Names in the chronology: S

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.

For biographies and researched profiles, browse the people directory. For people enslaved in Orange County, search the names in the county’s records.

908 names

No name on this page matches. Press Enter to search every letter.

• Sackett, R. L. 1 entry, 1928
  • June 26-29, 1928: The Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education meets in Chapel Hill
• Sadaukai, Owusu 3 entries, 1973–1975
  • April 1-8, 1973: The second Black Arts Cultural Festival brings Don L. Lee and the Bar-Kays
  • November 8-10, 1974: Students from 14 colleges organize the North Carolina Black Student Congress at UNC
  • April 1975: Stokely Carmichael speaks at the fourth Black Arts Cultural Festival
• Sain, Johnny 1 entry, 1943
  • May 6, 1943: Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky and Johnny Sain report to the Pre-Flight School as aviation cadets
• Sally 1 entry, 1803
  • May Term 1803: The court frees George, Cate, Sally, young George and Jack under Absalom Tatom's will
• Salter, J. A. 1 entry, 1921
  • 1921: Steele Dormitory, the first building of the new south quadrangle, goes up
• Sam 1 entry, 1802
  • August 26, 1802: The court lets Jack and Sam, enslaved by William Cain, carry guns to hunt
• Sam 1 entry, 1812
  • May 27, 1812: The court spares Sam, an enslaved man, from death under benefit of clergy and orders him branded
• Sam 1 entry, 1817
  • November Term 1817: The court licenses Sam, the enslaved man who ran Ephraim Cain's Eno plantation, to carry a gun
• Sam 1 entry, 1831
  • October 9, 1831 (one abstract gives December 6, 1832): Sally Martin names Sam, enslaved by Richard Freeman, as her child's father
• Samples, Junior 1 entry, 1971
  • June 13, 1971: Junior Samples and Jimmy Martin play the Daniel Boone Amphitheater
• Sampson, John 1 entry, 1768

  See the entry in the chronology

• Sampson, W. S. 1 entry, 1929
  • January 17, 1929: Graham Court apartments open on McCauley Street
• Sams, A. Fuller 1 entry, 1930
  • by April 11, 1930: Hillsboro lawyer Sam M. Gattis withdraws from the race for Congress
• Samuels, Margaret 1 entry, 2019
  • March 7, 2019: Joal Broun is elected chair of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board
• Sancar, Aziz 6 entries, 1982–2018

  See all 6 entries in the chronology

• Sancar, Gwen 2 entries, 2007–2018
  • 2007: The Sancars start Carolina Turk Evi
  • August 30, 2018: Ground is broken for the Sancar Turkish Cultural and Community Center
• Sandbeck, Peter 1 entry, 2016
  • December 2016: Rebuilding of the Occaneechi replica village in Hillsborough begins
• Sanders, John 3 entries, 1959–1964
  • 1959: The law faculty and the Institute staff vote against merging the Institute into the law school
  • July 1, 1962: Chancellor Aycock chooses John Sanders to succeed Albert Coates as director of the Institute
  • January 1964: Institute of Government delivers its report on Chapel Hill's power to pass a public accommodations law
• Sanders, John L. 10 entries, 1956–2019

  See all 10 entries in the chronology · Also printed as John Lassiter Sanders

• Sanders, Linn B. 1 entry, 1859
  • August 4, 1859: Orange gives L. O'B. Branch a majority as he keeps the Fourth District seat in Congress
• Sanders, W. B. 1 entry, 1937
  • September 8, 1937: Professor W. B. Sanders urges President Graham to give the Black janitors paid vacations

  May be the same person as Sanders, Wiley B.

• Sanders, Wiley B. 1 entry, 1919
  • July 7, 1919: School superintendent R. H. Claytor becomes the county's first welfare superintendent

  May be the same person as Sanders, W. B.

• Sandmel, Samuel 1 entry, 1939
  • by September 15, 1939: Rabbi Samuel Sandmel takes charge of the Hillel Foundation at UNC
• Sanford, Dewey 1 entry, 1948
  • May 10, 1948: Two Black men serve on an Orange County Superior Court civil jury
• Sanford, Henry 1 entry, 1964
  • February 24, 1964: Gloria Williams asks the school board to readmit boycotting Lincoln High students
• Sanford, Terry 27 entries, 1939–1984

  See all 27 entries in the chronology

• Sapienza, Erin 3 entries, 2021–2022

  See all 3 entries in the chronology

• Sapp, Odell 1 entry, 1933
  • May 2, 1933: Chapel Hill elects John Foushee mayor
• Sartre, Jean-Paul 1 entry, 1945
  • February 4, 1945: Seven French journalists, among them Jean-Paul Sartre, visit the Pre-Flight School and its French cadets
• Sather, Dawson 1 entry, 1988
  • 1988: A countywide inventory of natural areas singles out Occoneechee Mountain
• Satterwhite, Shavette 1 entry, 1979
  • August 18-19, 1979: Black Pre-Orientation welcomes about 300 freshmen
• Sauer, Lloyd R. 1 entry, 1942
  • November 1942: James P. Raugh becomes executive officer of the Pre-Flight School
• Saunders, Bob 1 entry, 1980
  • October 30, 1980: BSM and student government leaders object to parts of the new curriculum plan
• Saunders, J. Maryon 12 entries, 1927–1945

  See all 12 entries in the chronology · Also printed as J. Maryon Saunders; J. M. Saunders

• Saunders, James 3 entries, 1776
  • October 15, 1776: Crowds force the Orange County polls to close four times in the election for the fifth Provincial Congress
  • April 22, 1776: The Provincial Congress divides the Orange County militia into Northern and Southern regiments
  • Spring 1776: Orange County sends Rochester, Burke, Kinchen, Butler and Saunders to the Provincial Congress at Halifax
• Saunders, John B. 1 entry, 1952
  • January 27, 1952: Episcopalians organize the Church of the Holy Family in Chapel Hill
• Saunders, Joseph Hubbard 1 entry, 1820

  These entries are not linked to the page of the same name: they may name another person, or one not yet identified.

  • as early as 1820 (tradition): The core of the Saunders-Pritchard House is built on land that later became Northside
• Saunders, Joseph Hubbard 1 entry, 1863

  See the entry in the chronology · Also printed as Joseph H. Saunders

• Saunders, Maryon 1 entry, 1944
  • by December 20, 1944: Orange County goes over its overall Sixth War Loan quota
• Saunders, Mills 1 entry, 1868
  • July 1-6, 1868: A Chapel Hill magistrate and his son beat Mills Saunders while he is held on a civil warrant
• Saunders, Richard B. 2 entries, 1855–1857
  • after 1855: Chapel Hill merchants, John W. Carr among them, agree not to sell to minor students on credit
  • by June 7, 1857: Druggist R. B. Saunders puts up a street lamp in front of his Chapel Hill store

  May be the same person as Saunders, Richard Benbury

• Saunders, Richard Benbury 2 entries, 1855–1862
  • 1855: Richard Benbury Saunders buys the Lucas drugstore
  • 1862: Druggist Richard Benbury Saunders makes blue mass for the Confederacy

  May be the same person as Saunders, Richard B.

• Saunders, Romulus M. 4 entries, 1841–1856

  See all 4 entries in the chronology · Also printed as Romulus M. Saunders

• Saunders, Wiley B. 1 entry, 1928
  • June 11-13, 1928: Orange County holds a child health clinic and parents' institute in Hillsboro
• Saunders, William L. 19 entries, 1753–2015

  See all 19 entries in the chronology

• Sauthier, Claude Joseph 1 entry, 1764
  • 1764–1768: The county town becomes a courthouse village of stores, ordinaries and public buildings
• Saville, Mrs. Thorndike 1 entry, 1924
  • by June 13, 1924: The Community Club asks the aldermen to stop billboards in Chapel Hill
• Saville, Thorndike 3 entries, 1928–1934
  • July 1928: Chapel Hill weather station records a hot, dry July
  • October 29, 1931: Rain ends a 58-day drought in Chapel Hill
  • December 1934 (reported January 4, 1935): State water resources division leaves Phillips Hall for Raleigh
• Sawyer, Bonner 6 entries, 1930–1938
  Show the 6 entries

  • July 1930: Alexander H. Graham builds a stone law office on Churton Street
  • January 28, 1931: Chapel Hill aldermen ask the legislature to let them name the mayor town manager
  • March 9, 1932: Chapel Hill aldermen order levies on unpaid 1931 personal property taxes
  • December 8, 1932: A gravel-pit cave-in on the Durham road kills a Black relief worker
  • March 10, 1937: Chapel Hill aldermen vote down relief from West Franklin Street paving assessments
  • week of November 7, 1938: The Orange County Council on Education organizes at Hillsboro
• Sawyer, Bonner D. 32 entries, 1922–1961

  See all 32 entries in the chronology · Also printed as B. D. Sawyer

• Sawyer, J. E. 1 entry, 1836
  • June 1836: The university confers master of arts degrees at its 1836 commencement
• Sawyer, Lou 1 entry, 1984
  • April 2 to 6, 1984: The Carolina Gay Association holds Gay Awareness Week on the theme Gay Visions of a New World
• Sawyer, Merle A. 1 entry, 1943
  • January 22, 1943: The National Munitions Corporation plant in Carrboro receives the Army-Navy E award
• Scales, A. M. 1 entry, 1887
  • by August 13, 1887: Governor Scales names A. W. Graham a state director of the North Carolina Railroad

  May be the same person as Scales, Alfred M.

• Scales, Alfred M. 4 entries, 1884–1888
  Show the 4 entries

  • September 30, 1884: Candidates for governor Scales and York debate at Hillsborough
  • June 3, 1885: Trustees thank Paul C. Cameron for the loan that finished Memorial Hall
  • November 8-12, 1886: The grand jury indicts five Black men in the killing of student Jacob Freeze
  • June 15, 1888: Governor Scales pardons J. N. Walker of Cedar Grove, jailed for selling liquor without a license

  May be the same person as Scales, A. M.

• Scales, Melvin J. 1 entry, 1945
  • December 2, 1945: The Chapel Hill Recreation Commission sets up the Negro Community Center after the Navy band leaves
• Scarborough, J. C. 2 entries, 1880–1937
  • July 21, 1880: State superintendent J. C. Scarborough addresses the Normal School on the public school system
  • June 6, 1937: Fire guts a West Franklin Street building of Black-run businesses

  May be the same person as Scarborough, John C.

• Scarborough, John C. 2 entries, 1879
  • by November 29, 1879: The Peabody Fund agrees to keep up its aid to the Chapel Hill Normal School
  • July 1-2, 1879: The State Teachers' Association holds its annual meeting at the Normal School

  May be the same person as Scarborough, J. C.

• Scarborough, Samuel 1 entry, 2024
  • November 20, 2024: Student groups hold a memorial for James Cates in the Pit
• Scarlett, Beverly 2 entries, 2007–2021

  See all 2 entries in the chronology

• Scarlett, Page 1 entry, 1847
  • May Term 1847: The court cancels Norfleet Horn's indenture and restores him to his mother
• Scarlett, Robert 1 entry, 1824
  • May Term 1824: A jury finds Robert Scarlett is not the father of Susan Crabtree's son
• Scarlett, Thomas 1 entry, 1858
  • February 25, 1858: Fire destroys Thomas Scarlett's carpenter shop in Chapel Hill
• Schaaf, B. J. 1 entry, 1943
  • by July 2, 1943: Black Chapel Hill's Citizens Service Corps division starts a first-aid class at Rock Hill Baptist Church
• Schaefer, A. M. 1 entry, 1938
  • mid-December 1938: Howard W. Odum's Jersey herd near Carrboro earns a third Constructive Breeder's certificate
• Schaeffer, Thomas 1 entry, 1952
  • week of October 20, 1952: Robert J. McMullen becomes acting pastor of the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church
• Schaevitz, Rachel 1 entry, 2019
  • November 2019: Chapel Hill creates a poet laureate post and names CJ Suitt the first
• Schatz, Ben 1 entry, 1988
  • March 26 to April 6, 1988: The Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association holds its eleventh Lesbian and Gay Awareness Week, with Jeff Levi and Ben Schatz
• Scheidt, Ed 1 entry, 1937
  • by December 17, 1937: The Institute of Government publishes its first guidebook for police officers
• Scheidt, Edward 1 entry, 1937
  • January 1937: The Institute of Government opens its first ten-day school for police officers
• Schenck, Michael 1 entry, 1926
  • by July 2, 1926: Chapel Hill furniture merchants Pendergraft and McCauley go into receivership and bankruptcy
• Schenck, Paul W. 1 entry, 1935
  • April 25 to 28, 1935: About 1,600 Boy Scouts camp in Chapel Hill for a state Scout Jubilee
• Schenkkan, Bob 1 entry, 1948
  • March 28, 1948: Chapel Hill churches stage a medieval Easter play at a joint sunrise service in the Forest Theatre
• Schenkkan, Robert F. 3 entries, 1953–1955
  • 1953: Robert F. Schenkkan becomes director of the university's educational television venture
  • September 30, 1953: The FCC grants the University a permit to build an educational television station on Channel 4
  • June 1955: Robert F. Schenkkan resigns as head of UNC's educational television
• Schenkkan, Robert F., Sr. 1 entry, 1953

  See the entry in the chronology

• Schinhan, Phil 1 entry, 1960
  • May 28, 1960: Donald Stanford and Harvey Bennett win the Democratic primary for county commissioner
• Schinhan, Philip C. 1 entry, 1964
  • December 8, 1964: Carrboro rezones 43 acres at Jones Ferry Road and the NC 54 bypass for business
• Schinley, Kathy 1 entry, 1996
  • June 19, 1996: Four governing boards hold a unified public hearing on a new landfill next to the Eubanks Road site
• Schnell, Herman W. 1 entry, 1942
  • May 1, 1942: Chapel Hill Baptists celebrate paying off their church debt
• Schoen, Sterling H. 1 entry, 1973
  • January 16, 1973: UNC joins the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management
• Schofield, John M. 1 entry, 1865
  • April 26, 1865: Johnston surrendered to Sherman at the Bennett farm, then in Orange County
• Schoolfield, S. D. 2 entries, 1854
  • June 15, 1854: Hillsborough closes its graveyard for Black people to new burials
  • June 15, 1854: Hillsborough lays off its common in lots and names Hillsborough Avenue and Calvin Street
• Schoonover, Brenda 1 entry, 2001
  • September 12, 2001: More than 10,000 gather on UNC's main quad to mourn the September 11 attacks
• Schopler, Eric 1 entry, 1972

  See the entry in the chronology

• Schreiber, Ben 1 entry, 1952
  • September 2, 1952: Ben Schreiber turns the Harry's Grill building into the Youth Center, a children's clothing store
• Schroeder, Frederic 1 entry, 1986
  • October 17, 1986: Anti-apartheid students protest at C. D. Spangler's inauguration on Polk Place

  May be the same person as Schroeder, Frederic W.

• Schroeder, Frederic W. 1 entry, 1985
  • September 2, 1985: Students for America expels its UNC chapter vice-chair for speaking in favor of funding the gay and lesbian association

  May be the same person as Schroeder, Frederic

• Schultz, A. M. 1 entry, 1920
  • January 1920: The state school dental clinic treats Chapel Hill children free of charge
• Schultz, Dr. 1 entry, 1920
  • February and March 1920: The State Board of Health gives free dental care to Orange County schoolchildren
• Schumacher, Hal 1 entry, 1943
  • January 7 to February 6, 1943: Charlie Gehringer and Hal Schumacher take Navy officer training at the Pre-Flight School
• Schuyler, Montgomery 1 entry, 1911
  • 1911: Architecture critic Montgomery Schuyler publishes a review of the UNC campus
• Schwartz, Joel 1 entry, 1990
  • late May 1990: Students start APPLES to bring service learning into UNC courses
• Schwenning, G. T. 3 entries, 1927–1936
  • April 19, 1927: Chapel Hill aldermen act on protests over Kenan Stadium blasting
  • August 25-27, 1927: The Southern Textile Social Service Association holds its ninth convention in Chapel Hill
  • by March 27, 1936: The University becomes joint publisher of the Southern Economic Journal
• Scoby, John 1 entry, 1789
  • November 10, 1789: The House pays the men who carried the state treasury out of Hillsborough
• Scoby, Robert 1 entry, 1789
  • November 10, 1789: The House pays the men who carried the state treasury out of Hillsborough
• Scoggins, Albert 1 entry, 1866
  • 28 November 1866: The court binds Albert Scoggins, seven, to David C. Warren, a man named in a bastardy case
• Scoggins, Caroline 1 entry, 1866
  • 28 November 1866: The court binds Albert Scoggins, seven, to David C. Warren, a man named in a bastardy case
• Scoggins, T. H. 1 entry, 1905
  • June 6, 1905: County commissioners refuse to license saloons in Hillsborough
• Scott, Andrew 2 entries, 1958–1970
  • 1958: Anne Firor Scott moves to Chapel Hill and takes a temporary history post at UNC
  • May 9, 1970: Student Government's 'The Strike Continues?' release turns the strike toward canvassing and calls a Memorial Hall teach-in
• Scott, Anne Firor 2 entries, 1958–2014

  See all 2 entries in the chronology

• Scott, C. 1 entry, 1857
  • July 13, 1857: Chapel Hill's commissioners enter resolutions on the death of their fellow commissioner Elisha Mitchell
• Scott, C. A. 1 entry, 1904
  • April 18-26, 1904: The Bank of Orange is chartered and elects its officers
• Scott, C. C. 1 entry, 1930
  • February 1930: Black parents and teachers raise money to lengthen the term of Chapel Hill's Black high school
• Scott, C. E. 1 entry, 1954
  • April 12, 1954: Hillsboro turns on new mercury vapor street lights downtown
• Scott, Calvin 4 entries, 1857–1860
  Show the 4 entries

  • December 1857: John H. Watson sits on Chapel Hill's board of town commissioners
  • by April 18, 1857: E. J. Mallett serves as intendant of Chapel Hill over five commissioners
  • 1859: James B. McDade serves as Chapel Hill's magistrate of police
  • about 1860: Merchant Calvin Scott builds a Greek Revival house on West Cameron Avenue
• Scott, Charlie 1 entry, 1966

  See the entry in the chronology

• Scott, Hazel 1 entry, 1950
  • March 1950: Pianist Hazel Scott plays two concerts in Chapel Hill and the Hostess Club gives her a tea
• Scott, J. C. 1 entry, 1903
  • April 6, 1903: Hillsborough's commissioners fire the police chief and elect J. C. Scott
• Scott, Jane Armistead 1 entry, 1801
  • November 5, 1801: Archibald D. Murphey marries Jane Armistead Scott and settles at the Hermitage
• Scott, Joan 2 entries, 1976–1977
  • 1976: Women outnumber men in the entering freshman class for the first time
  • 1977: The university approves a women's studies program with Mary Turner Lane as director
• Scott, John 15 entries, 1795–1963
  Show the 15 entries

  • November Term 1795: The court orders a road from the east end of Franklin Street into the New Hope road from Raleigh
  • February 28, 1799: The court appoints a patrol for the University village
  • November 5, 1801: Archibald D. Murphey marries Jane Armistead Scott and settles at the Hermitage
  • August 10, 1820: Orange County elects Michael Holt to the state senate over Duncan Cameron
  • July 4, 1822: Hillsborough celebrates the Fourth of July with a reading, an oration and a dinner at Faddis's
  • February 2, 1822: Hillsborough elects Jonathan P. Sneed magistrate of police and seven town commissioners
  • 1825: The Orange County Sunday School Union asks the Assembly to fund its schools
  • August 11, 1825: Orange County voters return Willie P. Mangum to Congress and send William Montgomery to the state Senate
  • July 4, 1828: Hillsborough celebrates Independence Day with a procession, an oration and a Masonic Hall dinner
  • September 15, 1832: Willie P. Mangum declines a public dinner offered by his Orange County supporters
  • February 2, 1833: Hillsborough elects John Scott magistrate of police and seven town commissioners
  • February 7, 1835: Hillsborough elects its magistrate of police and town commissioners
  • February 6, 1836: Hillsborough elects Dennis Heartt magistrate of police and seven town commissioners
  • by July 19, 1849: Commissioners sell the first fifty lots in Graham, the new Alamance seat
  • May–July 1963: A planning study projects Chapel Hill school growth to 1980
• Scott, Ralph 1 entry, 1955
  • March 7, 1955: The commissioners oppose a bill forcing the full Chapel Hill school supplement

  May be the same person as Scott, Ralph H.

