Orange County Indexed

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

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Kaalund, Valerie 1 entry, 2001
- March 26-27, 2001: The Freedom Legacy Project and the Campus Y hold a two-day forum on institutional racism
Kachergis, George 1 entry, 1959
- July 1, 1959: The Chapel Hill Art Gallery opens on West Franklin Street
Kalo, Joseph 2 entries, 1983
- July 1, 1983: Law professors Joseph and Monica Kalo buy the Nash house from the McClamroch estate
- about 1983: The Nash house is renovated, with picture windows in Mary Nash's old studio and a third-floor bathroom
Kalo, Monica 2 entries, 1983
- July 1, 1983: Law professors Joseph and Monica Kalo buy the Nash house from the McClamroch estate
- about 1983: The Nash house is renovated, with picture windows in Mary Nash's old studio and a third-floor bathroom
Kane, George W. 6 entries, 1922–1946
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Kanoy, Will C. 2 entries, 1935
- June 20, 1935: The state finishes widening the Pittsboro highway at the edge of Chapel Hill
- June 21, 1935: State crews close the Raleigh road east of Chapel Hill for resurfacing
Kapp, Paul 1 entry, 2003
- February 13, 2003: A tie vote keeps Person Hall off the Study List
Karpinos, Ralph 1 entry, 1997
- October 13, 1997: Duke University easement to NASA stalls landfill candidate site OC-17
Karres, Andrew M. 1 entry, 1959
- March 11, 1959: The county ABC board places the Chapel Hill area liquor store in the planned Eastgate Shopping Center
Kato, Kameichi 1 entry, 1918
- June 1918: Kameichi Kato becomes the first Asian student to finish a four-year degree
Katsis, Nick 1 entry, 1937
- by December 17, 1937: A cleaning-business owner buys the failed Carolina Cooperative Cleaners
Katsoff, L. O. 1 entry, 1937
- November 17, 1937: Ku Klux Klan leader Hiram W. Evans speaks in Memorial Hall
Katz, Mark 1 entry, 2017
- 2017: William J. Barber II gives the Weil Lecture on American Citizenship
Kawalec, Bev 1 entry, 1977
- November 8, 1977: Bill Thorpe leads the voting for the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen
Kay, Clarence 1 entry, 1955
- by May 5, 1955: The Central School PTA starts a Cub Scout pack for Black boys in Hillsboro
Kay, John A. 1 entry, 1858
- December 18, 1858: Charles Tew buys land west of Hillsborough for a military academy
Keckly, Elizabeth 9 entries, 1835–2026
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Keckly, Elizabeth Hobbes 1 entry, 1837
- 1837–1857: Burwell School for young women operates
Keckly, Elizabeth Hobbs 11 entries, 1835–2026

