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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Eagles, Joseph 1 entry, 1970
- Late November 1970: Black residents question the police handling of the Cates killing
Eagles, T. R. 1 entry, 1907
- May 1, 1907: The University Dramatic Club stages a student show
Earles, Dewey 1 entry, 1948
- March 7, 1948: Fire destroys the Pentecostal Holiness Church in West Hillsboro
Earley, William 1 entry, 1797
- 1797: The Haw River Circuit takes the place of the New Hope Circuit in serving Hillsborough Methodists
Early, Sarah Jane Woodson 1 entry, 1867

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Earnhardt, David C. 1 entry, 1998
- March 1998: The Earnhardt family gives Triangle Land Conservancy an easement on the Andrews farm
Earnhardt, J. C. 1 entry, 1946
- July 21, 1946: Lutherans organize Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Chapel Hill
Earnhardt, Jean 1 entry, 1998
- March 1998: The Earnhardt family gives Triangle Land Conservancy an easement on the Andrews farm
Earnhardt, John 1 entry, 1998
- March 1998: The Earnhardt family gives Triangle Land Conservancy an easement on the Andrews farm
Earnhardt, Philip A. 1 entry, 1998
- March 1998: The Earnhardt family gives Triangle Land Conservancy an easement on the Andrews farm
Easley, Mike 1 entry, 2007
- February 9, 2007: Beverly Scarlett is sworn in as a district court judge for Orange and Chatham counties
Easom, H. F. 1 entry, 1935
- January 1935: State Sanatorium clinic gives tuberculin tests to 1,267 people in Chapel Hill and Carrboro
Easter, Mitch 1 entry, 1975
- 1975: Chris Stamey and Will Rigby form Sneakers
Easterling, W. E. 1 entry, 1951
- March 1951 (reported March 15): Orange County sells $750,000 in school bonds at less than 2 percent
Eaton, John H. 1 entry, 1825
- June 1825: The university graduates its class of 1825 and gives Nathaniel Macon an honorary LL.D.
Eaton, Robert 6 entries, 1797–1826
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Eaton, Thomas 1 entry, 1775
- September 9, 1775: Provincial Congress at Hillsborough elects a Provincial Council to govern between sessions
Eaton, William 3 entries, 1733–1959
- 1733–1754: The Saponi scatter between Virginia and the Catawba and a group settles in Granville County
- November 1828: Thirty students walk out of Sunday worship in the chapel
- June 28, 1959: Mars Hill Baptist Church marks its 125th anniversary and burns its parsonage mortgage
Eccles, Gilbert 1 entry, 1777
- August 1777: Merchants who traded with Britain are ordered to swear allegiance or leave
Eddy, Bradford 1 entry, 1939
- about 1939: Architect Bradford Eddy designs James Clarence Andrews's house on Buttons Road
Edeburn, Judd 1 entry, 1996
- 1996–1998: Duke Forest closes and salvages timber after Hurricane Fran
Edens, A. Hollis 1 entry, 1952
- September 19, 1952: The first lane of the new Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard opens
Edgerton, Clyde 3 entries, 1982–1989

