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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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• Pace, Clifford 3 entries, 1946
  • October 13, 1946: The Institute of Government's first State Highway Patrol school opens in Chapel Hill
  • December 7, 1946: Forty-four graduates of the Institute's Patrol school are sworn in as state troopers
  • Summer 1946: The Institute builds a Highway Patrol training camp on Raleigh Road
• Padgett, C. E. 1 entry, 1946
  • week of September 29, 1946: Former Marines charter the John Umstead post of the Marine Corps League in Chapel Hill
• Pagano, Joseph S. 1 entry, 1975
  • 1975: UNC Lineberger Cancer Center is established
• Pagano, Nancy Reynolds 1 entry, 1984
  • 1984: Nancy Reynolds Pagano becomes the first woman ordained at the Chapel of the Cross
• Page, Charles H. 1 entry, 1946
  • November 26, 1946: The state elections board certifies James Webb as senator after a ballot omission protest
• Page, Dudley 1 entry, 1859
  • November Term 1859: The court binds Dudley Page, a free boy of color, to John Strayhorn to learn blacksmithing
• Page, Estelle Lawson 1 entry, 1937

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• Page, Evelyn 1 entry, 1933
  • by August 18, 1933: The National Re-Employment Service opens Orange County offices in Hillsborough and Chapel Hill
• Page, Frank 3 entries, 1919–1928
  • by June 19, 1919: The highway commission takes up an experimental pavement from Chapel Hill to the Durham line
  • November 21, 1921: A Hillsborough mass meeting resolves to fight the State Highway Commission's route north of the courthouse
  • June 9, 1928: Clarence Pickard opens a Home Pride cash-and-carry grocery
• Page, Henrietta E. Collins 1 entry, 1862
  • November 1862: The Collins family buys the former Burwell School and calls it the Beehive
• Page, Henry A. 1 entry, 1917
  • September 20, 1917: J. Cheshire Webb is named Orange County's food administrator
• Page, J. A. 7 entries, 1927–1934
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  • April 19, 1927: Chapel Hill aldermen act on protests over Kenan Stadium blasting
  • by August 16, 1929: Builders begin remaking the old Carnegie library into the music building
  • week of October 12, 1931: Work begins on the University's dam and reservoir on Morgan Creek
  • December 1933 to January 1934: Civil Works crews clear and grade a new University athletic field on the Raleigh road
  • November 23 to December 1, 1933: Civil Works crews start $137,000 of projects in Orange County
  • November 1933: George H. Lawrence becomes Orange County's Civil Works administrator
  • August 1934: Architect H. D. Carter becomes supervisor of Orange County relief projects
• Page, Joe 3 entries, 1958–1964
  • 1958: Joe Page becomes sole owner of Ledbetter-Pickard Stationery
  • May 8, 1961: McClamroch is sworn in as mayor and Joe Page is named to his aldermen seat
  • February 10, 1964: Chapel Hill aldermen vote to limit picketing to daytime hours
• Page, Walter 1 entry, 1891
  • October 14, 1891: George T. Winston is inaugurated as president of the University of North Carolina
• Pain, James 1 entry, 1752
  • 1752: The act creating Orange County names James Watson a boundary commissioner and vestryman
• Paine, Gregory Lansing 1 entry, 1950
  • February 19, 1950: UNC English professor emeritus Gregory L. Paine is buried in Chapel Hill
• Paine, James 1 entry, 1803
  • May Term 1803: The court binds out Anderson Izzard after his father leaves the family
• Paine, John 2 entries, 1776
  • October 15, 1776: Crowds force the Orange County polls to close four times in the election for the fifth Provincial Congress
  • April 22, 1776: The Provincial Congress divides the Orange County militia into Northern and Southern regiments
• Painter, Nell 2 entries, 1980–1983
  • November 1980: An Afro-American Studies panel weighs what the 1980 election means for Black Americans
  • January 16, 1983: ABC News anchor Max Robinson gives the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture
• Painter, Nell Irvin 1 entry, 1981
  • by August 1981: Historian Nell Irvin Painter wins a Guggenheim fellowship
• Paisley, John 1 entry, 1845
  • August 12, 1845: Rev. John Paisley, pastor of Fairfield and Eno, dies
• Paisley, Samuel 3 entries, 1816–1834
  • 1816 to 1834: Samuel Paisley begins an eighteen-year pastorate at Eno
  • 1821: A revival brings many new members into Eno Church
  • 1834: Fairfield Presbyterian Church is organized
• Paisley, William 2 entries, 1809–1812
  • January 1809: Grammar school under William Paisley opens west of Hillsborough
  • 1812 to 1814: John H. Pickard is principal of Hawfield Academy
• Paisley, William D. 7 entries, 1780–1819

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• Palmer, Calvin 1 entry, 1822
  • February 6, 1822: A coroner's jury finds John Bracken murdered at a still house near the High Rock Ford
• Palmer, Colin 3 entries, 1981–1984
  • February 1981: UNC approves new major requirements for Afro-American studies
  • spring 1983: The university librarian turns down an Afro-American Studies reading room in Davis Library
  • by November 1984: UNC adds two faculty positions to a fast-growing African and Afro-American Studies curriculum

  May be the same person as Palmer, Colin A.

• Palmer, Colin A. 4 entries, 1980–1985
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  • October 30, 1980: BSM and student government leaders object to parts of the new curriculum plan
  • July 1, 1980: Colin A. Palmer becomes co-chairman of Afro-American Studies
  • fall 1985: Afro-American Studies adds three instructors and new offices in Alumni Hall
  • 1984-85 school year: Afro-American Studies enrollment reaches about 2,000 students a year

  May be the same person as Palmer, Colin

• Palmer, Cristóbal 1 entry, 2025
  • November 18, 2025: Carrboro Town Council reaffirms support for immigrant communities and its 4th Amendment status
• Palmer, James 1 entry, 1835
  • February 7, 1835: Hillsborough elects its magistrate of police and town commissioners
• Palmer, James M. 11 entries, 1834–1865

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• Palmer, Martin 2 entries, 1787–1792
  • May Term 1787: The court orders a road laid off from the end of Queen Street to the Halifax road
  • 1792: Hillsborough builders add a Federal-style house at Cain's Pleasant Grove
• Palmer, Mary 1 entry, 1833
  • February Term 1833: The court takes Mary Revill, a child of color, from Thomas D. Watts and binds her to Mary Palmer

  May be the same person as Palmer, Mary A.

• Palmer, Mary A. 1 entry, 1834
  • by November 9, 1834: Mary A. and James M. Palmer buy the Union Hotel from Samuel Child

  May be the same person as Palmer, Mary

• Palmer, Nathaniel J. 4 entries, 1825–1854
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  • 1825: Sarah Grove buys lots 152 and 153 for $800
  • July 4, 1828: Hillsborough celebrates Independence Day with a procession, an oration and a Masonic Hall dinner
  • August 13, 1829: Daniel L. Barringer keeps the Hillsborough district seat in Congress over Orange's James A. Craig
  • March 1, 1854: Hillsborough meeting resolves to build a plank road to Milton

  May be the same person as Palmer, Nathaniel Jones

• Palmer, Nathaniel Jones 1 entry, 1825
  • December 1825: The House of Commons postpones the Franklin Library Society's request for a book lottery

  May be the same person as Palmer, Nathaniel J.

• Palmer, Robert 2 entries, 1768–1771

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• Palmer, Thomas 2 entries, 1822
  • February 6, 1822: A coroner's jury finds John Bracken murdered at a still house near the High Rock Ford
  • March 18-23, 1822: Superior court acquits Joseph Cook and sends Thomas Palmer's murder case to Guilford

  May be the same person as Palmer, Thomas C.

• Palmer, Thomas C. 1 entry, 1825
  • December 1825: The House of Commons postpones the Franklin Library Society's request for a book lottery

  May be the same person as Palmer, Thomas

• Palmquist, Ian 1 entry, 2005
  • March 1, 2005: About 500 people hold a vigil and speak-out and march to Top of the Hill after a Franklin Street attack
• Panther, Tommy 1 entry, 1950
  • January 9, 1950: Chapel Hill aldermen take up an anti-mask ordinance after a Klan organizer's threat
• Pardington, Mrs. E. D. 1 entry, 1959
  • July 1, 1959: The Chapel Hill Art Gallery opens on West Franklin Street
• Parham, E. W. 1 entry, 1932
  • by November 4, 1932: Official audit finds Orange County's net debt down $161,000 in four years
• Parham, Jack 1 entry, 1954
  • June 1954: Mount Adar dedicates its completed church
• Parham, K. W. 1 entry, 1928
  • by September 21, 1928: Audit finds the Chapel Hill school more than $23,000 in debt
• Parish, C. R. 1 entry, 1905
  • March 23, 1905: The Parish brothers' Hillsborough store fails

  May be the same person as Parish, Calvin R.

• Parish, Calvin E. 32 entries, 1857–1899

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• Parish, Calvin R. 4 entries, 1904–1907
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  • 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
  • January 17, 1907: County treasurer Calvin R. Parish dies in office

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

• Parish, Harry L. 23 entries, 1884–1913

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• Parish, Harry L. 1 entry, 1888

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  • November 27, 1888: Fire destroys the Parish and Berry buildings and the Recorder printing office in Hillsborough
• Parish, R. C. 1 entry, 1888
  • May 7, 1888: Hillsborough men kill a third mad dog in two weeks
• Parker, Abner 2 entries, 1835–1852
  • April 25, 1835: A Red Mountain meeting nominates Thomas Ruffin and Frederick Nash for the constitutional convention
  • September 17, 1852: Whigs hold a Scott and Graham mass meeting and barbecue at Hillsborough
• Parker, Africa 3 entries, 1799–1801
  • 1799 and 1800: A free Black distiller works on East King Street as the county counts its Black residents
  • February 27, 1800: The court grants Africa Parker, a free man of color, a license at his Hillsborough house for a purpose the minutes do not state
  • August 27, 1801: A jury finds Africa Parker did not escape the prison bounds
• Parker, D. S. 3 entries, 1889–1891
  • October 28 to November 1, 1889: Edwin A. Alderman holds a week's institute for Orange County's white teachers
  • June 3, 1889: Justices and commissioners elect a new board of education and school superintendent
  • July 6, 1891: The county Board of Education is sworn in and keeps W. V. Andrews as chairman

  May be the same person as Parker, Darius S.

• Parker, Darius S. 1 entry, 1906
  • August 11, 1906: Teacher Darius S. Parker dies in Cedar Grove Township

  May be the same person as Parker, D. S.

• Parker, David 3 entries, 1839–1841

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• Parker, E. S. 3 entries, 1892–1896
  • November 1, 1892: Orange County Democrats hold a mounted parade and rally at Hillsborough
  • October 8, 1896: Eighteenth District Democrats nominate E. S. Parker and leave a Senate seat for the Populists
  • by October 22, 1896: Eighteenth District Populists endorse E. S. Parker and name their own Senate candidate
• Parker, Freddie 1 entry, 1977
  • February 7-11, 1977: Chapel Hill High's Afro-American Club holds Black History Week
• Parker, G. W. 1 entry, 1891
  • 1891: J. Laws keeps a country store at Laws post office
• Parker, H. 2 entries, 1845–1947
  • May 27, 1845: An Orange County temperance convention asks the justices to shut down grog shops
  • Late February and early March 1947: Elmer R. Dowdy holds forestry thinning demonstrations for Schley farmers
• Parker, Harrison 17 entries, 1786–1865

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• Parker, Haywood 4 entries, 1919–1939
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  • June 1919: UNC trustees turn the campus's growth southward and call for a landscape plan
  • June 10, 1924: Trustees elect Merton L. Ferson dean of the law school
  • by July 20, 1928: Construction begins on a classroom building south of Murphey Hall
  • December 28, 1939: University trustees put off admitting local women to the freshman and sophomore classes
• Parker, J. Roy 6 entries, 1944–1948
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  • January 10, 1944: J. Roy Parker takes over the Chapel Hill News and renames it the News of Orange County
  • February 21, 1944: The News of Orange County opens its permanent office on Churton Street in Hillsborough
  • November 9, 1944: The News of Orange County prints its first issue on its own press in Hillsboro
  • August 19, 1946: Newspaperman W. B. Thompson dies at Chapel Hill
  • January 24, 1947: The News of Orange County wins the state press association's general excellence award
  • September 1, 1948: The News of Orange County is sold to E. J. Hamlin
• Parker, J. W. 1 entry, 1864
  • October 26, 1864: Ten enslaved people are offered for sale at the late Harrison Parker's home
• Parker, James N. 1 entry, 1892
  • September 3, 1892: Orange County Republicans hold their county convention
• Parker, Jane 10 entries, 1954–1961
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  • August 23, 1954: Jane Parker is named Orange County welfare superintendent
  • April 26, 1955: County commissioners vote more money for Aid to Dependent Children after weeks of dispute
  • week of November 28, 1955: Orange County commissioners decide the county does not need a county manager
  • late July 1955: The county has the Institute of Government classify its jobs and holds raises until it is done
  • by February 10, 1955: The county health department moves into the new courthouse basement
  • August 31, 1955: The county welfare department hires its first Black caseworker, Jessie Pearson
  • April 22, 1957: Jane Parker returns as Orange County welfare superintendent
  • by October 13, 1960: The Orange County ABC Board sets up a Council on Alcoholism
  • by November 24, 1960: Mrs. Creighton Bunn is named Orange County welfare superintendent
  • January 1961: Jane Parker retires as county welfare superintendent
• Parker, Jesse W. 1 entry, 1865
  • February Term 1865: The court binds Nancy Day, twelve, a girl of color, to John W. Roberts
• Parker, Jessie G. 2 entries, 1945–1946
  • May 17, 1945: Hillsboro citizens start a fund drive to restore the Nash-Kollock school as a community center
  • August 5, 1946: Hillsboro merchants are asked to raise $1,000 toward buying the Nash-Kollock building
• Parker, John 4 entries, 1864–1948
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  • April 12, 1864: Smallpox kills John Parker and his wife near Walnut Grove
  • August 5, 1938: John Parker becomes the first Black Orange County farmer to get a Farm Security Administration purchase loan
  • 1947: Architect James Webb moves to Chapel Hill to help start UNC's planning program
  • March 10, 1948: Chapel Hill aldermen create a permanent planning and zoning board
• Parker, John A. 5 entries, 1946–1974

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• Parker, John Arch 1 entry, 1945
  • January 20, 1945: John Arch Parker becomes the first Orange farmer to pay off a tenant-purchase farm
• Parker, John J. 4 entries, 1930–1953
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  • April 28, 1930: The university's Black janitors back John J. Parker's Supreme Court nomination
  • December 28, 1939: University trustees put off admitting local women to the freshman and sophomore classes
  • September 1940: UNC makes physical training compulsory for all men undergraduates
  • 1953: The Orange Printshop reprints Frank Nash's Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary
• Parker, John W. 1 entry, 1948
  • April 12-13, 1948: The Southeastern Theater Conference meets in Chapel Hill
• Parker, Karen Lynn 3 entries, 1963–2017

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• Parker, Kris 1 entry, 1991
  • February 26, 1991: KRS-One lectures in Memorial Hall
• Parker, L. W. 1 entry, 1907
  • May 1, 1907: The University Dramatic Club stages a student show
• Parker, Luther 1 entry, 1946
  • September 20, 1946: Orange County Republicans name a ticket and adopt a five-point platform

  May be the same person as Parker, Luther T.