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Keckly, James 1 entry, 1855
- 1855: Elizabeth Keckly purchases freedom for herself and her son
Keener, Bishop 1 entry, 1883
- June 28 to July 1, 1883: The Methodist district conference meets at Cedar Grove, and Bishop Keener preaches in Orange
Kehrer, E. T. 1 entry, 1957
- by June 27, 1957: Garment workers' union publishes an open letter on the Reverie Lingerie strike
May be the same person as Kehrer, Elmer T.
Kehrer, Elmer T. 1 entry, 1958
- January 21-24, 1958: The labor board hears union charges against Reverie Lingerie at the courthouse
May be the same person as Kehrer, E. T.
Keith, Barry 1 entry, 1988
- 1988: Barry Keith opens Surplus Sids on Main Street in Carrboro
Keith, Charles H. 1 entry, 1962
- March 15, 1962: County Planning Board agrees to simplify its zoning draft
Keith, S. S. 1 entry, 1941
- by May 9, 1941: Seven families of University service employees live in the new Oakwood cooperative homes
Kell, William 1 entry, 1834
- 1834: James Strudwick Smith buys Harriet, aged fifteen, as Mary Ruffin Smith's maid
Kellam, Emily 1 entry, 1957
- December 17, 1957: Chapel Hill Elementary pupils play carols with professional musicians at the school Christmas program
Keller, J. J. 1 entry, 1934
- September 8, 1934: Catholics organize a congregation in Chapel Hill
Kelley, John 1 entry, 1787
- May Term 1787: The court orders a road laid off from the end of Queen Street to the Halifax road
Kelley, Robin D. G. 1 entry, 1998
- by November 1998: Robin D. G. Kelley opens the Black Cultural Center's Blacks in the Diaspora lecture series
Kelly, Benjamin 1 entry, 1833
- September 3, 1833: Col. William Polk sells part of the university's Gerrard lands in Tennessee
Kelly, Chauncey V. 1 entry, 1944
- November 28, 1944: Army troops stage a chemical warfare show and war bond rally at Fetzer Field
Kelly, H. N. 2 entries, 1922–1923
- June 1922: Farmers and the high school's agriculture teachers start a curb market in Chapel Hill
- fall 1923: Eight Orange County communities hold community fairs with help from the high school's agriculture teachers
Kelly, John 1 entry, 1834
- 1834: Cedar Grove Methodist Episcopal Church builds its first church
Kelly, Paul 1 entry, 1958
- October 20, 1958: Hillsboro businessmen launch a stock drive to build a plant for Southern Garment Company
Kelly, Paula 1 entry, 1982
- November 12, 1982: Memorial Hall shows Sophisticated Ladies live by satellite from Broadway
Kemble, Elizabeth L. 1 entry, 1950
- 1950: UNC establishes its School of Nursing
Kemp, Hal 1 entry, 1926
- 1926: Kay Kyser takes over the UNC campus band from Hal Kemp
Kemp, T. L. 1 entry, 1963
- May 28, 1963: Mayor McClamroch's Integration Committee adopts a four-point program
Kenady, Yondalin 1 entry, 1926
- by July 16, 1926: The Music Supervisors Journal moves its office to Chapel Hill under editor Paul J. Weaver
Kenan, James 3 entries, 1788
- July 31, 1788: The committee of the whole adopts Willie Jones's resolution for a declaration of rights and amendments before ratification
- July 30, 1788: Willie Jones's previous question carries 183 to 84, setting aside Johnston's ratification motion
- July 30, 1788: Governor Johnston moves in committee that the convention ratify and propose amendments afterward
Kenan, Owen Hill 1 entry, 1931
- by May 15, 1931: Owen Hill Kenan gives the University a wooden statue of Sir Walter Raleigh
Kenan, Randall 6 entries, 1967–2007

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Kenan, Sarah Graham 1 entry, 1930
- By May 1930: The Southern Historical Collection is established
Kenan, Thomas S. 3 entries, 1891–1907
- October 14, 1891: George T. Winston is inaugurated as president of the University of North Carolina
- June 1897: The class of 1897 gives the university a bust of Robert E. Lee
- June 3, 1907: Robert Bingham speaks for the class of 1857 at its fiftieth anniversary
Kenan, William R., Jr. 1 entry, 1895
- 1895: The University's first electric plant brings electricity to the campus and village
Kenan, William Rand 2 entries, 1926–1927

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Kenan, William Rand, Jr. 8 entries, 1893–2018

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Kendall, William 3 entries, 1919–1929
- 1919 to 1920: The university hires Aberthaw and McKim, Mead and White for its expansion
- 1922-1923: Murphey, Saunders and Manning halls are designed in the university's building office
- October 19, 1929: The new University Library, later Wilson Library, is dedicated
May be the same person as Kendall, William M.
Kendall, William M. 1 entry, 1930
- June 1930: Trustees' committee chooses the site for the Morehead-Patterson bell tower
May be the same person as Kendall, William
Kenfield, J. F. 2 entries, 1929–1934
- November 20, 1929: The Kenfield house burns after the Chapel Hill fire truck turns back at the town limits
- March 20, 1934: The first of the University's rebuilt tennis courts is played on
Kenfield, John 1 entry, 1939
- October 1939: UNC tennis coach John Kenfield opens the Carolina Sports Shop
Kenion, Alonzo 1 entry, 1947
- October 6, 1947: Walter Wrenn becomes Orange County's veterans service officer
Kenion, Alonzo W. 11 entries, 1916–1943

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Kenion, Alonzo W., Jr. 1 entry, 1946
- April 1, 1946: Orange County opens a veterans' service office in Hillsboro
Kenion, John 2 entries, 1910–1917
- 1910: John Kenion's center-gable farmhouse is built north of Hillsborough
- 1917: Paul C. Collins leads Orange County's First Liberty Loan, and the county's banks sell $51,650 in bonds
Kennedy, G. C. 2 entries, 1934–1937
- by November 16, 1934: G. C. Kennedy and Sons install a large planing mill north of Hillsboro
- By August 1937: G. C. Kennedy and Sons build the Piedmont Packing Company plant north of Hillsborough
Kennedy, John F. 1 entry, 1961

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Kennedy, John F. 1 entry, 1961