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Edgerton, Eva 1 entry, 1931
- July 1-15, 1931: Fourteen teachers complete an adult illiteracy course at the University
Edkins, Benjamin 1 entry, 1939
- 1939: Architect William Van Sprinkle designs a brick house on Gimghoul Road for Benjamin Edkins
Edmister, F. H. 1 entry, 1929
- December 3, 1929: Residents beyond the town limits meet with a state fire expert on fire protection
Edmonds, Vivian Austin 1 entry, 1988
- spring 1988: The School of Journalism establishes a minority scholarship named for publisher Vivian Austin Edmonds
Edmonds, W. W. 1 entry, 1964
- by May 14, 1964: Chapel Hill aldermen name three members to the Community Action board
May be the same person as Edmonds, Woodrow W.
Edmonds, William R. 1 entry, 1909
- 1909-10 session: Students form the University Council to run the honor system
Edmonds, Woodrow W. 1 entry, 1962
- May 14, 1962: Chapel Hill school board names Woodrow Edmonds first principal of Frank Porter Graham School
May be the same person as Edmonds, W. W.
Edmondson, Ed 1 entry, 1960
- April 29-30, 1960: UNC students stage a mock Democratic National Convention in Woollen Gym
Edwards, Belton 2 entries, 1962–1968
- 1962: Belton Edwards becomes principal of Cedar Grove School
- May 20, 1968: Belton Edwards, a Black member, joins the county Board of Education
May be the same person as Edwards, Belton H.
Edwards, Belton H. 1 entry, 1964
- October 5, 1964: County commissioners name a fifteen-member antipoverty advisory committee
May be the same person as Edwards, Belton
Edwards, Ben 1 entry, 1869
- August 1869: Klansmen from Chatham County stone November Caldwell's house by mistake
Edwards, Bessie 2 entries, 1941–1946
- April and May 1941: Black citizens' committee raises money to finish the Negro Community Center
- January 1, 1946: Chapel Hill's Black community celebrates Emancipation Day at the Community Center
Edwards, C. C. 1 entry, 1928
- by March 9, 1928: C. C. Edwards begins building houses on the Pittsboro road south of Chapel Hill
Edwards, Christopher 1 entry, 1976
- March 24 to April 8, 1976: County planners hold community meetings across rural Chapel Hill Township
Edwards, F. J. 1 entry, 1929
- by November 29, 1929: Black residents of Chapel Hill canvass the town to support their health nurse
Edwards, Fred 3 entries, 1949–1955
- October 13, 1949: Chapel Hill NAACP branch starts a voter registration drive for the school bond election
- May 8, 1951: Chapel Hill elects William S. Stewart judge as Fred Edwards runs for alderman
- May 3, 1955: Chapel Hill voters elect members of their school board for the first time
Edwards, Harold 2 entries, 1958
- June 30, 1958: Commissioners call a second Carrboro school merger election for August 5
- May 31, 1958: Orange Democrats renominate Sheriff Clayton and Senator Lanier in the primary
Edwards, Henry 1 entry, 1945
- December 2, 1945: The Chapel Hill Recreation Commission sets up the Negro Community Center after the Navy band leaves
Edwards, Herbert 1 entry, 1977
- November 9, 1977: Herbert Edwards lectures on Black religion at Morehead Planetarium
Edwards, Isaac 3 entries, 1768–1772

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Edwards, J. Paul 2 entries, 1955–1957
- December 21, 1955: Carrboro Methodist Church finishes a brick parsonage and its pastor moves in
- August 18, 1957: Carrboro Methodist Church dedicates its new building
Edwards, June 1 entry, 1898
- March 21-22, 1898: Superior court convicts Chapel Hill men of selling liquor without a license
Edwards, Keith 1 entry, 1992
- July 9, 1992: Orange County jury finds three former UNC officials discriminated against police officer Keith Edwards
Edwards, Morgan 1 entry, 1772
- 1772: Morgan Edwards reports 1,500 families have left since Alamance
Edwards, R. M. 2 entries, 1925–1945
- by June 26, 1925: Black citizens of Chapel Hill organize a Community Fair Association to support the Orange County Training School
- May 26, 1945: Black farm families open a curb market on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill
Edwards, Ruth 1 entry, 1946
- September 19, 1946: Black home demonstration clubs adopt a county council constitution
Edwards, Stephen J. 1 entry, 1952
- by December 1952: Stephen J. Edwards's Midway Barber Shop is open on West Rosemary Street
Edwards, William 1 entry, 1943
- January 7 to February 6, 1943: Charlie Gehringer and Hal Schumacher take Navy officer training at the Pre-Flight School
Efird, Oscar Ogburn 1 entry, 1919
- 1919-20: Oscar Efird organizes the Law School Association
Efland, Benton 2 entries, 1959
- August 1959: Orange County builds its third ABC store near the Alamance line at Carr
- September 15, 1959: Orange County's third ABC store opens at Carr, near the Alamance line
Efland, J. S. 1 entry, 1922
- by June 22, 1922: The Efland roller mill is overhauled with new machinery
Efland, John 1 entry, 1917
- 1917: Paul C. Collins leads Orange County's First Liberty Loan, and the county's banks sell $51,650 in bonds
May be the same person as Efland, John L.
Efland, John, Jr. 1 entry, 1954
- November 23, 1954: School committeemen form a county chapter and the board names a School Improvement Committee
May be the same person as Efland, John L., Jr.
Efland, John L. 2 entries, 1912–1949
- 1912: John L. Efland starts a hosiery mill at Efland
- May 13, 1949: The old flour mill at Efland burns and is rebuilt
May be the same person as Efland, John
Efland, John L., Jr. 1 entry, 1964
- February 1964: The Efland brothers form Efland Tractor and Equipment Company
May be the same person as Efland, John, Jr.
Efland, John, Sr. 1 entry, 1908
- November 1, 1908 or 1909: Efland Presbyterian Church is organized
Efland, M. L. 1 entry, 1908
- November 1, 1908 or 1909: Efland Presbyterian Church is organized
Efland, Mrs. M. P. 2 entries, 1905–1932
- May 14, 1905: Efland Methodist Church is organized
- by October 14, 1932: Volunteer committees give out federal Red Cross cloth in Chapel Hill, Efland and Hillsboro
Efland, Mack P. 4 entries, 1906–1924