• Scott, Ralph H. 2 entries, 1952–1956
  • October 13, 1952: William B. Umstead opens the Orange County Democrats' fall campaign at Schley Grange
  • May 26, 1956: Orange County Democrats renominate R. J. M. Hobbs and Carl Durham and leave two races for a runoff

  May be the same person as Scott, Ralph

• Scott, Robert W. 7 entries, 1905–1972

  See all 7 entries in the chronology · Also printed as R. W. Scott

• Scott, W. Kerr 21 entries, 1944–1957

  See all 21 entries in the chronology

• Scott, Winfield 1 entry, 1852
  • 1852: The Whigs nominate William A. Graham for vice president
• Scotton, J. L. 2 entries, 1944–1947
  • December 7, 1944: The county board of agriculture backs a $15 million state fund for farm roads
  • December 1 to 6, 1947: Orange farmers elect the county's first soil conservation committee
• Scroggs, Ross 3 entries, 1963–1969

  See all 3 entries in the chronology

• Scroggs, Willie 8 entries, 1978–2014

  See all 8 entries in the chronology

• Scurry, Beverly 1 entry, 2021
  • March 21, 2021: Gaps in vaccination among Black and Hispanic residents reported
• Seale, Bobby 1 entry, 1974
  • February 1974: Black Panther Party chairman Bobby Seale speaks in Memorial Hall
• Seanor, Donald A. 1 entry, 1965
  • 1965: Brian Shawcroft designs a modernist house on Davie Lane for chemist Donald A. Seanor
• Sears, Barnas 1 entry, 1879
  • by November 29, 1879: The Peabody Fund agrees to keep up its aid to the Chapel Hill Normal School
• Sears, Henry 2 entries, 1807–1808
  • November Term 1807: The court names commissioners for a Ben's Creek bridge on the new road
  • February 25, 1808: The court pays Rosannah and Henry Sears damages for a new road through their land
• Sears, Mrs. 1 entry, 1807
  • May Term 1807: The court orders a road laid out to the New Hope bridge near Captain Collier's
• Sears, Rosannah 1 entry, 1808
  • February 25, 1808: The court pays Rosannah and Henry Sears damages for a new road through their land
• Seawell, A. A. F. 4 entries, 1932–1938
  Show the 4 entries

  • May 6-7, 1932: About two hundred officials organize and name the Institute of Government
  • February 21, 1935: Orange County's Parent-Teacher Associations call on legislators to back a $22 million school fund
  • June 23-25, 1937: The Southern Conference on Public Education meets at the University
  • April 26, 1938: Chapel Hill's Harry McMullan is appointed Attorney General of North Carolina
• Seawell, Buie 2 entries, 1966–1967
  • September 18, 1966: Buie Seawell preaches to a new Presbyterian congregation in Chapel Hill
  • February 5, 1967: Orange Presbytery organizes the Church of Reconciliation in Chapel Hill
• Seawell, Malcolm 1 entry, 1958
  • December 1958: Chapel Hill school board keeps the children of visiting professors and out-of-state students
• Seawell, W. A. 2 entries, 1957–1958
  • May 29, 1957: Hillsboro High School holds its 1957 commencement
  • March 9, 1958: Hillsborough and New Sharon Methodists dedicate the parsonage they built together
• Sechriest, Stuart 1 entry, 1952
  • October 1, 1952: The News of Orange County reports its owners and a paid circulation of 2,545
• Seddon 1 entry, 1864
  • March 10, 1864: Confederate War Department refuses to exempt underclassmen
• Seeger, Mike 1 entry, 1989

  See the entry in the chronology

• Seeley, Chancey S. 1 entry, 1944
  • late April 1944: A new band of Black Navy musicians from Great Lakes takes over at the Pre-Flight School
• Seely, Fred L. 1 entry, 1935
  • September 13, 1935: Carolina Coach begins bus service from Greensboro to Raleigh by way of Chapel Hill
• Segrest, Mab 1 entry, 1986
  • June 24, 1986: The Stonewall Community Supper meets at Binkley Baptist Church
• Seils, Damon 5 entries, 2013–2022

  See all 5 entries in the chronology

• Seitz, Don 1 entry, 1916
  • December 7-9, 1916: The state Press Association holds a Newspaper Institute at the university
• Seki, Fumiko 1 entry, 1955

  See the entry in the chronology

• Selden, Samuel 15 entries, 1927–1967

  See all 15 entries in the chronology

• Sellars, Mrs. E. T. 2 entries, 1944
  • August 1944: A Black community health club forms in Chapel Hill
  • December 5, 1944: Chapel Hill's Black Community Health Club reports its survey of 116 families
• Sellars, Goldie 1 entry, 1943
  • May 19, 1943: Black Chapel Hill organizes its own Citizens Service Corps
• Sellars, Nat 1 entry, 1940
  • October 16, 1940: Orange County men register for the first peacetime draft
• Senter, Lloyd 5 entries, 1955–1958
  Show the 5 entries

  • August 1955: The county board names a committee to study school segregation after Brown
  • December 9, 1955: The county school board names Lloyd Senter and Mrs. Jesse West to the Carrboro school committee
  • February 6, 1956: Carrboro school committee asks the county board for a modern new school
  • by June 26, 1958: Mayor Todd names a committee to find a new industry for the Carrboro mill buildings
  • April 1958: Opponents of the school merger form the Carrboro School Development Council
• Senter, Lloyd M. 10 entries, 1948–1958

  See all 10 entries in the chronology

• Senter, P. L. 3 entries, 1947–1949
  • May 5, 1947: Carrboro re-elects I. A. West mayor
  • January 27, 1948: P. L. and Lloyd M. Senter open their new drugstore building next to Lloyd-Ray Hardware
  • May 3, 1949: Carrboro voters elect I. F. Hardee mayor over Mayor I. A. West
• Sergent, Pete 1 entry, 1977
  • by March 21, 1977: The Chapel Hill YMCA raises most of the money for a building on Airport Road
• Sessions, John T. 1 entry, 1957
  • 1957: Dr. John T. Sessions and his wife build a Webb and Stewart house on Morgan Creek Road
• Sessoms, David 1 entry, 1942
  • June 13, 1942: A service center for men in the armed forces opens in Chapel Hill's old Methodist church
• Sessoms, Lemuel 1 entry, 1804
  • February 1804: Nervous fever kills a student
• Settle, Lee 1 entry, 1963
  • February 25, 1963: Aycock School patrons protest the high school consolidation at a county hearing
• Settle, Thomas 4 entries, 1870–1896
  Show the 4 entries

  • winter 1870-1871: Orange representative Frederick N. Strudwick presses the repeal of the Shoffner Act
  • October 1, 1894: Congressional candidates Augustus W. Graham and Thomas Settle debate in the Hillsborough court house
  • November 6, 1894: Republicans and Populists sweep Orange County's election, leaving the Democrats only the sheriff and register of deeds
  • September 22, 1896: Congressional candidates W. W. Kitchin and Thomas Settle debate at the Hillsborough court house
• Severance, Jane 1 entry, 1985
  • by November 1985: Lollipop Power, the Chapel Hill children's book collective, begins closing down
• Seward, William H 1 entry, 1867

  See the entry in the chronology · Also printed as William H. Seward

• Seymour, Pearl 1 entry, 2007
  • 2007: The Robert and Pearl Seymour Center opens on Homestead Road
• Seymour, Robert 1 entry, 1961
  • July 10, 1961: Thirteen Chapel Hill ministers publicly back the school board's desegregation plan
• Seymour, Robert E. 6 entries, 1959–2007

  See all 6 entries in the chronology

• Shabazz, Malikah 1 entry, 1991
  • February 15-16, 1991: Malikah Shabazz, Malcolm X's youngest daughter, comes to UNC for a Malcolm X conference
• Shaffer, A. Webster 1 entry, 1871
  • June or early July 1871: A federal commissioner tells Congress the Klan is still at work in southern Orange
• Shaffer, Charlie 1 entry, 1964
  • November 17, 1964: The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce backs a public recreation center at the new high school site
• Shambley, Alfred 1 entry, 1828
  • February Term 1828: The court releases Alfred Shambley from Litha Mayho's indenture and binds her to Joseph Laycock
• Shambley, William 2 entries, 1860–1899
  • about 1860: William Shambley builds a log house before going to war
  • by June 29, 1899: William Shambley sells his gold mine south of Hillsborough
• Shambley, William C. 1 entry, 1847
  • May 1847: The court asks the solicitor not to seek judgment against William C. Shambley because of his youth
• Shambley, William Edgar 1 entry, 1900
  • about 1900: William Edgar Shambley builds a log house near his grandfather's
• Shange, Ntozake 1 entry, 1989
  • January 31, 1989: Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls is staged in Memorial Hall
• Shanklin, Thomas 1 entry, 1983
  • 1983: Shanklin's Press prints Irene Oliver Pender's History of Orange County Schools
• Shapiro, Alan 1 entry, 1995

  See the entry in the chronology

• Shapiro, Morton 1 entry, 1958
  • January 21-24, 1958: The labor board hears union charges against Reverie Lingerie at the courthouse
• Sharer, Doug 1 entry, 1977
  • November 8, 1977: Braxton Foushee leads the voting for the Carrboro Board of Aldermen
• Sharkey, Josephine 2 entries, 1933–1938
  • April 29, 1933: Chapel Hill holds a Dogwood Festival of folk music, dancing and crafts
  • December 12, 1938: The Orange County Training School holds an open house for parents and patrons
• Sharp, C. M. 1 entry, 1925
  • by April 2, 1925: Hillsboro's old Webb store is sold and becomes the Sharp-Coleman Company
• Sharp, Paul F. 7 entries, 1964–1965

  See all 7 entries in the chronology

• Sharp, Polly 1 entry, 1827
  • May 1827: Polly Sharp and Nancy Ward are indicted for keeping disorderly houses
• Sharp, Susie 2 entries, 1954
  • February 1954: Chapel Hill's zoning case against Mrs. E. R. Groves ends in a mistrial
  • February 1954: Judge Susie Sharp orders damages for the Chapel Hill bypass land assessed as a full taking

  May be the same person as Sharp, Susie M.

• Sharp, Susie M. 2 entries, 1926–1927
  • September 1926: Susie Sharp enters the law school as the only woman in her class
  • February 1927: First-year law students protest Coates's failing grades

  May be the same person as Sharp, Susie

• Sharpe, Mrs. C. W. 1 entry, 1952
  • October 1952: Fairview Baptist Church is organized in Hillsborough
• Sharpe, Claude W. 1 entry, 1956
  • December 31, 1956: Claude W. Sharpe sells the Young Men's Shop to his son
• Sharpe, Fred, Sr. 1 entry, 1961
  • June 6, 1961: Hillsboro's new town board raises the tax rate by a third and out-of-town water rates by half
• Sharpe, John E. 1 entry, 1944
  • April 18, 1944: Hillsborough's town board accepts Police Chief John E. Sharpe's resignation and reorganizes the job
• Sharpe, Stella Gentry 1 entry, 1939
  • by July 21, 1939: The University Press publishes Stella Gentry Sharpe's Tobe
• Sharpe, Wayland C. 1 entry, 1956
  • December 31, 1956: Claude W. Sharpe sells the Young Men's Shop to his son
• Shaw, Cassander 1 entry, 1848
  • May Term 1848: The court binds James and Prince Shaw, sons of Cassander Shaw, a free woman of color, to Benton Utley
• Shaw, Diane 1 entry, 1977
  • spring 1977: Chapel Hill High forms a student relations committee after a racial incident
• Shaw, J. T. 3 entries, 1896
  • May 15, 1896: Hillsborough's commissioners take up revised town ordinances and order them printed and posted
  • May 4, 1896: Hillsborough elects Mayor Joseph A. Harris and an all-Democratic town board
  • by March 21, 1896: D. C. Parris and J. T. Shaw open the Hillsboro Drug Company

  May be the same person as Shaw, John T.

• Shaw, James 1 entry, 1848
  • May Term 1848: The court binds James and Prince Shaw, sons of Cassander Shaw, a free woman of color, to Benton Utley
• Shaw, John T. 3 entries, 1898–1899
  • May 3, 1898: John T. Shaw unseats Mayor Joseph A. Harris by one vote
  • March 16-30, 1899: Hillsborough quarantines itself against smallpox in Alamance County
  • May 1, 1899: Hillsborough elects Joseph A. Harris mayor again over Chester D. Turner

  May be the same person as Shaw, J. T.

• Shaw, Prince 1 entry, 1848
  • May Term 1848: The court binds James and Prince Shaw, sons of Cassander Shaw, a free woman of color, to Benton Utley
• Shaw, R. Flake 1 entry, 1946
  • February 27, 1946: Farmers organize the Orange County Farm Bureau at Aycock School
• Shaw, Ruth Faison 2 entries, 1958–1961

  See all 2 entries in the chronology

• Shaw, Samuel 1 entry, 1789
  • August 26, 1789: Samuel Shaw appeals the court's grant of a rival Haw River ferry to William Philips
• Shaw, W. B. 1 entry, 1927
  • April 30, 1927: Alumni workers form the American Alumni Council at Chapel Hill
• Shaw, W. F. 8 entries, 1948–1964
  Show the 8 entries

  • February 7, 1948: Piedmont Electric members thank retiring president H. G. Laws and W. F. Shaw takes his place
  • by June 17, 1948: The REA approves a $132,000 loan for Piedmont Electric's lines and a new headquarters
  • June 20, 1953: Piedmont Electric's annual meeting draws some 1,500 members to Hillsboro
  • September 17, 1955: Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation honors three long-serving directors
  • June 16, 1956: Piedmont Electric members hold their 17th annual meeting at Hillsboro
  • June 20, 1959: Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation holds its twentieth annual meeting in the new Hillsboro High gym
  • by October 20, 1962: Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation opens a new second story at its Hillsboro headquarters
  • June 20, 1964: Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation marks 25 years at its annual meeting
• Shaw, W. R. 1 entry, 1957
  • December 19, 1957: Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation cuts its rates
• Shaw, Wiley 1 entry, 1830
  • 10 January 1830: Wiley Shaw, esquire, is summoned after Nancy Strayhorn names him as her child's father
• Shaw, William 2 entries, 1841–1842
  • July 3, 1841: Hawfields citizens hold a muster and Independence Day dinner at Samuel N. Tate's store
  • April 30, 1842: A meeting at the High Falls of Haw River demands a central division of Orange County
• Shaw, Willie 2 entries, 1820–1821
  • August 10, 1820: Orange County elects Michael Holt to the state senate over Duncan Cameron
  • August 1821 (returns printed August 22, 1821): Orange County elects Michael Holt, Willie Shaw and James Mebane to the General Assembly
• Shawcroft, Brian 3 entries, 1962–1967
  • 1962: Robert Burns and Brian Shawcroft design a house for Robert Work on Hillcrest Circle
  • 1965: Brian Shawcroft designs a modernist house on Davie Lane for chemist Donald A. Seanor
  • 1967: The new Davie Hall becomes the first modernist building on the main campus
• Shearer, Andrew S. 1 entry, 1949
  • September 19, 1949: Carrboro starts grading Greensboro Street as Oak and Poplar avenues near paving
• Shearer, John B. 2 entries, 1859–1861
  • February 1859 to June 1862: John B. Shearer becomes the first pastor of the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church
  • April 26, 1861: Chapel Hill churches hold a farewell service for the Orange Light Infantry
• Shearin, Erika 1 entry, 1977
  • 1977: Wiley and Erika Shearin buy the Faucette House and name it The Elms
• Shearin, Wiley 2 entries, 1976–1977
  • April 1976: Superintendent George F. Williams defends the demerit system at Stanford Junior High
  • 1977: Wiley and Erika Shearin buy the Faucette House and name it The Elms
• Sheels, John 1 entry, 1777
  • 1777: William Courtney is one of the first Hillsborough town commissioners under the state
• Sheldon, A. J. 1 entry, 1939
  • by April 1939: A survey of 661 Orange County schoolchildren finds hookworm rare
• Shell, Helen 2 entries, 1918
  • October 1918: Carrboro opens an influenza diet kitchen in the mill club rooms
  • October 1918: Chapel Hill women nurse influenza patients as volunteers in the University hospital
• Shelley, Karen 1 entry, 1985
  • fall 1985: Afro-American Studies adds three instructors and new offices in Alumni Hall
• Shelton, Compton 2 entries, 1963–1964
  • by January 30, 1963: The Chapel Hill Recreation Commission runs on a cut budget and campaigns for a recreation tax
  • by July 16, 1964: Chapel Hill opens a public tennis court on Oakwood Drive
• Shelton, Karen 15 entries, 1981–2023

  See all 15 entries in the chronology

• Shelton, Robert 2 entries, 2000–2001
  • October 13, 2000: The Board of Governors approves Robert Shelton as UNC's provost
  • 2001: Provost Robert Shelton appoints a committee on the campus climate for sexual orientation and gender identity
• Shelton, S. N. 2 entries, 1958–1959
  • December 4, 1958: Cedar Grove wins the progress cup at the Rural Progress Night for Black farm families
  • January 30, 1959: Orange County places second in the state Rural Progress contest for Black farm families

  May be the same person as Shelton, Sherman N.

