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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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• Raborg, W. A. 2 entries, 1942–1943
  • November 1942: Kenneth Tanner lends West House to the Carolina Volunteer Training Corps
  • May 25, 1943: The Chapel Hill Rifle Club is organized
• Rachel 1 entry, 1798
  • May 31, 1798: The court frees Sam, son of Rachel, and names him Samuel Freeman
• Rachel 1 entry, 1799
  • November Term 1799: The court leaves Rachel, Suckey and Billey in Mary Doherty's care while their freedom petition is heard
• Rackley, U. M. 2 entries, 1932–1933
  • March 31, 1932: Bandits who robbed a Chapel Hill lunch stand shoot a student during a police chase
  • by August 18, 1933: The National Re-Employment Service opens Orange County offices in Hillsborough and Chapel Hill
• Radford, A. E. 1 entry, 1975
  • 1975: Botanists list Occoneechee Mountain as a potential ecological natural landmark
• Radford, Arthur W. 1 entry, 1944
  • June 24, 1944: Pre-Flight cadets are told the Navy is cutting back pilot training
• Ragans, Charlotte 1 entry, 2011
  • June 26, 2011: The A & M Grill in Mebane closes after 63 years
• Ragland, Robert 1 entry, 1983
  • from February 28, 1983: The UNC School of Medicine turns down a scholarship for openly gay medical students
• Ragsdale, Nimrod 1 entry, 1822
  • 1822–1824: Named enslaved workers build the third story of Old East
• Rainey, Dr. Beverly 1 entry, 1940
  • March 8, 1940: A crippled children's clinic at the Infirmary sees twenty-two white and Black patients
• Rainey, Charlie 1 entry, 1955
  • May 1955: Roosevelt Warner is named to the advisory committee of Hillsboro's Central school
• Rainey, David 1 entry, 1789
  • November 10, 1789: The House pays the men who carried the state treasury out of Hillsborough
• Rains, Sarah 1 entry, 1964
  • by November 3, 1964: Chapel Hill Housing Authority buys its first public housing sites, including the disputed Abernethy tract
• Ramsey, Ambrose 1 entry, 1776
  • April 24, 1776: The Provincial Congress orders a public musket factory for Hillsborough District under Johnston, Burke and Ramsey
• Ramsey, Elizabeth 1 entry, 2021
  • January 11, 2021: UNC Health opens a large vaccination clinic at the Friday Center
• Ramsey, John Ambrose 1 entry, 1811
  • 1811: A student outbreak leaves the university with no graduates
• Ramsey, N. A. 1 entry, 1894
  • by June 30, 1894: Surveyor N. A. Ramsey enters unclaimed land near University Station as state land
• Ramsey, Randy 2 entries, 2019
  • December 13, 2019: Kevin M. Guskiewicz is named UNC-Chapel Hill's twelfth chancellor
  • November 27, 2019: The UNC System gives Silent Sam to the Sons of Confederate Veterans with a $2.5 million trust in a same-day consent judgment
• Ramsey, William 1 entry, 1816
  • May Term 1816: The court sentences Jim, an enslaved man, to hang for housebreaking and grants his appeal
• Rand, Isaac William 4 entries, 1906–1913

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• Rand, Isaac William 1 entry, 1912

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• Rand, John 1 entry, 1776
  • May 11, 1776: The congress dissolves the district committees of safety and seats Person and Rand for Hillsborough District on a new Council of Safety
• Randall, Alexander W. 1 entry, 1867
  • June 1867: President Andrew Johnson attends commencement
• Randall, Slats 1 entry, 1925
  • April 1 and 2, 1925: The Di Senate stages a blackface minstrel revue in Memorial Hall
• Randall, William George 3 entries, 1880–1884

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• Randolph, P. S. 1 entry, 1931
  • by December 4, 1931: Chapel Hill merchants form a credit association
• Raney, George H. 1 entry, 1906
  • June 11, 1906: Chapel Hill firemen elect officers and delegates to the state tournament
• Raney, T. H. 3 entries, 1910–1922
  • 1910: Carrboro Methodist Church is organized
  • May 1, 1919: The Raney Canner Company of Chapel Hill is dissolved
  • May 30, 1922: Chapel Hill school district voters approve $40,000 in bonds for school buildings

  May be the same person as Raney, Thomas H.

• Raney, Thomas H. 1 entry, 1939
  • June 25, 1939: Thomas H. Raney, inventor of a home canning apparatus, dies in Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Raney, T. H.

• Rankin, E. R. 1 entry, 1924
  • September 12, 1924: Chapel Hill observes National Defense Day with exercises at the post office

  May be the same person as Rankin, Edgar Ralph

• Rankin, Edgar Ralph 1 entry, 1920
  • October 2, 1920: Forty-three alumni meet at the Coop and start the campaign for the state's colleges

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

• Rankin, F. B. 1 entry, 1907
  • May 1, 1907: The University Dramatic Club stages a student show
• Rankin, G. F. 1 entry, 1959
  • January 30, 1959: Orange County places second in the state Rural Progress contest for Black farm families
• Rankin, R. Grady 1 entry, 1947
  • November 18, 1947: State Education Commission consultants begin studying Orange County's schools
• Rankin, S. M. 1 entry, 1908
  • November 1, 1908 or 1909: Efland Presbyterian Church is organized
• Rankin, Thomas S. 2 entries, 1998–1999
  • 1998: Thomas S. Rankin buys the Ira Ellis House
  • 1999 and 2005: Two large rear wings are added to the Ira Ellis House
• Rankin, W. S. 1 entry, 1915
  • July 5 to 10, 1915: The University Summer School holds a Rural Life Conference

  May be the same person as Rankin, Watson S.

• Rankin, W. W. 2 entries, 1918
  • December 1918: The Chapel Hill Red Cross signs 550 members in its 1918 Christmas Roll Call
  • January 1918: Chapel Hill school children organize a Junior Red Cross auxiliary
• Rankin, Watson S. 1 entry, 1919
  • March 17, 1919: The State Board of Health proposes a course for health officers and public health nurses at the university

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

• Rankins, Agnes 1 entry, 1941
  • April and May 1941: Black citizens' committee raises money to finish the Negro Community Center
• Ransom 1 entry, 1846
  • 31 January 1846: James Jackson Jr. conveys the services of William Carter, a free bound boy, in a deed of trust with two enslaved men
• Ransom, George 1 entry, 1891
  • April 11, 1891: Students merge the football and baseball associations into the Athletic Association of the University
• Ransom, Matt W. 2 entries, 1846–1847

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• Ransom, Paul 1 entry, 1956
  • May 5, 1956: Opponents of auto racing form the Orange County Anti-Racing Association
• Ranson, Paul 1 entry, 1955
  • July 28, 1955: County commissioners levy a 10-cent tax for the new Greater Chapel Hill Fire District

  May be the same person as Ranson, Paul J.

• Ranson, Paul J. 1 entry, 1955
  • February 8, 1955: Hillsborough's board votes to seek a $50,000 water bond election for an Eno River dam

  May be the same person as Ranson, Paul

• Raper, Charles L. 1 entry, 1920
  • January 1920 to 1925: Edwin Greenlaw becomes dean of the Graduate School
• Rashkis, Mel 1 entry, 2003

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• Rashkis, Zora 1 entry, 2003

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• Raspberry, Paul 1 entry, 1965
  • July 15, 1965: The board names the first principals of Stanford Junior High and Central Elementary
• Rasulala, Thalmus 1 entry, 1981
  • April 16, 1981: Afro-American studies and Black Ink award prizes in their first poetry contest
• Rasulala, Wallye 1 entry, 1981
  • February 6-8, 1981: Ben Chavis gives the keynote at the BSM's Discovery conference for Black History Month
• Ratliff, Vernon 1 entry, 1927
  • June-July 1927: Barnstormer Vernon Ratliff flies passengers over Chapel Hill
• Raugh, James P. 10 entries, 1942–1945

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• Ravenel, Shannon 3 entries, 1982–2001

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• Ravenscroft, Bishop 1 entry, 1823
  • 1823: Bishop Ravenscroft makes his first visitation to Orange County
• Ravenscroft, John Stark 6 entries, 1823–1827

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• Rawlins, Benjamin 1 entry, 1981
  • September 30, 1981: A chancellor's report counts 54 Black faculty among UNC's 1,880

  May be the same person as Rawlins, Benjamin E.

• Rawlins, Benjamin E. 1 entry, 1983
  • by November 1983: Harold Wallace is named UNC's acting affirmative action officer

  May be the same person as Rawlins, Benjamin

• Ray, Annie L. 1 entry, 1956
  • February 13, 1956: Black women at Mars Hill organize a home demonstration club
• Ray, Arthur W. 1 entry, 1905
  • May 8, 1905: Hillsborough's town board elects George A. Durham treasurer
• Ray, Atlas 1 entry, 1910
  • 1910: Blacksmith Bennie Ray builds a two-story house on Weaver Street
• Ray, Benjamin W. 1 entry, 1932
  • December 20, 1932: Carrboro blacksmith Benny Ray dies
• Ray, Bennie 1 entry, 1910
  • 1910: Blacksmith Bennie Ray builds a two-story house on Weaver Street

  May be the same person as Ray, Bennie F.

• Ray, Bennie F. 1 entry, 1880
  • 1880s (after about 1886): Jack Brim, a Black blacksmith, and then Bennie F. Ray open smithies at West End

  May be the same person as Ray, Bennie

• Ray, Benson 1 entry, 1958
  • July 29, 1958: The county board names three new members to the Carrboro school committee
• Ray, C. E., Jr. 1 entry, 1932
  • August 31, 1932: Chapel Hill reaches 106 degrees, an August record, in a summer of drought

  May be the same person as Ray, Charles E., Jr.

• Ray, C. W. 1 entry, 1943
  • July 12, 1943: Orange County commissioners cut the county tax rate from 95 to 88 cents
• Ray, Calvin 1 entry, 1953
  • July 8, 1953: Ray-O'Neal Motors takes over the Hillsboro Ford franchise from Richmond Motor Company
• Ray, Charles 1 entry, 1925
  • May 5, 1925: Carrboro elects T. N. Mann mayor

  May be the same person as Ray, Charles E.

• Ray, Charles E. 2 entries, 1930–1932
  • January 29-30, 1930: A five-inch snowstorm blankets Chapel Hill
  • December 16-22, 1932: A snowstorm and cold wave grip Chapel Hill for a week

  May be the same person as Ray, Charles

• Ray, Charles E., Jr. 2 entries, 1931–1933
  • October 29, 1931: Rain ends a 58-day drought in Chapel Hill
  • June 20, 1933: Chapel Hill's official thermometer reaches 102 degrees in a dry June

  May be the same person as Ray, C. E., Jr.