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Efland, Pearl 1 entry, 1919
- September 1, 1919: The Efland school opens its term with Miss McCloud as principal
Efland, Sim 28 entries, 1950–1956

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Efland, Simpson L. 1 entry, 1956
- December 3, 1956: Claude Pope and Donald Stanford join the county commissioners
Efland, Wilson 1 entry, 1964
- February 1964: The Efland brothers form Efland Tractor and Equipment Company
Egemonye, Ndubisi 1 entry, 1976
- January 1976: Black journalism students organize the North Carolina Association of Journalists
Ehle, John 4 entries, 1951–1984

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Ehringhaus, J. C. B. 9 entries, 1931–1962

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Ehringhaus, Susan 1 entry, 1998
- November 11, 1998: Chancellor Hooker answers BSM members' questions on the 22 demands
May be the same person as Ehringhaus, Susan H.
Ehringhaus, Susan H. 1 entry, 1991
- by March 1991: Federal agencies investigate UNC on a University Police officer's discrimination complaint
May be the same person as Ehringhaus, Susan
Eisdorfer, Erica 1 entry, 1986
- September 25, 1986: Jill McCorkle reads To Kill a Mockingbird at a Banned Books Week protest in the Pit
Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1 entry, 1952
- November 4, 1952: Orange County casts a record vote and carries the Democratic ticket
Eiserer, Leonard 1 entry, 1942
- September 19, 1942: The Pre-Flight School's weekly Cloudbuster begins publication
Eli 1 entry, 1884
- 1884: Students and Black residents nearly come to blows on election night in Chapel Hill
Eliadis, Leo 2 entries, 1960–1961
- February 29, 1960: Lincoln High students picket Colonial Drug and sit in at the Bus Station Cafe
- Summer 1961: Leo Eliadis closes his bus station grill and opens Leo's Restaurant on West Franklin Street
Eliason, Norman 1 entry, 1948
- 1948: Architect James Webb designs a modernist house on Round Hill Road for Norman Eliason
Elkins, Harpy 1 entry, 1892
- 1892: Harvey's Chapel AME Church is organized
Elkins, P. H. 1 entry, 1917
- by March 1, 1917: P. H. Elkins leases and publishes the Orange County Observer
Elkins-Williams, Stephen 1 entry, 1971
- 1971: Peter James Lee becomes rector of the Chapel of the Cross
Ellen, Isaac 1 entry, 1894
- March 7, 1894: Isaac Ellen of the Hillsborough firm Ellen, Koplon & Brother dies
Eller, Adolphus Hill 1 entry, 1895
- June 5, 1895: Stephen B. Weeks speaks on the university in the Civil War at its centennial
Eller, Sidney 4 entries, 1956–1958
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Eller, Tom 1 entry, 1948
- February 14-15, 1948: Students welcome Frank Graham home from the Indonesia truce talks
Ellerson, Samuel 1 entry, 1882
- May 27, 1882: Hillsborough Republicans recommend Albert Haughawout, a Black man, for the state House
Ellick 1 entry, 1850
- week of September 9, 1850: Orange Superior Court sentences an enslaved man named Ellick to hang
Ellington, C. T. 11 entries, 1959–1964
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Ellington, Mrs. Carl 1 entry, 1953
- by October 8, 1953: Carrboro parents ask the county for a new school building to relieve crowding
Ellington, Carl 14 entries, 1956–1965
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May be the same person as Ellington, Carl M.
Ellington, Carl M. 3 entries, 1956–1958
- late November 1956: Carrboro's school committee asks for a 15-cent school tax vote
- February 6, 1956: Carrboro school committee asks the county board for a modern new school
- May 31, 1958: Orange Democrats renominate Sheriff Clayton and Senator Lanier in the primary
May be the same person as Ellington, Carl
Ellington, Charlie 1 entry, 1960
- by April 7, 1960: Charlie Ellington becomes Carrboro's mayor as R. B. Todd leaves the office to be town clerk
Ellington, John 1 entry, 1961
- by October 13, 1961: The Chapel Hill city schools form a civil defense committee
Ellington, Kenneth 3 entries, 1926–1930