• Shelton, Sherman N. 1 entry, 1958
  • September 2, 1958: The county commissioners name Sherman N. Shelton agent for Black farmers

  May be the same person as Shelton, S. N.

• Shepard, James B. 1 entry, 1855
  • August 2, 1855: Orange gives the American Party's James B. Shepard a majority for Congress, but Democrat L. O'B. Branch wins the district
• Shepard, James E. 1 entry, 1946
  • 1946: Black and white health education students from North Carolina College and UNC train together
• Shepard, John 1 entry, 1847
  • 1 December 1847: John Shepard advertises for William Harriss and Liza Corn, two free bound apprentices who left together

  May be the same person as Shepard, John R. D.

• Shepard, John R. D. 1 entry, 1865
  • June 1865: The 1865 commencement graduates one senior before a crowd of Federal soldiers

  May be the same person as Shepard, John

• Shepard, Judy 1 entry, 2007
  • January 30, 2007: Judy Shepard speaks against hate to a packed Great Hall
• Shepard, Norman 1 entry, 1924
  • 1924 season (recognized in 1943): UNC’s 1924 basketball team earns later Helms recognition
• Shepard, Rebecca 1 entry, 1962
  • 1962-63 school year (by December 19, 1962): One guidance counselor serves both Chapel Hill High and Lincoln High
• Shepard, Sidney 1 entry, 1927
  • July 3, 1927: A temporary radio station, WKBG, begins a week of broadcasts from the Pickwick Theatre
• Shepard, William 1 entry, 1788
  • 1788: Tax lists show the property of Orange County's convention delegates
• Shepard, William B. 1 entry, 1838
  • 1838: Charles Manly gives the address before the alumni at commencement
• Shepard, William Biddle 1 entry, 1816
  • September 18, 1816: Senior William B. Shepard speaks forbidden political passages and sets off a student revolt
• Shepherd, H. E. 1 entry, 1880
  • June 24 to July 25, 1880: The University Normal School holds its 1880 summer session

  May be the same person as Shepherd, Henry E.

• Shepherd, Henry E. 2 entries, 1880–1886
  • by April 3, 1880: Henry E. Shepherd is chosen superintendent of the University Normal School
  • September 11, 1886: The university opens a free series of monthly popular lectures

  May be the same person as Shepherd, H. E.

• Shepherd, James E. 1 entry, 1899
  • by August 24, 1899: The university elects Judge James MacRae professor of law
• Shepherd, Solomon 1 entry, 1857
  • August Term 1857: Solomon Shepherd appeals a bastardy verdict to the Superior Court
• Shepherd, William 1 entry, 1821
  • December 12, 1821: Methodist trustees seek a builder for a church in Hillsborough
• Sheppard, William 1 entry, 1784
  • 1784: Jesse Benton serves as secretary-treasurer of the Science Hall academy's trustees
• Shepperd, William 4 entries, 1788–1818
  Show the 4 entries

  • August 1, 1788: Orange County's delegates vote against ratifying the Constitution before amendments
  • May 27, 1795 to February Term 1798: The county court proves a run of deeds to and from the University's trustees
  • May 27, 1795: John Estes is appointed register of Orange County
  • November Term 1818: The court takes Elizabeth Revill, a free girl of color, from Simon Davis
• Sherard, Regina 3 entries, 1983–1986
  • about 1983: Regina Sherard becomes the first Black woman on UNC's journalism faculty
  • fall 1983: Regina Sherard joins the UNC journalism faculty
  • October 6-12, 1986: The BSM and the Black Greek Council hold Black Awareness Week
• Sherman, Mrs. John D. 1 entry, 1927
  • May 3, 1927: Delegates of the State Federation of Women's Clubs visit Chapel Hill
• Sherman, Robert 1 entry, 1992
  • July 9, 1992: Orange County jury finds three former UNC officials discriminated against police officer Keith Edwards
• Sherman, William T. 6 entries, 1865

  See all 6 entries in the chronology

• Sherrill, E. G. 2 entries, 1898–1900
  • May 3, 1898: John T. Shaw unseats Mayor Joseph A. Harris by one vote
  • May 7, 1900: Hillsborough re-elects Mayor Joseph A. Harris over William Strain
• Sherrill, R. H. 1 entry, 1933
  • by August 18, 1933: Four economics professors lay out the Davie Woods home colony on part of the old Strowd farm
• Sherwin, Belle 1 entry, 1927
  • March 10-12, 1927: The North Carolina League of Women Voters holds its convention in Chapel Hill
• Sherwood, Fred 1 entry, 1959
  • May 22, 1959: The Carrboro Festival talent show raises $300 for an injured man's medical fund
• Shetley, Frances 1 entry, 1994
  • September 13, 1994: Carrboro Board of Aldermen adopts a domestic partnership registry
• Shetley, Mrs. Tom 1 entry, 1971
  • 1971: The Carrboro Appearance Commission, chaired by Mrs. Howard Thomas, works on the town survey
• Shetley, Tom 1 entry, 1984
  • October-December 1984: Jim Heavner urges limits on sales at the UNC Student Stores
• Shields, A. W. 1 entry, 1887
  • September 3, 1887: Black minister and physician A. W. Shields speaks at Hillsborough on education
• Shields, C. W. 2 entries, 1927–1935
  • March 26, 1927: McCauley and Shields open an M-System self-service grocery
  • September 1935: The Chapel Hill Kiwanis Club elects Dr. J. P. Jones president and W. O. Sparrow vice-president

  May be the same person as Shields, Charles W.

• Shields, Charles W. 1 entry, 1942
  • late January 1942: Chapel Hill grocers limit sugar sales after a buying rush

  May be the same person as Shields, C. W.

• Shields, John 2 entries, 1777–1852
  • 1777: James Watson becomes register of Orange County and a Hillsborough commissioner under the new state
  • April to September 1852: Robert and John Shields ready a woollen factory on the Eno
• Shields, John C. 1 entry, 1854
  • 1854: William Nelson goes into partnership in the Alpha Woolen Mills
• Shields, M. McG. 2 entries, 1895–1896
  • mid-November 1895: New Hope Presbyterian Church celebrates its centennial
  • May 25, 1896: Caldwell Institute holds its commencement, with an address by Rev. M. McG. Shields
• Shields, R. M. 1 entry, 1898
  • May 7, 1898: Orange Populists endorse a union of the silver forces in county convention
• Shields, R. N. 1 entry, 1893
  • April 1893: The Orange County Farmers' Alliance condemns legislators who voted to repeal the State Alliance charter
• Shields, Robert 1 entry, 1852
  • April to September 1852: Robert and John Shields ready a woollen factory on the Eno
• Shipman, Gene 1 entry, 1977
  • early 1977: Pine Knolls residents ask the town to rebuild their condemned community center
• Shipman, John 1 entry, 1973
  • fall 1973: Wilson Library uses a federal grant to build its Afro-American collection
• Shipp, Albert M. 2 entries, 1849–1859
  • 1849: Albert M. Shipp elected to the new chair of history and English literature
  • by July 6, 1859: Professors Shipp and Wheat resign from the university
• Shoaf, Ted 3 entries, 1957–1963
  • by October 1, 1957: Cameron Park School is accredited
  • September 2, 1958: The county school board appoints a twenty-member Citizens Committee for Schools
  • 1963: Orange Junior High School opens in the old Hillsborough High School building
• Shoe, W. D. 1 entry, 1951
  • March 1951 (reported March 22): Alamance gives up its claim to a Cheeks Township taxpayer on the county line
• Shoffner, Michael 2 entries, 1844–1994
  • October 9-10, 1844: Whigs hold a two-day mass meeting on the Alamance battleground
  • November 7, 1994: WXYC makes the first internet radio simulcast
• Shoffner, R. W. 1 entry, 1963
  • April 1, 1963: Orange County dedicates its new agricultural building on courthouse square
• Shoffner, T. M. 1 entry, 1869
  • December 1869–January 1870: Klansmen from Hillsborough ride to kill Senator T. M. Shoffner and turn back
• Shogren, Vernon 1 entry, 1965
  • October 1965: The North Carolina Architect devotes an issue to Historic Hillsborough
• Short, S. O. 1 entry, 1941
  • November 15, 1941: Black CCC enrollees put out a forest fire below the Gimghoul castle
• Shotts, Mrs. Claude 1 entry, 1952
  • by April 3, 1952: The Chapel Hill Community Club takes on a library for the new University hospital
• Shrader, Richard A. 1 entry, 1975
  • 1975–1987: Carolyn A. Wallace heads the Southern Historical Collection and the Manuscripts Department
• Shrader, W. Wesley 2 entries, 1960
  • October 1960: The Rev. W. Wesley Shrader resigns as pastor of University Baptist Church
  • September 28, 1960: University Baptist Church votes to base membership on religious grounds alone
• Shue, Thomas 1 entry, 1948
  • June 1948: The Hillsboro town board limits the town's five taxicabs to two parking spaces

  May be the same person as Shue, Thomas E.

• Shue, Thomas E. 1 entry, 1947
  • May 6, 1947: Hillsboro elects a new board of town commissioners

  May be the same person as Shue, Thomas

• Shuford, A. C. 1 entry, 1933
  • February 8, 1933: Former Congressman A. C. Shuford dies in Chapel Hill
• Shuford, Forrest H. 1 entry, 1946
  • December 17, 1946: The state gives Orange Furniture Craftsmen its first Certificate of Safety Achievement
• Shugart, Isaac 1 entry, 1816
  • December 1816: Spring Friends disown James Jackson after he is charged as the father of a child
• Shumaker, Flora 2 entries, 1897–1899
  • by August 12, 1897: Flora Shumaker is appointed postmaster at University Station
  • by August 31, 1899: Oscar F. Craig succeeds Flora Shumaker as postmaster at University Station
• Shumaker, Jim 2 entries, 1968–1992
  • 1968–1969: Jeff MacNelly draws editorial cartoons for the Chapel Hill Weekly
  • January 1992: Jeff MacNelly pledges $25,000 toward a UNC journalism professorship honoring Jim Shumaker
• Shutt, Henry 1 entry, 1803
  • 1803: Hatter Henry Shutt buys the West King Street lot where the Colonial Inn now stands
• Sickles, Daniel E. 1 entry, 1867
  • June 1867: President Andrew Johnson attends commencement
• Sides, L. R. 15 entries, 1924–1927

  See all 15 entries in the chronology

• Sidler, Franc 2 entries, 1954–1965
  • summer 1954: Franc Sidler meets Troy and Robin Andrews on their farm and sketches a house for it
  • 1965 to 1967: Black masons build Troy and Roberta Andrews's Sidler-designed house on the family farm
• Sidwell, John 1 entry, 1752
  • September 1752: The county court contracts for a courthouse and prison near Piney Ford
• Sieber, Hal 1 entry, 1960
  • January 1960: Ted Danziger opens the Zoom-Zoom, a carryout restaurant on West Franklin Street
• Sifakes, Nick 1 entry, 1945
  • late May 1945: The Terrace View supper club opens on the Greensboro road west of Chapel Hill
• Sikes, William 1 entry, 1902
  • April 14, 1902: Buckhorn residents build an academy that will also house the public school
• Siler, H. H. 1 entry, 1895
  • April 8, 1895: Surveyors start the Alamance-Chatham line at the Hillsborough courthouse
• Siler, Leonidas F. 1 entry, 1852
  • February 1852: Students revive the University Magazine
• Silver, Marvin 1 entry, 1970
  • May 7, 1970: The general faculty votes to let striking students take their grades as they stand or finish coursework later
• Silvia 1 entry, 1795
  • August 25, 1795: A jury convicts Isaac, a man enslaved by William Lytle, on a charge the minutes do not name
• Simkins, George, Jr. 1 entry, 1964
  • March 1964: Supreme Court lets stand the ruling against segregated hospitals built with federal funds
• Simkins, Virginia 1 entry, 1945
  • January 1945: The state credits Chapel Hill High's war bond sales with six ambulances
• Simmons, Clarence 1 entry, 1956
  • December 20, 1956: Gooch's Café serves its last meal and becomes Green's Cafe
• Simmons, Michael 5 entries, 1977–1983

  See all 5 entries in the chronology

• Simmons, Richard 2 entries, 1781
  • February 18, 1781: Patriots and Loyalists clash at Hart’s Mill
  • March 2, 1781: Pickens's cavalry fights Tarleton's horse at Clapp's Mill
• Simmons, Walter I. 1 entry, 1943
  • by March 19, 1943: Orange County dairymen send buyers to Wisconsin and Tennessee for high-producing cows
• Simms, George 1 entry, 1817
  • August Term 1817: The court releases George Simms, jailed as a suspected runaway, as a free man
• Simon, Louis A. 1 entry, 1936
  • June 24, 1936: The Post Office Department decides to build a new Chapel Hill post office
• Simonds, Frederick W. 1 entry, 1880
  • December 1880: Professor Frederick W. Simonds resigns after seniors force him to retract a rebuke
• Simpson, C. J. 2 entries, 1964
  • August 11, 1964: Carrboro rezones the 100-acre Dr. Brack Lloyd tract for housing
  • December 8, 1964: Carrboro rezones 43 acres at Jones Ferry Road and the NC 54 bypass for business
• Simpson, George L., Jr. 1 entry, 1955
  • by May 12, 1955: UNC sociologist George L. Simpson Jr. wins a Guggenheim fellowship to finish Howard Odum's last book
• Simpson, J. P. 1 entry, 1858
  • June 24, 1858: Eagle Lodge Masons parade through Hillsborough for St. John the Baptist's Day
• Simpson, Samuel 2 entries, 1820–1829
  • about 1820: A Federal house is built on West Queen Street for Eliza Hasell
  • 1829: Eliza Hasell sells her West Queen Street house to Samuel Simpson of New Bern
• Sims, Herbert 4 entries, 1838–1839
  Show the 4 entries

  • April 7, 1838: A Cedar Grove muster-day meeting names the Democratic ticket for Orange
  • August 9, 1838: The Van Buren party takes three Orange seats from the Whigs
  • November 19, 1838: William A. Graham of Orange is elected Speaker of the House of Commons
  • by January 8, 1839: A bill to divide Orange County fails in the state Senate by four votes
• Sims, Richard 1 entry, 1795
  • July 1795: Trustees vote to build a house for the university's grammar school
• Sims-Gray, Sylvia 1 entry, 1986
  • March 21, 1986: The School of Social Work holds its seventh Black Experience Workshop
• Sinclair, N. A. 1 entry, 1929
  • March 1929: Grand jury reports on the county home, road camp and jail
• Singletary, H. E. 1 entry, 1945
  • July 1945: FSA supervisor John P. Ballard transfers to the Neuse River Soil Conservation District office in Hillsboro
• Singleton, G. H. 3 entries, 1926–1927
  • by November 5, 1926: Orange County farms become a main source of cream for Durham's ice cream makers
  • by August 6, 1926: Orange County farmers in the Sweet Cream and Poultry Producers report their profits
  • by April 8, 1927: Chapel Hill school board drops the agriculture department
• Singleton, James 1 entry, 1986
  • 1986-87: James and Judy Singleton restore Rigsbee's Rock House
• Singleton, Judy 1 entry, 1986
  • 1986-87: James and Judy Singleton restore Rigsbee's Rock House
• Singleton, William 1 entry, 1828
  • March 1828 term (week of March 10, 1828): Orange Superior Court convicts William Singleton of manslaughter in the death of Wesley Cheek
• Sink, Hoyle 1 entry, 1959
  • January 21, 1959: A Superior Court jury rules for two stockholders in the fight over the Chapel Hill News Leader
• Sitgreaves, John 1 entry, 1791

  See the entry in the chronology

• Sitterson, J. Carlyle 38 entries, 1955–1987

  See all 38 entries in the chronology

• Sizemore, R. B. 1 entry, 1952
  • by March 27, 1952: Chapel Hill 4-H and FFA members start a strawberry plant chain
• Skinner, James 1 entry, 1943
  • September 18, 1943: About 210 Army Air Forces pre-meteorology students graduate at the University
• Skinner, John 1 entry, 1788
  • August 1, 1788: Iredell's motion to ratify and recommend amendments afterward is defeated 184 to 84
• Skinner, Leigh 1 entry, 1943
  • January 1943: Swain Hall reopens as the University's student cafeteria
• Skinner, Stephen 1 entry, 1863
  • January 17, 1863: Cornelia Phillips Spencer begins teaching boys from refugee families
• Slack, J. B. 1 entry, 1953
  • December 12, 1953: Orange is named North Carolina's County of the Year in Rural Progress
• Slade, J. J. 1 entry, 1850
  • August 12, 1850: Drinking students stone two professors in a night riot

  May be the same person as Slade, Jeremiah J.

• Slade, James 1 entry, 1955
  • 1955: Edward O. Diggs becomes UNC's first Black medical graduate
• Slade, Jeremiah J. 1 entry, 1852
  • February 1852: Students revive the University Magazine

  May be the same person as Slade, J. J.

• Slade, Sammy 6 entries, 2009–2023

  See all 6 entries in the chronology

• Slane, Heather Wagner 1 entry, 2016
  • 2016: Hillsborough hires hmwPreservation to survey buildings outside its historic district
• Slaunwhite, Mrs. O. S. 1 entry, 1946
  • July 22, 1946: Women organize an American Legion Auxiliary unit for Hillsboro Post No. 85
• Sledge, Robert 3 entries, 1993–2008
  • 1993-1994: Ben Folds Five forms in Chapel Hill
  • September-October 1996: Ben Folds Five record Whatever and Ever Amen at Folds's Chapel Hill home
  • September 18, 2008: Ben Folds Five reunite for a concert in UNC's Memorial Hall
• Slifkin, Miriam 3 entries, 1974–1980

  See all 3 entries in the chronology

• Sloan, Bill 1 entry, 1956
  • June 2, 1956: East Franklin Street merchants open a customer parking lot at Columbia and Rosemary streets
• Sloan, Fred S. 1 entry, 1942
  • April 28, 1942: Orange County's neighborhood leaders meet at the Hillsborough courthouse to launch the wartime test
• Sloan, Richmond 1 entry, 1948
  • October 21, 1948: Chapel Hill and Carrboro young men organize a Junior Chamber of Commerce
• Sloan, Samuel 1 entry, 1884
  • 1884: Carpenter John Daugherty finishes Memorial Hall after architect Samuel Sloan dies
• Sloan, William 1 entry, 1948
  • February 3, 1948: William Sloan opens Sloan's Drugstore on East Franklin Street

  May be the same person as Sloan, William L.

