, Patrick 3 entries, 2015–2018

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Doughton, Robert A. 1 entry, 1887
- 1887: The legislature moves the land-grant income from the university to a new A. and M. College
Doughton, Robert L. 1 entry, 1937
- by August 27, 1937: The PWA grants $185,000 toward a new University medical building
Douglas, Minnie Caldwell 1 entry, 1937
- by June 18, 1937: Black garden clubs in Chapel Hill start a garden and nutrition project
Douglas, Virginia 1 entry, 1930
- April 1930: The Philanthropic Society votes to admit women
Douglass, Mrs. Harl 1 entry, 1939
- May 23, 1939: Faculty wives organize the Newcomers' Club and elect Mrs. Harl Douglass president
Douglass, Harl R. 2 entries, 1937–1938
- by October 29, 1937: The University creates a division of teacher training
- March 21, 1938: Harl R. Douglass takes charge of the University's division of education
Douglass, William 1 entry, 1868
- February 1868: Bureau agent James Carle reports five freedmen's day schools and fifty districts without schools in Orange
Dow, Bill 1 entry, 1978

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Dow, William Watlington 1 entry, 1978
- 1978: Bill Dow and Laura Heise found the North Carolina Agricultural Marketing Project
Dowd, Carey 1 entry, 1930
- January 15-17, 1930: The North Carolina Press Association holds its sixth newspaper institute at Chapel Hill
Dowdle, Max 1 entry, 2019
- August 2019: A mural for Billy Strayhorn is painted on South Churton Street
Dowdy, Mrs. Elmer 1 entry, 1949
- by May 19, 1949: The Hillsboro Garden Club wins a national purple ribbon for its flower show
Dowdy, Elmer 1 entry, 1951
- March 21, 1951: Orange sets up a County Agricultural Mobilization Committee
Dowdy, Elmer R. 11 entries, 1944–1955

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Downs, Robert B 8 entries, 1932–1952

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Downshire, Wills Hill 1 entry, 1766

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Dozier, Mary 1 entry, 1923
- April 13, 1923: Elizabeth City's girl debaters win the Aycock Memorial Cup at State High School Week
Dragt, Gordon R. 1 entry, 1984
- September 23, 1984: Gordon R. Dragt preaches a sermon on homosexuality at the Community Church of Chapel Hill
Drakeford, Bob 3 entries, 1977–1980
- November 8, 1977: Braxton Foushee leads the voting for the Carrboro Board of Aldermen
- November 28, 1977: Chief District Judge Peele halts Carrboro fire-lane towing
- January 25, 1980: Carrboro Mayor Bob Drakeford speaks at a symposium of Black planning students
Drakeford, Robert 2 entries, 2023–2024
- December 5, 2023: Barbara Foushee is sworn in as Carrboro's first Black woman mayor
- October 15–November 7, 2024: Carrboro and Orange County name the Drakeford Library Complex
May be the same person as Drakeford, Robert Bob
Drakeford, Robert Bob 2 entries, 1977–2025
- November 8, 1977: Bob Drakeford is elected mayor of Carrboro
- February 2025: Drakeford Library Complex opens
May be the same person as Drakeford, Robert
Drane, Brent S. 1 entry, 1925
- January 31, 1925: J. Cheshire Webb takes options on the Hillsborough quarry farm that supplied stone for Duke
Draper, J. T. 1 entry, 1901
- early December 1901: The Methodist conference sends J. T. Draper to the Hillsborough Circuit
Draper-Savage, Edward T. 2 entries, 1949–1960
- 1949: Edward T. Draper-Savage buys Moorefields and begins restoring it
- December 2, 1960: Edward T. Draper-Savage wins a Cannon Award for restoring Moorefields
Drew, Patty Payne 1 entry, 1955
- by January 6, 1955: Patty Payne Drew becomes the county's home demonstration agent for Black families
Dromgoole, George C. 1 entry, 1816
- September 18, 1816: Senior William B. Shepard speaks forbidden political passages and sets off a student revolt
Dromgoole, Peter Pelham 4 entries, 1833–1926