- By April 1926: Zeta Psi, Kappa Alpha and Kappa Sigma jointly buy the Wallace Patterson place on Cameron Avenue
- late 1929: Kappa Alpha begins a new house on Cameron Avenue
- 1930: Kappa Sigma builds a $35,000 house on the Cameron Avenue fraternity court
Ellington, Wayne 1 entry, 2009
- April 6, 2009: UNC men’s basketball wins the 2009 NCAA national championship
Elliott, Albert 1 entry, 1867
- March to August 1867: Milly Johnson of Chapel Hill asks the Bureau to recover children taken from her in slavery
Elliott, Brian 1 entry, 1998
- by October 19, 1998: The BSM executive board suspends the funds of four of its subgroups
Elliott, Deborah 1 entry, 1800
- September to November 1800 (9th to 11th month): Spring women's meeting of Friends issues a testimony against Rachel Jackson
Elliott, Dora MacRae 1 entry, 1925
- by November 6, 1925: Mrs. Dora MacRae Elliott opens the MacRae Realty and Insurance Company
Elliott, Edith M. 2 entries, 1972–1981
- by September 1972: Edith M. Elliott becomes director of the University YWCA
- August 1, 1981: Edith M. Elliott becomes assistant vice chancellor for student affairs
Elliott, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1827
- May 1827 (court term): Polly and Elizabeth Elliott are indicted for keeping a disorderly house
Elliott, J. D. 1 entry, 1904
- May 9, 1904: Work begins on a new railroad depot to replace the one burned in November
May be the same person as Elliott, Jesse D.
Elliott, Jesse D. 1 entry, 1838
- August 6, 1838: Navy captain Jesse D. Elliott gives Greek and Egyptian antiquities to the university
May be the same person as Elliott, J. D.
Elliott, John 1 entry, 1790
- February 25, 1790: John Elliott is paid more for the bridge over the Eno opposite Hillsborough
Elliott, Joseph 1 entry, 1822
- November 1822 (court term): The court calls in the children of Polly Elliott and of two Polly Starks to be bound out
Elliott, Lucille 1 entry, 1940
- by April 12, 1940: University law professors agree to staff the reopening law school of the North Carolina College for Negroes
Elliott, Mary 1 entry, 1816
- May 1816 (court term): A jury finds Joseph Dickey to be the father of Mary Elliott's child
Elliott, Minerva 1 entry, 1822
- November 1822 (court term): The court calls in the children of Polly Elliott and of two Polly Starks to be bound out
Elliott, Polly 2 entries, 1822–1827
- November 1822 (court term): The court calls in the children of Polly Elliott and of two Polly Starks to be bound out
- May 1827 (court term): Polly and Elizabeth Elliott are indicted for keeping a disorderly house
Elliott, Sidney 1 entry, 1822
- November 1822 (court term): The court calls in the children of Polly Elliott and of two Polly Starks to be bound out
Ellis, Allan A. 1 entry, 1946
- November 11, 1946: Allan A. Ellis, retired Cedar Grove postmaster and merchant, dies
Ellis, Allen A. 1 entry, 1923
- 1923: Ellis Store and post office opens
Ellis, Mrs. Fred 1 entry, 1961
- June 1961: Chapel Hill church women ask the county for a welfare office in Chapel Hill
Ellis, Fred 2 entries, 1961–1962
- July 7, 1961: The Chapel Hill school board admits a Black eighth grader to the white junior high and fixes first-grade districts
- February 8, 1962: A citywide PTA meeting takes up the Chapel Hill schools' budget shortfall
May be the same person as Ellis, Fred W.
Ellis, Fred W. 3 entries, 1957
- November 1957: Four families hold the first study meeting toward a new Baptist church in Chapel Hill
- September 29, 1957: The Yates Association approves buying three acres on the 15-501 Bypass for the new church
- March 1957: The Yates Baptist Association picks the Glen Lennox area for a new Baptist church
May be the same person as Ellis, Fred
Ellis, Gordon 2 entries, 1951–1954
- 1951: Gordon Ellis of the UNC education department builds a brick Cape Cod house on Pine Lane
- November 23, 1954: School committeemen form a county chapter and the board names a School Improvement Committee
Ellis, Guy W. 1 entry, 1930
- February 12-13, 1930: Realtors hold a two-day real estate institute at Chapel Hill with the University extension division