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Kennedy, Lee 1 entry, 1962
- January 24, 1962: James Freeland hosts the Orange Democrats' announcement party at the General Sherman
Kennedy, Max M. 1 entry, 1962
- February 28, 1962: Opponents of the county zoning plan meet at Palmer's Grove
Kennedy, Rose 1 entry, 1964
- May 17, 1964: North Carolina pays tribute to President Kennedy in Kenan Stadium
Kennette, E. 1 entry, 1918
- Thanksgiving 1918: The university Woman's Association holds a Thanksgiving peace festival
Kennon, Frank 1 entry, 1809
- November Term 1809: The court lets four enslaved men on the Bennehan and Cameron lands carry guns
Kennon, R. M. 1 entry, 1952
- November 17, 1952: Repairs begin on the old Orange County courthouse
Kent, A. A. 1 entry, 1912
- May 8, 1912: The medical building, Caldwell Hall, is dedicated
Kent, M. J. 1 entry, 1931
- July 6, 1931: Work begins on paving Cameron Avenue west of the campus
Kent, Rosemary 1 entry, 1959
- March 11, 1959: Women educators organize the Alpha Pi chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma at Chapel Hill
Kenyon, Van 1 entry, 1952
- February 18, 1952: Teachers and parents organize a county unit of the United Forces for Education
Kepler, George D. 1 entry, 1943
- September 11, 1943: The Craighead twins take 600 cadets into the woods to start "self-preservation" training
Kepner, Robert 2 entries, 1972–1973
- fall 1972: Residence Life appoints twenty-four Black resident advisors
- by February 1973: More than half of UNC's 750-plus Black students live on South Campus
Keppel, Frederick 1 entry, 1923
- 1923 to 1925: Trustees set aside Smith Hall and $25,000 for a Playmakers theatre, and the Carnegie Corporation pays to equip it
May be the same person as Keppel, Frederick P.
Keppel, Frederick P. 1 entry, 1929
- May 20 to 23, 1929: American Association for Adult Education holds its annual meeting at Chapel Hill
May be the same person as Keppel, Frederick
Ker, David 7 entries, 1794–1796

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Ker, William Doub 1 entry, 1926
- September 13, 1926: The Chapel Hill school opens under its cooperative plan with the University's school of education
Kerley, Michael 1 entry, 1975
- fall 1975: Chapel Hill High adds Advanced Placement physics and biology and an American Studies program
Kern, Paul B. 1 entry, 1935
- April 7, 1935: The Chapel Hill Methodist church is dedicated once its debt is paid
Kernodle, J. F. 2 entries, 1949
- September 26, 1949: About 100 out-of-town residents protest Hillsboro's water rate increase
- March 3, 1949: The Pilgrim Holiness Church in West Hillsborough announces its first service in a new building
Kerr, Daniel W. 2 entries, 1836–1838
- 1836 to 1839: Mount Pleasant Academy, later Junto Academy, operates under Daniel W. Kerr
- by May 23, 1838: New post offices open at Lipscomb's and at Junto
May be the same person as Kerr, Daniel Wilson
Kerr, Daniel Wilson 1 entry, 1844
- 1844: The Christian Sun is founded at Hillsborough
May be the same person as Kerr, Daniel W.
Kerr, John 6 entries, 1847–1877
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May be the same person as Kerr, John W.
Kerr, John W. 1 entry, 1848
- March 14, 1848: Hillsborough meeting of both parties backs Zachary Taylor for president
May be the same person as Kerr, John
Kerr, Washington Caruthers 4 entries, 1875–1879

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Kessing, Mrs. O. O. 1 entry, 1942
- October 14, 1942: Navy officers' wives organize the Pre-Flight Women's Club
Kessing, Oliver Owen 10 entries, 1942–1945

