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• La Soul, De 1 entry, 1993
  • November 3, 1993: A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul play Memorial Hall
• Lackey, Katherine 2 entries, 1943
  • May 26, 1943: The new Chapel Hill Business and Professional Women's Club elects officers and plans a womanpower survey
  • May 12, 1943: Women organize the Chapel Hill Business and Professional Women's Club
• Lackey, Liska 1 entry, 2017
  • December 18, 2017: Quintana Stewart becomes Orange County's health director
• Lackey, Robin 1 entry, 1989
  • December 5, 1989: Jacquelyn Gist is sworn in as a Carrboro alderman
• Lackey, W. M. 1 entry, 1953
  • May 4, 1953: Carrboro reelects Mayor J. Sullivan Gibson and fills its first six-member town board
• Lackey, Wilson 1 entry, 1959
  • May 5, 1959: Carrboro returns Mayor R. B. Todd and elects three commissioners
• Lacock, W. O. 1 entry, 1928
  • February 14, 1928: W. O. Lacock opens Lacock's Boot Shop on the site of the original Bank of Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Lacock, Wilson Odell

• Lacock, Wilson Odell 1 entry, 1916
  • 1916: Wilson Odell Lacock opens a shoe store and repair shop on Franklin Street

  May be the same person as Lacock, W. O.

• LaConte, Paul 1 entry, 1898
  • soon after 1898: Chapel Hill's Congregational church sells its building and leaves the village
• LaCour, P. L. 1 entry, 1897
  • February 15, 1897: Teacher London A. Whitted dies at Chapel Hill
• Lacy, Drury 1 entry, 1846
  • July 16, 1846: Hillsborough hands the refitted academy building to the Caldwell Institute
• Lacy, Lydia E. 1 entry, 1916
  • September 11, 1916: Chapel Hill's public school adds home economics and a two-session day in its new building
• Ladd, John J. 2 entries, 1878–1879
  • June 18 to July 26, 1878: Summer Normal School offers the state's first kindergarten training
  • June 17, 1879: The University Normal School opens its third session, with women admitted on equal terms
• Lake, Harry 1 entry, 1896
  • February 1896: A $3,000 gift turns the old gymnasium into Commons Hall
• Lake, Henry S. 1 entry, 1901
  • 1901: The university track team wins the Southern championship at New Orleans
• Lake, I. Beverly 3 entries, 1956–1960

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• Lake, Jacob 2 entries, 1784–1790
  • between about 1784 and 1790: Cross Roads Presbyterian Church is organized from the Hawfields, Eno and Stony Creek congregations
  • about 1790: Jacob Lake ends his ministry to New Hope
• Lally, Kelly 1 entry, 1991
  • December 1991 to April 1992: Kelly Lally and Ruth Little survey the historic buildings of Chapel Hill Township
• Lamb, Adrian 1 entry, 1957
  • January 1957: Howell's The Kenan Professorships is named one of the best Southern books of 1956
• Lamb, Miriam 1 entry, 1805
  • April to June 1805 (4th to 6th month): Cane Creek Friends read out a testimony against Miriam Lamb
• Lamb, S. S. 1 entry, 1897
  • 1897: The University Magazine is revived
• Lambert, Lovick 1 entry, 1826
  • November 27, 1826: Judge Thomas Ruffin frees Susan Revels from a sale that would have taken her out of the county
• Lambert, Michael 1 entry, 2020
  • October 12, 2020: African, African American, and Diaspora Studies faculty ask the university to take Battle's name off Battle Hall
• Lambert, Shadrack 1 entry, 1826
  • November 27, 1826: Judge Thomas Ruffin frees Susan Revels from a sale that would have taken her out of the county
• Lamberton, Richard H. 1 entry, 1976
  • January 12, 1976: Chapel Hill aldermen adopt ordinances creating a historic district and commission
• Lambeth, Thomas W. 4 entries, 1974–2013

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• Lambreth, J. H. 1 entry, 1887
  • 1887: Berry's Grove Baptist Church is organized
• Lamont, Louise 1 entry, 1957
  • December 17, 1957: Chapel Hill Elementary pupils play carols with professional musicians at the school Christmas program
• Lampley, Galvin 1 entry, 1946
  • March 1946: Marinda McPherson sings a joint recital at the Orange County school auditorium
• Land, Mrs. Edward M. 1 entry, 1929
  • October 1-2, 1929: The council of the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs meets in Chapel Hill
• Landis, James M. 1 entry, 1935
  • March 31 to April 6, 1935: University holds its third Human Relations Institute
• Lane, Franklin K. 1 entry, 1919
  • June 15 to 18, 1919: UNC holds its 124th commencement with Secretaries Lane and Daniels
• Lane, Mrs. J. C. 1 entry, 1936
  • February 22, 1936: Mrs. J. C. Lane opens the Lane Flower Shop in Chapel Hill
• Lane, J. C. 1 entry, 1936
  • December 1936: Chapel Hill and Carrboro merchants light their business streets for Christmas
• Lane, Joel 1 entry, 1792

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• Lane, Mary Turner 2 entries, 1977

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• Lang, John 1 entry, 1930
  • May 10, 1930: North Carolina Federation of Students is organized at Chapel Hill
• Lange, Bill 2 entries, 1937–1938
  • December 15, 1937: The Rotary Club takes on Chapel Hill's second Boy Scout troop
  • by June 3, 1938: Paul Green opens Greenwood, a restricted home colony on his land east of Chapel Hill
• Langlois, Harold 1 entry, 1910
  • 1910: John Wilson begins designing UNC's Confederate monument
• Langmuir, Irving 1 entry, 1937
  • April 11 to 15, 1937: The American Chemical Society holds its national meeting in Chapel Hill
• Langston, A. E. 1 entry, 1935
  • by February 15, 1935: Orange County's relief office is merged into a five-county district run from Durham
• Langston, Charles 1 entry, 1955
  • May 10, 1955: The Cedar Grove community gets its first Boy Scout troop
• Lanier, Dave 1 entry, 1988
  • January 18, 1988: UNC closes classes and offices for the King holiday under a revised calendar
• Lanier, Ed 1 entry, 1964
  • January 16, 1964: Chapel Hill firemen honor retired fire chief J. S. Boone
• Lanier, Edwin 4 entries, 1937–1962
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  • by August 20, 1937: The University awards 410 student self-help jobs, 210 of them under the NYA
  • September 25, 1950: Chapel Hill aldermen name Thomas F. Taylor the town's civil defense director
  • November 27, 1950: Oakwood and Rogerson Drive residents ask Chapel Hill's aldermen for help against rabies
  • September 21, 1962: Orange Democrats raise about $900 at a dinner in the General Sherman's Confederate Room
• Lanier, Edwin Sidney 64 entries, 1933–1958

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• Lantorn, Joseph 1 entry, 1810
  • November 29, 1810: The court frees Joseph Lantorn, jailed as a suspected runaway, as a free man of color
• Lapkin, David 1 entry, 1970
  • May 9, 1970: Student Government's 'The Strike Continues?' release turns the strike toward canvassing and calls a Memorial Hall teach-in
• Lapslie, James 1 entry, 1812
  • May 28, 1812: The court levies a patrol tax on Black polls and names patrols in the captains' companies
• Large, Harry S. 2 entries, 1944–1945
  • November 9, 1944: The News of Orange County prints its first issue on its own press in Hillsboro
  • by September 13, 1945: Ann White Ingle becomes editor of The News of Orange County
• Lark, John 1 entry, 1775
  • August to September 1775: The Provincial Congress forms the Hillsborough District and its committee of safety
• Lark, Mae V. 1 entry, 1948
  • July 1, 1948: The Jack and Jill Shop for children's clothing opens in Hillsboro
• Larned 1 entry, 1877
  • early September 1877: Federal revenue officers raid illicit stills across Orange County
• Larson, John E. 1 entry, 1949
  • February 1949: A federal appeals court awards the Ackland Trust to the university at Chapel Hill
• Lasater, W. C. 1 entry, 1925
  • November 29, 1925: Black church choirs hold a song festival at the Orange County Training School
• Lashley, Hannah 1 entry, 1867
  • February 1867 (court term): A jury finds Samuel Snipes to be the father of Hannah Lashley's child
• Lashley, Patsy 1 entry, 1834
  • August Term 1834: The court leaves Robert Stanford with his mother, Patsy Lashley, instead of binding him out
• Lasley, Jack 2 entries, 1961–1963
  • August 22, 1961: Chapel Hill aldermen move to enforce the billboard ban
  • March 1963: Chapel Hill Planning Board favors a large village in response to the Triangle commission's development plan
• Lasley, John W. 2 entries, 1924–1925
  • November 1924: The Gimghouls sell their old lodge lot on Rosemary Lane
  • by April 30, 1925: The Gimghouls tear down their old lodge at Rosemary and Boundary streets
• Lassiter, C. R. 3 entries, 1899–1911
  • July 29, 1899: Hillsboro Township names separate committees for the town district's white and Black schools
  • August 15, 1899: Hillsborough men organize Myrtle Lodge of the Knights of Pythias
  • May 2, 1911: Hillsboro elects Charles A. Whitaker mayor

  May be the same person as Lassiter, Calvin R.

• Lassiter, Calvin R. 2 entries, 1905–1911
  • May 2, 1905: Hillsborough elects a town board expected to license saloons
  • October 5, 1911: The Hillsboro board elects John Christmas mayor after Mayor Whitaker resigns

  May be the same person as Lassiter, C. R.

• Lassiter, J. A. 1 entry, 1934
  • May 1934: Certified teacher J. A. Lassiter becomes matron of the Efland Home
• Lassiter, James 1 entry, 1949
  • October 1949–June 1951: Black law students sue to enter UNC's Law School

  May be the same person as Lassiter, James L.

• Lassiter, James L. 1 entry, 1951
  • June 1951: UNC Law School begins desegregation

  May be the same person as Lassiter, James

• Lassiter, Robert 1 entry, 1943
  • by October 22, 1943: The Chapel Hill-based Hospital Saving Association reaches 205,000 members
• Lassiter, Robert W. 2 entries, 1869–1870
  • 1869-1870: University treasurer puts the land-grant fund into railroad bonds later repudiated
  • December 1, 1870: The trustees vote to suspend the university's exercises and stop faculty salaries from February 1, 1871
• Latham, Clarence 1 entry, 1925
  • January 14 and 15, 1925: Peoples Bank officers cover a shortage overnight and open on time
• Latham, Marcia Louise 1 entry, 1900
  • 1900: Marcia Louise Latham wins the mathematics department's Holt Medal
• Lathan, William F. 15 entries, 1941–1946

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• Latimer, C. M. 2 entries, 1835–1871
  • February 7, 1835: Hillsborough elects its magistrate of police and town commissioners
  • December 9, 1871: Senator Graham of Orange introduces a charter for the Bank of Hillsboro

  May be the same person as Latimer, Charles; Latimer, Charles M.

• Latimer, Charles 1 entry, 1875
  • January 23, 1875: Col. Charles Latimer, Hillsborough's leading man of business, dies

  May be the same person as Latimer, C. M.; Latimer, Charles M.

• Latimer, Charles M. 3 entries, 1836–1859
  • October 7, 1836: Hillsborough meeting sends Frederick Nash to the Salisbury railroad convention
  • April 29, 1859: The Hillsborough Savings Institution elects its directors and opens for deposits
  • April 1, 1859: Corporators organize the Hillsborough Savings Institution

  May be the same person as Latimer, C. M.; Latimer, Charles

• Latimer, John D. 1 entry, 1961
  • May 29, 1961: The Chapel Hill school board puts its new junior high on the Estes Hills School grounds
• Latta, Allan B. 1 entry, 1945
  • October 6, 1945: The Chapel Hill curb market marks eight years with a year of $40,004 in sales
• Latta, Mrs. Allen 1 entry, 1957
  • September 14, 1957: The Chapel Hill women's curb market reports $23,127 in sales for the year
• Latta, Allen 1 entry, 1958
  • October 16, 1958: Schley receives third prize in a two-state soil conservation contest
• Latta, Charlie 1 entry, 1959
  • September 16, 1959: The Bible Presbyterian Church of Hillsboro is organized
• Latta, Daniel 1 entry, 1871
  • early December 1871: Daniel Latta of Orange swears he did not write the letter accusing F. N. Strudwick
• Latta, Della 1 entry, 1946
  • week of July 22, 1946: Workmen begin restoring the Colonial Inn in Hillsboro
• Latta, H. F. 2 entries, 1944
  • October 15, 1944: A granite monument is dedicated at Governor Thomas Burke's grave
  • December 1, 1944: The new Latta Co-operative Dairy begins marketing milk for fourteen Orange farmers

  May be the same person as Latta, Harold F.