• Ray, Clyde 1 entry, 1929
  • by August 23, 1929: Orange County commissioners name a committee to put a marker to Dr. Edmund Strudwick on the courthouse square
• Ray, D. S. 1 entry, 1862
  • May 16-17, 1862: John W. Graham's volunteer company leaves Hillsborough and elects its officers
• Ray, David 7 entries, 1793–1810
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  • March 20, 1793: Hillsborough gets the first post office in Orange County
  • February Term 1794: John Walker resigns as county treasurer and David Ray succeeds him
  • 1805: The General Assembly restores the university's escheats
  • May Term 1807: The court appoints James Webb treasurer of public buildings
  • August 29, 1809: The court frees nine people under Absalom Tatom's will, who take the name Tatom
  • May Term 1809: The court lets the treasurer of public buildings hire a keeper for the courthouse
  • May Term 1810: The court elects Josiah Turner sheriff of Orange County
• Ray, David S. 1 entry, 1863
  • May 22, 1863: The Orange company of the 56th N.C. loses Lieut. David S. Ray at Gum Swamp
• Ray, Dwight 32 entries, 1920–1959

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• Ray, Estelle 1 entry, 1909
  • 1909: Estelle Ray builds a two-story house on Oak Avenue and takes in boarders
• Ray, Frank 1 entry, 1956
  • May 15, 1956: The Hillsboro Exchange Club formally opens its community park
• Ray, George 1 entry, 1974
  • November 25, 1974: The BSM starts a call-and-visit program for older Chapel Hill and Carrboro residents
• Ray, Gilbert 12 entries, 1930–1959
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  • by December 12, 1930: County names township tax assessors for the 1931 revaluation
  • February 16, 1932: County accountant reports Orange retiring $112,377 in bonds
  • August 13, 1932: Orange County Young Democrats organize at Hillsborough and elect L. J. Phipps president
  • by August 18, 1933: The National Re-Employment Service opens Orange County offices in Hillsborough and Chapel Hill
  • May 14, 1945: Orange County opens the Seventh War Loan drive with a $574,000 quota
  • July 7, 1945: Orange County closes the Seventh War Loan at $1,308,000, more than twice its quota
  • by September 19, 1946: Orange County's 1946 tax valuation reaches $18.8 million
  • November 1947: Chapel Hill aldermen call a $275,000 bond election for sewage works and streets
  • July 30, 1947: Chapel Hill names county accountant Gilbert Ray city manager
  • January 26, 1948: Chapel Hill orders traffic lights for the post office corner
  • April 6, 1948: Chapel Hill voters approve $260,000 in bonds for sewers, streets and equipment
  • by June 18, 1959: Bonner D. Sawyer buys the Hillsborough building that houses the News of Orange County
• Ray, Gilbert W. 53 entries, 1925–1949

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• Ray, Gurnie H. 1 entry, 1925
  • from the mid-1920s: A two-story brick store block rises in stages at 114 to 120 East Main Street
• Ray, J. C. 1 entry, 1930
  • May 14, 1930: Hillsboro high school graduates 31 seniors
• Ray, J. Clyde 4 entries, 1925–1930
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  • April 1925: Lawyer J. Clyde Ray finishes a two-story office building with a restaurant on Churton Street
  • March to November 1927: Chapel Hill Community Club women question local legislators on the women's bills
  • June 9, 1928: Orange County Democratic convention votes for Al Smith over Cordell Hull
  • June 7, 1930: Orange County Democrats choose Umstead for state senate in the June primary
• Ray, James G. 1 entry, 1937
  • May 29, 1937: James G. Ray, Carrboro livery stable owner, dies
• Ray, John 1 entry, 1792
  • February Term 1792: The court grants Mary Underwood's petition to bind out her two children
• Ray, M. C. 1 entry, 1896
  • early December 1896: Orange electors seek two more county commissioners from the minority party
• Ray, Mamie 1 entry, 1961
  • May 2, 1961: The Cameron Park PTA honors retiring teachers Jessie Latta and Mamie Ray
• Ray, N. V. 4 entries, 1887–1898
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  • late August 1887: Little River farmers organize a Farmers' Club at their district school house
  • November 3, 1896: The Democratic-Populist fusion ticket carries Orange County
  • April 5, 1897: County commissioners call a graded-school tax vote for the Chapel Hill school district
  • early January 1898: County commissioners vote to borrow $5,000 to pay off the county's 8 per cent notes
• Ray, Sarah 1 entry, 1806
  • May 1806 (court term): Lawyer William Norwood wins a support order for Sarah Ray
• Ray, Tom 2 entries, 1910–1932
  • 1910: Blacksmith Bennie Ray builds a two-story house on Weaver Street
  • December 20, 1932: Carrboro blacksmith Benny Ray dies
• Ray, W. H. 5 entries, 1925–1930
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  • by August 28, 1925: Farmers of the Antioch and Damascus sections haul gravel to surface the roads west of Carrboro
  • December 3, 1928: New Orange County commissioners take office as George Johnston is sworn in at his sickbed
  • November 6, 1928: Orange voters elect W. T. Sloan sheriff and a Carrboro Republican to the commissioners
  • January 7, 1929: John Hanner returns to the county board and is chosen chairman
  • by December 12, 1930: County names township tax assessors for the 1931 revaluation

  May be the same person as Ray, William H.

• Ray, W. M. 1 entry, 1888
  • 1888: Piney Grove Baptist Church is organized
• Ray, William C. 3 entries, 1964
  • July 23, 1964: Arrowhead Farms partners Bill Ray and Bobby Nichols sell off their dairy herd
  • December 7, 1964: County commissioners agree to buy the historic bricks of the Walker Milling building
  • December 7, 1964: Harvey D. Bennett becomes chairman of the county commissioners
• Ray, William D. 1 entry, 1855
  • mid-March 1855: Mrs. Margaret Woods dies when her house on Little River burns
• Ray, William H. 1 entry, 1933
  • October 3, 1933: Former county commissioner W. H. Ray dies at his farm on the Antioch road

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

• Raynes, George 2 entries, 1868
  • May 18, 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay is ordered to Hillsborough to take charge of Orange and Person counties
  • September 2, 1868: Raleigh ends the Hillsborough Bureau clerk's post, citing the Bureau's coming close
• Rea, D. M. 1 entry, 1929
  • by February 22, 1929: Grading and bridges are finished on the new road from Chapel Hill to Graham
• Reade, E. G. 1 entry, 1868
  • 1868 or 1869: A trustee committee including Albion W. Tourgee finds the university not bound to pay its bank debt
• Reade, Edwin G. 4 entries, 1852–1869
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  • September 17, 1852: Whigs hold a Scott and Graham mass meeting and barbecue at Hillsborough
  • March 17-19, 1859: Orange Superior Court tries Obadiah Christmas for the murder of an enslaved man
  • by January 6, 1864: William A. Graham resigns as Orange County's state senator on his election to the Confederate Senate
  • 1869: Court strikes down the act for a state-built railroad to Chapel Hill
• Reade, R. Percy 1 entry, 1957
  • July 19, 1957: Hearing on the interstate route south of Hillsboro draws protests
• Reagon, Bernice 1 entry, 1978
  • by November 6, 1978: Bernice Reagon sings at an Afro-American Studies open house in Upendo Lounge
• Reams, H. A. 3 entries, 1871–1894
  • by May 17, 1871: Durham counts thirteen tobacco factories as H. A. Reams opens the Durham Tobacco Warehouse
  • September 10, 1892: Democrats of the 18th Senatorial District meet at Hillsborough and nominate two candidates for the State Senate
  • September 8, 1894: Democrats of the 18th Senatorial District meet at Hillsborough and nominate R. H. Boone and E. L. Mitchell
• Reaney, John 1 entry, 1758
  • June 1758: James Craig buys back the Richland Fork tract on New Hope Creek
• Reaney, William L. 1 entry, 1887
  • July 17, 1887: Bishop Lyman ordains William L. Reaney a priest at St. Matthew's
• Reaves, Joseph 1 entry, 1925
  • January 1925: An Orange County Training School pupil makes $230 raising turkeys
• Reaves, Martha 1 entry, 1925
  • January 1925: An Orange County Training School pupil makes $230 raising turkeys
• Rebentisch, Jean 1 entry, 1950
  • 1950: The school founds a Department of Maternal and Child Health
• Reckard, C. H. 11 entries, 1953–1959

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• Recreation 1 entry, 1997
  • 1997–1999: Occoneechee Mountain becomes a State Natural Area
• Redd, A. F. 3 entries, 1878–1879
  • September 9, 1878: The coroner holds an inquest on the exhumed body of Louis Carlton's wife at Chapel Hill
  • October to early November 1878: Physics Hall is refitted with a lecture room and a new chemistry laboratory
  • April 24, 1879: The State Experiment Station at Chapel Hill offers coroners its chemists for suspected poisonings

  May be the same person as Redd, Alexander Fletcher

• Redd, Alexander Fletcher 1 entry, 1877
  • February 6, 1877: Fire guts Person Hall

  May be the same person as Redd, A. F.

• Reding, Robert 1 entry, 1891
  • by February 8, 1891: Robert Reding, a ruling elder for more than 47 years, dies
• Redman, Charles E. 1 entry, 1906
  • by August 23, 1906: A new Orange Grove school building goes up at Cane Creek
• Redmon, C. E. 1 entry, 1908
  • 1908: Orange Grove Academy's commencement program reports its music classes and ball team
• Redmond, John 2 entries, 1814–1851
  • 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
  • August Term 1851: The court binds Sarah Morgan, a free girl of color of about eighteen, to B. L. Durham
• Reece, Joseph 1 entry, 1869
  • January 4, 1869: Hillsborough elects A. C. Murdock magistrate of police
• Reed, Ben 1 entry, 1955
  • May 19, 1955: Men in Chapel Hill and Carrboro begin organizing a Toastmasters Club
• Reed, James 1 entry, 1777

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  • August 1777: Merchants who traded with Britain are ordered to swear allegiance or leave
• Reed, James 1 entry, 1928

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• Reed, John Shelton 2 entries, 1988–1993

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• Reed, Robert E. 1 entry, 1959
  • by June 18, 1959: The North Carolina Methodist Conference opens Camp Chestnut Ridge
• Reed, W. E. 1 entry, 1953
  • November 30, 1953: About 2,000 farm people gather in Hillsborough for Rural Progress Night
• Reed, William 1 entry, 1754
  • about 1754: The house later called William Reed's Ordinary is built on East King Street
• Reeds, Whitney 1 entry, 2008
  • 2008: Three alumni recreate the walk attributed to Hinton James and finish at the Old Well
• Reep, A. R. 1 entry, 1923
  • Summer 1923: Students place the first marker at Governor Thomas Burke's grave
• Rees, Mary Graves 2 entries, 1927–1929
  • October 31, 1927: Chapel Hill women organize an art study club
  • by February 15, 1929: Mary Graves Rees finishes a studio and names Park Lane
• Reese, Addison H. 1 entry, 1963
  • September 27, 1963: The Bank of Chapel Hill merges into North Carolina National Bank
• Reese, Maggie 1 entry, 1881
  • by March 19, 1881: A public school for white children opens in Hillsborough
• Reeves, George W. 1 entry, 1841
  • July 3, 1841: The Hillsborough Debating Society leads the town's Independence Day celebration
• Reeves, Harriet A. 1 entry, 1847
  • January 13, 1847: Harriet A. Reeves is killed in Orange County, and her brother is later convicted of her murder
• Reeves, Joe 1 entry, 1945
  • May 26, 1945: Black farm families open a curb market on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill
• Reeves, John 1 entry, 1862
  • March 19, 1862: Levin Carmichael advertises a ten-dollar reward for his runaway apprentice John Reeves
• Reeves, Spencer S. 1 entry, 1847
  • January 13, 1847: Harriet A. Reeves is killed in Orange County, and her brother is later convicted of her murder
• Reeves, Thomas 1 entry, 1832
  • 1832: Mount Zion Christian Church is organized
• Rehder, Jessie 3 entries, 1945–1967
  • March 26, 1945: Jessie Rehder buys the Chapel Hill Flower Shop
  • by May 7, 1964: UNC writing students publish The Young Writer at Chapel Hill
  • 1967–1986: Max Steele directs the UNC Creative Writing Program
• Reichert, Herbert 1 entry, 1961
  • by December 8, 1961: Chapel Hill's Citizens' Committee begins a study of the high school curriculum

  May be the same person as Reichert, Herbert W.