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Kessler, Lee 1 entry, 1988
- November 20, 1988: The Black Cultural Center honors Pauli Murray at the Chapel of the Cross
Key, Wade D. 3 entries, 1951–1952
- June 30, 1951: The Hillsboro Building and Loan Association pays the largest dividend in its history
- by June 26, 1952: The Hillsboro Building and Loan Association passes a million dollars in assets
- January 15, 1952: Hillsboro Building and Loan reports its biggest year
Khan, Asif 1 entry, 2012
- By January 2012: Asif Khan founds the Refugee Community Partnership
Khawaga, Basheer 1 entry, 1955
- August 10 to September 7, 1955: Exchange delegates from Lebanon and Jordan live and work on Orange County farms
Kidder, Maurice 1 entry, 1956
- July 2, 1956: Irving Carlyle attacks the Pearsall school plan at a Chapel Hill forum
May be the same person as Kidder, Maurice Arthur
Kidder, Maurice Arthur 2 entries, 1952–1953
- January 27, 1952: Episcopalians organize the Church of the Holy Family in Chapel Hill
- June 7, 1953: The Church of the Holy Family breaks ground in Chapel Hill
May be the same person as Kidder, Maurice
Kies, William S. 1 entry, 1917
- January 1917: The faculty approves summer banking jobs for credit with National City Bank
Kilgore, Thomas 1 entry, 1946
- April 7-28, 1946: Rock Hill Baptist Church celebrates its 76th anniversary
Killinger, Glenn 2 entries, 1944–1945
- August 1944: All-American Otto Graham reports to the Pre-Flight School as a cadet
- by February 2, 1945: Paul Bryant becomes head of football at the Navy Pre-Flight School
Kilpatrick, Judson 1 entry, 1865
- April 30, 1865: Charles P. Mallett wrote that federal troops had held Chapel Hill for fourteen days
Kilpatrick, Samuel 1 entry, 1828
- 1828: Orange Superior Court tries Jim, Sherod and Harry, three enslaved men
Kimball, Charles 1 entry, 1730
- May 27, 1730: Virginia pays an interpreter to the Saponi and Occaneechi Indians
Kimberly, John 7 entries, 1857–1875

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Kimbriel, J. R. 1 entry, 1943
- April 5, 1943: Pre-Flight cadets put out a forest fire near Horace Williams Airport
Kimbrough, Marmaduke 2 entries, 1752
- September 1752: The county court contracts for a courthouse and prison near Piney Ford
- 1752: Marmaduke Kimbrough enters 640 acres on Pole Cat Creek
Kinchen, Benjamin 1 entry, 1801
- February 27, 1801: The court binds James Revill, a boy of color, to Benjamin Kinchen, a man of color
Kinchen, John 11 entries, 1767–1779

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King, Allie 1 entry, 1910
- about 1910: Jesse and Allie King build a two-story house on Old Greensboro Road
King, Baxter 1 entry, 1797
- May 23, 1797: The court names poll inspectors for elections at Hillsborough and southwest of Haw River
King, Bernice 2 entries, 1989–1999
- January 19, 1989: Bernice King speaks during UNC's Martin Luther King Jr. week
- January 20, 1999: The Rev. Bernice King gives the lecture of UNC's 18th annual King birthday celebration
King, C. E. 2 entries, 1889–1963
- March 8, 1889: Methodist trustees sell the old Rosemary Street church to the American Missionary Association
- April 11, 1963: A man swings at a College Cafe picket and escapes from police custody
King, Cary H. 1 entry, 1906
- September 8, 1906: Nineteenth District Democrats nominate John W. Graham and Cary H. King for the Senate at Hillsboro
King, Coretta Scott 2 entries, 1979–1987
- December 5, 1979: Coretta Scott King lectures on human rights in Memorial Hall
- November 17, 1987: Coretta Scott King speaks in Memorial Hall for Human Rights Week
King, Dewey 2 entries, 1925–1961
- January and February 1925: The Chapel Hill post office adds a third carrier for the campus and puts up street letter boxes
- April 11, 1961: Orange County begins handing out federal surplus food in West Hillsboro
King, Frank 1 entry, 1950
- July 1950: The Carrboro Church of God is organized
King, Fred 1 entry, 1956
- May 31, 1956: St. Mary's Road residents finish a new water line on Hillsboro's system
King, G. H. 1 entry, 1926
- by March 26, 1926: Downstream landowners sue Chapel Hill over sewage in Bolin Creek
King, Harold 1 entry, 1929
- July 17, 1929: Summer players stage the Agamemnon of Aeschylus in Kenan Stadium
King, Jesse 2 entries, 1898–1910
- November 1898: Jesse King, the officer who held McCauley, is tried and acquitted at Hillsborough
- about 1910: Jesse and Allie King build a two-story house on Old Greensboro Road
King, John 2 entries, 1878–1977
- mid-December 1878: A granite monument to William A. Graham is raised in the Presbyterian cemetery
- by March 21, 1977: The Chapel Hill YMCA raises most of the money for a building on Airport Road
King, Lum 1 entry, 1915
- January 21, 1915: An old fiddlers' convention is held at the Colonial Theatre in Carrboro
King, Martin Luther, Jr. 6 entries, 1960–2005

