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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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• Haas, Robert B. 1 entry, 1958
  • November 24, 1958: Hillsboro High School reorganizes its band under director Robert B. Haas
• Habel, Samuel T. 1 entry, 1949
  • May 11, 1949: Chapel Hill's new town board asks for zoning a mile beyond the town limits
• Habel, Samuel Tilden, Jr. 1 entry, 1954
  • April 4-11, 1954: The Baptist Church of Chapel Hill celebrates its centennial
• Hachiya, Michihiko 1 entry, 1955
  • August 1955: The University of North Carolina Press publishes Hiroshima Diary
• Hackney 1 entry, 1890
  • March 19, 1890: The Orange grand jury indicts Durham editor Hackney for libeling Sheriff Hughes
• Hackney, Brantley J. 4 entries, 1854–1855
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  • December 30, 1854: Brantley J. Hackney is elected the first pastor of the Chapel Hill Baptist Church
  • April 14, 1854: The Chapel Hill Baptist branch holds its first meeting and receives James P. Mason
  • March 6, 1854: Chapel Hill Baptists contract for a brick church
  • May 6, 1855: The Baptist Church of Chapel Hill opens its first church
• Hackney, Bryant 1 entry, 1963
  • May 7, 1963: Carrboro re-elects Mayor C. T. Ellington in a record turnout
• Hackney, Burnice 1 entry, 2021
  • November 2021: Chapel Hill Public Library webinar marks the 51st anniversary of the Cates killing
• Hackney, C. D. 1 entry, 1877
  • September 28, 1877: Hickory Grove Baptist Church is organized
• Hackney, E. C. 1 entry, 1895
  • by December 12, 1895: The Recorder's new publisher gives up the Durham Recorder and keeps the Hillsboro Recorder
• Hackney, H. B. 1 entry, 1964
  • June 9, 1964: Carrboro's town board endorses Community Action, Inc.
• Hackney, J. M. 1 entry, 1918
  • Fall 1918: A Black county committee raises $525 for the United War Work drive
• Hackney, Jesse 1 entry, 1953
  • December 31, 1953: Fire burns the Carrboro Smoke Shop and a barber shop in the center of Carrboro
• Hackney, Joe 3 entries, 1971–1990

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• Hackney, L. C. 1 entry, 1947
  • 1947: Bethsada Baptist Church builds a 500-seat church
• Hackney, Lara Edwards 2 entries, 1877–1912
  • January 1877: Louis H. Hackney becomes pastor of Rock Hill Baptist Church
  • 1912: Louis H. Hackney opens a school for Black students in Chapel Hill
• Hackney, Lewis H. 2 entries, 1926
  • by August 6, 1926: Rock Hill Baptist Church, a Black congregation led by Lewis H. Hackney, renovates its building
  • August 29, 1926: Chapel Hill's True Reformers hold their annual thanksgiving celebration
• Hackney, Louis 1 entry, 1916
  • 1916: Hackney's school on Merritt Mill Road is bought for a public training school
• Hackney, Louis H. 15 entries, 1877–1937

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• Hackney, Mallory 1 entry, 1929
  • January 4, 1929: Chapel Hill board of adjustment lets a Durham theatre take over a billboard permit
• Hackney, Shadie B. 1 entry, 1923
  • October 3, 1923: Parents reorganize the Parent-Teacher Association at the Orange County Training School
• Hackney, Troy 2 entries, 1945–1957
  • May 7, 1945: Carrboro reelects Mayor I. A. West and its aldermen without opposition
  • June 25, 1957: Carrboro commissioners appoint a zoning board of appeals
• Hackney, Walter 3 entries, 1929–1935
  • by November 29, 1929: Black residents of Chapel Hill canvass the town to support their health nurse
  • September 16 to 18, 1933: Aldermen replace the school-tax registrar after complaints that he argued against the tax
  • by May 3, 1935: Black citizens of Chapel Hill organize the Colored Civic Club
• Hadar, Janet 1 entry, 2021
  • January 11, 2021: UNC Health opens a large vaccination clinic at the Friday Center
• Haely, J. C. 1 entry, 1879
  • September 22-23, 1879: J. C. Haely, a native of Africa, lectures on Africa at Chapel Hill
• Hailey, J. R. 1 entry, 1952
  • October 12, 1952: Former pupils of Elm Grove School unveil a marker at the old school site
• Haines, H. H. 1 entry, 1955
  • May 8, 1955: New Hope Presbyterian Church breaks ground for its fifth building
• Hainey, Jesse 1 entry, 1818
  • November Term 1818: The court takes Elizabeth Revill, a free girl of color, from Simon Davis
• Hairston, Frank 1 entry, 1930
  • April 14, 1930: Black janitors organize the UNC Janitors' Association

  May be the same person as Hairston, Frank W.

• Hairston, Frank W. 1 entry, 1940
  • April 1940: The Janitors' Association puts out the first issue of its newsletter

  May be the same person as Hairston, Frank

• Hairston, Peter W. 1 entry, 1837
  • June 1837: The university graduates nine seniors and makes Basil Manly a Doctor of Divinity
• Haitcock, David 1 entry, 1818
  • 1818: Jacob Jeffries of the Texas community makes his will
• Haithcock, Calvin 2 entries, 1845–1859
  • May Term 1845: The court binds three Haithcock children of color to three masters in one term
  • March 23, 1859: Robert Thompson of Alamance County advertises for Calvin Haithcock, his runaway bound boy
• Haithcock, Ephraim 1 entry, 1845
  • May Term 1845: The court calls in the children of six free families of color to be bound out and tells the parents they may object
• Haithcock, John Wesley 1 entry, 1948
  • May 24, 1948: Carrboro adds a full-time policeman to assist its police chief
• Haithcock, Mary Ann 1 entry, 1845
  • May Term 1845: The court binds three Haithcock children of color to three masters in one term
• Haithcock, Peggy 2 entries, 1845
  • May Term 1845: The court binds three Haithcock children of color to three masters in one term
  • May Term 1845: The court calls in the children of six free families of color to be bound out and tells the parents they may object
• Haithcock, Robert 1 entry, 1894
  • March 22-24, 1894: James Jones pleads guilty to second-degree murder for killing Robert Haithcock
• Haithcock, Salley 1 entry, 1845
  • May Term 1845: The court binds three Haithcock children of color to three masters in one term
• Haithcock, Stanford 2 entries, 1832–1835
  • November Term 1832: The court releases John R. McDaniel from Stanford Haithcock's indenture and binds the boy to James Moore
  • May 29, 1835: James Moore advertises for Stanford Haithcock, his runaway bound boy
• Haithcock, Vincy 1 entry, 1845
  • May Term 1845: The court binds three Haithcock children of color to three masters in one term
• Haithcock, William 1 entry, 1863
  • October 21, 1863: William P. McDaniel advertises for William Haithcock, his runaway bound boy of color
• Haithcock, Williamson 1 entry, 1849
  • August 1849 (court term): The county court overrules a plea that the bastardy law does not reach a free man of color
• Hakan, Joe 4 entries, 1986–1991
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  • February 21, 1986: Estes Drive and Burlage Circle residents reach an agreement with Hakan-Corley over the Siena Hotel
  • October 1987: The Siena Hotel prepares to open on East Franklin Street
  • February 13, 1989: Downtown Commission asks for a special tax district for downtown Chapel Hill and Carrboro
  • September 1991: Joe Hakan becomes chairman of the chamber of commerce
• Hakan, Joseph 4 entries, 1986–1991

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• Haley, Alex 2 entries, 1975–1982
  • April 11, 1975: Alex Haley speaks in Memorial Hall about tracing his African ancestors
  • February 25, 1982: Alex Haley gives the Black History Month lecture in Memorial Hall
• Halifax, Lord 1 entry, 1943
  • December 2, 1943: British Ambassador Lord Halifax reviews 3,500 cadets and students in Kenan Stadium
• Hall, A. F. 1 entry, 1886
  • by October 30, 1886: A. F. Hall opens a grocery in the Cheek building north of the court house
• Hall, Absalom 1 entry, 1805
  • August Term 1805: The court jails four men for gaming
• Hall, Aleck 1 entry, 1872
  • by February 14, 1872: Aleck Hall, a Black omnibus driver, builds a new house on Tryon Street
• Hall, Arthur 1 entry, 1981
  • March 1981: The Arthur Hall dance ensemble performs at the BSM's Black Arts Festival
• Hall, C. W. 1 entry, 1930
  • January 17, 1930: The Patterson Brothers drugstore goes into receivership
• Hall, Elmer 1 entry, 1931
  • July 13 and 15, 1931: The Carolina Playmakers stage The Taming of the Shrew with a blackface Grumio
• Hall, Frederick 1 entry, 1933
  • May 9, 1933: Black singers of Chapel Hill and Durham join an Atlanta company in Pearly Gates at Memorial Hall
• Hall, J. M. 1 entry, 1906
  • June 4, 1906: A new iron bridge is set over the Eno just east of the Hillsboro station
• Hall, J. S. 2 entries, 1922–1923
  • by July 6, 1922: The Chapel Hill Funeral Home takes over E. A. Brown's undertaking business
  • December 19, 1923: Durham partners sell their share of Chapel Hill's Funeral Home to Eugene Andrews
• Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd 4 entries, 1973–2023

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• Hall, James 1 entry, 1810

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  • June 29, 1810: The university makes David Caldwell of Guilford a Doctor of Divinity
• Hall, James 1 entry, 1935

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• Hall, Jehu 1 entry, 1847
  • May Term 1847: The court grants Jehu Hall indentures for Charlotte Weldon and James Taburn, children of color
• Hall, Mrs. John W. 1 entry, 1929
  • by December 20, 1929: Three Orange County women win prizes in the national canning contest
• Hall, L. W. 3 entries, 1875–1882
  • July 24, 1875: A new academy building is finished at Caldwell
  • March 12, 1881: Little River Township votes down the no-fence law
  • October 18, 1882: Caldwell Democrats organize a Bennett and Cox Club
• Hall, Lambert W. 2 entries, 1859–1868
  • May Term 1859: The court binds four Harris children of color, the youngest under two, to Lambert W. Hall
  • May Term 1868: The court rescinds the 1859 binding of the four Harris children to Lambert W. Hall
• Hall, Leroy 1 entry, 1911
  • August 24, 1911: Farmers and farm women meet in institutes at Hillsboro
• Hall, Martha 1 entry, 1905
  • early 1900s: Martha Hall sells the Ellis house to Sheriff R. D. Baine
• Hall, Nelson 1 entry, 1869
  • 1869: Nelson Hall runs a flour and grist mill near Caldwell
• Hall, Nelson Parrish 22 entries, 1835–1905

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• Hall, R. H. 1 entry, 1887
  • 1887: Berry's Grove Baptist Church is organized
• Hall, R. N., Jr. 3 entries, 1890–1894
  • November 4, 1890: Democrats carry the county offices in Orange County's general election
  • July 30, 1890: Orange County Democrats nominate their legislative and county ticket and instruct for Vance
  • July 21, 1894: Orange County Democrats meet in convention and endorse A. W. Graham for Congress
• Hall, R. P. 1 entry, 1883
  • May 29, 1883: Court-appointed commissioners award damages to landowners along the University Railroad
• Hall, Robert N. 1 entry, 1859
  • 1859: New Bethel Methodist Church is organized
• Hall, Roy 1 entry, 1957
  • October 1, 1957: Parents vote to form an Orange County chapter of the N.C. Association for Retarded Children
• Hall, S. J. 3 entries, 1890–1908
  • March 19, 1890: Cedar Grove residents vote to build a school building to be called Cedar Grove Academy
  • November 3, 1896: Orange County voters elect township magistrates and constables
  • July 19, 1908: John Ed Collins kills Monroe Walker in Cedar Grove Township

  May be the same person as Hall, Simeon; Hall, Simeon J.

• Hall, S. M. 1 entry, 1894
  • September 30, 1894: H. S. Bradshaw is installed as pastor of Fairfield Presbyterian Church
• Hall, Simeon 1 entry, 1878
  • 1878: Nelson P. Hall buys the Ellis house and 267 acres on the Eno

  May be the same person as Hall, S. J.; Hall, Simeon J.

• Hall, Simeon J. 1 entry, 1890
  • September 1, 1890: Cedar Grove Academy is incorporated

  May be the same person as Hall, S. J.; Hall, Simeon

• Hall, Stephen 1 entry, 1988
  • 1988: A countywide inventory of natural areas singles out Occoneechee Mountain
• Hall, William 2 entries, 1794–1817
  • May Term 1794: The court licenses Thomas Watts and Francis Dunn to keep an ordinary in Hillsborough
  • May Term 1817: The court licenses William Hall to sell liquor at his house called 'Yankee Name'
• Hall, William E. 2 entries, 1895–1902
  • by March 23, 1895: The Fusion legislature names new magistrates for Orange County's townships
  • September 18, 1902: Orange Republicans name a county ticket
• Hall, William R. 1 entry, 1834
  • by July 12, 1834: Orange County's candidates for the Assembly and sheriff take the field
• Ham, George 1 entry, 1955
  • late December 1955: Money is set aside to finish the psychiatric wing at North Carolina Memorial Hospital

  May be the same person as Ham, George C.

• Ham, George C. 1 entry, 1953
  • by January 1, 1953: Memorial Hospital opens a psychiatric center for outpatients and inpatients

  May be the same person as Ham, George

• Ham, Marion A. 1 entry, 1959
  • November 16, 1959: County commissioners order $50,000 in bonds for an eight-room Glenwood School addition
• Hamborsky, Jane 2 entries, 1983–1992
  • September 1983: The Carrboro Appearance Commission publishes the town's architectural and historical inventory
  • September 1992: Maggie's Muffins moves to West Main Street and becomes Maggie's Cafe and Espresso
• Hamby, A. C. 2 entries, 1905–1906
  • by November 9, 1905: Orange County teachers organize separate white and Black associations
  • May 2, 1906: Charles E. Maddry marries Emma Parker at Hillsborough Baptist Church
• Hamer, Gene 1 entry, 1982
  • February 1982: Bill Neal and Gene Hamer reopen Crook's Corner
• Hamer, J. H. 1 entry, 1937
  • June 6, 1937: Fire guts a West Franklin Street building of Black-run businesses
• Hamilton, D. H. 18 entries, 1874–1906
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  • January 1874: Maj. D. H. Hamilton takes charge of the military department at Horner & Graves's School
  • May 1876: D. H. Hamilton and Mr. Morson take charge of the Hillsborough Military Academy
  • February 6, 1888: Merchant and tobacco maker A. A. Springs assigns his business to D. H. Hamilton
  • by March 1, 1888: D. H. Hamilton becomes deputy clerk of the superior court during Dr. Pride Jones's illness
  • July 3, 1888: Hillsborough Township Democrats organize a Cleveland and Fowle Club
  • July 4, 1889: Orange County's Confederate veterans organize a county association
  • September 1, 1890: County commissioners name registrars and judges for a new registration of Orange voters
  • December 1, 1890: The Orange County commissioners begin a new term and swear in the county officers
  • June 2, 1890: County justices choose D. E. Morrow for the board of commissioners
  • March 10, 1890: A special term of Orange Superior Court opens to clear the civil docket
  • December 1891: The county commissioners advertise for bids to build a bridge near Dimmock's Mill
  • July 6, 1891: The county Board of Education is sworn in and keeps W. V. Andrews as chairman
  • June 6, 1892: Orange justices and commissioners set the 1892 levy and elect John Thompson school superintendent
  • June 4, 1894: Justices and commissioners hold their last joint meeting
  • June 4, 1894: Orange County organizes a Vance Memorial Association
  • August 16, 1902: Orange Democrats name their 1902 county ticket
  • July 5, 1904: The county pension board reviews Orange County's pension roll
  • August 18, 1906: Orange Democrats renominate the county officers and endorse John W. Graham for the Senate
• Hamilton, D. Heyward 1 entry, 1924
  • August 24, 1924: St. Matthew's Church celebrates the hundredth anniversary of its organization
• Hamilton, Daniel Heyward 1 entry, 1908
  • September 18, 1908: Maj. Daniel Heyward Hamilton, clerk of Orange Superior Court, dies
• Hamilton, E. R. 1 entry, 1918
  • September 2, 1918: The Orange County Red Cross forms a canteen committee to give packages to men leaving for camp
• Hamilton, George 1 entry, 1956
  • June 22, 1956: The Carrboro Cubs stage a folk festival at the Lions park
• Hamilton, George, IV 1 entry, 1959
  • May 22, 1959: The Carrboro Festival talent show raises $300 for an injured man's medical fund
• Hamilton, Mrs. Howard 1 entry, 1942
  • October 14, 1942: Navy officers' wives organize the Pre-Flight Women's Club
• Hamilton, Howard 1 entry, 1943
  • by November 5, 1943: The University votes degree credit for courses taken in the Navy Pre-Flight School
• Hamilton, J. G. de Roulhac 1 entry, 1857

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  • about 1857: Thomas Ruffin buys a West Tryon Street house for his widowed daughter Catherine Roulhac
• Hamilton, J. G. de Roulhac 21 entries, 1861–2020

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• Hamilton, John 1 entry, 1773

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• Hamilton, Lily 1 entry, 1917
  • September 3, 1917: Hillsborough gives a Labor Day dinner for Orange County's first drafted men
• Hamilton, Luther 1 entry, 1947
  • March 20, 1947: A Superior Court jury convicts John Henry Breeze of murder, and he is sentenced to death
• Hamilton, Matthew 2 entries, 1768–1771
  • October 3, 1768: Tryon pardons the 1768 protesters except thirteen named leaders
  • later 1771: Outlawed Regulator leaders petition Governor Martin for pardon
• Hamilton, Ninian 2 entries, 1768
  • September 29, 1768: Grand jury indictments for rout against James Hunter are quashed at the Hillsborough superior court
  • October 3, 1768: Tryon pardons the 1768 protesters except thirteen named leaders

  May be the same person as Hamilton, Ninian Bell

• Hamilton, Ninian Bell 2 entries, 1768–1771
  • October 3, 1768: Tryon pardons the 1768 protesters except thirteen named leaders
  • later 1771: Outlawed Regulator leaders petition Governor Martin for pardon

  May be the same person as Hamilton, Ninian

• Hamilton, Thomas J. 1 entry, 1942
  • September 1942: Jack Dempsey spends four days at the Pre-Flight School
• Hamlett, Nyah 1 entry, 2021
  • March 22, 2021: Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools students return for hybrid classes
• Hamlin, E. J. 7 entries, 1948–1956
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  • September 1, 1948: The News of Orange County is sold to E. J. Hamlin
  • by April 6, 1950: Hillsboro's restoration committee and state officials agree to seek a survey of historic sites
  • April 15 to May 13, 1950: Orange County registers close to 9,000 voters in a complete new registration
  • August 12, 1952: Hillsboro merchants vote a second protest against the Morris Telephone Company's repair service
  • by November 6, 1952: School board names committees to plan Hillsboro's new elementary school and guard the Cameron Park trees
  • March 1954: The county elections board splits Chapel Hill's two voting precincts into five
  • January 24, 1956: County Democrats name John Hawkins to the school board seat left by Harry Breeze

  May be the same person as Hamlin, Edwin; Hamlin, Edwin J.

• Hamlin, Edwin 1 entry, 1958
  • January 24-25, 1958: The News of Orange County wins honorable mention for its Reverie strike story

  May be the same person as Hamlin, E. J.; Hamlin, Edwin J.

• Hamlin, Edwin J. 6 entries, 1952–1963
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  • October 1, 1952: The News of Orange County reports its owners and a paid circulation of 2,545
  • May 26, 1956: Orange County Democrats renominate R. J. M. Hobbs and Carl Durham and leave two races for a runoff
  • January 21, 1959: A Superior Court jury rules for two stockholders in the fight over the Chapel Hill News Leader
  • September 17, 1959: The News of Orange County turns tabloid and names Roland Giduz editor
  • September 3, 1963: Orange Democrats choose Edwin J. Hamlin for the state House by one vote
  • September 10, 1963: Governor Sanford appoints Edwin J. Hamlin to the House for Orange County

  May be the same person as Hamlin, E. J.; Hamlin, Edwin

• Hamlin, Flint 1 entry, 1955
  • August 1955: The county board names a committee to study school segregation after Brown
• Hamlin, Louise C. 1 entry, 1960
  • by August 25, 1960: Louise C. Hamlin becomes librarian of Hillsboro's Confederate Memorial Library
• Hamm, Mia 5 entries, 1989–2025

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• Hammersley, Bonnie 3 entries, 2021–2022

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• Hampton, W. P. 1 entry, 1860
  • February 4, 1860: Flat River men organize the Flat River Guards
• Hampton, Wade 1 entry, 1865

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• Hamrick, Kathryn 4 entries, 1951–1952
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  • May 1951: Orange County's seventeen home demonstration clubs count 443 members
  • March 3, 1952: Caldwell women organize a home demonstration club
  • May 8, 1952: County civil defense chairman R. L. Mohler names his deputy directors
  • November 3, 1952: Ruth Thompson is named Orange County's home demonstration agent
• Hancock, Eugene 1 entry, 1958
  • September 29, 1958: Calvary Missionary Baptist Church organizes in Carrboro
• Hancock, Frank 1 entry, 1930
  • by April 11, 1930: Hillsboro lawyer Sam M. Gattis withdraws from the race for Congress
• Hancock, John 2 entries, 1841–1845

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• Hancock, Samuel 12 entries, 1788–1834

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• Hancock, Samuel 1 entry, 1828

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  • May Term 1828: The court binds Henry Valentine, a free boy of color, to bricklayer Samuel Hancock for six years
• Hancock, Susan Richards 1 entry, 1821
  • November 17, 1821: Brickmason Samuel Hancock joins the Hillsborough Presbyterian Church he helped build
• Hanes, Frank B. 1 entry, 1960
  • October 12, 1960: The University library receives its millionth volume on University Day
• Hanes, Fred M. 2 entries, 1929–1932
  • early April 1929: Hanes family establishes the Hanes Foundation for the Study of the Book at UNC
  • May 27, 1932: Friends of the Library is organized at a dinner at the Carolina Inn
• Hanes, J. Gordon 1 entry, 1929

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• Hanes, Robert 1 entry, 1979
  • November 6, 1979: Orange County voters defeat a $17.8 million school bond backed by both superintendents

  May be the same person as Hanes, Robert M.