• Reichert, Herbert W. 1 entry, 1963
  • May 7, 1963: Chapel Hill school board voters elect Edwin Tenney Jr. and Ben Perry

  May be the same person as Reichert, Herbert

• Reid, Frances 1 entry, 1977
  • November 10, 1977: Filmmakers show a documentary on lesbian mothers at the UNC Law School
• Reid, Fred W., Jr. 1 entry, 1961
  • by August 3, 1961: N.C. Memorial Hospital gets its first full-time chaplain
• Reid, James 1 entry, 1870
  • December 1, 1870: The trustees vote to suspend the university's exercises and stop faculty salaries from February 1, 1871
• Reid-Bookhart, Patricia 1 entry, 1990
  • by November 1990: Afro-One starts a Chapel Hill class under the Black Cultural Center's artist-in-residence program
• Reinhardt, Robert A. 1 entry, 1945
  • May 1945: Robert A. Reinhardt takes over the Hill Bakery from Mrs. W. B. Neal
• Reitzel, Fred T. 2 entries, 1948
  • November 1948–December 1949: Schley Grange brings telephones to fifty-one families and wins a national community award
  • November 6, 1948: National judges tour the Schley community's Grange projects
• Reitzel, Garland O. 18 entries, 1932–1953

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• Reitzel, Walter 1 entry, 1945
  • 1945: Four Orange County farmers run hybrid corn demonstrations
• Rembert, Tom 1 entry, 1959
  • by June 11, 1959: Tom Rembert and Bernice Freeman open a home improvement firm in the Bivins building
• Rencher, Abraham 1 entry, 1825
  • July 4, 1825: Hillsborough celebrates Independence Day with a procession, an oration and a dinner
• Renehan, John 1 entry, 1943
  • September 5, 1943: Bishop McGuinness offers a military pontifical field mass in Kenan Stadium
• Renshaw, Annie 1 entry, 1918
  • October 1918: A Black committee of the women's Liberty Loan organization raises $1,350 in Hillsborough Township
• Renwick, Hayden B. 21 entries, 1969–1988
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  • 1969: UNC begins special-program admissions for disadvantaged minority students
  • late August 1971: UNC holds its first Black pre-orientation for entering freshmen
  • 1971: The College of Arts and Sciences starts a minority student advising program
  • by October 1973: Hayden B. Renwick becomes assistant dean for student counseling
  • fall 1973: Former student body president Richard Epps becomes assistant dean of admissions
  • fall 1974: UNC starts a Minority Student Advisory Program for freshmen
  • spring 1975: The Morehead Foundation names its first women scholars, including its first Black woman
  • by September 1977: Hayden B. Renwick becomes special assistant to the chancellor for minority enrollment
  • March 17, 1978: Winston-Salem alderman Larry Little speaks at the BSM's tenth-anniversary banquet
  • September 17, 1978: Dean Hayden Renwick charges that UNC is turning away qualified Black applicants
  • fall 1979: UNC enrolls 420 Black freshmen, its most to date
  • August 1, 1979: Joyce Clayton becomes an assistant dean of the General College
  • June 12, 1979: A faculty committee reports on Dean Renwick's minority admissions charges
  • January 24, 1980: Kappa Alpha Psi roasts Dean Hayden B. Renwick in Great Hall
  • November 1980: Harold Wallace is reported chosen as UNC's first vice chancellor for university affairs
  • January 15, 1981: The BSM holds an evening memorial program for Martin Luther King's birthday
  • fall 1981: UNC enrolls about 470 Black freshmen, its largest Black freshman class
  • fall 1984: Black freshman enrollment at UNC falls to 343
  • fall 1985: UNC's minority freshman class falls to 322 from 467 in 1981
  • April 1988: Black students rally at South Building over Dean Hayden Renwick's replacement
  • January 1988: Hayden Renwick resigns as head of the Office for Student Counseling
• Reuland, Daniel 1 entry, 2008
  • 2008: UNC opens the Center for Latino Health for Spanish-speaking patients
• Revels, Charity 1 entry, 1826
  • November 27, 1826: Judge Thomas Ruffin frees Susan Revels from a sale that would have taken her out of the county
• Revill, Barbary 1 entry, 1801
  • November Term 1801: The court binds three children of Barbary Revill to Jesse Rice
• Revill, Betsy 2 entries, 1840
  • June 16, 1840: Betsy Revill, a free woman of color, names William Day as the father of her expected child
  • November 24, 1840: William Day and Betsy Revill marry by bond
• Revill, Cary 1 entry, 1801
  • November Term 1801: The court binds three children of Barbary Revill to Jesse Rice
• Revill, Charity 2 entries, 1796–1812
  • November Term 1796: The court binds Charity Revill, not yet three, daughter of Peggy Revill, to Andrew Brooks
  • August Term 1812: The court binds Susannah Revill, fifteen months old, daughter of a free woman of color, to Robert Eaton
• Revill, Chia 1 entry, 1790
  • November Term 1790: The court binds Ezekiel and Chia Revill, two children of color, to Robert Neil
• Revill, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1818
  • November Term 1818: The court takes Elizabeth Revill, a free girl of color, from Simon Davis
• Revill, Ezekiel 1 entry, 1790
  • November Term 1790: The court binds Ezekiel and Chia Revill, two children of color, to Robert Neil
• Revill, Hubbard 1 entry, 1803
  • December 1, 1803 (November Term 1803): The court binds Johney Revill, a free boy of color, and three other Revill boys to William Cain
• Revill, James 2 entries, 1800–1801
  • 1800: The court places James Revill, a youth of color said to have been sold by his master, with Robert Eaton
  • February 27, 1801: The court binds James Revill, a boy of color, to Benjamin Kinchen, a man of color
• Revill, Johney 1 entry, 1803
  • December 1, 1803 (November Term 1803): The court binds Johney Revill, a free boy of color, and three other Revill boys to William Cain
• Revill, Macklin 1 entry, 1803
  • December 1, 1803 (November Term 1803): The court binds Johney Revill, a free boy of color, and three other Revill boys to William Cain
• Revill, Maclin 1 entry, 1801
  • November Term 1801: The court binds three children of Barbary Revill to Jesse Rice
• Revill, 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
• Revill, Nancy 1 entry, 1801
  • 1801: Three daughters of Nelly Revill, a free woman of color, are bound to William F. Strudwick
• Revill, Nathaniel 1 entry, 1801
  • November Term 1801: The court binds three children of Barbary Revill to Jesse Rice
• Revill, Natt 1 entry, 1803
  • December 1, 1803 (November Term 1803): The court binds Johney Revill, a free boy of color, and three other Revill boys to William Cain
• Revill, Nelly 1 entry, 1801
  • 1801: Three daughters of Nelly Revill, a free woman of color, are bound to William F. Strudwick
• Revill, Peggy 3 entries, 1796–1828
  • November Term 1796: The court binds Charity Revill, not yet three, daughter of Peggy Revill, to Andrew Brooks
  • 1801: Three daughters of Nelly Revill, a free woman of color, are bound to William F. Strudwick
  • November Term 1828: The court binds Washington Revill, a free boy of color, to John Taylor
• Revill, Suckey 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
• Revill, Susan 1 entry, 1826
  • November 28, 1826: The court binds Susan Revill, a free girl of color, to Moses S. Pratt
• Revill, Susanna 1 entry, 1820
  • August Term 1820: The court calls Robert Eaton to show why Susanna Revill, a girl of color, should not be taken from him
• Revill, Susannah 1 entry, 1812
  • August Term 1812: The court binds Susannah Revill, fifteen months old, daughter of a free woman of color, to Robert Eaton
• Revill, Washington 1 entry, 1828
  • November Term 1828: The court binds Washington Revill, a free boy of color, to John Taylor
• Rexford, Bill 1 entry, 1950
  • October 29, 1950: Lee Petty wins the 1950 season finale as Bill Rexford clinches the title
• Reynolds, Carl 1 entry, 1935
  • 1935: Dean Charles Mangum approaches Milton Rosenau as UNC sets up a Division of Public Health

  May be the same person as Reynolds, Carl V.

• Reynolds, Carl V. 4 entries, 1936–1941
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  • winter quarter 1936: UNC's new Division of Public Health admits its first students
  • May 9, 1938: State offers the three-county district $5,900 for venereal disease control
  • 1940: Rosenau recruits Ruth Hay from Berkeley to head a new Department of Public Health Nursing
  • by November 21, 1941: The Orange County Nutrition Committee is organized

  May be the same person as Reynolds, Carl

• Reynolds, Charles A. 1 entry, 1904
  • July 23, 1904: Republican county convention nominates P. Tinsley Cheek and D. S. Miller
• Reynolds, Joel 1 entry, 1823
  • February 1823: Dr. James Webb deeds Hillsborough's Methodists a lot and house on Tryon Street
• Reynolds, Robert R. 1 entry, 1932
  • July 2, 1932: Orange County swings to Reynolds in the Senate runoff primary
• Reynolds, Will 1 entry, 1939
  • Spring 1939: Construction begins on the Institute of Government building on Franklin Street
• Reynolds, William T. 1 entry, 1911
  • 1911-1914: J. D. Webb chairs the Orange County board of commissioners
• Rhea, Andrew 2 entries, 1810–1812
  • June 29, 1810: The university makes David Caldwell of Guilford a Doctor of Divinity
  • 1812: Professor Andrew Rhea buys the Hillsborough Street land where the log "Old Tavern" stands
• Rhinehart, Robert 1 entry, 1954
  • 1954: Robert Rhinehart sells the Hill Bakery to Thell Jernigan, who renames it Thell's Bakery
• Rhodes, John 1 entry, 1792
  • March 3, 1792: The court pays for building the new pillory and stocks in Hillsborough

  May be the same person as Rhodes, John H.

• Rhodes, John H. 1 entry, 1836
  • 1836: John H. Rhodes advertises a barber shop beside the hotel

  May be the same person as Rhodes, John

• Rhodes, John, Jr. 2 entries, 1821–1822
  • November Term 1821: The court binds Walter Copley to John Rhodes Jr., named as his reputed father
  • February Term 1822: Jane Copley wins execution against John Rhodes Jr. for unpaid support
• Rhodes, Sally 1 entry, 1810
  • 5 April 1810: Four women are summoned on one day to name the fathers of their children
• Rhodes, Sarah 1 entry, 1820
  • 11 December 1820: Sarah Rhodes names Anderson Clements, who denies it and appeals to the Superior Court
• Rhodes, Willis 1 entry, 1839
  • February Term 1839: The court binds the Corn children under bonds not to take them out of the county
• Rhoulac, W. S. 1 entry, 1951
  • by August 23, 1951: Plans for a new Hillsboro elementary school stall when the owner of the chosen site will not sell
• Rhyne, J. B. 1 entry, 1957
  • July 19, 1957: Hearing on the interstate route south of Hillsboro draws protests
• Rhyne, Jennings J. 1 entry, 1930
  • by April 4, 1930: UNC Press publishes Jennings J. Rhyne's study of Southern cotton mill workers
• Rice, James D. 1 entry, 1864
  • August Term 1864: The court binds Craton and Frank Steward, minors of color, to James D. Rice
• Rice, Jesse 1 entry, 1801
  • November Term 1801: The court binds three children of Barbary Revill to Jesse Rice
• Rice, Joseph A. 1 entry, 1927
  • 1927: The Rice farm is divided in the settlement of Robert Rice's estate
• Rice, Martha Pettigrew 1 entry, 1869
  • 1869: Robert K. Rice buys the Pettigrew log house farm
• Rice, Oscar Knefler 1 entry, 1970

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• Rice, Robert 1 entry, 1881
  • February 7, 1881: The county commissioners form Rice's school district

  May be the same person as Rice, Robert K.