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King, Martin Luther, Sr. 1 entry, 1979
- March 12, 1979: Martin Luther King Sr. gives the second Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture
King, Mary 1 entry, 1807
- August 1807 (court term): On Duncan Cameron's motion the court sends to Caswell County for Benjamin Ponds
King, Morris 1 entry, 1883
- by April 14, 1883: A post office called Blackwood opens at Robson station on the University Railroad
King, N. J. 1 entry, 1836
- by June 18, 1836: Orange's White ticket names Hugh Waddell for the state Senate and William A. Graham, N. J. King and Harrison Parker for the Commons
King, Nathaniel 2 entries, 1850
- August Term 1850: The court has Chapel Hill children of color brought in and binds Jack Evans to John Turner
- May Term 1850: The court has Keziah Huckabee, a free girl of color, arrested and bound out at seventeen
May be the same person as King, Nathaniel I.
King, Nathaniel I. 2 entries, 1840
- 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
May be the same person as King, Nathaniel
King, Primrose 1 entry, 1851
- February Term 1851: The court cancels Primrose King's indenture to James Parks and delivers him to his mother
King, Richard 2 entries, 1942–1943
- October 1942: The Pre-Flight School begins cockpit instruction in a wingless Navy biplane beside Alexander Hall
- April 10, 1943: The Pre-Flight School is to open its Synthetic Devices Building
King, Rimsey 1 entry, 1955
- about July 1955: Methodists organize a new congregation in Glen Lennox
King, Rufus 1 entry, 1879
- March 9, 1879: Quaker evangelist Mrs. Moon begins revival meetings at the Chapel Hill Methodist church
King, Thomas 3 entries, 1799–1837
- March 19-21, 1799: Thomas Hart Benton is expelled from the Philanthropic Society for stealing from his roommates
- October 31, 1836: Alexander Gattis Sr. and Thomas King deed land to the Orange Methodist Church trustees
- 19 May 1837: Thomas King offers five dollars for Ruffin Chavers, a bound youth of color he says ran away
Kingsbury, Mrs. B. F. 1 entry, 1943
- by September 24, 1943: Chapel Hill's Red Cross surgical dressings room passes 247,500 dressings in its first year
Kinion, Benjamin 1 entry, 1887
- late August 1887: Little River farmers organize a Farmers' Club at their district school house
Kinion, Joseph S. 1 entry, 1889
- September to late October 1889: Joseph S. Kinion's workmen remodel the Orange County court house
Kinnaird, Ellie 11 entries, 1987–2013

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Kinnaird, Richard 1 entry, 1969
- 1969: The class of 1966 unveils a bronze Thomas Wolfe memorial beside Person Hall
Kinney, Morgan 1 entry, 2002
- May 21, 2002: Orange County commissioners take up a request to name the Morgan Creek bridge for James Taylor
Kinoy, Arthur 1 entry, 1993
- November 1993: More than 200 housekeepers and students march after a judge dismisses the housekeepers' grievance
Kinsey, J. W. 1 entry, 1934
- December 1934: The farm agent reports Orange crop income nearly four times that of 1932
Kirby, Frank 5 entries, 1886–1887
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Kirby, Thomas 1 entry, 1868
- 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
Kirk, Bob 1 entry, 1962
- 1962: Orange Grove residents put up a sign naming the community
Kirk, Bobby 1 entry, 1976

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Kirk, George W. 5 entries, 1870
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Kirk, Jack 1 entry, 1957
- February 18, 1957: Orange poultrymen form a county unit of the Central Carolina Poultry Association
Kirk, John 1 entry, 1812
- May 28, 1812: The court levies a patrol tax on Black polls and names patrols in the captains' companies
Kirkland, Alexander 2 entries, 1857–1869
- June 2 and 3, 1857: Freshman and sophomore declaimers compete at commencement, and Governor Bragg gives a composition prize
- 1869 and 1870: Alexander Kirkland, a son of the congregation, supplies New Hope
Kirkland, Alexander McKenzie 2 entries, 1837–1841
- About 1837–1841: Alexander McKenzie Kirkland subjects Elizabeth Hobbs to about four years of sexual coercion
- Late 1841: Elizabeth Hobbs gives birth to her son George in Hillsborough
Kirkland, Anna McKenzie 1 entry, 1856
- June 1856: Anne Call Cameron, piano teacher to Burwell School students, dies
Kirkland, Bessie 1 entry, 1918
- September 2, 1918: The Orange County Red Cross forms a canteen committee to give packages to men leaving for camp
Kirkland, Carolina 1 entry, 1830
- about 1830: A two-story frame farmhouse is built on the land later called Webb's Happy Acres
Kirkland, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1935
- September 24, 1935: Women of New Hope and Blackwood Station organize a home demonstration club
Kirkland, G. M. 4 entries, 1929–1941
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Kirkland, Garland 1 entry, 1928
- November 11, 1928: Daughters of the Confederacy give Crosses of Military Service to two Chapel Hill veterans
Kirkland, George 3 entries, 1841–1855

