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

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Nahas, Damon 2 entries, 1981–2024
- 1981 to present: UNC women’s soccer builds a national dynasty
- August 11, 2024: Anson Dorrance announces his retirement as UNC women's soccer coach
Nanney, Hugh 1 entry, 1948
- October 21, 1948: Chapel Hill and Carrboro young men organize a Junior Chamber of Commerce
May be the same person as Nanney, Hugh F.
Nanney, Hugh F. 1 entry, 1948
- May 24, 1948: The Bank of Chapel Hill opens a branch bank in Carrboro
May be the same person as Nanney, Hugh
Nash, Abner 9 entries, 1762–1783

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Nash, Ann Strudwick 1 entry, 1964
- January 24, 1964: The Hillsborough Historical Society presents Ladies in the Making, a history of the Nash and Kollock School
Nash, Annie 1 entry, 1829
- 1829: Eliza Hasell sells her West Queen Street house to Samuel Simpson of New Bern
Nash, Annie S. 1 entry, 1921
- 1921: Alexander H. Graham acquires the Hasell-Nash House on West Queen Street
Nash, Arnold S. 1 entry, 1964
- December 7, 1964: The UNC chapter of the AAUP sends its report on the speaker ban to the chancellor, not the press
Nash, Arthur 1 entry, 1927
- fall 1927: Zeta Psi moves into a new brick house on Cameron Avenue
Nash, Arthur Cleveland 34 entries, 1919–1969

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Nash, Francis 26 entries, 1754–1938

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Nash, Frank 29 entries, 1894–1953

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Nash, Frederick 50 entries, 1787–1907

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Nash, Mrs. Frederick 1 entry, 1818
- about 1818: Mrs. Frederick Nash plants the double row of cedars that forms Hillsborough's Cedar Walk
Nash, Frederick 1 entry, 1867

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- July 17, 1867: Cicero M. Faucett is confirmed as clerk of the Bureau office at Hillsborough
Nash, Frederick, Jr. 1 entry, 1866
- April 23, 1866: Frederick Nash Jr. is brought home from a prison burying ground and reburied at Hillsborough
Nash, Henry K. 1 entry, 1897
- November 3-4, 1897: Former Orange legislator Henry K. Nash Sr. dies and is buried from St. Matthew's
Nash, Henry Kollock 30 entries, 1829–1883

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Nash, Maria 5 entries, 1859–1926

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Nash, Mary 2 entries, 1803–1829
- November 26, 1803: Women of New Bern give the university a quadrant
- 1829: Eliza Hasell sells her West Queen Street house to Samuel Simpson of New Bern
Nash, Mary S. A. 1 entry, 1926
- 1926: Nash builds his own house in Chapel Hill
Nash, Mary Simpson 1 entry, 1820
- about 1820: A Federal house is built on West Queen Street for Eliza Hasell
Nash, Rebecca 1 entry, 1865
- October 9, 1865: Job Berry buys an acre on South Wake Street
Nash, Sally 1 entry, 1859
- 1859: The Nash and Kollock School turns the old Nash law office into a music room
May be the same person as Nash, Sally K.
Nash, Sally K. 1 entry, 1926
- 1926: Former students place a memorial tablet to the Nash sisters and Sarah Kollock in the Presbyterian church
May be the same person as Nash, Sally
Nash, Samuel S. 1 entry, 1924
- August 24, 1924: St. Matthew's Church celebrates the hundredth anniversary of its organization
Nash, Sarah 2 entries, 1859–1891
- July 15, 1859: Nash and Kollock School for young ladies opens in Hillsborough
- 1891: Nash and Kollock School closes as a boarding school
Nash, Shepard K. 2 entries, 1846–1847
- June 20, 1846: Volunteers of the 47th Regiment draw lots and organize John Cameron's company
- January 16, 1847: The Orange Volunteers dine at the Hillsborough House and elect John Cameron captain
Nash, Thomas 1 entry, 1775
- April 3, 1775: Orange County sends Thomas Burke, John Kinchen and Francis Nash to the second Provincial Congress
Nash, William 2 entries, 1795–1802
- November 26, 1795: William Nash gives a bastardy bond for Alsey Murphey's child
- August 1802 (court term): The court orders William Nash to pay Alsey Murphey the whole support award at once
Nash, William T. 1 entry, 1899
- August 15, 1899: Hillsborough men organize Myrtle Lodge of the Knights of Pythias
Nassif, Joe 1 entry, 1969
- May 12, 1969: Howard Lee takes the oath as mayor of Chapel Hill at Town Hall
Nassif, Joseph 1 entry, 1969
- April 30, 1969: Mayoral and aldermanic candidates answer questions at the Institute of Government
Nathan, Marx 1 entry, 1947
- July 1947: Dr. S. A. Nathan opens the Curve Inn, a curb-service stand on Strowd Hill
Nathan, S. A. 51 entries, 1920–1952