Ellis, Howard 1 entry, 1955
- July 6, 1955: About 100 tobacco growers see an irrigation demonstration at Cedar Grove
Ellis, Ira 2 entries, 1835
- about 1835: The Rev. Ira Ellis builds Little Ayr Mount, a two-story brick house west of Hillsborough
- 1835: The Rev. Ira Ellis buys 300 acres on the Eno near Hall's Mill Road
Ellis, J. K. 1 entry, 1957
- September 20, 1957: J. K. Ellis reopens his East Franklin Street grill as the Village Cafeteria
Ellis, John W. 1 entry, 1859
- 1859: Trustees buy a second thousand shares of bank stock on credit
Ellis, T. C. 6 entries, 1880–1951
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Ellis, Thomas Cox 1 entry, 1996
- 1996: A hurricane destroys the old Thomas Cox Ellis wing of the Dr. C. M. Hughes House
Ellis, Tom 1 entry, 1952
- by May 29, 1952: The county's rural fire association sets a fee for fires at non-members' property
Ellis, William H. 1 entry, 1859
- by December 21, 1859: West Orange post office closes as new offices open at Hughes's Academy and Bain's Mills
Ellison, Harlan 1 entry, 1986
- March to April 7, 1986: Students build anti-apartheid shanties in front of South Building
Ellison, Henrietta 1 entry, 1894
- May 8, 1894: Henrietta Ellison of Hillsborough's American Missionary Association school wins the Daniel Hand Scholarship
Ellison, Samuel 1 entry, 1868
- October to November 1868: A freedmen's school opens at Cotton Run and closes when its teacher resigns
Elmore, S. E. 1 entry, 1946
- 1946: The Gospel Baptist Tabernacle is organized
Elrod, C. V. 1 entry, 1951
- August 1951: Hillsboro's Belle Vue-sponsored girls' softball team wins the state Class B title
Embree, Edwin R. 2 entries, 1931–1937
- November 5, 1931: The Southern Conference on Education opens at the Carolina Inn on the theme of education and the Depression
- September 1 to October 2, 1937: An international conference on education in Africa and the American South meets at the Carolina Inn
Emerson, Isaac 2 entries, 1914–1916
- 1914: Isaac Emerson gives $25,000 for a new athletic field and stadium
- April 1916: Emerson Field's concrete stadium is ready for the 1916 baseball season
Emmerson, James 1 entry, 1771
- December 14, 1771: Tryon, now governor of New York, asks the King's free pardon for the six reprieved Regulators
Emmons, Ebenezer 2 entries, 1858–1861
- by September 29, 1858: Raleigh stonecutters McCowan and Grier take freestone from a quarry at Durham's Station
- 1861: State gives Ebenezer Emmons's geological collection to the university
Emory, Frank 1 entry, 1996
- June 19, 1996: Four governing boards hold a unified public hearing on a new landfill next to the Eubanks Road site
Emory, S. T. 1 entry, 1950
- March 31, 1950: A state review panel approves Orange County's building plans for Black schools
Empey, James 1 entry, 1777
- August 1777: The county court binds James Empey not to recruit soldiers for another state
Enersen, Lawrence 1 entry, 1948
- 1948: Jim Webb designs a house on Dogwood Drive for Thomas and Margaret Stanback
Engelhard, J. A. 1 entry, 1867
- October 23, 1867: William A. Graham writes from Hillsborough against the convention call
May be the same person as Engelhard, John A.
Engelhard, John A. 1 entry, 1856
- October 1, 1856: Benjamin Hedrick answers his accusers with a public defence of his Free Soil views
May be the same person as Engelhard, J. A.
Engelhardt, N. L. 1 entry, 1943
- by December 3, 1943: The county acquires a West Franklin Street site for a new Chapel Hill High School
Englehard 1 entry, 1874
- May 1874: The state Press Association's excursion visits Durham's tobacco factories
English, J. D. 1 entry, 1886
- by July 31, 1886: Webb's tobacco warehouse in Hillsborough changes hands
English, N. C. 1 entry, 1896
- May 23, 1896: The State Alliance buys a shoe factory plant for its Hillsborough headquarters
English, Sam 1 entry, 1955
- May 1955: Roosevelt Warner is named to the advisory committee of Hillsboro's Central school
Engstrom, Alfred G. 2 entries, 1935–1959