• Hanes, Robert M. 1 entry, 1929
  • early April 1929: Hanes family establishes the Hanes Foundation for the Study of the Book at UNC

  May be the same person as Hanes, Robert

• Haney, John 1 entry, 1953
  • October 7, 1953: The pageant The Road to Orange opens the county bicentennial week
• Hanft, Frank W. 2 entries, 1935–1942
  • September 13, 1935: Carolina Coach begins bus service from Greensboro to Raleigh by way of Chapel Hill
  • by October 23, 1942: A ceiling-price committee is named for Chapel Hill and Bingham townships
• Hanks, John 1 entry, 1956
  • December 2, 1956: Les Petites Musicales stages The Magic Flute in Hill Hall
• Hanks, Martin 2 entries, 1821–1823
  • about 1821: A small Federal house is built on East Orange Street for Martin Hanks
  • March 1823: Martin Hanks sells his lot and house at Churton and Orange streets to William H. Phillips
• Hanna, Kathleen 1 entry, 2005
  • February 23, 2005: Le Tigre plays the Cat's Cradle
• Hannah 1 entry, 1804
  • 1804: Suit by William Kirkland and others leads to the sale of Hannah and her children
• Hannah 1 entry, 1856
  • February 8, 1856: The Burwells resolve to sell their cook Hannah
• Hannah, J. H. 1 entry, 1930
  • by April 11, 1930: Orange County commissioners call an election to enlarge the Chapel Hill school district
• Hanner, John Hodge 22 entries, 1926–1952

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• Hanner, Nelly P. 1 entry, 1827
  • August 1827 (court term): The court discharges Henderson McDade after Nelly Hanner's infant dies
• Hans, Peter 1 entry, 2024
  • January 12, 2024: Guskiewicz leaves the Chapel Hill chancellorship
• Hansberry, Lorraine 1 entry, 1980
  • March 18-20, 1980: The speech department stages To Be Young, Gifted and Black
• Hansen, L. T. 1 entry, 1939
  • April 10, 1939: Chapel Hill dedicates its new Town Hall
• Haralson, Archibald 1 entry, 1837
  • 1837: Dr. Edmund Strudwick buys Archibald Haralson's house on West Queen Street and enlarges it
• Hardee, Bill 1 entry, 1958
  • by September 11, 1958: Carrboro finishes and pays for its $100,000 sewer plant improvement
• Hardee, E. L. 1 entry, 1952
  • October 1952: Fairview Baptist Church is organized in Hillsborough
• Hardee, E. O. 4 entries, 1953–1964
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  • May 4, 1953: Carrboro reelects Mayor J. Sullivan Gibson and fills its first six-member town board
  • May 6, 1957: Carrboro reelects Mayor R. B. Todd over Grover C. Brookbank
  • June 9, 1964: Carrboro's town board endorses Community Action, Inc.
  • October 13, 1964: E. O. Hardee resigns from the Carrboro board after twenty years

  May be the same person as Hardee, Ezekiel Otway

• Hardee, Ezekiel Otway 1 entry, 1940
  • by November 1, 1940: The draft lottery puts a Carrboro man first on Orange County's order list

  May be the same person as Hardee, E. O.

• Hardee, I. F. 3 entries, 1949–1951
  • May 3, 1949: Carrboro voters elect I. F. Hardee mayor over Mayor I. A. West
  • September 19, 1949: Carrboro starts grading Greensboro Street as Oak and Poplar avenues near paving
  • May 8, 1951: J. Sullivan Gibson unseats Mayor I. F. Hardee in Carrboro
• Hardee, Isaac Franklin, Sr. 1 entry, 1956
  • October 19, 1956: Former Carrboro mayor I. F. Hardee dies
• Hardee, Lieutenant 1 entry, 1865
  • March 25, 1865: Gen. Hardee's son is buried with military honors at Hillsborough
• Hardee, Rudolph 1 entry, 1958
  • September 29, 1958: Calvary Missionary Baptist Church organizes in Carrboro
• Hardee, Walter 1 entry, 1928
  • June 11-13, 1928: Orange County holds a child health clinic and parents' institute in Hillsboro
• Harden, Daniel 1 entry, 1846
  • May 21, 1846: Commissioners let the repair of the Haw River bridge at Ruffin's Mills
• Harden, Glenn 1 entry, 1951
  • April 18, 1951: Glenn Harden is elected the first woman editor of the Daily Tar Heel
• Harden, Junius 1 entry, 1928
  • November 1928: Chapel Hill election officials rebut a charge of illegal student voting
• Hardin, Paul 19 entries, 1988–1995
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  • fall 1988: Chancellor Paul Hardin condemns a run of racist threats on campus
  • 1990: UNC dedicates the Herman G. Baity Environmental Laboratory
  • 1990: Chancellor Paul Hardin adds sexual orientation to the university's nondiscrimination policy
  • fall 1990: Chancellor Hardin forms a Committee on Community and Diversity
  • September 11, 1990: Students hold Save UNC Day to protest state budget cuts
  • fall 1991: The BSM keeps Black Cultural Center programs in the center's cramped Union office to press for a building
  • by February 11, 1991: Dean Cell and Chancellor Hardin accept a student proposal for a multicultural course requirement
  • by January 1991: Chancellor Hardin decides to move The Student Body statues
  • November 1991: Housekeepers and student allies hold a cook-out to publicize the housekeepers' demands
  • October 25, 1991: UNC trustees rename the Black Cultural Center for Sonja Haynes Stone
  • by January 1991: The Class of 1991 chooses Douglas Wilder as UNC's first Black commencement speaker
  • February 24, 1992: Student coalition presents demands to Chancellor Hardin for a freestanding Black Cultural Center
  • by August 1992: Chancellor Hardin proposes clearing the back of the Carolina Union for the Black Cultural Center
  • March 17, 1992: Chancellor Hardin says he does not support a freestanding Black Cultural Center
  • March 27, 1992: UNC holds the naming ceremony for the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center
  • September 10, 1992: Students march on South Building and give Chancellor Hardin a November 13 deadline
  • September 3, 1992: About 500 students march at night to Chancellor Hardin's house for a freestanding Black Cultural Center
  • October 12, 1993: Chancellor Paul Hardin confers an honorary doctor of laws on President Bill Clinton
  • October 23, 1995: The first Douglass Hunt Lecture is given at UNC
• Hardin, Paul, III 4 entries, 1988–1995

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• Hardison, Dee 1 entry, 1977
  • 1977-1978: Dooley wins a third ACC title, then leaves for Virginia Tech
• Hardison, O. B. 2 entries, 1945
  • May 8, 1945: The Pre-Flight School marks the German surrender with vesper services in Memorial Hall
  • May 23, 1945: The Pre-Flight School marks three years with more than 15,000 cadets sent on to flight training
• Hardison, O. B., Jr. 3 entries, 1957–2024

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• Hardy, Henry 1 entry, 1821
  • 1821: A Methodist camp meeting at Hillsborough adds about 38 members and starts a fund for a meeting house
• Harget, Frederick 1 entry, 1792
  • November 5–9, 1792: Willie Jones views New Hope Chapel Hill as a university commissioner and signs for the site
• Hargett, Frederick 1 entry, 1792
  • December 5, 1792: Trustees name John Williams to the committee that will build the university and lay off Chapel Hill
• Hargitay, Mickey 1 entry, 1963
  • March 10, 1963: Jayne Mansfield rides in the pace car at Orange Speedway
• Hargrave, Jesse 9 entries, 1822–1879

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• Hargrave, Luther 1 entry, 1920
  • 1920: Carpenter Luther Hargrave builds a bungalow on Lindsay Street for his daughter's family
• Hargraves, Bessie 1 entry, 1945
  • March 1945: Black laundry workers take complaints of racial pay discrimination to the Fair Employment Practice Committee
• Hargraves, Frances 4 entries, 1943–2002

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• Hargraves, Jerry 1 entry, 1864
  • 1864: Black and Native American worshippers in Chapel Hill gather under a grape arbor and form the congregation that became St. Paul AME
• Hargraves, Luther R. 1 entry, 1920
  • 1920s: Luther R. Hargraves built the tin-roofed houses that gave Tin Top its name
• Hargraves, William M. 1 entry, 1973
  • 1973: The Community Center is renamed for William M. Hargraves
• Harland, J. P. 4 entries, 1938–1945
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  • November 22, 1938: Opera-on-Tour stages Faust in Memorial Hall after the University drops student stagehands in a union dispute
  • December 13, 1940: Chapel Hill raises money for Greek war relief, led by its Greek-born residents
  • By November 1941: Chapel Hill appoints its first town planning commission
  • about 1945: Classics professor J. P. Harland builds the first postwar house in Laurel Hill
• Harland, J. Penrose 1 entry, 1935
  • fall 1935: The University adds three courses in the Bible
• Harman, G. W. 3 entries, 1889–1890
  • April 30, 1889: Hillsborough rings its bells and its churches join in a Washington centennial service
  • February 22, 1889: The Orange County Sunday School Convention meets at Hillsborough
  • May 1890: Rev. G. W. Harman resigns the Hillsboro Baptist pastorate for Monroe

  May be the same person as Harman, George W.

• Harman, George W. 1 entry, 1888
  • November 1888: Rev. G. W. Harman accepts the pastorate of the Hillsborough Baptist church

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

• Harmon, J. O. 1 entry, 1929
  • May 27, 1929: Board of adjustment lets Acacia fraternity build in the residence zone
• Harmon, J. Obie 1 entry, 1929
  • late August 1929: Chapel Hill's American Legion post wins three state trophies
• Harmon, Obie 1 entry, 1933
  • May 17, 1933: Chapel Hill aldermen bar new apartment houses from the Residence A zones
• Harnett, Cornelius 3 entries, 1775

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• Harper, Jack 1 entry, 1931
  • by August 21, 1931: John McCauley and his wife sell their Carrboro mayonnaise business to a Gastonia firm
• Harper, Jeduthan 1 entry, 1790
  • November and December 1790: General Assembly orders a new district courthouse built at Hillsborough
• Harrelson, J. W. 1 entry, 1932
  • late September and October 1932: University Lake is stocked with bass and bream
• Harrer, Gustav 1 entry, 1928
  • about 1928: Gustav Harrer builds a shingled house on Laurel Hill Road
• Harrer, Gustave Adolphus 2 entries, 1935–1943

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• Harriet 1 entry, 1834
  • 1834: James Strudwick Smith buys Harriet, aged fifteen, as Mary Ruffin Smith's maid
• Harriet 1 entry, 1844
  • 1844: Harriet, enslaved by the Smith family in Hillsborough, gives birth to Cornelia after Sidney Smith rapes her
• Harriet 1 entry, 1845
  • 1845: James Strudwick Smith sells Harriet, Julius and Cornelia to Mary Ruffin Smith
• Harriet 1 entry, 1845
  • 1845-1847: The Smiths leave Hillsborough for Price Creek Plantation near Chapel Hill
• Harrington, Carl 1 entry, 1891
  • August 7, 1891: University trustees elect Carl Harrington professor of Latin
• Harrington, Karl P. 1 entry, 1892
  • January 22, 1892: The new Glee Club gives its first concert
• Harris, A. Hugh 1 entry, 1953
  • February 9, 1953: UNC trustees' executive committee approves semesters and Saturday classes at Chapel Hill
• Harris, Benton 1 entry, 1885
  • 1885: James H. Pratt's will leaves the Cabe farm to the family of Lucinda Harris
• Harris, Bernice Kelly 1 entry, 1939

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• Harris, Betsy 1 entry, 1868
  • May Term 1868: The court rescinds the 1859 binding of the four Harris children to Lambert W. Hall
• Harris, Betsy A. 1 entry, 1859
  • May Term 1859: The court binds four Harris children of color, the youngest under two, to Lambert W. Hall
• Harris, Bill 1 entry, 1935
  • by January 18, 1935: Relief funds restart work on the University's new intramural athletic field
• Harris, C. P. 1 entry, 1920
  • April 18, 1920: Mount Olive Baptist Church is organized at Efland
• Harris, Charles 2 entries, 1795–1796

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• Harris, Charles W. 2 entries, 1795–1796
  • December 1795: Trustees adopt William R. Davie's plan dividing the university into a preparatory school and professorships
  • September 22, 1796: David Gillespie receives the earliest document resembling a university diploma
• Harris, Charles Wilson 9 entries, 1794–1802

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• Harris, Cora A. 1 entry, 1950
  • March 30, 1950: The Hillsboro Garden Club receives a key said to have locked the Regulators in jail
• Harris, Doctor W. 2 entries, 1859–1868
  • May Term 1859: The court binds four Harris children of color, the youngest under two, to Lambert W. Hall
  • May Term 1868: The court rescinds the 1859 binding of the four Harris children to Lambert W. Hall
• Harris, Edward 5 entries, 1808–1937
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  • February 24, 1808: The court binds out seven children of Penny Weaver, a free woman of color
  • August Term 1811: The court takes Franky Weaver, a girl of color, from Edward Harris and binds her to Nathaniel Carrington
  • August Term 1815: The court releases Isaac Weaver, a boy of color, from his binding to Edward Harris
  • August 29, 1815: A jury finds Edward Harris of unsound mind, and the court keeps him in the county jail
  • September 1937: The county school board pulls down a century-old house opposite the Hillsboro school
• Harris, Eugene L. 3 entries, 1879
  • April 23, 1879: Orange Presbytery holds its 318th session at Eno Church and approves the church order sent down by the General Assembly
  • April 12, 1879: The Orange Sunday School Convention meets at New Hope Church and names a committee to write its constitution
  • by May 31, 1879: The university YMCA fits up a reading room and asks the public to help furnish it

  May be the same person as Harris, Eugene Lewis

• Harris, Eugene Lewis 1 entry, 1897
  • 1897: The Old Well rotunda is built

  May be the same person as Harris, Eugene L.

• Harris, Frank 1 entry, 1883
  • August to December 1883: Work begins on the Gray school and church for Black residents at Brownsville
• Harris, G. A. 1 entry, 1917
  • by May 3, 1917: Chapel Hill children enlist in a war garden army
• Harris, Gladys H. 1 entry, 1950
  • September 1950: West Hillsboro elementary school is accredited
• Harris, H. B. 1 entry, 1942
  • June 1942: Army transport planes from Fort Bragg train at the Chapel Hill airport
• Harris, H. W. 1 entry, 1887
  • February 19, 1887: W. M. Stroud & Co. of University Station dissolves
• Harris, H. Y. 2 entries, 1882–1886
  • October 18, 1882: Caldwell Democrats organize a Bennett and Cox Club
  • April 6, 1886: Fire destroys the Caldwell Institute building in Little River Township
• Harris, Henry 1 entry, 1836
  • March 1836: Henry Harris, held as a suspected runaway, is charged with burning the Orange County jail
• Harris, J. E. 1 entry, 1887
  • 1887: Berry's Grove Baptist Church is organized

  May be the same person as Harris, Joseph E.

• Harris, J. M. 1 entry, 1946
  • 1946: Principal J. M. Harris refits the Murphey School lunchroom

  May be the same person as Harris, Jody; Harris, Jody M.

• Harris, Mrs. J. M. 1 entry, 1949
  • January 19, 1949: Orange County teachers organize a unit of the state Classroom Teachers Department
• Harris, J. T. 1 entry, 1890
  • July 15-17, 1890: The Methodist Durham District Sunday School Conference meets at Hillsborough
• Harris, Jacqueline Cato Hijmans 1 entry, 1972
  • 1972: Jon Condoret designs a Modernist house for Drs. Jerome and Jacqueline Harris
• Harris, James R. 1 entry, 1866
  • August Term 1866: The court binds A. W. McBroom to James R. Harris and Margaret Jane McBroom to S. S. McBroom
• Harris, Jerome Sylvan 1 entry, 1972
  • 1972: Jon Condoret designs a Modernist house for Drs. Jerome and Jacqueline Harris
• Harris, Jesse 5 entries, 1886–1887
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  • November 8-12, 1886: The grand jury indicts five Black men in the killing of student Jacob Freeze
  • October 10, 1886: Student Jacob A. Freeze is shot dead during a clash between students and Black residents
  • May 8, 1887: Prisoners in the Freeze case try to break out of the Hillsborough jail
  • December 8, 1887: Three Black men convicted in the killing of student Freeze go to the penitentiary
  • March 30-April 2, 1887: Three Black men are convicted of manslaughter in the killing of student Jacob Freeze
• Harris, Jody 1 entry, 1938
  • December 3, 1938: The Orange County Training School football game clears nearly $100 for the Black nursing service

  May be the same person as Harris, J. M.; Harris, Jody M.

• Harris, Jody M. 1 entry, 1942
  • by January 16, 1942: Orange County Training School opens defense trade classes for Black youth

  May be the same person as Harris, J. M.; Harris, Jody

• Harris, John 1 entry, 1957
  • November 7, 1957: Mrs. Raymond Thompson is named Orange County's home demonstration leader of the year
• Harris, Joseph A. 53 entries, 1878–1914

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• Harris, Joseph A., Jr. 2 entries, 1892
  • by January 16, 1892: Joseph A. Harris Jr. opens a store in the old Brown building near the court house
  • late January 1892: The Orange County Observer moves its office to rooms over Joseph A. Harris Jr.'s store
• Harris, Joseph E. 1 entry, 1885
  • July 6, 1885: The new Board of Education sets aside $50 for an institute for Black teachers

  May be the same person as Harris, J. E.

• Harris, June 2 entries, 1928–1945
  • by July 13, 1928: June Harris builds five Aladdin houses on Rosemary Lane
  • by March 1, 1945: Orange County is found to have only two justices of the peace
• Harris, Lizzie Carr 1 entry, 1928
  • by July 13, 1928: June Harris builds five Aladdin houses on Rosemary Lane
• Harris, Lucinda 1 entry, 1885
  • 1885: James H. Pratt's will leaves the Cabe farm to the family of Lucinda Harris
• Harris, Mark 1 entry, 1807
  • November 1807 (court term): A jury finds for Priscilla Woods in two suits against Mark Harris
• Harris, May Pashley 1 entry, 1927
  • April 8, 1927: Orange County schools hold their county commencement in Hillsboro
• Harris, Miss 1 entry, 1868
  • June 30, 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay praises Hillsborough's Howard Freedmen's School and asks the Philadelphia Friends for more teachers
• Harris, Mrs. 1 entry, 1843
  • by October 26, 1843: Mrs. Harris of Orange makes silk handkerchiefs from silk she raised
• Harris, Nancy 1 entry, 1868
  • May Term 1868: The court rescinds the 1859 binding of the four Harris children to Lambert W. Hall
• Harris, Nancy H. 1 entry, 1859
  • May Term 1859: The court binds four Harris children of color, the youngest under two, to Lambert W. Hall
• Harris, Nathaniel 3 entries, 1795–1835
  • May 27, 1795 to February Term 1798: The county court proves a run of deeds to and from the University's trustees
  • February 1801 (court term): A jury finds for Elizabeth Waggoner in her suit against Nathaniel Harris
  • April 25, 1835: A Red Mountain meeting nominates Thomas Ruffin and Frederick Nash for the constitutional convention
• Harris, R. L. 1 entry, 1944
  • May 25, 1944: The National Munitions plant at Carrboro receives the first National Security Award given in North Carolina
• Harris, R. P. 4 entries, 1923–1926
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  • by January 18, 1923: The Bank of Chapel Hill backs the high school boys' purebred Jersey program
  • September 23, 1924: A farmers' marketing truck begins collecting Orange County produce
  • January 27, 1925: Paul Lloyd and his sons' Sunnyside hatchery turns out its first chicks
  • by August 6, 1926: Orange County farmers in the Sweet Cream and Poultry Producers report their profits
• Harris, Robert 4 entries, 1808–1816
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  • February 24, 1808: The court binds out seven children of Penny Weaver, a free woman of color
  • May Term 1816: The court cancels the Bennehan's mill bridge contract and orders it let again
  • March 1, 1816: The court names a committee to contract for an Eno bridge near Bennehan's mill
  • May Term 1816: The court names election inspectors for the county's polling places
• Harris, Sandy 2 entries, 1833–1879
  • September 9 to 11, 1833: Internal improvement convention meets at Hillsborough and elects Thomas Ruffin president
  • early November 1879: The university museum receives Sandy Harris's carved group of Christian and Apollyon
• Harris, Sterling 12 entries, 1786–1807
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  • about 1786: Sterling Harris builds the house on East Queen Street later called Heartsease
  • December 1, 1791: The court orders a pillory and stocks built on the public lot in Hillsborough
  • May 27, 1791: The court orders the road east of Hillsborough turned along the road to the mineral spring on James Hogg's land
  • March 3, 1792: The court pays for building the new pillory and stocks in Hillsborough
  • February Term 1797: The court levies a tax to build a county jail in Hillsborough
  • February Term 1798: The court pays for the register's books and has John Estes's indexing valued
  • February Term 1799: The justices elect Sterling Harris treasurer of public buildings
  • May 28, 1800: County auditors report nearly £1,000 through the public buildings treasury
  • February 29, 1804: The court binds Edy Weaver's five children to their mother, a free woman of color
  • May Term 1804: The court orders a bridge across the Eno at Hillsborough and levies a tax for it
  • May Term 1805: The court orders a public clock for the courthouse and levies a tax for it
  • May Term 1807: The court appoints James Webb treasurer of public buildings
• Harris, Thomas 1 entry, 1820
  • December 23, 1820: Thomas Harris is elected Hillsborough's magistrate of police
• Harris, Thomas N. 2 entries, 1859–1868
  • May Term 1859: The court binds four Harris children of color, the youngest under two, to Lambert W. Hall
  • May Term 1868: The court rescinds the 1859 binding of the four Harris children to Lambert W. Hall
• Harris, Thomas West 9 entries, 1875–1890

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• Harris, Trudier 6 entries, 1981–1986
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  • early April 1981: A conference on Black scholarship honors Blyden Jackson, UNC's first Black full professor
  • February 16-26, 1981: Two curricula hold a lecture series on Black and white relations in Gerrard Hall
  • March 20-21, 1981: Delta Sigma Theta holds a workshop on the Black woman at the Carolina Union
  • April 16, 1981: Afro-American studies and Black Ink award prizes in their first poetry contest
  • January 24, 1986: The Black Cultural Center steering committee meets to finish its proposal
  • November 13, 1986: Students and the Rainbow Coalition hold a vigil against racism at the Franklin Street post office
• Harris, Tyree 6 entries, 1752–1776