• Parker, Luther T. 1 entry, 1946
  • March 25, 1946: Orange County Republicans elect George N. Harward chairman

  May be the same person as Parker, Luther

• Parker, Michael 1 entry, 1968
  • 1968–2009: Daphne Athas teaches creative writing at UNC
• Parker, Patricia 1 entry, 2020
  • February 2020: Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz formally charges the Commission on History, Race and a Way Forward
• Parker, Paul 2 entries, 1984
  • October-December 1984: Jim Heavner urges limits on sales at the UNC Student Stores
  • by August 1984: Student government moves the Carolina Gay Association's office out of Suite D of the Carolina Union
• Parker, R. Hunt 2 entries, 1932–1952
  • May 6-7, 1932: About two hundred officials organize and name the Institute of Government
  • March 21, 1952: A Superior Court jury acquits the man tried for the murder of Rachel Crook
• Parker, Randolph 1 entry, 1955
  • January 17, 1955: Randolph Parker sells Hillsborough's only shoe shop to Martin C. Irons
• Parker, Roland 1 entry, 1941
  • December 8 to 11, 1941: UNC students form the Carolina Volunteer Training Corps and the Library organizes a War Information Center

  May be the same person as Parker, Roland B.

• Parker, Roland B. 2 entries, 1942–1943
  • by September 25, 1942: T. J. Wilson Jr. becomes University archivist as Husbands, Armstrong and Parker take new posts
  • July 14, 1943: Chapel Hill aldermen let camera, bicycle and book shops open on Sunday afternoons

  May be the same person as Parker, Roland

• Parker, Sarah 2 entries, 1969–2013
  • February 23 – March 21, 1969: UNC food workers' strike
  • October 12, 2013: Carol Folt is installed as chancellor at Chapel Hill
• Parker, Solicitor 1 entry, 1891
  • August 10, 1891: Orange Superior Court opens its summer term under Judge R. W. Winston
• Parker, T. B. 5 entries, 1897–1905
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  • August 10-12, 1897: The Farmers' State Alliance meets at Hillsborough and elects John Graham president
  • February 1900: Thomas J. Oldham presides over the Orange branch of the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Association
  • the week of August 11, 1902: The State Farmers' Alliance meets at Hillsborough and moves its business office to Raleigh
  • July 21, 1905: A farmers' institute meets at the Hillsborough court house
  • early August 1905 (in session August 10): The State Farmers' Alliance offers its Hillsborough headquarters for an agricultural school

  May be the same person as Parker, Thomas B.

• Parker, Thomas B. 1 entry, 1906
  • mid-August 1906: The State Farmers' Alliance holds its twentieth annual session at the Barracks

  May be the same person as Parker, T. B.

• Parker, W. H. 3 entries, 1910–1917
  • 1910: Carrboro Methodist Church is organized
  • By January 1915: W. H. Parker serves as mayor of Carrboro
  • by October 18, 1917: S. Berman buys W. H. Parker's store stock in Carrboro

  May be the same person as Parker, William H.

• Parker, William H. 3 entries, 1904–1951
  • July 23, 1904: Republican county convention nominates P. Tinsley Cheek and D. S. Miller
  • March 3, 1911: Venable is incorporated
  • July 19, 1951: William H. Parker, a former Carrboro mayor, dies

  May be the same person as Parker, W. H.

• Parkhurst, A. J. 1 entry, 1940
  • by May 31, 1940: Chapel Hill school board names William H. Peacock high school principal
• Parkinson, L. R. 2 entries, 1940
  • by February 16, 1940: Civil Aeronautics Authority flight training begins at the Chapel Hill airport
  • by September 20, 1940: UNC buys four airplanes and widens its pilot training at the new airport
• Parks, Allen 2 entries, 1836
  • October 7, 1836: Hillsborough meeting sends Frederick Nash to the Salisbury railroad convention
  • March 15, 1836: Orange County Van Buren men meet at the court house
• Parks, Charles 2 entries, 1869–1895
  • 1869: The sheriff auctions the former Burwell School to David C. Parks
  • 1895: Dr. John S. Spurgeon buys the former Burwell School
• Parks, Charles M. 18 entries, 1869–1895

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• Parks, David 1 entry, 1858
  • June 24, 1858: Eagle Lodge Masons parade through Hillsborough for St. John the Baptist's Day
• Parks, David C. 26 entries, 1868–1917

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• Parks, James 2 entries, 1851–1892
  • February Term 1851: The court cancels Primrose King's indenture to James Parks and delivers him to his mother
  • October 29 and 31, 1892: Hillsborough's mayor resigns and the town board fills the office twice in three days
• Parks, North Carolina State 1 entry, 2025
  • January 2025: Occoneechee Speedway joins Eno River State Park
• Parks, W. Fletcher 1 entry, 1915
  • early January 1915: Hillsboro merchant W. Fletcher Parks dies
• Parnell, E. C. 1 entry, 1952
  • November 11, 1952: Carrboro commissioners keep Police Chief J. Alvin Williams after rival petitions
• Parris, C. B. 2 entries, 1944–1959
  • March 26, 1944: Hillsborough's new Civil Air Patrol squadron makes its first public parade
  • July 10, 1959: Duke Power opens its remodeled Hillsboro office on King Street
• Parris, Mrs. C. B. 1 entry, 1955
  • May 4, 1955: The Hillsboro Garden Club wins state honors for its beautification work
• Parris, D. C. 17 entries, 1885–1900

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• Parrish, C. E. 2 entries, 1880–1882
  • September 4, 1880: Orange Democrats nominate their county ticket at Hillsborough
  • October 18, 1882: Caldwell Democrats organize a Bennett and Cox Club

  May be the same person as Parrish, Calvin E.

• Parrish, Calvin E. 2 entries, 1878–1879
  • October 16, 1878: Orange Superior Court convicts three men of the Hendon burglary and sentences them to hang
  • April 11, 1879: Judge Buxton resentences the three Chapel Hill burglars to hang after the Supreme Court upholds their conviction

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

• Parrish, D. C. 5 entries, 1850–1878
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  • February 8, 1850: Orange railroad meeting names a committee to raise subscriptions
  • February 4, 1860: Flat River men organize the Flat River Guards
  • February 8, 1860: Orange Democrats meet at the court house and name delegates to the state convention
  • October 15, 1870: Durham citizens meet to mourn Robert E. Lee
  • May 6, 1878: Durham elects D. C. Parrish mayor and a new board of commissioners
• Parrish, Dorothy 1 entry, 1952
  • March 3, 1952: Caldwell women organize a home demonstration club
• Parrish, E. J. 4 entries, 1874–1890
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  • October 1874: Durham tobacco warehouses hold charity sales for the Oxford Orphan Asylum
  • May 6, 1878: Durham elects D. C. Parrish mayor and a new board of commissioners
  • August 29, 1879: E. J. Parrish's new tobacco warehouse opens at Durham
  • July 15-17, 1890: The Methodist Durham District Sunday School Conference meets at Hillsborough
• Parrish, Ted 2 entries, 1977–2023
  • November 8, 1977: Ted Parrish wins a seat on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board
  • October 17, 2023: EMPOWERment broke ground on PEACH apartments at the former Pine Knolls Community Center
• Parrish, William K. 2 entries, 1860–1862
  • February 4, 1860: Flat River men organize the Flat River Guards
  • June 27, 1862: Capt. William K. Parrish of the Flat River Guards is wounded at Gaines's Mill
• Parrish, Williamson 1 entry, 1854
  • May Term 1854: The court upholds Turner Hayes's binding to Williamson Parrish over Robert Laws's challenge
• Parrott, Hattie 1 entry, 1931
  • September 1931: The Orange County Council of Parent-Teacher Associations names a committee to find work for the unemployed
• Parrott, James M. 1 entry, 1931
  • 1931-32: State health officer James M. Parrott plans a Chapel Hill training school that would also serve as Orange County's health department
• Parsley, O. G. 2 entries, 1946–1948
  • November 18, 1946: Belle-Vue Manufacturing Company cuts its capital stock by $200,000
  • June 12, 1948: Belle-Vue Manufacturing Company gives service pins to 220 workers
• Parsons, James B. 2 entries, 1942–1943
  • October 15, 1942: The Pre-Flight School's Black Navy band holds a formal party at its community center quarters
  • August 15 to September 26, 1943: The Navy Pre-Flight band gives a summer series of public Sunday concerts
• Partin, Charles 2 entries, 1816–1817
  • August Term 1816: The court takes Emily Underhill from her master pending a hearing and gives her to her guardian
  • November Term 1817: The court pays Charles Partin for bridges over Ben's Creek and New Hope Creek
• Partin, Cliff 2 entries, 1880–1954
  • 1880s: The Neville Building, thought to be Carrboro's first store, goes up east of the depot
  • 1954: Carrboro's last general store closes
• Partin, Monroe 1 entry, 1905
  • about 1905: Sam Nunn and neighbors raise the last recorded log house in the township
• Partin, Wilbur 3 entries, 1880–1959
  • 1880s: The Neville Building, thought to be Carrboro's first store, goes up east of the depot
  • 1954: Carrboro's last general store closes
  • July 1959: The Carrboro Lions Club finishes its $12,000 clubhouse beside its ball park
• Partin, William 1 entry, 1797
  • May 25, 1797: The court orders Jethro Pettiford, a free boy of color offered for sale as though enslaved, returned to his mother
• Partridge, Isaac C. 2 entries, 1833–1837
  • 1833 to 1834: Isaac C. Partridge publishes The Harbinger
  • 1837: Isaac C. Partridge leaves Chapel Hill and his struggling University Hotel
• Paschal, John S. 1 entry, 1968
  • June 1968: John S. Paschal becomes the first full-time pastor of Orange Methodist Church
• Paschall, Bessie O. 1 entry, 1947
  • September 1, 1947: Five women are drawn for an Orange County jury
• Paschall, R. F. 1 entry, 1954
  • November 23, 1954: School committeemen form a county chapter and the board names a School Improvement Committee
• Pass, William H. 1 entry, 1859
  • 1859: New Bethel Methodist Church is organized
• Paton, David 2 entries, 1840

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• Patrick, David S. 1 entry, 1869
  • June 1869: The Pool faculty takes furniture from the society halls for their parlors
• Patrick, David Settle 2 entries, 1868–1869
  • 1868: Solomon Pool's new faculty move into the old professors' houses
  • November 12, 1869: Bursar reports the plundering of university property
• Patrick, George L. 1 entry, 1886
  • Thanksgiving Day 1886: Students hold the first of a series of gymnastic contests
• Patridge, Isaac C. 10 entries, 1832–1836

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• Patten, John 1 entry, 1775
  • September 1, 1775: Provincial Congress at Hillsborough names Alexander Martin lieutenant colonel of the Second North Carolina Regiment
• Patten, Walter 12 entries, 1914–1935

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• Patten, Mrs. Walter 1 entry, 1924
  • by June 13, 1924: The Community Club asks the aldermen to stop billboards in Chapel Hill
• Patterson 1 entry, 1890
  • April 7, 1890: Federal judge Dick discharges the revenue officers who killed Henry McMannen
• Patterson, A. C. 2 entries, 1890
  • the week of March 17, 1890: An Orange County grand jury indicts five revenue officers for the murder of Henry McMannen
  • February 25, 1890: Revenue officers kill Henry McMannen, a Black man, at his house in Little River township
• Patterson, Andrew Henry 13 entries, 1891–1928

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• Patterson, Andrew Henry 2 entries, 1917–1918

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• Patterson, B. D. 1 entry, 1887
  • by early October 1887: Whitfield and Brown begin rebuilding B. D. Patterson's mill on New Hope Creek
• Patterson, Castonia 1 entry, 1956
  • January 12, 1956: Black farm and school leaders form the Rural Activity Organization of Orange County
• Patterson, Daniel 1 entry, 1968
  • April 30, 1968: George Watts Hill Jr. is tapped as an honorary member of the Order of the Golden Fleece
• Patterson, Daniel W. 2 entries, 1968–1989

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• Patterson, David 3 entries, 1825–1919
  • 1825: People freed by David Patterson of Orange sail for Liberia
  • between about 1881 and 1885: James Webb Jr. builds Mid-Lawn at East Queen and North Cameron streets
  • 1919: James Webb Jr.'s house Mid-Lawn is sold to David and Elizabeth Patterson
• Patterson, Drew 1 entry, 1931
  • by March 20, 1931: The Gimghouls fit their castle with iron grills and chain its boulder pyramids
• Patterson, E. G. 1 entry, 1948
  • February 6, 1948: Orange County organizes a unit of the American Cancer Society
• Patterson, Elizabeth 2 entries, 1881–1919
  • between about 1881 and 1885: James Webb Jr. builds Mid-Lawn at East Queen and North Cameron streets
  • 1919: James Webb Jr.'s house Mid-Lawn is sold to David and Elizabeth Patterson
• Patterson, Elizabeth Johnston 2 entries, 1939–1959
  • by July 21, 1939: The University Press publishes Stella Gentry Sharpe's Tobe
  • October 1959: Hillsboro's Business and Professional Women's Club names teacher Elizabeth Johnston Patterson its Woman of the Year
• Patterson, Ernest 1 entry, 1956
  • June 6, 1956: Hillsboro postmaster Tom Bivins resigns