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Engstrom, Mary Claire 16 entries, 1959–1997

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Enloe, W. G. 1 entry, 1961
- August 17, 1961: The Carolina Theatre in Chapel Hill admits Black university students
Enoch, Samuel Edward 1 entry, 1940
- by November 22, 1940: Nine volunteers fill Orange County's draft quota for 1940
Ensign, John 1 entry, 1955
- May 8, 1955: New Hope Presbyterian Church breaks ground for its fifth building
May be the same person as Ensign, John E.
Ensign, John E. 5 entries, 1948–1956
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May be the same person as Ensign, John
Enterprise, Mebane 1 entry, 2024
- January 2024: The News of Orange merges with the Mebane Enterprise
Ephland, David 1 entry, 1760
- 1760s: German settler David Ephland comes to Orange County
Epperson, J. F. 1 entry, 1937
- July 1937: The Orange-Person health department begins a second year as a state training center
Epperson, J. H. 1 entry, 1948
- week of June 28, 1948: Durham's health officer charges that Hillsboro's raw sewage is polluting the Eno River
Eppes, Jesse 1 entry, 1969
- December 8, 1969: Nearly a thousand Black students rally at UNC for the striking cafeteria workers
Epps, Amie 1 entry, 1992
- February 24, 1992: Student coalition presents demands to Chancellor Hardin for a freestanding Black Cultural Center
Epps, Garrett 1 entry, 1986
- July 20, 1986: Six writers read at the Hardback Cafe to raise money against the Shearon Harris nuclear plant
Epps, Richard 5 entries, 1972–1981
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Eppsteiner, George 1 entry, 2014
- November 18, 2014: Carrboro aldermen declare the town a welcoming community for immigrant children
Epting, Bob 1 entry, 1974
- 1974: Joe Hackney and Bob Epting begin practicing law together in Chapel Hill
Epting, Lee 1 entry, 1976
- 1976: The idle Carrboro depot is converted into The Station
Erceg, Brooke 1 entry, 2016
- Fall 2016: Cup-A-Joe moves down West King Street to a larger shop at number 112
Erickson, C. P. 2 entries, 1946
- by August 22, 1946: Chapel Hill appoints a Veterans Housing Commission to bring in surplus houses for student veterans
- by September 5, 1946: Chapel Hill's new Veterans Housing Commission offers 24 surplus houses to veterans
May be the same person as Erickson, Charles P.
Erickson, Charles P. 2 entries, 1952
- May 1952: Fetzer retires as director of athletics and becomes executive director of the Morehead Foundation
- 1952: Oliver K. Cornwell becomes chair of UNC's Department of Physical Education and Athletics
May be the same person as Erickson, C. P.
Erickson, Chuck 1 entry, 1964
- by June 4, 1964: Construction begins on Carmichael Auditorium
Erickson, F. C. 1 entry, 1939
- by October 27, 1939: UNC geologists find 22 acre-feet of soil washing into University Lake each year
Ericson, E. E. 2 entries, 1935–1937
- May 14, 1935: Textile editor David Clark charges radicalism among UNC professors in a Gerrard Hall talk
- November 17, 1937: Ku Klux Klan leader Hiram W. Evans speaks in Memorial Hall
Erikson, Carl 1 entry, 1948
- July 27, 1948: State and university officials approve preliminary plans for the teaching hospital in Chapel Hill
Ervin, Archie 3 entries, 1989–1999
- fall 1989: UNC enrolls 400 Black freshmen in the class of 1993
- November 14, 1997: The BSM marches to South Building with 22 new demands for Chancellor Hooker
- by November 1999: Archie Ervin succeeds Harold Wallace as head of UNC's Office of Minority Affairs
Ervin, Archie W. 1 entry, 1993
- by February 1993: UNC's Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Fund reaches endowment level
Ervin, Sam 1 entry, 1973
- October 12, 1973: Senator Sam Ervin speaks at University Day
Ervin, Sam J., Jr. 3 entries, 1925–1960
- February 1925: The state House defeats the Poole antievolution resolution
- October 16, 1958: Orange Democrats host the Sixth District rally at Schley Grange
- November 30, 1960: Governor Luther Hodges accepts the Knapp Building for the state at its dedication
Erwin, Clyde 2 entries, 1951–1957
- by January 11, 1951: Members of the Chapel Hill Council on Negro Affairs file a discrimination suit over the new Black high school
- June 22, 1957: Hillsboro marks June Dairy Day with a milking contest on the courthouse lawn
May be the same person as Erwin, Clyde A.
Erwin, Clyde A. 1 entry, 1950
- June 1, 1950: The State Board of Education leaves the Hillsboro and Aycock school lines as they were
May be the same person as Erwin, Clyde
Erwin, Clyde A., Jr. 1 entry, 1955
- June 1955: Elmer R. Dowdy leaves Hillsboro High's agriculture department after 18 years
Erwin, W. A. 1 entry, 1923
- September 2, 1923: Mount Moriah church celebrates its centennial
May be the same person as Erwin, William A.; Erwin, William Allen
Erwin, William A. 1 entry, 1921
- May 1921: The diocesan convention votes to enlarge the Chapel of the Cross
May be the same person as Erwin, W. A.; Erwin, William Allen
Erwin, William Allen 3 entries, 1922–1926
- July 6, 1922: William A. Erwin gives $50,000 for a new Chapel of the Cross
- February 20, 1924: The cornerstone of the new Chapel of the Cross is laid
- 1926: William A. Erwin sets up a trust fund for the Chapel of the Cross
May be the same person as Erwin, W. A.; Erwin, William A.
Eshmont, Len 1 entry, 1942
- September 12 to November 28, 1942: The Pre-Flight Cloudbusters finish their first football season at 8-2-1
Eskridge, Dumont 2 entries, 1947
- April 15, 1947: The county boards vote to put a $1 million bond issue for schools and county buildings before the voters
- March 1947 (by March 20): The General Assembly gives Hillsboro elections by ballot in place of the mass meeting
Eskridge, J. D. 1 entry, 1944
- August 15, 1944: Hillsborough's commissioners set a $1.25 tax rate and pass a clean-up ordinance
Eskridge, J. Dumont 5 entries, 1947–1953
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Esser, George H., Jr. 7 entries, 1948–1964