• Sloan, William L. 1 entry, 1956
  • July 12, 1956: The Negro Men's Civic Club asks for a Black member on the Chapel Hill school board

  May be the same person as Sloan, William

• Sloan, William T. 28 entries, 1901–1958

  See all 28 entries in the chronology · Also printed as W. T. Sloan

• Sloane, Carol 1 entry, 1981
  • October 1981: Stephen's...after all opens as a cafe and supper club in Village Plaza
• Slocum, Earl A. 1 entry, 1937
  • fall 1937: Chapel Hill High School starts a band with instruments from the Carrboro mill
• Sloss, John 4 entries, 1789–1792
  Show the 4 entries

  • May 26, 1789: The court names the men to take the tax lists in the county's eight districts
  • August 26, 1791: The court pays Sheriff John Sloss for a stockade around the jail
  • May 24, 1791: The justices elect John Sloss high sheriff of Orange County
  • May Term 1792: County officers take the oath to support the Constitution of the United States
• Small, Milton 1 entry, 1965
  • 1965: Chase Hall, the campus's first modernist building, goes up on south campus
• Small, William T. 2 entries, 1971–1977
  • 1971 or 1972: The School of Public Health hires William Small as its first full-time minority recruiter
  • 1977: Students start the School of Public Health's minority health conference
• Smart, Hugh J. 1 entry, 1951
  • May 6, 1951: The Village Theatre becomes the Varsity under new owners
• Smedes, Henrietta 1 entry, 1944
  • June 1944: Mrs. E. G. Danziger buys Henrietta Smedes's house on Hillsborough Street
• Smedes, J. E. C. 1 entry, 1879
  • April 30 to May 2, 1879: The Episcopal Convocation of Raleigh meets at the Chapel of the Cross
• Smiley, T. B. 1 entry, 1929
  • by May 24, 1929: UNC's radio station W4WE reports contacts in fifty countries
• Smith, A. S. 1 entry, 1879
  • April 30 to May 2, 1879: The Episcopal Convocation of Raleigh meets at the Chapel of the Cross
• Smith, Benjamin 6 entries, 1789–1852

  See all 6 entries in the chronology

• Smith, Benjamin 1 entry, 1789

  See the entry in the chronology

• Smith, Benjamin M. 1 entry, 1831
  • June 22, 1831: Friends of education organize the North Carolina Institute of Education at Chapel Hill
• Smith, Betsy 1 entry, 1962
  • February 1, 1962: T. P. Smith and his wife take over the General Sherman Restaurant
• Smith, Betty 10 entries, 1853–1972

  See all 10 entries in the chronology

• Smith, Bill 2 entries, 1982–2021
  • February 1982: Bill Neal and Gene Hamer reopen Crook's Corner
  • June 9, 2021: Crook's Corner announces its closure
• Smith, Booker T. 1 entry, 1941
  • by March 7, 1941: Three Black University dining hall workers volunteer for the Army
• Smith, C. Dupree 1 entry, 1957
  • December 12, 1957: The county honors its Blue Ribbon farm families at the courthouse
• Smith, C. Wallace 1 entry, 1933
  • December 1933 to January 1934: Civil Works crews clear and grade a new University athletic field on the Raleigh road
• Smith, Calvin E. 1 entry, 1863
  • late May 1863: The county court sets up commissioners to direct the Soldiers' Fund
• Smith, Carl 24 entries, 1935–1970

  See all 24 entries in the chronology · Also printed as Carl Smith

• Smith, Charles 1 entry, 1891
  • May 5, 1891: County commissioners license John U. Smith of Raleigh to sell liquor by the quart in Hillsborough
• Smith, Charles Alphonso 4 entries, 1904–1918

  See all 4 entries in the chronology · Also printed as C. Alphonso Smith

• Smith, Charles C. 1 entry, 1836
  • March 15, 1836: Orange County Van Buren men meet at the court house
• Smith, Charles F. 1 entry, 1925
  • June 18-20, 1925: Boy Scouts of America holds a patrol leaders' training camp on Emerson Field
• Smith, Charles Lee 1 entry, 1930
  • March 5, 1930: UNC trustees' building committee approves the recital hall for the new music building
• Smith, Charlie 1 entry, 1946
  • by May 2, 1946: Carrboro Woolen Mills enlarges its plant in its first year
• Smith, Charlotte 1 entry, 1994
  • April 3, 1994: UNC women’s basketball wins the 1994 NCAA national championship
• Smith, D. S. 1 entry, 1919
  • May 6, 1919: Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor W. S. Roberson and elects five aldermen
• Smith, David Baird 1 entry, 1897
  • June 1897: The class of 1897 gives the university a bust of Robert E. Lee
• Smith, Dean 11 entries, 1961–2015

  See all 11 entries in the chronology

• Smith, Desiree 1 entry, 1995
  • June 6, 1995: Carrboro votes to pay for domestic partner coverage in its employee health plan
• Smith, Dorothy Dashiell 1 entry, 1948
  • January 1948: The News of Orange County opens a Chapel Hill office
• Smith, E. Carrington 33 entries, 1924–1953

  See all 33 entries in the chronology · Also printed as E. C. Smith

• Smith, Edgar F. 1 entry, 1912
  • May 8, 1912: The medical building, Caldwell Hall, is dedicated
• Smith, Edward 1 entry, 1963
  • July 30, 1963: Hillsboro's new bi-racial committee holds its first meeting
• Smith, Edward Chambers 1 entry, 1890
  • June 1890: Alumni pledge an endowment for a chair of history
• Smith, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1846
  • October 12, 1846: William Smith shoots his wife Elizabeth near Hillsborough
• Smith, Euzelle P. 1 entry, 2001
  • 2001: R. D. and Euzelle P. Smith Middle School opens
• Smith, Fanny 1 entry, 1806
  • August Term 1806: The court frees Fanny Smith, a free girl of color, from her master and binds her to her mother
• Smith, Francis H. 1 entry, 1908
  • 1908: The John Calvin McNair lectures on science and religion begin
• Smith, Frank 2 entries, 1887–1894
  • August 1887: Farmers of the Fairfield neighborhood organize a Farmers' Club at Fairfield Church
  • April 27, 1894: Fire destroys Frank Smith's sawmill in Cedar Grove township
• Smith, Fred 5 entries, 1888–1939

  See all 5 entries in the chronology · Also printed as Fred C. Smith

• Smith, G. Wallace 1 entry, 1934
  • March 20, 1934: The first of the University's rebuilt tennis courts is played on
• Smith, H. C. 1 entry, 1946
  • September 29, 1946: Union Grove Methodist Church marks its centennial and lays a new cornerstone
• Smith, H. D. 4 entries, 1916–1920
  Show the 4 entries

  • September 4, 1916: County commissioners re-elect H. D. Smith superintendent of the County Home
  • January 1, 1917: The new county commissioners order the county home superintendent to show cause why he should not be removed
  • July 1917: H. D. Smith resigns as superintendent of the county home
  • January 30, 1920: Fire destroys N. W. Brown's store building at West Hillsboro
• Smith, H. L. 1 entry, 1923
  • March 1923: John Sprunt Hill lets the building contract for the Carolina Inn

  May be the same person as Smith, Henry; Smith, Henry Louis

• Smith, H. Ted 2 entries, 1940–1962
  • 1939 or 1940: White Furniture Company of Mebane takes over Orange Furniture Craftsmen in Hillsborough
  • October 3, 1962: Hillsboro merchants name White Furniture Company their industry of the year
• Smith, Harry 2 entries, 2018
  • December 14, 2018: The Board of Governors rejects the history center and appoints a task force with a March 15 deadline
  • August 21, 2018: UNC leaders ask the SBI to help investigate the toppling of Silent Sam

  May be the same person as Smith, Harry E.

• Smith, Harry E. 1 entry, 1954
  • August 15, 1954: Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church calls the Rev. Vance Barron as minister

  May be the same person as Smith, Harry

• Smith, Henry 1 entry, 1904
  • 1904: The old Joseph Caldwell obelisk is taken down, later to stand for four college servants

  May be the same person as Smith, H. L.; Smith, Henry Louis

• Smith, Henry Louis 1 entry, 1933
  • April 11, 1933: Orange Presbytery refuses Ronald Tamblyn as pastor of the Chapel Hill Presbyterian church

  May be the same person as Smith, H. L.; Smith, Henry

• Smith, Hildreth H. 1 entry, 1857
  • January 1857: Trustees create a professorship of modern languages
• Smith, Isabel 3 entries, 1950–1965

  See all 3 entries in the chronology

• Smith, J. H. 1 entry, 1938
  • October 30, 1938: Nunn's Chapel Baptist Church is organized
• Smith, James A. 1 entry, 1895
  • by March 23, 1895: The Fusion legislature names new magistrates for Orange County's townships
• Smith, James B. 1 entry, 1956
  • by December 13, 1956: Carrboro veterans organize VFW Post 7999
• Smith, James S. 1 entry, 1820
  • by May 6, 1820: The Hillsborough still-making firm of James Jeffers & Co. is wound up after Jeffers's death
• Smith, James Sidney 4 entries, 1844–1860

  See all 4 entries in the chronology

• Smith, James Strudwick 50 entries, 1788–1885

  See all 50 entries in the chronology · Also printed as James S. Smith

• Smith, John B. 1 entry, 1842
  • February 5-12, 1842: Students form the University Temperance Society
• Smith, John Thel 1 entry, 1952
  • by May 29, 1952: John Thel Smith accepts the principalship of Aycock School
• Smith, John U. 4 entries, 1891–1892
  Show the 4 entries

  • May 13, 1891: Hillsborough's town board votes 4 to 3 against a liquor license for John U. Smith
  • May 5, 1891: County commissioners license John U. Smith of Raleigh to sell liquor by the quart in Hillsborough
  • June 2, 1891: County commissioners license John U. Smith to retail liquor in Hillsborough although the town board did not back him
  • August 1892 (by August 13): Hillsborough's liquor suit against John U. Smith is compromised and dismissed at the August court
• Smith, Kate 1 entry, 1942

  See the entry in the chronology

• Smith, Lee 5 entries, 1978–2023

  See all 5 entries in the chronology

• Smith, Louise 1 entry, 1950

  See the entry in the chronology

• Smith, Lucy 1 entry, 1806
  • August Term 1806: The court frees Fanny Smith, a free girl of color, from her master and binds her to her mother
• Smith, Luke 1 entry, 2005
  • 2005–2015: El Futuro runs a bilingual mental health clinic in Carrboro
• Smith, Mary 2 entries, 1969

  See all 2 entries in the chronology

• Smith, Mary Ann 1 entry, 1891
  • 1891: Mary Ann Smith's bequest endows the university's chemistry chair
• Smith, Mary Ruffin 12 entries, 1834–1902

  See all 12 entries in the chronology

• Smith, Mary Ruffin 1 entry, 1977

  These entries are not linked to the page of the same name: they may name another person, or one not yet identified.

  • February 13, 1977: Pauli Murray celebrates her first Eucharist at the Chapel of the Cross
• Smith, McNeill 2 entries, 1966–1967
  • March 31, 1966: Students and the two speakers file Dickson v. Sitterson against the Speaker Ban
  • February 21, 1967: A three-judge federal court hears arguments in Dickson v. Sitterson at Greensboro
• Smith, Michael R. 1 entry, 1992
  • 1992: Michael R. Smith becomes director of the Institute of Government
• Smith, Mrs. P. H. 1 entry, 1887
  • November 12, 1887: Hillsborough women form a Woman's Christian Temperance Union
• Smith, P. H. 1 entry, 1903
  • May 5, 1903: Hillsborough votes for prohibition for the first time and elects Joseph A. Harris mayor
• Smith, Paul 3 entries, 1950–1965

  See all 3 entries in the chronology · Also printed as Paul Smith

• Smith, Peter 1 entry, 1777
  • August 1777: Merchants who traded with Britain are ordered to swear allegiance or leave
• Smith, Primus 1 entry, 1844
  • December 30, 1844: Frances Devereux deeds Primus to Dr. Edmund Strudwick
• Smith, Mrs. R. A. 1 entry, 1953
  • by June 4, 1953: Lincoln High's student paper, the Lincoln Echo, wins a national certificate of honor
• Smith, R. D. 11 entries, 1943–2001

  See all 11 entries in the chronology · Also printed as Reginald D. Smith

• Smith, R. D. 3 entries, 1946–1957

  These entries are not linked to the page of the same name: they may name another person, or one not yet identified.

  • by December 1946: The Training School's student council forms a student court
  • by May 1950: Forty-two veterans are enrolled in Lincoln High's farmer training program
  • April 23, 1957: Lincoln High hosts the Cotton-Merrick Federation's New Farmers contests
• Smith, R. J. 4 entries, 1944–1953
  Show the 4 entries

  • September 23, 1944: Smith Furniture Company opens on West King Street in Hillsborough
  • May 6, 1947: Hillsboro elects a new board of town commissioners
  • June 1948: The Hillsboro town board limits the town's five taxicabs to two parking spaces
  • May 5, 1953: Hillsboro reelects Mayor Ben Johnston in a 56-vote town election

  May be the same person as Smith, Remus; Smith, Remus J.

• Smith, R. J., Sr. 4 entries, 1957–1959
  Show the 4 entries

  • May 7, 1957: Hillsboro reelects Mayor Ben Johnston and seats John P. Ballard on the town board
  • August 5, 1958: Hillsboro's town board adopts leave and personnel rules for town employees
  • August 1959: Orange County builds its third ABC store near the Alamance line at Carr
  • September 15, 1959: Orange County's third ABC store opens at Carr, near the Alamance line
• Smith, Remus 2 entries, 1960–1961
  • May 1960: The county ABC board repays its county loan and turns over $110,000 in profits
  • March 6, 1961: The county ABC board refuses a church petition to close the new liquor store at Interstate 85

  May be the same person as Smith, R. J.; Smith, Remus J.

• Smith, Remus J. 3 entries, 1945–1964
  • May 8, 1945: Hillsboro reelects Mayor Ben Johnston and seats an all-new board of commissioners
  • September 29, 1948: Remus Smith becomes chairman of the county board of elections
  • December 7, 1964: County ABC board votes for a second liquor store in the Chapel Hill area

  May be the same person as Smith, R. J.; Smith, Remus

• Smith, Remus J., Sr. 16 entries, 1944–1964

  See all 16 entries in the chronology

• Smith, Russell 1 entry, 1940
  • by September 6, 1940: John V. Allcott succeeds Russell Smith as head of UNC's art department

  May be the same person as Smith, Russell T.

• Smith, Russell T. 5 entries, 1936–1939
  Show the 5 entries

  • by July 10, 1936: The University founds a department of art under Russell T. Smith
  • January 15, 1937: The University opens the Person Hall Art Gallery
  • September 26 to October 13, 1937: Person Hall shows Frances Benjamin Johnston's photographs of early North Carolina architecture
  • November 6-25, 1938: An exhibition of seventy sculptures by Anna Hyatt Huntington opens at Person Hall
  • by January 13, 1939: Anna Hyatt Huntington gives her bronze Youth to the University

  May be the same person as Smith, Russell

• Smith, S. T. 1 entry, 1888
  • May to June 1888: John Bivens builds a new house for S. T. Smith on the burned corner

  May be the same person as Smith, Samuel T.

• Smith, Sammi 1 entry, 1971
  • June 13, 1971: Junior Samples and Jimmy Martin play the Daniel Boone Amphitheater
• Smith, Samuel T. 1 entry, 1888
  • March 16, 1888: Fire destroys eight wooden buildings near the Hillsborough court house

  May be the same person as Smith, S. T.

• Smith, Mrs. Sherman 2 entries, 1940
  • February 15, 1940: The Junior Service League opens free clinics for Black and white babies
  • April 8, 1940: The Junior Service League starts a training school and employment agency for household workers
• Smith, Sherman 1 entry, 1943
  • November 19 and 30, 1943: The Chapel Hill price panel settles restaurant overcharge cases
• Smith, Sidney 3 entries, 1842–1860
  • July 26, 1842: Hillsborough citizens adopt an address urging voters to reject a central division of Orange County
  • 1845: James Strudwick Smith sells Harriet, Julius and Cornelia to Mary Ruffin Smith
  • February 8, 1860: Orange Democrats meet at the court house and name delegates to the state convention
• Smith, Stephen H. 1 entry, 1997
  • October 12, 1997: A bronze statue of James K. Polk is dedicated on University Day
• Smith, T. P. 1 entry, 1962
  • February 1, 1962: T. P. Smith and his wife take over the General Sherman Restaurant
• Smith, Ted 2 entries, 1954–1957
  • June 14-15, 1954: Hillsboro's Ground Observer post stands a 24-hour watch in Operation Alert
  • February 4, 1957: Thirteen men organize the Hillsboro Investment Club
• Smith, W. A. 1 entry, 1874
  • July 9, 1874: North Carolina Railroad stockholders meet at Hillsborough and accept the charter amendment

  May be the same person as Smith, William A.

• Smith, W. C. 1 entry, 1908
  • May 17, 1908: Chapel Hill holds a memorial service for Cornelia Phillips Spencer
• Smith, W. H. 1 entry, 1876

  See the entry in the chronology

• Smith, W. J. 2 entries, 1943–1949
  • June 2, 1943: Highway patrolmen deliver North Carolina's quinine collection to Howell Hall
  • June 5, 1949: New Sharon Methodist Church dedicates its new Gothic church
• Smith, W. Landon 1 entry, 1950
  • August 1950: The Forrest Clinic closes its hospital beds
• Smith, W. Marshall 1 entry, 1963
  • April 1, 1963: The county commissioners name W. Marshall Smith judge of the Orange County Recorder's Court
• Smith, W. R. L. 1 entry, 1915
  • early October 1915: The Mt. Zion Baptist Association meets at Cross Roads church and admits a new church at Efland
• Smith, Mrs. Will 1 entry, 1945
  • November 1, 1945: Mrs. Will Smith takes over Miss Hattie Brown's dress shop as Smith's Ready-To-Wear
• Smith, William 3 entries, 1831–1846
  • 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
  • October 12, 1846: William Smith shoots his wife Elizabeth near Hillsborough
• Smith, William A. 1 entry, 1870
  • July 14, 1870: North Carolina Railroad stockholders hold their annual meeting in the Hillsborough courthouse and elect four directors

  May be the same person as Smith, W. A.