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• Harris, William 2 entries, 1832–1859
  • about 1832: Pleasant Green Methodist Church is organized
  • 1859: New Bethel Methodist Church is organized
• Harrison, Gwendolyn Lolita 1 entry, 1951
  • July 15, 1951: Gwendolyn Harrison becomes the first Black woman admitted to UNC
• Harrison, Perry W. 1 entry, 1958
  • June 11, 1958: Superintendent Carr names new principals for Murphey, Efland and West Hillsboro schools
• Harrison, Thomas 1 entry, 1776
  • April 22, 1776: The Provincial Congress divides the Orange County militia into Northern and Southern regiments
• Harrison, Troy 2 entries, 2007–2009
  • 2007: St. Joseph CME Church and UNC begin the Northside oral history partnership
  • May 2, 2009: Marian Cheek Jackson Center opens at St. Joseph CME Church
• Harriss, Robert C. 1 entry, 1954
  • September 11, 1954: Harriss-Conners Chevrolet takes over the Hazzard Motor Company in Chapel Hill
• Harriss, William 1 entry, 1847
  • 1 December 1847: John Shepard advertises for William Harriss and Liza Corn, two free bound apprentices who left together
• Harrisse, Henri 1 entry, 1857
  • January 1857: Trustees create a professorship of modern languages
• Harrisse, Henry 2 entries, 1853–1856
  • 1853: Henry Harrisse becomes instructor in French at the university
  • October 23, 1856: Henry Harrisse protests to the trustees' executive committee
• Harry 1 entry, 1845
  • March 1845: Enslaved workers build and tend the Battle household in Chapel Hill
• Hart, David 1 entry, 1832
  • February 1, 1832: Five elders are ordained at New Hope during the revival
• Hart, James 3 entries, 1795–1820

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• Hart, Nathaniel 1 entry, 1774
  • 1774: Richard Henderson forms the Louisa Company with Thomas Hart and other Orange men
• Hart, Samuel 1 entry, 1832
  • February 1, 1832: Five elders are ordained at New Hope during the revival
• Hart, Susannah Gray 1 entry, 1775
  • 1775: Colonel John Gray dies and leaves Grayfields to his son-in-law Thomas Hart
• Hart, Thomas 31 entries, 1752–1783

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• Harter, Tracy 1 entry, 2022
  • December 2022: UNC raises housekeepers' pay by 90 cents an hour
• Hartford, J. R. 1 entry, 1930
  • by March 14, 1930: A&P president J. R. Hartford gives $150 toward Chapel Hill's Black nurse
• Hartgen, Vincent 1 entry, 1938
  • November 6-25, 1938: An exhibition of seventy sculptures by Anna Hyatt Huntington opens at Person Hall
• Hartgrove, Fred 1 entry, 1830
  • 1830: Fred Hartgrove, a free Black man, holds three enslaved people
• Hartley, John 1 entry, 1981
  • November 1981: The Upper Deck tavern opens above the Porthole restaurant
• Hartmann, Charles C. 1 entry, 1960
  • August 19, 1960: The Hillsboro Savings and Loan Association lays the cornerstone of its North Churton Street office
• Hartso, Phillip 1 entry, 1768
  • September 1768: William Butler is convicted of riot at the Hillsborough superior court
• Hartsough, Mrs. C. W. 1 entry, 1942
  • October 12, 1942: A cooperative community kindergarten opens at the Presbyterian church
• Hartzo, John Phillip 1 entry, 1768
  • September 1768: Samuel Devinney and John Philip Hartzo are convicted over the horse rescue
• Harvey, Absalom 2 entries, 1817–1849
  • February 26, 1817: The court summons Absalom Harvey to produce his apprentice Hugh Finley after a complaint of neglect
  • by July 19, 1849: Commissioners sell the first fifty lots in Graham, the new Alamance seat
• Harvey, Avery 1 entry, 1892
  • 1892: Harvey's Chapel AME Church is organized
• Harvey, B. M. 1 entry, 1959
  • October 1959: Piedmont Minerals builds a pyrophyllite mine and plant at Occoneechee Mountain
• Harvey, Felix 1 entry, 1928
  • by July 20, 1928: Construction begins on a classroom building south of Murphey Hall
• Harvey, John 1 entry, 1790
  • December 6, 1790: The university's treasury receives its first money
• Harvin, Sue 1 entry, 1996
  • October 20, 1996: Allan Gurganus and Marly Youmans sign books to fund a Habitat for Humanity house
• Harward, Ashwell 3 entries, 1955–1957
  • April 23-24, 1955: The Carrboro Lions Club breaks ground for a Boy Scout hut beside its ball park
  • June 11, 1957: Carrboro school advisory committee rejects joining the Chapel Hill district
  • by June 6, 1957: Carrboro PTA committee asks for a vote on joining the Chapel Hill school district

  May be the same person as Harward, Ashwell B.

• Harward, Ashwell B. 2 entries, 1956–1957
  • by January 12, 1956: County school board completes its advisory committee on segregation
  • June 25, 1957: Carrboro commissioners appoint a zoning board of appeals

  May be the same person as Harward, Ashwell

• Harward, Aubrey 1 entry, 1963
  • April 9, 1963: County commissioners name the outside members of Carrboro's new planning and zoning boards
• Harward, George N. 3 entries, 1946–1956
  • March 25, 1946: Orange County Republicans elect George N. Harward chairman
  • January 16, 1952: Orange County Republicans elect M. L. Cates Sr. chairman
  • November 6, 1956: Orange County gives Adlai Stevenson a narrow margin as Eisenhower carries nine precincts
• Harward, T. R. 2 entries, 1935–1943
  • May 14, 1935: A hailstorm strikes the Durham road and Bolin Creek valley east of Chapel Hill
  • March 15, 1943: Durham Dairy Products stops selling milk in Chapel Hill rather than use the Grade C label
• Harward, William H. 1 entry, 1915
  • June 12, 1915: Confederate veteran William H. Harward dies at Chapel Hill
• Harwell, P. L. 1 entry, 1862
  • by March 26, 1862: A Confederate provost marshal takes charge of railroad passes at Hillsborough
• Harwood, T. R. 2 entries, 1931–1936
  • September 1931: George Noah buys C. H. Weaver's dairy farm and stocks it with a new herd
  • January 28, 1936: Temperature falls to 6 degrees in Chapel Hill's hardest winter since 1899
• Hasell, Eliza 1 entry, 1829
  • 1829: Eliza Hasell sells her West Queen Street house to Samuel Simpson of New Bern

  May be the same person as Hasell, Eliza Garden Tart

• Hasell, Eliza Garden Tart 1 entry, 1820
  • about 1820: A Federal house is built on West Queen Street for Eliza Hasell

  May be the same person as Hasell, Eliza

• Haskell, Eugene L. 1 entry, 1893
  • May 1, 1893: Hillsborough re-elects Mayor Joseph A. Harris and chooses a new town board
• Hassel, Bryan 1 entry, 1986
  • April 19, 1986: Student Congress votes 11 to 9 to give the Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association $905
• Hassell, C. B. 1 entry, 1879
  • June 4, 1879: Dr. Moses D. Hoge of Richmond addresses the literary societies in place of Senator Thurman
• Hassell, E. L. 1 entry, 1894
  • January 27, 1894: Fire destroys E. A. Rosemond's warehouse and livery stable and a Churton Street store in Hillsborough

  May be the same person as Hassell, Eugene L.

• Hassell, Eugene L. 2 entries, 1893–1897
  • mid-September 1893: Eugene L. Hassell takes charge of the Hillsborough post office and moves it to Churton Street
  • by July 1, 1897: J. Clyde Cheek succeeds Eugene L. Hassell as Hillsborough postmaster

  May be the same person as Hassell, E. L.

• Hastings, Arnold 1 entry, 1950
  • November 6, 1950: A new board of Hillsboro's Legion Memorial Hut reverses the decision to sell the hut
• Hastings, Clyde 1 entry, 1949
  • September 26, 1949: Chapel Hill aldermen grant a town bus franchise to Chapel Hill Transit Lines
• Hastings, Joseph 1 entry, 1780
  • early December 1780: Civil authorities hold four Maryland soldiers for robbing a house south of Hillsborough
• Hatch, Elijah 1 entry, 1830
  • about 1830-1832: Orange Methodist Church is organized at the Davis School House
• Hatchell, Sylvia 3 entries, 1986–2019

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• Hatcher-Wilson, Zenobia 2 entries, 1985–1991
  • summer 1985: Zenobia Hatcher-Wilson becomes director of the Campus Y
  • August 1991: The Campus Y and the BSM dedicate the 1991-92 year to Sonja Haynes Stone
• Hatley, Gene 2 entries, 1990–1994
  • 1990–1993: James Brittian leads the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP
  • by February 1994: The Rev. Gene Hatley becomes president of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP
• Haughawout, Albert 2 entries, 1881–1882
  • September 24-26, 1881: Hillsborough closes its stores for President Garfield's funeral
  • May 27, 1882: Hillsborough Republicans recommend Albert Haughawout, a Black man, for the state House
• Haughton, Thomas G. 1 entry, 1834
  • June 26, 1834: The university holds its 1834 commencement
• Hausler, Werner 5 entries, 1964–1970

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• Haven-O'Donnell, Randee 11 entries, 1990–2025

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• Haward, William H. 1 entry, 1905
  • 1905: Roy Thayer builds a Queen Anne house on McCauley Street for William H. Haward
• Hawk, Marcia 1 entry, 1979
  • 1979: Steven Fisher and Marcia Hawk move a threatened mill house to their Maple Avenue lot
• Hawkins, Benjamin 3 entries, 1782–1791

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• Hawkins, David 1 entry, 1960
  • February 1, 1960: Citizens groups press the Chapel Hill school board to adopt the Quaker plan
• Hawkins, J. E. 1 entry, 1924
  • June 7, 1924: Orange Democrats nominate L. B. Lloyd for sheriff over Jug Whitaker

  May be the same person as Hawkins, John E.

• Hawkins, J. H. 1 entry, 1925
  • January 30 and February 6, 1925: A Klan spokesman and Josiah W. Bailey argue the Ku Klux Klan's case in Memorial Hall
• Hawkins, J. W. 1 entry, 1894
  • September 8, 1894: The Orange County People's Party nominates its county ticket
• Hawkins, John 6 entries, 1956–1963
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  • May 26, 1956: Orange County Democrats renominate R. J. M. Hobbs and Carl Durham and leave two races for a runoff
  • March 3, 1958: The county school board asks for a vote on joining Carrboro and White Cross to the Chapel Hill district
  • April 9, 1958: The county school board leaves the Carrboro school committee seats unfilled during the merger fight
  • January 5, 1959: Orange County school board agrees to send Person County pupils at Aycock back to Person
  • July 21, 1961: The county school board again refuses nine Black children places at the closed White Cross School
  • February 25, 1963: Aycock School patrons protest the high school consolidation at a county hearing
• Hawkins, John D. 1 entry, 1843
  • May 31, 1843: Alumni gather at Chapel Hill and organize the university's Alumni Association
• Hawkins, John E. 2 entries, 1956–1964
  • January 24, 1956: County Democrats name John Hawkins to the school board seat left by Harry Breeze
  • August 21, 1964: County school board refuses to delay school opening for the late tobacco harvest

  May be the same person as Hawkins, J. E.

• Hawkins, John F. 1 entry, 1958
  • September 8, 1958: The county school board orders Black pupils from Person and Caswell out of Cedar Grove School
• Hawkins, John H. 1 entry, 1803
  • spring 1803: A student duel brings expulsions and a trustee order against dueling
• Hawkins, Reginald 1 entry, 1972
  • April 2-8, 1972: The BSM holds its first Black Arts Cultural Festival
• Hawkins, Rosa 1 entry, 1932
  • 1932: Rebecca Clark moves to Chapel Hill and goes to work in a faculty home
• Hawkins, Walter 1 entry, 1900
  • about 1900: The Walter Hawkins farmstead with its tobacco barns takes shape near Caldwell
• Hawkins, William 1 entry, 1812

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• Hawks, Francis L. 13 entries, 1821–1857

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• Hay, John 1 entry, 1792
  • December 1792: A trustee committee under Samuel McCorkle reports the university's first plan of studies
• Hay, Ruth 3 entries, 1940–1959
  • 1940: Rosenau recruits Ruth Hay from Berkeley to head a new Department of Public Health Nursing
  • June 9, 1942: Twenty public health nurses graduate from the University
  • 1959: Margaret Dolan succeeds Ruth Hay as head of Public Health Nursing
• Hay, Thomas H. 36 entries, 1868
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  • December 31, 1868: The Bureau closes its Hillsborough office as Lt. Thomas H. Hay rejoins his regiment
  • July 1868: The Bureau distributes 5,620 pounds of corn and 836 pounds of bacon among Orange County's destitute
  • June to October 1868: The Bureau sends sick freedmen from Hillsborough to its Salisbury hospital until it stops taking patients
  • July 1868: Freedpeople at Cedar Grove put up a school house and win Bureau rent for it
  • July 15 to August 15, 1868: Chapel Hill freedmen seek Bureau aid for a building that Lt. Hay judges is meant as a Baptist church
  • September to December 1868: Chapel Hill's freedmen's school gets Bureau money for repairs and desks
  • October to November 1868: A freedmen's school opens at Cotton Run and closes when its teacher resigns
  • September 25, 1868: Esther Anderson arrives to teach Hillsborough's freedmen's school
  • November to December 1868: Freedmen around Hillsborough ask about railroad work near Raleigh
  • August to December 1868: Freedpeople at Bains put up a school house on their own land
  • August 1868: Freedpeople at Durham's Station buy land and build a school house
  • June 26, 1868: The Philadelphia Friends' association owns the freedmen's schoolhouse at Hillsborough and lends it to the Methodists
  • first week of October 1868: Georgianna Rumbley opens the freedmen's school at Cedar Grove
  • October to December 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay cancels apprenticeships made by an earlier Bureau officer and returns children to their parents
  • November 30, 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay counts about 330 day pupils in Orange County's freedmen's schools
  • December 26, 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay tries to talk teacher Robert G. Fitzgerald out of running for clerk
  • May 20, 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay finds about 150 people in Orange County in need of relief
  • May 23 to July 11, 1868: Thomas H. Hay's freedmen's court at Hillsborough decides Orange cases
  • December 17-18, 1868: Major Hay orders Sheriff John Turner to return two Black children held by a white man
  • June 30, 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay praises Hillsborough's Howard Freedmen's School and asks the Philadelphia Friends for more teachers
  • June 30, 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay reports twenty cases settled in June and freedmen's schools closed for the summer
  • May 25-30, 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay reports on the May term of the Orange County court and its cases against Black defendants
  • July 31, 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay reports ten freedmen's day schools in Orange and Person, nearly all with Black teachers
  • August to November 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay reports threats to turn freedmen off farms for their politics
  • July 31, 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay reports whites refusing Bureau summonses since the state's return to the Union
  • May 18, 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay is ordered to Hillsborough to take charge of Orange and Person counties
  • May to October 1868: The Hillsborough Bureau office dockets about sixty complaints in the summer of 1868
  • October 1868: Three justices, one of them Black, investigate a fight and a shooting at Durham's
  • July 1-6, 1868: A Chapel Hill magistrate and his son beat Mills Saunders while he is held on a civil warrant
  • October 1868: New freedmen's schools open at Banocks Chapel, Cotton Run and New Hope, all with Black teachers
  • October 17, 1868: Freedpeople at New Hope rent a building and hire a teacher for a school
  • June 19 to July 28, 1868: Destitute Orange residents, white and Black, apply to the Bureau office at Hillsborough for rations
  • September 2, 1868: Raleigh ends the Hillsborough Bureau clerk's post, citing the Bureau's coming close
  • August 31, 1868: Four people are held in the Orange County jail for the killing of Smith Green
  • July 28, 1868: St. Mark's district residents tell the Bureau that county relief has failed
  • October 1868: Trustees open a freedmen's school at a chapel near Chapel Hill
• Hay, W. V. 1 entry, 1897
  • January 4, 1897: Two added county commissioners named by Judge Spencer Adams take their seats
• Hayden, Joseph 1 entry, 1956
  • July 4, 1956: The Tar-Heel Motor Lodge opens on the Chapel Hill bypass
• Haydon, Glen 5 entries, 1934–1940
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  • by July 6, 1934: Arthur E. Ruark and Glen Haydon join the university as heads of physics and music
  • by March 8, 1935: University graduate school establishes a master's curriculum in musicology
  • by July 10, 1936: The University founds a department of art under Russell T. Smith
  • fall 1937: Chapel Hill High School starts a band with instruments from the Carrboro mill
  • 1940: Music department chair Glen Haydon builds a brick house on Laurel Hill Road
• Hayek, Friedrich A. 1 entry, 1948
  • April 14, 1948: Economist Friedrich A. Hayek lectures in Gerrard Hall
• Hayes, Anna 1 entry, 1981
  • 1981: Anna and Larry Hayes restore the old Lloyd grist mill as the Broad Street shop
• Hayes, Betty June 10 entries, 1954–1963
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  • December 6, 1954: Betty June Hayes takes office as Orange County's register of deeds
  • May 29, 1954: Betty June Hayes wins the Democratic nomination for Register of Deeds
  • November 2, 1954: Orange County voters elect an enlarged five-member board of commissioners
  • by August 11, 1955: The register of deeds has the county's oldest deed and plat books rebound
  • September 23, 1955: Orange County Young Democrats elect William M. Alexander president
  • April 9, 1958: County commissioners call the May 20 Carrboro-White Cross school merger election
  • by March 1958: Orange County sells $1 million of its school construction bonds
  • January 24, 1962: James Freeland hosts the Orange Democrats' announcement party at the General Sherman
  • May 12, 1962: Orange County Democrats hold their convention and begin Distinguished Democrat citations
  • October 11, 1963: Mrs. Alfred G. Engstrom is elected president of the Hillsborough Historical Society
• Hayes, Billy 1 entry, 1917
  • October 23, 1917: A Liberty Bonfire on the court house square rallies Hillsborough for the Second Liberty Loan
• Hayes, David 1 entry, 1888
  • early January 1888: The sheriff names David Hayes jailer at Hillsborough
• Hayes, John 1 entry, 1894
  • May 7, 1894: Hillsborough elects former Republican postmaster N. W. Brown mayor
• Hayes, Johnson J. 1 entry, 1935
  • December 20, 1935: Federal court creates a Durham division that takes in Orange County
• Hayes, Larry 1 entry, 1981
  • 1981: Anna and Larry Hayes restore the old Lloyd grist mill as the Broad Street shop
• Hayes, Louise 1 entry, 1954
  • August 1954: Two forgotten graves in a Noble Street backyard come to light
• Hayes, Mrs. R. B. 1 entry, 1917
  • July 1917: Nurse Mrs. R. B. Hayes starts a surgical dressings class in the Hillsborough Red Cross room
• Hayes, R. B. 2 entries, 1930
  • May 14, 1930: Hillsboro high school graduates 31 seniors
  • June 20, 1930: Chapel Hill Legion post forms a boys' baseball team with Carrboro and Hillsboro players
• Hayes, Samuel 1 entry, 1799
  • February 28, 1799: The court appoints a patrol for the University village
• Hayes, Stephen 1 entry, 2020
  • February 28, 2020: The Town of Chapel Hill unveils the Chapel Hill Nine marker at the Colonial Drug site
• Hayes, Sue 3 entries, 1932–1955
  • by October 14, 1932: Volunteer committees give out federal Red Cross cloth in Chapel Hill, Efland and Hillsboro
  • by May 29, 1942: E. M. Lynch is re-elected president of the Hillsboro Library Association
  • September 1955: The Hillsboro Business and Professional Women's Club names Miss Sue Hayes its Business Woman of the Year

  May be the same person as Hayes, Sue B.

• Hayes, Sue B. 3 entries, 1911–1947
  • June 5, 1911: The Hillsboro Betterment Association asks the commissioners to improve the court house square
  • May 11, 1918: Mrs. J. Cheshire Webb is named the Orange County Red Cross's director of woman's work
  • by January 9, 1947: Jake Forrest buys the Hayes Drug Store and renames it the Corner Drug Store

  May be the same person as Hayes, Sue

• Hayes, T. C. 1 entry, 1891
  • May 4, 1891: Hillsborough re-elects Mayor Joseph A. Harris and chooses a seven-man town board

  May be the same person as Hayes, Thomas C.

• Hayes, Thomas C. 2 entries, 1846–1860
  • September 1846: Union Grove Methodist Church is organized
  • February 4, 1860: Hillsborough elects Andrew Murdock magistrate of police and seven town commissioners

  May be the same person as Hayes, T. C.

• Hayes, Tony 2 entries, 2023–2024
  • March 2023: Hillsborough tribute remembers John Blackfeather Jeffries
  • May 30, 2024: State highway marker for the Occaneechi Indian Tribe dedicated at the tribal center
• Hayes, Turner 1 entry, 1854
  • May Term 1854: The court upholds Turner Hayes's binding to Williamson Parrish over Robert Laws's challenge
• Hayes, W. A. 6 entries, 1883–1897
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  • early September 1883: A new storehouse on Churton Street opens with Hayes's drug store and the Observer office
  • January 2, 1886: Hillsborough men incorporate the Orange County Tobacco Association to buy and sell leaf tobacco
  • April 27, 1886: Thomas B. Hill is elected senior warden of St. Matthew's Church
  • December 14, 1891: Rev. Joseph W. Murphy resigns as rector of St. Matthew's Church because of ill health
  • by January 9, 1892: W. A. Hayes buys Dr. O. Hooker's drug business at Hillsborough
  • late May 1897 (by June 3): W. A. Hayes moves his drug store from Churton Street to King Street

  May be the same person as Hayes, William A.

• Hayes, Mrs. W. A. 1 entry, 1917
  • 1917: Hillsborough children aged six to sixteen learn to knit for soldiers in a Red Cross class
• Hayes, W. J. 1 entry, 1881
  • by March 26, 1881: W. J. Hayes opens a photograph gallery in Hillsborough

  May be the same person as Hayes, William J.