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D'Souza, Dinesh 1 entry, 1993
- March 30, 1993: Dinesh D'Souza debates at UNC and calls a freestanding Black Cultural Center separatist
Duane, Tom 1 entry, 1989
- April 9-15, 1989: The Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association holds its eleventh Lesbian and Gay Awareness Week
Dubester, Ilana 1 entry, 1999
- 1999–November 2009: El Centro Latino serves Latino residents from Carrboro
DuBose, D. St. Pierre 3 entries, 1931–1969
- by September 18, 1931: D. St. Pierre DuBose lets the contract for a stock barn and farm cottage east of Chapel Hill
- January to February 1934: Civil Works crews straighten Bolin's Creek below the town's sewage plant
- 1969: Part of the DuBose land east of Glen Lennox is developed as a golf course subdivision
DuBose, S. W. 3 entries, 1945–1947
- June 10, 1945: The Orange County Council of Churches renews its Bible teacher for the county schools
- September 2, 1946: County commissioners order an end to Sunday beer sales in Orange County
- November 2, 1947: Irving E. Birdseye begins as pastor of the Hillsborough Presbyterian Church
DuBose, St. Pierre 2 entries, 1931–1933
- by May 8, 1931: W. C. Coker sells 308 acres on the Raleigh road to St. Pierre DuBose
- by July 28, 1933: St. Pierre DuBose builds a large country house on a hill east of Chapel Hill
Dudley, Edward B. 2 entries, 1837–1838
- February 16, 1837: Governor Dudley names Cadwallader Jones of Hillsborough to the Board of Internal Improvement
- November 1838 to January 1839: Seceders try to form a third literary society, the Delphian
Dudley, Harold 1 entry, 1964
- 1964 to 1965: Eno Church and the Schley Grange restore the Old Eno Cemetery, and a state highway marker goes up
Dudley, William H. 1 entry, 1838
- November 1838 to January 1839: Seceders try to form a third literary society, the Delphian
Duffy, William 4 entries, 1794–1801
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Duguid, Helen 1 entry, 1957
- 1957: Thomas Philip Lloyd sells the Carolina Pharmacy to Helen Duguid
Duhart, T. P. 2 entries, 1954–1965
- May 1954: Chapel Hill-Carrboro churches name a committee to help schools desegregate peacefully
- February 11, 1965: Mayor Sandy McClamroch attends Lincoln High's Negro History Week program
Duke, Artelia Roney 1 entry, 1852
- 1852: Washington Duke completes the farmhouse now called Duke Homestead
Duke, Benjamin 1 entry, 1891
- 1891: Benjamin Duke builds a country house at University Station
Duke, Benjamin N. 3 entries, 1894–1919

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Duke, David 1 entry, 1975
- January 16, 1975: Protesters stop Klan leader David Duke from speaking in Memorial Hall
Duke, Haywood 2 entries, 1936
- by September 25, 1936: Swain Hall reopens as the University Dining Hall cafeteria
- by July 17, 1936: The University begins turning Swain Hall into a cafeteria
Duke, James B. 2 entries, 1901–1925
- 1901: Lincoln Hospital opens in Durham for Black patients
- April 1925: Patrick L. Clayton sells his farm northwest of Hillsboro to James B. Duke's agents for $4,000
May be the same person as Duke, James Buchanan
Duke, James Buchanan 2 entries, 1865–1870
- about 1865: Washington Duke begins manufacturing smoking tobacco on his farm
- early 1870s: The Dukes move their tobacco business into a wooden factory in Durham
May be the same person as Duke, James B.
Duke, Washington 10 entries, 1852–1875

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Dumas, Bob 1 entry, 2004
- start of the fall 2004 semester: A radio host leads a Heterosexual Pride Parade on Franklin Street, and students march in parody
Dunbar, Roberta 2 entries, 1969–1981
- 1969: UNC starts its Afro-American Studies curriculum
- February 1981: UNC approves new major requirements for Afro-American studies
May be the same person as Dunbar, Roberta Ann
Dunbar, Roberta Ann 3 entries, 1974–1980
- fall 1974: Sonja H. Stone takes charge of the Afro-American Studies curriculum
- February 1976: UNC opens a Junior Year in Ghana exchange
- July 1, 1980: Colin A. Palmer becomes co-chairman of Afro-American Studies
May be the same person as Dunbar, Roberta
Duncan, Lucy Rhodes 1 entry, 1954
- April 28, 1954: The Hillsboro Business and Professional Women's Club receives its charter
Duncan, W. W. 1 entry, 1889
- June 2, 1889: Chapel Hill's new Methodist church is dedicated
Dunevant, Sam 1 entry, 2010
- December 4, 2010: Brick memorial holding three recovered gravestones is dedicated at Margaret Lane Cemetery
Dunn, Francis 1 entry, 1794
- May Term 1794: The court licenses Thomas Watts and Francis Dunn to keep an ordinary in Hillsborough
Dunn, William 1 entry, 1911
- June 16, 1911: Hillsboro presses its claim to the Central Highway route
Dunnagan, Nancy 1 entry, 1810
- November 1810 (court term): The court orders Willie Mangum's administrators to pay Nancy Dunnagan for two children
Dunne, John 9 entries, 1963–1965