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Nation, Christopher 1 entry, 1768
- October 3, 1768: Tryon pardons the 1768 protesters except thirteen named leaders
Naumoff, Lawrence 1 entry, 1967
- 1967–1986: Max Steele directs the UNC Creative Writing Program
Navy, United States 1 entry, 1942
- May 1942–October 1945: Navy Pre-Flight School operates at UNC
Neal, Alice 1 entry, 1923
- October 3, 1923: Parents reorganize the Parent-Teacher Association at the Orange County Training School
Neal, Bill 2 entries, 1982–2021

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Neal, George C. 1 entry, 1934
- By June 7, 1934: The Hillsboro Production Credit Association reports crop loans to 441 farmers
Neal, Jim 1 entry, 2008
- January 24, 2008: Senate candidate Jim Neal speaks to students in Gardner Hall
Neal, W. A. 1 entry, 1944
- September 16, 1944: Hillsboro's express office moves from King Street to the railroad depot
Neal, W. B. 1 entry, 1925
- December 1, 1925: W. B. Neal sells the Hill Bakery to Charles B. Guthrie and W. V. Stuart
May be the same person as Neal, William B.
Neal, Mrs. W. B. 1 entry, 1943
- by July 9, 1943: The Hill Bakery stops selling at its shop to bake for the military units
Neal, Walter H. 1 entry, 1902
- March 10-12, 1902: Van Fuller gets thirty years for burning S. P. Kirkpatrick's barn
Neal, William B. 1 entry, 1921
- 1921: William B. Neal opens the Hill Bakery in Chapel Hill
May be the same person as Neal, W. B.
Near, Holly 1 entry, 1984
- October 24, 1984: About 300 people rally on campus against anti-gay hate mail sent to university faculty
Neathery, John B. 2 entries, 1861–1871
- by May 29, 1861: The university catalogue counts 376 students for 1860-61
- February 24, 1871: Impeachment court admits Holden's 1870 letters with Pride Jones on the Orange Klan
Ned 1 entry, 1794
- February Term 1794: The court licenses three men enslaved by Richard Bennehan to carry guns
Ned 1 entry, 1814
- August Term 1814: A jury acquits Ned, an enslaved man, of murdering Robert Grisham
Needham, James 1 entry, 1674
- May or June 1674: Gabriel Arthur leaves his trade goods at the Eno town
Neikirk, Joe 1 entry, 2004
- November 5, 2004: A Charlie Justice monument is dedicated at UNC's Kenan Football Center
Neil, Robert 1 entry, 1790
- November Term 1790: The court binds Ezekiel and Chia Revill, two children of color, to Robert Neil
Neill, Rolfe 1 entry, 1986
- October 12, 1986: UNC gives Jeff MacNelly its Distinguished Alumnus Award
Nelson, David 1 entry, 1823
- July 4, 1823: Citizens near Murphey's mills hold a Fourth of July muster, oration and dinner
Nelson, Hermelene 1 entry, 1918
- October 1918: A Black committee of the women's Liberty Loan organization raises $1,350 in Hillsborough Township
Nelson, John K. 1 entry, 2003
- September 19-21, 2003: Orange County Episcopalians celebrate 250 years of Anglican witness
Nelson, Michael 3 entries, 1994–1997
- September 13, 1994: Carrboro Board of Aldermen adopts a domestic partnership registry
- June 6, 1995: Carrboro votes to pay for domestic partner coverage in its employee health plan
- June 3, 1997: Mayor Mike Nelson proclaims June Lesbian and Gay Pride Month in Carrboro
Nelson, Mike 20 entries, 1987–2009