• Latta, H. F., Sr. 1 entry, 1948
  • May 10, 1948: Hillsborough Presbyterian Church begins its educational building
• Latta, Harold F. 1 entry, 1947
  • March 31, 1947: Harold F. Latta takes over as manager of the Latta Cooperative Dairy

  May be the same person as Latta, H. F.

• Latta, J. E. 3 entries, 1943–1949
  • by March 19, 1943: Orange County dairymen send buyers to Wisconsin and Tennessee for high-producing cows
  • December 1, 1944: The new Latta Co-operative Dairy begins marketing milk for fourteen Orange farmers
  • December 6, 1949: Schley Grange dedicates the hall it won in a national contest
• Latta, Mrs. J. E. 1 entry, 1956
  • September 30, 1956: Schley Grange celebrates its 25th anniversary
• Latta, J. Edmund 1 entry, 1931
  • September 1931: Schley Grange No. 710 is chartered
• Latta, Mrs. J. Edmund 1 entry, 1953
  • by May 28, 1953: Governor Umstead names Mrs. J. Edmund Latta of Schley to the State Board of Health
• Latta, J. F. 1 entry, 1914
  • 1914: Mebane Chapel builds its church in Hillsborough under its first pastor, B. F. Alston
• Latta, J. W. 3 entries, 1864–1881
  • March 18, 1864: Orange voters elect John Berry to the state Senate and Addison Mangum to the Commons
  • December 6, 1880: Newly elected county commissioners take office and re-elect Jones Watson chairman
  • May 2, 1881: Commissioner J. W. Latta resigns from the Orange board after the county is divided
• Latta, Jackson 1 entry, 1859
  • 1859: New Bethel Methodist Church is organized
• Latta, James 2 entries, 1788–1808
  • February Term 1788: The court orders a road from Davis's Shop to Hillsborough over the public bridge on Flat River
  • February 24, 1808: The court binds out seven children of Penny Weaver, a free woman of color
• Latta, James E. 1 entry, 1908
  • June 2, 1908: The university creates a School of Applied Science with Charles H. Herty as dean
• Latta, Jean 1 entry, 1789
  • May Term 1789: Jesse Benton wins Jean Latta a support order against William McCabe
• Latta, Jerry M. 1 entry, 1879
  • about 1879: Latta Grove Baptist Church is organized
• Latta, Jessie 2 entries, 1931–1961
  • September 1931: Schley Grange No. 710 is chartered
  • May 2, 1961: The Cameron Park PTA honors retiring teachers Jessie Latta and Mamie Ray
• Latta, John 2 entries, 1808–1846
  • February 24, 1808: The court binds out seven children of Penny Weaver, a free woman of color
  • 1846 to 1847: The Elm Grove school district builds a log schoolhouse south of Hillsborough
• Latta, John, Sr. 1 entry, 1788
  • February Term 1788: The court orders a road from Davis's Shop to Hillsborough over the public bridge on Flat River
• Latta, Joseph W. 5 entries, 1865–1878
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  • August Term 1865: The court binds Lucetty Woods, a seven-year-old of color, to Joseph W. Latta
  • 1874: Calvin E. Parish is elected state senator for Orange County
  • 1874-75 session: Senator Calvin E. Parish votes for the grant that lets the university reopen
  • August 5, 1878: Orange magistrates elect a new board of county commissioners
  • December 2, 1878: New county commissioners order an Eno bridge and call the justices to plan a new jail
• Latta, Milton 2 entries, 1944
  • April 13, 1944: Two Orange County farm families receive the REA's War Food Production award
  • December 1, 1944: The new Latta Co-operative Dairy begins marketing milk for fourteen Orange farmers

  May be the same person as Latta, Milton A.

• Latta, Milton A. 2 entries, 1948
  • November 6, 1948: National judges tour the Schley community's Grange projects
  • March 30, 1948: Thousands watch a one-day conservation makeover of the Milton Latta farm near Schley

  May be the same person as Latta, Milton

• Latta, S. T. 16 entries, 1938–1960
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  • 1938: Odell H. Clayton becomes a deputy sheriff
  • by April 24, 1942: Orange County's officers face no opposition in the Democratic primary
  • September 2, 1946: County commissioners order an end to Sunday beer sales in Orange County
  • May 25, 1946: Sheriff S. T. Latta defeats R. R. Thomas in the Democratic primary
  • November 5, 1946: Orange County Democrats sweep the 1946 general election
  • July 7, 1947: Women's names are in the county jury box, but none is drawn for the August term
  • early July 1950: Sheriff Latta names an added deputy for southern Orange County
  • May 16, 1950: The League of Women Voters holds a forum for county candidates in Chapel Hill
  • May 27, 1950: Orange County turns out in record numbers for the 1950 Democratic primary
  • September 3, 1954: Superior Court hears its last case in the 1845 Orange County courthouse
  • December 6, 1954: Odell H. Clayton is sworn in as sheriff with three new deputies
  • June 26, 1954: Odell H. Clayton wins the Democratic runoff for sheriff over Frank Maddry
  • January 24, 1956: County Democrats name John Hawkins to the school board seat left by Harry Breeze
  • February 5, 1959: Elections board votes to divide the Hillsboro voting precinct
  • March 24, 1960: County elections board splits the Hillsboro precinct into Hillsboro, West Hillsboro and Cameron Park
  • 1960-1962: The county board buys 100 acres from S. T. Latta for a new consolidated high school
• Latta, S. T., Jr. 5 entries, 1922–1948
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  • March 6, 1922: Orange County commissioners borrow $20,000 to keep the county schools running
  • June 5, 1926: Orange County Democrats nominate A. W. Kenion for clerk and a new board of commissioners
  • August 5, 1935: Orange commissioners elect S. T. Latta Jr. sheriff as W. T. Sloan resigns
  • November 8, 1938: Orange County Democrats sweep the county offices
  • July 6, 1948: County commissioners order strict enforcement of the dog vaccination law against rabies

  May be the same person as Latta, Sam T., Jr.

• Latta, Mrs. S. T., Jr. 1 entry, 1932
  • August 13, 1932: Orange County Young Democrats organize at Hillsborough and elect L. J. Phipps president
• Latta, Sam T., Jr. 2 entries, 1954–1962
  • May 29, 1954: Orange Democrats nominate four men for the newly enlarged five-member Board of Commissioners
  • February 28, 1962: Elections board splits Chapel Hill Township into new precincts and orders re-registration

  May be the same person as Latta, S. T., Jr.

• Latta, Samuel T., Jr. 25 entries, 1922–1960

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• Latta, Thomas 1 entry, 1819
  • 1819: Visiting Episcopal clergy hold the first recorded services of the revived church in Hillsborough
• Latta, William D. 1 entry, 1887
  • September 17, 1887: Orange County farmers organize the Orange County Club at the court house
• Lauder, George 2 entries, 1843–1850
  • about 1843-1844: Fayetteville carver George Lauder makes Lewis Bowen Holt's tomb-table in the Dialectic Society plot
  • 1850s: Signed marble obelisks go up in the Dialectic and Philanthropic plots
• Laughlin, Hugh 1 entry, 1756
  • 1756: Hugh Laughlin and Thomas Lindley start a grist mill on Cane Creek
• Lavelle, Lydia 15 entries, 1990–2021

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• Lavin, Peter 1 entry, 1946
  • early July 1946: Reserve officers organize an Orange County chapter at Chapel Hill
• Law, J. 1 entry, 1890
  • about 1890: Meridith post office serves northern Little River Township
• Lawler, Mike 1 entry, 1963
  • May 28, 1963: Mayor McClamroch's Integration Committee adopts a four-point program
• Lawrence, Alfred 1 entry, 1921
  • 1921: Alfred Lawrence becomes rector of the Chapel of the Cross
• Lawrence, Alfred Stratton 23 entries, 1912–1958

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• Lawrence, Ann Eliza 1 entry, 1886
  • November 11 or 12, 1886: A jury acquits Ann Eliza Lawrence and John Crawford of poisoning her husband
• Lawrence, B. J. 1 entry, 1938
  • by December 9, 1938: A state commission recommends a four-year medical school, its majority favoring Chapel Hill
• Lawrence, David 1 entry, 1930
  • January 15-17, 1930: The North Carolina Press Association holds its sixth newspaper institute at Chapel Hill
• Lawrence, George 5 entries, 1928–1942
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  • October 26, 1928: George Lawrence describes the county home near Efland in the Chapel Hill Weekly
  • July 4, 1930: The Carrboro Boys' Band plays a Fourth of July concert
  • Winter 1933-1934: A three-mile rural power line from Chapel Hill to Calvander is built with federal money
  • June 30, 1942: Chapel Hill registers 577 men aged 18 to 20 for the draft
  • April 27, 1942: Orange County registers 1,889 men aged 45 to 65 for selective service

  May be the same person as Lawrence, George H.

• Lawrence, George H. 85 entries, 1919–1942

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• Lawrence, George H. 5 entries, 1945–1947

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  • Summer 1945: The State Eugenics Board begins a county-wide study of mental illness and disability in Orange County
  • As of August 1945: The eugenics study counts Orange County draft rejections on mental grounds
  • By May 1946: The eugenics study finds 48 sterilizations among the Orange County residents it has recorded
  • 1945-46: The eugenics study gives group intelligence tests to Orange County elementary pupils
  • January 1947: Eugenics Board field secretary George H. Lawrence publishes the Orange County sterilization study

  May be the same person as Lawrence, George

• Laws, C. R. 2 entries, 1962
  • November 5, 1962: Orange County commissioners reject county-wide zoning
  • February 28, 1962: Opponents of the county zoning plan meet at Palmer's Grove
• Laws, Dudley M. 27 entries, 1878–1905

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• Laws, G. 1 entry, 1856
  • July 29, 1856: Hillsborough's commissioners pass ordinances against nuisances
• Laws, George 11 entries, 1809–1908

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  • November Term 1809: The court orders patrollers to return guns taken from Bennehan and Cameron slaves
  • 28 May 1855: The court binds Eliza Taburn, a free girl of color not yet three, to Thomas Faucett
  • May 31, 1861: George Laws, an orphan of color aged seven, is apprenticed to John Chavers
  • November Term 1865: The court rescinds the 1861 binding of John Chavis, a free child of color, to George Laws
  • September 5, 1887: County commissioners order repairs to the court house cupola
  • May 7, 1888: Hillsborough re-elects Joseph A. Harris mayor over Samuel M. Gattis
  • early April 1888: Owners begin rebuilding the block burned near the Hillsborough court house
  • April 19, 1889: Hillsborough's town commissioners first meet in the new brick mayor's office and guard house
  • May 6, 1889: Hillsborough re-elects Mayor Joseph A. Harris over Devereux Turner
  • May 5, 1890: Hillsboro re-elects Mayor Joseph A. Harris with a seven-man town board
  • February 3, 1908: County commissioners order a steel fence for the courthouse yard
• Laws, George 31 entries, 1829–1883

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• Laws, Hubert G. 14 entries, 1942–1955