• Rice, Robert K. 2 entries, 1869–1927
  • 1869: Robert K. Rice buys the Pettigrew log house farm
  • 1927: The Rice farm is divided in the settlement of Robert Rice's estate

  May be the same person as Rice, Robert

• Rice, William D. 1 entry, 1841
  • September 3-4, 1841: A pistol drawn in the Philanthropic hall leads to a street fight and two dismissals
• Rich, Helen 1 entry, 1958
  • March 28-29, 1958: The Hillsboro Exchange Club stages its annual minstrel show for its recreation park
• Rich, J. Hampton 3 entries, 1918–1938
  • June 22, 1918: Hillsborough dedicates a tablet crediting Daniel Boone with an expedition from the Old State House
  • Summer 1923: Students place the first marker at Governor Thomas Burke's grave
  • March 4, 1938: Chapel Hill rededicates its Daniel Boone Trail marker opposite the post office
• Rich, Melvin 1 entry, 1930
  • April 14, 1930: Black janitors organize the UNC Janitors' Association
• Rich, Penny 10 entries, 2001–2026

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• Richards, Anna 1 entry, 2024
  • October 15–November 7, 2024: Carrboro and Orange County name the Drakeford Library Complex
• Richards, H., Jr. 1 entry, 1889
  • April 19, 1889: Hillsborough's town commissioners first meet in the new brick mayor's office and guard house
• Richards, Henry 9 entries, 1855–1897
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  • about 1855: The King-Richards-Johnston House is built on West King Street
  • February 2, 1856: Hillsborough re-elects Josiah Turner Sr. a town commissioner
  • about 1860: The Hillsborough Military Academy's commandant's house is built
  • mid-December 1878: A granite monument to William A. Graham is raised in the Presbyterian cemetery
  • 1884: Carpenter John Daugherty finishes Memorial Hall after architect Samuel Sloan dies
  • November 1891: Hillsborough's Young Men's Christian Association elects Joseph G. Cooley president
  • by November 26, 1896: Eno Cotton Mill's buildings near completion and its first cottages are occupied
  • May 14, 1896: James Webb Jr. lays the first brick of the Eno Cotton Mills
  • September 13, 1897: Hillsborough's town board levies the 1897 town tax and orders the last Commons lots sold
• Richards, Henry, Jr. 4 entries, 1887–1890
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  • May 2, 1887: Hillsborough elects Joseph A. Harris mayor
  • June 25, 1888: Hillsborough's town board decides to build a brick mayor's office and guard house
  • May 7, 1888: Hillsborough re-elects Joseph A. Harris mayor over Samuel M. Gattis
  • by August 16, 1890: Henry Richards Jr. buys the Jesse Cole house on King Street for his boarding house
• Richards, Vincent 1 entry, 1945
  • June 13, 1945: Bill Tilden and Vincent Richards play a tennis exhibition before 1,100 fans at Chapel Hill
• Richards, William A. 2 entries, 1796
  • September 22, 1796: David Gillespie receives the earliest document resembling a university diploma
  • spring 1796: The two student societies stage a play in place of their regular exercises
• Richardson, Ann 1 entry, 1868
  • November 30, 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay counts about 330 day pupils in Orange County's freedmen's schools
• Richardson, Annie 1 entry, 1883
  • August to December 1883: Work begins on the Gray school and church for Black residents at Brownsville
• Richardson, Barry 1 entry, 1970
  • May 6, 1970: The student body meets in Polk Place and more than 4,000 march through downtown Chapel Hill behind four coffins
• Richardson, Charles 1 entry, 1777
  • May 1777: The county court jails Charles Richardson for refusing the oath of allegiance
• Richardson, John Lawrence 1 entry, 1979
  • April 23, 1979: The Shack, a longtime beer bar on West Rosemary Street, closes
• Richardson, O. F. 1 entry, 1928
  • July 23, 1928: A Kiwanis club is organized in Chapel Hill
• Richardson, Richard 2 entries, 1999–2000
  • October 28, 1999: Trustees vote to raise tuition $1,500 over five years as students protest at Morehead Planetarium
  • October 13, 2000: The Board of Governors approves Robert Shelton as UNC's provost
• Richardson, Mrs. W. P. 1 entry, 1940
  • by November 8, 1940: Chapel Hill's British War Relief committee ships a box of clothing to Britain
• Richardson, W. R. 1 entry, 1870
  • 1870 (the 15th and 16th of a month the record does not name, before August): Josiah Turner Jr. turns down a militia guard after shots are fired into his Hillsborough house
• Richardson, William 1 entry, 1976
  • April 1976: Superintendent George F. Williams defends the demerit system at Stanford Junior High
• Richardson, William P. 66 entries, 1920–1958

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• Richmond, H. P. 1 entry, 1959
  • by February 19, 1959: Hillsboro grants the Public Service Company a natural gas franchise
• Richmond, Herb 1 entry, 2020
  • February 2020: Exhibit honoring housekeeping and facilities staff opens in the renovated Cheek-Clark Building
• Richmond, J. W. 3 entries, 1937–1953
  • 1937: The Parks family sells the Parks-Richmond House to J. W. and Marguerite Richmond
  • by February 10, 1944: G. W. Gilmore buys a half-interest in Hillsboro's Ford agency
  • July 8, 1953: Ray-O'Neal Motors takes over the Hillsboro Ford franchise from Richmond Motor Company

  May be the same person as Richmond, Judie Webb

• Richmond, Mrs. J. W. 4 entries, 1945–1955
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  • August 24, 1945: West Hillsboro organizes a community health campaign
  • October 25, 1948: Hillsboro organizes a chapter of the North Carolina Symphony Society
  • by February 17, 1949: Orange County's March of Dimes drive passes its quota by $2,000
  • May 4, 1955: The Hillsboro Garden Club wins state honors for its beautification work
• Richmond, Judie Webb 1 entry, 1949
  • by June 30, 1949: Hillsboro's Odd Fellows offer a lot for the Black public library

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

• Richmond, Marguerite 3 entries, 1937–1948
  • 1937: The Parks family sells the Parks-Richmond House to J. W. and Marguerite Richmond
  • week of November 7, 1938: The Orange County Council on Education organizes at Hillsboro
  • by October 14, 1948: Hillsboro Garden Club asks the town to build a sewage disposal plant and clean up
• Rickenbacker, Eddie 1 entry, 1944
  • May 9, 1944: Eddie Rickenbacker speaks to cadets and townspeople at Fetzer Field
• Rickets, Sarah 1 entry, 1795
  • August Term 1795: The court issues a habeas corpus for Sarah Rickets's daughter Polly, held by Absalom Roach
• Rickets, William 1 entry, 1795
  • August Term 1795: The court issues a habeas corpus for Sarah Rickets's daughter Polly, held by Absalom Roach
• Riddick, Elsie 1 entry, 1932
  • March 1, 1932: The state League of Women Voters meets in Chapel Hill and backs a test case on women jurors
• Riddle, Donnie 1 entry, 1971
  • February 1, 1971: Student Donnie Riddle is stabbed to death at Orange High School
• Rigby, Will 1 entry, 1975
  • 1975: Chris Stamey and Will Rigby form Sneakers
• Riggs, Lynn 1 entry, 1931
  • February 1, 1931: Lynn Riggs reads Green Grow the Lilacs in the Playmakers Theatre after its New York opening
• Riggs, Margret 1 entry, 1822
  • August 28, 1822: Margret Riggs advertises Lively Woods, an indentured girl, as a runaway
• Riggs, Sally 2 entries, 1811–1815
  • 27 June 1811: Sally Riggs names Samuel McBroom as the father of her son
  • November Term 1815: The court binds Willis McBroom to his own mother, Sally Riggs
• Riggs, W. T. 1 entry, 1927
  • 1927: The Fitch family buys out W. T. Riggs and the business becomes Fitch Lumber Company
• Riggsbee, Bruce 2 entries, 1950–1955
  • by March 23, 1950: Bruce Riggsbee and Raymond Andrews open a farm equipment store in Carrboro
  • by January 13, 1955: Bruce Riggsbee turns a corner lot over to Carrboro for a second public parking lot
• Riggsbee, Ernest 1 entry, 1956
  • by March 8, 1956: Sun Oil Company buys a downtown Carrboro corner for a Sunoco station
• Riggsbee, Mrs. Herbert 1 entry, 1945
  • May 11, 1945: A Carrboro club for town improvement and beautification organizes
• Riggsbee, Jesse 1 entry, 1915
  • about 1915: Mill worker Jesse Riggsbee builds his own house on South Greensboro Street
• Riggsbee, Roy 11 entries, 1935–1956

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• Riggsbee, W. A. 1 entry, 1939
  • 1939: Durham Hosiery Mills sells its Carrboro houses and land at auction
• Rights, Douglas 1 entry, 1938
  • 1938–1941: Archaeologists excavate the wall site believing it to be Occaneechi Town

  May be the same person as Rights, Douglas L.

• Rights, Douglas L. 1 entry, 1953
  • October 1, 1953: Hugh Lefler and Paul Wager edit a bicentennial history of Orange County

  May be the same person as Rights, Douglas

• Rigsbee, A. M. 1 entry, 1879
  • October 1879: M. A. Angier sells a fifth of an acre in Durham to A. M. Rigsbee for $10,000
• Rigsbee, H. L. 2 entries, 1928–1929
  • by December 7, 1928: H. L. Rigsbee becomes Chapel Hill police chief as W. T. Sloan becomes sheriff
  • February 11, 1929: Chapel Hill aldermen add a patrolman after a run of thefts
• Rigsbee, John 1 entry, 1887
  • January 3, 1887: The school board forms the Mary Smith school district along the Chatham line
• Rigsbee, Julie 1 entry, 1929
  • about 1929: Mack and Julie Rigsbee build a white-quartz country house east of Hillsborough

  May be the same person as Rigsbee, Julie E.

• Rigsbee, Julie E. 2 entries, 1927–1931
  • June 1927 and April 1928: Mack and Julie Rigsbee buy lots in the Bankhead Forest development
  • 1931: Mack and Julie Rigsbee lose their Rock House after defaulting on the mortgage

  May be the same person as Rigsbee, Julie

• Rigsbee, Mack 3 entries, 1927–1931
  • June 1927 and April 1928: Mack and Julie Rigsbee buy lots in the Bankhead Forest development
  • about 1929: Mack and Julie Rigsbee build a white-quartz country house east of Hillsborough
  • 1931: Mack and Julie Rigsbee lose their Rock House after defaulting on the mortgage
• Rigsbee, Roy 1 entry, 1948
  • June 10, 1948: The Carrboro Lions Club elects Lloyd Senter president
• Riley, Alton 1 entry, 1960
  • April 19, 1960: White Cross voters reject joining the Chapel Hill school district a third time
• Riley, C. W. 1 entry, 1959
  • by August 20, 1959: Sheriff Buck Knight appoints a Black part-time deputy and two other deputies
• Riley, Claudia 1 entry, 1952
  • March 3, 1952: Caldwell women organize a home demonstration club
• Riley, Mrs. I. L. 1 entry, 1948
  • April 1, 1948: The Hillsboro Baby Club opens a day nursery and kindergarten
• Riley, James 3 entries, 1847–1962
  • February Term 1847: The court binds Andrew Jackson, a boy of color raised at the poorhouse, to Charles Cox
  • October 1, 1884: Judge Phillips refuses to stop Orange County's payment to the State Exposition
  • February 1962: James Riley opens the Hillsboro Fish Market in the old Godfrey's store on Highway 70
• Riley, L. M. 1 entry, 1950
  • July 30, 1950: Union Grove Methodist Church dedicates its new stone building
• Riley, Margaret 1 entry, 1951
  • October 1951: Bill Chance opens the Hillsboro Lunch on West King Street
• Riley, Michael 1 entry, 1777
  • August Term 1777: The court orders Michael Riley returned to his mother, Mary Manakin
• Riley, Paul 2 entries, 1921–1942
  • about 1921: The Paul Riley House is built on Riley Avenue in West Hillsborough
  • about 1942: The Paul Riley Store is built on Eno Street
• Riley, Presley 1 entry, 1855
  • mid-March 1855: Mrs. Margaret Woods dies when her house on Little River burns
• Riley, Roberts 2 entries, 1925–1930
  • December 11, 1925: Three armed men rob the Bank of Efland
  • November 1930: The Bank of Efland fails and goes into receivership
• Riley, Sanders 1 entry, 1836
  • February Term 1836: The court cancels four Mayho children's bindings and binds them to their mother, Elizabeth Mayho
• Riley, T. M. 2 entries, 1944–1945
  • February 24, 1944: Orange County FSA honors 15 Black farm ownership borrowers
  • January 20, 1945: John Arch Parker becomes the first Orange farmer to pay off a tenant-purchase farm
• Riley, W. P. 1 entry, 1901
  • by October 24, 1901: Eleven Black convicts work Orange County's public roads under overseer W. P. Riley
• Riley, Weldon 1 entry, 1931
  • about 1931: The Weldon Riley House is built on Eno Street
• Riley, William 1 entry, 1836
  • February Term 1836: The court cancels four Mayho children's bindings and binds them to their mother, Elizabeth Mayho

  May be the same person as Riley, William J.