  May be the same person as Patterson, Ernest Brown

• Patterson, Ernest Brown 1 entry, 1947
  • December 14, 1947: Chapel Hill alderman E. B. Patterson dies

  May be the same person as Patterson, Ernest

• Patterson, Evelyn 1 entry, 1964
  • for the 1964-65 school year (named by August 20, 1964): J. M. Murfree becomes principal of Central High School
• Patterson, Fred 3 entries, 1917–1948
  • May 1917: Hoot Patterson closes out his Franklin Street store and sells his groceries to Frank Pickard
  • December 3, 1947: The new Carrboro Health Center becomes home of the area's well-baby clinics
  • May 30, 1948: The Junior Service League deeds the Carrboro Health Center to the Carrboro Civic Association
• Patterson, George 1 entry, 1850
  • August 1, 1850: Democrats win the Orange and Alamance Senate seat and all four Commons seats
• Patterson, Henry 1 entry, 1890
  • 1890s: Merchant Henry "Hoot" Patterson turns a West Cameron Avenue I-house into a Queen Anne villa
• Patterson, Henry Houston 7 entries, 1880–1917

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• Patterson, Henry Houston 1 entry, 1882

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• Patterson, Henry N., Jr. 2 entries, 1965–1966
  • October 1965: Medford is named to the student government State Affairs committee
  • March 31, 1966: Students and the two speakers file Dickson v. Sitterson against the Speaker Ban
• Patterson, Hubert 1 entry, 1964
  • March 4, 1964: Orange County puts a medical examiner system into effect with Dr. Hubert Patterson as examiner
• Patterson, J. S. 1 entry, 1929
  • May 10, 1929: Receivers auction the Chapel Hill Insurance and Realty Company's holdings
• Patterson, James 7 entries, 1775–1849

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• Patterson, James 3 entries, 1789–1794

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  • November 10, 1789: The House pays the men who carried the state treasury out of Hillsborough
  • August Term 1793: The court licenses James Patterson to keep a tavern at the University
  • August Term 1794: The court orders a road laid off from the east end of Franklin Street in the University village
• Patterson, James N. 1 entry, 1864
  • March 18, 1864: Orange voters elect John Berry to the state Senate and Addison Mangum to the Commons
• Patterson, John 5 entries, 1752–1777

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• Patterson, John 1 entry, 1816

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  • October 1816: A gunpowder bomb explodes outside tutor John Patterson's door
• Patterson, L. C. 2 entries, 1922–1923
  • November 1922: Piney Mountain parents get the commissioners to repair their school truck road
  • by November 22, 1923: L. C. Patterson resigns from the Orange County Board of Education

  May be the same person as Patterson, Lyndon C.

• Patterson, Lucy B. 1 entry, 1922
  • November 7, 1922: Democrats carry Orange County in the 1922 general election
• Patterson, Lyndon C. 1 entry, 1942
  • February 28, 1942: Colonel and Mrs. Paul Henderson buy the old Patterson farm near Mount Moriah church

  May be the same person as Patterson, L. C.

• Patterson, Mrs. M. A. 1 entry, 1930
  • January 17, 1930: The Patterson Brothers drugstore goes into receivership
• Patterson, Mann 4 entries, 1793–1942
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  • May Term 1793: The court grants leave for three mills on New Hope Creek in one term
  • November Term 1795: The court orders a road from the east end of Franklin Street into the New Hope road from Raleigh
  • November 25, 1812: The court lets Mann Patterson build a public mill on New Hope Creek
  • February 28, 1942: Colonel and Mrs. Paul Henderson buy the old Patterson farm near Mount Moriah church
• Patterson, Mark 2 entries, 1779–1780
  • 1779: John Hogan sits as Orange County's state senator
  • 1780: William Courtney serves as state senator for Orange County
• Patterson, Martha 1 entry, 1903
  • about 1903: The Martha Patterson House is built on McCauley Street
• Patterson, N. G. L. 1 entry, 1885
  • November 1, 1885: Rev. Richard A. Patterson, a Baptist preacher of Bingham Township, dies
• Patterson, Page 2 entries, 1793–1795
  • May Term 1793: The court grants leave for three mills on New Hope Creek in one term
  • November Term 1795: The court orders a road from the east end of Franklin Street into the New Hope road from Raleigh
• Patterson, Quentin 1 entry, 1954
  • 1954: University Lake's spillway is partly filled to raise the lake a foot
• Patterson, R. A. 1 entry, 1883
  • 1883: Cross Roads Baptist Church is organized as Betheden

  May be the same person as Patterson, Richard A.

• Patterson, Richard A. 1 entry, 1885
  • November 1, 1885: Rev. Richard A. Patterson, a Baptist preacher of Bingham Township, dies

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

• Patterson, Robert 1 entry, 1881
  • June 6, 1881: The county commissioners open election precincts at Patterson's Mill and University Station
• Patterson, Rufus Lenoir 7 entries, 1875–1935

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• Patterson, Rufus Lenoir, II 1 entry, 1931
  • November 26, 1931: The Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower is dedicated at UNC
• Patterson, Samuel Finley 1 entry, 1849

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• Patterson, Sidney C. 1 entry, 1885
  • November 1, 1885: Rev. Richard A. Patterson, a Baptist preacher of Bingham Township, dies
• Patterson, T. Henry 2 entries, 1947–1949
  • April 7, 1947: New Hope church gives its grounds as about 450 Presbyterians view the camp site
  • June 21 to July 14, 1949: Orange Presbytery holds its first camps at Camp New Hope
• Patterson, Thomas W. 1 entry, 1885
  • November 1, 1885: Rev. Richard A. Patterson, a Baptist preacher of Bingham Township, dies
• Patterson, W. H. 1 entry, 1868
  • early October 1868 (by October 7): An injunction charges four elected Orange commissioners with usurping office
• Patterson, W. T. 2 entries, 1877–1878
  • August 1877: The county commissioners cut Orange County's tax rate
  • August 5, 1878: Orange magistrates elect a new board of county commissioners
• Patterson, Wallace 2 entries, 1925–1926
  • by January 29, 1925: The Chapel Hill school board buys the back of the Wallace Patterson place
  • By April 1926: Zeta Psi, Kappa Alpha and Kappa Sigma jointly buy the Wallace Patterson place on Cameron Avenue

  May be the same person as Patterson, Wallace Durham

• Patterson, Wallace Durham 1 entry, 1930
  • February 22, 1930: Manning Pritchard and Philip Lloyd buy the Patterson Brothers drugstore from its receivers

  May be the same person as Patterson, Wallace

• Patterson, William 1 entry, 1792
  • February Term 1792: The court grants Mary Underwood's petition to bind out her two children
• Patterson, William M. 1 entry, 1863
  • late May 1863: The county court sets up commissioners to direct the Soldiers' Fund
• Patterson, William N. 11 entries, 1856–1879

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• Patteson, Charles 1 entry, 1993
  • by November 1993: Chapel Hill High's principal suspends the lesbian and gay readings in a multicultural literature project
• Pattillo, Henry 20 entries, 1753–1793

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• Pattillo, W. A. 1 entry, 1890
  • November 8, 1890: The Colored Farmers' Alliance calls meetings at Chapel Hill and Hillsborough for its state lecturer
• Patton, Benjamin C. 16 entries, 1882–1903

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• Patton, Donna 1 entry, 1956
  • December 2, 1956: Les Petites Musicales stages The Magic Flute in Hill Hall
• Patton, Hemelius 1 entry, 1812
  • November 25, 1812: The court cancels Hemelius Patton's indenture to Luke Peacock
• Patton, James C. 2 entries, 1844
  • July 1844: The Hawfields Presbyterian session clears James C. Patton on Nancy Wicks's charge
  • February 1844: A jury finds James C. Patton is not the father of Nancy Wicks's child
• Patton, James Welch 2 entries, 1948–1967

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• Patton, Sarah 1 entry, 1812
  • November 25, 1812: The court cancels Hemelius Patton's indenture to Luke Peacock
• Paul, D. D. 1 entry, 1838
  • April 7, 1838: A Cedar Grove muster-day meeting names the Democratic ticket for Orange
• Paul, James C. N. 1 entry, 1954
  • June-August 1954: Albert Coates and James C. N. Paul prepare the Institute's report on the Brown decision for Governor Umstead
• Paul, Jerry 1 entry, 1971
  • November 10, 1971: A rally in the Pit protests a highway patrolman's killing of a Black farm laborer near Ayden
• Paul, John 1 entry, 1844
  • late April 1844: A gold nugget is plowed up on John Paul's farm
• Paulsen, Mrs. G. H. 2 entries, 1924–1928
  • By December 18, 1924: Chapel Hill High School stages a musical comedy with a blackface-style 'colored stunt'
  • late July 1928: Chapel Hill charities agree to keep the nurse serving the Black community
• Paulsen, G. H. 3 entries, 1925–1932
  • October 1925 to January 11, 1926: The University Laundry is built on West Cameron Avenue
  • by March 12, 1932: The Carolina Smoke Shop closes in Chapel Hill
  • by May 13, 1932: The Red Cross and the Central Welfare Committee give garden seed to forty Chapel Hill and Carrboro families
• Paulsen, William F. 1 entry, 1973
  • January 16, 1973: UNC joins the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management
• Paviakis, Gus 1 entry, 1919
  • between 1919 and 1923: Gus Paviakis opens the Carolina Confectionery, later the Carolina Coffee Shop
• Paxton, Thomas 1 entry, 1852
  • winter of 1852-53: English landscape designer Thomas Paxton lays out the Montrose grounds for Mrs. William A. Graham
• Payne, Abel 1 entry, 1889
  • June 3, 1889: Hillsborough holds the first Orange County cattle show
• Payne, Betsy 1 entry, 1866
  • November 1866 (court term): A jury finds Washington Day, a freedman, not the father of Betsy Payne's child
• Payne, Beverly 2 entries, 2016–2022
  • December 2016: Rebuilding of the Occaneechi replica village in Hillsborough begins
  • April 23, 2022: Reconstructed Occaneechi Village is rededicated
• Payne, Bruce 1 entry, 1988
  • November 30, 1988: The association marks ten years since Harvey Milk's assassination with a film and panel
• Payne, David Sheppard 1 entry, 1887
  • July 5, 1887: David S. Payne marries Eliza Mayo
• Payne, Eliza Mayo 1 entry, 1887
  • July 5, 1887: David S. Payne marries Eliza Mayo
• Payne, Helen 1 entry, 1945
  • June 8, 1945: Orange County's Black home demonstration clubs hold their first Federation Day
• Payne, J. W. 1 entry, 1943
  • October 12, 1943: Chapel Hill's Masons burn the mortgage on their lodge building
• Payne, Jack 1 entry, 1964
  • December 7, 1964: Hillsborough town board approves the return to the spelling Hillsborough
• Payne, Liza 1 entry, 1918
  • October 1918: A Black committee of the women's Liberty Loan organization raises $1,350 in Hillsborough Township
• Payne, Perrell F. 1 entry, 1946
  • July 6, 1946: Chapel Hill veterans and Southern Conference members stage a downtown display against the end of the OPA
• Payne, William 3 entries, 1768–1880
  • October 3, 1768: Tryon pardons the 1768 protesters except thirteen named leaders
  • 1851: Job Berry and Billy Payne begin the congregation that became Dickerson Chapel
  • November 23, 1880: William Payne, an aged Black Methodist preacher, dies at Hillsborough
• Peace, J. H. 2 entries, 1951–1965
  • by October 1951: J. H. Peace becomes principal of Northside Elementary School
  • February 11, 1965: Mayor Sandy McClamroch attends Lincoln High's Negro History Week program

  May be the same person as Peace, James H.

• Peace, James H. 1 entry, 1964
  • October 5, 1964: County commissioners name a fifteen-member antipoverty advisory committee

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

• Peace, Leon 1 entry, 1949
  • January 23, 1949: A youth council of the Chapel Hill NAACP is organized
• Peacock, E. E. 3 entries, 1944–1945
  • early July 1944: Chapel Hill's aldermen elect T. E. Hinson town manager
  • June 3, 1944: Chapel Hill Town Manager John L. Caldwell dies
  • mid-February 1945: Chapel Hill holds a public hearing on extending its town limits
• Peacock, Earl 2 entries, 1924–1962
  • 1924: W. E. Atkins of the Atwood and Nash firm builds a Craftsman cottage on Gimghoul Road
  • February 1962: Chapel Hill's Boy Scout Troop 39 marks its fiftieth anniversary
• Peacock, Helen M. 1 entry, 1944
  • by October 1944: Chapel Hill High rebuilds its library to more than 4,000 volumes after the fire
• Peacock, Luke 1 entry, 1812
  • November 25, 1812: The court cancels Hemelius Patton's indenture to Luke Peacock
• Peacock, Mrs. W. H. 2 entries, 1942–1943
  • August 11, 1942: Chapel Hill women's organizations start a drive to replace the burned high school library
  • by January 29, 1943: Rebuilding Chapel Hill High School library receives an anonymous $3,000 gift
• Peacock, William H. 2 entries, 1940–1942
  • by May 31, 1940: Chapel Hill school board names William H. Peacock high school principal
  • late June 1942: The Chapel Hill school board chooses C. E. Buckner as high school principal
• Pealor, Jacob 1 entry, 1832
  • about 1832: Pleasant Green Methodist Church is organized
• Pearce, Emily Eidenier 1 entry, 2009
  • June 12–August 31, 2009: UNC's library exhibited Rogers Road family histories drawn from Emily Eidenier Pearce's book
• Pearce, H. W. 1 entry, 1955
  • June 30, 1955: The Methodist Conference approves organizing a Methodist church in Glen Lennox
• Pearsall, Thomas J. 1 entry, 1954

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• Pearson, C. O. 1 entry, 1933
  • March 1933 (suit denied March 28, 1933): Thomas Hocutt sues to enter the University's school of pharmacy and is refused

  May be the same person as Pearson, Conrad O.