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• Laws, J. 1 entry, 1891
  • 1891: J. Laws keeps a country store at Laws post office
• Laws, J. E. 2 entries, 1954
  • 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
• Laws, J. Ed 6 entries, 1938–1951
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  • November 8, 1938: Orange County Democrats sweep the county offices
  • June 4, 1938: Orange Democrats nominate Carl Durham, J. Ed Laws and Ben F. Wilson for county commissioners
  • by April 24, 1942: Orange County's officers face no opposition in the Democratic primary
  • November 5, 1946: Orange County Democrats sweep the 1946 general election
  • May 27, 1950: Orange County turns out in record numbers for the 1950 Democratic primary
  • March 1951 (reported March 15): Orange County sells $750,000 in school bonds at less than 2 percent
• Laws, J. Edd 1 entry, 1940
  • May 25, 1940: Orange Democrats choose John W. Umstead Jr. for the state House and keep their county commissioners
• Laws, James 1 entry, 1887
  • October 1, 1887: The school board condemns a lot for a school for Black children at Walnut Grove
• Laws, James, Jr. 2 entries, 1898–1900
  • by September 29, 1898: Orange Democrats name their 1898 county ticket with S. M. Gattis for the House
  • June 2, 1900: Orange Democrats nominate Samuel M. Gattis and the 1900 county ticket
• Laws, John 42 entries, 1856–1959
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  • 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
  • April 21-23, 1868: Conservatives win every Orange County office in the first election under the 1868 constitution
  • August 5, 1868: Orange County's first elected board of commissioners takes office
  • August 6, 1874: Orange County elects the whole Conservative ticket
  • November 7, 1876: Orange County gives the Democrats a sweeping victory in the 1876 election
  • September 1877: The register's abstract of the 1877 tax list counts 335,789 acres in Orange County
  • May 18, 1878: Orange Democrats nominate A. W. Graham for the Senate and Angier and Hutchins for the House
  • December 6, 1880: Newly elected county commissioners take office and re-elect Jones Watson chairman
  • September 4, 1880: Orange Democrats nominate their county ticket at Hillsborough
  • August 23, 1884: Orange County Democrats nominate their legislative and county ticket
  • September 4, 1886: Orange Democrats nominate their county ticket
  • May 2, 1887: Hillsborough elects Joseph A. Harris mayor
  • by October 6, 1887: Orange County's 1887 tax list values the county's property at just over $2 million
  • November 6, 1888: Orange County gives Cleveland and Fowle majorities and re-elects Sheriff John K. Hughes
  • August 11, 1888: Orange County Democrats nominate their county ticket and leave the sheriff's race open
  • May 6, 1889: Hillsborough re-elects Mayor Joseph A. Harris over Devereux Turner
  • November 4, 1890: Democrats carry the county offices in Orange County's general election
  • May 10, 1890: Hillsboro's finance committee reports the town's accounts for the year to May 1
  • by December 13, 1890: Forty-seven Orange County pensioners receive their state pension warrants
  • July 30, 1890: Orange County Democrats nominate their legislative and county ticket and instruct for Vance
  • the week of March 17, 1890: Register of Deeds John Laws is found liable for licensing an underage marriage
  • August 17, 1892: Orange County Democrats hold their county convention and name a ticket
  • September 1, 1894: Orange County Democrats nominate D. C. Parks for the House and a full county ticket
  • November 6, 1894: Republicans and Populists sweep Orange County's election, leaving the Democrats only the sheriff and register of deeds
  • late October 1894: A $120 million Southern Railway mortgage is left for recording at Hillsborough
  • November 3, 1896: The Democratic-Populist fusion ticket carries Orange County
  • by October 22, 1896: Orange Democrats and Populists fuse on a county ticket
  • September 19, 1896: Orange County Democrats nominate S. M. Gattis for the House and a county ticket
  • July 14, 1899: Orange County signs $5,000 in six per cent bonds and delivers them to Dr. Sterling Ruffin
  • June 2, 1900: Orange Democrats nominate Samuel M. Gattis and the 1900 county ticket
  • August 16, 1902: Orange Democrats name their 1902 county ticket
  • November 8, 1904: Democrats carry Orange County, and S. W. Andrews is elected sheriff
  • July 30, 1904: Democratic county convention nominates S. W. Andrews for sheriff
  • August 18, 1906: Orange Democrats renominate the county officers and endorse John W. Graham for the Senate
  • August 29, 1908: Orange County Democrats nominate S. M. Gattis and the 1908 county ticket
  • November 3, 1908: Taft and Republican Thomas E. Sparrow carry Orange County as Democrats keep most county offices
  • early August 1910: Orange Democrats renominate John Laws and choose Robert D. Bain for sheriff
  • by June 8, 1911: Southern Power Company's transmission towers cross Orange County
  • August 10, 1912: Orange County Democrats nominate George C. Pickard for the House and renominate the county officers
  • November 23, 1913: John Laws dies after more than sixty years as register of deeds
  • March 2, 1959: Commissioners give register of deeds John Laws's 1817 desk to the county museum
• Laws, Leonard 2 entries, 1809–1849
  • November Term 1809: The court orders patrollers to return guns taken from Bennehan and Cameron slaves
  • August Term 1849: A jury finds Leonard Laws is not the father of Margaret Collins's son
• Laws, Mary J. 1 entry, 1948
  • July 1, 1948: The Jack and Jill Shop for children's clothing opens in Hillsboro
• Laws, Miss 1 entry, 1891
  • March 14, 1891: The Hillsborough public school is set to open in the Academy with Miss Laws as teacher
• Laws, Robert 3 entries, 1854–1866
  • May Term 1854: The court orders Robert Laws to take Sam and Mary Mills, children of color, to be bound to him
  • May Term 1854: The court upholds Turner Hayes's binding to Williamson Parrish over Robert Laws's challenge
  • August 30, 1866: Joseph Turrentine and Alston Woods, jailed for fines and costs, are bound to Robert Laws for a year
• Laws, Thomas 1 entry, 1900
  • about 1900: The Thomas Laws House is built in the Little River community
• Lawson, John 6 entries, 1680–1938

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• Lawson, R. B. 4 entries, 1880–1937
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  • 1880: F. K. Ball builds a shingled house on East Franklin Street
  • fall 1907: The university football team's training table is set up at George Trice's restaurant
  • May 6, 1919: Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor W. S. Roberson and elects five aldermen
  • October 25, 1937: Chapel Hill fetes Estelle Lawson Page, the new women's national golf champion

  May be the same person as Lawson, Robert Barrett

• Lawson, Mrs. R. B. 4 entries, 1918–1935
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  • October 1918: Carrboro opens an influenza diet kitchen in the mill club rooms
  • by March 14, 1930: A&P president J. R. Hartford gives $150 toward Chapel Hill's Black nurse
  • January 30, 1930: County welfare officer George H. Lawrence appeals for food for destitute families
  • December 21, 1935: Mrs. R. B. Lawson is named Chapel Hill's most valuable citizen
• Lawson, Robert Barrett 1 entry, 1940
  • by October 25, 1940: The Junior Service League's well-baby clinics for white and Black children gain a pediatrician

  May be the same person as Lawson, R. B.

• Lawson, S. L. 1 entry, 1948
  • January 2, 1948: Black farm families of Orange County begin a long-time planning program at the court house

  May be the same person as Lawson, Sarah L.

• Lawson, Sarah L. 1 entry, 1947
  • November 1, 1947: Sarah L. Lawson becomes home demonstration agent for Orange County's Black families

  May be the same person as Lawson, S. L.

• Lawson, Ty 1 entry, 2009
  • April 6, 2009: UNC men’s basketball wins the 2009 NCAA national championship
• Lay, George W. 1 entry, 1932
  • August 12, 1932: Rev. George W. Lay, clergyman and former rector of St. Mary's School, dies
• Lay, Gilbert W. 1 entry, 1932
  • by November 4, 1932: Official audit finds Orange County's net debt down $161,000 in four years
• Laycock, Joseph 1 entry, 1828
  • February Term 1828: The court releases Alfred Shambley from Litha Mayho's indenture and binds her to Joseph Laycock
• Lea, Henry C. 1 entry, 1857
  • June 2 and 3, 1857: Freshman and sophomore declaimers compete at commencement, and Governor Bragg gives a composition prize
• Lea, John 2 entries, 1768–1769
  • August 17, 1768: Sheriff John Lea brings the Regulators Tryon's demand for a 1,000 pound bond
  • 1769: Regulators whip Orange County sheriff John Lea
• Leagans, J. P. 1 entry, 1942
  • June 1942: The federal extension service publishes its report on the Orange and Lee County neighborhood-leader test
• Leak, Walter F. 1 entry, 1849
  • December 11, 1849 to January 4, 1850: Trustees let student church members worship at their own churches
• Leak, Winnie 1 entry, 1902
  • March 10-12, 1902: Van Fuller gets thirty years for burning S. P. Kirkpatrick's barn
• Lear, Mrs. J. E. 1 entry, 1928
  • late July 1928: Chapel Hill charities agree to keep the nurse serving the Black community

  May be the same person as Lear, Mrs. John E.

• Lear, J. M. 3 entries, 1937–1939
  • by December 17, 1937: A cleaning-business owner buys the failed Carolina Cooperative Cleaners
  • by May 28, 1937: Chapel Hill faculty members incorporate a cooperative buying group
  • by June 9, 1939: Chapel Hill men organize a faculty club to occupy the Archer house
• Lear, Mrs. John E. 3 entries, 1928–1931
  • by November 9, 1928: Tuberculosis seal committee takes over part of the public health nurse's pay
  • by December 5, 1930: Christmas seal fund pays $300 toward the nurse for Black residents
  • by October 9, 1931: The King's Daughters report $778 raised for relief in Chapel Hill and Carrboro

  May be the same person as Lear, Mrs. J. E.

• Leathers, A. M. 1 entry, 1874
  • August 6, 1874: Orange County elects the whole Conservative ticket
• Leathers, J. B. 1 entry, 1856
  • by March 12, 1856: The Orange County Agricultural Society buys fair grounds near the railroad depot
• Leathers, J. S. 1 entry, 1864
  • March 18, 1864: Orange voters elect John Berry to the state Senate and Addison Mangum to the Commons
• Leathers, John B. 5 entries, 1844–1867
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  • August 1, 1844: Orange elects its whole Whig ticket
  • 1846: Sidney Smith is elected to the House of Commons for Orange County
  • May 23, 1848: Orange Whig convention nominates Hugh Waddell and a Commons ticket
  • May 29, 1856: Orange County's American party convention names its legislative ticket
  • August Term 1867: The court binds Lewis B. Collins, bound in 1864 as a minor of color, to John B. Leathers
• Leathers, William 1 entry, 1816
  • November Term 1816: The court pays for the finished Eno bridge at Bennehan's and Cameron's mills
• Leavitt, Alga E. 1 entry, 1942
  • November 22-28, 1942: Orange County women sell $22,775 in War Bonds in Women at War Week
• Leavitt, Sturgis E. 5 entries, 1917–1941

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• Leazar, Augustus 1 entry, 1885
  • 1885: The General Assembly adds $15,000 a year to the university's support
• Lebrun, Harvey 1 entry, 1942
  • August 7 to October 16, 1942: The Consumers Association of Chapel Hill and Orange County is organized
• LeClair, Francis Joseph 2 entries, 1940–1954

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• LeCoz, Louis 1 entry, 1944
  • early August 1944: The French naval aviation training program moves its national headquarters out of Chapel Hill
• Ledbetter, Herbert 1 entry, 1929
  • between 1929 and 1933: Herbert Ledbetter and Clarence Pickard open Ledbetter-Pickard Stationery
• Lederer, John 1 entry, 1670
  • June 1670: John Lederer visits the Eno people near present Hillsborough
• Ledoux, Albert R. 11 entries, 1877–1911

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• Lee, A. S. 1 entry, 1878
  • December 28, 1878: Julian S. Carr buys a lot of the A. S. Lee property at auction and gives it to Willis Cheek
• Lee, Courtland 1 entry, 1980
  • October 30, 1980: BSM and student government leaders object to parts of the new curriculum plan
• Lee, Delia 1 entry, 1890
  • May 3, 1890: Fire destroys Delia Lee's house in Hillsboro
• Lee, Don L. 1 entry, 1973
  • April 1-8, 1973: The second Black Arts Cultural Festival brings Don L. Lee and the Bar-Kays
• Lee, Henry, III 2 entries, 1781
  • February 18, 1781: Lee's Legion joins Pickens's militia camp after the Hart's Mill raid
  • February 25, 1781: Pyle's defeat near the Haw River
• Lee, Howard N. 20 entries, 1964–1974

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• Lee, Irene 1 entry, 1940
  • October 29, 1940: Fire guts Mrs. Irene Lee's apartment house at Franklin and Boundary streets
• Lee, J. Kenneth 4 entries, 1949–1952

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• Lee, Kenneth 1 entry, 1949
  • October 1949–June 1951: Black law students sue to enter UNC's Law School
• Lee, Lillian 2 entries, 1964–1969
  • 1964: Realtors steer Howard and Lillian Lee away from white subdivisions
  • May 6, 1969: Howard Lee is elected mayor of Chapel Hill
• Lee, Maude 1 entry, 1949
  • May 29, 1949: The Altrusa Club honors photographer Bayard Wootten with an exhibit and tea
• Lee, Maurice 1 entry, 1968
  • April 30, 1968: George Watts Hill Jr. is tapped as an honorary member of the Order of the Golden Fleece
• Lee, Peter James 2 entries, 1971–1977
  • 1971: Peter James Lee becomes rector of the Chapel of the Cross
  • February 13, 1977: Pauli Murray celebrates her first Eucharist at the Chapel of the Cross
• Lee, Robert E. 7 entries, 1866–1909

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• Lee, Spike 1 entry, 1992
  • September 18, 1992: Spike Lee speaks to more than 7,000 at a Black Cultural Center rally in the Smith Center
• Lee, T. M. 1 entry, 1892
  • January 22, 1892: The new Glee Club gives its first concert
• Lee, T. W. 1 entry, 1946
  • September 29, 1946: Union Grove Methodist Church marks its centennial and lays a new cornerstone
• Leeds, Mr. 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
• Lefler, Hugh 2 entries, 1940–1943
  • by November 22, 1940: The Roanoke Colony Memorial Association funds a Sir Walter Raleigh collection at the University library
  • March 1943: Chapel Hill and Carrboro give $8,820 to the Red Cross War Fund, far over quota
• Lefler, Mrs. Hugh 1 entry, 1942
  • by December 4, 1942: Chapel Hill's British War Relief Society becomes a general War Relief Society
• Lefler, Hugh Talmage 11 entries, 1935–1953

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• LeGrand, J. Q. 6 entries, 1960–1963
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  • April 6, 1960: Federal court refuses to throw out the Vickers school suit but drops the board members as defendants
  • December 20, 1960: Final arguments are heard in Stanley Vickers's suit against the Chapel Hill schools
  • August 1960: The Vickers suit is amended to seek a place at Chapel Hill Junior High
  • August 22, 1961: Chapel Hill aldermen move to enforce the billboard ban
  • March 26, 1962: Chapel Hill aldermen again urge the University to fluoridate the town's water
  • February 12, 1963: Carrboro endorses a draft bill for its own zoning set-up

  May be the same person as LeGrand, John Q.