• Riley, William J. 1 entry, 1895
  • by March 23, 1895: The Fusion legislature names new magistrates for Orange County's townships

  May be the same person as Riley, William

• Rimer, Alan E. 1 entry, 2002
  • May 21, 2002: Orange County commissioners take up a request to name the Morgan Creek bridge for James Taylor
• Rimmer, Ralph 1 entry, 1911
  • fall 1911: The Rev. J. R. Green organizes a Boy Scout troop in Hillsborough
• Ringstaff, Nancy 1 entry, 1860
  • 17 September 1860: William H. Thompson's will leaves $200 in trust for William Ringstaff
• Ringstaff, Sarah 2 entries, 1831–1832
  • November 1831: A jury finds William Smith the father of Sarah Ringstaff's child
  • February 1832: A second jury finds William Smith is not the father of Sarah Ringstaff's child
• Ringstaff, William 1 entry, 1860
  • 17 September 1860: William H. Thompson's will leaves $200 in trust for William Ringstaff
• Ringwalt, Mildred 4 entries, 1960–2009

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• Rios, Luis 1 entry, 2018
  • August 2018: New Hope Elementary starts a Spanish dual-language program in Orange County Schools
• Ripley, Arthur 1 entry, 1944
  • October 1944: Director Arthur Ripley films scenes for a Look Homeward, Angel movie in Chapel Hill
• Ritchie, A. Greig 1 entry, 1945
  • by February 22, 1945: A. Greig Ritchie becomes full-time pastor of the United Church of Chapel Hill
• Rittenberg, Sidney 1 entry, 1942
  • August 5, 1942: University laundry workers reject a piece-work plan and demand a wage increase
• Rittenhouse, James 1 entry, 1949
  • September 18, 1949: Cane Creek Baptist Church breaks ground for a new church
• Rittenhouse, W. H. 1 entry, 1946
  • by April 18, 1946: W. H. Rittenhouse buys Occoneechee Farm
• Rittenhouse, W. H., Sr. 1 entry, 1949
  • November 22, 1949: Orange County churches launch the CROP drive to send corn overseas
• Rivers, R. H. 1 entry, 1960
  • May 20, 1960: The Murphy School community votes to organize a Grange
• Rives, E. Earle 1 entry, 1946
  • June 22, 1946: Orange County gives Carl T. Durham a large majority in his runoff for Congress
• Roach, Absalom 1 entry, 1795
  • August Term 1795: The court issues a habeas corpus for Sarah Rickets's daughter Polly, held by Absalom Roach
• Roach, David 1 entry, 1890
  • by March 22, 1890: The government gives the Hillsborough depot mail route to a new low bidder
• Roach, J. R. 1 entry, 1898
  • May 3, 1898: John T. Shaw unseats Mayor Joseph A. Harris by one vote
• Roach, John H. 1 entry, 1894
  • March 9, 1894: Townspeople save the Hillsborough Baptist parsonage from fire
• Roach, William A. 1 entry, 1911
  • August 23-24, 1911: Sheriff's officers capture two large stills south of Hillsboro and near University Station
• Roark, William 1 entry, 1800
  • 12 September 1800: William Roark marries Ann McMullen eleven days after she names him as her child's father
• Roat, Florence 1 entry, 1946
  • 1946: Principal J. M. Harris refits the Murphey School lunchroom
• Robb, H. L. 1 entry, 1960
  • January 30, 1960: A Republican county convention led by Col. H. L. Robb takes over the Orange GOP

  May be the same person as Robb, Holland L.

• Robb, Holland L. 1 entry, 1958
  • March 1, 1958: Orange County Republicans split at their county convention and elect rival chairmen

  May be the same person as Robb, H. L.

• Robbins, Catherine Murtha 1 entry, 1961
  • 1961: The Field-Robbins House goes up on Timberly Drive
• Robbins, Jack Guyes 1 entry, 1961
  • 1961: The Field-Robbins House goes up on Timberly Drive
• Roberson, A. J. 1 entry, 1894
  • April 11, 1894: Eight men convicted in federal court of selling liquor without a license are jailed at Hillsborough
• Roberson, Abner Benton 13 entries, 1869–1912

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• Roberson, Mrs. C. A. 1 entry, 1934
  • March 6, 1934: Chapel Hill women organize a current events club
• Roberson, Charles 1 entry, 1897
  • 1897-1899: Dr. Charles Roberson practises medicine at Chapel Hill
• Roberson, Foy 3 entries, 1933–1953
  • by September 15, 1933: Dr. W. Reece Berryhill becomes University physician
  • January 1933: Dr. Eric A. Abernethy resigns as university physician
  • by January 8, 1953: Chapel Hill buys 25 acres for a new town cemetery
• Roberson, Foy, Jr. 1 entry, 1939
  • April 11, 1939: A portrait of former mayor William S. Roberson is unveiled in the new Town Hall courtroom
• Roberson, Nellie 5 entries, 1917–1938
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  • May 28, 1917: Chapel Hill and Carrboro residents vote to form a Red Cross chapter at the Graded School
  • November 21, 1918: The Chapel Hill Red Cross elects A. H. Patterson chairman at its annual meeting
  • October 1935: The Bull's Head Bookshop moves into the University Library basement
  • by December 24, 1937: The University Library reaches 350,000 volumes
  • by May 13, 1938: The Carrboro school library, open to the town, has grown to 2,639 books
• Roberson, R. J. 1 entry, 1888
  • October 6, 1888: The school board forms Bethel district for the Bethel Church community
• Roberson, W. S. 67 entries, 1889–1939

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• Roberson, William 2 entries, 1899–1935
  • May 4, 1899: Chapel Hill re-elects Algernon S. Barbee mayor under its new charter
  • June 1935: Attorney and three-time mayor William Roberson is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
• Robert, David 1 entry, 1986
  • 1986: Frank Heath buys Cat's Cradle
• Roberts, Beth 1 entry, 1954
  • March 1, 1954: A Hillsboro delegation asks the county boards for $65,000 in bonds to start Cameron Park School
• Roberts, Bobby 2 entries, 1958–1964
  • by July 3, 1958: Southern Garment Company starts making dresses in the Roberts building west of Efland
  • June 1964: The Chapel Hill school board sells its downtown school property for $1 million

  May be the same person as Roberts, Bobby R.

• Roberts, Bobby R. 1 entry, 1956
  • by October 18, 1956: Orange Textile Products starts making lingerie in the old Midway Building Supply building near Efland

  May be the same person as Roberts, Bobby

• Roberts, Bryan 1 entry, 1936
  • 1936: Dr. Bryan Roberts buys the Roulhac-Hamilton House and remakes it as a brick Colonial Revival house

  May be the same person as Roberts, Bryan N.

• Roberts, Bryan N. 2 entries, 1940–1960
  • by October 11, 1940: Governor Hoey appoints Orange County's draft board
  • January 1, 1960: Dr. Bryan N. Roberts, Hillsboro physician since 1930, dies

  May be the same person as Roberts, Bryan

• Roberts, Mrs. Cain 1 entry, 1918
  • May 31, 1918: The Orange County Red Cross sends literature to women in outlying communities to start Red Cross work
• Roberts, Caine 1 entry, 1880
  • about 1880: The Caine Roberts farm is built near Hillsborough
• Roberts, Clyde 10 entries, 1941–1956

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• Roberts, Curry 2 entries, 1934–1948
  • about 1934: Curry Roberts builds a brick house for the Cates family on West Union Street
  • October 1948: Workmen begin repairing the courthouse clock tower
• Roberts, D. T. 1 entry, 1955
  • July 5, 1955: Hillsboro promotes George Hunt to police chief
• Roberts, Danny 1 entry, 2005
  • February 2005: The GLBT-SA plans its third Unity Conference, widened to the whole Southeast
• Roberts, Donald V. 1 entry, 1963
  • by November 14, 1963: Orange County is named the state's ASCS county of the year
• Roberts, Fireball 4 entries, 1950–1956

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• Roberts, George 1 entry, 1818
  • 1818: Mount Carmel Baptist Church ordains Abner W. Clopton to the ministry
• Roberts, Howard 1 entry, 1974
  • February 5, 1974: The Howard Roberts Chorale performs a history of Black music in Memorial Hall
• Roberts, John 1 entry, 1829
  • May Term 1829: At a parent's request, the court binds Harrison and Robert Taburn, boys of color, to John Roberts

  May be the same person as Roberts, John W.

• Roberts, John W. 1 entry, 1865
  • February Term 1865: The court binds Nancy Day, twelve, a girl of color, to John W. Roberts

  May be the same person as Roberts, John

• Roberts, Lee 1 entry, 2026
  • January 21, 2026: UNC announces a campus extension at Carolina North

  May be the same person as Roberts, Lee H.

• Roberts, Lee H. 2 entries, 2025–2026
  • July 1, 2025: UNC extends Bubba Cunningham's contract and names his successor as athletics director
  • September 8, 2026: UNC says a new residence hall will be named Jackson Hall for Blyden and Roberta Jackson

  May be the same person as Roberts, Lee

• Roberts, Lydia 1 entry, 1849
  • August 1849 (court term): The county court overrules a plea that the bastardy law does not reach a free man of color
• Roberts, Major 1 entry, 1845
  • 1845: Faculty turns away a fencing and boxing instructor
• Roberts, Marion 1 entry, 1942
  • by May 29, 1942: E. M. Lynch is re-elected president of the Hillsboro Library Association

  May be the same person as Roberts, Marion B.

• Roberts, Mrs. Marion 1 entry, 1963
  • by January 10, 1963: The Orange County Historical Museum reopens in the old courthouse after refurbishing

  May be the same person as Roberts, Mrs. Marion B.

• Roberts, Marion B. 1 entry, 1956
  • February 1, 1956: Fire guts Dr. Marion B. Roberts's house at King and Hassell streets

  May be the same person as Roberts, Marion

• Roberts, Mrs. Marion B. 1 entry, 1963
  • October 11, 1963: Mrs. Alfred G. Engstrom is elected president of the Hillsborough Historical Society

  May be the same person as Roberts, Mrs. Marion

• Roberts, Oliver 1 entry, 1951
  • 1951: Orange County 4-H members win at the Durham Fat Stock Show
• Roberts, Prof. 1 entry, 1902
  • by February 27, 1902: Caldwell Institute starts a school library
• Roberts, Rainey 1 entry, 1958
  • April 6, 1958: Sheriff's deputies destroy a 24-box liquor still south of Hillsboro
• Roberts, Reid 12 entries, 1949–1958

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• Roberts, Richard 1 entry, 1963
  • October 31, 1963: St. Mary's wins the county's 1963 community development contest
• Roberts, Thomas 1 entry, 1886
  • September 18, 1886: Orange Republicans name James B. Mason for the Senate and back Cheek and Hughes
• Roberts, W. O. 1 entry, 1897
  • October 22, 1897: The Farmers' State Alliance votes to reopen its Hillsborough shoe factory under W. O. Roberts
• Roberts, W. P. 2 entries, 1883–1887
  • 1883: Cross Roads Baptist Church is organized as Betheden
  • October 1, 1887: The school board condemns a lot for a school for Black children at Walnut Grove
• Roberts, W. R. 2 entries, 1918–1954
  • March 30, 1918: Farmers' Union delegates at Schley ask that no wheat be threshed before July 15
  • December 6, 1954: Odell H. Clayton is sworn in as sheriff with three new deputies
• Roberts, William 1 entry, 1808
  • February 24, 1808: The court binds out seven children of Penny Weaver, a free woman of color
• Robertson, Mrs. C. H. 3 entries, 1917–1918
  • August 20, 1917: The Orange County Red Cross takes on a quota of 200 knitted sets for soldiers
  • May 11, 1918: Orange County Red Cross knitters report more than 1,100 garments in seven months
  • November 1918: The Orange County Red Cross mails 111 Christmas boxes to men overseas
• Robertson, Charles H. 14 entries, 1908–1953