• Hayes, William 2 entries, 1795–1925
  • May 27, 1795 to February Term 1798: The county court proves a run of deeds to and from the University's trustees
  • late February 1925: Hillsboro druggist William Hayes dies
• Hayes, William A. 1 entry, 1905
  • May 2, 1905: Hillsborough elects a town board expected to license saloons

  May be the same person as Hayes, W. A.

• Hayes, William J. 1 entry, 1881
  • May 2, 1881: The commissioners license three Hillsborough saloons on condition they close if prohibition passes

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

• Hayman, Donald 5 entries, 1948–1962
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  • April 1, 1948: Political scientist Donald Hayman joins the Institute of Government staff
  • November 1, 1949: The Institute of Government delivers its Charlotte-Mecklenburg consolidation study
  • February 2, 1959: County commissioners name a citizens committee to study school finance
  • by June 30, 1960: The citizens School Finance Study Committee reports to the county commissioners
  • February 8, 1962: A citywide PTA meeting takes up the Chapel Hill schools' budget shortfall
• Haynsworth, Clement F. 1 entry, 1967
  • February 21, 1967: A three-judge federal court hears arguments in Dickson v. Sitterson at Greensboro
• Hays, Dicey 1 entry, 1843
  • August Term 1843: The court orders all children of Dicey Hays, a free woman of color, over five brought in to be bound out
• Hays, Elizabeth 1 entry, 2026
  • August 2026: The Burwell School is renamed the Elizabeth Keckly Center at the Burwell School
• Haywood, Edward Graham 1 entry, 1869
  • 1869-1871: Federal court dismisses the state's suit to void the university's bank mortgage
• Haywood, Eliza E. 1 entry, 1802
  • 1802: Women of Raleigh give the university a new pair of globes
• Haywood, George W. 2 entries, 1839
  • August 8, 1839: Orange County helps re-elect William Montgomery to Congress over George W. Haywood
  • May 31, 1839: Whig district convention at Hillsborough nominates William A. Graham, who declines, and then George W. Haywood
• Haywood, John 8 entries, 1791–1816

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• Haywood, Margaret Davis 1 entry, 1947
  • June 1947: Mrs. Walter D. Toy sells her West Franklin Street home for business use
• Haywood, Thomas J. 1 entry, 1814
  • January 1814: Caldwell takes students before a justice of the peace over attacks on President Chapman's property
• Hazel, Forest 2 entries, 1991–1992
  • October 1991: Forest Hazel publishes his study of the Occaneechi-Saponi Texas community
  • May 31, 1992: Goetha C. Whitmore, one of the oldest Occaneechi elders, dies at 97
• Hazelman, Herbert 1 entry, 1931
  • December 4, 1931: The Folk Music Institute announces a laboratory concert with Adeline McCall at the piano
• Hazzard, J. P. 1 entry, 1940
  • by December 6, 1940: J. P. Hazzard buys the Tufts Chevrolet Company on West Franklin Street
• Hazzard, Jack 2 entries, 1948–1954
  • February 26, 1948: Colonial Stores opens on West Franklin Street in a building put up by Jack Hazzard
  • September 11, 1954: Harriss-Conners Chevrolet takes over the Hazzard Motor Company in Chapel Hill
• Headen, Dr. 1 entry, 1894
  • mid-September 1894: Work begins on Dr. London's and Dr. Headen's houses on Pittsboro Street
• Health, UNC 1 entry, 2020
  • March 2020–May 2022: COVID-19 transforms Orange County
• Heard, Alex 3 entries, 1937–1953
  • July 14, 1937: James Roosevelt speaks to an overflow crowd in Hill Music Hall
  • February 8, 1938: Soviet ambassador Alexander Troyanovsky speaks in Memorial Hall
  • August 31, 1953: Alex Heard is elected president of the Orange County Young Democratic Club
• Heard, Mrs. Alex 1 entry, 1951
  • 1951: The Unitarian Fellowship of Chapel Hill is organized
• Heard, Alexander 4 entries, 1937–1959

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• Hearn, E. T. 2 entries, 1950–1958
  • by December 14, 1950: Carrboro school committeemen oppose putting Carrboro and White Cross in the Chapel Hill school tax district
  • April 1958: Opponents of the school merger form the Carrboro School Development Council

  May be the same person as Hearn, Ernest; Hearn, Ernest T.

• Hearn, Ernest 2 entries, 1939–1954
  • 1939: Durham Hosiery Mills sells its Carrboro houses and land at auction
  • February 1, 1954: The school board sets the boundary between the Carrboro and White Cross school areas

  May be the same person as Hearn, E. T.; Hearn, Ernest T.

• Hearn, Ernest T. 1 entry, 1958
  • April 9, 1958: The county school board leaves the Carrboro school committee seats unfilled during the merger fight

  May be the same person as Hearn, E. T.; Hearn, Ernest

• Hearn, George A. 1 entry, 1940
  • January 17, 1940: George A. Hearn, Orange County deputy sheriff for twenty years, dies
• Hearn, H. H. 1 entry, 1935
  • September 13, 1935: Carolina Coach begins bus service from Greensboro to Raleigh by way of Chapel Hill
• Hearn, J. E. 1 entry, 1919
  • by May 1, 1919: J. E. Hearn & Son open a grocery in Carrboro
• Hearn, James 1 entry, 1944
  • 1944: Len Hearn buys the East Main Street building his family grocery rents
• Hearn, John 1 entry, 1925
  • about 1925: Lueco Lloyd builds the brick store that houses Hearn's grocery
• Hearn, Len 1 entry, 1944
  • 1944: Len Hearn buys the East Main Street building his family grocery rents
• Hearn, Linny 1 entry, 1925
  • May 5, 1925: Carrboro elects T. N. Mann mayor
• Hearne, E. T. 1 entry, 1947
  • August 1947: An advisory rent control board for the Chapel Hill area is sworn in
• Hearne, L. D. 1 entry, 1945
  • May 7, 1945: Carrboro reelects Mayor I. A. West and its aldermen without opposition
• Heartt, Alice 1 entry, 1885
  • September 12, 1885: State Superintendent S. M. Finger addresses the Orange County Teachers' Association
• Heartt, Dennis 58 entries, 1786–1894

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• Heartt, E. A. 6 entries, 1843–1853
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  • by September 4, 1843: Hillsborough bans hog pens close to its streets
  • by October 10, 1843: Hillsborough orders free people of color to prove their freedom and post bond to live in town
  • October 6, 1849: Hillsborough forbids Black people to loiter in the streets on Sundays
  • February 3, 1849: Hillsborough orders its patrol to break up gatherings of Black people
  • March 22, 1851: Hillsborough citizens meet to bring the railroad through town on the north side of the river
  • April 2, 1853: Hillsborough orders a list of the free Black people living in town
• Heartt, Edwin A. 14 entries, 1840–1855
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  • early April 1840 (ordinance dated April 8): Hillsborough's commissioners forbid firing guns inside the town
  • November 10-13, 1841: Hillsborough men form the Washington Temperance Society of Orange County
  • March 12, 1841: Whig district convention at Hillsborough nominates Dr. James S. Smith for Congress, then waits for Wake
  • July 26, 1842: Hillsborough citizens adopt an address urging voters to reject a central division of Orange County
  • May 14, 1842: Delegates form the Orange County Temperance Society at Hillsborough
  • September 19, 1846: Citizens organize a new Orange County Bible Society
  • February 6, 1847: Hillsborough tightens its patrol ordinance against enslaved and free Black people
  • May 5, 1849: Hillsborough commissioners lay a tax on peddlers of out-of-state goods
  • February 5, 1851: Dennis Heartt takes his son Edwin A. Heartt into the Recorder
  • August 23, 1853: The Orange County Society for the Promotion of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts is organized
  • July 13-14, 1854: North Carolina Railroad stockholders meet at Hillsborough and vote to raise a million dollars
  • May 23, 1854: Orange's Whig and Democratic conventions agree to put the liquor question to the voters
  • late August 1855: Edwin A. Heartt, the Recorder's junior partner and secretary of the town and county boards, dies
  • February 1855: The legislature charters four plank road companies through Orange County
• Heartt, Henrietta 1 entry, 1870
  • May 1870: Henrietta Heartt is appointed Hillsborough's postmaster

  May be the same person as Heartt, Henrietta M.

• Heartt, Henrietta M. 1 entry, 1883
  • March 8, 1883: Henrietta M. Heartt, Dennis Heartt's daughter, dies in Hillsborough

  May be the same person as Heartt, Henrietta

• Heartt, Miss 1 entry, 1886
  • 1886 to at least 1911: Miss Heartt keeps a private primary school in Hillsborough, later with Mrs. Bragg
• Heartt, Sarah W. 1 entry, 1947
  • September 1, 1947: Five women are drawn for an Orange County jury
• Heath, Frank 9 entries, 1986–2020

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• Heath, Freeman 1 entry, 1846
  • August Term 1846: The court orders the children of Sally Heath brought in to be bound out
• Heath, Milton S. 1 entry, 1961
  • February 27, 1961: Chapel Hill aldermen approve a rewritten town charter
• Heath, Nancy 1 entry, 1846
  • August Term 1846: The court orders the children of Sally Heath brought in to be bound out
• Heavner, Jim 4 entries, 1969–2002

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• Hedgepeth, A. 1 entry, 1869
  • December 1869–January 1870: Klansmen from Hillsborough ride to kill Senator T. M. Shoffner and turn back
• Hedgepeth, A. W. 2 entries, 1856–1860
  • February 2, 1856: Hillsborough re-elects Josiah Turner Sr. a town commissioner
  • February 4, 1860: Hillsborough elects Andrew Murdock magistrate of police and seven town commissioners
• Hedgepeth, Ed 1 entry, 1948
  • August 1948: Chapel Hill's polio quarantine on children is lifted
• Hedgepeth, James 1 entry, 1889
  • January 1889 to April 1891: C. M. Parks gives the Hillsboro Circuit its first parsonage
• Hedgpeth, A. W. 2 entries, 1856–1866
  • April 5, 1856: Hillsborough's commissioners organize the town patrol into weekly companies
  • May 3, 1866: A. W. Hedgpeth, longtime keeper of the Hillsborough House, dies
• Hedgpeth, C. L. 1 entry, 1891
  • November 1891: Hillsborough's Young Men's Christian Association elects Joseph G. Cooley president
• Hedgpeth, Ed 1 entry, 1942
  • by June 26, 1942: A draft medical examining board is set up in Chapel Hill
• Hedgpeth, James H. 4 entries, 1883–1900
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  • May 7, 1883: Hillsborough elects George O. Corbin mayor
  • by May 24, 1890: James H. Hedgpeth buys the Hillsboro house lately occupied by A. A. Springs
  • May 1, 1899: Hillsborough elects Joseph A. Harris mayor again over Chester D. Turner
  • May 7, 1900: Hillsborough re-elects Mayor Joseph A. Harris over William Strain
• Hedgpeth, Jesse 1 entry, 1887
  • May 2, 1887: Hillsborough elects Joseph A. Harris mayor
• Hedgpeth, Thomas 3 entries, 1884–1888
  • May 5, 1884: Hillsborough re-elects Mayor George C. Corbin and a seven-man town board
  • by January 8, 1887: Hedgpeth and McCollum open a store on the corner north of the court house
  • May 7, 1888: Hillsborough re-elects Joseph A. Harris mayor over Samuel M. Gattis
• Hedrick, Benjamin 2 entries, 1879–1897
  • 1879: George T. Winston buys Benjamin Hedrick's house with its polygonal annex
  • 1897: Horace Williams buys the house at 610 East Rosemary Street
• Hedrick, Benjamin Sherwood 18 entries, 1851–1897

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• Heer, Clarence 3 entries, 1932–1951
  • November 1932: Chapel Hill parents organize a Parent-Teacher Association
  • by June 9, 1939: Chapel Hill men organize a faculty club to occupy the Archer house
  • April 9, 1951: Commissioners name county members to Chapel Hill's enlarged zoning commission
• Heer, Mrs. Clarence 1 entry, 1947
  • June 2, 1947: The county welfare board names Mrs. Clarence Heer superintendent of welfare
• Heer, Jean 1 entry, 1951
  • April 1, 1951: Annie Strowd becomes superintendent of public welfare

  May be the same person as Heer, Jean McAlpin

• Heer, Jean McAlpin 1 entry, 1947
  • by November 18, 1947: An Altrusa club is organized in Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Heer, Jean

• Heffner, Tom 1 entry, 1997
  • June to July 11, 1997: The McDade House is taken apart brick by brick and carted away from West Franklin Street
• Heinke, Nic 1 entry, 1999
  • October 28, 1999: Trustees vote to raise tuition $1,500 over five years as students protest at Morehead Planetarium
• Heise, Laura 1 entry, 1978
  • 1978: Bill Dow and Laura Heise found the North Carolina Agricultural Marketing Project
• Heitman, J. F. 6 entries, 1878–1881
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  • December 31, 1878: Chapel Hill Methodists hold the town's first watch night service
  • by September 14, 1878: Rev. J. F. Heitman opens a boys' academy in Chapel Hill
  • October 5, 1878: Sunday schools organize an Orange County Sunday School Convention at Orange Church
  • early December 1879: The Methodist conference returns J. F. Heitman to Chapel Hill and names Orange appointments
  • April 12, 1879: The Orange Sunday School Convention meets at New Hope Church and names a committee to write its constitution
  • January 1881: The North Carolina Educational Journal begins publication at Chapel Hill
• Hellen, George 3 entries, 1935–1937
  • by March 8, 1935: Chapel Hill's American Legion post drops its plan to rebuild the old Methodist church
  • February 18, 1935: Movie Guild votes a Sunday show's proceeds to the Legion's building fund
  • May 4, 1937: Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor Foushee and chooses three new aldermen

  May be the same person as Hellen, George B.

• Hellen, George B. 1 entry, 1937
  • 1937 (reported January 7, 1938): The Kiwanis Club starts a movement for a community center for Black residents

  May be the same person as Hellen, George

• Hellmers, Henry 1 entry, 1970
  • July 18, 1970: Binkley votes to join the new American Baptist Churches of the South
• Helms, Bari 1 entry, 2005
  • October 12, 2005 – February 28, 2006: UNC Libraries opens the exhibit Slavery and the Making of the University
• Hemminger, Pam 3 entries, 2012–2020

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• Henderson, A. M. 2 entries, 1834
  • February 6, 1834: Chapel Hill's new board names its officers and lays the town tax
  • July 4, 1834: Chapel Hill celebrates the Fourth of July with a student oration and a dinner

  May be the same person as Henderson, Alexander Martin

• Henderson, Alexander Martin 1 entry, 1833
  • late 1833: Pleasant Henderson leaves Chapel Hill for Tennessee

  May be the same person as Henderson, A. M.

• Henderson, Archibald 34 entries, 1895–1952

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• Henderson, Archibald, Jr. 1 entry, 1946
  • early July 1946: Reserve officers organize an Orange County chapter at Chapel Hill
• Henderson, Archibald, Sr. 1 entry, 1845
  • June 4, 1845: The Historical Society of the University issues its first report
• Henderson, Barbara Bynum 1 entry, 1913

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• Henderson, Charles 1 entry, 1963
  • May 28, 1963: Mayor McClamroch's Integration Committee adopts a four-point program
• Henderson, Dilcy 1 entry, 1866
  • August Term 1866: The court binds Dilcy Henderson, an eight-year-old girl of color, to Morgan Closs until eighteen
• Henderson, Elinor 1 entry, 1941
  • January 1941 (week of January 6): Chapel Hill high school begins serving hot lunches
• Henderson, F. L. 1 entry, 1933
  • December 1, 1933: Black Chapel Hill launches a community center on West Franklin Street
• Henderson, Fletcher 1 entry, 1943
  • August 15 to September 26, 1943: The Navy Pre-Flight band gives a summer series of public Sunday concerts
• Henderson, J. M. 1 entry, 1857
  • April 18, 1857: J. M. Henderson begins publishing the Chapel Hill Weekly Gazette

  May be the same person as Henderson, James M.

• Henderson, James M. 1 entry, 1859
  • March 19, 1859: Chapel Hill's commissioners adopt a revised code of ordinances

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

• Henderson, John 1 entry, 1778
  • March 24, 1778: The superior court sits at Hillsborough for the first time in five years
• Henderson, Lula B. 7 entries, 1935–1938

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• Henderson, Mabel M. 1 entry, 1946
  • week of July 22, 1946: Workmen begin restoring the Colonial Inn in Hillsboro
• Henderson, Martha B. 1 entry, 1946
  • week of July 22, 1946: Workmen begin restoring the Colonial Inn in Hillsboro
• Henderson, Martin 2 entries, 1947–1949
  • May 1, 1947: Paul Henderson reopens the restored Colonial Inn in Hillsborough
  • March 21, 1949: Commissioners cut the Colonial Inn's tax valuation after its operator reports heavy losses
• Henderson, Mary 2 entries, 1922–1933
  • June 11-14, 1922: The University holds its 127th commencement and confers 192 degrees
  • late 1933: Beppie Branson moves The Little Shop to 142 East Franklin Street as sole owner
• Henderson, Paul 7 entries, 1942–1949
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  • February 28, 1942: Colonel and Mrs. Paul Henderson buy the old Patterson farm near Mount Moriah church
  • by May 16, 1946: Hillsboro citizens petition for building priorities to restore the Colonial Inn
  • week of July 22, 1946: Workmen begin restoring the Colonial Inn in Hillsboro
  • early April 1946: Paul Henderson buys the Colonial Inn at auction
  • May 1, 1947: Paul Henderson reopens the restored Colonial Inn in Hillsborough
  • February and March 1948: Josephine Humphries paints murals of four Hillsboro landmarks in the Colonial Inn
  • March 21, 1949: Commissioners cut the Colonial Inn's tax valuation after its operator reports heavy losses
• Henderson, Pleasant 17 entries, 1791–1833

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• Henderson, Richard 14 entries, 1757–1918

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• Henderson, Richard 1 entry, 1804

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  • 1804: Richard Henderson becomes head of Hillsborough Academy
• Henderson, Stanford 1 entry, 1866
  • 1 May 1866: Ellen Coggins names Stanford Henderson, a freedman, as her child's father
• Henderson, Thomas 1 entry, 1770
  • late 1770: Hillsborough officials and merchants pledge to defend one another after the riot
• Henderson, William 1 entry, 1961
  • May 18, 1961: The Orange Industrial Development Corporation opens its stock drive with a rally at Carrboro School
• Hendon, Margaret 1 entry, 1879
  • May 16, 1879: Three men hanged for a string of Chapel Hill burglaries
• Hendricks, Leo 1 entry, 1986
  • February 21, 1986: The tenth Minority Health Conference meets at the School of Public Health
• Hendry, George 1 entry, 1768
  • May 21, 1768: Regulators meeting at George Sally's appoint a committee of eight to petition Governor Tryon
• Henley, Carl 1 entry, 1996
  • June 23, 1996: Frances Hargraves carries the Olympic torch down Franklin Street
• Hennessee, Chuck 1 entry, 1983
  • May 29-August 27, 1983: Chapel Hill-Carrboro coalition organizes for the 20th anniversary March on Washington
• Henniger, J. S. 1 entry, 1924
  • by January 10, 1924: J. S. Henniger buys into the Andrews Cash Store, renamed Andrews-Henniger Company
• Henninger, J. S. 5 entries, 1930–1947
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  • March 10, 1930: A midget golf course opens on the lot behind the Chapel Hill post office
  • September 1936: Matt Thompson is elected a Chapel Hill alderman in the place of the late M. E. Hogan
  • November 16, 1943: The Chapel Hill school board restores the long school day against most parents' wishes
  • by December 3, 1943: The county acquires a West Franklin Street site for a new Chapel Hill High School
  • August 1947: An advisory rent control board for the Chapel Hill area is sworn in
• Henry 1 entry, 1844
  • September 1844 term: Henry, enslaved by William Blackwell, is convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to branding
• Henry, Francis 1 entry, 2007
  • December 2007: The Rathskeller on Amber Alley closes over unpaid taxes
• Henry, G. K. G. 1 entry, 1941
  • March 22, 1941: G. K. G. Henry, the University's assistant registrar, dies
• Henry, Geoffrey B. 1 entry, 1999
  • August 1999: A county survey proposes a St. Mary's Road rural historic district
• Henry, George 1 entry, 1877
  • September 5, 1877: The school board approves Piney Mountain as school District 53
• Henry, Louis D. 1 entry, 1842
  • August 4, 1842: Orange County sends Democrat Joseph Allison to the state Senate while voting for Whig governor John M. Morehead
• Henry, Nelson B. 5 entries, 1885–1888
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  • September 12, 1885: State Superintendent S. M. Finger addresses the Orange County Teachers' Association
  • October 29-31, 1885: Professor Nelson B. Henry opens a teachers' institute for Orange County's white teachers
  • June 1885: The trustees elect Nelson B. Henry to a new chair of the science and art of teaching
  • June 1886: Superintendent Currie reports a teachers' institute in session for the county's white teachers
  • summer 1888: The university lets go its new professors of mining, teaching and biology
• Henry, Dr. Rena 1 entry, 1940
  • February 15, 1940: The Junior Service League opens free clinics for Black and white babies
• Henry, Thomas A. 2 entries, 1946
  • May 22, 1946: State investigators find no evidence for a former prosecutor's liquor charges at Chapel Hill
  • by May 2, 1946: UNC and Chapel Hill ask the SBI to investigate a former prosecutor's liquor charges
• Henry-Haye, Gaston 1 entry, 1941
  • November 11, 1941: Vichy ambassador Gaston Henry-Haye speaks in Memorial Hall
• Hensley, Laurence E. 1 entry, 1966
  • Spring 1966: Laurence E. Hensley is named supervising contractor for the Burwell School restoration
• Henslie, Spivey 1 entry, 1846
  • August Term 1846: The court orders the children of Sally Heath brought in to be bound out
• Hentz, Caroline Lee 2 entries, 1826–1831

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• Hentz, Nicholas Marcellus 3 entries, 1826–1831