• LeGrand, John Q. 6 entries, 1951–1956
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  • December 10, 1951: Chapel Hill aldermen name John Q. LeGrand town attorney
  • February 22, 1952: Chapel Hill holds an open house in its new high school building
  • December 15, 1952: Chapel Hill aldermen offer rural residents equal seats on the perimeter zoning boards
  • December 1, 1952: R. O. Forrest becomes chairman of the county commissioners
  • August 3, 1953: A. H. Graham and John Q. LeGrand form a law firm, and the commissioners name it county attorney
  • December 11, 1956: Commissioners name Roy Cole county court solicitor over John Q. LeGrand

  May be the same person as LeGrand, J. Q.

• Leigh, H. D. 1 entry, 1924
  • By September 18, 1924: H. D. Leigh's new ice plant goes into operation in Chapel Hill
• Leigh, John 1 entry, 1792
  • January 9, 1792: The House of Commons rejects a bill to withhold the university's loan
• Leighton, Clare 1 entry, 1943

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• Leitch, L. 1 entry, 1897
  • February 7, 1897: L. Leitch preaches his first sermon as the new Hillsborough Methodist pastor
• Leloudis, Jim 2 entries, 2018–2020
  • April 24, 2018: University Archives publishes the names of 119 enslaved people who built and worked at the university
  • February 2020: Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz formally charges the Commission on History, Race and a Way Forward
• Lenis, Natalia 1 entry, 2015
  • April 26, 2015: Carrboro's Center for Employment and Leadership for day laborers opens
• Lenoir, William 4 entries, 1788–1794

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• Lenski, Gerhard 1 entry, 1970
  • May 7, 1970: The general faculty votes to let striking students take their grades as they stand or finish coursework later
• Leonard, Dan 1 entry, 1990
  • December 18, 1990: Carrboro adds sexual orientation to its equal employment opportunity policy
• Leonard, E. C. 1 entry, 1963
  • March 4, 1963: Coker Hills residents name their neighborhood park for surveyor E. C. Leonard
• Leonard, Jim 1 entry, 1953
  • October 7, 1953: The pageant The Road to Orange opens the county bicentennial week
• Leonard, Tommy 1 entry, 1958
  • May 19, 1958: Hillsboro organizes a Little League, and 98 boys turn out for its first practice
• Lerner, Gerda 1 entry, 1987
  • March 17, 1987: Historian Gerda Lerner lectures at UNC on The Creation of Patriarchy
• Leslie, Alexander 1 entry, 1782
  • January 16, 1782: Burke escapes from his parole on James Island
• Lester, Darryl 1 entry, 1993
  • November 1993: Darryl Lester becomes assistant dean in UNC's Office for Student Counseling
• Lester, Memory 1 entry, 1963
  • September 3, 1963: The commissioners accept a portrait of the Earl of Hillsborough for the Tercentenary
• Lester, Mrs. Robert M. 1 entry, 1959
  • weekend of August 1, 1959: Turrentine descendants rededicate their family graveyard in the Little River community
• Leuchtenburg, William E. 3 entries, 1964–2021

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• Leutze, James R. 1 entry, 1970
  • May 9, 1970: Student Government's 'The Strike Continues?' release turns the strike toward canvassing and calls a Memorial Hall teach-in
• Levi, Jeff 1 entry, 1988
  • March 26 to April 6, 1988: The Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association holds its eleventh Lesbian and Gay Awareness Week, with Jeff Levi and Ben Schatz
• Levings, George 1 entry, 1962
  • October 3, 1962: Hillsboro merchants name White Furniture Company their industry of the year
• Levitt, W. H. 1 entry, 1939
  • by October 27, 1939: UNC geologists find 22 acre-feet of soil washing into University Lake each year
• Levy, Jenny 7 entries, 1994–2025

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• Levy, Nerys 1 entry, 1995
  • mid-1990s to 2022: Friends run a community art gallery in the Carrboro Branch Library
• Lewis, A. M. 1 entry, 1880
  • by February 21, 1880: University trustees name a committee to examine the university's organization
• Lewis, G. F. 1 entry, 1867
  • August 22, 1867: Trustees sell the land-grant scrip at fifty cents an acre
• Lewis, George 1 entry, 1835
  • 1835: Slave trader George Lewis advertises in Hillsborough to buy 100 young people
• Lewis, H. B. 1 entry, 1949
  • April 4, 1949: A Cedar Grove delegation asks the school board how to keep Aycock High School
• Lewis, Henry 4 entries, 1950–1981
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  • March 6, 1950: A packed hearing airs the fight over the Hillsboro and Aycock high school districts
  • April 17, 1950: The county school board keeps the Hillsboro and Aycock high school lines nearly unchanged
  • November 1974: Orange County begins appraising University property to see whether any of it is taxable
  • 1981: Albert Coates publishes The Story of the Institute of Government
• Lewis, Henry W. 6 entries, 1946–2004

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• Lewis, Henry Wilkins 3 entries, 1946–2004

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• Lewis, J. V. 2 entries, 1891
  • April 15, 1891: The class of 1891 holds its Class Day in Memorial Hall
  • January 15, 1891: Students and Prof. Gore organize the University Telegraph Union
• Lewis, Micajah 1 entry, 1781
  • February 18, 1781: Patriots and Loyalists clash at Hart’s Mill
• Lewis, Milton 1 entry, 1972
  • 1972: Preston Jones becomes UNC's first full-time Black campus minister
• Lewis, N. P. 1 entry, 1946
  • week of September 29, 1946: Former Marines charter the John Umstead post of the Marine Corps League in Chapel Hill
• Lewis, Nell Battle 1 entry, 1927
  • March 10-12, 1927: The North Carolina League of Women Voters holds its convention in Chapel Hill
• Lewis, Richard H. 9 entries, 1885–1922

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• Lewis, Richard H. 1 entry, 1890

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  • 1890: William James Battle publishes a register of the Dialectic Society
• Lewis, Roy 1 entry, 1990
  • November 14-16, 1990: Randall Robinson and Jawanza Kunjufu speak during the Campus Y's Human Rights Week
• Lewis, S. V. 1 entry, 1936
  • by May 1, 1936: The district health department adds an assistant health officer and a veterinarian
• Libbin, Louis 2 entries, 1958
  • March 19, 1958: A labor board examiner finds Reverie Lingerie guilty of unfair labor practices
  • January 21-24, 1958: The labor board hears union charges against Reverie Lingerie at the courthouse
• Libes, Fred A. 1 entry, 1943
  • by March 5, 1943: Wrecking contractor offers the brick of the burned Chapel Hill high school for sale
• Lightfoot, Charles E. 1 entry, 1861
  • by April 3, 1861: The Hillsborough Military Academy counts 131 cadets in its new brick barracks
• Lightsey, J. H. 1 entry, 1941
  • by October 31, 1941: Boy Scout Troop 107 is organized at the Orange County Training School
• Liles, Jamie 1 entry, 2026
  • May 11, 2026: Orange County's clerk of superior court is honored for work in guardianship law
• Liles, Roy 1 entry, 1946
  • September 19, 1946: The new Hillsboro Youth Center opens with a Scout court of honor
• Lillie, Frank R. 1 entry, 1938
  • October 24-26, 1938: The National Academy of Sciences holds its fall meeting at Chapel Hill
• Lillis, C. B. 1 entry, 1945
  • June 30, 1945: The Cruise Club for the Navy enlisted men of Chapel Hill opens in the American Legion Hut
• Lincoln, Benjamin 2 entries, 1775–1779

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• Lincoln, C. Eric 1 entry, 1981
  • January 15, 1981: C. Eric Lincoln speaks at UNC's third annual King memorial ceremony
• Lindahl, Tomas 1 entry, 2015
  • October 7, 2015: Aziz Sancar wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Lindley, John 1 entry, 1769
  • January 20, 1769: Simon Lindley is born in Orange County
• Lindley, Jonathan 3 entries, 1788–1789
  • 1788: Tax lists show the property of Orange County's convention delegates
  • August 1, 1788: Orange County's delegates vote against ratifying the Constitution before amendments
  • May 26, 1789: The court names the men to take the tax lists in the county's eight districts
• Lindley, Joshua 1 entry, 1828
  • March 28, 1828: The Orange Peace Society condemns party spirit and treating at elections
• Lindley, Simon 2 entries, 1769–1789

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• Lindley, Thomas 2 entries, 1756–1768
  • 1756: Hugh Laughlin and Thomas Lindley start a grist mill on Cane Creek
  • April 30, 1768: A general Regulator meeting agrees to send twelve men to meet county officials at Thomas Lindley's
• Lindley, William 1 entry, 1807
  • February 26, 1807: The court writes reading, writing and schooling into three apprentice bindings
• Lindsay, Blanche Gilbert 1 entry, 1913
  • March 8, 1913: The Blanche Hosiery Mill Company is chartered again with $100,000 in authorized capital
• Lindsay, C. L. 3 entries, 1892–1927
  • May 12, 1892: Fire destroys C. L. Lindsay's stable at Chapel Hill
  • May 20, 1892: Three young men are held for the grand jury on a charge of burning Lindsay's stable
  • July 25, 1927: Commissioners rescind a special cut in C. L. Lindsay's tax assessment
• Lindsay, Mrs. C. L. 1 entry, 1928
  • By June 1928: Chi Psi buys Dr. Jones's Gothic cottage on Cameron Avenue for its fraternity house
• Lindsay, Charley 1 entry, 1887
  • by October 8, 1887: Charley Lindsay opens a new store at Chapel Hill
• Lindsay, Cleveland 2 entries, 1922–1924
  • by December 7, 1922: Cleveland Lindsay buys into J. D. Webb's Carrboro grocery, renamed Webb & Lindsay
  • early 1924: Cleveland Lindsay puts up a nine-foot-wide brick building on Carrboro's Main Street
• Lindsay, James E. 1 entry, 1857
  • June 4, 1857: University awards its first Bachelor of Science degree
• Lindsay, William E. 11 entries, 1897–1939

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• Lindsey, Calep 1 entry, 1826
  • February Term 1826: The grand jury presents Polly Hudson's children as running at large
• Lindsey, Delilah 1 entry, 1785
  • May Term 1785: The court takes the Brewer orphans from Sackfield Brewer and gives them to James and Delilah Lindsey
• Lindsey, James 1 entry, 1785
  • May Term 1785: The court takes the Brewer orphans from Sackfield Brewer and gives them to James and Delilah Lindsey
• Lineberger, David 1 entry, 1987
  • November 3, 1987: Jonathan Howes is elected mayor of Chapel Hill
• Lineberry, Anne 2 entries, 1823–1827
  • February 1823 (court term): The court binds Alfred Way to Benjamin Way, the man his mother named as his father, and ends her claim
  • February 1827 (court term): Anne and Sally Lineberry are indicted for keeping a disorderly house
• Lineberry, Sally 1 entry, 1827
  • February 1827 (court term): Anne and Sally Lineberry are indicted for keeping a disorderly house
• Lineberry, W. A. 1 entry, 1895
  • April 8, 1895: Surveyors start the Alamance-Chatham line at the Hillsborough courthouse
• Liner, E. C. 1 entry, 1929
  • March 28, 1929: Orange County delegation studies the Vance County hospital as a model

  May be the same person as Liner, Ewell C.

• Liner, Ewell C. 1 entry, 1958
  • October 31, 1958: Ewell C. Liner retires after 38 years as a Hillsboro rural mail carrier

  May be the same person as Liner, E. C.