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• Robertson, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1946
  • September 3, 1946: The West Hillsboro Civic Organization starts a monthly well-baby clinic
• Robertson, Emma 1 entry, 1918
  • October 1918: Eno Mill opens an influenza diet kitchen at West Hill school
• Robertson, Lawrence 1 entry, 1945
  • May 17, 1945: Hillsboro citizens start a fund drive to restore the Nash-Kollock school as a community center
• Robertson, Margaret Anna 2 entries, 1846–1856
  • April 5, 1846: Smallpox at the Turner house sends students out of town
  • February 8, 1856: The Burwells resolve to sell their cook Hannah
• Robertson, Owen 8 entries, 1929–1947
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  • August 1929: Chapel Hill's American Legion post elects Paul Robertson commander
  • November 6, 1934: Democrats sweep Orange County in the 1934 general election
  • by October 11, 1940: Governor Hoey appoints Orange County's draft board
  • by November 22, 1940: Nine volunteers fill Orange County's draft quota for 1940
  • by November 8, 1940: The Orange County draft board names an advisory board to help registrants with questionnaires
  • December 10-13, 1940: Orange County sends three volunteers to Fort Bragg under the new draft
  • July 11 to August 15, 1941: Orange County beats its quota for North Carolina's ambulance plane for Britain
  • March 3, 1947: County commissioners refuse to seek forgiveness of back taxes on the Legion's new property
• Robertson, Owen S. 13 entries, 1932–1947

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• Robertson, Paul 15 entries, 1928–1955
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  • by October 5, 1928: Chapel Hill voting precinct takes in an area formerly in Patterson's precinct
  • November 1928: Chapel Hill election officials rebut a charge of illegal student voting
  • November 11, 1929: Chapel Hill marks Armistice Day with a reading of the Orange County war dead
  • late August 1929: Chapel Hill's American Legion post wins three state trophies
  • April 23, 1929: Chapel Hill school district voters approve $15,000 in school bonds
  • June 20, 1930: Chapel Hill Legion post forms a boys' baseball team with Carrboro and Hillsboro players
  • by March 13, 1931: Orange County veterans rush to borrow on their World War bonus certificates
  • November 7, 1933: Orange County votes against repeal while Chapel Hill votes for it
  • by December 21, 1934: The American Legion agrees to buy the old Methodist church for its Memorial Hut
  • by March 8, 1935: Chapel Hill's American Legion post drops its plan to rebuild the old Methodist church
  • February 18, 1935: Movie Guild votes a Sunday show's proceeds to the Legion's building fund
  • May 4, 1937: Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor Foushee and chooses three new aldermen
  • November 12 to 29, 1941: Volunteers man an aircraft observation post at the American Legion Hut
  • March 15, 1944: Chapel Hill's American Legion post burns the mortgage on its hut
  • June 26, 1955: The American Legion installs Chapel Hill's Paul Robertson as state commander
• Robertson, Paul H. 32 entries, 1928–1964

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• Robertson, Pearle Causey 1 entry, 1925
  • 1925: Hillsborough women organize the Hillsborough Garden Club
• Robertson, W. L. 1 entry, 1910
  • about 1910: Braxton Craig and partners build a small Queen Anne house on McCauley Street
• Robertson, W. S. 1 entry, 1913
  • March 8, 1913: The Blanche Hosiery Mill Company is chartered again with $100,000 in authorized capital
• Robinson, Blackwell 1 entry, 1962
  • November 6, 1962: Democrats carry Orange County's general election as Republicans gain ground

  May be the same person as Robinson, Blackwell P.

• Robinson, Blackwell P. 1 entry, 1962
  • October 1, 1962: Orange County Republicans open a county headquarters in Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Robinson, Blackwell

• Robinson, David 1 entry, 1777
  • August 1777: Merchants who traded with Britain are ordered to swear allegiance or leave
• Robinson, Gerald 1 entry, 1953
  • August 3, 1953: The state opens a new forestry district headquarters in Chapel Hill
• Robinson, Hubert 21 entries, 1935–2009

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• Robinson, Hubert S., Sr. 2 entries, 1943–1961
  • by February 19, 1943: Civilian Defense gives arm bands to twelve Black volunteer fire-fighters in Chapel Hill
  • February 13, 1961: Chapel Hill sends its long-range thoroughfare plan to the State Highway Commission
• Robinson, Hugh 1 entry, 1964
  • January 13, 1964: Chapel Hill aldermen vote down a public accommodations ordinance
• Robinson, James L. 1 entry, 1885
  • June 3, 1885: Trustees adopt resolutions thanking Thomas J. Jarvis for Memorial Hall
• Robinson, John, Jr. 1 entry, 1817
  • February Term 1817: A jury finds John Robinson Jr. the father of Polly Bradley's child after he denies it
• Robinson, Lambert 1 entry, 1799
  • March 2, 1799 (February Term 1799): The court orders a road laid off from Franklin Street to the old Raleigh road
• Robinson, Max 1 entry, 1983
  • January 16, 1983: ABC News anchor Max Robinson gives the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture
• Robinson, Prezell 1 entry, 1982
  • January 28, 1982: UNC holds its first campus-wide Martin Luther King Jr. celebration
• Robinson, Randall 3 entries, 1986–2001
  • January 15, 1986: TransAfrica's Randall Robinson gives the King Memorial Lecture in Memorial Hall
  • November 14-16, 1990: Randall Robinson and Jawanza Kunjufu speak during the Campus Y's Human Rights Week
  • February 24, 2001: Randall Robinson addresses the Blacks in the Diaspora student conference at the Carolina Inn
• Robson, C. B. 2 entries, 1935–1943
  • 1935: The University authorizes a Department of Political Science
  • July 22, 1943: The University opens an Army Area and Language School

  May be the same person as Robson, Charles B.

• Robson, Charles B. 1 entry, 1948
  • April 1, 1948: Political scientist Donald Hayman joins the Institute of Government staff

  May be the same person as Robson, C. B.

• Robson, Edward 1 entry, 1816
  • before 1816: Edward Robson keeps a store and the post office on Franklin Street
• Robson, W. G. 1 entry, 1891
  • September 12, 1891: A new tobacco barn full of tobacco burns in Cedar Grove Township
• Robson, William 2 entries, 1823–1830
  • February 1823: Dr. James Webb deeds Hillsborough's Methodists a lot and house on Tryon Street
  • about 1830-1832: Orange Methodist Church is organized at the Davis School House
• Rocha-Goldberg, Pilar 1 entry, 2015
  • April 26, 2015: Carrboro's Center for Employment and Leadership for day laborers opens
• Rochester, Nathaniel 22 entries, 1757–1800

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• Rockwell, Florence 1 entry, 1926
  • April 6, 1926: Nearly 600 children stage a pageant at the Orange County schools commencement
• Roddy, Camille 1 entry, 1986
  • October to December 1986: About 1,000 students petition UNC to observe the King holiday
• Rodgers, John 1 entry, 1819
  • 1819: William A. Graham enters Hillsborough Academy to prepare for the university
• Rodgers, Samuel 1 entry, 1868
  • October 1868: Three justices, one of them Black, investigate a fight and a shooting at Durham's
• Rodman, William 1 entry, 1956
  • by August 2, 1956: The university stops selling University Pool tickets after Black residents apply
• Rodman, William B. 1 entry, 1869
  • June 1869: The Pool faculty holds its first commencement
• Rogers, F. O. 1 entry, 1897
  • 1897: The University Magazine is revived
• Rogers, Fred 2 entries, 1956
  • September 1956: Cameron Park School opens in Hillsborough with the lower grades from Hillsboro High
  • by June 14, 1956: Fred Rogers is named the first principal of Cameron Park School

  May be the same person as Rogers, Fred W.

• Rogers, Fred W. 1 entry, 1956
  • November 27, 1956: Hillsborough dedicates the new Cameron Park School

  May be the same person as Rogers, Fred

• Rogers, Gaston Wilder 1 entry, 1958
  • January 9, 1958: Dr. Gaston W. Rogers, former assistant district health officer, dies
• Rogers, Ira 2 entries, 1900–1912
  • early 1900s: Tobacco farmer Ira Rogers builds tenant housing in upper Orange County
  • 1912: Ira Rogers builds a hip-roofed farmhouse northwest of Hillsborough
• Rogers, J. R. 1 entry, 1948
  • January 27, 1948: Hillsboro Speedway, Inc. buys the Occoneechee Farm racetrack tract
• Rogers, James Gamble 2 entries, 1924–1926
  • December 6, 1924: Methodists award the building contract for the new Chapel Hill church
  • May 1926: Chapel Hill Methodists complete a Georgian Revival church by James Gamble Rogers
• Rogers, James Grafton 1 entry, 1931
  • July 23-25, 1931: The North Carolina Bar Association holds its convention in Chapel Hill
• Rogers, John 5 entries, 1819–1827

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• Rogers, John J. W. 1 entry, 1975

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• Rogers, John L. 1 entry, 1946
  • April 1946: Carrboro veterans organize American Legion Post 283
• Rogers, M. D. 1 entry, 1990
  • October 1990: State highway planners complete a thoroughfare plan for rural Orange County
• Rogers, Sion H. 1 entry, 1853
  • August 4, 1853: Orange votes for Whig Sion H. Rogers, who takes the congressional district from Venable
• Rogers, Tobias 2 entries, 1797–1798
  • August Term 1797: An evenly divided court turns down pay for the Morgan Creek bridge
  • February Term 1798: The court pays Tobias Rogers for the Morgan Creek bridge at McCauley's mill
• Rogers, W. L. 1 entry, 1946
  • July 24, 1946: Raleigh buyers purchase the Occoneechee Farm tract at auction
• Rogers, William 1 entry, 1790
  • February 24, 1790: The court grants William Gwinn a public ferry at the Shallow Ford of the Haw
• Rogerson, L. B. 18 entries, 1921–1953

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• Rojas, Claudia 1 entry, 2008
  • 2008: UNC opens the Center for Latino Health for Spanish-speaking patients
• Roland, Lewis 1 entry, 1982
  • November 1982: The Black Faculty/Staff Caucus publishes a position paper on Black staff
• Roland, Parker 1 entry, 1960
  • January to March 1960: Orange Grange leaders take the case for rural zoning to nearly every community
• Rolen, Samuel 1 entry, 1847
  • February 1847: The court dismisses a bastardy warrant against Samuel Rolen for a faulty examination
• Rollins, Wallace E. 1 entry, 1935
  • June 11, 1935: Eleanor Roosevelt gives the University commencement address in Kenan Stadium
• Romaine, Susan 1 entry, 2021
  • January 12, 2021: Carrboro Town Council adopts a nondiscrimination ordinance covering sexual orientation and gender identity
• Romanovsky, Ron 1 entry, 1985
  • February 1985: The Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association prepares to host the tenth Southeastern Conference for Lesbians and Gay Men
• Rominger, C. A. 1 entry, 1883
  • late March 1883: Dentist C. A. Rominger opens an office in Hillsborough's Berry building
• Romweber, Dexter 1 entry, 1985
  • 1985: Dexter Romweber of the Flat Duo Jets lives in the backyard shack he calls the Mausoleum
• Romweber, Joe 1 entry, 1985
  • 1985: Dexter Romweber of the Flat Duo Jets lives in the backyard shack he calls the Mausoleum
• Romweber, Sara 1 entry, 1985
  • 1985: Dexter Romweber of the Flat Duo Jets lives in the backyard shack he calls the Mausoleum
• Rondthaler, Rev. Dr. 1 entry, 1880
  • July 23, 1880: Rev. Dr. Rondthaler of Salem lectures the Normal School on German schools
• Rondthaler, Howard 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 Rondthaler, Howard E.

• Rondthaler, Howard E. 1 entry, 1936
  • February 13, 1936: Alumni Association makes the Carolina Inn its official headquarters

  May be the same person as Rondthaler, Howard

• Roney, James 2 entries, 1842
  • mid-September 1842: Orange Superior Court convicts Pleasant Tudor of the murder of James Roney
  • October 7, 1842: Pleasant Tudor is executed for the murder of James Roney
• Roodenko, Igal 8 entries, 1928–2022

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• Roof, Lloyd R. 2 entries, 1939–1942
  • by July 7, 1939: The Soil Conservation Service nursery on the Mason farm ships about 7,000,000 seedlings
  • January 26, 1942: Would-be vegetable gardeners organize in Chapel Hill and are offered plots
• Roosevelt, Eleanor 4 entries, 1935–1958

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• Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1 entry, 1938
  • December 5, 1938: President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks in Woollen Gymnasium and receives an honorary degree
• Roosevelt, James 1 entry, 1937
  • July 14, 1937: James Roosevelt speaks to an overflow crowd in Hill Music Hall
• Roosevelt, Theodore 2 entries, 1905–1908
  • October 19, 1905: President Roosevelt greets a Hillsborough crowd from his train
  • January 14, 1908: President Roosevelt names William E. Lindsay postmaster at Chapel Hill
• Root, Florence 2 entries, 1945–1946
  • June 10, 1945: The Orange County Council of Churches renews its Bible teacher for the county schools
  • by April 18, 1946: Orange County churches pay for Bible teaching in four county schools

  May be the same person as Root, Florence E.