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• Hepburn, Andrew 2 entries, 1859–1860
  • December 19, 1859: University trustees elect Charles F. Deems professor of history and elocution
  • January 1860: The Rev. Andrew Hepburn takes up the university chair of rhetoric, logic and metaphysics
• Hercules, F. E. 1 entry, 1940
  • December 10-15, 1940: Chapel Hill's Black Baptist churches hold a Bible Institute led by F. E. Hercules
• Herndon, David 1 entry, 1806
  • May 1806 (court term): Lawyer William Norwood wins a support order for Sarah Ray
• Herndon, De 1 entry, 1915
  • by January 28, 1915: S. L. Herndon retires and his son takes over the Herndon Hardware store
• Herndon, DeWitt 3 entries, 1923–1933
  • by February 8, 1923: Three names go to the President to succeed R. L. Strowd as Chapel Hill postmaster
  • July 1932: Federal economy furloughs reach the Chapel Hill post office
  • April 7, 1933: Robert A. Eubanks takes over as Chapel Hill postmaster
• Herndon, R. D. 3 entries, 1928–1933
  • November 1928: Chapel Hill election officials rebut a charge of illegal student voting
  • by March 27, 1931: The Bank of Chapel Hill is named depository for the town's postal savings
  • September 16 to 18, 1933: Aldermen replace the school-tax registrar after complaints that he argued against the tax
• Herndon, S. L. 2 entries, 1906–1915
  • by August 23, 1906: C. B. Griffin buys the brick store house that S. L. Herndon occupies in Chapel Hill
  • by January 28, 1915: S. L. Herndon retires and his son takes over the Herndon Hardware store
• Heron, Benjamin 1 entry, 1768

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• Herrera, John 1 entry, 2006
  • May 16, 2006: Carrboro aldermen bar police arrests based solely on civil immigration violations
• Herrin, C. A. 1 entry, 1960
  • August 19, 1960: The Hillsboro Savings and Loan Association lays the cornerstone of its North Churton Street office
• Herrin, J. C. 1 entry, 1954
  • by September 30, 1954: The Chapel Hill Baptist Church takes on James O. Cansler as student chaplain under state BSU authority
• Herring, Edward L. 1 entry, 1955
  • June 15, 1955: Herring-Conners Chevrolet takes over Hillsboro's Chevrolet dealership
• Herring, Harriet 2 entries, 1930–1958
  • November 12, 1930: Aldermen set up a citizens' committee and job bureau for the unemployed
  • October 29, 1958: Judge L. J. Phipps becomes chairman of the Orange County Democrats
• Herring, Harriet L. 1 entry, 1929

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• Herrisse, H. 1 entry, 1856
  • October 6, 1856: The faculty vote 12 to 1 to disown Hedrick's published views
• Hershey, H. Garland 1 entry, 1991
  • by February 1991: Caroline Mayo becomes director of the North Carolina Health Careers Access Program
• Herty, Charles H. 14 entries, 1896–1937

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• Herty, Charles H 2 entries, 1905–1908

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• Herzenberg, Joe 6 entries, 1979–2009
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  • November 6, 1979: Joe Straley is elected to the Chapel Hill Town Council
  • November 3, 1987: Joe Herzenberg wins election to the Chapel Hill Town Council
  • November 30, 1988: The association marks ten years since Harvey Milk's assassination with a film and panel
  • by November 1993: Joe Herzenberg resigns his seat on the Chapel Hill Town Council
  • March 27, 2006: Bill Thorpe petitions the council to name the post office plaza for local activists
  • September 20, 2009: Chapel Hill dedicates the Peace and Justice Plaza marker
• Herzenberg, Joseph A. 5 entries, 1979–2009

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• Hester, Aldolphus 1 entry, 1928
  • March 11, 1928: Jones Grove Missionary Baptist Church dedicates its first sanctuary
• Hester, C. B. 1 entry, 1928
  • by October 5, 1928: Contracts are let for the new state road from Carrboro to the Alamance line
• Hester, C. E. 1 entry, 1936
  • 1936: Hillsborough's new high school for Black students is built
• Hester, E. C. 1 entry, 1942
  • 1942: A. L. Stanback succeeds E. C. Hester as principal of Hillsborough's high school for Black students
• Hester, Ervin 1 entry, 1976
  • October 29-30, 1976: The School of Journalism holds a workshop on the Black press
• Hester, St. Clair 1 entry, 1890
  • 1890-91 session: Thomas Hume leads the university Shakespeare Club's study of All's Well That Ends Well
• Hester, Walter 2 entries, 1949–1950
  • July 1, 1949: Hillsboro's high school for Black students opens a vocational agriculture department
  • February 1950: Black parents ask the county school board to hire adult bus drivers
• Hester, William 2 entries, 1854
  • September 14, 1854: Orange Superior Court sends the William Hester slave-stealing case to Chatham
  • April 14, 1854: Sheriff arrests William Hester, wanted for stealing enslaved people
• Hewes, Joseph 6 entries, 1775–1776

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• Hexner, Ervin 1 entry, 1939
  • by September 15, 1939: UNC adds several scholars from European universities to its faculty
• Heyd, Matt 1 entry, 1991
  • October 25, 1991: UNC trustees rename the Black Cultural Center for Sonja Haynes Stone
• Hiatt, Dorothy 1 entry, 1948
  • week of May 31, 1948: The Chapel Hill League of Women Voters puts its handbook 'Your Local Government' on sale
• Hiatt, E. P. 1 entry, 1950
  • March 28, 1950: The new Durham-Orange chapter of the Heart Association adopts its program at Chapel Hill
• Hibbard, Addison 10 entries, 1924–1941

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• Hibbard, C. A. 4 entries, 1925–1926
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  • by February 12, 1925: John M. Booker lays out a street and house lots on the old Battle place
  • by September 25, 1925: C. A. Hibbard becomes acting dean of liberal arts as James F. Royster moves to the graduate school
  • October 30, 1925: Robert Frost gives a lecture and reading in Gerrard Hall
  • by May 7, 1926: President Chase and Dean Hibbard have the first edition of a student satire paper destroyed
• Hickerson, Thomas F. 1 entry, 1926

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• Hickerson, Thomas Felix 13 entries, 1905–1941

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• Hickey, Jim 1 entry, 1960
  • 1960: UNC football coach Jim Hickey builds a two-story Colonial Revival house on Iris Lane
• Hickok, Dorothy 1 entry, 1957
  • December 17, 1957: Chapel Hill Elementary pupils play carols with professional musicians at the school Christmas program
• Hicks, Isaac 1 entry, 1791
  • May 24, 1791: The court lets Isaac Hicks build a public grist mill across the Eno
• Hicks, Mary A. 1 entry, 1937
  • May 20, 1937: Ben Johnson, born enslaved near Hillsborough, recalls the Klan lynching of Cyrus Guy for a WPA interviewer
• Hicks, Sally 1 entry, 1996
  • February 11-14, 1996: The News and Observer runs a series on the end of the Hogan family dairy near Carrboro
• Higginbotham, A. Leon 1 entry, 1982
  • February 12, 1982: Judge A. Leon Higginbotham gives the fifth Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture
• High, Lincoln 1 entry, 1966
  • 1966: Integrated Chapel Hill High opens on High School Road
• Highmore, Hugh 1 entry, 1817
  • May Term 1817: The court discharges Hugh Highmore after his jail term and an hour in the pillory
• Highsmith, E. M. 1 entry, 1908
  • 1908: E. M. Highsmith becomes the first superintendent of the Chapel Hill schools
• Highsmith, J. Henry 2 entries, 1911–1941
  • July 17, 1911: The county teachers' institute opens at the Hillsboro High School
  • by May 9, 1941: State survey team recommends a gymnasium and new departments for Chapel Hill High School
• Highsmith, Kathryn 1 entry, 1945
  • September 3, 1945: Kathryn Highsmith succeeds Woodward Byars as Orange County home agent
• Hildebolt, Bill 1 entry, 1990
  • September 11, 1990: Students hold Save UNC Day to protest state budget cuts
• Hildebrand, Reginald 2 entries, 1985–2001
  • fall 1985: Afro-American Studies adds three instructors and new offices in Alumni Hall
  • February 24, 2001: Randall Robinson addresses the Blacks in the Diaspora student conference at the Carolina Inn
• Hill, Anderson 2 entries, 1880–1882
  • October 16-18, 1880: Orange Republicans endorse Henry N. Brown for the state House at court-house meetings
  • by August 19, 1882: Anderson Hill announces for the House as an Independent Prohibition candidate
• Hill, Ann 1 entry, 1805
  • April to June 1805 (4th to 6th month): Cane Creek Friends read out a testimony against Miriam Lamb
• Hill, Chapel 1 entry, 1937
  • August 21–22, 1937: Racial violence erupts in western Chapel Hill and Carrboro
• Hill, D. H. 1 entry, 1876

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• Hill, David 1 entry, 1963
  • 1963: Arthur Cogswell designs a barrel-vaulted concrete house for David Hill
• Hill, Douglas 2 entries, 1942–1970
  • 1942: Douglas and Frances Hill buy the Cabe-Pratt-Harris House and add a large rear wing
  • 1970s and 1980s: The Hill family sells parts of Riverbend Farm for Eno River State Park
• Hill, Eric 1 entry, 1948
  • April 12-13, 1948: The Junior Service League canvasses the Chapel Hill school district for a census
• Hill, Mrs. Erle G. 1 entry, 1960
  • 1960-1961: Mrs. Erle G. Hill restores the Patterson-Palmer House with architect Archie Royal Davis
• Hill, Frances 2 entries, 1942–1970
  • 1942: Douglas and Frances Hill buy the Cabe-Pratt-Harris House and add a large rear wing
  • 1970s and 1980s: The Hill family sells parts of Riverbend Farm for Eno River State Park
• Hill, Frances C. P. Blount 1 entry, 1821
  • about 1821: A small Federal house is built on East Orange Street for Martin Hanks
• Hill, G. M. 1 entry, 1929
  • late October 1929: The Chapel Hill Red Cross chapter plans its roll call and public health work
• Hill, G. Maurice 1 entry, 1941
  • by January 10, 1941: WPA workers begin building the University airport on the Horace Williams land
• Hill, George Watts 10 entries, 1933–1993

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• Hill, George Watts, Jr. 3 entries, 1968–1978

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• Hill, H. G. 1 entry, 1865
  • November 1-4, 1865: The Presbyterian Synod of North Carolina meets in Hillsborough
• Hill, John Sprunt 61 entries, 1879–1940

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• Hill, John Sprunt 1 entry, 1933

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  • by July 28, 1933: St. Pierre DuBose builds a large country house on a hill east of Chapel Hill
• Hill, John W. 2 entries, 1920–1922
  • June 21, 1920: The Farmers' State Alliance auctions off its old academy headquarters
  • March 6, 1922: Orange County commissioners borrow $20,000 to keep the county schools running
• Hill, Joseph 1 entry, 1805
  • April to June 1805 (4th to 6th month): Cane Creek Friends read out a testimony against Miriam Lamb

  May be the same person as Hill, Joseph A.

• Hill, Joseph A. 1 entry, 1834
  • by February 20, 1834: The Harbinger press prints Joseph A. Hill's address to the Institute of Education

  May be the same person as Hill, Joseph

• Hill, M. A., Jr. 2 entries, 1940–1942
  • July 17, 1940: Chapel Hill groups form a joint committee to find homes for British refugee children
  • by October 9, 1942: M. A. Hill Jr. succeeds Corydon P. Spruill as dean of the General College
• Hill, Mary E. 2 entries, 1926–1929
  • July 1926 to June 1928: The Efland Home takes in thirty girls in two years under matron Mary E. Hill
  • 1928-1929: The Efland Home's farm cuts its yearly cost per girl
• Hill, Mary Ruffin 1 entry, 1914
  • 1914: The Ruffin-Hill tract on St. Mary's Road is sold to A. S. Mitchell, who divides it
• Hill, Michael 1 entry, 2015
  • October 8, 2015: State highway marker honoring Carl T. Durham is dedicated at N.C. 54 and Carl Durham Road
• Hill, Milford Cordell 2 entries, 1964
  • March 28, 1964: A Klan rally gathers at the post office fast and a UNC student is struck
  • April 1964: Chapel Hill Recorder's Court fines the man who struck a student at the post office fast
• Hill, Norman M., Jr. 1 entry, 1955
  • July 18, 1955: Norman M. Hill Jr. takes over the West-Williams Flower Shop in Carrboro
• Hill, Robert 1 entry, 1950
  • July 1950: The Carrboro Church of God is organized
• Hill, Sam 1 entry, 1970
  • July 18, 1970: Binkley votes to join the new American Baptist Churches of the South
• Hill, Thomas 1 entry, 1914
  • 1914: The Ruffin-Hill tract on St. Mary's Road is sold to A. S. Mitchell, who divides it
• Hill, Thomas Blount 9 entries, 1853–1888

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• Hill, Velma 1 entry, 1982
  • early 1982: The Hill House is moved to Oak Avenue and joined to the Half House
• Hill, Watts 5 entries, 1926–1963
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  • by October 1, 1926: Watts Hill of Durham gives the University a greenhouse for the botany department
  • January 10, 1931: Durham Dairy Products opens a dairy store and delivery route in Chapel Hill
  • December 18, 1933: University employees enroll in the Hospital Care Association's group plan
  • April 27, 1945: Black parents and teachers open a county library for Black readers in Hillsboro
  • September 3, 1963: The commissioners accept a portrait of the Earl of Hillsborough for the Tercentenary
• Hill, Whitmel 1 entry, 1778
  • August 14, 1778: The Assembly at Hillsborough clears Thomas Burke in his quarrel with Congress
• Hill, Whitmell 1 entry, 1778
  • August 8–19, 1778: General Assembly holds its August 1778 session at Hillsborough
• Hill, Whitmill 2 entries, 1775–1788
  • September 9, 1775: Provincial Congress at Hillsborough elects a Provincial Council to govern between sessions
  • August 1, 1788: The majority votes to keep Iredell's ratification motion off the journal, then agrees to let it be offered as an amendment
• Hill, William 1 entry, 1792
  • November 5–9, 1792: Willie Jones views New Hope Chapel Hill as a university commissioner and signs for the site
• Hilliard, Francis W. 2 entries, 1862–1863
  • May 14 to 17, 1862: The Episcopal diocesan convention meets at the Chapel of the Cross
  • 1863: Wartime refugees from the coast swell the Chapel of the Cross congregation
• Hilliard, Lucy Walker 1 entry, 1817
  • 1817: Nancy Hilliard's family moves from Granville County to Chapel Hill
• Hilliard, Nancy 14 entries, 1817–1921

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• Hilliard, William 1 entry, 1817
  • 1817: Nancy Hilliard's family moves from Granville County to Chapel Hill
• Hilton, J. H. 1 entry, 1948
  • October 29, 1948: The state's first dairy heifer show and sale is held at the Hillsboro livestock market
• Hilton, Joe 2 entries, 1952–1981
  • 1952 to 1953: Assistant track coach Joe Hilton designs and builds his own house on Oakwood Drive
  • by September 1, 1981: UNC names Hubert West its head track coach
• Hines, Clarence Hall 1 entry, 1947
  • September 1, 1947: Clarence Hall Hines becomes Orange County's forest fire warden
• Hines, Eugene 1 entry, 1961
  • Fall 1961: The first Black students enter the formerly white Chapel Hill junior-senior high school on Franklin Street
• Hinshaw, Clarence P. 22 entries, 1928–1954

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• Hinshaw, Jim 1 entry, 1958
  • July 17, 1958: The AAA cites Chapel Hill for sixteen years without a pedestrian death
• Hinson, A. L. 1 entry, 1952
  • October 1952: Fairview Baptist Church is organized in Hillsborough
• Hinson, John H. 1 entry, 1953
  • January 25, 1953: Covenant Presbyterian Church is organized in Chapel Hill
• Hinson, Josh 1 entry, 2013
  • 2013: UNC School of Social Work launches its Refugee Mental Health and Wellness Initiative
• Hinson, T. E. 6 entries, 1933–1947
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  • May 17, 1933: Chapel Hill aldermen bar new apartment houses from the Residence A zones
  • early July 1944: Chapel Hill's aldermen elect T. E. Hinson town manager
  • January 14, 1946: Chapel Hill aldermen order a blinker light and street work after a Black civic club petition
  • May 10, 1946: Southeast Air Lines makes its first scheduled stop at the Chapel Hill airport
  • July 30, 1947: Chapel Hill names county accountant Gilbert Ray city manager
  • by July 17, 1947: Chapel Hill city manager T. E. Hinson is named city manager of High Point
• Hinson, W. D. 1 entry, 1946
  • February 21, 1946: Chapel Hill aldermen hire an engineer to plan a larger sewer system
• Hinton, Charles Lewis 3 entries, 1842–1856

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• Hobbs, A. W. 4 entries, 1926–1944
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  • between May 31 and June 3, 1926: The University faculty approves an Athletic Council to run college sports
  • by April 11, 1930: Orange County commissioners call an election to enlarge the Chapel Hill school district
  • by December 4, 1931: Battle Park Association opens three miles of new trails
  • May 21, 1944: Quakers organize the Chapel Hill Monthly Meeting of Friends

  May be the same person as Hobbs, Allan Wilson

• Hobbs, Agnes 1 entry, 1838
  • April 10, 1838: Elizabeth Hobbs writes to her mother from Hillsborough
• Hobbs, Allan Wilson 1 entry, 1930
  • July 5, 1930: Allan Wilson Hobbs is named dean of the University's college of liberal arts

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• Hobbs, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1838
  • April 10, 1838: Elizabeth Hobbs writes to her mother from Hillsborough
• Hobbs, Richard Junius Mendenhall 80 entries, 1933–1960

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• Hobbs, S. H., Jr. 2 entries, 1933–1936

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• Hobbs, T. W. 1 entry, 1902
  • April 14, 1902: Buckhorn residents build an academy that will also house the public school
• Hobbs, Truman 1 entry, 1942
  • March 5, 1942: Students open a cooperative bookstore in the Graham Memorial basement
• Hobbs, William 1 entry, 1851
  • March Term 1851: The court binds James and William Mayo to Dr. Edmund Strudwick, to be hired out for their blind grandfather
• Hobbs, William T. 1 entry, 1955
  • mid-October 1955: The new Greater Chapel Hill Fire District Commission organizes with E. A. Cameron as chairman
• Hobgood, Hamilton 3 entries, 1958–1963
  • August 4, 1958: A Superior Court judge refuses to stop the second Carrboro merger vote
  • September 24, 1962: Judge Hamilton Hobgood rules that Duke Power needs its southern power line loop around Chapel Hill
  • by March 7, 1963: Superior Court upholds the University's demurrer in the anti-fluoridation lawsuit
• Hobson, Benjamin F. 1 entry, 1837
  • by September 15, 1837: William Hooper resigns as the university's professor of ancient languages
• Hocutt, John C. 9 entries, 1902–1908

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• Hocutt, Thomas Raymond 1 entry, 1933
  • March 1933 (suit denied March 28, 1933): Thomas Hocutt sues to enter the University's school of pharmacy and is refused
• Hodge, John H. 1 entry, 1881
  • February 7, 1881: The county commissioners form Rice's school district
• Hodge, Joseph 1 entry, 1794
  • May Term 1794: Sheriff Joseph Hodge tells the court the jail cannot hold its prisoners
• Hodge, William 1 entry, 1792
  • 1792: William Hodge, raised in the Hawfields congregation, is ordained its pastor
• Hodges, Joseph 1 entry, 1794
  • May Term 1794: The court orders a road laid out from Galbreath's ferry to the University
• Hodges, Luther 2 entries, 1960
  • November 30, 1960: Governor Luther Hodges accepts the Knapp Building for the state at its dedication
  • April 29-30, 1960: UNC students stage a mock Democratic National Convention in Woollen Gym
• Hodges, Luther H. 6 entries, 1919–1960

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• Hodges, Sam 1 entry, 1961
  • April 1961: The Mayor's Improvement Commission gives Chapel Hill a 20-year plan for downtown
• Hodson, Charles 1 entry, 1976
  • August 1976: Judge Stanley Peele wins the Democratic primary for his district court seat

  May be the same person as Hodson, Charles B.