• Liner, Gaines F. 1 entry, 1950
  • May 16, 1950: The League of Women Voters holds a forum for county candidates in Chapel Hill
• Liner, J. H. 2 entries, 1930–1946
  • 1930-1931: St. Mary's School burns and the county builds a new one
  • by December 5, 1946: J. H. Liner starts a shuttle block mill at Cedar Grove

  May be the same person as Liner, James Henry

• Liner, James Henry 1 entry, 1925
  • finished by May 1925: Contractor James Henry Liner and others finish the Efland Home cottage

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

• Liner, Rebecca 1 entry, 1952
  • May 1952: The school board retires Hillsboro teacher Rebecca Liner after 37 years under its age rule
• Liner, Sally 1 entry, 1817
  • February 1817 (court term): The court orders John Freeman to pay James Mebane as trustee for Sally Liner's child
• Lingle, Clara S. 1 entry, 1917
  • Late summer 1917: Clara S. Lingle becomes the university's first advisor to women
• Linguer, Winship 1 entry, 1831
  • May Term 1831: The grand jury asks the court to take charge of a girl living with Bartlet Walden, a man of color
• Link 1 entry, 1881
  • January 15, 1881: Fire sweeps the business district of Durham
• Link, Erna 1 entry, 1946
  • 1946: Principal J. M. Harris refits the Murphey School lunchroom
• Link, John 1 entry, 1955
  • August 1955: The county board names a committee to study school segregation after Brown
• Link, S. M. 1 entry, 1854
  • June 15, 1854: Hillsborough lays off its common in lots and names Hillsborough Avenue and Calvin Street

  May be the same person as Link, Silas M.

• Link, Silas M. 4 entries, 1839–1876
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  • late August 1839: The county court names superintendents of common schools for Orange County
  • November 11, 1868: The new county commissioners name school committees for all 53 districts
  • October 19, 1868: Commissioners hire Silas M. Link to divide the county into townships
  • January 24, 1876: Silas M. Link, longtime Orange County surveyor, dies at Durham

  May be the same person as Link, S. M.

• Linker, J. B. 2 entries, 1946
  • by August 22, 1946: Chapel Hill appoints a Veterans Housing Commission to bring in surplus houses for student veterans
  • by September 5, 1946: Chapel Hill's new Veterans Housing Commission offers 24 surplus houses to veterans
• Linker, Robert 1 entry, 1961
  • August 15, 1961: Work begins on the Towne House apartments on Hillsboro Street

  May be the same person as Linker, Robert W.

• Linker, Robert W. 1 entry, 1946
  • early July 1946: Reserve officers organize an Orange County chapter at Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Linker, Robert

• Linn, William 1 entry, 1886
  • November 8-12, 1886: The grand jury indicts five Black men in the killing of student Jacob Freeze
• Linscott, H. F. 1 entry, 1903
  • 1903: George Howe is elected professor of Latin at the university
• Lipman, Jack 4 entries, 1929–1951
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  • October 5, 1929: Chapel Hill's Jewish merchants close their stores for Rosh Hashanah
  • May 13, 1930: Fire damages Jack Lipman's University Shop on Franklin Street
  • early February 1951: County commissioners drop a bill to zone along the new Durham boulevard
  • November 27, 1951: Chapel Hill-Carrboro merchants elect Elizabeth Branson president and vote Friday night openings
• Lipman, Sol 1 entry, 1929
  • October 5, 1929: Chapel Hill's Jewish merchants close their stores for Rosh Hashanah
• Lippmann, Walter 1 entry, 1942
  • January 15, 1942: Walter Lippmann opens the state Press Association's 18th Newspaper Institute
• Lipscomb, Ethel 1 entry, 1940
  • September 30, 1940: The State Employment Service opens a six-day office in the Legion Hut basement
• Lipscomb, John 1 entry, 1840
  • 1840: Three planters grow nearly all of Orange County's cotton
• Lipscomb, Lizzie C. Witherspoon 1 entry, 1884
  • January 22, 1884: Lizzie Witherspoon Lipscomb, long a Nash and Kollock school teacher, is buried at Hillsborough
• Lipscomb, Lois 1 entry, 1977
  • spring 1977: Chapel Hill High forms a student relations committee after a racial incident
• Lipscomb, William 2 entries, 1838–1852
  • by May 23, 1838: New post offices open at Lipscomb's and at Junto
  • by March 10, 1852: The county court names commissioners to value railroad land in Orange
• Lipsitz, Lewis 1 entry, 1966
  • February 7, 1966: Gary Waller joins a student panel on the Speaker Ban in Memorial Hall
• Littell, Charla Baer 1 entry, 1987
  • April 5, 1987: Mount Adar ordains Jackie Hawkins Allen, the first woman it ordained
• Little, Crowell 2 entries, 1953–1955
  • 1953: Bruce Strowd sells his car business to Crowell Little and Grady Pritchard
  • 1955: Crowell Little and Grady Pritchard move the former Strowd dealership to 1710 East Franklin Street
• Little, J. C. 2 entries, 1940–1941
  • January 23, 1940: An eleven-inch snow paralyzes Chapel Hill and closes the schools
  • August to October 1941: A long drought and record October heat strain Chapel Hill's water supply
• Little, John 1 entry, 1818
  • February Term 1818: The grand jury presents John Little, a child of color living south of the Haw River
• Little, Lacy L. 1 entry, 1889
  • fall 1889: The YMCA takes charge of regular gymnasium training
• Little, Larry 1 entry, 1978
  • March 17, 1978: Winston-Salem alderman Larry Little speaks at the BSM's tenth-anniversary banquet
• Little, M. Ruth 1 entry, 1992
  • July 8, 1992: The state adds ten Chapel Hill Township farms and buildings to the Study List
• Little, Maya 1 entry, 2018
  • August 20, 2018: Silent Sam is toppled
• Little, Ruth 1 entry, 1991
  • December 1991 to April 1992: Kelly Lally and Ruth Little survey the historic buildings of Chapel Hill Township
• Little, Sarah 1 entry, 1807
  • February 26, 1807: The court writes reading, writing and schooling into three apprentice bindings
• Little, William F. 4 entries, 1965–1991

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• Littlejohn, William 1 entry, 1823
  • July 4, 1823: Hillsborough celebrates the Fourth of July with a procession, oration and toasts
• Livas, George 4 entries, 1919–1956

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• Livas, Sophia 2 entries, 1954–1957

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• Livas, Sophie 2 entries, 1954–1957
  • April 1954: Sophie Livas is installed as Worthy Matron of the Eastern Star chapter in Chapel Hill
  • February 1, 1957: Sophie Livas sells the Carolina Coffee Shop to Donald Belton
• Livingstone, Katherine 1 entry, 1932
  • by April 1932: A state nurse examines every elementary schoolchild in Orange County
• Lloyd, A. A. 1 entry, 1940
  • early 1940s: Pastor S. F. Nicks leads a $12,000 addition of rooms to the Hillsborough Methodist Church

  May be the same person as Lloyd, Allen A.; Lloyd, Allen Alexander

• Lloyd, A. P. 2 entries, 1919
  • by August 14, 1919: A. P. Lloyd takes the post of cashier of the coming Bank of Carrboro
  • November 29, 1919: The Bank of Chapel Hill opens a branch, the Bank of Carrboro
• Lloyd, Albert 1 entry, 1896
  • September 23, 1896: Orange County Republicans nominate B. E. Teague for the House and a county ticket
• Lloyd, Allen A. 3 entries, 1949–1964
  • early August 1949: Allen A. Lloyd's History of the Town of Hillsboro comes out
  • October 1961: Hillsborough Methodist Church marks the 100th anniversary of its church building
  • by April 2, 1964: Allen A. and Pauline O. Lloyd publish a history of the town of Hillsborough

  May be the same person as Lloyd, A. A.; Lloyd, Allen Alexander

• Lloyd, Allen Alexander 1 entry, 1954
  • by August 19, 1954: Allen Alexander Lloyd publishes an enlarged History of the Town of Hillsboro

  May be the same person as Lloyd, A. A.; Lloyd, Allen A.

• Lloyd, Andrew 1 entry, 1961
  • by October 12, 1961: Jury awards an Efland dairy family $51,457 for highway land
• Lloyd, Andrew Green Ruffin 1 entry, 1867
  • about 1867: Andrew Green Ruffin Lloyd builds a log house on Old Hillsborough Road
• Lloyd, Bill 1 entry, 1900
  • about 1900 (turn of the century): Four mill houses go up on Shelton Street for Bill Lloyd
• Lloyd, Bob 2 entries, 2015–2018
  • fall 2015: Cannie Bacon Lloyd and Bob Lloyd open Bacon's Meat Market on North Churton Street
  • April 30, 2018: Bacon's Meat Market passes to new owners and becomes Steve's Garden Market
• Lloyd, Brack 1 entry, 1920
  • about 1920: Dr. Brack Lloyd has Charlie Martindale build a bungalow with Carrboro's first central heating
• Lloyd, Braxton Bynum 7 entries, 1912–1947

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• Lloyd, Brodie 7 entries, 1895–1982

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• Lloyd, Cannie Bacon 2 entries, 2015–2018
  • fall 2015: Cannie Bacon Lloyd and Bob Lloyd open Bacon's Meat Market on North Churton Street
  • April 30, 2018: Bacon's Meat Market passes to new owners and becomes Steve's Garden Market
• Lloyd, Carl 1 entry, 1918
  • October 15 to 16, 1918: Two Elm Grove soldiers, Carl Lloyd and John Craig, die of influenza at Camp Greenleaf
• Lloyd, Cecil Cabot 1 entry, 1940
  • December 10-13, 1940: Orange County sends three volunteers to Fort Bragg under the new draft
• Lloyd, Everett 1 entry, 1961
  • February 24, 1961: Orange County's fourth ABC store opens at US 70 and Interstate 85
• Lloyd, Mrs. Glenn 1 entry, 1943
  • January 16, 1943: Women's Curb Market in the old Holiness church reports $17,000 in 1942 sales
• Lloyd, Henry 2 entries, 1880–1923
  • 1880s: The Henry Lloyd farm is built around a walled barnyard in Chapel Hill Township
  • by January 11, 1923: Bank of Chapel Hill director Henry Lloyd dies
• Lloyd, Herbert 5 entries, 1898–1922
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  • by 1898: Herbert Lloyd takes over his brother's cotton gin and grist mill
  • by April 18, 1900: Herbert Lloyd takes charge of the Chapel Hill post office
  • by August 25, 1904: W. A. Lloyd succeeds Herbert Lloyd as Chapel Hill postmaster
  • by August 21, 1919: Herbert Lloyd rebuilds his cotton gin after a fire
  • by March 22, 1922: Carrboro's Ward-Squires hardware and furniture company goes into receivership
• Lloyd, Herman 1 entry, 1952
  • 1952 to 1953: Assistant track coach Joe Hilton designs and builds his own house on Oakwood Drive

  May be the same person as Lloyd, Herman B.

• Lloyd, Herman B. 1 entry, 1954
  • April 1954: The county school board buys nine acres in Carrboro for a new school

  May be the same person as Lloyd, Herman

• Lloyd, Hughes 3 entries, 1963–1964
  • May 7, 1963: Carrboro re-elects Mayor C. T. Ellington in a record turnout
  • June 9, 1964: Carrboro's town board endorses Community Action, Inc.
  • February 1, 1964: Carrboro closes its own dump and sends its garbage to Chapel Hill's sanitary landfill
• Lloyd, Ida 3 entries, 1918–1935
  • 1918-1960: Ida Lloyd becomes the first clerk in the county superintendent's office
  • 1920: Ida Lloyd's pay as the superintendent's office assistant rises to $40 a month
  • July 1, 1935: Temporary county health unit starts work in Orange during a typhoid outbreak
• Lloyd, Ivan 1 entry, 1925
  • January 27, 1925: Paul Lloyd and his sons' Sunnyside hatchery turns out its first chicks

  May be the same person as Lloyd, Ivan G.

• Lloyd, Ivan G. 1 entry, 1935
  • March 23, 1935: Orange County cotton contract signers elect their 1935 committeemen at Carrboro

  May be the same person as Lloyd, Ivan

• Lloyd, J. Bunn 1 entry, 1929
  • February 11, 1929: Chapel Hill aldermen add a patrolman after a run of thefts
• Lloyd, J. C. 1 entry, 1929
  • March 28, 1929: Orange County delegation studies the Vance County hospital as a model

  May be the same person as Lloyd, Jeter; Lloyd, Jeter C.

• Lloyd, J. R. 1 entry, 1937
  • October 6, 1937: Lloyd descendants dedicate a memorial stone to Thomas Lloyd north of Chapel Hill
• Lloyd, J. T. 1 entry, 1919
  • May 6, 1919: Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor W. S. Roberson and elects five aldermen
• Lloyd, Jeter 2 entries, 1928–1929
  • December 3, 1928: New Orange County commissioners take office as George Johnston is sworn in at his sickbed
  • January 7, 1929: John Hanner returns to the county board and is chosen chairman

  May be the same person as Lloyd, J. C.; Lloyd, Jeter C.