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Nelson, Thomas 1 entry, 1794
- May Term 1794: The court orders Thomas Nelson to bring in the child Patty Williams says he took from her
Nelson, William 10 entries, 1833–1854

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Nettleton 1 entry, 1832
- autumn 1832: The evangelist Nettleton preaches in Chapel Hill and a revival follows
Neville, Calvin 1 entry, 2013
- 2013: Ethel Fuller Neville dies at 99 in the stone house on Cobb Street
Neville, Claude 1 entry, 1915
- about 1915 (the report's essay says the 1920s): Claude and Ola Neville build a foursquare farmhouse on their dairy farm
Neville, Dave 1 entry, 1961
- Late June 1961: Workmen begin tearing down Dave Neville's old store at Main Street and the railroad
Neville, E. W. 1 entry, 1910
- May 10, 1910: A Christian Church congregation is organized in Chapel Hill
Neville, Eric 2 entries, 1935–1941
- mid-1930s: Standard Oil builds a Spanish Revival service station on West Main Street
- March 24, 1941: Carrboro softball players start a drive to light a softball field
May be the same person as Neville, Eric A.
Neville, Eric A. 1 entry, 1954
- April 1954: The county school board buys nine acres in Carrboro for a new school
May be the same person as Neville, Eric
Neville, Ethel Fuller 2 entries, 1944–2013
- September 13, 1944: Jeter and Ethel Neville buy a corner lot at Cobb and Broad streets in Carrboro
- 2013: Ethel Fuller Neville dies at 99 in the stone house on Cobb Street
Neville, Eugene 1 entry, 1974
- 1974: Antioch Baptist Church opens a new sanctuary
Neville, Jean 1 entry, 1958
- June 12, 1958: The Carrboro Festival raises money for the Carrboro Cubs with banjo player George Pegram
Neville, Jesse 2 entries, 1793–1797
- July 1793: Orange County leads the state in pledges to the university
- 1797: James O'Kelly organizes Damascus Christian Church
Neville, Jeter 3 entries, 1944–2013
- September 13, 1944: Jeter and Ethel Neville buy a corner lot at Cobb and Broad streets in Carrboro
- 1945: Black mason John Wesley Campbell and his sons build the stone Neville House in Carrboro
- 2013: Ethel Fuller Neville dies at 99 in the stone house on Cobb Street
Neville, Ola 1 entry, 1915
- about 1915 (the report's essay says the 1920s): Claude and Ola Neville build a foursquare farmhouse on their dairy farm
Neville, Sophie 1 entry, 1905
- March 13-15, 1905: Sophie Neville pleads guilty to manslaughter in her father's death
Neville, Stacy 1 entry, 1935
- mid-1930s: Standard Oil builds a Spanish Revival service station on West Main Street
Neville, W. D. 1 entry, 1926
- October 22, 1926: Carrboro merchant W. D. Neville dies
Neville, Mrs. W. D. 1 entry, 1955
- by October 6, 1955: The Calvander Grange buys land for a community center
Nevilles, Bryant 1 entry, 1860
- about 1860; bungalow 1926: A one-room log house goes up on the Bryant Nevilles farm near White Cross
Nevilles, Jesse 1 entry, 1924
- 1924 and 1925: Jesse Nevilles builds a cow barn and milking barn on the family farm
Nevilles, Lacy 1 entry, 1924
- 1924 and 1925: Jesse Nevilles builds a cow barn and milking barn on the family farm
Nevils, Willis M. 1 entry, 1878
- by August 31, 1878: Chapel Hill's A.M.E. Sunday school reorganizes under new officers
Newbold, N. C. 3 entries, 1917–1935