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Kirkland, George 1 entry, 1948

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- 1948: George Kirkland, Chapel Hill's first African American dentist, is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
May be the same person as Kirkland, George A.
Kirkland, George A. 1 entry, 1924
- by July 25, 1924: George A. Kirkland opens a dental office in Chapel Hill
May be the same person as Kirkland, George
Kirkland, Jesse 2 entries, 1924
- by July 25, 1924: George A. Kirkland opens a dental office in Chapel Hill
- July 4, 1924: The Standard, a movie theatre owned by and for Black residents, opens on West Franklin Street
Kirkland, John 5 entries, 1825–1914
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Kirkland, John B. 1 entry, 1925
- January to April 1925: Nello Teer's crews build the new state road from Prospect Hill toward Hillsboro
Kirkland, John U. 25 entries, 1833–1874

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Kirkland, Joseph 2 entries, 1741–1840
- about 1741 to 1743: Craig, Blackwood and Kirkland families come down from Pennsylvania to the Hawfields
- May 9, 1840: Four elders are ordained at New Hope
Kirkland, Margaret Scott 1 entry, 1836
- June 22, 1836: William Kirkland dies, leaving Ayr Mount to his widow
Kirkland, Samuel 2 entries, 1879–1889
- July 17, 1879: Samuel Kirkland and Leroy Craig are ordained elders at New Hope
- May 16, 1889: Orange Presbytery removes all six active elders of New Hope
Kirkland, Sue May 1 entry, 1914
- April 3, 1914: Capt. John Kirkland dies at his home east of Hillsboro and is buried at Ayr Mount
Kirkland, Swain 4 entries, 1888–1894
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Kirkland, Thomas 3 entries, 1860–1885
- begun about 1860, finished after the war: Thomas Kirkland starts a frame house and finishes it after the Civil War
- February 1869: Charles Phillips ordains two elders and leaves the emptied Presbyterian church in their care
- 1885: Dr. William P. Mallett begins handing out Chapel Hill's mail from his lot
Kirkland, Thomas M. 3 entries, 1877–1890
- May 19, 1877: Andrew Mickle is appointed Chapel Hill postmaster
- by February 26, 1881: Thomas M. Kirkland becomes Chapel Hill's postmaster and moves the post office
- early January 1890: Thomas M. Kirkland is commissioned postmaster at Chapel Hill
Kirkland, W. W. 1 entry, 1863
- by September 16, 1863: Hillsborough's W. W. Kirkland is promoted to brigadier general
Kirkland, Will 1 entry, 1809
- August 29, 1809: The court frees nine people under Absalom Tatom's will, who take the name Tatom
Kirkland, William 16 entries, 1793–1836

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Kirkland, William S. 2 entries, 1859–1869
- September 1859: Five elders are ordained at New Hope
- August 5, 1869: Orange County holds its first township elections
Kirklin, Nelson 1 entry, 1868
- October 17, 1868: Freedpeople at New Hope rent a building and hire a teacher for a school
Kirkpatrick 1 entry, 1890
- April 7, 1890: Federal judge Dick discharges the revenue officers who killed Henry McMannen
Kirkpatrick, Mrs. C. A. 1 entry, 1953
- November 24, 1953: The Chapel Hill Junior Service League publishes the cookbook Carolina Cooking
Kirkpatrick, S. 3 entries, 1890
- March 11, 1890: Judge Armfield's hearing at Hillsborough on the McMannen killing ends with the officers in federal hands
- the week of March 17, 1890: An Orange County grand jury indicts five revenue officers for the murder of Henry McMannen
- February 25, 1890: Revenue officers kill Henry McMannen, a Black man, at his house in Little River township
Kirkpatrick, S. P. 1 entry, 1902
- March 10-12, 1902: Van Fuller gets thirty years for burning S. P. Kirkpatrick's barn
Kirksey, Minerva 1 entry, 1949
- May 22, 1949: The Orange County Negro Public Library held its grand opening at the community center in Hillsboro
Kirksey, William D. 1 entry, 1833
- 1833: William D. Kirksey advertises as the village blacksmith
Kirschner, Cornelius 1 entry, 1996
- June 19, 1996: Four governing boards hold a unified public hearing on a new landfill next to the Eubanks Road site
Kiser, William R. 1 entry, 1953
- August 3, 1953: The state opens a new forestry district headquarters in Chapel Hill
Kitchen, Susan 1 entry, 1998
- November 11, 1998: Chancellor Hooker answers BSM members' questions on the 22 demands
Kitchin, William W. 9 entries, 1891–1912