• Lloyd, Mrs. Jeter 1 entry, 1943
  • January 16, 1943: Women's Curb Market in the old Holiness church reports $17,000 in 1942 sales
• Lloyd, Jeter C. 3 entries, 1928–1932
  • June 2, 1928: Orange County Democrats choose county nominees in the June primary
  • November 6, 1928: Orange voters elect W. T. Sloan sheriff and a Carrboro Republican to the commissioners
  • May 2, 1932: Orange County commissioners cut county officers' pay 10 percent

  May be the same person as Lloyd, J. C.; Lloyd, Jeter

• Lloyd, John 1 entry, 1902
  • March 3, 1902: The state charters the Blanche Hosiery Mills Company at West End
• Lloyd, L. 1 entry, 1910
  • about 1910: Braxton Craig and partners build a small Queen Anne house on McCauley Street
• Lloyd, L. B. 3 entries, 1924–1928
  • September 1, 1924: County commissioners watch eight captured stills cut up in the Hillsborough courthouse yard
  • June 7, 1924: Orange Democrats nominate L. B. Lloyd for sheriff over Jug Whitaker
  • June 2, 1928: Orange County Democrats choose county nominees in the June primary
• Lloyd, L. Bunn 2 entries, 1922–1926
  • November 7, 1922: Democrats carry Orange County in the 1922 general election
  • June 5, 1926: Orange County Democrats nominate A. W. Kenion for clerk and a new board of commissioners
• Lloyd, Lacy Bunn 1 entry, 1947
  • August 18, 1947: Former sheriff Lacy Bunn Lloyd dies
• Lloyd, Lillian 1 entry, 1934
  • June 4, 1934: Chapel Hill aldermen pass ordinances for $10,000 in street bonds and $32,000 in sewer bonds
• Lloyd, Louise 1 entry, 1953
  • December 31, 1953: Fire burns the Carrboro Smoke Shop and a barber shop in the center of Carrboro
• Lloyd, Lueco 22 entries, 1901–1940

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• Lloyd, Luico 1 entry, 1902
  • August 23, 1902: Orange Republicans elect Luico Lloyd county chairman
• Lloyd, Martha 3 entries, 1939–1946
  • by August 18, 1939: Woodward Byars succeeds Grace Holcombe as Orange County home demonstration agent
  • July 12, 1943: County commissioners appropriate $700 for a cannery building at White Cross
  • November 21, 1946: The White Cross Grange elects W. F. Lathan its master
• Lloyd, Melvin 1 entry, 1925
  • January 27, 1925: Paul Lloyd and his sons' Sunnyside hatchery turns out its first chicks
• Lloyd, Moody 1 entry, 1917
  • Early 1917: Bud Perry and Moody Lloyd open the Carolina Barbershop in new quarters
• Lloyd, Morris 2 entries, 1840–1850
  • about 1840: The Morris Lloyd family builds its first home, a log house near White Cross
  • about 1850: The Morris Lloyd farmhouse is built near White Cross
• Lloyd, Myron 3 entries, 1956–1960
  • May 31, 1956: St. Mary's Road residents finish a new water line on Hillsboro's system
  • June 22, 1957: Hillsboro marks June Dairy Day with a milking contest on the courthouse lawn
  • September 1960: Hillsboro begins adding fluoride to the town water
• Lloyd, P. B. 1 entry, 1951
  • March 21, 1951: Orange sets up a County Agricultural Mobilization Committee
• Lloyd, Paul 2 entries, 1925–1935
  • January 27, 1925: Paul Lloyd and his sons' Sunnyside hatchery turns out its first chicks
  • April 6, 1935: Farmers along the Antioch road pledge $3,500 toward a rural power line
• Lloyd, Pauline O. 2 entries, 1961–1964
  • October 1961: Hillsborough Methodist Church marks the 100th anniversary of its church building
  • by April 2, 1964: Allen A. and Pauline O. Lloyd publish a history of the town of Hillsborough
• Lloyd, Philip 1 entry, 1931
  • by October 23, 1931: The Postal Telegraph Company opens an office in the Pritchard-Lloyd drug store
• Lloyd, R. S. 1 entry, 1964
  • August 11, 1964: Carrboro rezones the 100-acre Dr. Brack Lloyd tract for housing

  May be the same person as Lloyd, Roy; Lloyd, Roy S.

• Lloyd, Roy 1 entry, 1951
  • May 8, 1951: J. Sullivan Gibson unseats Mayor I. F. Hardee in Carrboro

  May be the same person as Lloyd, R. S.; Lloyd, Roy S.

• Lloyd, Roy S. 2 entries, 1953–1956
  • May 4, 1953: Carrboro reelects Mayor J. Sullivan Gibson and fills its first six-member town board
  • mid-November 1956: Carrboro adopts a house-numbering system

  May be the same person as Lloyd, R. S.; Lloyd, Roy

• Lloyd, Seaton 3 entries, 1922–1959
  • April 1922: Dwight Ray and Seaton Lloyd open the Lloyd-Ray hardware store in Carrboro
  • May 7, 1923: Carrboro elects Seaton Lloyd mayor
  • March 1959: Dwight Ray and Seaton Lloyd sell the Lloyd-Ray Hardware Store after 37 years
• Lloyd, Sheriff 1 entry, 1927
  • May 24, 1927: Judge halts the Orange sheriff's advertising of land for unpaid taxes
• Lloyd, Stephen S. 1 entry, 1840
  • August 3, 1840: A common school opens in the Ball Mountain district under Stephen S. Lloyd
• Lloyd, T. D. 1 entry, 1917
  • December 3, 1917: County commissioners order a road laid off from Dodson's Crossroads and pay on the Hall's Mill bridge
• Lloyd, Tele 1 entry, 1957
  • May 6, 1957: Carrboro reelects Mayor R. B. Todd over Grover C. Brookbank
• Lloyd, Thomas 6 entries, 1757–1937

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• Lloyd, Thomas 1 entry, 1887

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  • October 3, 1887: County commissioners order a new bridge at Purefoy's mill near Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Lloyd, Thomas Philip

• Lloyd, Thomas F. 26 entries, 1882–1950

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• Lloyd, Thomas Philip 1 entry, 1957
  • 1957: Thomas Philip Lloyd sells the Carolina Pharmacy to Helen Duguid

  May be the same person as Lloyd, Thomas

• Lloyd, Thomas Phillip 4 entries, 1930–1940

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• Lloyd, Tommy 1 entry, 1949
  • September 18, 1949: Cane Creek Baptist Church breaks ground for a new church
• Lloyd, W. A. 1 entry, 1904
  • by August 25, 1904: W. A. Lloyd succeeds Herbert Lloyd as Chapel Hill postmaster
• Lloyd, W. Albert 1 entry, 1921
  • about 1921: Lightning sets fire to the new brick grist mill
• Lloyd, W. F. 1 entry, 1897
  • April 5, 1897: County commissioners call a graded-school tax vote for the Chapel Hill school district
• Lloyd, W. H. 1 entry, 1888
  • by March 22, 1888: Bingham Township farmers form a Farmers' Alliance at Cane Creek
• Lloyd, W. R. 3 entries, 1902–1912
  • March 3, 1902: The state charters the Blanche Hosiery Mills Company at West End
  • September 8, 1906: Orange Republicans name their county ticket
  • August 3, 1912: Orange County Republicans nominate H. G. Dorsett for the House
• Lloyd, Wallace 1 entry, 1925
  • January 27, 1925: Paul Lloyd and his sons' Sunnyside hatchery turns out its first chicks
• Lloyd, Walter C. 1 entry, 1892
  • September 3, 1892: Orange County Republicans hold their county convention
• Lloyd, Willard R. 1 entry, 1911
  • 1911-1914: J. D. Webb chairs the Orange County board of commissioners
• Lloyd, William R. 1 entry, 1908
  • November 3, 1908: Taft and Republican Thomas E. Sparrow carry Orange County as Democrats keep most county offices
• Locher, Niels 1 entry, 1961
  • March 15-19, 1961: The Carolina Playmakers give the American premiere of Niels Locher's Day of Glory
• Lockhart, Catherine 2 entries, 1768–1792
  • about 1768: A house is built for Catherine Lockhart at Churton and Tryon streets
  • 1792: Catherine Lockhart's burial in 1792 is the earliest known grave in the Lockhart-Phillips family cemetery
• Lockhart, E. L. 4 entries, 1937–1941
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  • August 11, 1937: Chapel Hill aldermen keep the town tax rate at $1.65
  • July 26, 1937: Orange County's assessors report on their countywide review of real estate values
  • April 9, 1937: Orange County's new board of assessors organizes to review the tax lists
  • 1941 to 1967: Charles W. Stanford joins the Orange County Board of Education

  May be the same person as Lockhart, Ernest L.

• Lockhart, E. M. 1 entry, 1925
  • May 5, 1925: Hillsboro re-elects Mayor T. M. Arrasmith and a five-man council
• Lockhart, Mrs. E. M. 1 entry, 1948
  • October 25, 1948: Hillsboro organizes a chapter of the North Carolina Symphony Society
• Lockhart, E. Marvin 5 entries, 1901–1910
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  • by April 4, 1901: A post office called Mohan opens in Little River Township
  • by October 8, 1903: Two rural free delivery routes are laid out from Hillsborough
  • by September 28, 1905: Three rural free delivery routes run out of Hillsborough
  • by October 8, 1908: The Hillsboro Democratic Club is organized
  • January 19–February 2, 1910: Hillsboro citizens meet to organize a library association
• Lockhart, Ernest L. 1 entry, 1941
  • September 18, 1941: Ernest L. Lockhart buys and tears down the closed St. Mary's school for Black pupils

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

• Lockhart, Isaac 1 entry, 1821
  • March 21, 1821: John Fort advertises a five-cent reward for his runaway apprentice Isaac Lockhart
• Lockhart, J. L. 4 entries, 1928–1946
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  • September 3, 1928: Gilbert W. Ray becomes Orange County's first full-time county accountant
  • by August 10, 1928: County commissioners cut the Orange County tax rate to $1.45
  • May 30, 1944: Veterans organize an American Legion post in Hillsborough
  • January 1946: John P. Ballard buys the late J. L. Lockhart's insurance agency in Hillsboro

  May be the same person as Lockhart, James L.

• Lockhart, J. P. 4 entries, 1899–1904
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  • April 10, 1899: A legislature-appointed Board of School Directors takes over the Orange County schools
  • early July 1899: The county school directors name township trustees and elect John Thompson superintendent
  • April 11, 1904: The board of education orders Chapel Hill's Black school rebuilt in Potter's Field
  • July 5, 1904: The county pension board reviews Orange County's pension roll

  May be the same person as Lockhart, John P.

• Lockhart, James L. 1 entry, 1945
  • October 25, 1945: Former county accountant James L. Lockhart dies in Hillsborough

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

• Lockhart, John P. 3 entries, 1889–1903
  • July 4, 1889: Orange County's Confederate veterans organize a county association
  • June to July 1897: A new state act restores the Orange County Board of Education under C. P. Burch
  • January 12, 1903: The county board of education apportions the school fund and sets aside $1,000 for new schoolhouses

  May be the same person as Lockhart, J. P.

• Lockhart, M. 1 entry, 1911
  • mid-July 1911: Typhoid cases appear in the Hillsborough mill villages
• Lockhart, Samuel 1 entry, 1930
  • February 4, 1930: Samuel Lockhart, Jr., of Hillsboro wins the Orange County high school oratorical contest
• Lockhart, Samuel Paul 11 entries, 1911–1956

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• Lockhart, William 2 entries, 1820
  • December 23, 1820: Thomas Harris is elected Hillsborough's magistrate of police
  • December 16, 1820: William Lockhart, Hillsborough's magistrate of police, dies
• Locklear, Anthony 1 entry, 1994
  • about 1994: Anthony Locklear becomes UNC's first Native American administrator
• Loder, Robert 2 entries, 1847–1862
  • 1847: Robert Loder and William Watson run a dry goods store near Franklin and Columbia
  • January 17, 1862: Fire destroys Robert Loder's clothing store
• Loewenthal, Sonna 1 entry, 1990
  • 1990: Cal Horton becomes Chapel Hill's town manager
• Loften, N. P. 1 entry, 1950
  • June 1950: Principal E. M. Stanfield reports on the one-room school for Black children at Cedar Grove
• Loftin, Clarence 1 entry, 1962
  • by April 5, 1962: Black parent-teacher groups form an Orange County PTA council
• Loftin, Dalton 1 entry, 1963
  • July 30, 1963: Hillsboro's new bi-racial committee holds its first meeting
• Loftis, V. P. 1 entry, 1938
  • early May 1938: Contracts are let for the University's new medical building
• Logan, Bob 1 entry, 1952
  • by October 9, 1952: The Wildlife Resources Commission stocks the Eno River with young fish
• Logan, George B. 1 entry, 1924
  • by June 13, 1924: Isaac W. Pritchard and six others give land for a Chapel Hill park and playground
• Logan, Robert F. 2 entries, 1941–1952
  • September 1941: State-raised quail and wild turkeys are released in Orange County
  • June 1952: About 1,000 largemouth bass are put into the Eno River near Hillsboro
• Loizon, George 1 entry, 1939
  • August 8, 1939: Greek businessmen meet in Chapel Hill to form a state branch of the Adelphia Benevolent Association
• Loizon, Louis 1 entry, 1940
  • March 10, 1940: Fire nearly destroys the Loizon home, the old Cate place on Rosemary Street
• Lomax, Alan 1 entry, 1989
  • April 6–8, 1989: Sounds of the South conference marks the opening of UNC's Southern Folklife Collection
• Lombard, Louis 1 entry, 1945
  • February 4, 1945: Seven French journalists, among them Jean-Paul Sartre, visit the Pre-Flight School and its French cadets
• London, Bettie Jackson 2 entries, 1911–1913
  • March 14, 1911: Bettie Jackson London publishes the design for the campus monument and appeals for the $7,500
  • June 2, 1913: UNC's Confederate Monument is dedicated
• London, Dr. 1 entry, 1894
  • mid-September 1894: Work begins on Dr. London's and Dr. Headen's houses on Pittsboro Street
• London, Henry A. 3 entries, 1865–1906
  • April 30, 1865: Charles P. Mallett wrote that federal troops had held Chapel Hill for fourteen days
  • June 1865: The 1865 commencement graduates one senior before a crowd of Federal soldiers
  • June 1906: The trustees' visiting committee backs new buildings and urges an infirmary
• London, Henry Armand 2 entries, 1895