• Hodson, Charles B. 1 entry, 1958
  • November 25, 1958: Orange Democrats name Ross Porter to the county school board

  May be the same person as Hodson, Charles

• Hoey, Clyde Roark 13 entries, 1935–1940

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• Hofler, T. P. 2 entries, 1945–1946
  • April 14, 1945: Hillsboro stores close for an hour during President Roosevelt's funeral
  • early December 1946: A highway patrol inspection finds only 6 of 35 county school buses in good condition
• Hogan, Alexander 3 entries, 1941–1996
  • By August 1941: Sara Thomas Watters buys the Weaver House and its road takes her name
  • April 13, 1995: The Alexander Hogan Plantation site in Duke Forest joins the Study List
  • January 10, 1996: State reviewers back the Hogan Plantation site nomination over Orange County's objection
• Hogan, Carrie 1 entry, 1927
  • 1927: Brodie Thompson builds a brick Colonial Revival house for banker Milton Hogan
• Hogan, Clay 1 entry, 1930
  • 1930s: Clay Hogan builds a large dairy complex off Homestead Road
• Hogan, Colonel John 24 entries, 1775–1874

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• Hogan, Mrs. Curtis 1 entry, 1954
  • by December 2, 1954: The Chapel Hill women's curb market reports $27,855 in sales for the year
• Hogan, Daniel 2 entries, 1786–1830
  • October 23, 1786: Thomas Lloyd signs his lands and enslaved people over to his sons-in-law
  • about 1830-1832: Orange Methodist Church is organized at the Davis School House
• Hogan, Ernest Glenn 1 entry, 1961
  • January 1961: Glenn Hogan, keeper of the Rameses mascot, dies
• Hogan, Glenn 1 entry, 1917
  • by May 3, 1917: Chapel Hill children enlist in a war garden army
• Hogan, H. A. 1 entry, 1942
  • by May 8, 1942: The Orange County Farmers' War Planning Board directs the county's farm war programs
• Hogan, Mrs. H. C. 1 entry, 1917
  • 1917-1919: The Chapel Hill Red Cross gathers country women into auxiliaries across southern Orange County
• Hogan, Henry 4 entries, 1934–1950
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  • July 2, 1934: Orange County commissioners order a study of power lines for farm homes
  • by February 8, 1945: Dairy farmers buy a Chapel Hill lot for a cooperative milk plant
  • by August 14, 1947: The Neuse River Soil Conservation District reports conservation plans on 885 Orange County farms
  • December 18, 1950: County commissioners and the welfare board meet on the rising cost of welfare
• Hogan, Henry J. 1 entry, 1869
  • 1869: Samuel F. Phillips sells his East Franklin Street house to Henry J. Hogan
• Hogan, Henry S. 20 entries, 1934–1958

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• Hogan, Irvin A. 2 entries, 1888–1911
  • September 1, 1888: Orange County Republicans nominate Wilson Brown for sheriff and a full county ticket
  • by June 22, 1911: Irvin A. Hogan buys the Dr. Strudwick home place in Hillsboro
• Hogan, J. A. 1 entry, 1911
  • 1911: The Turner-Strudwick block is cut into house lots as the J. A. Hogan subdivision
• Hogan, James 1 entry, 1888
  • March 5, 1888: Prisoners overpower the jailer and break out of the Hillsborough jail
• Hogan, John 3 entries, 1776–1885
  • December 10, 1776: Orange County votes again after the Halifax Congress voids its October return
  • April 7, 1877: Kemp Battle addresses Orange County farmers at Chapel Hill
  • by June 1885: A Memorial Hall tablet names the eleven donors of the university's land
• Hogan, John R. 2 entries, 1888–1890
  • September 1, 1888: Orange County Republicans nominate Wilson Brown for sheriff and a full county ticket
  • September 27, 1890: Orange County Republicans meet at the court house and endorse a county ticket
• Hogan, John T. 13 entries, 1857–1891

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• Hogan, John T. 1 entry, 1870

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  • 1870-1872: John T. Hogan serves as an Orange County commissioner
• Hogan, L. A. 1 entry, 1921
  • August 5, 1921: Eastern Chapel Hill township residents meet at Blackwood school and denounce the commissioners over the road
• Hogan, Labon 1 entry, 1929
  • May 1929: The county board funds a two-room Morris Grove School, with Black families paying part
• Hogan, Leta 1 entry, 1941
  • By August 1941: Sara Thomas Watters buys the Weaver House and its road takes her name
• Hogan, Lonnie 1 entry, 1929
  • November 4, 1929: County commissioners order the Chapel Hill to Orange Church road scraped and graveled
• Hogan, Mary 1 entry, 1935
  • September 24, 1935: Women of New Hope and Blackwood Station organize a home demonstration club
• Hogan, Milton 1 entry, 1927
  • 1927: Brodie Thompson builds a brick Colonial Revival house for banker Milton Hogan
• Hogan, Milton E. 54 entries, 1915–1950

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• Hogan, Robert 1 entry, 1958
  • July 29, 1958: The county board names three new members to the Carrboro school committee
• Hogan, T. J. 2 entries, 1897–1902
  • September 6, 1897: County commissioners put the Eno Cotton Mill back on the tax list
  • March 3, 1902: The state charters the Blanche Hosiery Mills Company at West End

  May be the same person as Hogan, Thomas; Hogan, Thomas J.

• Hogan, Thomas 2 entries, 1855–1860
  • February 1855: The legislature charters four plank road companies through Orange County
  • about 1860; raised to two stories about 1890: Thomas and Mary Hogan build a farmhouse at Calvander

  May be the same person as Hogan, T. J.; Hogan, Thomas J.

• Hogan, Thomas J. 2 entries, 1896
  • November 3, 1896: The Democratic-Populist fusion ticket carries Orange County
  • by October 22, 1896: Orange Democrats and Populists fuse on a county ticket

  May be the same person as Hogan, T. J.; Hogan, Thomas

• Hogan, Vernon Strowd 1 entry, 1943
  • November 1943: Navy gunner's mate Vernon Strowd Hogan of the Chapel Hill area dies in the South Pacific
• Hogan, W. J. 2 entries, 1852–1857
  • 1852: The legislature charters the Chapel Hill and Raleigh Plank Road Company
  • August 19, 1857: J. T. Hogan & Co. dissolves and W. T. Hogan & Co. takes over its Chapel Hill store

  May be the same person as Hogan, William J.

• Hogan, W. J., Jr. 2 entries, 1878
  • May 13, 1878: Chapel Hill's new town board chooses John H. Watson mayor
  • August 18, 1878: Chapel Hill commissioners put off the hog law and call for a cleanup against fever
• Hogan, W. T. 1 entry, 1857
  • August 19, 1857: J. T. Hogan & Co. dissolves and W. T. Hogan & Co. takes over its Chapel Hill store
• Hogan, William D. 1 entry, 1908
  • 1908: William D. Hogan builds a frame I-house on Homestead Road
• Hogan, William J. 3 entries, 1852–1869
  • February 1852: Orange County seats a Board of Superintendents for its common schools
  • late May 1863: The county court sets up commissioners to direct the Soldiers' Fund
  • 1869: Samuel F. Phillips sells his East Franklin Street house to Henry J. Hogan

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

• Hogan, William S. 11 entries, 1929–1954

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• Hogan, Zack 2 entries, 1877–1940
  • September 28, 1877: Hickory Grove Baptist Church is organized
  • by November 22, 1940: Nine volunteers fill Orange County's draft quota for 1940
• Hoge, Moses D. 1 entry, 1879
  • June 4, 1879: Dr. Moses D. Hoge of Richmond addresses the literary societies in place of Senator Thurman
• Hogg, Gavin 1 entry, 1832

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• Hogg, James 35 entries, 1772–2014

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• Hogg, John 1 entry, 1794

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• Hogg, John 2 entries, 1794–1803

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  • July 1794: A called court discharges Moses, a man enslaved by William Mangom, when no one proves the charge
  • May Term 1803: The court frees George, Cate, Sally, young George and Jack under Absalom Tatom's will
• Hogue, Richard W. 1 entry, 1911
  • 1911: Richard W. Hogue secures a Self-Help Home for working students
• Hoke, Michael 1 entry, 1892
  • November 26, 1892: Carolina's football team beats Virginia 26 to 0 at Atlanta
• Hoke, Mike 1 entry, 1891
  • April 11, 1891: Students merge the football and baseball associations into the Athletic Association of the University
• Hoke, Robert F. 12 entries, 1873–1882

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• Hoke, W. A. 1 entry, 1898
  • March 1898: Robert Bingham sues to keep Preston Gray from using the Bingham School name at Mebane
• Holcomb, Grace 1 entry, 1948
  • March 29, 1948: Tram Road Home Demonstration Club buys a Camp Butner building for a community center
• Holcombe, Grace 5 entries, 1935–1939
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  • November 1 to 15, 1935: Home agent Grace Holcombe organizes girls' 4-H clubs in rural Orange schools
  • September 11, 1937: Farm women open the Orange County curb market in Carrboro
  • by November 25, 1938: Young people form the Orange County Service Club at Hillsboro
  • January 15, 1938: The Orange County Women's Market moves from Carrboro to Chapel Hill
  • by August 18, 1939: Woodward Byars succeeds Grace Holcombe as Orange County home demonstration agent
• Holcombe, Grace E. 8 entries, 1935–1939

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• Holden, A. L. 11 entries, 1881–1905

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• Holden, Ad. 1 entry, 1878
  • June 3, 1878: Orange magistrates rename two precincts and keep the county treasurer's office
• Holden, J. W. 1 entry, 1870
  • November 26, 1870: Orange gives Manning a 711-vote majority in the special congressional election
• Holden, John 1 entry, 1823
  • May Term 1823: The court binds Green Cordle, a six-year-old boy of color, to John Holden
• Holden, L. J. 1 entry, 1894
  • May 24, 1894: Caldwell Institute holds its closing exercises
• Holden, Lizzie 1 entry, 1902
  • by February 13, 1902: Teacher Lizzie Holden publishes the song McKinley's Gone
• Holden, Sally Nichols 1 entry, 1818
  • November 24, 1818: William Woods Holden is born near Hillsborough
• Holden, Thomas 2 entries, 1755–1818
  • January 1, 1755: Storekeeper Michael Synnott sells weaver Thomas Holden 500 acres on Buck Quarter Creek
  • November 24, 1818: William Woods Holden is born near Hillsborough
• Holden, Thomas W. 5 entries, 1832–1894
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  • about 1832: Pleasant Green Methodist Church is organized
  • 1838: Thomas W. Holden opens Holden's English School
  • May 11, 1839: John J. Freeland chairs a Whig meeting at James Turner's
  • January 1845: Thomas W. Holden, now living in Milton, offers Enoe Mills for sale
  • by December 22, 1894: Thomas W. Holden takes over a flour and saw mill east of Hillsborough
• Holden, W. W. 5 entries, 1864–1873

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• Holden, William W. 33 entries, 1818–1879

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• Holder, Janis 1 entry, 2005
  • October 12, 2005 – February 28, 2006: UNC Libraries opens the exhibit Slavery and the Making of the University
• Holeman, John Dee 3 entries, 1994–2007

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• Holeman, Mary R. 1 entry, 1890
  • April 5, 1890: Caldwell Institute trustees give the school building to J. H. McCracken as principal
• Holeman, Thomas 1 entry, 1915
  • about 1915: Flat Rock AME Church is organized
• Holland, Alma 1 entry, 1929
  • April 26, 1929: Community Club holds a flower, home-craft and art show
• Holland, Edward 1 entry, 1989
  • 1989: Cane Creek Reservoir is filled
• Holland, Elizabeth R. 1 entry, 1987
  • December 1, 1987: Eleanor Kinnaird is sworn in as mayor of Carrboro
• Holland, Herb 3 entries, 1962
  • July 15, 1962: Exchange Pools opens its new swimming pool off Umstead Drive
  • by March 22, 1962: Exchange Pools, Inc. lets the contract for a community swimming pool
  • by January 18, 1962: John Umstead gives a Bolin Creek site for the Exchange swimming pool
• Hollander, L. M. 2 entries, 1952–1959
  • October 1, 1952: The News of Orange County reports its owners and a paid circulation of 2,545
  • January 21, 1959: A Superior Court jury rules for two stockholders in the fight over the Chapel Hill News Leader
• Hollandsworth, D. E. 1 entry, 1949
  • October 13, 1949: D. E. and Marie Hollandsworth buy Maple Hill and begin restoring it
• Hollandsworth, Marie B. 1 entry, 1949
  • October 13, 1949: D. E. and Marie Hollandsworth buy Maple Hill and begin restoring it
• Holleman, Joel 1 entry, 1822
  • February 14, 1822: A University Bible Society is formed at Chapel Hill
• Hollett, Arthur R. 20 entries, 1928–1946

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• Holley, Reggie 1 entry, 1984
  • spring 1984: Three Black students hold the Campus Governing Council's top posts for the first time
• Hollingsworth, Harry D. 2 entries, 1946–1947
  • by May 16, 1946: Harry D. Hollingsworth becomes editor of The News of Orange County
  • January 24, 1947: The News of Orange County wins the state press association's general excellence award
• Hollingsworth, Joe 1 entry, 1940
  • December 2, 1940: The state pharmacists' association honors Alice Noble for nineteen years of service
• Holloway, Mary 1 entry, 1838
  • May Term 1838: The court cancels Thomas Holloway's binding and delivers him to his mother
• Holloway, Thomas 2 entries, 1814–1838
  • August Term 1814: A jury acquits Ned, an enslaved man, of murdering Robert Grisham
  • May Term 1838: The court cancels Thomas Holloway's binding and delivers him to his mother
• Holly, Mary 1 entry, 1850
  • October 21, 1850: Mary Holly pays the county $5 after declining to name a father
• Holman, C. Hugh 4 entries, 1953–1968

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• Holman, Hugh 1 entry, 1968
  • April 7-8, 1968: Chapel Hill holds a memorial march and two services for Martin Luther King Jr.
• Holman, Orange 1 entry, 1868
  • August to December 1868: Freedpeople at Bains put up a school house on their own land
• Holman, Russell L. 1 entry, 1942
  • by June 26, 1942: A draft medical examining board is set up in Chapel Hill
• Holman, S. W. 1 entry, 1881
  • March 7, 1881: The commissioners allow gates across the roads at Orange Factory
• Holman, Verna 1 entry, 1959
  • 1959: English professor Hugh Holman and his wife Verna build a Cape Cod house on Pine Lane
• Holman, W. T. 1 entry, 1929
  • January 1929: County agent Don Matheson holds a terracing school for Orange farmers
• Holmes, A. K. 1 entry, 1896
  • February 15, 1896: Several hundred attend an Alliance rally at the State Alliance headquarters
• Holmes, A. R. 2 entries, 1893–1900
  • April 1893: The Orange County Farmers' Alliance condemns legislators who voted to repeal the State Alliance charter
  • January 1, 1900: A state Supreme Court ruling unseats a legislature-named school director in Orange

  May be the same person as Holmes, Albert R.

• Holmes, Albert 1 entry, 1897
  • June to July 1897: A new state act restores the Orange County Board of Education under C. P. Burch
• Holmes, Albert H. 2 entries, 1896
  • November 3, 1896: The Democratic-Populist fusion ticket carries Orange County
  • by October 22, 1896: Orange Democrats and Populists fuse on a county ticket
• Holmes, Albert R. 1 entry, 1898
  • September 24, 1898: Eighteenth District Populists nominate Devereux Turner for the state Senate at Hillsborough

  May be the same person as Holmes, A. R.

• Holmes, Alfred 2 entries, 1884–1889
  • April 26, 1884: Orange County Republicans name state convention delegates, Lisbon Berry among them
  • April 1889: Julian S. Carr's carload of meal is given out to Orange County's destitute
• Holmes, David 3 entries, 1888
  • by April 12, 1888: County commissioners hire out a convicted liquor seller to his wife
  • January 1, 1888: Prisoner David Holmes cuts through the jail wall and escapes
  • March 5, 1888: Prisoners overpower the jailer and break out of the Hillsborough jail
• Holmes, Douglas 2 entries, 1971–1973
  • May 4, 1971: Howard Lee is re-elected mayor over Jack Maultsby
  • November 6, 1973: Howard Lee wins a third term as mayor by a landslide
• Holmes, Edna 1 entry, 1957
  • August 17, 1957: Buckhorn Grange holds a health fair
• Holmes, Emilie R. 1 entry, 1915
  • October 1915 to September 1917: Emilie Holmes starts Mayfair War Relief work in Chapel Hill
• Holmes, Harold M. 25 entries, 1933–1944

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• Holmes, Harry 1 entry, 1938
  • January 23-28, 1938: The Federal Council of Churches holds a Religion-in-Life week at the University
• Holmes, J. A. 4 entries, 1891–1895

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• Holmes, Mrs. J. S. 2 entries, 1915–1920
  • October 25, 1915: The Chapel Hill Suffrage League meets to begin a study of government
  • by January 29, 1920: Orange County takes a quota of 17 orphans in the Near East Relief drive
• Holmes, Jim 1 entry, 2019
  • November 27, 2019: The UNC System gives Silent Sam to the Sons of Confederate Veterans with a $2.5 million trust in a same-day consent judgment
• Holmes, John Simcox 9 entries, 1914–1926

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• Holmes, Joseph 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
• Holmes, Lucien 1 entry, 1857
  • June 4, 1857: The university gives Postmaster General Aaron V. Brown an honorary LL.D. and William Hooper a D.D.
• Holmes, Mabel D. 1 entry, 1920
  • February 1, 1920: Black residents of Chapel Hill rally to pay the Training School's debt and build anew
• Holmes, Prof. 1 entry, 1894
  • late September 1894: A new road into Chapel Hill from below Robert Stroud's is finished
• Holmes, Samuel 1 entry, 1799
  • March 2, 1799 (February Term 1799): The court orders a road laid off from Franklin Street to the old Raleigh road

  May be the same person as Holmes, Samuel A.

• Holmes, Samuel A. 1 entry, 1796
  • September 22, 1796: David Gillespie receives the earliest document resembling a university diploma

  May be the same person as Holmes, Samuel

• Holmes, Mrs. U. T. 1 entry, 1948
  • January 12, 1948: Chapel Hill's new Community Council launches the town's first Community Fund drive

  May be the same person as Holmes, Mrs. Urban T.

• Holmes, U. T., Jr. 1 entry, 1952
  • January 27, 1952: Episcopalians organize the Church of the Holy Family in Chapel Hill
• Holmes, Urban T. 5 entries, 1929–1942
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  • July 17, 1929: Summer players stage the Agamemnon of Aeschylus in Kenan Stadium
  • March 29, 1931: Lamar Stringfield's opera The Mountain Song is read in the Playmakers Theatre
  • 1938: Professor Urban T. Holmes builds a painted-brick Colonial Revival house on Pine Lane
  • June 12 to July 19, 1941: The Linguistic Society of America holds its summer Linguistic Institute at the University
  • May 11, 1942: The Chapel of the Cross celebrates its centennial with a pageant
• Holmes, Mrs. Urban T. 1 entry, 1934
  • March 28, 1934: The Chapel Hill school library reports circulation near 25,000

  May be the same person as Holmes, Mrs. U. T.

• Holshouser, James 1 entry, 1972
  • February 11-12, 1972: An NAACP youth conference on politics meets at UNC
• Holt, Barbara 1 entry, 1801
  • August 14, 1801: Barbara Holt names Felty Farmer, who is charged with resisting the constables
• Holt, Constance D'Arcy Mackay 1 entry, 1936
  • April 4, 1936: The Roland Holt Theatre Collection is given to the University
• Holt, E. M. 2 entries, 1860–1865
  • February 4, 1860: Flat River men organize the Flat River Guards
  • February Term 1865: The court binds Nancy Day, twelve, a girl of color, to John W. Roberts

  May be the same person as Holt, Edwin M.; Holt, Edwin Michael

• Holt, Edwin M. 3 entries, 1842–1867
  • April 21, 1842: Michael Holt, planter, magistrate and former legislator, dies suddenly
  • by April 4, 1844: Courthouse commissioners let the contract to John Berry
  • November 2, 1867: Orange Conservatives nominate John W. Graham and Edwin M. Holt for the constitutional convention

  May be the same person as Holt, E. M.; Holt, Edwin Michael

• Holt, Edwin Michael 1 entry, 1837
  • 1837: Edwin Michael Holt builds a cotton mill on Alamance Creek, then in Orange County

  May be the same person as Holt, E. M.; Holt, Edwin M.

• Holt, H. W. 1 entry, 1905
  • November 18, 1905: A Southern Railway freight train wrecks at the Eno railroad bridge in Hillsboro
• Holt, Isaac 4 entries, 1797–1848
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  • May 23, 1797: The court names poll inspectors for elections at Hillsborough and southwest of Haw River
  • February 28, 1811: The court orders a public bridge over the Great Alamance at Elfand's mill
  • mid-June 1837: An Orange County meeting nominates Willie P. Mangum for Congress
  • May 23, 1848: Orange Whig convention nominates Hugh Waddell and a Commons ticket
• Holt, J. E. 1 entry, 1937
  • by August 13, 1937: Eighty-eight Black families enter a health department garden contest in Chapel Hill and Carrboro
• Holt, J. S. 1 entry, 1938
  • summer 1938: Black families in Chapel Hill and Carrboro raise gardens and put up 2,000 quarts in a nurse-led contest
• Holt, Jacob 1 entry, 1855
  • mid-1850s: Warrenton builder Jacob Holt puts up an Italianate house for Mary Southerland on West Franklin Street
• Holt, Jeremiah 2 entries, 1811–1813
  • February 28, 1811: The court orders a public bridge over the Great Alamance at Elfand's mill
  • May Term 1813: The court orders a road laid off from Michael Holt's old place toward the Guilford road
• Holt, John 3 entries, 1842–1969
  • April 30, 1842: A meeting at the High Falls of Haw River demands a central division of Orange County
  • September 1842: The Orange County grand jury urges the legislature to build a state penitentiary
  • December 6-7, 1969: Students stage LeRoi Jones's Dutchman as a benefit for the strikers
• Holt, John A. 2 entries, 1880
  • 1880-1882: State convicts build the University Railroad
  • about 1880: Robert F. Hoke serves as unpaid superintendent of the State University Railroad
• Holt, John R. 1 entry, 1839
  • 1839: John R. Holt opens Union Academy in western Orange
• Holt, Joseph 3 entries, 1840–1849
  • December 26, 1840: James A. Craig and Joseph Holt offer an enslaved girl from Margaret Murdock's estate for sale at Hillsborough
  • November 23, 1841: Orange County Whigs meet at the Masonic Hall and nominate Henry Clay for president
  • June 4, 1849: Alamance County court holds its first session and elects county officers
• Holt, Lawrence S. 1 entry, 1921
  • 1921: Lawrence S. Holt sets up a trust fund for Episcopal work at the university
• Holt, Lewis Bowen 1 entry, 1843
  • about 1843-1844: Fayetteville carver George Lauder makes Lewis Bowen Holt's tomb-table in the Dialectic Society plot
• Holt, Michael 16 entries, 1776–1842
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  • February 1776: Michael Holt turns back from the Loyalist march and later takes the Whig oath
  • February 28, 1811: The court orders a public bridge over the Great Alamance at Elfand's mill
  • February 26, 1812: The court lets Michael Holt build a public mill on the Great Alamance below Troxler's ford
  • May 28, 1812: The court levies a patrol tax on Black polls and names patrols in the captains' companies
  • 1813: Hillsborough men organize a company to build a cotton and woolen factory
  • May Term 1813: The court orders a road laid off from Michael Holt's old place toward the Guilford road
  • August 10, 1820: Orange County elects Michael Holt to the state senate over Duncan Cameron
  • August 1821 (returns printed August 22, 1821): Orange County elects Michael Holt, Willie Shaw and James Mebane to the General Assembly
  • May 29, 1823: An Orange County meeting declares the state constitution defective and names four delegates for the reform convention
  • August 1823: Orange County voters elect Ruffin, Holt, Mangum and Smith delegates to the reform convention
  • fall 1824: Petitions for a new county west of the Haw circulate at the Haw River regimental muster
  • May 19, 1838: A meeting at George Foust's votes that Orange County should be divided
  • May 31, 1839: Whig district convention at Hillsborough nominates William A. Graham, who declines, and then George W. Haywood
  • Superior Court week, March 8-13, 1841: Orange grand jury drafts a constitution for a county agricultural society
  • March 12, 1841: Whig district convention at Hillsborough nominates Dr. James S. Smith for Congress, then waits for Wake
  • April 21, 1842: Michael Holt, planter, magistrate and former legislator, dies suddenly
• Holt, Michael W. 6 entries, 1837–1848
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  • June 1837: The university graduates nine seniors and makes Basil Manly a Doctor of Divinity
  • May 19, 1838: A meeting at George Foust's votes that Orange County should be divided
  • early August 1840 (reported August 13): Orange voters elect Willie P. Mangum to the state Senate and a mostly Whig delegation to the Commons
  • May 26, 1840: Orange Whig convention nominates Willie P. Mangum and William A. Graham for the legislature
  • by April 4, 1844: Courthouse commissioners let the contract to John Berry
  • May 23, 1848: Orange Whig convention nominates Hugh Waddell and a Commons ticket
• Holt, Samuel 1 entry, 1849
  • early October 1849: Alamance physicians meet at Graham to organize a county medical society

  May be the same person as Holt, Samuel L.