• Pearson, Conrad O. 3 entries, 1960–1961
  • April 6, 1960: Federal court refuses to throw out the Vickers school suit but drops the board members as defendants
  • August 1960: The Vickers suit is amended to seek a place at Chapel Hill Junior High
  • August 4, 1961: Federal court rules Chapel Hill denied Stanley Vickers a junior high transfer because of his race

  May be the same person as Pearson, C. O.

• Pearson, E. A., Jr. 1 entry, 1959
  • December 8, 1959: The Hillsboro Lions Club opens its campaign to fluoridate the town's water
• Pearson, Jessie 1 entry, 1955
  • August 31, 1955: The county welfare department hires its first Black caseworker, Jessie Pearson
• Pearson, Philip 1 entry, 1831
  • November 1831 to November 1832: A year-long revival at New Hope adds at least seventy communicants
• Pearson, Richmond Mumford 3 entries, 1823–1873

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• Pearson, William S. 1 entry, 1867

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• Peck, Bob 3 entries, 1962–1963
  • January 23, 1962: Chapel Hill aldermen adopt a minimum housing code and create a public housing authority
  • March 26, 1962: Chapel Hill aldermen again urge the University to fluoridate the town's water
  • January 29, 1963: Chapel Hill lets contracts for its new central fire station
• Peck, Robert 8 entries, 1961–1964
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  • December 11, 1961: Chapel Hill extends the State Building Code to its suburban zoning area
  • August 2, 1961: Robert Peck accepts the post of Chapel Hill town manager
  • August 27, 1962: Chapel Hill aldermen vote to press UNC's trustees after a committee shelves fluoridation
  • March 12, 1962: Chapel Hill aldermen order a fire station on the new mid-town site
  • by September 13, 1962 (effective September 16): James Stewart is named Chapel Hill fire chief as J. S. Boone steps back to assistant
  • March 1963: Chapel Hill Planning Board favors a large village in response to the Triangle commission's development plan
  • by January 30, 1963: The Chapel Hill Recreation Commission runs on a cut budget and campaigns for a recreation tax
  • January 1964: Institute of Government delivers its report on Chapel Hill's power to pass a public accommodations law

  May be the same person as Peck, Robert H.

• Peck, Robert H. 2 entries, 1963
  • May 13, 1963: Chapel Hill annexes the Bolin Creek, Lake Forest and Eastgate areas
  • late April 1963: Chapel Hill arranges $80,000 in parking revenue bonds for a downtown lot

  May be the same person as Peck, Robert

• Peck, Todd 1 entry, 1992
  • October 1992 to July 1993: Jody Carter and Todd Peck survey rural Orange County buildings
• Peckham, W. G. 1 entry, 1892
  • 1892: Watson and Pickard rebuild the Chapel Hill Hotel and add the University Inn Annex
• Pecora, John 2 entries, 1943
  • fall 1943: Chapel Hill High's football team goes unbeaten under coach John Pecora
  • September 20, 1943: Chapel Hill's schools open late with 771 pupils and nine new teachers
• Peden, Anthony 1 entry, 1897
  • February 15, 1897: Teacher London A. Whitted dies at Chapel Hill
• Pedersen, Neil 1 entry, 2003
  • November 2, 2003: Mel and Zora Rashkis Elementary School is dedicated
• Peebles, R. B. 1 entry, 1891
  • by January 17, 1891: Paul C. Cameron's will is read and his executors qualify

  May be the same person as Peebles, Robert B.

• Peebles, Robert B. 2 entries, 1861–1905
  • April 27, 1861: Students petition trustees to close the university for the war
  • March 13-15, 1905: Sophie Neville pleads guilty to manslaughter in her father's death

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

• Peed, Mansfield T. 1 entry, 1888
  • winter of 1888-89: James Lee Love takes over the mathematics courses during Ralph Graves's last illness
• Peele, Judge Stanley 5 entries, 1961–1988

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• Peele, W. J. 1 entry, 1900

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• Peele, W. W. 1 entry, 1950
  • July 30, 1950: Union Grove Methodist Church dedicates its new stone building

  May be the same person as Peele, William Walter

• Peele, William Walter 1 entry, 1923
  • April 17, 1923: Church leaders spend a day with Chase and the faculty on teaching religion at the university

  May be the same person as Peele, W. W.

• Peerman, W. D. 1 entry, 1954
  • by October 1954: W. D. Peerman becomes Lincoln High's football coach

  May be the same person as Peerman, William D.

• Peerman, William D. 1 entry, 1966
  • 1966: Lincoln High School closes during integration

  May be the same person as Peerman, W. D.

• Pegg, Carl 1 entry, 1938
  • about 1938: Durham architects Hackney and Knott design Carl Pegg's house on Laurel Hill Road
• Pegram, George 2 entries, 1956–1958
  • June 22, 1956: The Carrboro Cubs stage a folk festival at the Lions park
  • June 12, 1958: The Carrboro Festival raises money for the Carrboro Cubs with banjo player George Pegram
• Pell, Adolph 1 entry, 1953
  • December 15, 1953: County commissioners set taxes at 70 percent of the new appraised values
• Pell, R. P. 1 entry, 1879
  • by April 26, 1879: Cornelia Phillips Spencer edits the Chapel Hill Weekly Ledger
• Pell, V. C. 1 entry, 1878
  • by September 14, 1878: Mrs. V. C. Pell opens a school for girls in Chapel Hill
• Pelland, Kirk 2 entries, 1996
  • September 11, 1996: UNC suspends afternoon classes for a campuswide Hurricane Fran cleanup
  • September 12, 1996: A 70-foot oak weakened by Hurricane Fran falls on Venable Hall
• Pender, Mrs. C. H. 2 entries, 1948–1949
  • January 12, 1948: Orange County teachers ask the governor for a special legislative session on their pay
  • January 19, 1949: Orange County teachers organize a unit of the state Classroom Teachers Department
• Pender, Irene 3 entries, 1952–1958
  • early September 1952: Carrboro School is placed on the state's list of accredited elementary schools
  • May 8, 1953: The county's white schools hold a countywide educational exhibit
  • by March 1958: Caldwell School opens a central library built by its PTA

  May be the same person as Pender, Irene O.; Pender, Irene Oliver

• Pender, Irene O. 1 entry, 1959
  • March 11, 1959: Women educators organize the Alpha Pi chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma at Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Pender, Irene; Pender, Irene Oliver

• Pender, Irene Oliver 2 entries, 1951–1983
  • August 15, 1951: Irene Oliver Pender becomes instructional supervisor of the Orange County schools
  • 1983: Shanklin's Press prints Irene Oliver Pender's History of Orange County Schools

  May be the same person as Pender, Irene; Pender, Irene O.

• Pendergast, William 1 entry, 1793
  • November Term 1793: The court orders roads laid out to the University from Hillsborough and the Chatham line
• Pendergraft, C. S. 2 entries, 1916–1924
  • by September 28, 1916: C. S. Pendergraft adds a Ford truck to his Chapel Hill and Durham auto line
  • November 22, 1924: C. S. Pendergraft, who ran the bus line between Chapel Hill and Durham, dies
• Pendergraft, Herbert 2 entries, 1928–1941
  • August 21, 1928: The Southland Motor Company opens a Studebaker and Erskine agency on Rosemary Street
  • August 21, 1941: Chapel Hill's four central filling stations agree to take turns opening on Sundays
• Pendergraft, J. S. 1 entry, 1925
  • May 9, 1925: Ten veterans of Ashe Camp keep Confederate Memorial Day in Chapel Hill
• Pendergraft, Joseph W. 1 entry, 1925
  • March 1925: E. A. Brown sells his Chapel Hill furniture and hardware business to Pendergraft and McCauley
• Pendergraft, Paul 1 entry, 1948
  • October 21, 1948: Chapel Hill and Carrboro young men organize a Junior Chamber of Commerce
• Pendergraft, Ralph 1 entry, 1928
  • late 1928: Fire destroys Ralph Pendergraft's Chevrolet agency on West Franklin Street
• Pendergraft, Swain 1 entry, 1905
  • 1905: Swain 'Kern' Pendergraft opens a fruit store and newsstand
• Pendergraph, Marvin 1 entry, 1933
  • early May 1933: A Carrboro night-school pupil wins the state clubwomen's award for most improvement
• Pendergrass, Albert L. 1 entry, 1950
  • early July 1950: Sheriff Latta names an added deputy for southern Orange County
• Pendergrass, Lindy 2 entries, 1964–2009
  • August 20, 1964: Chapel Hill police name Lindy Pendergrass Patrolman of the Year
  • January 22, 2009: Sheriff Pendergrass defends Orange County's enrollment in Secure Communities
• Penick, Edwin A. 3 entries, 1924–1942
  • February 20, 1924: The cornerstone of the new Chapel of the Cross is laid
  • March 22, 1941: G. K. G. Henry, the University's assistant registrar, dies
  • May 11, 1942: The Chapel of the Cross celebrates its centennial with a pageant

  May be the same person as Penick, Edwin Anderson

• Penick, Edwin Anderson 1 entry, 1923
  • April 17, 1923: Church leaders spend a day with Chase and the faculty on teaching religion at the university

  May be the same person as Penick, Edwin A.

• Penick, George D. 1 entry, 1952
  • January 27, 1952: Episcopalians organize the Church of the Holy Family in Chapel Hill
• Penn, John 9 entries, 1767–1780

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• Penniman, George H. 2 entries, 1866
  • April to September 1866: The Bureau office at Hillsborough tries freedpeople's claims against white residents
  • May 1866: Lieutenant Isaac Porter takes charge of the Freedmen's Bureau office at Hillsborough
• Pennington, Greg 1 entry, 1978
  • November 10, 1978: The BSM's Soul Disco Train fund-raiser fills Great Hall
• Penny, Wade 1 entry, 1964
  • November 18, 1964: Defense lawyers file State Supreme Court appeals for eleven Chapel Hill civil rights defendants
• Pentecost, G. T. 1 entry, 1913
  • 1913: Carr Methodist Church is organized
• Peppers, Julius 1 entry, 2001
  • September 2001: Bunting's Tar Heels beat sixth-ranked Florida State 41-9 at home
• Percival, William 4 entries, 1840–1860

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• Percy, LeRoy 1 entry, 1935
  • Fall 1935: Shelby Foote arrives in Chapel Hill to enroll at UNC
• Percy, Walker 1 entry, 1935

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• Perez, Josmell 1 entry, 1999
  • 1999–November 2009: El Centro Latino serves Latino residents from Carrboro
• Perkins 1 entry, 1874
  • August 31, 1874: A man named Perkins is jailed for taking the Philanthropic Society's books and Caldwell portrait
• Perkins, Benjamin 1 entry, 1785
  • 1785–1790: Hillsborough Academy opens in the old Anglican church
• Perkins, Frances 1 entry, 1939
  • January 11, 1939: Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins speaks in Memorial Hall
• Perkins, Maxwell 1 entry, 1940
  • by February 2, 1940: The Dialectic Senate opens a campaign to buy Thomas Wolfe's manuscripts for the University
• Perkins, Thomas H. 1 entry, 1789
  • May 26, 1789: The court names the men to take the tax lists in the county's eight districts
• Perry, Ben 2 entries, 1963–1964
  • May 7, 1963: Chapel Hill school board voters elect Edwin Tenney Jr. and Ben Perry
  • February 24, 1964: The Chapel Hill school board chooses an eight-room wing at Carrboro School over enlarging Frank Graham School
• Perry, Bud 1 entry, 1917
  • Early 1917: Bud Perry and Moody Lloyd open the Carolina Barbershop in new quarters
• Perry, David R. 1 entry, 1928

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• Perry, Douglas 2 entries, 1960–2020

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• Perry, Howe 1 entry, 1963
  • July 30, 1963: Hillsboro's new bi-racial committee holds its first meeting

  May be the same person as Perry, Howe B.

• Perry, Howe B. 1 entry, 1963
  • by July 4, 1963: A Black citizens' committee asks the Hillsboro town board for a public accommodations law

  May be the same person as Perry, Howe

• Perry, Kenneth 4 entries, 1987–1989
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  • October 29, 1987: The BSM rallies against discrimination in the UNC Police Department
  • October 5, 1988: The BSM sets deadlines for a permanent Black Cultural Center
  • spring 1988 (by April 20): Dean Gillian Cell drops her plan to restructure the Office for Student Counseling
  • by March 1989: Rosalind Fuse-Hall is named associate dean for the Office for Student Counseling
• Perry, Nellie 1 entry, 1918
  • May 31, 1918: The Orange County Red Cross sends literature to women in outlying communities to start Red Cross work
• Perry, O. Gordon 2 entries, 1955–1961
  • by January 6, 1955: University National Bank buys the Fields Building on West Franklin Street
  • October 2, 1961: University National Bank of Chapel Hill becomes part of Central Carolina Bank
• Perry, P. R. 1 entry, 1951
  • January 8, 1951: Chapel Hill's fire department stops answering calls outside the town limits
• Perry, W. D. 2 entries, 1942–1945
  • June 30, 1942: Chapel Hill registers 577 men aged 18 to 20 for the draft
  • April 10, 1945: Chapel Hill High holds its first Career Day
• Perry, Wiley 2 entries, 1956–1962
  • by July 12, 1956: Buckhorn is named Community of the Year in the county's Farm and Home Efficiency contest
  • 1962: Orange Grove residents put up a sign naming the community
• Person, Thomas 13 entries, 1771–1796

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• Pesky, Johnny 1 entry, 1943
  • May 6, 1943: Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky and Johnny Sain report to the Pre-Flight School as aviation cadets
• Peter 1 entry, 1789
  • August 29, 1789: The court gives Thomas Burke's executor leave to sell four enslaved people to pay the estate's debts
• Peter 1 entry, 1801
  • February 26, 1801: A jury acquits Peter, an enslaved man, of murder
• Peter 1 entry, 1814
  • May Term 1814: The court binds Peter, a boy of color, to John Redmond and requires a bond for his delivery at the end of the term
• Peters, Lucy 1 entry, 1830
  • 1830: Fred Hartgrove, a free Black man, holds three enslaved people
• Peters, Richard 1 entry, 1960
  • November 29, 1960: Northside School's PTA opposes a new site for a Black elementary school
• Peterson, Marilyn 1 entry, 1964
  • September 2, 1964: Orange High adds distributive education and industrial arts
• Petrakis, Harry Mark 1 entry, 1967
  • 1967–1968: Carolyn Kizer is a visiting writer-in-residence at UNC
• Pettiford, Jethro 1 entry, 1797
  • May 25, 1797: The court orders Jethro Pettiford, a free boy of color offered for sale as though enslaved, returned to his mother
• Pettiford, Patience 1 entry, 1797
  • May 25, 1797: The court orders Jethro Pettiford, a free boy of color offered for sale as though enslaved, returned to his mother
• Pettigrew, Mrs. Charles L. 1 entry, 1862
  • spring 1862: Refugees from the coast keep arriving in Hillsborough
• Pettigrew, Elkins 2 entries, 1835–1869
  • 1835: John A. Pettigrew sells the former Paisley farm to Lemuel Pettigrew
  • 1869: Robert K. Rice buys the Pettigrew log house farm
• Pettigrew, James Johnston 2 entries, 1836–1847

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• Pettigrew, John 2 entries, 1797
  • 1797: Student John Pettigrew draws Old East
  • May 1797: Mumps spreads among the students

  May be the same person as Pettigrew, John A.