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Estes, John 4 entries, 1787–1798
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Ethridge, David 3 entries, 1968–1969
- May 13, 1968: Chapel Hill adopts North Carolina's first local open housing ordinance
- April 22, 1968: Chapel Hill aldermen approve an open housing ordinance 3 to 2 on first reading
- May 12, 1969: Howard Lee takes the oath as mayor of Chapel Hill at Town Hall
Ethridge, W. David 3 entries, 1968–1969

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Eubanks, A. H. 1 entry, 1926
- by January 8, 1926: A former justice of the peace and his constable son are indicted over road fines
Eubanks, Clyde 29 entries, 1891–1964

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Eubanks, Mrs. E. J. 1 entry, 1947
- September 1, 1947: Five women are drawn for an Orange County jury
Eubanks, Fred 1 entry, 1924
- July 21, 1924: Court upholds the county school board in the Bingham township school site fight
Eubanks, Robert A. 27 entries, 1891–1940

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Eubanks, S. D. 2 entries, 1925–1926
- by May 28, 1925: S. D. Eubanks builds up a new village near the Southern Power plant west of Durham
- by January 8, 1926: A former justice of the peace and his constable son are indicted over road fines
Eulis, Eli 1 entry, 1841
- June 12, 1841: A public debate at Mount Zion meeting house votes that temperance societies do good
Eure, Mills L. 1 entry, 1880
- by February 21, 1880: The Alumni Association names a committee to help raise money for the university
Eure, Thad 4 entries, 1939–1962

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Evans, Bob 1 entry, 1985
- 1985: Frederick P. Brooks Jr. receives the National Medal of Technology
Evans, C. N. B. 3 entries, 1869–1882
- January 11, 1869: Dennis Heartt gives up the Hillsborough Recorder after nearly fifty years
- January 26, 1870: C. N. B. Evans closes the Milton Chronicle and joins the Recorder
- November 7, 1882: Republican Isaac R. Strayhorn and Democrat C. N. B. Evans win the district's Senate seats
May be the same person as Evans, Charles Napoleon Bonaparte
Evans, Charles Napoleon Bonaparte 1 entry, 1872
- 1872: John D. Cameron becomes editor and publisher of the Recorder
May be the same person as Evans, C. N. B.
Evans, E. J. 1 entry, 1952
- September 19, 1952: The first lane of the new Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard opens
Evans, Fanny 1 entry, 1822
- 1822: Fanny Evans, a free woman of color, receives a town lot by the Eno
Evans, Gladys 4 entries, 1930–1934
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Evans, Henry 6 entries, 1822–1854