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Newcomb, Robinson Eli 1 entry, 1927
- Spring 1927: Chase has an institute researcher's study of Winston-Salem Black businesses destroyed
Newcomer, Mrs. Earl H. 1 entry, 1942
- October 12, 1942: A cooperative community kindergarten opens at the Presbyterian church
Newell, G. F. 1 entry, 1945
- May 31, 1945: Hillsboro's high school for Black students holds its 1945 commencement
Newell, Jake F. 2 entries, 1932–1938
- March 26, 1932: Orange County Republicans meet in Hillsboro and endorse Hoover
- August 4, 1938: Descendants of Thomas Lloyd and John T. Hogan hold a joint reunion in Hillsboro
Newlin, Daniel 1 entry, 1818
- 1818: Mount Carmel Baptist Church ordains Abner W. Clopton to the ministry
Newlin, John 5 entries, 1821–1860
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Newman, John 2 entries, 1787–1863
- about 1787: A one-story Federal house is built on West Queen Street, later the John Newman House
- mid-1860s: John Newman acquires the old Federal house on West Queen Street that his family keeps for generations
Newman, Lawrence 2 entries, 1962
- November 6, 1962: Democrats carry Orange County's general election as Republicans gain ground
- October 1, 1962: Orange County Republicans open a county headquarters in Chapel Hill
Newman, W. H. 3 entries, 1885–1894
- May 4, 1885: Hillsborough elects editor Joseph A. Harris mayor
- October 29 and 31, 1892: Hillsborough's mayor resigns and the town board fills the office twice in three days
- May 7, 1894: Hillsborough elects former Republican postmaster N. W. Brown mayor
May be the same person as Newman, William H.; Newman, William Henry
Newman, William H. 1 entry, 1886
- May 3, 1886: D. C. Parks is elected a Hillsborough town commissioner
May be the same person as Newman, W. H.; Newman, William Henry
Newman, William Henry 1 entry, 1863
- mid-1860s: John Newman acquires the old Federal house on West Queen Street that his family keeps for generations
May be the same person as Newman, W. H.; Newman, William H.
Newmark, Steve 1 entry, 2025
- July 1, 2025: UNC extends Bubba Cunningham's contract and names his successor as athletics director
Newsom, Cookie 1 entry, 2004
- March 29-April 2, 2004: The Residence Hall Association's Writing on the Wall puts slurs on public display
Newsome, Albert Ray 6 entries, 1923–1940

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Newsome, C. G. 1 entry, 1972
- February 8-10, 1972: The BSM holds its first Black History Week
Newsome, Tempe 1 entry, 1936
- by January 31, 1936: University women students organize a Young Women's Christian Association
Newton, C. C. 2 entries, 1887–1888
- by January 15, 1887: C. C. Newton accepts the pastorate of the Hillsborough Baptist church
- November 1888: Rev. G. W. Harman accepts the pastorate of the Hillsborough Baptist church
Newton, Mrs. Maurice E. 1 entry, 1950
- December 1950: The Junior Service League's Empty Stocking Fund brings Christmas aid to 777 people across the county
Newton, R. Z. 1 entry, 1953
- October 31-November 1, 1953: The Methodist conference sends new pastors to four Orange County charges
Newton, Wesley J. 1 entry, 1878
- August 6, 1878: Methodist trustees buy a Franklin Street lot from Thomas A. and Zoa A. Long
Ng, Amy 1 entry, 2002
- May 7, 2002: UNC public health students complete a community study of Fairview
Ngema, Mbongeni 1 entry, 1991
- January 22, 1991: The touring company of Sarafina! performs in Memorial Hall
Nichol, Gene 2 entries, 2001–2004
- 2001: UNC's School of Law founds the Center for Civil Rights with Julius Chambers as its first director
- October 22, 2004: Allan Gurganus is to speak at the Festival for a Better Future rally on McCorkle Place
Nichols, Bobby 1 entry, 1964
- July 23, 1964: Arrowhead Farms partners Bill Ray and Bobby Nichols sell off their dairy herd
Nichols, D. J. 1 entry, 1905
- August 11, 1905: Superior court convicts J. Knapp Horner of killing Deputy Sheriff Nichols
Nichols, D. Joseph 1 entry, 1904
- September 9, 1904: Deputy Sheriff Joseph Nichols is shot dead serving a warrant
Nichols, James 10 entries, 1888–1907