• Holt, Samuel L. 2 entries, 1838–1844
  • February 15, 1838: A temperance convention at Green Spring takes aim at treating by candidates
  • June 29, 1844: Meeting at Tate's store asks for a division vote and names the proposed county West Orange

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• Holt, Thomas M. 5 entries, 1870–1895
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  • July 14, 1870: North Carolina Railroad stockholders hold their annual meeting in the Hillsborough courthouse and elect four directors
  • early February 1880: Construction of the State University Railroad begins at University Station
  • January 8, 1880: University Railroad directors elect Kemp P. Battle president and Andrew Mickle treasurer
  • October 8, 1880: Chapel Hill women serve a dinner to the convicts building the University Railroad
  • June 5, 1895: Alumni pledge money for an Alumni Hall at the centennial banquet
• Holt, William 2 entries, 1811–1812
  • February 28, 1811: The court orders a public bridge over the Great Alamance at Elfand's mill
  • May 28, 1812: The court levies a patrol tax on Black polls and names patrols in the captains' companies
• Holt, William Rainey 1 entry, 1922
  • July 6, 1922: William A. Erwin gives $50,000 for a new Chapel of the Cross
• Homewood, Roy 1 entry, 1946
  • late September 1946: Carrboro begins work on a new town cemetery

  May be the same person as Homewood, Roy M.

• Homewood, Mrs. Roy 1 entry, 1951
  • May 1951: Mrs. Roy Homewood of Chapel Hill is elected president of the state Garden Clubs
• Homewood, Roy M. 4 entries, 1945–1954
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  • October 27, 1945: The Chapel Hill Rotary Club breaks ground for a public skating rink
  • by August 3, 1950: Carrboro lets a contract to pave nine town streets
  • March 16, 1953: Carrboro begins sewer lines for the new homes on the Lindsay Street extension
  • August 14, 1954: Carrboro awards a $19,000 contract to extend its sewer lines

  May be the same person as Homewood, Roy

• Honeycutt, A. L., Jr. 2 entries, 1966
  • May 21, 1966: The first phase of the Burwell School restoration is finished
  • Spring 1966: Laurence E. Hensley is named supervising contractor for the Burwell School restoration
• Honeycutt, Allison W. 41 entries, 1937–1945

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• Hood, Arthur 1 entry, 1912
  • July 16, 1912: Abe and Annie B. Mebane sell a lot in west Hillsborough to the trustees of Mebane Chapel
• Hood, Gurney 1 entry, 1931
  • by November 6, 1931: The Bank of Chapel Hill starts charging 50 cents a day on past-due notes
• Hooker, A. 1 entry, 1868
  • December 1868: A school report finds 43 schoolhouses for nearly 6,000 children
• Hooker, J. W. 13 entries, 1877–1904

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• Hooker, John S. 1 entry, 1961
  • by April 6, 1961: Dr. John S. Hooker opens a doctor's office in a former Carrboro Methodist building on Main Street
• Hooker, Jordan 1 entry, 1886
  • January 28, 1886: Dickerson's Chapel trustees buy the old courthouse from the Philadelphia Friends
• Hooker, Michael 10 entries, 1995–1999

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• Hooker, Nathan 4 entries, 1839–1852
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  • January 1839: Maria L. Spear heads the Hillsborough Female Seminary
  • by June 24, 1841: Hillsborough's female seminary engages Moses Ashley Curtis as superintendent
  • 1843: Nathan Hooker buys ninety-four acres on the north side of Hillsborough
  • October 5, 1852: Nathan Hooker's executor advertises his land and town lots for sale
• Hooker, O. 7 entries, 1852–1892
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  • October 5, 1852: Nathan Hooker's executor advertises his land and town lots for sale
  • by May 2, 1855: Hillsborough station opens its freight warehouse under agent Dr. Hooker
  • 1866-1867: George Laws chairs the stewards of the Hillsborough Methodist church
  • June 19 to July 28, 1868: Destitute Orange residents, white and Black, apply to the Bureau office at Hillsborough for rations
  • March 5, 1870: Hillsborough men ask Governor Holden to commission Pride Jones against the Klan
  • January 4, 1882: Eight prisoners break out of the Orange County jail at Hillsborough
  • by January 9, 1892: W. A. Hayes buys Dr. O. Hooker's drug business at Hillsborough
• Hooker, O. D. 3 entries, 1887–1891
  • November 2, 1887: The Central Warehouse opens its season of tobacco sales under O. D. Hooker
  • October 29, 1889: The Hillsborough tobacco manufacturers Hooker & Crisp dissolve their firm
  • May 4, 1891: Hillsborough re-elects Mayor Joseph A. Harris and chooses a seven-man town board
• Hooker, R. 1 entry, 1856
  • July 29, 1856: Hillsborough's commissioners pass ordinances against nuisances
• Hooker, Roscoe 1 entry, 1859
  • February 1859 to February 1860: Calvin E. Parish serves as mayor of Hillsborough
• Hooper, Allen 1 entry, 1879
  • September 22-23, 1879: J. C. Haely, a native of Africa, lectures on Africa at Chapel Hill
• Hooper, Anne 1 entry, 1791
  • May 27, 1791: The court gives Anne Hooper leave to free John for meritorious service
• Hooper, Emily 1 entry, 1858
  • 1858: The General Assembly lets Emily Hooper, a citizen of Liberia, return to slavery in Chapel Hill
• Hooper, Helen Hogg 1 entry, 1809
  • 1809: President Joseph Caldwell marries Helen Hooper and moves to her Franklin Street house
• Hooper, John DeBerniere 8 entries, 1831–1886

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• Hooper, Marsh 1 entry, 1879
  • September 22-23, 1879: J. C. Haely, a native of Africa, lectures on Africa at Chapel Hill
• Hooper, Thomas Hogg 1 entry, 1784
  • September 25, 1784: William Hooper divides enslaved people among his children
• Hooper, William 24 entries, 1742–1966

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• Hooper, William 13 entries, 1775–1876

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  • September 7, 1775: The Provincial Congress at Hillsborough appoints John Penn to the Continental Congress
  • winter of 1804: Twelve-year-old William Hooper enters the university's preparatory school
  • about 1814: Professor William Hooper builds a house on East Franklin Street
  • 1816: University enrollment rises from eighty to ninety-one during 1816
  • June 15, 1825: John Rogers and William Hooper take joint charge of Hillsborough Academy
  • June 22, 1831: Friends of education organize the North Carolina Institute of Education at Chapel Hill
  • autumn 1832: The evangelist Nettleton preaches in Chapel Hill and a revival follows
  • 1833 to 1834: Isaac C. Partridge publishes The Harbinger
  • by September 15, 1837: William Hooper resigns as the university's professor of ancient languages
  • 1849: The university buys the old Caldwell house as President Swain's residence
  • June 4, 1857: The university gives Postmaster General Aaron V. Brown an honorary LL.D. and William Hooper a D.D.
  • June 7, 1859: William Hooper gives the alumni address Fifty Years Since
  • August 25, 1876: Former professor William Hooper dies at Chapel Hill
• Hooper, William, Jr. 1 entry, 1784
  • September 25, 1784: William Hooper divides enslaved people among his children
• Hooper, William W. 1 entry, 1836
  • June 23, 1836: The university holds its first commencement under President Swain and graduates nineteen
• Hoover, J. Edgar 1 entry, 1937
  • January 1937: The Institute of Government opens its first ten-day school for police officers
• Hoover, J. T. B. 1 entry, 1897
  • August 10-12, 1897: The Farmers' State Alliance meets at Hillsborough and elects John Graham president
• Hoover, Renee Dobbins 1 entry, 1983
  • by March 1983: UNC joins the Eastern Region Consortium on Cooperative Minority Student Recruitment
• Hopewell, William 1 entry, 1962
  • by January 1962: The Ja-Max Motor Lodge has passed to William Hopewell
• Hopkins, Alden 1 entry, 1949
  • October 26, 1949: Eighth District garden clubs meet in Hillsboro and hear Williamsburg's landscape architect
• Hopkins, Harry L. 1 entry, 1934
  • June 12, 1934: Relief administrator Harry L. Hopkins gives the University commencement address
• Hopkins, James P. 2 entries, 1888
  • March 5, 1888: Prisoners overpower the jailer and break out of the Hillsborough jail
  • March 11, 1888: Two prisoners slip out of the Hillsborough jail a week after the first break
• Hopkins, Milley 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
• Hopkins, Nat 1 entry, 1947
  • December 24, 1947: Jeff Foushee and Nat Hopkins begin patrolling as Black policemen for Chapel Hill and Carrboro
• Hopkins, Samuel 7 entries, 1792–1804

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• Hopson, Jesse 1 entry, 1877
  • September 28, 1877: Hickory Grove Baptist Church is organized
• Hopson, Susan 1 entry, 1877
  • September 28, 1877: Hickory Grove Baptist Church is organized
• Hord, A. T. 2 entries, 1887–1889
  • 1887: Berry's Grove Baptist Church is organized
  • 1889: Mount Adar Baptist Church is organized
• Horman, Edward 1 entry, 1781
  • February 23, 1781: A British court of enquiry at Hillsborough clears a Guards private of desertion
• Horn, Anderson 1 entry, 1847
  • May Term 1847: The court cancels Norfleet Horn's indenture and restores him to his mother
• Horn, Andrew H. 2 entries, 1954–1957

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• Horn, Eliza 1 entry, 1847
  • May Term 1847: The court cancels Norfleet Horn's indenture and restores him to his mother
• Horn, John 1 entry, 1958
  • March 17, 1958: Chapel Hill aldermen vote for downtown parking meters and order an ordinance drawn
• Horn, Norfleet Anderson 1 entry, 1847
  • May Term 1847: The court cancels Norfleet Horn's indenture and restores him to his mother
• Hornaday, Clyde 1 entry, 1954
  • June 1954: The new Chapel Hill Real Estate Board joins the state association of realtors
• Horne, Amos 1 entry, 1964
  • August 20, 1964: Chapel Hill police name Lindy Pendergrass Patrolman of the Year
• Horne, E. H. 1 entry, 1939
  • March 27 to April 5, 1939: A WPA crew lays a sewer line for twelve Forest Hills homes
• Horne, Gerald 2 entries, 1996
  • by February 1996: The Black Publishers of North Carolina pledge $100,000 toward a freestanding Black Cultural Center
  • January 1996: Gerald Horne becomes director of the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center
• Horner, D. M. 1 entry, 1943
  • March 31, 1943: Chapel Hill Legion post receives a plaque for its members serving in both world wars
• Horner, D. M., Sr. 1 entry, 1946
  • September 1946: Veterans organize a Chapel Hill-Carrboro post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
• Horner, Dewey 1 entry, 1944
  • March 15, 1944: Chapel Hill's American Legion post burns the mortgage on its hut
• Horner, George F. 1 entry, 1946
  • July 21, 1946: Lutherans organize Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Chapel Hill
• Horner, George, Jr. 1 entry, 1793
  • May 30, 1793: George Horner Jr. signs two bastardy bonds after his arrest
• Horner, J. H. 1 entry, 1874
  • January 1874: Horner and Graves move their boys' school from Oxford to the old Military Academy buildings at Hillsborough

  May be the same person as Horner, James H.

• Horner, J. Knapp 1 entry, 1905
  • August 11, 1905: Superior court convicts J. Knapp Horner of killing Deputy Sheriff Nichols
• Horner, Jack 1 entry, 1878
  • about 1878: Mount Zion AME Church is organized at Martinsville
• Horner, James H. 1 entry, 1876
  • by February 16, 1876: James H. Horner withdraws from the Hillsborough Military Academy

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

• Horner, Jefferson 1 entry, 1841
  • Superior Court week, March 8-13, 1841: Orange grand jury drafts a constitution for a county agricultural society
• Horner, Knapp 1 entry, 1904
  • September 9, 1904: Deputy Sheriff Joseph Nichols is shot dead serving a warrant
• Horner, William 4 entries, 1816–1841
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  • May Term 1816: The court sentences Jim, an enslaved man, to hang for housebreaking and grants his appeal
  • April 25, 1835: A Red Mountain meeting nominates Thomas Ruffin and Frederick Nash for the constitutional convention
  • May 27, 1840: Orange Democrats nominate Gen. Joseph Allison and a full legislative ticket
  • August Term 1841: The court sends John Alousa Knight, an orphan boy, to his mother near Petersburg, Virginia
• Horney, Giles 1 entry, 1934
  • September 8, 1934: Catholics organize a congregation in Chapel Hill
• Horowitz, David 2 entries, 2001
  • March 26, 2001: Students protest a David Horowitz column against reparations
  • late November 2001: About 150 students walk out of David Horowitz's speech in Memorial Hall
• Horton, Byron 4 entries, 1977–1978
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  • April 19, 1977: White Avery dormitory residents throw water bags and slurs at BSM members
  • April 19, 1977: Black students crowd a council budget hearing and win the BSM's full request
  • late September or early October 1978: The North Carolina Black Student Coalition takes up Black admissions at a Carolina Union press conference
  • January 26, 1978: Protesters at the Carolina Inn press Governor Hunt to pardon the Wilmington Ten
• Horton, Cal 6 entries, 1990–2006

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• Horton, E. B. 1 entry, 1937
  • by October 1, 1937: The Chapel Hill telephone system adds a switchboard as newcomers seek telephones
• Horton, George Moses 10 entries, 1818–2005

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• Horton, Larnie 1 entry, 2002
  • April 16, 2002: Frances Hargraves dies at her Caldwell Street home
• Horton, Sarah 1 entry, 1801
  • February 26, 1801: A jury acquits Peter, an enslaved man, of murder
• Horton, Walter 1 entry, 2013
  • 2013: Walter Horton becomes Carrboro's first African American police chief
• Horton, William 1 entry, 1799
  • May Term 1799: The court binds James and John, sons of a woman called Free Mary, to learn carpentry
• Horton, William B. 2 entries, 1927

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• Horwitz, Debbie 1 entry, 2020
  • May 22, 2020: Drive-through food distribution at Chapel Hill Public Library serves 576 households
• Hostetler, E. H. 1 entry, 1950
  • February 2, 1950: Orange breeders hold a Spotted Poland China hog show and sale at Hillsboro
• Hostetter, D. S. 1 entry, 1942
  • February 2 to 7, 1942: The F.B.I. holds a wartime police school at the Institute of Government
• Hotchkiss, Jed 1 entry, 1880
  • June 24 to July 25, 1880: The University Normal School holds its 1880 summer session
• Hott, J. E. 1 entry, 1935
  • by May 3, 1935: Black citizens of Chapel Hill organize the Colored Civic Club
• Houghton, A. K. Hobart 1 entry, 1937
  • September 1937: Educators from British Africa and Southern state agents for Black schools confer at Chapel Hill
• House, Mrs. 1 entry, 1850
  • November Term 1850: The court cancels Matthew Crowder's indenture and gives him back to his mother
• House, R. B. 75 entries, 1924–1987

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• House, Robert B., Jr. 1 entry, 1941
  • July 1, 1941: Orange County registers 188 men in the second draft registration
• Houser, George 1 entry, 1947

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• Houston, Dianne 1 entry, 1992
  • November 20, 1992: The Ebony Readers/Onyx Theater stages The Fishermen
• Houston, Terri 1 entry, 2006
  • late January 2006: The GLBT-SA holds its second annual Ally Week
• Howard, B. J. 15 entries, 1924–1942

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• Howard, Bertin 1 entry, 1976
  • summer 1976: The town's SIFT program places teenagers in summer jobs
• Howard, Edwin T. 1 entry, 1953
  • October 7, 1953: Masons lay the cornerstone of the new Orange County courthouse at the county bicentennial
• Howard, Esme 1 entry, 1929
  • June 10, 1929: British ambassador Sir Esme Howard gives the university's commencement address
• Howard, Frank 1 entry, 1959
  • July 23, 1959: Jim Tatum dies at Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill
• Howard, George 2 entries, 1934
  • November 1, 1934: A boys' safety patrol begins guarding crossings at the Chapel Hill school
  • by July 13, 1934: George Howard becomes principal of the Chapel Hill school
• Howard, George, Jr. 1 entry, 1947
  • June 1947: A bronze plaque honoring Lt. George Howard Jr. is placed at the Naval Armory
• Howard, J. N. 2 entries, 1938–1942
  • by May 6, 1938: Orange County's terracing machine has terraced more than 4,000 acres of farmland
  • by February 17, 1942: Orange County farm communities collect half a million pounds of scrap iron

  May be the same person as Howard, Joe; Howard, Joe N.

• Howard, J. T. 1 entry, 1952
  • June 1952: About 1,000 largemouth bass are put into the Eno River near Hillsboro
• Howard, James 2 entries, 1959–1971
  • July 1, 1959: The Chapel Hill Art Gallery opens on West Franklin Street
  • 1971: The Carrboro Appearance Commission, chaired by Mrs. Howard Thomas, works on the town survey
• Howard, Joe 3 entries, 1938–1950
  • fall 1938 (reported December 22, 1938): Assistant county agent Joe Howard reorganizes Orange County's six boys' 4-H clubs
  • by November 25, 1938: Young people form the Orange County Service Club at Hillsboro
  • December 18, 1950: County commissioners and the welfare board meet on the rising cost of welfare

  May be the same person as Howard, J. N.; Howard, Joe N.

• Howard, Joe N. 2 entries, 1943–1944
  • November 1943: Black 4-H club members show their own beef heifers at the Hillsborough calf show
  • January 18, 1944: Orange County opens its Fourth War Loan drive

  May be the same person as Howard, J. N.; Howard, Joe

• Howard, Martin 10 entries, 1765–1772

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• Howard, O. O. 1 entry, 1867
  • January 23 to February 5, 1867: The Bureau investigates reports that a Hillsborough freedmen's teacher was shot at and driven away
• Howard, Ralph 2 entries, 1956–1961
  • April 26, 1956: Carrboro Lions Club opens its new Boy Scout hut
  • by December 8, 1961: Chapel Hill's Citizens' Committee begins a study of the high school curriculum
• Howard, Robert 1 entry, 1959
  • July 1, 1959: The Chapel Hill Art Gallery opens on West Franklin Street
• Howard, W. M. 1 entry, 1953
  • 1953: The Chapel Hill Methodist church installs a Standaart organ

  May be the same person as Howard, William M.

• Howard, William M. 1 entry, 1953
  • October 11, 1953: Chapel Hill Methodists celebrate their centennial

  May be the same person as Howard, W. M.