• Smith, William E. 1 entry, 1971
  • 1971 or 1972: Brick mason William "Smitty" Smith does his first stone repair, at the Carolina Inn
• Smith, William H. 1 entry, 1876
  • October 30, 1876: Professor William H. Smith publishes a guide to collecting specimens
• Smith, William Myrle 1 entry, 1996
  • June 23, 1996: Frances Hargraves carries the Olympic torch down Franklin Street
• Smith, William N. H. 1 entry, 1874

  See the entry in the chronology · Also printed as W. N. H. Smith

• Smith, Willis 4 entries, 1942–1950
  Show the 4 entries

  • December 1942: Two bus companies make their case in Chapel Hill for a route through Hillsboro
  • November 7, 1950: Chapel Hill voters write in Frank Graham for the Senate in the general election
  • June 24, 1950: Orange County gives Frank Graham three of every four votes as he loses the Senate runoff
  • October 31, 1950: Orange Democrats hold their election rally at Schley Grange Hall, with Willis Smith on the platform
• Smithdeal, C. C. 1 entry, 1930
  • February 12-13, 1930: Realtors hold a two-day real estate institute at Chapel Hill with the University extension division
• Smithies, Oliver 5 entries, 1988–2016

  See all 5 entries in the chronology

• Smithwick, Pearl 2 entries, 1937–1943
  • September 20, 1937: The Orange County Training School PTA elects Charles C. Craig and starts a drive for shop machinery
  • May 19, 1943: Black Chapel Hill organizes its own Citizens Service Corps
• Smyth, J. F. D. 1 entry, 1773
  • 1773: English traveler J. F. D. Smyth finds German-speaking districts west of Hillsborough
• Snavely, Carl 8 entries, 1934–1952

  See all 8 entries in the chronology

• Snead, John 1 entry, 1833
  • April 1, 1833: University trustees sell their Bank of Newbern stock at auction to pay bank debts
• Sneed, J. P. 1 entry, 1823
  • July–November 1823: James S. Smith's building commission starts Hillsborough's brick Masonic Hall

  May be the same person as Sneed, Jonathan P.

• Sneed, Jonathan P. 2 entries, 1822
  • February 2, 1822: Hillsborough elects Jonathan P. Sneed magistrate of police and seven town commissioners
  • about 1822: Jonathan P. Sneed builds the house on the bluff south of the Eno later called Eno Lodge

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

• Snell, Chester D. 1 entry, 1927
  • April 25-27, 1927: National University Extension Association meets in Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Snell, Chester DeForest

• Snell, Chester DeForest 1 entry, 1924
  • February 1924: General Albert J. Bowley warns of campus radicals in a Memorial Hall address

  May be the same person as Snell, Chester D.

• Snethen, Nicholas 1 entry, 1800
  • 1800: Francis Asbury visits Chapel Hill and the university
• Snider, Leona M. 1 entry, 1958
  • June 11, 1958: Superintendent Carr names new principals for Murphey, Efland and West Hillsboro schools
• Snipes, A. J. 1 entry, 1945
  • May 8, 1945: Hillsboro reelects Mayor Ben Johnston and seats an all-new board of commissioners
• Snipes, A. J., Jr. 2 entries, 1961
  • February 1961: Kenan Oil Company buys A. J. Snipes Jr.'s oil business and brings Phillips 66 to Hillsboro
  • November 9, 1961: Kenan Oil invites the public to its new bulk plant and warehouse north of Hillsborough
• Snipes, Alfred 1 entry, 1863
  • late May 1863: The county court sets up commissioners to direct the Soldiers' Fund
• Snipes, Mrs. Charles 1 entry, 1964
  • November 17, 1964: Orange Grove wins the area's community development award
• Snipes, Charles 1 entry, 1974
  • 1974: The Orange Grove Volunteer Fire Company builds its first station
• Snipes, Edward 1 entry, 1888
  • by March 22, 1888: Bingham Township farmers form a Farmers' Alliance at Cane Creek
• Snipes, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1957
  • March 8, 1957: Black women in the Grover neighborhood organize a home demonstration club
• Snipes, Glenn 1 entry, 1953
  • October 5, 1953: County commissioners name the rural members of Chapel Hill's enlarged planning and zoning boards
• Snipes, Guy 2 entries, 1932–1934
  • December 8, 1932: A gravel-pit cave-in on the Durham road kills a Black relief worker
  • August 15, 1934: Federal money keeps relief director George H. Lawrence out of jail in the Guy Snipes fee dispute
• Snipes, M. Norma 5 entries, 1942–1955

  See all 5 entries in the chronology

• Snipes, Manley 2 entries, 1945–1954
  • June 26, 1945: Orange County's wartime farm transportation committee holds its last meeting
  • January 2, 1954: Kerr Scott tells an Orange Grove supper it looks as if he will run for the Senate
• Snipes, Manly 1 entry, 1890
  • about 1890: The Manly Snipes House is built in southwest Orange County
• Snipes, Norma 7 entries, 1936–1955
  Show the 7 entries

  • by March 6, 1936: Orange County's Black teachers raise a fund for medical care of Black schoolchildren
  • June 29, 1943: Black women open a Red Cross surgical dressings room at the Orange County Training School
  • December 5, 1944: Chapel Hill's Black Community Health Club reports its survey of 116 families
  • 1948: The county board hires supervisors of instruction for its Black and white schools
  • July 1949: Norma Snipes is appointed supervisor of the county schools for Black children
  • September 28, 1950: The county council of Black PTAs gives $100 toward the Orange County Negro Library building
  • 1955: The county board ends the supervisor post for its Black schools under a new state staffing rule
• Snipes, R. L. 1 entry, 1920
  • about 1920: R. L. Snipes opens a general store and filling station near Cedar Grove
• Snipes, Samuel 1 entry, 1867
  • February 1867 (court term): A jury finds Samuel Snipes to be the father of Hannah Lashley's child
• Snipes, Sherman 1 entry, 1891
  • August 1891 (term opened August 10): Sherman Snipes is convicted of highway robbery at the August term
• Snipes, Thomas 3 entries, 1816–1823
  • May Term 1816: The court sentences Jim, an enslaved man, to hang for housebreaking and grants his appeal
  • December 12, 1821: Methodist trustees seek a builder for a church in Hillsborough
  • February 1823: Dr. James Webb deeds Hillsborough's Methodists a lot and house on Tryon Street
• Snipes, W. Manley 1 entry, 1963
  • by November 14, 1963: Orange County is named the state's ASCS county of the year
• Snipes, W. S. 1 entry, 1892
  • January 11, 1892: W. S. Snipes opens Cedar Grove Academy's spring term as its new principal
• Snipes, Wesley 1 entry, 1830
  • about 1830-1832: Orange Methodist Church is organized at the Davis School House
• Snow, George H. 1 entry, 1874
  • summer 1874: Commissioner's report keeps the campus and 600 acres for the university
• Snow, H. N. 1 entry, 1890
  • July 15-17, 1890: The Methodist Durham District Sunday School Conference meets at Hillsborough
• Snyder, Dwight 1 entry, 1933
  • December 18, 1933: University employees enroll in the Hospital Care Association's group plan
• Soelle, George 1 entry, 1772
  • By 1772: A fenced burying ground stands at the Alamance battlefield
• Solomon 1 entry, 1863
  • May 8, 1863: Three Black prisoners break out of the Hillsborough jail
• Solomon 1 entry, 1868
  • August 15, 1868: Josiah Turner Jr. dismisses a freedman at a Conservative rally for belonging to the Union League
• Sommer, Clemen 1 entry, 1940
  • October 6 to 27, 1940: Person Hall gallery shows a loan exhibition of European paintings from the Metropolitan Museum
• Sorrell, W. B. 2 entries, 1905–1927
  • by 1905: W. B. Sorrell keeps a jewelry and optometry shop on East Franklin Street
  • April 1927: W. B. Sorrell begins building a moving-picture theatre on Franklin Street

  May be the same person as Sorrell, William B.

• Sorrell, William B. 1 entry, 1927
  • 1927: The Carolina Theatre and Jeff's Campus Confectionery open in the new Sorrell building

  May be the same person as Sorrell, W. B.

• Soule, George 1 entry, 1935
  • April 4 to 6, 1935: George Soule gives the Weil lectures on liberty in the modern world
• Souljah, Sister 1 entry, 1992
  • March 18, 1992: Sister Souljah gives the keynote of UNC's Race Relations Week
• Southerland, Fendal 1 entry, 1840
  • 1840: Three planters grow nearly all of Orange County's cotton
• Southerland, Howard 1 entry, 1982
  • end of May 1982: UNC closes Chase Cafeteria on South Campus
• Southerland, Mary 1 entry, 1855
  • mid-1850s: Warrenton builder Jacob Holt puts up an Italianate house for Mary Southerland on West Franklin Street
• Southern, Caleb 1 entry, 1996
  • September-October 1996: Ben Folds Five record Whatever and Ever Amen at Folds's Chapel Hill home
• Southgate, James H. 2 entries, 1908–1916
  • May 17, 1908: Chapel Hill holds a memorial service for Cornelia Phillips Spencer
  • September 29, 1916: James H. Southgate dies at his country home near University Station
• Spahr, Mildred 1 entry, 1946
  • March 4-8, 1946: A mass chest X-ray survey screens Hillsboro and West Hillsboro
• Spaight, Mary 1 entry, 1795
  • July 13, 1795: UNC holds its first public examination, announced by Governor Spaight
• Spaight, Richard Dobbs 10 entries, 1783–1795

  See all 10 entries in the chronology

• Spaight, Richard Dobbs, Jr. 1 entry, 1836
  • late May 1836: James Adcock is hanged at Hillsborough for burglary
• Spalt, Allen 1 entry, 1997
  • November 4, 1997: Diana McDuffee leads the vote for Carrboro aldermen
• Spalt, Susan 1 entry, 1976
  • 1976-77 school year: The school nurse expands health counseling at Chapel Hill High
• Spangenberg, Bishop 1 entry, 1752
  • 1752: Bishop Spangenberg's party travels the Trading Path across the new Orange County
• Spangler, C. D., Jr. 7 entries, 1986–1998

  See all 7 entries in the chronology · Also printed as C. D. Spangler

• Sparks, Jane 1 entry, 1838
  • May 22, 1838: William Dollar marries Jane Sparks three weeks after she names him as her son's father
• Sparrow, Coy 1 entry, 1932
  • May 23, 1932: The Carrboro Night School closes its third term

  May be the same person as Sparrow, Coy B.

• Sparrow, Coy B. 1 entry, 1930
  • April 2, 1930: Census takers begin the 1930 enumeration in Chapel Hill and the Orange County townships

  May be the same person as Sparrow, Coy

• Sparrow, D. J. 1 entry, 1888
  • June 27, 1888: Chapel Hill Democrats organize a Cleveland, Fowle and Bunn Club
• Sparrow, Fannie 1 entry, 1945
  • February 2, 1945: Fred Sparrow's Chapel Hill dairy sells its herd after more than fifty years
• Sparrow, Fred 1 entry, 1945
  • February 2, 1945: Fred Sparrow's Chapel Hill dairy sells its herd after more than fifty years
• Sparrow, George Attmore 2 entries, 1861–1862

  See all 2 entries in the chronology

• Sparrow, Hillary 1 entry, 1879
  • May 5, 1879: Chapel Hill elects a board of commissioners pledged to let hogs run free
• Sparrow, J. H. 1 entry, 1953
  • October 5, 1953: County commissioners name the rural members of Chapel Hill's enlarged planning and zoning boards
• Sparrow, Jack 6 entries, 1923–1938
  Show the 6 entries

  • by May 17, 1923: Jack Sparrow and Charles Martindale let a contract for an electric light line out the Durham road
  • March to May 1925: Clubwomen and Boy Scouts clear advertising signs from the Chapel Hill-Durham road
  • June-July 1927: Barnstormer Vernon Ratliff flies passengers over Chapel Hill
  • by May 20, 1927: Water line is laid down Strowd's hill on the Durham road
  • August 1930: Chapel Hill votes $35,000 in bonds to enlarge its sewage disposal plant
  • January 1938: W. S. Crawford plans a lake and home colony on Booker's Creek
• Sparrow, Jo 1 entry, 1932
  • late September and October 1932: University Lake is stocked with bass and bream
• Sparrow, Jody 1 entry, 1922
  • late May 1922: Jody and Mattie Sparrow open a concrete swimming pool below their house
• Sparrow, Joseph W. 1 entry, 1955
  • April 23, 1955: Jody Sparrow, longtime university engineer and keeper of Sparrow's Pool, dies
• Sparrow, June 1 entry, 1935
  • March 23, 1935: Orange County cotton contract signers elect their 1935 committeemen at Carrboro
• Sparrow, Lindy 1 entry, 1955
  • March 11, 1955: Carrboro's new industry committee elects officers to court manufacturers
• Sparrow, Louis 1 entry, 1958
  • March 1, 1958: Orange County Republicans split at their county convention and elect rival chairmen
• Sparrow, M. W. 1 entry, 1923
  • May 7, 1923: Carrboro elects Seaton Lloyd mayor
• Sparrow, Mattie 1 entry, 1922
  • late May 1922: Jody and Mattie Sparrow open a concrete swimming pool below their house

  May be the same person as Sparrow, Mattie Clark

• Sparrow, Mattie Clark 1 entry, 1955
  • April 23, 1955: Jody Sparrow, longtime university engineer and keeper of Sparrow's Pool, dies

  May be the same person as Sparrow, Mattie

• Sparrow, Shelton 2 entries, 1958
  • May 20, 1958: Carrboro and White Cross voters reject joining the Chapel Hill school district
  • April 1958: Opponents of the school merger form the Carrboro School Development Council
• Sparrow, Thomas 8 entries, 1861–1920

  See all 8 entries in the chronology · Also printed as Thomas E. Sparrow

• Sparrow, W. H. 1 entry, 1896
  • November 3, 1896: Orange County voters elect township magistrates and constables
• Sparrow, W. M. 1 entry, 1917
  • May 7, 1917: Carrboro elects T. N. Mann mayor over two rivals
• Sparrow, W. O. 13 entries, 1916–1940

  See all 13 entries in the chronology

• Sparrow, William B. 2 entries, 1820
  • March 25, 1820: Judge Murphey sentences William B. Sparrow to hang for the murder of John Hunt
  • May 12, 1820: William B. Sparrow is hanged at Hillsborough for the murder of John Hunt
• Spaulding, Ben 1 entry, 1968
  • April 5, 1968: Black students march through downtown Chapel Hill the day after Martin Luther King Jr. is killed
• Spaulding, C. C., Jr. 1 entry, 1955
  • April 4-7, 1955: Lincoln High holds its first Career Week
• Spear, Maria L. 1 entry, 1839
  • January 1839: Maria L. Spear heads the Hillsborough Female Seminary
• Spear, William W. 1 entry, 1834
  • July 20, 1834: Samuel Iredell Johnston and William W. Spear are ordained deacons in St. Matthew's
• Spearman, Walter 5 entries, 1935–1978

  See all 5 entries in the chronology

• Spearman, Mrs. Walter 2 entries, 1940–1948
  • February 15, 1940: The Junior Service League opens free clinics for Black and white babies
  • April 12-13, 1948: The Junior Service League canvasses the Chapel Hill school district for a census
• Spears, Marshall 1 entry, 1936
  • week of March 16, 1936: The superior court at Hillsboro upholds the state law on restaurant sanitation ratings
• Speed, Thomas 1 entry, 1846
  • May Term 1846: The court binds William Gaston Beckum to Thomas Speed to learn tobacco manufacturing
• Speight, Francis 2 entries, 1931–1934

  See all 2 entries in the chronology

• Speller, V. K. 1 entry, 1953
  • by December 10, 1953: A Central High School drive pays off the school's lunchroom debts
• Spellings, Margaret 2 entries, 2017–2018

  See all 2 entries in the chronology

• Spencer, Cornelia Phillips 48 entries, 1826–2004

  See all 48 entries in the chronology

• Spencer, Elizabeth 5 entries, 1986–2002

  See all 5 entries in the chronology

• Spencer, Frank 2 entries, 1957–1962
  • February 18, 1957: Orange poultrymen form a county unit of the Central Carolina Poultry Association
  • September 29, 1962: The New Hope Grange holds a community fair at Camp New Hope
• Spencer, Isaiah H. 1 entry, 1839
  • February 2, 1839: Hillsborough elects O. F. Long magistrate of police and seven town commissioners
• Spencer, James Munroe 1 entry, 1855
  • June 20, 1855: Cornelia Phillips marries James Munroe Spencer in Chapel Hill
• Spencer, Jon Michael 1 entry, 1992
  • fall 1992: Jon Michael Spencer joins Afro-American Studies in the late Sonja Haynes Stone's position
• Spencer, Julia J. 1 entry, 1882
  • May 9, 1882: Julia Spencer drives a last spike to celebrate the finished University railroad
• Spencer, Samuel 7 entries, 1775–1788

  See all 7 entries in the chronology

• Spencer, Sarah H. 1 entry, 1938
  • by February 11, 1938: A federally aided child welfare service begins in Orange, Chatham and Durham counties
• Spoon, W. L. 1 entry, 1895
  • April 8, 1895: Surveyors start the Alamance-Chatham line at the Hillsborough courthouse
• Spoon, William 1 entry, 1893
  • 1893: The name Texas appears on William Spoon's map of Alamance County
• Spooner, George 2 entries, 1962–1963
  • by June 14, 1962: Federal fallout shelter survey finds room for 12,212 people in Chapel Hill and UNC buildings
  • by February 7, 1963: Chapel Hill aldermen fund a working civil defense office
• Springs, A. A. 5 entries, 1886–1888
  Show the 5 entries

  • by February 20, 1886: A. A. Springs of Winston leases the old Pogue factory to make plug tobacco
  • late October 1887: A. A. Springs closes out his Hillsborough store to manufacture tobacco
  • February 6, 1888: Merchant and tobacco maker A. A. Springs assigns his business to D. H. Hamilton
  • about February 18, 1888: A. A. Springs pays his creditors and has his assignment cancelled
  • by May 10, 1888: James E. Jones moves his store into the brick building A. A. Springs had used

  May be the same person as Springs, Alexander A.