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• London, J. A. 1 entry, 1895
  • November 1895 to 1896: Algernon S. Barbee serves as mayor of Chapel Hill
• Long, Albert 1 entry, 1895
  • November 17, 1895: Albert Long, a Black man, joins the Hillsborough Presbyterian Church by letter from New Hope
• Long, Alexander 1 entry, 1814
  • 1814-1818: Dr. Alexander Long practises medicine in Hillsborough
• Long, Beverly 1 entry, 1980
  • March 18-20, 1980: The speech department stages To Be Young, Gifted and Black
• Long, Catharine 1 entry, 1818
  • February Term 1818: The court binds John Long to his own mother, Catharine Long
• Long, Charles H. 2 entries, 1979
  • October 19, 1979: The Faculty Council adopts the Long Committee's recommendations on minority admissions
  • June 12, 1979: A faculty committee reports on Dean Renwick's minority admissions charges
• Long, D. S. 1 entry, 1910
  • May 10, 1910: A Christian Church congregation is organized in Chapel Hill
• Long, Emma 1 entry, 1934
  • By June 7, 1934: Emma Long gives the university library a collection on her father, Dr. Crawford W. Long
• Long, Eugene 1 entry, 1952
  • August 21, 1952: Farmers Home Administration pushes livestock to raise tenant incomes near Cedar Grove
• Long, George 1 entry, 1799
  • January 1799: The Philanthropic Society adopts rules for marking its members' graves
• Long, George M. 1 entry, 1855
  • after 1855: Chapel Hill merchants, John W. Carr among them, agree not to sell to minor students on credit
• Long, George R. 1 entry, 1859
  • September 1859: Five elders are ordained at New Hope
• Long, Giles 2 entries, 1961–1964
  • by April 20, 1961: Morris Telephone installs more than 175 telephones in Walnut Grove and northern Cedar Grove
  • December 7, 1964: County ABC board votes for a second liquor store in the Chapel Hill area

  May be the same person as Long, Giles M.

• Long, Giles M. 1 entry, 1959
  • February 12, 1959: County commissioners and school board name the Orange County ABC board

  May be the same person as Long, Giles

• Long, Hampton 1 entry, 1949
  • by June 30, 1949: Hillsboro's Odd Fellows offer a lot for the Black public library
• Long, Helen V. 1 entry, 1861
  • August 2, 1861: Women of southwest Orange form a Soldiers' Relief Society
• Long, J. O. 1 entry, 1957
  • August 18, 1957: Carrboro Methodist Church dedicates its new building
• Long, Jack 4 entries, 1926–1929
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  • July 21, 1926: Chapel Hill aldermen give Jack Long the contract for curbs, gutters and paving
  • by June 17, 1927: Carrboro widens the concrete highway through town to 30 feet
  • July 1928: Town and University agree to widen the Country Club road with curbs and gutters
  • by August 23, 1929: The South Road behind the campus is paved in concrete as part of Route 54
• Long, James 1 entry, 1894
  • December 3, 1894: James Long is elected to the county Board of Education after James Cole resigns

  May be the same person as Long, James A.

• Long, James A. 1 entry, 1864
  • July 8, 1864: Dr. Osmond F. Long, Orange County physician and Presbyterian elder, dies

  May be the same person as Long, James

• Long, John 2 entries, 1818–1820
  • February Term 1818: The court binds John Long to his own mother, Catharine Long
  • August Term 1820: Polly Sullivan asks the court to bind her son Joseph to John Long
• Long, Justin 1 entry, 2018
  • April 30, 2018: Bacon's Meat Market passes to new owners and becomes Steve's Garden Market
• Long, Mrs. M. H. 1 entry, 1927
  • March 30, 1927: United Daughters of the Confederacy hold their district convention in Chapel Hill
• Long, Malone 1 entry, 1954
  • December 6, 1954: Odell H. Clayton is sworn in as sheriff with three new deputies
• Long, Mary 1 entry, 1805
  • April to June 1805 (4th to 6th month): Cane Creek Friends read out a testimony against Miriam Lamb
• Long, Meagan 1 entry, 2018
  • April 30, 2018: Bacon's Meat Market passes to new owners and becomes Steve's Garden Market
• Long, O. F. 3 entries, 1839–1851
  • February 2, 1839: Hillsborough elects O. F. Long magistrate of police and seven town commissioners
  • August 13-17, 1850: Hillsborough commissioners drop the paid town patrol for citizen patrol duty
  • March 22, 1851: Hillsborough citizens meet to bring the railroad through town on the north side of the river
• Long, Osmond F. 6 entries, 1841–1864
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  • November 10-13, 1841: Hillsborough men form the Washington Temperance Society of Orange County
  • May 14, 1842: Delegates form the Orange County Temperance Society at Hillsborough
  • by April 4, 1844: Courthouse commissioners let the contract to John Berry
  • October 6, 1849: Hillsborough forbids Black people to loiter in the streets on Sundays
  • July 31, 1849: North Carolina Railroad stock books open at Hillsborough
  • July 8, 1864: Dr. Osmond F. Long, Orange County physician and Presbyterian elder, dies
• Long, Mrs. Ruth 1 entry, 1957
  • October 7, 1957: Black parents petition the school board against the Odd Fellows Hall annex to Central School
• Long, S. F. 1 entry, 1919
  • May 19, 1919: Chapel Hill aldermen elect S. F. Long chief of police

  May be the same person as Long, Sidney Fremont

• Long, Sidney Fremont 1 entry, 1928
  • December 27, 1928: Former Chapel Hill police chief S. F. Long dies

  May be the same person as Long, S. F.

• Long, T. W. M. 1 entry, 1938
  • by December 9, 1938: A state commission recommends a four-year medical school, its majority favoring Chapel Hill
• Long, Thomas 1 entry, 1846
  • September 1846: Union Grove Methodist Church is organized

  May be the same person as Long, Thomas A.

• Long, Thomas A. 5 entries, 1854–1879
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  • 1854: David McCauley and Thomas A. Long take over Jesse Hargrave's store
  • 1872: David McCauley buys out his store partner Thomas A. Long
  • August 6, 1878: Methodist trustees buy a Franklin Street lot from Thomas A. and Zoa A. Long
  • April 28, 1879: Long & Norwood begin closing out their Chapel Hill store
  • June 22, 1879: Chapel Hill merchant Thomas A. Long dies

  May be the same person as Long, Thomas

• Long, Vernon W. 1 entry, 1885
  • September 19, 1885: Chapel Hill Methodists vote to build a second church
• Long, Virgil 1 entry, 1898
  • March 21-22, 1898: Superior court convicts Chapel Hill men of selling liquor without a license
• Long, W. S. 2 entries, 1886–1888
  • October 31, 1886: A union meeting of four denominations opens at Cedar Grove before about 2,000 people
  • May 25, 1888: Caldwell Institute closes its session with an address by Graham College's W. S. Long

  May be the same person as Long, William; Long, William S.

• Long, William 1 entry, 1918
  • June 1918: The Class of 1918 plants a shoot of the Davie Poplar

  May be the same person as Long, W. S.; Long, William S.

• Long, William S. 1 entry, 1906
  • October 6, 1906: Orange and Alamance agree on a shared Union School in the old Hebron district

  May be the same person as Long, W. S.; Long, William

• Long, Zoa A. 1 entry, 1878
  • August 6, 1878: Methodist trustees buy a Franklin Street lot from Thomas A. and Zoa A. Long
• Longiotti, Sam 1 entry, 1987
  • October 1987: The Siena Hotel prepares to open on East Franklin Street
• Loomis, D. W. 2 entries, 1950–1951
  • 1950: Robert H. Wettach chairs the Chapel Hill chapter of the American Red Cross
  • April 9, 1951: Commissioners name county members to Chapel Hill's enlarged zoning commission
• Loomis, Ray 1 entry, 1935
  • October 23, 1935: A tri-motored Ford airliner carries hundreds of Chapel Hill people on sightseeing flights
• Lopez, Tony 1 entry, 2019
  • August 2019: A mural for Billy Strayhorn is painted on South Churton Street
• Loram, Charles T. 1 entry, 1937
  • September 1 to October 2, 1937: An international conference on education in Africa and the American South meets at the Carolina Inn
• Lord, Margery 1 entry, 1940
  • 1940: Margery Lord becomes the first woman student in public health at Chapel Hill
• Lore, Charles G. 1 entry, 1929
  • by July 5, 1929: Southern Airways, Incorporated, takes over the Chapel Hill airport
• Loring, Thomas 1 entry, 1821
  • December 12, 1821: Methodist trustees seek a builder for a church in Hillsborough
• Loudermilk, Charlie 1 entry, 2004
  • November 5, 2004: A Charlie Justice monument is dedicated at UNC's Kenan Football Center
• Loudon, Alexander 1 entry, 1942
  • February 18, 1942: Netherlands minister Alexander Loudon speaks in Memorial Hall
• Louis, Karen 1 entry, 2011
  • June 26, 2011: The A & M Grill in Mebane closes after 63 years
• Louvin, Charlie 1 entry, 1971
  • June 13, 1971: Junior Samples and Jimmy Martin play the Daniel Boone Amphitheater
• Love, Cornelia 1 entry, 1937
  • October 14 and 15, 1937: The North Carolina Library Association holds its biennial meeting in Chapel Hill
• Love, Cornelia Spencer 8 entries, 1917–1990

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• Love, Edgar 1 entry, 1909
  • May 31, 1909: Alumni pledge forty-one endowed scholarships
• Love, J. Spencer 7 entries, 1942–1970

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• Love, James Lee 18 entries, 1881–1908

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• Love, James Lee 2 entries, 1884–1887

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  • 1884: Randall speaks on North Carolina folklore at commencement
  • 1887: James Lee Love builds a house on East Franklin Street for his wife, June Spencer
• Love, James Lee 1 entry, 1887

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• Love, June Spencer 6 entries, 1884–1909

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• Lovejoy, G. W. 1 entry, 1940
  • January 7, 1940: Allison W. Honeycutt is elected chairman of Boy Scout work in the Chapel Hill district
• Lovell, Elizabeth 2 entries, 1945–1949
  • August 24, 1945: West Hillsboro organizes a community health campaign
  • March 31, 1949: District health department takes UNC public health students for field training
• Lovette, Leland P. 1 entry, 1942
  • September 1942: Jack Dempsey spends four days at the Pre-Flight School
• Low, John 3 entries, 1768–1770
  • August 5, 1768: James Hunter and John Low deliver a Regulator letter to Governor Tryon at Hillsborough
  • May 21, 1768: Regulators meeting at George Sally's appoint a committee of eight to petition Governor Tryon
  • April 23-24, 1770: Orange justices take sworn statements for Herman Husband's defense
• Lowder, J. M. 1 entry, 1891
  • December 13, 1891: Rev. J. M. Lowder preaches his first sermon as pastor of the Hillsborough Circuit
• Lowe, Dazelle F. 3 entries, 1944–1945
  • November 3, 1944: Orange County's Black home demonstration and 4-H clubs hold Achievement Day
  • September 1, 1944: Orange County's Black home demonstration clubs hold their first dress contest in Hillsboro
  • June 8, 1945: Orange County's Black home demonstration clubs hold their first Federation Day
• Lowe, Don 1 entry, 1963
  • April 9, 1963: County commissioners name the outside members of Carrboro's new planning and zoning boards

  May be the same person as Lowe, Don A.