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Dunnigan, Marinda 1 entry, 1936
- by March 6, 1936: Orange County's Black teachers raise a fund for medical care of Black schoolchildren
Dupree, Franklin T., Jr. 1 entry, 1981
- June-July 1981: The UNC system settles the federal desegregation case with a consent decree
Durham, Alston 1 entry, 1836
- March 14-19, 1836: Jury acquits Alston Durham of murder on the ground of insanity
Durham, Alton 1 entry, 1943
- July 12, 1943: County commissioners appropriate $700 for a cannery building at White Cross
Durham, Atlas 1 entry, 1930
- August 16, 1930: The home of Atlas Durham, a Swain Hall worker, burns
Durham, B. L. 3 entries, 1851–1852
- August Term 1851: The court binds Sarah Morgan, a free girl of color of about eighteen, to B. L. Durham
- November 26, 1852: The legislature passes a bill incorporating the trustees of Hillsborough Academy
- August 5, 1852: Orange returns John Berry to the state Senate and splits its Commons seats
May be the same person as Durham, Bartlett L.
Durham, Bartlett 2 entries, 1850–1933
- August 1, 1850: Democrats win the Orange and Alamance Senate seat and all four Commons seats
- June 27, 1933: Dr. Bartlett Durham's body is taken from his Orange County grave for reburial in Durham
Durham, Bartlett A. 1 entry, 1854
- December 1854 or early 1855: North Carolina Railroad finished to Durham's Station
Durham, Bartlett L. 3 entries, 1854–1859
- February Term 1854: The court binds William, the four-year-old son of Sarah Morgan, to Bartlett L. Durham
- November Term 1856: The court binds Charles Day, a free boy of color, to Dr. B. L. Durham
- February 4, 1859: Dr. Bartlett L. Durham dies at Durham's Station
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Durham, Bernard 1 entry, 1958
- February 8, 1958: The White Cross school committee asks for a vote on joining the Chapel Hill unit
Durham, Carl T. 66 entries, 1897–2015

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Durham, Clarence 1 entry, 1941
- by March 7, 1941: Three Black University dining hall workers volunteer for the Army
Durham, Coy 1 entry, 1958
- July 14, 1958: Chapel Hill aldermen name William D. Blake police chief
Durham, Floyd 1 entry, 1938
- December 10, 1938: Chapel Hill and Carrboro leaders meet to find work for the jobless Carrboro mill hands
May be the same person as Durham, Floyd M.
Durham, Floyd M. 1 entry, 1915
- between 1915 and 1925: Durham Hosiery Mills builds a house on West Main Street for its Carrboro superintendent
May be the same person as Durham, Floyd
Durham, George A. 11 entries, 1896–1925

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Durham, H. B. 1 entry, 1923
- May 7, 1923: Carrboro elects Seaton Lloyd mayor
Durham, H. Myron 1 entry, 1915
- August 2, 1915: County commissioners set railway bond votes in Chapel Hill and Bingham townships
Durham, J. T. 2 entries, 1898–1904
- 1898: J. T. 'Bull' Durham opens a general store at Franklin and Columbia streets
- by June 16, 1904: Creditors take over J. T. Durham's Chapel Hill store
Durham, Jean 1 entry, 2022
- February 14, 2022: UNC names its athletics media center for Woody Durham
Durham, Jim 1 entry, 1960
- September 4-5, 1960: Chapel Hill Jaycees and volunteer masons lay the foundation of a children's museum
Durham, John 1 entry, 1929
- by September 20, 1929: Carl Durham's diggers find Dr. Bartlett Durham's grave in southwestern Orange
Durham, Lonnie 1 entry, 1925
- May 5, 1925: Carrboro elects T. N. Mann mayor
Durham, M. W. 1 entry, 1921
- August 4, 1921: Chapel Hill's town board orders a brick fire house built in Columbia Street
Durham, Mildred 1 entry, 1918
- October 1918: Eno Mill opens an influenza diet kitchen at West Hill school
Durham, Mrs. Moody 2 entries, 1924–1925
- November 1924: Christmas seal money pays for tuberculosis care and a free clinic in Chapel Hill
- 1925: Chapel Hill's Christmas Seal fund pays toward the Black public health nurse
Durham, Moody 10 entries, 1927–1943
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Durham, Moody W. 22 entries, 1917–1950

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Durham, Offie 2 entries, 1955–1959
- May 2, 1955: Carrboro elects R. B. Todd mayor, and Roy Riggsbee leaves the town board after twenty years
- May 5, 1959: Carrboro returns Mayor R. B. Todd and elects three commissioners
Durham, Plato 1 entry, 1868
- early 1868, during the constitutional convention: Orange delegate John W. Graham writes the convention's minority report on suffrage
Durham, S. C. 1 entry, 1888
- October 6, 1888: The school board forms Bethel district for the Bethel Church community
Durham, Taylor 1 entry, 2022
- February 14, 2022: UNC names its athletics media center for Woody Durham
Durham, Wes 1 entry, 2022
- February 14, 2022: UNC names its athletics media center for Woody Durham
Durham, William T. 3 entries, 1960–1961
- December 1960: Carrboro annexes the William T. Durham tract
- January 10, 1961: Carrboro creates a zone for trailer parks
- February 14, 1961: Carrboro turns down the Durham trailer park
Durham, Woody 2 entries, 1971–2022

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DuVal, Kathleen 2 entries, 2025

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Dye, George W. 1 entry, 1834
- February 28, 1834: The Methodist conference sends George W. Dye to the Orange circuit
Dyer, Harold S. 12 entries, 1921–1933

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Dykstra, Clarence 1 entry, 1943
- April 8, 1943: Institute of Human Relations opens with a Town Meeting of the Air broadcast from Memorial Hall