• Root, Florence E. 1 entry, 1944
  • November 1944: The Orange County Council of Churches hires a Bible teacher for four county schools

  May be the same person as Root, Florence

• Roper, Bessie Corinna 1 entry, 1918
  • October 1918: Nurse Bessie Roper dies after nursing UNC students through influenza
• Roper, Bill 1 entry, 2019
  • December 13, 2019: Kevin M. Guskiewicz is named UNC-Chapel Hill's twelfth chancellor
• Rosamond, Charles G. 1 entry, 1927
  • August 31, 1927: A prohibition officer seizes stills in Little River township
• Rose, A. S. 1 entry, 1936
  • April 21, 1936: Clifford Beers speaks in Chapel Hill for mental hygiene societies in North Carolina
• Rose, Charles G. 1 entry, 1931
  • July 23-25, 1931: The North Carolina Bar Association holds its convention in Chapel Hill
• Rose, Ira 1 entry, 1931
  • March 19, 1931: J. Grover Beard becomes dean of the University's pharmacy school
• Rose, T. D. 1 entry, 1953
  • January 25, 1953: Covenant Presbyterian Church is organized in Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Rose, Thomas D.

• Rose, Thomas D. 21 entries, 1949–1964
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  • September 1, 1949: Chapel Hill aldermen adopt nine new traffic rules to ease downtown congestion
  • October 10, 1949: Chapel Hill sets a 25-mile speed limit on town streets and bans 48-hour parking
  • July 26, 1949: Chapel Hill's new $425,000 sewage plant goes into operation
  • July 15, 1949: Thomas D. Rose succeeds Gilbert W. Ray as Chapel Hill's town manager
  • July 31, 1950: Chapel Hill annexes Hillcrest, Davie Circle and the Durham Road section
  • January 3, 1950: Hillsboro's town board orders plans to double the water plant
  • September 20, 1954: Hillsboro's town board orders an engineering survey for a new Eno River dam
  • June 14, 1955: Hillsboro awards the contract for its Eno River water supply dam
  • February 8, 1955: Hillsborough's board votes to seek a $50,000 water bond election for an Eno River dam
  • by January 27, 1955: Town Manager Thomas D. Rose reports on five years and urges Chapel Hill bonds
  • January 7, 1957: Commissioners make the development commission Orange's voice on the proposed New Hope dam
  • July 17, 1958: The AAA cites Chapel Hill for sixteen years without a pedestrian death
  • July 14, 1958: Chapel Hill aldermen vote to put parking meters downtown
  • May 1958: An engineer's report proposes a joint sewage plant for Hillsboro and its two mills
  • March 8, 1960: Chapel Hill voters approve $525,000 in town improvement bonds
  • June 27, 1961: Chapel Hill adopts a personnel ordinance and pay plan for its town workers
  • August 2, 1961: Robert Peck accepts the post of Chapel Hill town manager
  • July 10, 1961: Thomas D. Rose resigns as Chapel Hill town manager and stays on as town engineer
  • April 24, 1962: Hillsboro voters approve $190,000 in sewer bonds
  • early March 1963: Hillsboro wins federal approval for a sewage treatment plant and calls for bids
  • May 19, 1964: Hillsborough's new sewage treatment plant goes into operation

  May be the same person as Rose, T. D.

• Rose, Thomas P. 1 entry, 1955
  • May 14, 1955: Hillsboro buys 41 acres on the Eno River for its new water supply dam
• Rose, Tom 2 entries, 1951–1958
  • June 25, 1951: Chapel Hill applies to bring its town employees under Social Security
  • January 6, 1958: County commissioners adopt a new electrical ordinance
• Rosemond, Charles G. 9 entries, 1903–1930

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• Rosemond, Clarence 1 entry, 1959
  • August 1, 1959: Kay Winecoff and Clarence Rosemond reopen the Osbunn Theater
• Rosemond, Edward Atkins 21 entries, 1877–1911

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• Rosemond, James T. 2 entries, 1891
  • July 18, 1891: A federal hearing at Hillsborough holds William R. Clark for selling liquor without a license
  • by April 18, 1891: James T. Rosemond of Hillsborough is named a United States commissioner
• Rosemond, Jerome C. 1 entry, 1911
  • October 5, 1911: The Hillsboro board elects John Christmas mayor after Mayor Whitaker resigns
• Rosemond, John 5 entries, 1875–1889
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  • early May 1875 (reported May 5): Hillsborough elects John M. Blackwood magistrate of police on a mixed-party ticket
  • May 7, 1883: Hillsborough elects George O. Corbin mayor
  • May 2, 1887: Hillsborough elects Joseph A. Harris mayor
  • by June 11, 1887: John Rosemond sells his share of J. Rosemond & Son, which becomes E. A. Rosemond & Bro.
  • January 9, 1889: John Rosemond, Polish exile and former Hillsborough commissioner, dies
• Rosemond, Leonard 1 entry, 1958
  • January 6, 1958: County commissioners adopt a new electrical ordinance
• Rosemond, T. A. 1 entry, 1941
  • August 11, 1941: Chapel Hill Masons dedicate a memorial to Dr. Eric A. Abernethy
• Rosemond, Tom 2 entries, 1932–1954
  • December 1932: Franklin Street is lit for Christmas with displays built under J. S. Bennett
  • April 1954: Sophie Livas is installed as Worthy Matron of the Eastern Star chapter in Chapel Hill
• Rosenau, M. J. 17 entries, 1935–1965

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• Rosenau, Milton 2 entries, 1935–1940
  • 1935: Dean Charles Mangum approaches Milton Rosenau as UNC sets up a Division of Public Health
  • 1940–1950: UNC School of Public Health runs a Rockefeller-funded syphilis study in Orange and neighboring counties
• Rosenbacher, Robert 1 entry, 1959
  • 1959: Robert Rosenbacher opens The Hub, a men's clothing store, on East Franklin Street
• Rosenbluth, Lennie 2 entries, 1956–1957
  • 1956–57 season: McGuire's undefeated Tar Heels play their home games at Woollen Gym
  • March 23, 1957: UNC men’s basketball wins the 1957 NCAA national championship
• Rosenthal, John 1 entry, 1970
  • May 6, 1970: The student body meets in Polk Place and more than 4,000 march through downtown Chapel Hill behind four coffins
• Rosenzweig, Efraim 2 entries, 1958–1959
  • October 23, 1958: Chapel Hill marks United Nations Day by planting a tree at the elementary school
  • October 5, 1959: Chapel Hill school board moves high school baccalaureate services out of the churches

  May be the same person as Rosenzweig, Efraim M.

• Rosenzweig, Efraim M. 1 entry, 1944
  • 1944: The B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation buys a lot on Cameron Avenue

  May be the same person as Rosenzweig, Efraim

• Ross, C. T. 1 entry, 1917
  • by May 3, 1917: C. T. Ross starts a herd of purebred Hereford beef cattle near Chapel Hill
• Ross, Clarence 3 entries, 1953–1956
  • by June 18, 1953: Will Ed Thompson's estate inventory comes to $174,185, far below the first estimate
  • March 16, 1953: Will Ed Thompson's will leaves most of his estate to the Efland Presbyterian Church
  • about June 1956: Will Ed Thompson's mausoleum at Efland Presbyterian Church is finished but stands empty
• Ross, George 1 entry, 1935
  • by March 8, 1935: Rural rehabilitation approves about a hundred Orange farm family budgets
• Ross, Ruby 1 entry, 1929
  • May 13, 1929: Aldermen choose the officers of Chapel Hill's new recorder's court
• Ross, Tom 2 entries, 2011–2013
  • October 12, 2011: Speaker Ban marker dedicated at the McCorkle Place wall
  • October 12, 2013: Carol Folt is installed as chancellor at Chapel Hill
• Ross, William 1 entry, 1777
  • August 1777: Merchants who traded with Britain are ordered to swear allegiance or leave
• Ross-Duggan, John K. 1 entry, 1940
  • April 19, 1940: Col. John K. Ross-Duggan plans 75th-anniversary exercises at the restored Johnston headquarters house
• Rosson, James 1 entry, 1845
  • August Term 1845: The court lets Jonathan Thompson take his apprentice James Rosson to Arkansas
• Rosson, Sally 2 entries, 1842–1845
  • August 11, 1842: James R. Watson advertises his bound girl Nancy Green Rossin as a runaway
  • August Term 1845: The court lets Jonathan Thompson take his apprentice James Rosson to Arkansas
• Rothe, Ann 1 entry, 1970
  • April 2, 1970: Tom Bello is sworn in as student body president
• Roughgarden, Joan 1 entry, 2005
  • March 3, 2005: Biologist Joan Roughgarden lectures on sexual diversity in nature in the Great Hall
• Roulhac, Anne 1 entry, 1895
  • Christmas 1895: Anne Roulhac gives St. Matthew's an oak litany desk
• Roulhac, Annie 1 entry, 1857
  • about 1857: Thomas Ruffin buys a West Tryon Street house for his widowed daughter Catherine Roulhac
• Roulhac, Catherine Ruffin 1 entry, 1857
  • about 1857: Thomas Ruffin buys a West Tryon Street house for his widowed daughter Catherine Roulhac
• Roulhac, Charlotte Trant 1 entry, 1954
  • 1954: William Sterling Roulhac dies and leaves the Ruffin house to his wife Charlotte
• Roulhac, J. B. G. 1 entry, 1883

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• Roulhac, Nannie Russell 3 entries, 1904–1909
  • March term 1904: The superior court orders the old Ruffin place sold to Nannie Russell Roulhac
  • about 1908: Nannie Roulhac remodels the Ruffin house
  • 1909: Nannie Roulhac dies and her son William Sterling Roulhac inherits the Ruffin house
• Roulhac, T. R. 1 entry, 1863
  • March 5, 1863: Military Academy cadets take up a subscription for the Tew monument
• Roulhac, W. S. 2 entries, 1879–1951
  • October 4, 1879: Becky Lyon is acquitted of the Blackwell murders
  • March 5, 1951: School board moves to condemn the Ruffin-Roulhac land for a Hillsboro school
• Roulhac, William Sterling 2 entries, 1909–1954
  • 1909: Nannie Roulhac dies and her son William Sterling Roulhac inherits the Ruffin house
  • 1954: William Sterling Roulhac dies and leaves the Ruffin house to his wife Charlotte
• Roundtree, Harry 1 entry, 1880
  • 1880: Little River Township has one grist mill and two sawmills
• Rourk, M. H. 1 entry, 1936
  • January 1936: Dr. W. P. Richardson becomes health officer of the district serving Orange

  May be the same person as Rourk, Malcolm H.; Rourk, Malcolm Henderson

• Rourk, Malcolm H. 1 entry, 1936
  • January 15, 1936: Aldermen back the new district health department after recorder's court setbacks

  May be the same person as Rourk, M. H.; Rourk, Malcolm Henderson

• Rourk, Malcolm Henderson 1 entry, 1935
  • August 1935: Orange-Person District Health Department organized with Dr. Malcolm Rourk as health officer

  May be the same person as Rourk, M. H.; Rourk, Malcolm H.