• Pettigrew, John A. 1 entry, 1835
  • 1835: John A. Pettigrew sells the former Paisley farm to Lemuel Pettigrew

  May be the same person as Pettigrew, John

• Pettigrew, Lemuel 1 entry, 1835
  • 1835: John A. Pettigrew sells the former Paisley farm to Lemuel Pettigrew
• Pettit, L. W. 1 entry, 1956
  • December 10, 1956: North Orange ministers ask the school board to stop gambling at school events

  May be the same person as Pettit, Lauton; Pettit, Lauton W.

• Pettit, Lauton 1 entry, 1958
  • December 5, 1958: Hillsboro High School dedicates its new gymnasium

  May be the same person as Pettit, L. W.; Pettit, Lauton W.

• Pettit, Lauton W. 1 entry, 1954
  • February 7, 1954: The Rev. Lauton W. Pettit becomes rector of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church

  May be the same person as Pettit, L. W.; Pettit, Lauton

• Pettit, Lawton 1 entry, 1956
  • May 7, 1956: Orange County pastors form a ministerial association
• Petty, Allen 1 entry, 1832
  • February 1, 1832: Five elders are ordained at New Hope during the revival
• Petty, Lee 4 entries, 1950–1960

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• Petty, Richard 6 entries, 1947–1992

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• Pharr, Suzanne 1 entry, 2005
  • February 2005: The GLBT-SA plans its third Unity Conference, widened to the whole Southeast
• Phelps, J. L. 1 entry, 1948
  • 1948: J. L. Phelps wins the county corn contest with 136.4 bushels an acre
• Phelps, Marvin 2 entries, 1945–1958
  • January 20, 1945: John Arch Parker becomes the first Orange farmer to pay off a tenant-purchase farm
  • April 22, 1958: Schley Grange members finish a volunteer pine-thinning project and turn the pulpwood into community funds
• Phelps, Wilfred 1 entry, 1961
  • March 10, 1961: Aycock School parents petition against folding their high school into a new northern Orange high
• Philips, William 2 entries, 1788–1789
  • November 28, 1788: The court grants William Philips a public ferry over the Haw
  • August 26, 1789: Samuel Shaw appeals the court's grant of a rival Haw River ferry to William Philips
• Phillips, A. L. 1 entry, 1879
  • by May 31, 1879: The university YMCA fits up a reading room and asks the public to help furnish it
• Phillips, Carrington 2 entries, 1962
  • December 3, 1962: County commissioners name Henry Walker to the late Donald McDade's seat
  • October 1, 1962: Orange County Republicans open a county headquarters in Chapel Hill
• Phillips, Charity 1 entry, 1846
  • August Term 1846: The court orders all the children of Charity Phillips, a free woman of color, brought in to be bound out
• Phillips, Charles 43 entries, 1827–1994

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• Phillips, Daniel D. 1 entry, 1861
  • February Term 1861: The court cancels William Stowers's binding to Daniel D. Phillips and binds him to Samuel P. Moore
• Phillips, Donovan 1 entry, 1971
  • November 10, 1971: A rally in the Pit protests a highway patrolman's killing of a Black farm laborer near Ayden
• Phillips, Elinor S. 1 entry, 1885
  • December 23, 1885: James Lee Love marries June Spencer at the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church
• Phillips, Fred 2 entries, 1880–1887
  • by February 21, 1880: The Alumni Association names a committee to help raise money for the university
  • March 30-April 2, 1887: Three Black men are convicted of manslaughter in the killing of student Jacob Freeze
• Phillips, Guy 2 entries, 1954–1960
  • November 23, 1954: School committeemen form a county chapter and the board names a School Improvement Committee
  • December 1960: A curriculum study begins for the proposed northern Orange high school

  May be the same person as Phillips, Guy B.

• Phillips, Guy B. 12 entries, 1936–1964
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  • February 13, 1936: Former summer school and education dean N. W. Walker dies
  • by March 8, 1940: The University opens its summer general college to women just out of high school
  • November 23, 1942: Chapel Hill Civilian Defense Council holds a public mass meeting
  • by September 4, 1942: Guy B. Phillips succeeds L. B. Rogerson as Chapel Hill's civilian defense director
  • by January 23, 1942: The University goes on a year-round four-quarter schedule
  • November 1942: University establishes a war training college
  • by August 20, 1943: Chapel Hill's student population reaches about 5,000
  • by May 14, 1943: Mayor Madry names John M. Foushee coordinator of civilian defense
  • by January 8, 1943: R. J. M. Hobbs takes command of Chapel Hill's Citizens Defense Corps
  • by March 5, 1943: Chapel Hill and Bingham schools launch a Victory Garden campaign
  • by November 5, 1943: The University votes degree credit for courses taken in the Navy Pre-Flight School
  • May 21, 1964: Guy B. Phillips Junior High School is dedicated with Gov. Sanford speaking

  May be the same person as Phillips, Guy

• Phillips, Hugh 1 entry, 1793
  • August Term 1793: The court releases George Madden from his apprentice Hugh Phillips, who has become crippled
• Phillips, J. G. 1 entry, 1925
  • autumn 1925: The Methodists install J. G. Phillips as student pastor at Chapel Hill
• Phillips, James 36 entries, 1740–1930

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• Phillips, James 6 entries, 1792–1820

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  • 1792: Catherine Lockhart's burial in 1792 is the earliest known grave in the Lockhart-Phillips family cemetery
  • about 1807: Saddler James Phillips builds a brick kitchen on the school-house lot on East Tryon Street
  • May 30, 1811: The court levies a tax to build the bridge across Alamance
  • May Term 1813: The court names a committee to have the Eno bridge at Hillsborough repaired
  • about 1820: Saddler James Phillips walls in the Lockhart-Phillips family cemetery
  • December 16, 1820: William Lockhart, Hillsborough's magistrate of police, dies
• Phillips, James Dickson 4 entries, 1948–1977

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• Phillips, Jim 1 entry, 1978
  • February 22, 1978: Jim Phillips defeats a Black candidate by 104 votes in the student body president runoff
• Phillips, John 1 entry, 1819
  • 1819: Visiting Episcopal clergy hold the first recorded services of the revived church in Hillsborough
• Phillips, Laura 1 entry, 1891
  • 1891: Laura Phillips sells the old Fetter house to Sarah Welling
• Phillips, Laura Battle 1 entry, 1866
  • by March 1866: Charles Phillips teaches a Sunday school for Black residents of Chapel Hill
• Phillips, Paul 1 entry, 1985
  • February 1985: The Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association prepares to host the tenth Southeastern Conference for Lesbians and Gay Men
• Phillips, Robert 1 entry, 1963
  • May 28, 1963: Mayor McClamroch's Integration Committee adopts a four-point program
• Phillips, Samuel 19 entries, 1843–1931

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• Phillips, Samuel F. 1 entry, 1851
  • 1851: Zebulon Vance studies law at Chapel Hill
• Phillips, Samuel Field 15 entries, 1845–1909

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• Phillips, W. E. 1 entry, 1879
  • November 8, 1879: Students hold a two-hour walking match on the campus
• Phillips, William Battle 11 entries, 1854–1919

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• Phillips, William H. 4 entries, 1823–1836
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  • March 1823: Martin Hanks sells his lot and house at Churton and Orange streets to William H. Phillips
  • 1825: Francis L. Hawks buys the house at Churton and Orange streets
  • February 2, 1833: Hillsborough elects John Scott magistrate of police and seven town commissioners
  • February 6, 1836: Hillsborough elects Dennis Heartt magistrate of police and seven town commissioners
• Phipps, C. R. 1 entry, 1908
  • August 11, 1908: Orange County Republicans nominate Thomas Sparrow for the House

  May be the same person as Phipps, Charles R.

• Phipps, Charles R. 1 entry, 1900
  • August 2, 1900: Orange County narrowly votes down the suffrage amendment

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

• Phipps, Luther James 90 entries, 1919–1965

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• Phipps, R. S. 1 entry, 1895
  • August 1895: Orange County farmers organize a Farmers' Mutual Insurance association
• Phipps, Vivian 1 entry, 1925
  • 1925: Charles Martindale builds a bungalow in the Gimghoul colony for attorney L. J. Phipps
• Phoenix, Terri 1 entry, 2012
  • 2012: UNC makes gender-non-specific housing available on campus
• Pickall, Yawger 2 entries, 1928
  • By June 1928: Contractor Charlie Lee Martindale opens an airfield north of Chapel Hill
  • by December 7, 1928: Five planes are based in the new hangar at the airport north of Chapel Hill
• Pickard, A. C. 1 entry, 1946
  • January 22, 1946: Governor Cherry honors three Orange draft board members
• Pickard, A. Clarence 3 entries, 1928–1948
  • June 9, 1928: Clarence Pickard opens a Home Pride cash-and-carry grocery
  • May 2, 1939: Chapel Hill re-elects John M. Foushee mayor over Clarence Pickard
  • by August 5, 1948: Orange County's World War II draft board is named again for the peacetime draft
• Pickard, Clarence 21 entries, 1917–1953

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• Pickard, Elijah 1 entry, 1819
  • September 12, 1819: William D. Paisley sells his Orange County farm to Elijah Pickard
• Pickard, Elisha 1 entry, 1822
  • August 1822 (court term): The court restates a bastardy support order in dollars
• Pickard, Frank 2 entries, 1890–1917
  • June 2, 1890: Census enumerators begin the 1890 count in Orange County
  • May 1917: Hoot Patterson closes out his Franklin Street store and sells his groceries to Frank Pickard
• Pickard, George 4 entries, 1902–1959
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  • January 13-14, 1902: The county school board reports nine new schoolhouses and six rural libraries
  • February 29, 1912: A Chapel Hill good roads meeting names a citizens' committee for the road bonds
  • 1925: Brodie Thompson builds a house on East Rosemary Street for George and Sarah Pickard
  • by October 8, 1959: Chapel Hill's new 100-foot aerial ladder fire truck arrives
• Pickard, George C. 3 entries, 1912–1915

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• Pickard, H. B. 1 entry, 1946
  • by December 1946: The Training School's student council forms a student court
• Pickard, John H. 1 entry, 1812
  • 1812 to 1814: John H. Pickard is principal of Hawfield Academy
• Pickard, Nell 1 entry, 1947
  • September 1, 1947: Five women are drawn for an Orange County jury

  May be the same person as Pickard, Nell Abbie Patterson

• Pickard, Nell Abbie Patterson 1 entry, 1917
  • 1917: The university first admits freshman women, limited to daughters of Chapel Hill families

  May be the same person as Pickard, Nell

• Pickard, Sam 1 entry, 1923
  • 1923: John T. Fowler buys the Model Market at auction
• Pickard, Sarah 1 entry, 1925
  • 1925: Brodie Thompson builds a house on East Rosemary Street for George and Sarah Pickard
• Pickard, W. W. 7 entries, 1892–1917

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• Pickard, W. W., Jr. 1 entry, 1906
  • June 11, 1906: Chapel Hill firemen elect officers and delegates to the state tournament
• Pickell, C. N. 1 entry, 1938
  • May 19, 1938: C. N. Pickell flies a pouch of Air Mail Week letters out of the Chapel Hill airport
• Pickell, Clarence 1 entry, 1940
  • by February 16, 1940: Civil Aeronautics Authority flight training begins at the Chapel Hill airport
• Pickell, G. N. 1 entry, 1934
  • late April 1934: Pilot I. M. Tull opens the University Airport on the Ray farm
• Pickell, Y. 1 entry, 1929
  • by July 5, 1929: Southern Airways, Incorporated, takes over the Chapel Hill airport
• Pickens, Andrew 5 entries, 1781

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• Pickens, R. S. 1 entry, 1925
  • by February 26, 1925: The Reviewer brings out its first number edited in Chapel Hill
• Picket, Sarah 1 entry, 1825
  • February 1825: Spring women's meeting of Friends disowns Anna Culbertson
• Pickett, G. B. 2 entries, 1888
  • March 17, 1888: Farmers' Alliance lecturer G. B. Pickett speaks at Hillsborough
  • late April 1888: Three Farmers' Alliance chapters organize at Cedar Grove, Fairfield church and Ray's school house
• Pickett, H. F. 1 entry, 1930
  • 1930: The county board approves H. F. Pickett as principal of Murphey School
• Pickett, J. W. 3 entries, 1905–1906
  • June 6, 1905: County commissioners refuse to license saloons in Hillsborough
  • May 1, 1905: The county puts its public roads under road supervisors
  • April 2, 1906: Orange County's commissioners decide to buy a road machine and order a bridge over Back Creek

  May be the same person as Pickett, Joseph W.