• Howe, Frederic Clemson 1 entry, 1918
  • June 5, 1918: A subdued wartime commencement honors the governor, Senator Overman and the Rev. W. D. Moss
• Howe, George 14 entries, 1903–1930

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• Howe, Robert 4 entries, 1771–1775

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• Howell, A. C. 8 entries, 1921–1957

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• Howell, E. V. 10 entries, 1897–1945

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• Howell, Jesse 1 entry, 1848
  • June 24, 1848: Mount Hermon Baptist Church is organized
• Howell, Rednap 8 entries, 1768–1771

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• Howell, Roger W. 1 entry, 1952
  • 1952: A Public Health Service grant creates a Department of Mental Health under Roger Howell
• Howell, Vernon 2 entries, 1925–1932
  • 1925: The Bank of Chapel Hill buys the Peoples Bank
  • 1932: Rebecca Clark moves to Chapel Hill and goes to work in a faculty home
• Howerton, Thomas 2 entries, 1855–1857
  • February 1855: The legislature charters four plank road companies through Orange County
  • December 10, 1857: Fire destroys the Union Hotel in Hillsborough
• Howerton, William M. 2 entries, 1846
  • 1846: Students circulate the Literary Trumpet, a handwritten paper
  • 1846: Dialectic and Philanthropic societies draw lots for the east and west buildings
• Howes, Jonathan 4 entries, 1976–1987

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• Hoyle, A. C. 3 entries, 1926
  • by June 11, 1926: The Carrboro school closes its year with 308 pupils enrolled and keeps A. C. Hoyle as principal
  • October 1926: Carrboro school enrolls 282 pupils, its largest attendance yet
  • May 1926: County and town school officials meet all day on a Chapel Hill township school district
• Hoyle, C. A. 4 entries, 1927–1930
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  • June 6, 1927: County commissioners call a Carrboro school tax election
  • early October 1929: The Chapel Hill school board turns away children from country districts
  • by July 5, 1929: C. A. Hoyle becomes supervising principal of both the Chapel Hill and Carrboro schools
  • June 4, 1930: Chapel Hill school reports a 180-day term and a growing high school
• Hoyt, Wayland 1 entry, 1888
  • early June 1888: Wayland Hoyt of Philadelphia preaches the university's 1888 baccalaureate sermon
• Huang, Po Fei 1 entry, 1974
  • March 25, 1974: Carolyn Kizer and Po Fei Huang read Chinese poems in Greenlaw Hall
• Hubbard, Charles 7 entries, 1955–1959
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  • June 7, 1955: Chapel Hill's Citizens' Committee for Better Schools asks for a 20-cent school supplement tax
  • December 13, 1956: The Exchange Club enters Grady A. Brown in its Book of Golden Deeds
  • December 3, 1956: Chapel Hill freeholders petition for a recreation district vote
  • January 25, 1957: Carrboro and rural neighbors petition to be left out of the recreation district
  • 1957-58 school year: Chapel Hill Recreation Center, Inc. forms to plan a teenage recreation center
  • January 3, 1957: A hearing on the Chapel Hill recreation district turns to Carrboro's school tax and integration
  • October 19, 1959: The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Recreation Center Corporation votes to start building its $90,000 center
• Hubbard, Charles S. 20 entries, 1945–1959

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• Hubbard, Mrs. Charles S. 3 entries, 1947–1950
  • September 17, 1947: Hillsborough groups form a committee for a town clean-up campaign
  • April 23-24, 1949: Hillsborough holds a combined flower show and garden pilgrimage
  • March 30, 1950: The Hillsboro Garden Club receives a key said to have locked the Regulators in jail
• Hubbard, Fordyce M. 8 entries, 1848–1870

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• Hubbard, W. H. 1 entry, 1889
  • March 8, 1889: Methodist trustees sell the old Rosemary Street church to the American Missionary Association
• Hubbard, William 1 entry, 2020
  • February 2020: Exhibit honoring housekeeping and facilities staff opens in the renovated Cheek-Clark Building
• Huccabee, Gray 1 entry, 1828
  • February 1828: The court calls in children to be bound out, among them two boys of color
• Huckabee, Gray 1 entry, 1830
  • August Term 1830: The court binds Lawrence Dollarhide, son of a free woman of color, at nearly eighteen
• Huckabee, James 1 entry, 1841
  • August Term 1841: The court has two children of Patsy Huckabee, a woman of color, brought in and binds them to John Taylor
• Huckabee, Kesiah 1 entry, 1841
  • August Term 1841: The court has two children of Patsy Huckabee, a woman of color, brought in and binds them to John Taylor
• Huckabee, Keziah 1 entry, 1850
  • May Term 1850: The court has Keziah Huckabee, a free girl of color, arrested and bound out at seventeen
• Huckabee, Patsey 1 entry, 1850
  • May Term 1850: The court has Keziah Huckabee, a free girl of color, arrested and bound out at seventeen
• Huckabee, Patsy 1 entry, 1841
  • August Term 1841: The court has two children of Patsy Huckabee, a woman of color, brought in and binds them to John Taylor
• Hudson, Charles 1 entry, 1826
  • February Term 1826: The grand jury presents Polly Hudson's children as running at large
• Hudson, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1826
  • February Term 1826: The grand jury presents Polly Hudson's children as running at large
• Hudson, Francis 1 entry, 1826
  • February Term 1826: The grand jury presents Polly Hudson's children as running at large
• Hudson, Isaac 2 entries, 1854–1855
  • 1854: Walter A. Thompson sells the old Nunn tavern property to Isaac Hudson
  • February 1855: The legislature charters four plank road companies through Orange County
• Huey, James 1 entry, 1737
  • May 19, 1737: An order in Council grants Henry McCulloh's associates warrants for 1,200,000 acres along the Yadkin, Eno and Catawba
• Huff, Barry 2 entries, 1981–1984
  • November 1981: The Upper Deck tavern opens above the Porthole restaurant
  • July 31, 1984: The Upper Deck closes after the Porthole building owner ends its lease
• Huffman, E. E. 1 entry, 1954
  • February 2, 1954: State development officials hold an industrial development workshop in Hillsborough
• Huger, Isaac 1 entry, 1780
  • July 19, 1780: Horatio Gates, on his way to the Southern Army, presses the governor for supplies from Hillsborough
• Huggins, Ed 1 entry, 1984
  • April 1984: Habitat for Humanity of Orange County is incorporated
• Huggins, L. V. 1 entry, 1934
  • May 30, 1934: The Chapel Hill Credit Association renames itself the Chapel Hill Merchants' Association
• Huggins, L. Vic 1 entry, 1944
  • 1944 to 1945: Hugh Lefler serves as president of the Chapel Hill Rotary Club
• Huggins, M. A. 1 entry, 1954
  • by September 30, 1954: The Chapel Hill Baptist Church takes on James O. Cansler as student chaplain under state BSU authority
• Huggins, Rebecca 1 entry, 1944
  • 1944–1968: Vic and Rebecca Huggins run Huggins Hardware on East Franklin Street
• Huggins, Vic 7 entries, 1924–1968

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• Huggins, Victor 1 entry, 1934
  • by December 14, 1934: Merchants and townspeople string Christmas lights across Franklin Street
• Hughes, Anderson 1 entry, 1845
  • July 19, 1845: Orange citizens hold funeral honors for Andrew Jackson at Mason Hall

  May be the same person as Hughes, Anderson G.

• Hughes, Anderson G. 1 entry, 1843
  • October 21, 1843, to June 15, 1873: Anderson G. Hughes, born near Eno, is installed pastor of Hawfields and Cross Roads

  May be the same person as Hughes, Anderson

• Hughes, Annie 1 entry, 1932
  • July 5, 1932: Annie Hughes, longtime schoolteacher, dies at Hillsborough
• Hughes, Annie H. 1 entry, 1955
  • May 29, 1955: Eno Presbyterian Church marks its two hundredth anniversary
• Hughes, Annie L. 1 entry, 1894
  • 1894 to 1915: Annie L. Hughes keeps Cedar Grove Academy
• Hughes, C. M. 2 entries, 1912–1917
  • 1912: Dr. C. M. Hughes builds a Colonial Revival house in Cedar Grove
  • July 9, 1917: The Council of Defense forms a committee to handle soldiers' business affairs
• Hughes, Claude M. 1 entry, 1927
  • November 24, 1927: Dr. Claude M. Hughes, Cedar Grove physician, dies
• Hughes, Claude Murray 2 entries, 1913–1996
  • 1913: The Cedar Grove pharmacy where Dr. C. M. Hughes practiced is moved beside his house
  • 1996: A hurricane destroys the old Thomas Cox Ellis wing of the Dr. C. M. Hughes House
• Hughes, Countess 1 entry, 1993
  • October 29, 1993: Black Women United returns with a reception honoring Black women on campus
• Hughes, Eugene A. 5 entries, 1903–1944
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  • June 1903: Hillsboro Township magistrates elect H. Winder Webb, James A. Cheek and Eugene A. Hughes road commissioners
  • July 18 to October 31, 1905: Hillsborough macadamizes King Street west of Churton
  • by June 15, 1905: Hillsborough Township brings in a rock crusher to macadamize the depot road
  • April 1905: Sheriff John Knox Hughes dies
  • November 12, 1944: Former Orange sheriff Eugene A. Hughes dies
• Hughes, Hatcher 1 entry, 1924

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• Hughes, Irene 1 entry, 1891
  • June 14 and 15, 1891: Cedar Grove Academy holds its 1891 commencement
• Hughes, Mrs. J. P. 1 entry, 1918
  • 1918 (Third Liberty Loan): Orange County women's committees sell $59,600 in Third Liberty Loan bonds
• Hughes, Joe 1 entry, 1959
  • Memorial Day (May 30), 1959: The West Hillsboro Community Family Club formally opens its park
• Hughes, John 3 entries, 1856–1892
  • 1856: Senior class invites Archbishop John Hughes to preach
  • 1860 commencement: Archbishop John Hughes preaches the commencement sermon
  • August 17, 1892: Orange County Democrats hold their county convention and name a ticket
• Hughes, John Knox 47 entries, 1873–1905

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• Hughes, John P. 5 entries, 1911–1929
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  • 1911-1914: J. D. Webb chairs the Orange County board of commissioners
  • August 10, 1912: Orange County Democrats nominate George C. Pickard for the House and renominate the county officers
  • June 28, 1917: J. Cheshire Webb is appointed chairman of the Orange County Council of Defense
  • 1917: Paul C. Collins leads Orange County's First Liberty Loan, and the county's banks sell $51,650 in bonds
  • by November 1, 1929: A county committee studies replacing Orange County's run-down county home
• Hughes, John Paisley 1 entry, 1800
  • early 1800s; enlarged about 1860 and 1880: The John Paisley Hughes House is built at Cedar Grove
• Hughes, John R. 1 entry, 1891
  • March 16-18, 1891: Spring term of Orange Superior Court is not held because Judge Boykin is ill
• Hughes, John T. 1 entry, 1955
  • by January 20, 1955: The district health department hires its first full-time dentist
• Hughes, Joseph D. 1 entry, 1841
  • Superior Court week, March 8-13, 1841: Orange grand jury drafts a constitution for a county agricultural society

  May be the same person as Hughes, Joseph Dunn

• Hughes, Joseph Dunn 1 entry, 1785
  • 1785: Joseph Dunn Hughes keeps a school in the Eno Church community

  May be the same person as Hughes, Joseph D.

• Hughes, Joseph P. 2 entries, 1956–1958
  • November 17, 1956: Cone Mills honors Anna Dixon for fifty years at the Eno plant
  • by December 4, 1958: Joseph P. Hughes succeeds Sydney Green as manager of the Eno plant
• Hughes, Langston 1 entry, 1927

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• Hughes, Langston 3 entries, 1927–1931

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• Hughes, M. 1 entry, 1913
  • July 23, 1913: The Cedar Grove firm of Hughes & Anderson is dissolved
• Hughes, Margaret J. 1 entry, 1882
  • April 22, 1882: The Mount Zion congregation buys an acre for its first church
• Hughes, R. E. 1 entry, 1938
  • November 2, 1938: The county Democratic committee names Collier Cobb Jr. to replace Carl Durham on the commissioners ticket

  May be the same person as Hughes, Robert E.

• Hughes, Robert 2 entries, 1890–1944

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• Hughes, Robert E. 1 entry, 1945
  • January 20, 1945: John Arch Parker becomes the first Orange farmer to pay off a tenant-purchase farm

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

• Hughes, Samuel Wellwood 20 entries, 1840–1953

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• Hughes, Thomas H. 7 entries, 1857–1890
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  • October 29-30, 1857: The Orange County Agricultural Society holds its fourth fair near Hillsborough
  • late May 1863: The county court sets up commissioners to direct the Soldiers' Fund
  • August 6, 1874: Orange County elects the whole Conservative ticket
  • October 31, 1886: A union meeting of four denominations opens at Cedar Grove before about 2,000 people
  • September 17, 1887: Orange County farmers organize the Orange County Club at the court house
  • August 11, 1888: Orange County Democrats nominate their county ticket and leave the sheriff's race open
  • the week of March 17, 1890: The court holds the bondsmen of former clerk Pride Jones liable on his accounts
• Hughes, W. R. 2 entries, 1880–1881
  • 1880: W. R. Hughes makes bricks at Cedar Grove
  • May 8, 1881: Dr. W. R. Hughes, Cedar Grove physician, dies after a buggy accident
• Hume, Thomas 11 entries, 1885–1950

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• Humphrey 1 entry, 1809
  • November Term 1809: The court lets four enslaved men on the Bennehan and Cameron lands carry guns
• Humphrey, J. G. 1 entry, 1942
  • December 1942: Two bus companies make their case in Chapel Hill for a route through Hillsboro
• Humphreys, Edna 1 entry, 1935
  • 1935: The University again makes Archer House a residence for women students
• Humphries, Creighton 1 entry, 1950
  • March 6, 1950: A Chapel Hill delegation urges a Colonial design and Archie Davis for the new courthouse
• Humphries, Josephine 1 entry, 1948
  • February and March 1948: Josephine Humphries paints murals of four Hillsboro landmarks in the Colonial Inn
• Humphries, Neal 1 entry, 1962
  • September 27, 1962: Neal's Restaurant opens beside the Dixie Motor Inn south of Hillsborough
• Hundley, S. C. 1 entry, 1946
  • September 20, 1946: Orange County Republicans name a ticket and adopt a five-point platform
• Hundley, S. E. 1 entry, 1955
  • June 1955: A drive begins to keep up the old Carrboro Cemetery
• Hunley, Mrs. S. C. 1 entry, 1934
  • by July 27, 1934: Orange County women organize under the Reporter Plan to study New Deal agencies
• Hunnicutt, J. W. 4 entries, 1870–1871
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  • August 5, 1870: Lieutenant Hunnicutt wires from Hillsborough that he has Turner under guard, and Burgen orders anyone who tries to free him shot
  • August 5, 1870: The officer holding Josiah Turner Jr. at Hillsborough says he will arrest anyone who brings a habeas corpus writ
  • August 5, 1870: State troops search Josiah Turner Jr.'s house outside Hillsborough and carry off his guns
  • February 16, 1871: Josiah Turner Jr. of Hillsborough testifies at Holden's impeachment trial about his arrest
• Hunnicutt, John 2 entries, 1870–1873
  • August 5–19, 1870: Kirk's militia arrests Josiah Turner Jr. at Hillsborough
  • late October 1873: Orange Superior Court dismisses the assault case against W. W. Holden under the amnesty act
• Hunt, Bill 1 entry, 1952
  • 1952 to 1954: Morgan Creek Hills subdivision begins beside the new 15-501 Bypass
• Hunt, C. M. 1 entry, 1950
  • April 3, 1950: County commissioners decline to oppose the route of the new Durham to Chapel Hill highway
• Hunt, Douglas 1 entry, 1973
  • July 1973: The university starts an affirmative action program for women and minority faculty
• Hunt, Douglass 5 entries, 1939–1995

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• Hunt, E. 1 entry, 1856
  • 1856: E. Hunt opens a photography studio and student boarding house
• Hunt, George 3 entries, 1946–1964
  • May 25, 1946: Sheriff S. T. Latta defeats R. R. Thomas in the Democratic primary
  • July 5, 1955: Hillsboro promotes George Hunt to police chief
  • November 2, 1964: Hillsborough appoints the first members of a new auxiliary police corps
• Hunt, George E. 1 entry, 1870
  • April 1, 1870: Tom Young and Bob Gunn are hanged at Hillsborough for the Blalock murder
• Hunt, James B., Jr. 1 entry, 1987
  • October 12, 1987: Sitterson Hall, the new computer science building, is dedicated on University Day
• Hunt, Jim 4 entries, 1978–1998
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  • 1978: Pauli Murray declines an honorary degree from UNC
  • January 26, 1978: Protesters at the Carolina Inn press Governor Hunt to pardon the Wilmington Ten
  • January 19 and February 2, 1984: The Landmark attacks student-fee funding of the Carolina Gay Association
  • April 28, 1998: State and university leaders welcome UNC President Molly Broad at a dinner in Chapel Hill
• Hunt, John 1 entry, 1788
  • July 21, 1788: The ratification convention opens at Hillsborough and elects Governor Samuel Johnston its president
• Hunt, Mary 1 entry, 1793
  • May 30, 1793: George Horner Jr. signs two bastardy bonds after his arrest
• Hunt, Memucan 2 entries, 1775

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• Hunt, Sterling H. 2 entries, 1947
  • January 1947: The county begins its first full reassessment of real property
  • June 25 to August 11, 1947: Orange County revalues its real property and hears taxpayers' complaints
• Hunt, William 3 entries, 1798–1939
  • August 31, 1798: The court sentences Bob, an enslaved man, to whipping, mutilation and branding
  • March 13, 1935: Aldermen let William Hunt open a flower garden on the old Wilson Caldwell lot
  • by March 3, 1939: William Hunt quarries Purefoy slate on Morgan Creek for the new Town Hall's walk and yard
• Hunt, William Lanier 9 entries, 1937–1996

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• Hunter, A. C. 1 entry, 1856
  • by November 19, 1856: A post office opens at University Station with A. C. Hunter as postmaster
• Hunter, Dick 1 entry, 1929
  • June 30, 1929: Crowds watch a parachute jump at the Chapel Hill airport
• Hunter, Isaac 1 entry, 1788
  • August 4, 1788: The convention adjourns sine die after fixing the seat of government at Isaac Hunter's in Wake County
• Hunter, James 20 entries, 1757–1776

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• Hunter, R. B. 1 entry, 1891
  • April 15, 1891: The class of 1891 holds its Class Day in Memorial Hall
• Hunter, Robert, Jr. 1 entry, 1845
  • May Term 1845: The court binds three Haithcock children of color to three masters in one term
• Hunter, W. M. 1 entry, 1923
  • April 17, 1923: Church leaders spend a day with Chase and the faculty on teaching religion at the university
• Hunter, William J. 1 entry, 1911
  • 1911: William J. 'Tank' Hunter runs a jitney between Chapel Hill and Durham
• Hunter, Willie N. 1 entry, 1944
  • November 3, 1944: Orange County's Black home demonstration and 4-H clubs hold Achievement Day
• Huntington, Anna Hyatt 2 entries, 1938–1939

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• Huntington, John 1 entry, 1834
  • 1834-1836: Lemuel Lynch and John Huntington work as partners in Hillsborough
• Huntington, Roswell 2 entries, 1789–1815
  • November 10, 1789: The House pays the men who carried the state treasury out of Hillsborough
  • 1815: William Huntington opens his own silversmith business in Hillsborough
• Huntington, William 7 entries, 1815–1834

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• Hurdle, Bedford 1 entry, 1847
  • February Term 1847: The court binds Andrew Jackson, a boy of color raised at the poorhouse, to Charles Cox
• Hurdle, Benjamin 1 entry, 1836
  • March 15, 1836: Orange County Van Buren men meet at the court house
• Hurdle, George 2 entries, 1844–1849
  • June 29, 1844: Meeting at Tate's store asks for a division vote and names the proposed county West Orange
  • by July 19, 1849: Commissioners sell the first fifty lots in Graham, the new Alamance seat
• Hurewicz, Witold 1 entry, 1939
  • by September 15, 1939: UNC adds several scholars from European universities to its faculty
• Hurlburt, Allan S. 1 entry, 1953
  • April 17-18, 1953: Central High hosts a Kellogg Project leadership conference for Black educators of three counties
• Husband, Herman 42 entries, 1724–1844

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• Husbands, Alexander 2 entries, 1813–1817
  • February Term 1813: The court binds Alexander, Zedekiah and Patsy Husbands, children of William Husbands, to three masters
  • May Term 1817: The court rebinds Zedekiah and Alexander Husbands, boys of color, after their masters leave the county
• Husbands, Ben 1 entry, 1942
  • by September 25, 1942: T. J. Wilson Jr. becomes University archivist as Husbands, Armstrong and Parker take new posts
• Husbands, Patsy 1 entry, 1813
  • February Term 1813: The court binds Alexander, Zedekiah and Patsy Husbands, children of William Husbands, to three masters
• Husbands, William 1 entry, 1813
  • February Term 1813: The court binds Alexander, Zedekiah and Patsy Husbands, children of William Husbands, to three masters
• Husbands, Zedekiah 6 entries, 1813–1837
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  • February Term 1813: The court binds Alexander, Zedekiah and Patsy Husbands, children of William Husbands, to three masters
  • May Term 1817: The court rebinds Zedekiah and Alexander Husbands, boys of color, after their masters leave the county
  • 3 June 1833: Zedekiah Husbands petitions the Superior Court to stop his nephew Daniel Burnett's binding to John Jones
  • August Term 1834: The court binds Daniel Burnett to his uncle Zedekiah Husbands, a free millwright of color
  • 1834 or 1835: Zedekiah Husbands, a free man of color and former apprentice, buys 48 acres on the Eno River
  • 10 March 1837: John Jones swears the county court had refused to bind Daniel Burnett to Zedekiah Husbands because Husbands was a man of color
• Huske, Benjamin R. 1 entry, 1851
  • January 1851 to 1858: Hillsborough Academy is revived under Benjamin Huske and Ralph Graves
• Huske, John 1 entry, 1883
  • March 11, 1883: J. B. G. Roulhac, who kept a large Hillsborough store, dies at 34
• Huskey, J. W. 1 entry, 1930
  • May 15, 1930: Chapel Hill firemen receive state service certificates at their hut
• Huskey, John 1 entry, 1830
  • 1830s: The core of the Huskey House is built on East Rosemary Street
• Husky, William 1 entry, 1868
  • between 1868 and early 1871: Klansmen whip William Husky, one of Governor Holden's detectives
• Husman, A. A. 2 entries, 1925–1927
  • August 3, 1925: Orange County commissioners vote $1,500 to rid the county's cattle of tuberculosis
  • August 30-31, 1927: A federal veterinarian tests Chapel Hill's dairy herds for tuberculosis
• Hutcheson, James 1 entry, 1799
  • March 2, 1799 (February Term 1799): The court orders a new road from John McRory's to the Caswell County line
• Hutchings, J. L. 1 entry, 1898
  • by November 4, 1898: J. L. Hutchings takes over J. M. Cheek's building supply and coffin business
• Hutchins, Frances 1 entry, 1832
  • September Term 1832: The Superior Court convicts James Browning and Frances Hutchins of adultery
• Hutchins, Henry 1 entry, 1834
  • February 6, 1834: Chapel Hill's new board names its officers and lays the town tax
• Hutchins, I. D. 1 entry, 1878
  • October 5, 1878: Sunday schools organize an Orange County Sunday School Convention at Orange Church
• Hutchins, John 3 entries, 1834–1880
  • February 6, 1834: Chapel Hill elects its town commissioners for 1834
  • March 7, 1873: John T. Hogan is chosen school committeeman for Hillsborough Township
  • August 27, 1880: Chapel Hill closes its stores for the funeral of John Hutchins, a resident since 1823
• Hutchins, John R. 10 entries, 1854–1882

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• Hutchins, R. L. 1 entry, 1935
  • by January 18, 1935: Relief funds restart work on the University's new intramural athletic field
• Hutchins, Robert M. 1 entry, 1930
  • October 30-November 2, 1930: Southern Conference on Education opens with Robert M. Hutchins
• Hutchison, Carolyn 1 entry, 2013
  • 2013: Walter Horton becomes Carrboro's first African American police chief
• Hutson, Cresy 1 entry, 1812
  • February Term 1812: The court binds Hannah Hutson, daughter of Cresy Hutson, a free woman of color
• Hutson, Hannah 1 entry, 1812
  • February Term 1812: The court binds Hannah Hutson, daughter of Cresy Hutson, a free woman of color
• Hutson, Jean 1 entry, 1981
  • March 20-21, 1981: Delta Sigma Theta holds a workshop on the Black woman at the Carolina Union
• Hyman, Mary 5 entries, 1927–1931
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  • 1927-1932: The county board hires a rural school supervisor at the urging of Edgar W. Knight
  • August 1927 to about 1931: Mary Hyman becomes Orange County's rural supervisor of elementary education and brings in standardized testing
  • September 1931: Orange County cuts the schools' coal and janitor money in half
  • June 29, 1931: County school supervisor reports gains in the Orange County schools
  • September 1931: Orange County teachers meet in Hillsboro as the county opens the year with 15 schools
• Hyman, Phyllis 1 entry, 1982
  • November 12, 1982: Memorial Hall shows Sophisticated Ladies live by satellite from Broadway