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Nichols, John 3 entries, 1787–1886
- February 27, 1787: The county court appoints John Nichols high sheriff of Orange County
- by August 23, 1879: The revenue stamp office reopens at Durham with John Nichols as deputy collector
- November 2, 1886: Orange voters elect the Democratic county ticket but send Republicans to the legislature
Nichols, John T. 1 entry, 1888
- November 6, 1888: Orange County gives Cleveland and Fowle majorities and re-elects Sheriff John K. Hughes
Nichols, Jonathan 1 entry, 1859
- 1859: New Bethel Methodist Church is organized
Nichols, Joseph 1 entry, 1850
- 1850: Builder John Berry holds 44 enslaved people, most working in his building trade
Nichols, Richard 1 entry, 1845
- February 1, 1845: Lemuel Lynch becomes Hillsborough's first mayor
Nichols, Richardson 1 entry, 1835
- February 7, 1835: Hillsborough elects its magistrate of police and town commissioners
Nichols, Richeson 3 entries, 1844–1848
- February 3, 1844: Hillsborough elects Richeson Nichols magistrate of police
- January 1847: Hillsborough's town commissioners have the market house moved
- November 18, 1848: Hugh Waddell contests John Berry's election to the state Senate
Nichols, Richison 1 entry, 1888
- about 1888: The old Spencer inn changes hands and gains a two-story street piazza
Nichols, Robert 2 entries, 1945–1947
- June 26, 1945: Orange County's wartime farm transportation committee holds its last meeting
- December 9, 1947: Fire destroys the Farmers Exchange livestock market near Hillsborough
Nichols, Robert B., Jr. 1 entry, 1962
- March 17, 1962: Bobby Nichols of Cedar Grove is named North Carolina's Outstanding Young Farmer
Nichols, Stephen 1 entry, 1853
- February 16, 1853: The Hillsborough Fire Company reorganizes and elects Thomas Webb captain
Nichols, William 11 entries, 1788–1826

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Nicholson, Bessie M. 1 entry, 1975
- August 10, 1975: Rev. Theodore C. Nicholson begins a 41-year pastorate at Jones Grove
Nicholson, George E., III 8 entries, 1966

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Nicholson, Theodore C. 1 entry, 1975
- August 10, 1975: Rev. Theodore C. Nicholson begins a 41-year pastorate at Jones Grove
Nicholson, William T. 1 entry, 1857
- June 2 and 3, 1857: Freshman and sophomore declaimers compete at commencement, and Governor Bragg gives a composition prize
Nickerson, Stella 2 entries, 1967–2000

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Nicks, S. F. 4 entries, 1923–1946
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Niebuhr, Reinhold 1 entry, 1941
- April 6 to 11, 1941: University holds its sixth Human Relations Institute on the war and democracy
Nielsen, Francois 1 entry, 2005
- March 3, 2005: Biologist Joan Roughgarden lectures on sexual diversity in nature in the Great Hall
Nimocks, Q. K. 2 entries, 1949
- June 1949: The grand jury again finds the courthouse unfit for county business
- March 21-24, 1949: The grand jury and Judge Nimocks call the courthouse the worst in the state
Niven, W. E. 1 entry, 1951
- May 27, 1951: Orange County Negro Public Library dedicates its own building
Niven, Mrs. W. E. 3 entries, 1952–1955
- by November 13, 1952: The Hyconeechee Regional Library gets a new bookmobile
- September 1953: Hyconeechee Regional Library begins lending 16mm films to clubs and groups
- by August 25, 1955: Hyconeechee Regional Library reports its Orange County service
Niven, Mrs. W. K. 1 entry, 1958
- by April 1958: An Interlibrary Center at Wilson Library takes over lending to North Carolina libraries
Noah, G. A. 1 entry, 1928
- by December 7, 1928: Five planes are based in the new hangar at the airport north of Chapel Hill
May be the same person as Noah, George; Noah, George A.
Noah, George 2 entries, 1928–1931
- by July 27, 1928: Aviators lease Martindale's field and begin carrying passengers
- September 1931: George Noah buys C. H. Weaver's dairy farm and stocks it with a new herd
May be the same person as Noah, G. A.; Noah, George A.
Noah, George A. 1 entry, 1928
- By June 1928: Contractor Charlie Lee Martindale opens an airfield north of Chapel Hill
May be the same person as Noah, G. A.; Noah, George
Noble, Alice 10 entries, 1917–1954