• Pickett, Joseph W. 3 entries, 1904–1908
  • July 30, 1904: Democratic county convention nominates S. W. Andrews for sheriff
  • November 6, 1906: Democrats carry every county office in Orange
  • August 29, 1908: Orange County Democrats nominate S. M. Gattis and the 1908 county ticket

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

• Piephoff, Z. T. 2 entries, 1952–1953
  • November 21, 1952: The presbytery's judicial commission asks Charles M. Jones to resign
  • January 20, 1953: Orange Presbytery gives its judicial commission final authority over Charles M. Jones
• Pierce, A. B. 1 entry, 1925
  • by August 28, 1925: Farmers of the Antioch and Damascus sections haul gravel to surface the roads west of Carrboro
• Pierce, George 2 entries, 1962–1968
  • 1962: Belton Edwards becomes principal of Cedar Grove School
  • March 28, 1968: Principal George Pierce and Arthur Wells ask for basketball goals and better lighting
• Pierce, Herbert 3 entries, 1970–1971
  • December 1, 1970: Three Durham men bound over to the grand jury in the Cates killing
  • March 22, 1971: Trial of three Storm Troopers for the death of James Cates opens
  • March 25, 1971: All-white jury acquits three men in the killing of James Cates
• Pierce, Jim 1 entry, 1969
  • November 21, 1969: Striking SAGA cafeteria workers vote 94 to 26 to join AFSCME
• Pierson, Frank 1 entry, 1955
  • May 10, 1955: Reverie Lingerie takes the Uzzle building near Hillsboro for a pilot plant
• Pierson, W. W. 2 entries, 1931–1932
  • November 12 to 14, 1931: Association of American Universities holds its 33rd annual meeting at Chapel Hill
  • February 20, 1932: The University's Graduate Club takes the name of its founder, Edwin Greenlaw
• Pierson, Mrs. W. W. 1 entry, 1952
  • by May 1, 1952: Women organize an auxiliary for the University's new teaching hospital
• Pierson, W. W., Jr. 1 entry, 1935
  • 1935: The University authorizes a Department of Political Science
• Pierson, William Whatley, Jr 1 entry, 1930

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• Pike, Abigail 1 entry, 1751
  • October 7, 1751: Quakers set up Cane Creek Monthly Meeting in the country that became Orange County
• Pikutis, Albin 1 entry, 1954
  • August 15-29, 1954: The state society for crippled children runs a two-week camp at Camp New Hope
• Pinckney, Henry L. 1 entry, 1836
  • June 22, 1836: President Swain reads Henry L. Pinckney's absent address to the university's literary societies
• Pinkerton, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1808
  • November Term 1808: The court makes Henry Berry pay for the keep of Robert Alves Pinkerton
• Pinkerton, Robert Alves 1 entry, 1808
  • November Term 1808: The court makes Henry Berry pay for the keep of Robert Alves Pinkerton
• Pinto, Solomon 1 entry, 1785
  • 1785–1790: Hillsborough Academy opens in the old Anglican church
• Piper, Alexander 2 entries, 1795–1885
  • February Term 1795: The court names commissioners to build a bridge over Morgan Creek at McCauley's mill
  • by June 1885: A Memorial Hall tablet names the eleven donors of the university's land
• Piper, Samuel 1 entry, 1832
  • about 1832: Pleasant Green Methodist Church is organized
• Piper, William 1 entry, 1832
  • about 1832: Pleasant Green Methodist Church is organized
• Pitt, Ernest 1 entry, 1976
  • January 1976: Black journalism students organize the North Carolina Association of Journalists
• Pitts, Barney 1 entry, 1915
  • November 1, 1915: University students open moonlight schools in six Chapel Hill Township schoolhouses
• Pitts, Edmond R. 1 entry, 1818
  • August 28, 1818: The court licenses Edmond R. Pitts to retail liquor at his Chapel Hill house
• Pizella, Stéphane 1 entry, 1945
  • February 4, 1945: Seven French journalists, among them Jean-Paul Sartre, visit the Pre-Flight School and its French cadets
• Pleasant, Stephen 1 entry, 1837
  • 1837: Cane Creek Baptist Church joins the Beulah Association
• Pleasant, Thomas 2 entries, 1803–1807
  • May Term 1803: The court binds out Anderson Izzard after his father leaves the family
  • February 26, 1807: The court writes reading, writing and schooling into three apprentice bindings
• Pleasants, Alexander 1 entry, 1869
  • August 5, 1869: Alexander Pleasants wins Hillsborough Township clerk with Black votes
• Pleasants, R. F. 1 entry, 1851
  • February 22, 1851: Hillsborough hires two paid patrollers and widens the patrol's powers
• Pleasants, Robert 1 entry, 1841
  • May Term 1841: The court releases Harris Woods from his apprenticeship six months early
• Pleasants, Robert F. 2 entries, 1855–1856
  • February 3, 1855: Hillsborough orders its patrol to break up gatherings of Black people before nine
  • February 2, 1856: Hillsborough re-elects Josiah Turner Sr. a town commissioner
• Pleasants, Robert Freeman 1 entry, 1886
  • December 28, 1886: Robert F. Pleasants, once Hillsborough's jailer and town tax collector, dies
• Pleasants, Stephen 1 entry, 1834
  • June 1834: Members of Cane Creek organize Mars Hill Baptist Church
• Plumer, William S. 2 entries, 1820–1829
  • about 1820: A Federal house is built on West Queen Street for Eliza Hasell
  • 1829: Eliza Hasell sells her West Queen Street house to Samuel Simpson of New Bern
• Plummer, William 1 entry, 1816
  • September 18, 1816: Senior William B. Shepard speaks forbidden political passages and sets off a student revolt
• Plyler, M. T. 4 entries, 1920–1935
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  • March 16, 1920: Committees of the two Methodist conferences agree to build a new church at Chapel Hill
  • April 28, 1925: The cornerstone of the new Chapel Hill Methodist church is laid
  • December 1934: An anonymous $50,000 gift clears the Chapel Hill Methodist church's mortgage
  • April 7, 1935: The Chapel Hill Methodist church is dedicated once its debt is paid
• Poe, A. H. 2 entries, 1945–1956
  • 1945: A. H. Poe buys Ben Strowd's Pure Oil station on West Franklin Street for his DeSoto dealership
  • 1956: Poe and Mangum move their DeSoto-Plymouth dealership out of a West Franklin Street filling station
• Poe, Bill 1 entry, 1946
  • July 1946: Poe-Mangum Auto Service finishes a showroom and parts wing at its West Franklin Street station
• Poe, Clarence 2 entries, 1953
  • November 25, 1953: Rep. John W. Umstead Jr. shares the Progressive Farmer's Man of the Year award
  • February 9, 1953: UNC trustees' executive committee approves semesters and Saturday classes at Chapel Hill
• Poe, E. O. 1 entry, 1957
  • June 1957: Work begins on a two-story gymnasium building for Hillsboro High School
• Poe, George 1 entry, 1948
  • by January 15, 1948: The Daily Tar Heel and a run of new businesses move into Carrboro
• Poe, Reuben 1 entry, 1822
  • November 11, 1822: Nancy Ivey, with her husband's consent, presses Reuben Poe for child support
• Poe, T. W. 1 entry, 1933
  • by July 14, 1933: The county lets the contract for a new brick White Cross School
• Poe, William 1 entry, 1957
  • May 20, 1957: The state board of farm organizations and agencies tours Orange County farms
• Pogue, C. J. 1 entry, 1886
  • by July 31, 1886: Webb's tobacco warehouse in Hillsborough changes hands
• Pogue, E. H. 11 entries, 1866–1886

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• Pogue, Emma 1 entry, 1894
  • by October 13, 1894: Mrs. M. L. Taylor takes her sister Emma Pogue into her Hillsborough millinery business
• Pogue, Joseph Ezekiel, Sr. 1 entry, 1870

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• Pogue, W. J. 1 entry, 1879
  • 1879: E. H. Pogue moves his tobacco manufacturing from Hillsborough to Durham
• Poindexter, John F. 1 entry, 1842
  • December 2, 1842: The legislature elects Cadwallader Jones Jr. of Hillsborough solicitor for the judicial district
• Polfrit, Jean 1 entry, 1944
  • early May 1944: Free French naval aviation cadets begin training at the Pre-Flight School
• Polk, George W. 1 entry, 1832
  • November 18, 1832: William H. Polk, brother of James K. Polk, arrives to attend Hillsborough Academy
• Polk, James K. 12 entries, 1816–1997

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• Polk, Leonidas 2 entries, 1885–1905

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• Polk, Leonidas L. 1 entry, 1887
  • 1887: The legislature moves the land-grant income from the university to a new A. and M. College
• Polk, Sarah 1 entry, 1802
  • 1802: Women of Raleigh give the university a new pair of globes

  May be the same person as Polk, Sarah Childress

• Polk, Sarah Childress 1 entry, 1847
  • May 31 to June 3, 1847: President James K. Polk returns to Chapel Hill for the university commencement

  May be the same person as Polk, Sarah

• Polk, Thomas 2 entries, 1768–1775
  • September 22 to 23, 1768: Regulators gather within a mile of Hillsborough, face Tryon's militia and disperse
  • August to September 1775: The Provincial Congress at Hillsborough votes 1,000 pounds for presents to the Indians

  May be the same person as Polk, Thomas G.

• Polk, Thomas G. 1 entry, 1833
  • September 11, 1833: Hillsborough convention calls for a Roanoke and Yadkin Rail Road and two-fifths state aid

  May be the same person as Polk, Thomas

• Polk, William 16 entries, 1796–1833

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• Polk, William 1 entry, 1832

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  • November 18, 1832: William H. Polk, brother of James K. Polk, arrives to attend Hillsborough Academy
• Polk, William H. 1 entry, 1832
  • November 18, 1832: William H. Polk, brother of James K. Polk, arrives to attend Hillsborough Academy
• Polk, William T. 2 entries, 1917–1937
  • January 1917: Students petition President Graham for military training
  • October 14 and 15, 1937: The North Carolina Library Association holds its biennial meeting in Chapel Hill
• Pollard, Forrest 1 entry, 1947
  • August 1947: An advisory rent control board for the Chapel Hill area is sworn in

  May be the same person as Pollard, Forrest A.

• Pollard, Forrest A. 1 entry, 1946
  • February 14, 1946: Chapel Hill aldermen agree to a federal survey of local rents

  May be the same person as Pollard, Forrest

• Pollitt, Mrs. Dan 1 entry, 1962
  • September 1962: The Chapel Hill Fellowship for School Integration starts an evening study hall for Black pupils
• Pollitt, Daniel 2 entries, 1962–1970
  • October 23, 1962: Daniel Pollitt speaks at Chapel Hill High's first National Honor Society seminar, on the Mississippi crisis
  • May 9, 1970: Student Government's 'The Strike Continues?' release turns the strike toward canvassing and calls a Memorial Hall teach-in
• Pollitt, Daniel H. 7 entries, 1957–2011

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• Pollock, Cullen 1 entry, 1789
  • 1789: Henry Pattillo buys 5,000 acres in the Hawfields from Cullen Pollock
• Pollock, Della 2 entries, 2007–2009
  • 2007: St. Joseph CME Church and UNC begin the Northside oral history partnership
  • May 2, 2009: Marian Cheek Jackson Center opens at St. Joseph CME Church
• Pollock, Louise 1 entry, 1880
  • June 24 to July 25, 1880: The University Normal School holds its 1880 summer session
• Pompey 1 entry, 1808
  • August 25, 1808: The court sentences Pompey, a Black man, to the pillory and the lash
• Pond, Raymond 1 entry, 1942
  • August 27 to September 26, 1942: The Pre-Flight School holds its first indoctrination course for 135 new Navy athletic instructors
• Ponds, Benjamin 1 entry, 1807
  • August 1807 (court term): On Duncan Cameron's motion the court sends to Caswell County for Benjamin Ponds
• Pool, H. M. 1 entry, 1944
  • November 28, 1944: Army troops stage a chemical warfare show and war bond rally at Fetzer Field
• Pool, Solomon 26 entries, 1849–1878

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• Poole, A. B. 1 entry, 1949
  • May 3, 1949: Carrboro voters elect I. F. Hardee mayor over Mayor I. A. West
• Poole, Barbara 1 entry, 1948
  • February 18, 1948: Fire damages the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority house, the old Graham home on Battle Lane
• Poole, David Scott 3 entries, 1925–1927
  • February 10, 1925: Chase speaks against the Poole antievolution resolution at a legislative hearing
  • February 1925: The state House defeats the Poole antievolution resolution
  • 1927: A revived Poole antievolution bill dies in committee
• Poole, Elijah 2 entries, 1951
  • October 1951: Cedar Grove parents ask for a say in hiring teachers and get a Black building committee
  • November 5, 1951: School board accepts the new Cedar Grove school for Black children
• Poole, Mac 1 entry, 1947
  • May 5, 1947: Carrboro re-elects I. A. West mayor
• Pope, Bunn 1 entry, 1955
  • August 1955: The county board names a committee to study school segregation after Brown
• Pope, Bunn, Jr. 1 entry, 1961
  • April 22, 1961: Cedar Grove's Bunn Pope Jr. is named North Carolina's Outstanding Young Farmer
• Pope, C. M. 1 entry, 1920
  • September 1920: The Bank of Efland receives its state charter
• Pope, C. T. 2 entries, 1956
  • October 26, 1956: Orange growers sell their aromatic tobacco at a sale at Aycock School
  • August 22, 1956: Orange County farmers tour aromatic tobacco plots at Cedar Grove and Schley

  May be the same person as Pope, Claude; Pope, Claude T.