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Kite, A. R. 1 entry, 1957
- June 14, 1957: Skateland roller rink opens on Highway 70 near Hillsboro
Kittredge, C. D. 1 entry, 1930
- by May 9, 1930: Orange Hardware Company opens on Franklin Street
Kittrell, Bryant 2 entries, 1807–1817
- November Term 1807: The court names commissioners for a Ben's Creek bridge on the new road
- August Term 1817: The court names a committee to contract for a Morgan Creek bridge near Merritt's mill
Kivett, A. J. 1 entry, 1882
- by December 2, 1882: Hillsborough Baptists let the contract for a parsonage
Kizer, Carolyn 4 entries, 1967–1985

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Klarmann, Dave 1 entry, 1991
- May 27, 1991: UNC men’s lacrosse wins the 1991 NCAA national championship
Kleinschmidt, Mark 11 entries, 2001–2026

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Klingberg, Frank W. 1 entry, 1960
- March 24, 1960: County elections board splits the Hillsboro precinct into Hillsboro, West Hillsboro and Cameron Park
Klopfer, Martha 1 entry, 1962
- 1962: Quakers from the Chapel Hill and Durham meetings found Carolina Friends School
Klopfer, Peter 3 entries, 1962–1967
- 1962: Quakers from the Chapel Hill and Durham meetings found Carolina Friends School
- December 8, 1966: Supreme Court hears Klopfer v. North Carolina
- March 13, 1967: The U.S. Supreme Court decided Klopfer v. North Carolina, the speedy-trial case that grew out of a Chapel Hill sit-in arrest
Klopfer, Peter H. 3 entries, 1962–1967

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Kluttz, Adam Alexander 10 entries, 1884–1926

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Knapp, Joseph Palmer 2 entries, 1956–1998

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Knapp, Margaret 2 entries, 1952–1956
- November 1952: The Knapp Foundation pledges $500,000 toward a new building for the Institute of Government
- 1956-1960: Francis Vandeveer Kughler paints history murals for the Knapp Building auditorium
May be the same person as Knapp, Margaret Rutledge
Knapp, Margaret Rutledge 1 entry, 1956
- 1956: The Joseph Palmer Knapp Building opens for the Institute of Government
May be the same person as Knapp, Margaret
Knight, Bobby 1 entry, 1959
- June 1959: The Hillsboro Exchange Club starts free swimming lessons at Holiday Park
Knight, Buck 1 entry, 1959
- December 1, 1959: The county ABC board's new liquor-law enforcement officers are sworn in
Knight, C. B. 1 entry, 1965
- October 1965: A House committee names the Sportsman's Lakeside Lodge as the Klan unit in Orange County
Knight, C. D. 4 entries, 1959–1964
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Knight, C. R. 1 entry, 1954
- December 6, 1954: Odell H. Clayton is sworn in as sheriff with three new deputies
Knight, Edgar Wallace 18 entries, 1919–1953

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Knight, Eleanor 1 entry, 1959
- October 1959: Hillsboro's Business and Professional Women's Club names teacher Elizabeth Johnston Patterson its Woman of the Year
Knight, John Alousa 1 entry, 1841
- August Term 1841: The court sends John Alousa Knight, an orphan boy, to his mother near Petersburg, Virginia
Knight, Richard, Jr. 1 entry, 1976
- 1976–1980: Richard Knight Jr. becomes Carrboro's first Black town manager
Knowles, John 2 entries, 1963–1964
- 1963: The university starts a fine arts degree program and has John Knowles as its first writer-in-residence
- by May 7, 1964: UNC writing students publish The Young Writer at Chapel Hill
Knox, Edward M. 37 entries, 1922–1928

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Knox, Frank 1 entry, 1936
- October 13, 1936: Republican vice-presidential candidate Frank Knox speaks in Memorial Hall
Knudsen, Harold 1 entry, 1964
- by October 1, 1964: Ground is broken for the nine-story coed dormitory behind the West Franklin Street schools
Koch, Arthur 1 entry, 1964
- 1964: Arthur Cogswell designs the Koch House on Clayton Road
Koch, Frederick 1 entry, 1925
- November 23, 1925: Playmakers Theatre opens
Koch, Frederick H. 42 entries, 1918–1953

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Kohrer, E. T. 1 entry, 1957
- by April 16, 1957: The garment workers' union files unfair labor practice charges against Reverie Lingerie
Kollock, Sarah 7 entries, 1848–1926