• Springs, Alexander A. 1 entry, 1889
  • late February 1889: Allen J. Ruffin, A. A. Springs and Thomas D. Turner incorporate the Hillsboro Tobacco Company

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

• Sprinkle, William 2 entries, 1940
  • about 1940: William Sprinkle designs Frances Gardham's house on Country Club Road
  • March to July 1940: UNC Press editor William Couch builds a brick and stone house on Laurel Hill Road
• Spruill, C. P. 3 entries, 1940–1942

  See all 3 entries in the chronology · Also printed as C. P. Spruill; Corydon P. Spruill

• Spruill, Corydon P., Jr. 1 entry, 1936
  • by February 21, 1936: Corydon P. Spruill Jr. is named dean of the University's General College
• Spruill, Frank 1 entry, 1927
  • February 8, 1927: A portrait of Judge William Horne Battle is dedicated in Manning Hall
• Spruill, H. G. 1 entry, 1865
  • February 10-11, 1865: A Chapel Hill public meeting resolves to fight on after the peace talks fail
• Sprunt, James 5 entries, 1899–1920

  See all 5 entries in the chronology

• Spurgeon, Carrie Waitt 1 entry, 1895
  • 1895: Dr. John S. Spurgeon buys the former Burwell School
• Spurgeon, Mrs. J. S. 1 entry, 1919
  • November 15, 1919: Hillsboro parents and teachers organize the school's first PTA
• Spurgeon, John Sanford 15 entries, 1891–1953

  See all 15 entries in the chronology · Also printed as J. S. Spurgeon

• Spurgeon, Mary 1 entry, 1917
  • November 12 to December 1, 1917: The Orange County Red Cross fills its quota of 133 Christmas packets for soldiers
• Squire, Zadoc 1 entry, 1785
  • 1785–1790: Hillsborough Academy opens in the old Anglican church
• Squires, J. T. 2 entries, 1921–1922
  • August 4, 1921: Chapel Hill's town board orders a brick fire house built in Columbia Street
  • by March 22, 1922: Carrboro's Ward-Squires hardware and furniture company goes into receivership

  May be the same person as Squires, John; Squires, John T.

• Squires, John 2 entries, 1915–1920
  • about 1915: Durham Hosiery Mills builds its last group of mill houses on South Greensboro Street
  • early 1920s: Merchant Luther Sturdivant builds a house in Partridge Field

  May be the same person as Squires, J. T.; Squires, John T.

• Squires, John T. 2 entries, 1917–1923
  • May 7, 1917: Carrboro elects T. N. Mann mayor over two rivals
  • March 1923: Carrboro's old schoolhouse is moved and split between the Methodist parsonage and church

  May be the same person as Squires, J. T.; Squires, John

• Stacy, Inez Koonce 2 entries, 1919–1921
  • 1919: Inez Koonce Stacy becomes the University's adviser to women
  • 1921: The university opens its first two houses for women students
• Stacy, Lucius E. 1 entry, 1934
  • August 8, 1934: Chapel Hill aldermen refuse to rezone for a filling station beside the Presbyterian church
• Stacy, Mrs. M. H. 2 entries, 1918–1927
  • September 1, 1918: The Chapel Hill Red Cross starts a conservation committee that ships nut shells for gas masks
  • May 3, 1927: Delegates of the State Federation of Women's Clubs visit Chapel Hill
• Stacy, Marvin Hendrix 9 entries, 1910–1938

  See all 9 entries in the chronology · Also printed as Marvin H. Stacy

• Stacy, Marvin Hendrix 2 entries, 1914–1918

  See all 2 entries in the chronology

• Stacy, W. P. 3 entries, 1908–1926
  • April 8, 1908: Joshua W. Gore, professor of physics and dean, dies
  • December 1919: Orange Superior Court convicts Thomas Barbee of manslaughter in the death of John Claytor
  • January 28-30, 1926: University alumni switch class reunions to the Dix plan

  May be the same person as Stacy, Walter P.; Stacy, Walter Parker

• Stacy, Walter P. 2 entries, 1923–1934
  • November 1923: Governor Morrison offers the law deanship to Justice Walter P. Stacy, who declines
  • April 1934: Coates moderates a debate on proposed constitutional amendments and keeps the Institute neutral

  May be the same person as Stacy, W. P.; Stacy, Walter Parker

• Stacy, Walter Parker 1 entry, 1913
  • March 1913: Three students are convicted in Hillsborough in Isaac William Rand's death

  May be the same person as Stacy, W. P.; Stacy, Walter P.

• Stafford, Frederick 2 entries, 1839–1841
  • August 22, 1839: Frederick Stafford advertises for William Gappins, his runaway apprentice
  • June 12, 1841: A public debate at Mount Zion meeting house votes that temperance societies do good
• Stafford, John 4 entries, 1837–1842
  Show the 4 entries

  • mid-June 1837: An Orange County meeting nominates Willie P. Mangum for Congress
  • late August 1839: The county court names superintendents of common schools for Orange County
  • March 12, 1841: Whig district convention at Hillsborough nominates Dr. James S. Smith for Congress, then waits for Wake
  • September 1842: The Orange County grand jury urges the legislature to build a state penitentiary
• Stagg, F. A. 1 entry, 1866
  • July 12, 1866: Thomas Webb of Hillsborough becomes president of the North Carolina Railroad
• Stagg, James 1 entry, 1868
  • August 1868: Freedpeople at Durham's Station buy land and build a school house
• Stagg, Judith 1 entry, 1787
  • 1787: Richard Bennehan buys land from Judith Stagg and opens the Stagville Store
• Stainback, Raymond 1 entry, 1940
  • May 25, 1940: Orange Democrats choose John W. Umstead Jr. for the state House and keep their county commissioners

  May be the same person as Stainback, Raymond F.

• Stainback, Raymond F. 2 entries, 1938–1940
  • June 4, 1938: Roland McClamroch and Sheriff S. T. Latta Jr. win the Orange Democratic primary
  • March 14, 1940: John W. Umstead Jr. enters the race for Orange County's seat in the state House

  May be the same person as Stainback, Raymond

• Staley, Enoch 11 entries, 1952–1984

  See all 11 entries in the chronology

• Stallmann, Tim 1 entry, 2016
  • May 2016: RENA and the Jackson Center published the Rogers Road community plan commissioned by the three governments
• Stambaugh, Rhea 1 entry, 1974
  • 1974: The Faculty Council sets up a committee on the status of women
• Stamey, Chris 2 entries, 1975–2010

  See all 2 entries in the chronology

• Stanback, A. L. 33 entries, 1936–1995

  See all 33 entries in the chronology · Also printed as Albert L. Stanback; Albert Leon Stanback

• Stanback, Margaret Lide 1 entry, 1948
  • 1948: Jim Webb designs a house on Dogwood Drive for Thomas and Margaret Stanback
• Stanback, Thomas M. 1 entry, 1948
  • 1948: Jim Webb designs a house on Dogwood Drive for Thomas and Margaret Stanback
• Stanbury, W. A. 2 entries, 1910–1912
  • 1910: Carrboro Methodist Church is organized
  • September 15, 1912: Methodist pastor W. A. Stanbury preaches against hazing after the Rand death
• Stancell, Charlie 1 entry, 1953
  • January 3, 1953: Fire destroys the Carolina Club night spot west of Chapel Hill
• Stancil, Roger 2 entries, 2012–2017
  • January 9, 2012: Council adopts the Northside and Pine Knolls community plan
  • April 2017: Chapel Hill is selected for a Building Integrated Communities partnership
• Standfield, William H. 1 entry, 1893
  • 1893: Lee's Chapel Baptist Church is organized
• Standifer, Cassandra 1 entry, 1825
  • August 1825 (court term): The court orders execution against Jesse Vickers for Cassandra Standifer's support money
• Stanfield, E. M. 1 entry, 1950
  • June 1950: Principal E. M. Stanfield reports on the one-room school for Black children at Cedar Grove
• Stanford, Mrs. C. W. 2 entries, 1946–1952
  • April 27, 1946: E. M. Lynch succeeds A. H. Graham as Orange County Democratic chairman
  • May 17, 1952: Mrs. C. W. Stanford becomes chairman of the Orange County Democratic Party

  May be the same person as Stanford, Mrs. Charles; Stanford, Mrs. Charles W.

• Stanford, Charles 3 entries, 1945–1950
  • by February 8, 1945: Dairy farmers buy a Chapel Hill lot for a cooperative milk plant
  • August 31, 1950: The county school board drops its bid to redraw the Aycock school lines
  • April 17, 1950: The county school board keeps the Hillsboro and Aycock high school lines nearly unchanged
• Stanford, Mrs. Charles 1 entry, 1948
  • May 15, 1948: R. O. Forrest becomes chairman of the Orange County Democratic executive committee

  May be the same person as Stanford, Mrs. C. W.; Stanford, Mrs. Charles W.

• Stanford, Charles W. 29 entries, 1940–2021

  See all 29 entries in the chronology · Also printed as C. W. Stanford

• Stanford, Mrs. Charles W. 1 entry, 1954
  • February 10, 1954: W. Kerr Scott opens his campaign for the U.S. Senate with a speech in Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Stanford, Mrs. C. W.; Stanford, Mrs. Charles

• Stanford, Charlie 1 entry, 1961
  • March 10, 1961: Aycock School parents petition against folding their high school into a new northern Orange high

  May be the same person as Stanford, Charlie W.

• Stanford, Charlie W. 1 entry, 1935
  • March 23, 1935: Orange County cotton contract signers elect their 1935 committeemen at Carrboro

  May be the same person as Stanford, Charlie

• Stanford, Don 1 entry, 1962
  • February 8, 1962: A citywide PTA meeting takes up the Chapel Hill schools' budget shortfall
• Stanford, Donald 15 entries, 1953–1963
  Show the 15 entries

  • August 31, 1953: Alex Heard is elected president of the Orange County Young Democratic Club
  • April 29, 1957: County commissioners reverse themselves and back limited Sunday racing
  • February 4, 1957: Commissioners call an April 2 recreation vote in a reduced Chapel Hill district
  • December 7, 1959: Orange commissioners keep the courthouse home demonstration kitchen for white use and vote a separate one for Black clubs
  • November 16, 1959: Orange County commissioners give a cool reception to a Research Triangle planning request
  • November 7, 1960: County commissioners call a $1.5 million school bond vote for February
  • May 28, 1960: Donald Stanford and Harvey Bennett win the Democratic primary for county commissioner
  • by June 15, 1961: The N.C. Business and Professional Women's Clubs build a state headquarters off Smith Level Road
  • November 29, 1961: State highway commissioner refuses Orange's request to review its road plan
  • April 11, 1961: Orange County begins handing out federal surplus food in West Hillsboro
  • April 2, 1962: Commissioners call a vote on raising the Chapel Hill school tax
  • November 5, 1962: Orange County commissioners reject county-wide zoning
  • February 5, 1962: Commissioners sign contracts for the county agricultural building
  • April 1, 1963: The county commissioners name W. Marshall Smith judge of the Orange County Recorder's Court
  • April 1, 1963: Orange County dedicates its new agricultural building on courthouse square

  May be the same person as Stanford, Donald M.

• Stanford, Donald M. 14 entries, 1952–1964
  Show the 14 entries

  • October 13, 1952: William B. Umstead opens the Orange County Democrats' fall campaign at Schley Grange
  • December 3, 1956: Claude Pope and Donald Stanford join the county commissioners
  • June 23, 1956: Edwin S. Lanier and Donald Stanford win the Democratic runoffs
  • May 26, 1956: Orange County Democrats renominate R. J. M. Hobbs and Carl Durham and leave two races for a runoff
  • September 2, 1958: The county commissioners call a countywide vote on ABC liquor stores
  • August 4, 1958: Commissioners vote down a referendum on ABC liquor stores by one vote
  • February 3, 1959: Orange County voters approve ABC liquor stores
  • December 5, 1960: Donald M. Stanford becomes chairman of the county commissioners as R. J. M. Hobbs retires
  • by March 16, 1961: The county commissioners give a tentative go-ahead to federal surplus food for the needy
  • January 1961: Jane Parker retires as county welfare superintendent
  • August 6, 1962: Orange County awards contracts to revalue property and map the Chapel Hill zoning district
  • September 1963: The county ABC board refuses to pay for an air conditioner put on its station wagon
  • September 3, 1963: The commissioners accept a portrait of the Earl of Hillsborough for the Tercentenary
  • December 7, 1964: Harvey D. Bennett becomes chairman of the county commissioners

  May be the same person as Stanford, Donald

• Stanford, J. R. 1 entry, 1946
  • April 7-28, 1946: Rock Hill Baptist Church celebrates its 76th anniversary
• Stanford, James 1 entry, 1834
  • August Term 1834: The court leaves Robert Stanford with his mother, Patsy Lashley, instead of binding him out
• Stanford, Joyce 1 entry, 1983
  • October 13, 1983: OWASA agrees to buy the Stanford dairy farm at the dam site
• Stanford, Pattye 1 entry, 1956
  • by July 12, 1956: Buckhorn is named Community of the Year in the county's Farm and Home Efficiency contest
• Stanford, Richard 1 entry, 1788

  These entries are not linked to the page of the same name: they may name another person, or one not yet identified.

  • November Term 1788: The court discharges Richard Stanford from a bastardy recognizance
• Stanford, Richard 4 entries, 1790–1814

  See all 4 entries in the chronology

• Stanford, W. G. 1 entry, 1881
  • May 2, 1881: The county commissioners order a new road opened past Union Mills
• Stanford, W. Raney 1 entry, 1940
  • October 11, 1940: Former students present a portrait of Dr. Isaac Hall Manning to the medical school
• Stanford, William 1 entry, 1983
  • October 13, 1983: OWASA agrees to buy the Stanford dairy farm at the dam site
• Stanley, Anna 1 entry, 1789
  • 1789 to the mid-1790s: Simon Lindley and Anna Stanley make their home in Orange County
• Stanley, Charles B. 1 entry, 1931
  • 1931: C. B. and Myrtle Ray Stanley's house is built on Allen Ruffin Avenue in West Hillsborough
• Stanley, Edwin 3 entries, 1960
  • April 6, 1960: Federal court refuses to throw out the Vickers school suit but drops the board members as defendants
  • December 20, 1960: Final arguments are heard in Stanley Vickers's suit against the Chapel Hill schools
  • August 1960: The Vickers suit is amended to seek a place at Chapel Hill Junior High

  May be the same person as Stanley, Edwin M.

• Stanley, Edwin M. 2 entries, 1961–1967
  • August 4, 1961: Federal court rules Chapel Hill denied Stanley Vickers a junior high transfer because of his race
  • February 21, 1967: A three-judge federal court hears arguments in Dickson v. Sitterson at Greensboro

  May be the same person as Stanley, Edwin

• Stanley, John 1 entry, 1984
  • April 2 to 6, 1984: The Carolina Gay Association holds Gay Awareness Week on the theme Gay Visions of a New World
• Stanley, Myrtle Ray 1 entry, 1931
  • 1931: C. B. and Myrtle Ray Stanley's house is built on Allen Ruffin Avenue in West Hillsborough
• Stansbury, Raymond J. 1 entry, 1963
  • September 3, 1963: Hillsboro storekeeper Raymond Stansbury files as a candidate for governor
• Stark, Polley 1 entry, 1822
  • November 1822 (court term): The court calls in the children of Polly Elliott and of two Polly Starks to be bound out
• Starkey, Edward 1 entry, 1783
  • April 18–May 17, 1783: General Assembly at Hillsborough opens the western land office and passes an act of pardon
• Starnes, J. F. 1 entry, 1925
  • November 1925: J. F. Starnes becomes Methodist pastor at Carrboro and Orange Church
• Starr, Homer Worthington 2 entries, 1913–1914
  • January 30, 1913: The vestry makes the new Chapel of the Cross parish house a memorial to Dr. and Mrs. Kemp P. Battle
  • 1914 to 1916: The Chapel of the Cross builds a new rectory and parish house
• Starr, J. S., Jr. 1 entry, 1926
  • by October 29, 1926: A faculty committee overrules the Student Council in the 'Slaves' case
• Starr, Julian Stewart, Jr. 1 entry, 1926
  • October 1926: The Student Council removes the Carolina Magazine editors over the story 'Slaves'
• Stead, Eugene 1 entry, 1950
  • March 28, 1950: The new Durham-Orange chapter of the Heart Association adopts its program at Chapel Hill
• Steagall, James 2 entries, 1960–1961
  • November 2, 1960: The National Guard approves a rifle platoon for Orange County, based in Carrboro
  • January 24, 1961: A federal inspector looks over the new National Guard rifle platoon in Carrboro
• Stearns, Shubal 1 entry, 1755
  • 1755: Shubal Stearns gathers the first Baptist congregation in Orange County at Sandy Creek
• Stedman, Charles M. 4 entries, 1861–1922
  Show the 4 entries

  • 1861 commencement: Seniors in the army granted diplomas without examinations
  • by February 21, 1880: The Alumni Association names a committee to help raise money for the university
  • June 4, 1904: Orange Democrats instruct their delegates for Robert B. Glenn for governor
  • November 7, 1922: Democrats carry Orange County in the 1922 general election
• Steel, Andrew M. 1 entry, 1843
  • September 1843 (fall superior court): Andrew M. Steel is convicted of manslaughter in the shooting of his mother
• Steel, John 1 entry, 1783
  • about 1783: Hawfields residents petition the House of Commons against Justice John Steel
• Steel, Joseph 1 entry, 1845
  • May Term 1845: The court binds three Haithcock children of color to three masters in one term
• Steele, Martha 1 entry, 1936
  • December 4, 1936: A puppet Hansel and Gretel is announced for Adeline McCall's music series for children
• Steele, Max 4 entries, 1956–1970

  See all 4 entries in the chronology

• Steele, W. L. 1 entry, 1874
  • April 8, 1874: University trustees declare the presidency vacant and order legal action against Solomon Pool
• Steele, Walter L. 4 entries, 1857–1889
  Show the 4 entries

  • June 3, 1857: The university's Alumni Association elects Paul C. Cameron its president
  • January 28 to February 18, 1874: The General Assembly elects sixty-four trustees, who organize under William A. Graham with Kemp Battle as secretary and treasurer
  • April 3 to 9, 1874: Walter Steele and Paul Cameron inspect the derelict campus and Solomon Pool refuses to surrender the keys
  • June 5, 1889: The university celebrates the centennial of its charter
• Steele, Wilbur Daniel 2 entries, 1930–1937
  • May 2 and 3, 1930: Faculty players stage an old melodrama for the county's poor
  • October 14 and 15, 1937: The North Carolina Library Association holds its biennial meeting in Chapel Hill
• Steen, William 2 entries, 1928–1929
  • March 2-5, 1928: William Steen shows his portraits in Person Hall
  • January 28, 1929: Portrait of Major William Cain is presented to the University's school of engineering
• Steene, William 2 entries, 1930–1931
  • November 18, 1930: Art Students' Club organizes at the University
  • March 24, 1931: The Pratt family gives $500 to the Mary Bayley Pratt children's library
• Steere, Douglas 1 entry, 1938
  • January 23-28, 1938: The Federal Council of Churches holds a Religion-in-Life week at the University
• Stein, Adam 2 entries, 1970–1972
  • December 1, 1970: Three Durham men bound over to the grand jury in the Cates killing
  • September 1972: Charles Becton and Adam Stein open a Chapel Hill office of the Chambers, Stein law firm
• Stein, Gertrude 1 entry, 1935

  See the entry in the chronology

• Stein, Josh 1 entry, 2025
  • October 5, 2025: State law removes Chapel Hill's zoning control over UNC projects
• Steinem, Gloria 2 entries, 1974–1997
  • February 7, 1974: Gloria Steinem speaks in Memorial Hall on sex and race
  • October 23, 1997: Gloria Steinem speaks in Memorial Hall
• Steiner, J. F. 1 entry, 1924
  • by June 13, 1924: Isaac W. Pritchard and six others give land for a Chapel Hill park and playground
• Stemper, Alicia 1 entry, 2014
  • October 13, 2014: Same-sex couples begin receiving marriage licenses in Orange County
• Stephen 1 entry, 1822
  • 1822 to May 1823: Trustee William Polk hires out five enslaved men to build Old West
• Stephens, Alexander 1 entry, 2011
  • June 2011: Council freezes building in Northside and Pine Knolls for six months
• Stephens, Brenda 1 entry, 1993

  See the entry in the chronology · Also printed as Brenda W. Stephens

• Stephens, Erwin D. 1 entry, 1948
  • 1948: Hyconeechee Regional Library is established
• Stephens, George 3 entries, 1919–1923
  • February to May 1919: Richard H. Lewis chairs the trustees' search for a new university president
  • June 1919: UNC trustees turn the campus's growth southward and call for a landscape plan
  • 1923: The Order of Gimghouls plats its Chapel Hill subdivision with racial deed restrictions

  May be the same person as Stephens, George M.