• Pope, C. W. 1 entry, 1952
  • by April 17, 1952: Colonial Motors, Orange County's Buick dealer, moves into its new building on West Franklin Street
• Pope, Claude 2 entries, 1957
  • April 1, 1957: County commissioners drop their requests for township limits on county boards
  • April 29, 1957: County commissioners reverse themselves and back limited Sunday racing

  May be the same person as Pope, C. T.; Pope, Claude T.

• Pope, Claude T. 3 entries, 1956–1957
  • December 3, 1956: Claude Pope and Donald Stanford join the county commissioners
  • August 18, 1957: County commissioner Claude T. Pope dies
  • August 27, 1957: Clerk E. M. Lynch appoints Donald McDade to the Board of County Commissioners

  May be the same person as Pope, C. T.; Pope, Claude

• Pope, G. M. 1 entry, 1926
  • by April 9, 1926: G. M. Pope sells his share of the Pope-Crowder Furniture Company to J. F. Crowder
• Pope, George 1 entry, 1806
  • 1806: Cane Creek Baptists organize the Haw River Mountain Church, later Antioch
• Pope, John 1 entry, 1988
  • October 28, 1988: Trustee John Pope questions the need for a Black Cultural Center
• Pope, John S. 1 entry, 1870
  • c. 1870–1874: John and Mary Jane Pope build their farm near Cedar Grove
• Pope, John W. 1 entry, 1993
  • September 12, 1993: Former trustee John W. Pope runs a newspaper ad against the Black Cultural Center
• Pope, O. B. 1 entry, 1953
  • by December 3, 1953: The Pope brothers' Apex Jobbing Company buys Bruce's 5c to $1 Store in Hillsborough
• Pope, Ruth 3 entries, 1940–1945
  • April 8, 1940: The Junior Service League starts a training school and employment agency for household workers
  • by March 19, 1943: Black residents of Chapel Hill launch a Victory Garden campaign
  • by May 1945: Orange County Training School's home economics department trains student teachers from three colleges

  May be the same person as Pope, Ruth P.

• Pope, Ruth P. 1 entry, 1950
  • by November 1950: Lincoln High girls organize a Y-Teens club

  May be the same person as Pope, Ruth

• Pope, W. P. 1 entry, 1953
  • by December 3, 1953: The Pope brothers' Apex Jobbing Company buys Bruce's 5c to $1 Store in Hillsborough
• Popham, W. S. 3 entries, 1942–1943
  • June 1942: The Naval ROTC moves out of Woollen Gym and Lenoir Hall into Swain Hall
  • November 21, 1942: Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ralph A. Bard inspects the Pre-Flight School
  • April 5, 1943: Pre-Flight cadets put out a forest fire near Horace Williams Airport

  May be the same person as Popham, William S.

• Popham, William S. 4 entries, 1943–1944
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  • August 20, 1943: Assistant Navy Secretary Artemus L. Gates addresses Pre-Flight graduates in Kenan Stadium
  • December 2, 1943: British Ambassador Lord Halifax reviews 3,500 cadets and students in Kenan Stadium
  • May 9, 1944: Eddie Rickenbacker speaks to cadets and townspeople at Fetzer Field
  • February 25, 1944: The Pre-Flight regiment parades for the university's first Naval ROTC graduates

  May be the same person as Popham, W. S.

• Porter, Clark 2 entries, 1957–1960
  • September 16, 1957: Cedar Grove Community Choir organizes
  • by December 1960: The Orange County Council on Alcoholism organizes
• Porter, F. Ross 5 entries, 1936–1960
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  • 1936: The Berry Brick House leaves the Berry family after 131 years
  • 1943: The McLartys sell the Berry Brick House to Mr. and Mrs. F. Ross Porter
  • March 26, 1959: The General Assembly enlarges the Orange County Board of Education to five members
  • January 4, 1960: Orange County school board resolves to plan for a 6-3-3 school system
  • August 15, 1960: Democrats name Delmar Brown to the Orange County Board of Education
• Porter, Isaac 29 entries, 1866–1867
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  • about December 1, 1866: A Black newspaper editor from Baltimore canvasses Hillsborough for subscribers
  • November 1866: The Bureau disputes a coroner's verdict clearing C. C. Tinnen in the shooting of Bill Fuller
  • April to September 1866: The Bureau office at Hillsborough tries freedpeople's claims against white residents
  • June 1866: The Bureau office at Hillsborough reviews apprenticeships made by the Orange County court
  • August 1866: Bureau headquarters declines to overturn a magistrate's judgment against a freedman
  • July 13-18, 1866: The Freedmen's Bureau turns freedpeople's cases in Orange and Alamance over to the county courts
  • May 31, 1866: Black residents of Hillsborough ask the Bureau to find teachers for their children
  • November 1866 to August 1867: The Hillsborough Bureau office approves 62 labor contracts
  • November 1866 to August 1867: The Hillsborough Bureau office hears about twenty freedpeople's claims for wages and crops
  • November 1866 to July 1867: The Hillsborough Bureau office records nine attacks on freedpeople
  • May 1866: Lieutenant Isaac Porter takes charge of the Freedmen's Bureau office at Hillsborough
  • October 6, 1866: The Bureau's school superintendent seeks Quaker teachers for Chapel Hill and Bane's School House
  • October 15, 1866: The Bureau office warns that Orange County provides only for its white poor
  • November 20, 1866: Seventeen freedpeople at Hillsborough seek passage to a Mississippi plantation
  • April 10 to May 18, 1867: The Bureau and James C. Turrentine distribute 150 bushels of corn to Orange County's poor
  • July and August 1867: The Bureau office at Hillsborough draws corn and bacon for the destitute and proposes ending rations
  • January 23 to February 5, 1867: The Bureau investigates reports that a Hillsborough freedmen's teacher was shot at and driven away
  • October 1, 1867: The Bureau relieves Lt. Isaac Porter and puts Orange County under its Raleigh agent
  • July 17, 1867: Cicero M. Faucett is confirmed as clerk of the Bureau office at Hillsborough
  • April 1867 to July 1868: Freedpeople ask the Hillsborough Bureau office to recover children held by employers and former owners
  • March to August 1867: Milly Johnson of Chapel Hill asks the Bureau to recover children taken from her in slavery
  • February term, 1867: Orange County court binds out eight Black children as apprentices with the Bureau officer attending
  • February 28, 1867: Orange County court has four Black people publicly whipped for stealing
  • September 24, 1867: Lt. Isaac Porter sends the Bureau his annual report for the sub-district of Orange
  • May 13 to 15, 1867: Lt. Isaac Porter recommends men to register Orange County's voters under the Reconstruction Acts
  • April 24, 1867: Lt. Isaac Porter reports that talk of land and houses is drawing freedpeople from their crops
  • March 6, 1867: Lt. Isaac Porter reports that the Bureau has issued no rations in Orange in a year
  • March 30, 1867: Lt. Isaac Porter reports four freedmen's schools running in Orange and the Hillsborough school closed
  • June 26, 1867: Lt. Isaac Porter takes charge of Orange and Person counties for the Bureau from Hillsborough
• Porter, Joe Ashby 1 entry, 1986
  • July 20, 1986: Six writers read at the Hardback Cafe to raise money against the Shearon Harris nuclear plant
• Porter, Ross 3 entries, 1958–1959
  • November 25, 1958: Orange Democrats name Ross Porter to the county school board
  • May 31, 1958: Orange Democrats renominate Sheriff Clayton and Senator Lanier in the primary
  • January 5, 1959: Orange County school board agrees to send Person County pupils at Aycock back to Person
• Porter, W. C. 2 entries, 1959–1960
  • November 15, 1959: Cedar Grove residents start a move to restore the old Eno church cemetery
  • by October 13, 1960: The Orange County ABC Board sets up a Council on Alcoholism
• Porto, James V., Jr. 1 entry, 1987
  • December 1, 1987: Eleanor Kinnaird is sworn in as mayor of Carrboro
• Porto, Jim 1 entry, 1986
  • June 1986: Carrboro Mayor Jim Porto makes a statement against discrimination toward gay men and lesbians
• Posada, Eliazar 1 entry, 2024
  • October 15–November 7, 2024: Carrboro and Orange County name the Drakeford Library Complex
• Posada-Orozco, Eliazar 1 entry, 2025
  • November 18, 2025: Carrboro Town Council reaffirms support for immigrant communities and its 4th Amendment status
• Post, Langdon 1 entry, 1940
  • March 11, 1940: A town meeting hears a federal housing official on clearing Chapel Hill's slums
• Poteat, Brice 2 entries, 1956
  • October 26, 1956: Orange growers sell their aromatic tobacco at a sale at Aycock School
  • August 22, 1956: Orange County farmers tour aromatic tobacco plots at Cedar Grove and Schley
• Poteat, E. McNeill 1 entry, 1933
  • October 3, 1933: Orange County drys name Hillsboro grocer J. J. Ward to oppose repeal
• Poteat, John 1 entry, 1932
  • by February 19, 1932: Teacher John Poteat turns a $10 gift into clothes for 33 pupils at the Black Harmony school
• Poteat, W. L. 1 entry, 1931
  • November 5, 1931: The Southern Conference on Education opens at the Carolina Inn on the theme of education and the Depression

  May be the same person as Poteat, William Louis

• Poteat, William Louis 1 entry, 1925
  • May 1925: Wake Forest president William Louis Poteat gives the McNair lectures

  May be the same person as Poteat, W. L.

• Potter, Ben 1 entry, 1955
  • August 5, 1955: The Chapel Hill district planning board swears in Ben Potter and Roy Cole
• Potter, Henry 3 entries, 1801–1816
  • 1801-1802: The university raises money for the Main Building by lottery
  • 1802: A trustee committee reports on the examination at the 1802 commencement
  • December 1816: Joseph Caldwell is elected president a second time
• Potter, S. W. 1 entry, 1802
  • 1802: Women of Raleigh give the university a new pair of globes
• Potts, Jacob 1 entry, 1830
  • about 1830-1832: Orange Methodist Church is organized at the Davis School House
• Pou, James 1 entry, 1917
  • July 5, 1917: The Orange County Red Cross chapter organizes permanently under John W. Graham
• Pou, James H. 1 entry, 1918

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• Pound, Roscoe 2 entries, 1932–1935
  • September 9-10, 1932: Albert Coates convenes the Institute of Government's first statewide school for public officials
  • April 1935: Popular Government launches a campaign for an Institute of Government building
• Powell, Barbara 1 entry, 1993
  • January 11, 1993: Chapel Hill Town Council funds the Midway Development Commission
• Powell, Burnele 1 entry, 1981
  • September 30, 1981: A chancellor's report counts 54 Black faculty among UNC's 1,880
• Powell, C. Whid 1 entry, 1963
  • January 29, 1963: Chapel Hill aldermen approve rezoning for C. Whid Powell's apartments near Eastgate
• Powell, Charles G. 1 entry, 1940
  • by July 5, 1940: Orange County residents have received about $153,700 under Social Security
• Powell, J. K. 2 entries, 1903
  • by November 19, 1903: R. W. Finlator succeeds J. K. Powell as Southern Railway agent at Hillsborough
  • November 9, 1903: Fire destroys the Hillsborough depot
• Powell, Mrs. John 1 entry, 1935
  • September 24, 1935: Women of New Hope and Blackwood Station organize a home demonstration club
• Powell, John 1 entry, 2023
  • December 2023: UNC Libraries endows the Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Fellowship
• Powell, Joseph Clay 1 entry, 1877
  • June 1877: The reopened university graduates its first class
• Powell, Lemuel B. 1 entry, 1837
  • June 1837: The university graduates nine seniors and makes Basil Manly a Doctor of Divinity
• Powell, Robert S., Jr. 8 entries, 1965–1966

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• Powell, Sadie F. 1 entry, 1934
  • May 1934: Certified teacher J. A. Lassiter becomes matron of the Efland Home
• Powell, Whid 1 entry, 1957
  • January 7, 1957: Commissioners make the development commission Orange's voice on the proposed New Hope dam
• Powell, William S. 7 entries, 1752–1975

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• Powers, S. J. 1 entry, 1945
  • October 8, 1945: Ideal Dry Cleaners opens in Hillsborough
• Poythress, D. H. 1 entry, 1925
  • January and February 1925: The Chapel Hill post office adds a third carrier for the campus and puts up street letter boxes
• Poythress, T. C. 2 entries, 1919
  • August 29, 1919: Lightning burns the engine house at Pritchard's mill
  • by July 24, 1919: The Pritchards sell their mill and cotton gin to Bowden and Poythress
• Pratt, Alfred 1 entry, 1888
  • 1888: Piney Grove Baptist Church is organized
• Pratt, George 1 entry, 1888
  • 1888: Piney Grove Baptist Church is organized
• Pratt, Henry B. 2 entries, 1863–1868
  • October 4, 1863: Pastor Henry B. Pratt tells the Presbyterian session he will serve the army as a chaplain
  • May 1868: Henry B. Pratt, a missionary to South America, supplies New Hope
• Pratt, Mrs. J. H. 2 entries, 1917
  • May 28, 1917: Chapel Hill and Carrboro residents vote to form a Red Cross chapter at the Graded School
  • October 1917: The Chapel Hill Red Cross re-elects its officers and names delegates to the state Red Cross congress

  May be the same person as Pratt, Mrs. Joseph Hyde

• Pratt, James 1 entry, 1789
  • November 10, 1789: The House pays the men who carried the state treasury out of Hillsborough
• Pratt, James H. 3 entries, 1850–1885

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• Pratt, Joseph Hyde 73 entries, 1897–1952

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• Pratt, Mrs. Joseph Hyde 2 entries, 1932
  • by May 13, 1932: The Red Cross and the Central Welfare Committee give garden seed to forty Chapel Hill and Carrboro families
  • by October 14, 1932: Volunteer committees give out federal Red Cross cloth in Chapel Hill, Efland and Hillsboro

  May be the same person as Pratt, Mrs. J. H.