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Noble, Alice 1 entry, 1954

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- August 1954: Two forgotten graves in a Noble Street backyard come to light
Noble, M. C. S. 38 entries, 1898–1942

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Noble, M. C. S., Jr. 1 entry, 1932
- July 14-15, 1932: The state Conference on Elementary Education meets in Chapel Hill on schools in the Depression
Noell, F. Lloyd 1 entry, 1958
- December 1, 1958: County commissioners begin new terms and name F. Lloyd Noell recorder's court solicitor
Noell, J. W. 1 entry, 1931
- January 14-16, 1931: Seventh Newspaper Institute meets at Chapel Hill
Nolen, John 4 entries, 1915–1919
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Nonini, Don 1 entry, 1991
- March 22, 1991: Herbert Aptheker returns to speak at UNC in Greenlaw Hall
Norberg, Scott 1 entry, 1981
- April 29, 1981: Student government gives the Carolina Gay Association its first office
Norcom, T. J. 2 entries, 1887
- late October 1887: T. J. Norcom's new boys' school at Hillsborough closes when its teacher leaves
- October 11, 1887: T. J. Norcom opens a boys' school in the Hillsborough academy building
Norfleet, Catharine 1 entry, 1911
- by September 14, 1911: N. E. West becomes principal of the Hillsboro High School
Norflett, Linda Kerr 1 entry, 1972
- summer 1972: Ebony Expressions stages Tambourines to Glory, Chapel Hill's first Black community theatre production
Norris, June 2 entries, 1984
- November 26 to 30, 1984: The Carolina Gay Association holds a fall Gay Awareness Week with a talk by Tom Chorlton
- April 2 to 6, 1984: The Carolina Gay Association holds Gay Awareness Week on the theme Gay Visions of a New World
North, W. B. 2 entries, 1889
- February 22, 1889: The Orange County Sunday School Convention meets at Hillsborough
- April 1889 to February 1891: Seven Black members are moved from the Methodist roll to the new Congregational church, then restored
North, W. E. 1 entry, 1890
- by August 2, 1890: W. E. North leaves the Chapel Hill Methodist pulpit for the St. Louis Conference
Norton, Eleanor Holmes 1 entry, 1986
- March 25-27, 1986: UNC holds its first Black Women's Leadership Symposium
Norwood 1 entry, 1901
- May 7, 1901: Hillsborough elects Mayor Norwood and a five-member town board under its amended charter
Norwood 1 entry, 1901
- May 30, 1901: Mayor Norwood breaks a tie to license Hillsborough's three saloons for another year
Norwood, Alves 1 entry, 1864
- June 15, 1864: The Orange Guards lose Alves Norwood near Petersburg, and Hillsborough buries him
Norwood, Button 1 entry, 1928
- by March 2, 1928: W. C. Coker lays off the Buttons residence colony, named for Button Norwood
Norwood, E. G. 1 entry, 1913
- 1913: The Braxton Craig House on McCauley Street is sold to E. G. Norwood
Norwood, Ed 1 entry, 1956
- June 22, 1956: The Carrboro Cubs stage a folk festival at the Lions park
Norwood, Hasell 1 entry, 1854
- March 1, 1854: Hillsborough meeting resolves to build a plank road to Milton
Norwood, Hazel 1 entry, 1873
- August 8, 1873: The Board of Education appoints Hazel Norwood county examiner
Norwood, James 3 entries, 1885–1892
- by August 3, 1885: John Wall Norwood, an elder of the Hillsborough Presbyterian Church for half a century, dies
- May 21, 1889: Hillsborough men organize the Orange Cattle Club
- August 17, 1892: Orange County Democrats hold their county convention and name a ticket
May be the same person as Norwood, James H.
Norwood, James H. 2 entries, 1844–1889
- by December 3, 1844: Hillsborough Academy appoints the Rev. John Witherspoon principal
- July 5, 1889: The Orange County Farmers' Alliance elects S. T. Forrest president and keeps W. V. Andrews as secretary
May be the same person as Norwood, James
Norwood, John 1 entry, 1836
- 1836-1884: John Norwood begins forty-eight years as clerk of the Hillsborough Presbyterian session
Norwood, John Wall 49 entries, 1815–1885