• Stephens, George M. 1 entry, 1966
  • January 25, 1966: The Botanical Garden Foundation is incorporated, with William Lanier Hunt as its founder

  May be the same person as Stephens, George

• Stephens, Ruth Anderson 1 entry, 1965
  • 1965: Ruth Anderson Stephens becomes the first Black graduate of UNC's School of Nursing
• Stephens, Sara 1 entry, 2014
  • May 6, 2014: Mark Chilton wins the register of deeds primary on a same-sex marriage pledge
• Stern, Harry 3 entries, 1929–1936
  • October 5, 1929: Chapel Hill's Jewish merchants close their stores for Rosh Hashanah
  • May 1, 1933: Legal beer goes on sale in Chapel Hill
  • September 1936: Harry Stern moves his Carolina Grill into a new building on East Franklin Street
• Stevens, A. B. 1 entry, 1928
  • March 28, 1928: The Chapel Hill school board elects A. B. Stevens superintendent
• Stevens, B. A. 5 entries, 1928–1929
  Show the 5 entries

  • by September 21, 1928: Audit finds the Chapel Hill school more than $23,000 in debt
  • by August 31, 1928: Chapel Hill school board raises tuition for pupils from outside the district
  • October 30, 1928: Kiwanis club votes to sponsor a dental clinic for Chapel Hill children
  • by July 5, 1929: C. A. Hoyle becomes supervising principal of both the Chapel Hill and Carrboro schools
  • February 1929: Legislature authorizes a Chapel Hill school bond election
• Stevens, Billy 1 entry, 2004
  • September 30, 2004: John Dee Holeman plays a free blues concert at Graham Memorial
• Stevens, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1977
  • November 10, 1977: Filmmakers show a documentary on lesbian mothers at the UNC Law School
• Stevens, G. W. S. 2 entries, 1918
  • July 4, 1918: Orange County holds a Fourth of July war rally on the UNC campus
  • October 1, 1918: 750 University students are inducted into the Students' Army Training Corps

  May be the same person as Stevens, Gustave W. S.

• Stevens, Gustave W. S. 2 entries, 1918
  • June 1918: The university gets an ROTC unit under Lt. Col. Gustave W. S. Stevens
  • September to December 1918: The Students' Army Training Corps takes over the campus

  May be the same person as Stevens, G. W. S.

• Stevens, Henry L., Jr. 1 entry, 1950
  • early October 1950: Judge Henry L. Stevens Jr. rules the vote to sell Hillsboro's Legion hut illegal
• Stevens, Richard 1 entry, 2000
  • April 14, 2000: The Board of Governors elects James Moeser chancellor at the Carolina Inn
• Stevens, Stanley 1 entry, 1936
  • January 1936: The Southern Committee for People's Rights starts its People's Rights Bulletin in Chapel Hill
• Stevens, Tom 7 entries, 2005–2023

  See all 7 entries in the chronology

• Stevens, W. J. 1 entry, 1959
  • December 8, 1959: The Hillsboro Lions Club opens its campaign to fluoridate the town's water
• Stevenson, Adlai E. 1 entry, 1952

  See the entry in the chronology · Also printed as Adlai E. Stevenson

• Stevenson, George W., Jr. 1 entry, 1960
  • July 1, 1960: The university funds a research assistant for William S. Powell's North Carolina gazetteer
• Stevenson, W. B. 1 entry, 1933
  • by January 27, 1933: The Chapel Hill Scout district reports a Carrboro troop house and plans a troop for Black boys
• Steward, Billy 1 entry, 1929
  • November 8, 1929: Billy Steward's Celery City Serenaders play a dance for Black Chapel Hill at the Standard Theatre
• Steward, Craton 1 entry, 1864
  • August Term 1864: The court binds Craton and Frank Steward, minors of color, to James D. Rice
• Steward, Frank 1 entry, 1864
  • August Term 1864: The court binds Craton and Frank Steward, minors of color, to James D. Rice
• Steward, W. E. 1 entry, 1885
  • May 4, 1885: Hillsborough elects editor Joseph A. Harris mayor
• Stewart, Don 16 entries, 1956–1971

  See all 16 entries in the chronology

• Stewart, Donald 1 entry, 1934
  • by April 13, 1934: Donald Stewart is accepted as pastor of the Chapel Hill Presbyterian church

  May be the same person as Stewart, Donald H.

• Stewart, Donald H. 2 entries, 1939–1940
  • November 10, 1939: A survey of the Sunset neighborhood finds most Black homes without running water
  • July 14, 1940: Rev. Donald H. Stewart resigns as pastor of the Chapel Hill Presbyterian church

  May be the same person as Stewart, Donald

• Stewart, J. S. 1 entry, 1963
  • April 18, 1963: Chapel Hill receives its new $20,500 pumper fire truck
• Stewart, James 4 entries, 1771–1963
  Show the 4 entries

  • December 14, 1771: Tryon, now governor of New York, asks the King's free pardon for the six reprieved Regulators
  • February Term 1851: The court binds James Stewart, three-year-old son of Martha Stewart, a free woman of color, to Lytle McCadams
  • by September 13, 1962 (effective September 16): James Stewart is named Chapel Hill fire chief as J. S. Boone steps back to assistant
  • December 15, 1963: Chapel Hill opens its new central fire station with a public open house
• Stewart, Jim 1 entry, 1963
  • November 1963: A Chapel Hill-Carrboro Rescue Squad is organized under civil defense
• Stewart, Martha 1 entry, 1851
  • February Term 1851: The court binds James Stewart, three-year-old son of Martha Stewart, a free woman of color, to Lytle McCadams
• Stewart, Pearson 4 entries, 1959–1961
  Show the 4 entries

  • April 6, 1959: County commissioners endorse a county seat on the Research Triangle Planning Committee
  • October 27, 1959: The Research Triangle Regional Planning Commission organizes
  • June 1960: Chapel Hill aldermen pay the town's share of the Research Triangle planning commission budget
  • February 13, 1961: Chapel Hill sends its long-range thoroughfare plan to the State Highway Commission

  May be the same person as Stewart, Pearson H.

• Stewart, Pearson H. 1 entry, 1969
  • November 1969: The Research Triangle Regional Planning Commission issues Development Alternatives for Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Stewart, Pearson

• Stewart, Quintana 9 entries, 2017–2022

  See all 9 entries in the chronology

• Stewart, Samuel M. 1 entry, 1829
  • November 1829: James, an enslaved college servant, escapes from Chapel Hill
• Stewart, W. S. 1 entry, 1964
  • May 5, 1964: L. J. Phipps is sworn in as judge of Chapel Hill Recorder's Court

  May be the same person as Stewart, William S.

• Stewart, William S. 9 entries, 1951–1964
  Show the 9 entries

  • May 8, 1951: Chapel Hill elects William S. Stewart judge as Fred Edwards runs for alderman
  • 1953: The Chapel Hill Methodist church installs a Standaart organ
  • June 3, 1954: The Chapel Hill Concert Series organizes with William S. Stewart as its first president
  • September 23, 1955: Orange County Young Democrats elect William M. Alexander president
  • December 3, 1956: Chapel Hill freeholders petition for a recreation district vote
  • February 14, 1958: The Orange County Bar Association elects John T. Manning and opposes cameras in court
  • October 1960: Reverie Lingerie sues the garment workers union and the four convicted men over its burned plant
  • January 31 to February 2, 1962: Land commissioners hear Duke Power's condemnation cases against Morgan Creek owners
  • April 1964: Chapel Hill Recorder's Court fines the man who struck a student at the post office fast

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

• Stiles, Charles W. 1 entry, 1912
  • May 8, 1912: The medical building, Caldwell Hall, is dedicated
• Stipe, Bob 1 entry, 1957
  • 1957: A Webb-designed house is built for Bob and Josie Stipe in Highland Woods
• Stipe, Josie 2 entries, 1957
  • 1957: A Webb-designed house is built for Bob and Josie Stipe in Highland Woods
  • 1957: Jim Webb designs a Contemporary Ranch on Pine Lane as a retirement home for Fred and Josephine Weedon
• Stipe, Robert E. 1 entry, 1957
  • 1957: Jim Webb designs a Contemporary Ranch on Pine Lane as a retirement home for Fred and Josephine Weedon
• Stockard, James 1 entry, 1795
  • May 27, 1795 to February Term 1798: The county court proves a run of deeds to and from the University's trustees
• Stockard, Jerome 1 entry, 1893
  • by August 12, 1893: A new preparatory school for Chapel Hill elects Jerome Stockard principal
• Stockard, John 16 entries, 1828–1849

  See all 16 entries in the chronology

• Stockard, Sallie Walker 3 entries, 1897–1945

  See all 3 entries in the chronology

• Stoddard, Alice Kent 1 entry, 1941
  • November 20, 1941: The University dedicates its new zoology building as the Wilson Zoology Laboratory
• Stokes, Durward T. 1 entry, 1959
  • weekend of August 1, 1959: Turrentine descendants rededicate their family graveyard in the Little River community
• Stokes, Henry 1 entry, 1955
  • February 24, 1955: Carrboro Baptist Church finishes its new parsonage

  May be the same person as Stokes, Henry B.; Stokes, Henry Brown

• Stokes, Henry B. 2 entries, 1955–1956
  • by September 29, 1955: Carrboro Baptist Church completes a new parsonage on Poplar Street
  • October 2, 1956: Carrboro PTA sets aside a merger with the Chapel Hill schools and works for a school supplement tax

  May be the same person as Stokes, Henry; Stokes, Henry Brown

• Stokes, Henry Brown 1 entry, 1954
  • September 5, 1954: The Rev. Henry Brown Stokes begins his pastorate at Carrboro Baptist Church

  May be the same person as Stokes, Henry; Stokes, Henry B.

• Stokes, John R. 1 entry, 1808
  • 1808: Thirty-eight students petition the faculty over food at Steward's Hall
• Stone, Chuck 5 entries, 1991–2025

  See all 5 entries in the chronology

• Stone, David 2 entries, 1792

  See all 2 entries in the chronology

• Stone, Earl 2 entries, 1949–1950
  • June 1949: The Hillsboro Building and Loan Association wins federal insurance for its accounts
  • October 5, 1950: The Hillsboro Building and Loan Association announces an open house for its first office building, on Calvin Street
• Stone, Hiram 1 entry, 1880
  • 1880s: Ruffin Cheek and then Hiram Stone open West End's first general stores
• Stone, J. T. 1 entry, 1904
  • November 11, 1904: Federal officers raid two Hillsborough places for illegal whiskey
• Stone, Jerry 1 entry, 1948
  • December 6, 1948: New county board reappoints Judge Phipps and names Jerry Stone recorder's court prosecutor
• Stone, Robert E. 1 entry, 1942
  • by June 26, 1942: A draft medical examining board is set up in Chapel Hill
• Stone, Sonja Haynes 31 entries, 1969–2004

  See all 31 entries in the chronology · Also printed as Sonja H. Stone

• Stone, Tom 1 entry, 1929
  • by September 20, 1929: Carl Durham's diggers find Dr. Bartlett Durham's grave in southwestern Orange
• Stone, Virginia 1 entry, 1958
  • by July 24, 1958: A census counts more than 900 people aged 60 and over in Chapel Hill and Carrboro
• Stoudemire, Sterling A. 3 entries, 1942–1943

  See all 3 entries in the chronology · Also printed as S. A. Stoudemire; Sterling A. Stoudemire

• Stout, Margret 1 entry, 1849
  • November 21, 1849: John Bane advertises his apprentice John (Jack) Stout, a youth of color, as a runaway
• Stover, Mary Louise 1 entry, 1917
  • 1917: The university first admits freshman women, limited to daughters of Chapel Hill families
• Stowers, William 1 entry, 1861
  • February Term 1861: The court cancels William Stowers's binding to Daniel D. Phillips and binds him to Samuel P. Moore
• Strader, John 1 entry, 1789
  • 1789: Cane Creek Baptist Church is organized
• Strain, Alexander 4 entries, 1771–1832
  Show the 4 entries

  • about 1771 (family tradition): James Hunter's family takes refuge at Gilbert Strayhorn's house
  • May Term 1796: The court names men to inspect the new Morgan Creek bridge at McCauley's mill
  • May 17, 1817: New Hope's elders sell seventeen acres of church land for repairs
  • February 1, 1832: Five elders are ordained at New Hope during the revival
• Strain, H. O. 1 entry, 1887
  • March 8, 1887: The school board pays H. O. Strain for an acre to build the Orange Church school
• Strain, John 4 entries, 1795–1820
  Show the 4 entries

  • about 1795: James Strayhorn, John Strain and John Freeland become ruling elders at New Hope
  • May Term 1796: The court names men to inspect the new Morgan Creek bridge at McCauley's mill
  • May 17, 1817: New Hope's elders sell seventeen acres of church land for repairs
  • April 23, 1820: New Hope church is reorganized under Shepherd K. Kollock
• Strain, William 6 entries, 1883–1907
  Show the 6 entries

  • October 7 to 10, 1883: An Orange jury convicts Tony Borland of manslaughter after a confused verdict
  • November 2, 1886: Orange voters elect the Democratic county ticket but send Republicans to the legislature
  • September 4, 1886: Orange Democrats nominate their county ticket
  • by March 23, 1895: The Fusion legislature names new magistrates for Orange County's townships
  • May 7, 1900: Hillsborough re-elects Mayor Joseph A. Harris over William Strain
  • March 9, 1907: Commissioners call a $40,000 road bond election in Hillsborough Township
• Straley, Joe 10 entries, 1953–2009

  See all 10 entries in the chronology

• Straley, Joseph 3 entries, 1962–1966
  • March 1962: Chapel Hill parents raise money to restore teachers' supplements
  • March 30 to April 3, 1964: The Committee of Concerned Citizens raises about $400 for injured demonstrators and the hospitalized faster
  • February 7, 1966: Gary Waller joins a student panel on the Speaker Ban in Memorial Hall
• Straley, Joseph W. 1 entry, 1970
  • May 7, 1970: The general faculty votes to let striking students take their grades as they stand or finish coursework later
• Straley, Lucy 4 entries, 1993–2009

  See all 4 entries in the chronology

• Strayhorn, Billy 1 entry, 1915

  See the entry in the chronology

• Strayhorn, Billy 5 entries, 1915–2019

  See all 5 entries in the chronology

• Strayhorn, Bob 1 entry, 1969
  • July 22, 1969: County planning board recommends rezoning the Blackwood Station tract for Fiber Industries
• Strayhorn, Bryant 1 entry, 1859
  • September 1859: Five elders are ordained at New Hope
• Strayhorn, Calvin G. 2 entries, 1856–1863
  • by May 10, 1856: A permanent depot at University Station brings a plan for a town there
  • by August 19, 1863: Enslaved men from Orange County work on the Wilmington fortifications
• Strayhorn, Charles 5 entries, 1906–1910
  Show the 5 entries

  • August 18, 1906: Orange Democrats renominate the county officers and endorse John W. Graham for the Senate
  • September 28, 1908: Charles Strayhorn takes office as clerk of Orange Superior Court
  • May 26, 1908: Voters in the Hillsboro school district turn down a special school tax
  • November 3, 1908: Taft and Republican Thomas E. Sparrow carry Orange County as Democrats keep most county offices
  • early August 1910: Orange Democrats renominate John Laws and choose Robert D. Bain for sheriff
• Strayhorn, Gilbert 7 entries, 1740–1803

  See all 7 entries in the chronology

• Strayhorn, Gilbert 1 entry, 1820

  These entries are not linked to the page of the same name: they may name another person, or one not yet identified.

  • October 15, 1820: Alexander Gattis, Samuel Faucett and Gilbert Strayhorn are ordained elders at New Hope
• Strayhorn, Harriet H. 2 entries, 1870–1873
  • May 1870: Henrietta Heartt is appointed Hillsborough's postmaster
  • 1873 to 1881: Harriet H. Strayhorn serves as Hillsborough's postmistress
• Strayhorn, Herman H. 1 entry, 1959
  • May 5, 1959: Hillsboro reelects Mayor Ben Johnston over Fred S. Cates Jr.
• Strayhorn, I. 1 entry, 1887
  • October 1, 1887: The school board condemns a lot for a school for Black children at Walnut Grove
• Strayhorn, Isaac R. 23 entries, 1874–1893

  See all 23 entries in the chronology · Also printed as I. R. Strayhorn

• Strayhorn, J. R. 1 entry, 1867
  • May 27, 1867: Dialectic Society students ask Governor Worth to help make President Johnson a member
• Strayhorn, J. Thomas 2 entries, 1884
  • November 12, 1884: Hillsborough holds a torchlight jubilee for the Democratic victory
  • October 17, 1884: Orange County sends an exhibit and a large party to the State Exposition
• Strayhorn, James 5 entries, 1793–1820

  See all 5 entries in the chronology

• Strayhorn, James 2 entries, 1827–1849

  These entries are not linked to the page of the same name: they may name another person, or one not yet identified.