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Kollock, Shepard K. 1 entry, 1822
- early October 1822: The synod forms the Education Society of North Carolina at Hillsborough
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Kollock, Shepard Kosciusko 1 entry, 1818
- 1818: Trustees add a professorship of rhetoric and logic
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Kollock, Shepherd K. 4 entries, 1820–1825
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Koo, T. Z. 1 entry, 1938
- January 23-28, 1938: The Federal Council of Churches holds a Religion-in-Life week at the University
Koonce, Alex. H. 1 entry, 1917
- July 23, 1917: The Red Men's lodge at Carrboro gives a send-off for the men of Battery C
Koonts, Henry V. 2 entries, 1919–1947
- October 28, 1919: Chapel Hill veterans form an American Legion post
- April 7, 1947: New Hope church gives its grounds as about 450 Presbyterians view the camp site
Koonts, L. A. 1 entry, 1931
- by August 28, 1931: Alfred Williams & Co. of Chapel Hill is formed to take over the University's Students' Supply Store
Kornberg, Grant 1 entry, 1986
- July 20, 1986: Six writers read at the Hardback Cafe to raise money against the Shearon Harris nuclear plant
Kornegay, Horace 4 entries, 1962–1964
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Kornegay, R. O. 1 entry, 1952
- by April 1952: Lincoln High's basketball team wins its district and finishes second in the state
Korner, Jule Gilmer 1 entry, 1890
- 1890s: Jule Gilmer Korner remodels the former Burwell School
Kosciuszko, Tadeusz 1 entry, 1780
- September 1780: South Carolina's Governor John Rutledge takes refuge in Hillsborough
Kovach, Joe 1 entry, 1942
- September 12 to November 28, 1942: The Pre-Flight Cloudbusters finish their first football season at 8-2-1
Kraar, Louis 1 entry, 1955
- 1955 to 1956: Ed Yoder and Louis Kraar edit the Daily Tar Heel
Krasny, Morris 1 entry, 1933
- By September 29, 1933: Dean Isaac Hall Manning resigns after President Graham overrules his Jewish quota
Kreisler, Fritz 1 entry, 1933
- February 27, 1933: Fritz Kreisler plays to a packed house in Chapel Hill
Krieger, Seymour 1 entry, 1953
- June 1, 1953: The Consolidated University applies for an educational television channel at Chapel Hill
Körner, Jules 1 entry, 1890
- 1890s: D. C. Parks has designer Jules Körner remodel his hotel buildings and Twin Chimneys
Kubachko, Andrea 1 entry, 2004
- End of August 2004: Vis Art Video closes its West Franklin Street store
Kughler, Francis Vandeveer 1 entry, 1956

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Kuhlman, Tracy 1 entry, 2007
- March 2007: Orange County commissioners vote to put a waste transfer station at the Eubanks Road landfill
Kuhn, Helmut 1 entry, 1939

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Kujawinski, Anthony E. 1 entry, 1943
- May 23, 1943: The Pre-Flight School marks its first anniversary with a review in Kenan Stadium
Kuncl, Wayne 2 entries, 1983–1990
- fall 1983: UNC's housing director calls anti-gay harassment in the dorms a violation of rights
- October 1990: Housing figures show two-thirds of Black campus residents in four South Campus high-rises
Kunjufu, Jawanza 1 entry, 1990
- November 14-16, 1990: Randall Robinson and Jawanza Kunjufu speak during the Campus Y's Human Rights Week
Kupec, Matt 1 entry, 1993
- by November 1, 1993: UNC's development office begins planning a $7 million drive for the Stone Center building
Kuralt, Charles 6 entries, 1968–1997

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Kuralt, Wallace 2 entries, 1965–1998
- 1965: Paul and Isabel Smith sell the Intimate Bookshop to Wallace Kuralt
- 1998: Wallace Kuralt closes the Intimate Bookshop's East Franklin Street store
Kutz, Wilbur 1 entry, 1941
- September 1941: Wilbur Kutz opens The Varsity on East Franklin Street
Kyser, Emily Royster Howell 1 entry, 1945
- by January 1946: Kay Kyser and his mother give Dean Edward Vernon Howell's library to UNC
Kyser, Georgia Carroll 1 entry, 1951
- 1951: Kay Kyser retires from show business and settles in Chapel Hill
Kyser, James Kern 1 entry, 1985
- 1985: Bandleader Kay Kyser is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
Kyser, Kay 9 entries, 1926–1985

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Kyser, Kike 1 entry, 1925
- April 1 and 2, 1925: The Di Senate stages a blackface minstrel revue in Memorial Hall