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Norwood, Joseph C. 2 entries, 1841–1854
- August 5, 1841: Orange County voters re-elect Joseph C. Norwood and John Taylor as court clerks
- 1854: Judge John L. Bailey buys the Norwood house south of the Eno and names it Eno Lodge
Norwood, Margaret Y. 1 entry, 1885
- by August 3, 1885: John Wall Norwood, an elder of the Hillsborough Presbyterian Church for half a century, dies
Norwood, Mayor 1 entry, 1902
- by September 11, 1902: Mayor Norwood surfaces Hillsborough's sidewalks and crossings with crushed stone
Norwood, Nathaniel 1 entry, 1821
- 22 September 1821: Elizabeth Witsman names Nathaniel Norwood as the father of a second child
Norwood, Thomas F. 1 entry, 1879
- July 7, 1879: Chapel Hill merchant Thomas F. Norwood dies
Norwood, Walter A. 9 entries, 1828–1850

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Norwood, William 27 entries, 1784–1842

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Norwood, William A. 2 entries, 1850–1851
- September-October 1850: Railroad engineers survey the North Carolina Railroad routes near Hillsborough
- March 22, 1851: Hillsborough citizens meet to bring the railroad through town on the north side of the river
Norwood, Zona 1 entry, 1987
- December 1, 1987: Eleanor Kinnaird is sworn in as mayor of Carrboro
Novak, Anne 1 entry, 2015
- October 8, 2015: State highway marker honoring Carl T. Durham is dedicated at N.C. 54 and Carl Durham Road
Nowell, Danny 1 entry, 2021
- December 7, 2021: Carrboro honors Lydia Lavelle as Damon Seils is sworn in as mayor
Nunn, Betsy 2 entries, 1795–1805
- 1795: William Nunn buys James Patterson's inn and adds a tavern
- about 1805: Betsy Nunn carries on the tavern and inn after her husband's death
Nunn, Calvin 1 entry, 1943
- by February 19, 1943: Civilian Defense gives arm bands to twelve Black volunteer fire-fighters in Chapel Hill
Nunn, Elizabeth 2 entries, 1851
- 1851: Isaac J. Collier finishes a house for Elizabeth Nunn
- December 20, 1851: Elizabeth Nunn, who boarded students for fifty years, dies
Nunn, Helen R. 1 entry, 1981
- March 20-21, 1981: Delta Sigma Theta holds a workshop on the Black woman at the Carolina Union
Nunn, Ilai 1 entry, 1826
- July 4, 1826: Chapel Hill celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of independence
Nunn, Laura 1 entry, 1905
- about 1905: Sam Nunn and neighbors raise the last recorded log house in the township
Nunn, Madison 1 entry, 1898
- March 21-22, 1898: Superior court convicts Chapel Hill men of selling liquor without a license
Nunn, Sam 1 entry, 1905
- about 1905: Sam Nunn and neighbors raise the last recorded log house in the township
Nunn, Van 1 entry, 1923
- by October 25, 1923: Van Nunn completes a new store on Rosemary Street
Nunn, W. N. 1 entry, 1938
- October 30, 1938: Nunn's Chapel Baptist Church is organized
Nunn, William 13 entries, 1752–1922

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Nutter, Bob 1 entry, 1996
- 1996: Maple View Farm builds a creamery and begins bottling its own milk
Nutter, Roger 1 entry, 1996
- 1996: Maple View Farm builds a creamery and begins bottling its own milk
Nyang'oro, Julius Edo 1 entry, 1985

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Nye, Gerald P. 1 entry, 1941
- November 18, 1941: Senator Gerald Nye attacks the President's foreign policy in Memorial Hall
Nye, Kemp 2 entries, 1958–1966
- 1958: Kemp Nye opens Kemp's Phonograph Records on East Franklin Street
- 1966: Fire destroys Kemp Nye's record store on East Franklin Street
Nygard, Holger 1 entry, 1966

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Nygard, J. Wallace 1 entry, 1938
- April 1938: UNC field work director George H. Lawrence reports the Efland Home's conditions as appalling
Nygard, Margaret 2 entries, 1966–1973

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