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Evans, Hiram W. 1 entry, 1937
- November 17, 1937: Ku Klux Klan leader Hiram W. Evans speaks in Memorial Hall
Evans, J. R. 2 entries, 1946
- March 25, 1946: Orange County Republicans elect George N. Harward chairman
- September 20, 1946: Orange County Republicans name a ticket and adopt a five-point platform
Evans, Mrs. J. R. 1 entry, 1948
- May 30, 1948: The Junior Service League deeds the Carrboro Health Center to the Carrboro Civic Association
Evans, John 2 entries, 1821–1829
- November Term 1821: The court binds John Evans, a boy of color whose late mother was white, to carpenter Isaac Jackson
- August 26, 1829: Isaac Jackson advertises for John Evans, his runaway bound boy
Evans, John P. 1 entry, 1985

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Evans, Margaret 1 entry, 1938
- April 1938: Margaret Evans is elected president of the Dialectic Senate
Evans, Martin J. 1 entry, 2007
- October 8, 2007: Oliver Smithies wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Evans, Mrs. Mervin R. 1 entry, 1948
- April 12-13, 1948: The Junior Service League canvasses the Chapel Hill school district for a census
Evans, O. W. 1 entry, 1962
- February 28, 1962: Opponents of the county zoning plan meet at Palmer's Grove
Evans, Pat 1 entry, 1996
- February 12, 1996: Chapel Hill Town Council recommends site OC-17 beside the Eubanks Road landfill for the next county landfill
Evans, Polly 1 entry, 1821
- November Term 1821: The court binds John Evans, a boy of color whose late mother was white, to carpenter Isaac Jackson
Evans, Sabrina 1 entry, 1990
- by December 1990: The BSM calls a boycott of the Franklin Street Rite Aid
Evans, T. C. 1 entry, 1870
- January 26, 1870: C. N. B. Evans closes the Milton Chronicle and joins the Recorder
Evans, Thomas 1 entry, 1938
- April 8, 1938: Carrboro's federal community school stages two folk plays at the Carrboro school
Evans, Webb 2 entries, 1953–1955
- May 4, 1953: Carrboro reelects Mayor J. Sullivan Gibson and fills its first six-member town board
- May 2, 1955: Carrboro elects R. B. Todd mayor, and Roy Riggsbee leaves the town board after twenty years
Evans, Wilson Bruce 1 entry, 1854
- 1854: The Evans families leave Hillsborough for Oberlin, Ohio
Evelyn, Just 1 entry, 2006
- November 2006: The GLBT-SA holds Transgender Awareness Week
Everett, R. O. 3 entries, 1910–1927
- August 24, 1910: District Democrats nominate John W. Graham and Dr. Hurdle for the state Senate at Hillsboro
- May 31, 1919: Mount Hope school closes its year with a commencement
- July 27, 1927: Fire destroys the Everett building, a meat market on King Street
Everett, Roy 1 entry, 1945
- 1945: The Wesley Foundation takes up Methodist student work at Chapel Hill
Everett, W. N. 1 entry, 1922
- Early spring 1922: Trustees put Graham Memorial on the site of the burned University Inn
May be the same person as Everett, William Nash
Everett, William Nash 1 entry, 1919
- February to May 1919: Richard H. Lewis chairs the trustees' search for a new university president
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Evinger, E. L. 1 entry, 1935
- August 30, 1935: The federal government opens a Soil Erosion Experiment Station on the University's Mason farm
Ewell, Mickey 1 entry, 1975
- spring 1975: Mickey Ewell opens Harrison's, a basement bar with a dress code, on Franklin Street
Exum, James 2 entries, 1983–1984
- by February 24, 1983: Kevin Monroe and James Exum become the first Black students to hold student government's top two posts together
- spring 1984: Three Black students hold the Campus Governing Council's top posts for the first time
Exum, Melissa 1 entry, 2003
- April 1, 2003: Matt Doherty resigns as Carolina's men's basketball coach
Exum, Wyatt P. 1 entry, 1892
- October 28, 1892: People's Party holds a parade and speaking at Hillsborough
Ezell, W. C. 1 entry, 1937
- July 2, 1937: State inspectors find the Efland Home failing and tell its board to fund it or close it
Ezra, Rosemary 1 entry, 1964
- by August 13, 1964 (Cusick on August 11): Pat Cusick, John Dunne and Rosemary Ezra are paroled from their one-year sentences
Ezzell, W. P. 1 entry, 1895
- by December 12, 1895: The Recorder's new publisher gives up the Durham Recorder and keeps the Hillsboro Recorder