• Lowe, Don A. 1 entry, 1955
  • August 1, 1955: County commissioners fill the Greater Chapel Hill zoning boards

  May be the same person as Lowe, Don

• Lowe, Isaac 1 entry, 1792
  • By 1792: Faucett's grist mill is working at the Eno ford northwest of Hillsborough
• Lowe, J. A. 1 entry, 1952
  • April 13, 1952: West Hillsboro churches hold a joint Easter sunrise service on Eno Mountain
• Lowenstein, Allard K. 1 entry, 1964

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• Lowndes, Charlie 1 entry, 1956
  • by February 23, 1956: Orange Farm Equipment Company takes over Coleman-Laws in Hillsboro
• Loyd, Thomas 1 entry, 1755
  • Spring 1755: Mark Morgan fails to qualify for his captaincy at the Orange regiment's general muster
• Luby, Molly 2 entries, 2018–2019
  • June 13, 2018: Danita Mason-Hogans presents Chapel Hill's civil rights timeline to the town council
  • February 28, 2019: The Chapel Hill Nine marker site is dedicated on the 59th anniversary of the sit-in
• Lucas, J. S. 1 entry, 1851
  • 1851: Dr. J. S. Lucas opens a drugstore at Franklin and Henderson
• Lucas, Jackie 2 entries, 1976–1977
  • September 16, 1976: The University Space Committee votes to move the Chase cafeteria into Upendo Lounge's space
  • February 4, 1977: BSM leaders tell Chancellor Taylor they will fight the court ruling on minority seats
• Luisetti, Hank 1 entry, 1942
  • August 27 to September 26, 1942: The Pre-Flight School holds its first indoctrination course for 135 new Navy athletic instructors
• Lumsden, L. L. 1 entry, 1915
  • early May 1915: U.S. Public Health Service doctors begin a sanitary survey of Orange County
• Lunday, James 1 entry, 1787
  • March 1, 1787: The court names four patrollers for the town of Hillsborough
• Lunsford, Bascom Lamar 1 entry, 1948
  • June 18-19, 1948: The first Carolina Folk Festival brings 600 musicians and dancers to Kenan Stadium
• Lunsford, Dannie G. 1 entry, 1983
  • July 1983: Dannie G. Lunsford becomes superintendent of the Orange County schools
• Luther, Martin 1 entry, 1930
  • about 1930: Numa Taylor builds a stuccoed block house on a lot he won in a raffle
• Luther, Myrtle 1 entry, 1930
  • about 1930: Numa Taylor builds a stuccoed block house on a lot he won in a raffle
• Luthy, Fred 1 entry, 1964
  • November 10, 1964: Chapel Hill Exchange Club gives Police Chief W. D. Blake its Book of Golden Deeds award
• Lutterloh, Joe 1 entry, 1869
  • December 25, 1869: Barkeeper M. V. Blalock is murdered and robbed in Hillsborough
• Luttrell, John 1 entry, 1774
  • 1774: Richard Henderson forms the Louisa Company with Thomas Hart and other Orange men
• Lydia 1 entry, 1811

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  • February 28, 1811: A jury of slaveholders convicts Joshua, an enslaved man, of murdering Abner Tapp
• Lydia 2 entries, 1829–2021

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• Lydia 1 entry, 1829

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  • 1829: Thomas Ruffin issues the State v. Mann decision
• Lydia 1 entry, 2021

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  • March 8, 2021: Hillsborough renames Thomas Ruffin Street as Lydia Lane
• Lyle, Katie Letcher 1 entry, 1998
  • April 4, 1998: Annie Dillard joins the Rubin writers panel at the North Carolina Literary Festival
• Lyman, Bishop 1 entry, 1887
  • July 17, 1887: Bishop Lyman ordains William L. Reaney a priest at St. Matthew's
• Lyman, Theodore B. 1 entry, 1881

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• Lynch, A. A. 1 entry, 1915
  • May 16, 1915: A Christian Church congregation is organized near Mebane

  May be the same person as Lynch, Arch A.

• Lynch, Albert 2 entries, 1865–1866
  • November 7, 1865: The Freedmen's Bureau apprentices Albert, a boy of seven, to Thomas Lynch
  • May Term 1866: The court binds Albert Lynch, a boy of color, to the Rev. Thomas Lynch
• Lynch, Arch A. 1 entry, 1923
  • by August 16, 1923: County commissioners order a new New Hope Creek bridge on the Blackwood-Durham road

  May be the same person as Lynch, A. A.

• Lynch, Archibald 1 entry, 1870
  • about 1870; enlarged about 1890: Archibald Lynch builds a farmhouse on Mount Hermon Church Road
• Lynch, Cora 1 entry, 1948
  • by July 8, 1948: President Truman appoints Tom Bivins postmaster of Hillsboro

  May be the same person as Lynch, Cora L.

• Lynch, Cora L. 1 entry, 1946
  • March 1, 1946: Cora L. Lynch takes charge of the Hillsboro post office

  May be the same person as Lynch, Cora

• Lynch, Dennis 1 entry, 1942
  • October 18, 1942: Bishop Eugene McGuinness celebrates Chapel Hill's first military field mass in Kenan Stadium
• Lynch, Edwin 2 entries, 1910–1946
  • about 1910: Banker Paul Collins builds a Queen Anne house on North Churton Street
  • November 5, 1946: Orange County Democrats sweep the 1946 general election
• Lynch, Edwin M. 24 entries, 1910–1966

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• Lynch, George 2 entries, 1899–1956
  • by April 6, 1899: Devereux Turner and George Lynch buy into the Hillsboro Drug Company
  • August 1956: The Catholic Diocese of Raleigh buys land on US 70 west of Hillsboro

  May be the same person as Lynch, George C.

• Lynch, George C. 3 entries, 1905–1923
  • May 2, 1905: Hillsborough elects a town board expected to license saloons
  • by August 29, 1907: The town sells the Old Academy lot on East Tryon Street to George C. Lynch
  • by February 15, 1923: Former postmaster George C. Lynch buys a Hillsboro business lot for a brick store

  May be the same person as Lynch, George

• Lynch, J. E. 1 entry, 1864
  • May 11 to late July 1864: Company A, 66th N.C., an Orange company, loses Lieut. J. E. Lynch and four men killed
• Lynch, L. G. 1 entry, 1853
  • February 16, 1853: The Hillsborough Fire Company reorganizes and elects Thomas Webb captain
• Lynch, Lemuel 25 entries, 1834–1983

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• Lynch, Lemuel 1 entry, 1935

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  • February 4, 1935: Hillsboro merchant Lemuel Lynch is killed by a hit-and-run driver
• Lynch, Lorenzo 1 entry, 1992
  • March 27, 1992: UNC holds the naming ceremony for the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center
• Lynch, Margaret 1 entry, 1916
  • September 1916: Women register in every department of the university, including pharmacy
• Lynch, Mary 1 entry, 1787
  • November Term 1787: The court licenses Mary Lynch to keep a tavern at her house
• Lynch, Moses 1 entry, 1799
  • March 2, 1799 (February Term 1799): The court orders a new road from John McRory's to the Caswell County line
• Lynch, S. J. 7 entries, 1888–1900
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  • May 7, 1888: Hillsborough men kill a third mad dog in two weeks
  • by December 9, 1889: Hillsborough's town board puts about forty Town Commons building lots up for bids
  • May 6, 1889: Hillsborough re-elects Mayor Joseph A. Harris over Devereux Turner
  • May 10, 1890: Hillsboro's finance committee reports the town's accounts for the year to May 1
  • May 5, 1890: Hillsboro re-elects Mayor Joseph A. Harris with a seven-man town board
  • May 4, 1891: Hillsborough re-elects Mayor Joseph A. Harris and chooses a seven-man town board
  • May 7, 1900: Hillsborough re-elects Mayor Joseph A. Harris over William Strain
• Lynch, Samuel 1 entry, 1868
  • July 28, 1868: St. Mark's district residents tell the Bureau that county relief has failed
• Lynch, Thomas 6 entries, 1832–1866
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  • 1832: Mount Zion Christian Church is organized
  • February 1852: Orange County seats a Board of Superintendents for its common schools
  • June 24, 1858: Eagle Lodge Masons parade through Hillsborough for St. John the Baptist's Day
  • November 7, 1865: The Freedmen's Bureau apprentices Albert, a boy of seven, to Thomas Lynch
  • May Term 1866: The court binds Albert Lynch, a boy of color, to the Rev. Thomas Lynch
  • February 1866 to winter 1867: Thomas Lynch becomes stated supply at New Hope after James Phillips
• Lynch, W. B. 2 entries, 1868–1873

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• Lynch, William 2 entries, 1910–1936
  • December 10, 1910: A. A. Kluttz advertises his University Bookstore to students in the Tar Heel
  • October 29, 1936: Dr. William Lynch, dentist in Chapel Hill and Durham for 36 years, dies
• Lynn, Matthew 1 entry, 1838
  • May Term 1838: The court cancels Thomas Holloway's binding and delivers him to his mother
• Lyon, Becky 2 entries, 1879
  • October 4, 1879: Becky Lyon is acquitted of the Blackwell murders
  • October 31, 1879: Robert Boswell is hanged at Hillsborough for the Blackwell murders
• Lyon, E. B. 1 entry, 1945
  • July 1945: E. B. Lyon and his wife buy the barns and race track at Occoneechee Farm
• Lyon, J. F. 1 entry, 1884
  • June 2, 1884: Orange County magistrates enlarge the board of commissioners from three to five
• Lyon, James E. 1 entry, 1896
  • by October 22, 1896: Eighteenth District Populists endorse E. S. Parker and name their own Senate candidate
• Lyon, John F. 15 entries, 1845–1887
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  • January 1845: Thomas W. Holden, now living in Milton, offers Enoe Mills for sale
  • August 5, 1852: Orange returns John Berry to the state Senate and splits its Commons seats
  • August 3, 1854: Orange elects William A. Graham to the state Senate and Phillips and Turner to the Commons
  • February 8, 1860: Orange Democrats meet at the court house and name delegates to the state convention
  • March 30, 1867: An Orange County meeting at the courthouse resolves to submit to the Reconstruction Acts
  • February 25, 1868: Orange Conservatives hold a county meeting at the courthouse and name an executive committee
  • August 6, 1874: Orange County elects the whole Conservative ticket
  • August 1877: The county commissioners cut Orange County's tax rate
  • August 5, 1878: Orange magistrates elect a new board of county commissioners
  • December 2, 1878: New county commissioners order an Eno bridge and call the justices to plan a new jail
  • December 6, 1880: Newly elected county commissioners take office and re-elect Jones Watson chairman
  • 1883–1888: Nelson P. Hall chairs the Orange County Board of Commissioners
  • August 23, 1884: Orange County Democrats nominate their legislative and county ticket
  • September 4, 1886: Orange Democrats nominate their county ticket
  • September 17, 1887: Orange County farmers organize the Orange County Club at the court house
• Lyon, Josiah 1 entry, 1770
  • September 25, 1770: Regulators pull down and plunder Edmund Fanning's house in Hillsborough
• Lyon, Nancy 1 entry, 1945
  • July 1945: E. B. Lyon and his wife buy the barns and race track at Occoneechee Farm
• Lyon, R. E. 1 entry, 1890
  • by August 23, 1890: R. E. Lyon prepares to open a granite quarry near Hillsborough
• Lyon, Zachariah 2 entries, 1856–1863
  • November Term 1856: The court binds Charles Day, a free boy of color, to Dr. B. L. Durham
  • late May 1863: The county court sets up commissioners to direct the Soldiers' Fund
• Lyons, Amy 1 entry, 1969
  • February 23 – March 21, 1969: UNC food workers' strike
• Lyons, J. Coriden 1 entry, 1941
  • January to February 28, 1941: The university hosts 108 South American students in its Winter-Summer School
• Lytle, Archibald 1 entry, 1784
  • November 1784: Orange County citizens petition to bar members of the Society of the Cincinnati from the Assembly
• Lytle, Catherine 1 entry, 1797
  • December 13, 1797: Catherine Lytle names lawyer William Norwood as the father of her child
• Lytle, Robert 1 entry, 1770
  • September 30, 1770: Hillsborough's leading men write to Governor Tryon for protection after the riot
• Lytle, William 9 entries, 1787–1798
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  • February 27, 1787: The county court appoints John Nichols high sheriff of Orange County
  • March 1, 1787: The court orders a bridge over the Eno at the ford near Hillsborough
  • May Term 1787: The court orders a public bridge over the Eno at the Town Ford
  • May 28, 1788: The court names men to oversee the Town Ford bridge and sets a seven-year repair term
  • 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
  • July 1794: A called court discharges Moses, a man enslaved by William Mangom, when no one proves the charge
  • August 25, 1795: A jury convicts Isaac, a man enslaved by William Lytle, on a charge the minutes do not name
  • February Term 1798: The court pays for the register's books and has John Estes's indexing valued