• Rousseve, David 1 entry, 2019
  • February 26, 2019: Hillsborough holds a celebration of Billy Strayhorn
• Rowan, Matthew 1 entry, 1753

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• Rowe, Eleanor R. 1 entry, 1954
  • 1954: A weatherboarded Cape Cod house is built on the new Fern Lane for Eleanor R. Rowe and Philip P. Green Jr.
• Rowland, Creesa 1 entry, 1823
  • February 1823: The court calls in four children of Creesa Rowland, a woman of color on Stoney Creek, to be bound out
• Rowland, Domesia 1 entry, 1823
  • February 1823: The court calls in four children of Creesa Rowland, a woman of color on Stoney Creek, to be bound out
• Rowland, Fanny 1 entry, 1823
  • February 1823: The court calls in four children of Creesa Rowland, a woman of color on Stoney Creek, to be bound out
• Rowland, Jane 1 entry, 1823
  • February 1823: The court calls in four children of Creesa Rowland, a woman of color on Stoney Creek, to be bound out
• Rowland, Lucretia 1 entry, 1823
  • February 1823: The court calls in four children of Creesa Rowland, a woman of color on Stoney Creek, to be bound out
• Royall, Anne 1 entry, 1830
  • 1830: Anne Royall publishes a hostile account of Chapel Hill
• Royall, Henry E. 1 entry, 1962
  • October 28, 1962: An American Legion division meeting in Chapel Hill backs a call to investigate leftists at UNC
• Royo, Luis 1 entry, 2012
  • March 26, 2012: New Roots interview records the history of the Spanish Mass at St. Thomas More
• Royster, Hubert Ashley 2 entries, 1903

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• Royster, James Finch 16 entries, 1907–1933

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• Royster, James Finch 2 entries, 1922–1925

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• Royster, Leland 1 entry, 1959
  • June 28, 1959: Mars Hill Baptist Church marks its 125th anniversary and burns its parsonage mortgage
• Royster, Tremaine 1 entry, 2017
  • August 27, 2017: Tremaine Royster becomes the fourth pastor of Jones Grove
• Royster, Vermont 1 entry, 1958

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• Royster, Vermont C. 5 entries, 1953–1986

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• Rozzelle, C. E. 1 entry, 1931
  • February 2, 1931: University Lodge No. 408 dedicates its new hall in the old Baptist church
• Rozzelle, C. Excell 5 entries, 1928–1941
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  • late April 1928: Chapel Hill business and University men organize a Rotary Club
  • May 10, 1929: Chapel Hill observes Confederate Memorial Day
  • June 4, 1930: Chapel Hill school reports a 180-day term and a growing high school
  • April 7, 1935: The Chapel Hill Methodist church is dedicated once its debt is paid
  • August 11, 1941: Chapel Hill Masons dedicate a memorial to Dr. Eric A. Abernethy
• Ruark, Arthur E. 1 entry, 1934
  • by July 6, 1934: Arthur E. Ruark and Glen Haydon join the university as heads of physics and music
• Ruark, Henry 1 entry, 1945
  • April 14 or 15, 1945: More than 6,000 Navy men, students and townspeople mourn President Roosevelt in Kenan Stadium

  May be the same person as Ruark, Henry G.

• Ruark, Henry G. 1 entry, 1945
  • 1945: The Wesley Foundation takes up Methodist student work at Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Ruark, Henry

• Rubin, Louis 1 entry, 1969
  • 1969: Blyden Jackson joins UNC's English department and becomes its first tenured Black professor
• Rubin, Louis D., Jr. 7 entries, 1967–1998

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• Rubin, Robert 1 entry, 1990
  • 1990: Louis Rubin hands Algonquin Books to Shannon Ravenel and Robert Rubin
• Rubish, Mike 1 entry, 1960
  • by July 21, 1960: Former UNC football player Mike Rubish opens Rubish's Golf City on the Durham Boulevard
• Ruble, A. 1 entry, 1928
  • January 27, 1928: Chapel Hill girls organize a Girl Scout troop
• Rudisill, D. P. 3 entries, 1946
  • July 21, 1946: Lutherans organize Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Chapel Hill
  • by July 11, 1946: St. John's Lutheran Church of Cherryville gives a lot for a Lutheran church in Chapel Hill
  • September 15, 1946: The Rev. E. C. Cooper arrives as Chapel Hill's new Lutheran pastor

  May be the same person as Rudisill, Dorus P.

• Rudisill, Dorus P. 1 entry, 1942
  • November 1, 1942: Lutheran services move to Sunday mornings in Memorial Hall

  May be the same person as Rudisill, D. P.

• Ruffin, Allen Jones 22 entries, 1877–1919

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• Ruffin, Anne Kirkland 4 entries, 1811–1875

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• Ruffin, Anne M. 1 entry, 1870
  • 1870: Anne Ruffin buys the last two lots and the Ruffin place fills a whole town block
• Ruffin, Annie Gray 2 entries, 1907–1919
  • October 1907: Allen J. and Annie Gray Ruffin buy the James A. Cheek House
  • 1919: Houston J. Walker buys the James A. Cheek House from Annie Gray Ruffin
• Ruffin, E. B. 1 entry, 1857
  • May 1857: The wardens of the poor order poorhouse repairs and a $1,000 loan
• Ruffin, Jesse 5 entries, 1842–1901

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• Ruffin, Lewis 3 entries, 1892–1904
  • February 22, 1892: Coroner's jury holds Lewis Ruffin for a higher court in the death of Miles Toomer
  • night of February 13, 1892: Miles Toomer, a Black man, is found fatally burned near the Methodist church in Hillsborough
  • August 9, 1904: Lewis Ruffin is sentenced to thirty years in the penitentiary
• Ruffin, Mary 1 entry, 1877
  • about 1877-1878: Thomas Ruffin Jr. and his wife Mary build the Ruffin-Hill House
• Ruffin, P. B. 4 entries, 1850–1889
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  • March 9, 1850: Hillsborough hires a paid town patrol and orders town property reassessed
  • July 12, 1866: Thomas Webb of Hillsborough becomes president of the North Carolina Railroad
  • early October 1879: P. B. Ruffin is promoted from the Hillsborough depot and Sterling Ruffin becomes station agent
  • June 3, 1889: Hillsborough holds the first Orange County cattle show
• Ruffin, Peter Brown 2 entries, 1840–1854
  • about 1840: John Berry adds a rear ell to Peter Brown Ruffin's house on West King Street
  • About 1854: Peter Brown Ruffin buys the land that became Margaret Lane Cemetery
• Ruffin, Rebecca 2 entries, 1842–1866
  • June 1842: William Norwood's estate lists Rebecca Ruffin and her daughters
  • May 1, 1866: Jesse and Rebecca Ruffin register the marriage they made in 1828
• Ruffin, Sterling 3 entries, 1879–1899
  • early October 1879: P. B. Ruffin is promoted from the Hillsborough depot and Sterling Ruffin becomes station agent
  • October 1, 1883: Joseph G. Cooley succeeds Sterling Ruffin as railroad agent at Hillsborough
  • July 14, 1899: Orange County signs $5,000 in six per cent bonds and delivers them to Dr. Sterling Ruffin
• Ruffin, Thomas 64 entries, 1752–2021

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• Ruffin, Thomas 5 entries, 1859–1886

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  • March 17-19, 1859: Orange Superior Court tries Obadiah Christmas for the murder of an enslaved man
  • October 4, 1879: Becky Lyon is acquitted of the Blackwell murders
  • January 25, 1881: Hillsborough's commissioners protest the bill to divide Orange County
  • August 23, 1884: Orange County Democrats nominate their legislative and county ticket
  • February 20, 1886: Fire destroys Judge Thomas Ruffin's house in Hillsborough
• Ruffin, Thomas, Jr. 11 entries, 1870–1889

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• Ruffin, William 1 entry, 1848
  • March 14, 1848: Hillsborough meeting of both parties backs Zachary Taylor for president

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• Ruffin, William K. 2 entries, 1847–1871
  • March 9, 1847: The Whig district convention at Hillsborough nominates John Kerr for Congress
  • 1871: Joseph Blount Cheshire studies law under William K. Ruffin at Hillsborough

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• Ruffner, R. H. 1 entry, 1946
  • October 22, 1946: The first Kiwanis Junior Dairy Calf Show is held at White Cross
• Ruger, Thomas H. 1 entry, 1866
  • February 13, 1866: Federal command lets Orange courts try freedpeople's cases
• Rumbley, Georgiana 1 entry, 1868
  • November 17, 1868: A Cedar Grove meeting expels Samuel H. Martin from the freedmen's school committee
• Rumbley, Georgianna 2 entries, 1868
  • first week of October 1868: Georgianna Rumbley opens the freedmen's school at Cedar Grove
  • October 1868: New freedmen's schools open at Banocks Chapel, Cotton Run and New Hope, all with Black teachers
• Rumley, C. M. 1 entry, 1950
  • September 15, 1950: The Parkvue Drive-In Theatre opens west of Carrboro
• Runge, Ford 1 entry, 1973
  • mid-October 1973: Student body president Ford Runge reinstates the Minority Court
• Rush, Charles E. 4 entries, 1941–1954

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• Rush, I. B. 1 entry, 1937
  • June 25, 1937: I. B. Rush, head of Chapel Hill's telephone service, dies
• Rush, O. Finley, Jr. 2 entries, 1975–1977
  • fall 1975: O. Finley Rush Jr. becomes principal of Chapel Hill High School
  • winter 1977 (by February 21, 1977): Chapel Hill High halves its gas use during the winter fuel shortage
• Rusher, John 1 entry, 1986
  • 1986–1992: Elizabeth Spencer teaches in UNC's creative writing program
• Rusk, Dean 1 entry, 1964
  • October 12, 1964: Secretary of State Dean Rusk receives an honorary degree on University Day
• Rusnak, Ron 1 entry, 1972
  • 1972: Dooley's Tar Heels go 11-1 and win a second straight ACC title
• Russell, Bertrand 1 entry, 1929

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• Russell, Bill 1 entry, 1975
  • September 15, 1975: Bill Russell speaks in Memorial Hall
• Russell, Caro Mae 1 entry, 1963
  • March 3, 1963: The Red Cross chapter opens its new headquarters on West Main Street in Carrboro
• Russell, Daniel L. 1 entry, 1831
  • November 1831 to November 1832: A year-long revival at New Hope adds at least seventy communicants
• Russell, Daniel Lindsay 2 entries, 1896–1897

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• Russell, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1812
  • February 1812: Rev. William Bingham takes charge of Hillsborough Academy
• Russell, Gattis 1 entry, 1956
  • January 12, 1956: Black farm and school leaders form the Rural Activity Organization of Orange County
• Russell, George W. 1 entry, 1931
  • March 11, 1931: Irish poet George W. Russell (A. E.) visits and lectures in Chapel Hill
• Russell, J. C. 1 entry, 1943
  • October 23, 1943: The picnic pavilion in Battle Park burns
• Russell, John C. 1 entry, 1828
  • October 4, 1828: Citizens of western Orange meet at the Hawfields to back Andrew Jackson for president
• Russell, Lucy Phillips 1 entry, 1949

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• Russell, Nellie 3 entries, 1918–1919
  • October 26, 1918: The Orange County Red Cross organizes volunteer nursing for the epidemic
  • February 21 to March 6, 1919: Orange County raises $2,075.84 for Armenian relief
  • November 15, 1919: Hillsboro parents and teachers organize the school's first PTA
• Russell, Phillips 9 entries, 1904–1972

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• Russell, Mrs. Phillips 1 entry, 1944
  • by February 10, 1944: Orange County nearly doubles its 1944 infantile paralysis quota
• Russell, Robert G. 1 entry, 1880
  • by May 29, 1880: Census enumerators are named for Orange County's eleven districts
• Rust, John 1 entry, 1939
  • March 30, 1939: America's Town Meeting of the Air broadcasts from Memorial Hall as the Institute of Human Relations opens
• Rustin, Bayard 8 entries, 1928–2022

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• Rutherford, Griffith 3 entries, 1768–1776

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• Rutherford, John 2 entries, 1768

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• Rutherford, John 1 entry, 1771

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  • May 17, 1771: Tryon proclaims a pardon for Regulators who come into camp, lay down their arms and take the oath
• Rutledge, John 1 entry, 1780

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• Ryan, T. B. 1 entry, 1880
  • by January 10, 1880: The Southern Mail begins publication at Hillsborough
• Ryan, W. Carson 2 entries, 1945–1953
  • April 10, 1945: Chapel Hill High holds its first Career Day
  • April 17-18, 1953: Central High hosts a Kellogg Project leadership conference for Black educators of three counties