• Pratt, Loftin K. 2 entries, 1844–1846
  • August 1, 1844: Orange elects its whole Whig ticket
  • August Term 1846: The court binds Stephen Wilson, a boy of color, to his late master's widow, Nancy Pratt
• Pratt, Malvina 1 entry, 1850
  • 1850: The 1850 census records 47 enslaved people on James H. Pratt's farm by the Eno
• Pratt, Mary 1 entry, 1945
  • May 26, 1945: Black farm families open a curb market on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Pratt, Mary Bayley

• Pratt, Mary Bayley 2 entries, 1929
  • May 1929: Citizens' committee founds the Mary B. Pratt Library for Chapel Hill children
  • 1929: Mary Bayley Pratt, namesake of Chapel Hill's public library, is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

  May be the same person as Pratt, Mary

• Pratt, Moses S. 1 entry, 1826
  • November 28, 1826: The court binds Susan Revill, a free girl of color, to Moses S. Pratt
• Pratt, Nancy 1 entry, 1846
  • August Term 1846: The court binds Stephen Wilson, a boy of color, to his late master's widow, Nancy Pratt
• Pratt, W. N. 1 entry, 1850
  • February 8, 1850: Orange railroad meeting names a committee to raise subscriptions
• Preslar, Mack 1 entry, 1962
  • March 25-27, 1962: WCHL radio moves into new quarters
• Preston, C. E. 1 entry, 1942
  • October 24, 1942: Chapel Hill schoolchildren collect 21,650 pounds of scrap in one day
• Preston, Max 1 entry, 2007
  • November 30, 2007: Lee Smith, Randall Kenan and Allan Gurganus gather with other authors at Brick Alley Books
• Preston, Nancy 2 entries, 1976–1987
  • January 12, 1976: Chapel Hill aldermen adopt ordinances creating a historic district and commission
  • November 3, 1987: Joe Herzenberg wins election to the Chapel Hill Town Council
• Preston, Stanley 1 entry, 1929
  • December 10, 1929: The University radio station W4WE talks with the Byrd expedition in Antarctica
• Prete, Phil 1 entry, 2002
  • September 2002: Carrboro switches its town vehicles to biodiesel fuel
• Pretty, Betty A. 1 entry, 1947
  • April 16, 1947: A play school for young children opens at Hillsboro's high school for Black students
• Pretty, Bettye 1 entry, 1946
  • March 22, 1946: Hillsboro's Health Club honors returning Black veterans with a banquet
• Price, Daniel O. 1 entry, 1948
  • April 12-13, 1948: The Junior Service League canvasses the Chapel Hill school district for a census
• Price, David 1 entry, 1961

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• Price, Gwyn 2 entries, 1944–1957
  • April 13, 1944: Two Orange County farm families receive the REA's War Food Production award
  • May 20, 1957: The state board of farm organizations and agencies tours Orange County farms

  May be the same person as Price, Gwyn B.

• Price, Gwyn B. 1 entry, 1956
  • June 16, 1956: Piedmont Electric members hold their 17th annual meeting at Hillsboro

  May be the same person as Price, Gwyn

• Price, H. H. 1 entry, 1861
  • April 27, 1861: Students petition trustees to close the university for the war
• Price, Julian 1 entry, 1939
  • Spring 1939: Construction begins on the Institute of Government building on Franklin Street
• Price, Marva 1 entry, 2021
  • May 1, 2021: Pop-up vaccine clinic held at the Rogers Road Community Center
• Price, Renée 6 entries, 2021–2023

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• Price, Ruth 1 entry, 1953
  • 1953: The Webb brothers build a small two-level house for Ruth Price in Westwood
• Pride, Armistead 1 entry, 1976
  • October 29-30, 1976: The School of Journalism holds a workshop on the Black press
• Prieur, François 1 entry, 1945
  • February 4, 1945: Seven French journalists, among them Jean-Paul Sartre, visit the Pre-Flight School and its French cadets
• Primrose, John W. 1 entry, 1879
  • April 23, 1879: Orange Presbytery holds its 318th session at Eno Church and approves the church order sent down by the General Assembly
• Primrose, W. S. 1 entry, 1884
  • April 1, 1884: Orange County justices agree to raise $400 for a county exhibit at the State Exposition
• Prince, Lillian Hughes 3 entries, 1939–1962

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• Prince, William Meade 11 entries, 1925–1992

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• Prince, Mrs. William Meade 2 entries, 1941–1942
  • May 1941: The British War Relief committee opens a thrift shop in Chapel Hill
  • by December 4, 1942: Chapel Hill's British War Relief Society becomes a general War Relief Society
• Priscilla 1 entry, 1818
  • August 18, 1818: Mary Walker is born into an enslaved family held by the Bennehans and Camerons
• Pritchard, Rev. Dr. 1 entry, 1880
  • July 20, 1880: Rev. Dr. Pritchard of Wake Forest lectures the Normal School on education and the state's resources
• Pritchard, Grady 4 entries, 1945–1957
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  • by July 12, 1945: Mayor Madry names a citizens committee to study Chapel Hill's postwar housing
  • 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
  • January 3, 1957: A hearing on the Chapel Hill recreation district turns to Carrboro's school tax and integration
• Pritchard, Isaac W. 23 entries, 1900–1935

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• Pritchard, James Manning 4 entries, 1930–1944

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• Pritchard, Josephine 1 entry, 1931
  • by October 2, 1931: The Chapel Hill Garden Club leaves the Community Club to join the North Carolina Garden Club
• Pritchard, Josie 3 entries, 1918–1919
  • October 1918: Carrboro opens an influenza diet kitchen in the mill club rooms
  • January 1918: Chapel Hill school children organize a Junior Red Cross auxiliary
  • by January 2, 1919: The American Red Cross commends Chapel Hill women for their work in the influenza epidemic
• Pritchard, Manning 1 entry, 1931
  • by October 23, 1931: The Postal Telegraph Company opens an office in the Pritchard-Lloyd drug store
• Pritchard, Thomas Henderson 2 entries, 1868–1873

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• Pritchard, W. N. 9 entries, 1887–1919
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  • 1887 to 1888: University Lodge No. 408 is chartered at Chapel Hill
  • 1888 to 1890: Alphonso J. McDade returns as mayor of Chapel Hill
  • June 27, 1888: Chapel Hill Democrats organize a Cleveland, Fowle and Bunn Club
  • November 1895 to 1896: Algernon S. Barbee serves as mayor of Chapel Hill
  • July 12, 1900: Charles B. Aycock addresses a White Supremacy rally at Hillsborough
  • November 4, 1902: Democrats carry Orange and Sheriff Hughes beats an independent challenger
  • August 16, 1902: Orange Democrats name their 1902 county ticket
  • September 9, 1902: Senatorial district Democrats nominate R. L. Walker and W. N. Pritchard at Hillsborough
  • by July 24, 1919: The Pritchards sell their mill and cotton gin to Bowden and Poythress
• Pritchard, William 2 entries, 1886–1930
  • 1886: Thomas F. Lloyd buys out his partner and adds a flour mill by the depot
  • January 1930: Postmaster, mayor and state senator William Pritchard is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
• Pritchard, William A. 1 entry, 1942
  • 1942: Coates trains as a civil defense instructor and Popular Government issues a defense number
• Pritchard, William N. 2 entries, 1820–1882
  • as early as 1820 (tradition): The core of the Saunders-Pritchard House is built on land that later became Northside
  • 1882: William N. Pritchard and Thomas F. Lloyd open a general store on East Franklin Street
• Pritchit, Joseph 1 entry, 1768
  • August 27, 1768: William Chavis of Granville County sells 320 acres on the Haw River
• Privett, Joe P. 1 entry, 1946
  • December 17, 1946: The state gives Orange Furniture Craftsmen its first Certificate of Safety Achievement
• Privett, Megan 1 entry, 2016
  • 2016: Hillsborough hires hmwPreservation to survey buildings outside its historic district
• Proctor, A. M. 2 entries, 1930–1945
  • by May 16, 1930: Orange County board of education begins a survey of the county's schools
  • May 31, 1945: Efland High's senior class gives the school a plaque for former students who died in the war
• Proctor, Joseph, Jr. 1 entry, 1828
  • 10 January 1828: A warrant charges Joseph Proctor Jr. with beating Susan Willis, who had named him as her child's father
• Proffit, Glenn T. 17 entries, 1946–1951

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• Proffitt, Glenn T. 2 entries, 1948
  • August 26–September 13, 1948: Polio postpones the opening of Orange County schools twice
  • September 13, 1948: Orange County schools open after two polio postponements
• Project, UNC Agricultural Marketing 1 entry, 1977
  • 1977: Planning begins for Carrboro’s farmers’ market
• Prothro, Mary 2 entries, 1969
  • May 12, 1969: Howard Lee takes the oath as mayor of Chapel Hill at Town Hall
  • April 30, 1969: Mayoral and aldermanic candidates answer questions at the Institute of Government
• Protzman, Jim 1 entry, 1996
  • February 12, 1996: Chapel Hill Town Council recommends site OC-17 beside the Eubanks Road landfill for the next county landfill
• Prout, Edward G. 1 entry, 1865
  • June 1865: The 1865 commencement graduates one senior before a crowd of Federal soldiers
• Prout, Henry H. 1 entry, 1838
  • 1838: Henry H. Prout becomes minister at St. Matthew's
• Prout, William Curtis 1 entry, 1865
  • June 1865: The 1865 commencement graduates one senior before a crowd of Federal soldiers
• Prouty, W. F. 1 entry, 1925
  • by July 17, 1925: Chapel Hill Insurance and Realty Company opens Forest Hills on the Pittsboro road

  May be the same person as Prouty, William F.; Prouty, William Frederick

• Prouty, William F. 1 entry, 1932
  • by November 18, 1932: Collier Cobb gives up the headship of the University geology department to William F. Prouty

  May be the same person as Prouty, W. F.; Prouty, William Frederick

• Prouty, William Frederick 1 entry, 1949
  • June 27, 1949: UNC geologist William Frederick Prouty dies

  May be the same person as Prouty, W. F.; Prouty, William F.

• Pruden, Jock 1 entry, 1954
  • by November 18, 1954: The new Orange Country Club elects its directors and plans a clubhouse
• Pryor, John 4 entries, 1769–1771

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• Puckett, Jane 1 entry, 1818
  • by 1818: The Puckett house stands on East Franklin Street across from Hooper's
• Puckett, W. H. 5 entries, 1887–1890
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  • December 1887: The Methodist conference sends W. H. Puckett to the Hillsborough Circuit
  • April 30, 1889: Hillsborough rings its bells and its churches join in a Washington centennial service
  • December 15, 1890: The Methodist conference sends J. E. Bristowe to the Hillsborough Circuit
  • November 1890 (closed November 19): Hillsborough Methodists hold a protracted revival meeting
  • June 10, 1890: Town commissioner Robert Faucett dies in Hillsboro
• Pugh, James 1 entry, 1771
  • June 19, 1771: Regulators are tried and executed at Hillsborough
• Pugh, Mary C. 1 entry, 1865
  • November Term 1865: The court binds Mary C. Pugh, aged ten, to Nathaniel D. Bain
• Pugh, W. M. 7 entries, 1923–1941
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  • May 1923: Louis Graves founds the Orange Printshop in Chapel Hill
  • September 1935: The Chapel Hill Kiwanis Club elects Dr. J. P. Jones president and W. O. Sparrow vice-president
  • by August 23, 1935: The Orange Printshop and the Chapel Hill Weekly finish a brick addition on Rosemary Lane
  • December 20, 1937: Bruce Strowd is named Chapel Hill's most valuable citizen
  • April 26, 1939: The Orange Printshop delivers North Carolina's 1939 Public Laws to the Capitol
  • by April 27, 1939: The Orange Printshop of Chapel Hill prints the state's 1939 Public Laws in record time
  • August 11, 1941: Chapel Hill Masons dedicate a memorial to Dr. Eric A. Abernethy
• Pugh, William 1 entry, 1752
  • 1752: The act creating Orange County names James Watson a boundary commissioner and vestryman
• Pugh, William M. 2 entries, 1940–1962
  • January 1, 1940: Louis Graves sells the Orange Printshop business to W. M. Pugh
  • August 15, 1962: The Orange Printshop closes after 39 years
• Pulley, J. R. 1 entry, 1946
  • August 9, 1946: Farmers organize a Grange at New Hope
• Pulley, Pete 1 entry, 1944
  • January 11, 1944: The Scuttlebutt, a Navy canteen, opens on the UNC campus
• Purefoy, George W. 4 entries, 1855–1880
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  • May 6, 1855: The Baptist Church of Chapel Hill opens its first church
  • April 19 to 22, 1865: Swain asks Sherman to stop the stripping of farms around Chapel Hill
  • April 1867: Chapel Hill farmers organize the Chapel Hill Agricultural Society
  • April 17, 1880: Baptist minister George W. Purefoy dies near Chapel Hill
• Purefoy, Tom 1 entry, 1943
  • by February 19, 1943: Civilian Defense gives arm bands to twelve Black volunteer fire-fighters in Chapel Hill
• Purtle, George 1 entry, 1952
  • March 30, 1952: The Rev. George Purtle becomes pastor of Antioch Baptist Church near Carrboro
• Putnam, Kenneth 5 entries, 1949–1953
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  • May 3, 1949: Mrs. Roland McClamroch and the Rev. J. H. Jones run for the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen
  • January-February 1949: The Chapel Hill Jaycees plant more than a hundred trees in the Chapel Hill and Carrboro business districts
  • November 26, 1951: Chapel Hill aldermen approve adding fluorine to the town water
  • February 9, 1953: Chapel Hill aldermen ask for a new, smaller perimeter zoning act
  • May 5, 1953: Hubert Robinson and Paul Wager are elected to the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen
• Pwee, Eh Tha 1 entry, 2011
  • October 25, 2011: Karen Community of North Carolina is incorporated in Chapel Hill
• Pyle, John 4 entries, 1765–1781
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  • About 1765 or 1766: Edmund Fanning drags John Pyle from his horse in a Hillsborough street
  • September 1768: Edmund Fanning orders John Pyle out of Hillsborough before the superior court
  • April 23-24, 1770: Orange justices take sworn statements for Herman Husband's defense
  • February 25, 1781: Pyle's defeat near the Haw River
• Pyle, Sarah 1 entry, 1769
  • January 20, 1769: Simon Lindley is born in Orange County