  • 1827: James Strayhorn builds the Blackwood farmhouse
  • 1849: James Strayhorn's will names sixteen enslaved people
• Strayhorn, John 3 entries, 1781–1859
  • 1781: Thomas Freeland is killed when Hillsborough is taken
  • September 20, 1799: William F. Thompson deeds a hundred acres of New Hope church land to John Strayhorn
  • November Term 1859: The court binds Dudley Page, a free boy of color, to John Strayhorn to learn blacksmithing
• Strayhorn, Margie 1 entry, 1922
  • Between about 1922 and 1925: Contractor Charles Craige builds a gambrel-roofed bungalow for mason William Strayhorn
• Strayhorn, Nancy 1 entry, 1830
  • 10 January 1830: Wiley Shaw, esquire, is summoned after Nancy Strayhorn names him as her child's father
• Strayhorn, Nellie 4 entries, 1879–2023
  Show the 4 entries

  • About 1879: Toney and Nellie Strayhorn, formerly enslaved, bought thirty acres in what became Carrboro
  • about 1910: The Strayhorn log cabin on Jones Ferry Road reaches its two-story form
  • March 21, 1946: Nellie Strayhorn of Carrboro recounts her childhood in slavery
  • September 1, 2023: Carrboro unveils a truth plaque at the Strayhorn House
• Strayhorn, Nellie Stroud 1 entry, 1950
  • August 1, 1950: Nellie Stroud Strayhorn, who learned of her freedom in 1865 as a girl, is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
• Strayhorn, Ralph 1 entry, 1976
  • October 8, 1976: UNC trustees approve a Cane Creek pipeline on OWASA's recommendation
• Strayhorn, Robert 2 entries, 1883–1962
  • May 29, 1883: Court-appointed commissioners award damages to landowners along the University Railroad
  • September 29, 1962: The New Hope Grange holds a community fair at Camp New Hope
• Strayhorn, Samuel 1 entry, 1817
  • May 17, 1817: New Hope's elders sell seventeen acres of church land for repairs
• Strayhorn, Sidney G. 2 entries, 1875–1888
  • September 18, 1875: The Orange Guards reorganize at Hillsborough with Halcott P. Jones as captain
  • June 4, 1888: Magistrates elect a new board of county commissioners and set the 1888 county tax
• Strayhorn, Thomas J. 4 entries, 1853–1864
  Show the 4 entries

  • February 16, 1853: The Hillsborough Fire Company reorganizes and elects Thomas Webb captain
  • June 24, 1858: Eagle Lodge Masons parade through Hillsborough for St. John the Baptist's Day
  • September 28, 1863: Fire destroys the block at the northwest corner of Churton and King streets
  • September 7, 1864: Lieut. Thomas J. Strayhorn, former county register and trustee, dies of a wound received at Reams Station
• Strayhorn, Thomas Jackson 1 entry, 1934
  • July 31, 1934: Mary Elizabeth Strayhorn Berry dies and is buried in Chapel Hill
• Strayhorn, Toney 6 entries, 1879–2023

  See all 6 entries in the chronology · Also printed as Toney H. Strayhorn

• Strayhorn, Toney 2 entries, 1921–1922

  These entries are not linked to the page of the same name: they may name another person, or one not yet identified.

  • 1921: Toney and William Strayhorn begin Carrboro Baptist's brick church
  • Between about 1922 and 1925: Contractor Charles Craige builds a gambrel-roofed bungalow for mason William Strayhorn
• Strayhorn, Tony 1 entry, 1946
  • March 21, 1946: Nellie Strayhorn of Carrboro recounts her childhood in slavery
• Strayhorn, W. A. 1 entry, 1886
  • July 5 and August 2, 1886: County commissioners reroute the old Raleigh road by Mount Hermon church
• Strayhorn, W. F. 1 entry, 1868
  • October 1868: Three justices, one of them Black, investigate a fight and a shooting at Durham's
• Strayhorn, Mrs. Wallace 1 entry, 1949
  • April 23-24, 1949: Hillsborough holds a combined flower show and garden pilgrimage
• Strayhorn, William 8 entries, 1856–1934

  See all 8 entries in the chronology · Also printed as William F. Strayhorn

• Strayhorn, William F. 5 entries, 1850–1868
  Show the 5 entries

  • March 9, 1850: Hillsborough hires a paid town patrol and orders town property reassessed
  • April 29, 1859: The Hillsborough Savings Institution elects its directors and opens for deposits
  • February 4, 1860: Hillsborough elects Andrew Murdock magistrate of police and seven town commissioners
  • January 3, 1860: The Hillsborough Savings Institution declares its first dividend
  • May to October 1868: The Hillsborough Bureau office dockets about sixty complaints in the summer of 1868
• Strayhorn, Mrs. Winston 1 entry, 1939
  • by August 18, 1939: Woodward Byars succeeds Grace Holcombe as Orange County home demonstration agent
• Street, John 2 entries, 1815
  • May Term 1815: The court names a committee to confer with the adjoining counties on copying the register's books
  • February Term 1815: The court orders an inquiry into the state of the register's records
• Street, Margaret Berry 1 entry, 1915

  See the entry in the chronology

• Streit, Clarence 2 entries, 1941
  • May 19, 1941: Chapel Hill organizes a chapter of Federal Union (Union Now)
  • April 6 to 11, 1941: University holds its sixth Human Relations Institute on the war and democracy
• Strickland, B. E. 1 entry, 1947
  • February 6, 1947: Nine Black farm families report their federal farm-purchase loans paid in full
• Strickland, Marie 1 entry, 1935
  • July 1, 1935: Temporary county health unit starts work in Orange during a typhoid outbreak
• Stringfield, Lamar 15 entries, 1930–1939

  See all 15 entries in the chronology

• Strom, Bill 1 entry, 2009
  • March 16, 2009: Chapel Hill council received the Rogers Road Small Area Plan Task Force's final report
• Stroman, Carolyn 2 entries, 1978–1980
  • by November 6, 1978: Carolyn Stroman joins the Afro-American Studies faculty to teach the Black press
  • April 1980: Black Ink and Afro-American Studies hold the first Rainbow in Black photo contest
• Stronach, Alexander 3 entries, 1890–1891
  • 1890: The trustees ban intercollegiate athletic contests
  • by February 21, 1891: Alex Stronach and E. R. McKethan are chosen to teach the Chapel Hill public school
  • by January 12, 1891: The trustees' executive committee allows athletic games with other colleges again
• Strong, George V. 1 entry, 1863
  • February 4, 1863: Justice Manly binds the Rev. R. J. Graves over for trial on a treason charge
• Stroud, Anthony 1 entry, 1879
  • July 3, 1879: Two Black men put out a roof fire at Col. Guthrie's house in Chapel Hill
• Stroud, Eugene 1 entry, 1940
  • about 1940: Architect Eugene Stroud designs physician John J. Wright's house on Laurel Hill Circle
• Stroud, H. M. 1 entry, 1863
  • August 5, 1863: Assessors announce the listing of Orange County property under the Confederate tax
• Stroud, Jessie 1 entry, 1928
  • April 1928 (the week before April 20): Orange County Training School students win offices at the state conference of Black vocational schools
• Stroud, Mrs. Julius 1 entry, 1971
  • 1971: The Carrboro Appearance Commission, chaired by Mrs. Howard Thomas, works on the town survey
• Stroud, Robert 1 entry, 1894
  • late September 1894: A new road into Chapel Hill from below Robert Stroud's is finished
• Stroud, W. F. 4 entries, 1878–1890
  Show the 4 entries

  • October to November 1878: W. F. Stroud's new mill pond and sawmill start work near Chapel Hill
  • November 6, 1879: University Railroad corporators open subscription books for a line from Chapel Hill to Durham
  • by April 10, 1880: A. B. Roberson and W. F. Stroud form a dry goods and grocery firm
  • July 15-17, 1890: The Methodist Durham District Sunday School Conference meets at Hillsborough

  May be the same person as Stroud, William F.

• Stroud, W. M. 1 entry, 1887
  • February 19, 1887: W. M. Stroud & Co. of University Station dissolves
• Stroud, William F. 2 entries, 1879–1887
  • April 12, 1879: Corporators of the State University Railroad meet at Chapel Hill and open books for stock
  • October 3, 1887: County commissioners order a new bridge at Purefoy's mill near Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Stroud, W. F.

• Strowd, Annie 11 entries, 1919–1954

  See all 11 entries in the chronology

• Strowd, Ben 2 entries, 1936–1945
  • August to November 1936: The Methodist parsonage is moved to face Rosemary Street to make way for a Pure Oil station
  • 1945: A. H. Poe buys Ben Strowd's Pure Oil station on West Franklin Street for his DeSoto dealership

  May be the same person as Strowd, Ben R.; Strowd, Ben Rose

• Strowd, Ben R. 1 entry, 1941
  • August 21, 1941: Chapel Hill's four central filling stations agree to take turns opening on Sundays

  May be the same person as Strowd, Ben; Strowd, Ben Rose

• Strowd, Ben Rose 1 entry, 1936
  • by November 20, 1936: A Pure Oil filling station opens on the old Methodist parsonage lot

  May be the same person as Strowd, Ben; Strowd, Ben R.

• Strowd, Bruce 20 entries, 1907–1955

  See all 20 entries in the chronology

• Strowd, Callie 3 entries, 1930–1941
  • May 1930: A baby clinic for Black families opens at Rock Hill Baptist Church
  • by July 12, 1935: A clinic examines 19 Black babies in Chapel Hill
  • April and May 1941: Black citizens' committee raises money to finish the Negro Community Center
• Strowd, Edmond 1 entry, 1958
  • February 8, 1958: The White Cross school committee asks for a vote on joining the Chapel Hill unit
• Strowd, Eugene 1 entry, 1937
  • December 15, 1937: The Rotary Club takes on Chapel Hill's second Boy Scout troop
• Strowd, F. E. 2 entries, 1949–1959
  • June 1, 1949: Chapel Hill's new zoning ordinance takes effect
  • May 5, 1959: Sandy McClamroch is elected to the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen
• Strowd, Frances Headen 1 entry, 1886
  • 1886: Robert L. Strowd marries and likely builds a two-story L-plan house on land from his father
• Strowd, Frank 1 entry, 1932
  • May 19, 1932: Orange County Republicans name H. D. Carter for the legislature and a full county ticket
• Strowd, Gene 4 entries, 1959–1964
  Show the 4 entries

  • October 27, 1959: Chapel Hill aldermen buy two wooded tracts for town parks
  • December 11, 1961: Chapel Hill requires subdivision developers to pave streets and lay sewers
  • by May 14, 1964: Chapel Hill aldermen name three members to the Community Action board
  • February 10, 1964: Chapel Hill aldermen vote to limit picketing to daytime hours
• Strowd, H. C. 3 entries, 1845–1862
  • May 27, 1845: An Orange County temperance convention asks the justices to shut down grog shops
  • February 4, 1860: Hillsborough elects Andrew Murdock magistrate of police and seven town commissioners
  • August 18, 1862: The Baptists sell their old courthouse church to George Bishop of New Bern
• Strowd, H. D. 2 entries, 1942–1954
  • May 1, 1942: Chapel Hill Baptists celebrate paying off their church debt
  • August 16, 1954: J. Paul Cheek is sworn in as acting postmaster of Chapel Hill
• Strowd, H. M. C. 2 entries, 1863
  • late May 1863: The county court sets up commissioners to direct the Soldiers' Fund
  • September 30, 1863: Orange farmers begin delivering the Confederate tax in kind at Hillsborough and Durham's Depot
• Strowd, Ned 3 entries, 1868–1877
  • 1868: Ned Strowd organizes Terrell Creek Baptist Church
  • March 2, 1871: Ned Strowd of Orange testifies that disguised men whipped him in Alamance
  • September 28, 1877: Hickory Grove Baptist Church is organized
• Strowd, R. S. 1 entry, 1889
  • March 8, 1889: Methodist trustees sell the old Rosemary Street church to the American Missionary Association
• Strowd, Robert L. 25 entries, 1873–1934

  See all 25 entries in the chronology · Also printed as R. L. Strowd

• Strowd, T. W. 1 entry, 1910
  • May 10, 1910: A Christian Church congregation is organized in Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Strowd, Thomas W.

• Strowd, Thomas W. 1 entry, 1910
  • about 1910: Thomas W. Strowd builds a two-story house on McCauley Street

  May be the same person as Strowd, T. W.

• Strowd, Weldon M. 1 entry, 1893
  • by August 26, 1893: Weldon M. Strowd replaces J. F. Shumaker as postmaster at University Station
• Strowd, William 2 entries, 1851–1873
  • 1851: William Strowd builds a two-story frame house near White Cross
  • 1873: William Strowd of Chatham County buys land at the edge of Chapel Hill
• Strowd, William F. 3 entries, 1860–1873

  See all 3 entries in the chronology

• Strudwick, Clem 1 entry, 1932
  • late January 1932: Hillsboro residents launch a play-producing group in Clem Strudwick's studio
• Strudwick, Clement 1 entry, 1931
  • April 23 to May 3, 1931: The North Carolina Association of Professional Artists holds its first exhibition, in the music building
• Strudwick, Clement Read 3 entries, 1902–1958

  See all 3 entries in the chronology

• Strudwick, Edmund 45 entries, 1802–1987

  See all 45 entries in the chronology

• Strudwick, Edmund 3 entries, 1887–1987

  These entries are not linked to the page of the same name: they may name another person, or one not yet identified.

  • by August 1887: Edmund Strudwick of Norfolk buys the Turner house on North Churton Street for his mother and sisters
  • by June 21, 1888: A Durham builder begins a new house for Edmund Strudwick of Norfolk on the old Turner lot
  • 1987: The East Orange Street house built around Edmund Strudwick's old office is raised to two stories
• Strudwick, Edmund 4 entries, 1953–1964

  See all 4 entries in the chronology

• Strudwick, Edmund, Jr. 1 entry, 1857
  • November 14, 1857: Hillsborough boys organize the Junior Orange Guards
• Strudwick, F. 1 entry, 1871
  • November 23, 1871: The state House rejects a New Hanover petition to expel F. Strudwick and two other members

  May be the same person as Strudwick, Fred N.

• Strudwick, Fred N. 1 entry, 1880
  • 1880-1882: State convicts build the University Railroad

  May be the same person as Strudwick, F.

• Strudwick, Frederick N. 29 entries, 1851–1890

  See all 29 entries in the chronology · Also printed as F. N. Strudwick

• Strudwick, R. C. 1 entry, 1880
  • by May 29, 1880: Census enumerators are named for Orange County's eleven districts

  May be the same person as Strudwick, Robert; Strudwick, Robert C.

• Strudwick, Robert 1 entry, 1830
  • about 1830: Dr. Edmund Strudwick builds a medical office on West King Street

  May be the same person as Strudwick, R. C.; Strudwick, Robert C.

• Strudwick, Robert C. 1 entry, 1882
  • November 7, 1882: Orange and Durham send Democrat R. C. Strudwick and Liberal J. A. Cheek to the House

  May be the same person as Strudwick, R. C.; Strudwick, Robert

• Strudwick, Mrs. S. 1 entry, 1918
  • May 11, 1918: Mrs. J. Cheshire Webb is named the Orange County Red Cross's director of woman's work
• Strudwick, S. 2 entries, 1946–1948
  • March 1, 1946: Cora L. Lynch takes charge of the Hillsboro post office
  • by July 8, 1948: President Truman appoints Tom Bivins postmaster of Hillsboro

  May be the same person as Strudwick, Susan Read

• Strudwick, Samuel 11 entries, 1754–1788

  See all 11 entries in the chronology

• Strudwick, Samuel 2 entries, 1818

  These entries are not linked to the page of the same name: they may name another person, or one not yet identified.

  • August 28, 1818: The county pays the coroner for the inquest on Bella, held by Samuel Strudwick
  • May Term 1818: The court binds Samuel Strudwick over to the Superior Court for the death of an enslaved woman he whipped
• Strudwick, Shepherd 1 entry, 1932
  • late January 1932: Hillsboro residents launch a play-producing group in Clem Strudwick's studio
• Strudwick, Shepperd 31 entries, 1900–1959

  See all 31 entries in the chronology · Also printed as Shepperd Strudwick

• Strudwick, Mrs. Shepperd 2 entries, 1918–1934
  • September 2, 1918: The Hillsborough Community Chorus formally organizes
  • February 27, 1934: The American Legion Auxiliary holds an Americanism program in Hillsboro
• Strudwick, Susan Read 1 entry, 1903
  • 1903 to about 1908: Shepperd Strudwick builds a Churton Street house designed by Ralph Adams Cram

  May be the same person as Strudwick, S.

• Strudwick, W. F. 1 entry, 1830
  • about 1830: Dr. Edmund Strudwick builds a medical office on West King Street
• Strudwick, W. W. 1 entry, 1886
  • by August 14, 1886: Sutton & Strudwick open a hardware store on King Street

  May be the same person as Strudwick, William W.

• Strudwick, William 6 entries, 1788–1900
  Show the 6 entries

  • August 1788: The court accepts James Taylor as security for William Strudwick's bond for a child
  • May 27, 1795: John Estes is appointed register of Orange County
  • between October 27 and November 7, 1855: Hillsborough forms the Orange Guards volunteer company
  • April 20, 1861: The Orange Guards leave Hillsborough for Fort Macon
  • November 29, 1879: Dr. Edmund Strudwick dies at Hillsborough after drinking atropia by mistake
  • February 15, 1900: Smallpox reaches Hillsborough and the postmaster's house is quarantined
• Strudwick, William F. 2 entries, 1801–1811
  • 1801: Three daughters of Nelly Revill, a free woman of color, are bound to William F. Strudwick
  • 1811 to 1819: The Strudwick heirs' enslaved people are hired out under Dr. James Webb's guardianship
• Strudwick, William S. 1 entry, 1907
  • early July 1907: Dr. William Strudwick dies and Hillsborough closes its stores for his funeral
• Strudwick, William W. 1 entry, 1888
  • July 3, 1888: Hillsborough Township Democrats organize a Cleveland and Fowle Club

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

• Strum, Matthew 1 entry, 1953
  • March 1953: Matthew Strum takes over Dud's Tavern
• Stuart, W. V. 1 entry, 1925
  • December 1, 1925: W. B. Neal sells the Hill Bakery to Charles B. Guthrie and W. V. Stuart
• Stubbins, Christopher 1 entry, 1801
  • February Term 1801: Nancy Carrigan wins execution against Christopher Stubbins for unpaid support
• Stubbins, Roland C. 1 entry, 1951
  • September 2, 1951: Former Elm Grove School pupils hold their first reunion and form an association
• Stuckey, Jasper L. 1 entry, 1925
  • January 31, 1925: J. Cheshire Webb takes options on the Hillsborough quarry farm that supplied stone for Duke
• Studebaker, Ethelyne Fisher 1 entry, 1957
  • July 2, 1957: Carrboro teacher Ethelyne Fisher Studebaker dies
• Studebaker, R. B. 5 entries, 1941–1956
  Show the 5 entries

  • October 22, 1941: The Lloyd family unveils a marker to Thomas F. Lloyd in Carrboro
  • by May 8, 1947: The Carrboro Lions Club buys nine acres for a park
  • April 1948: The census counts 1,432 people in Carrboro
  • September 11, 1952: County commissioners name 55 citizens to committees for the bicentennial
  • May 29, 1956: R. B. Studebaker, a former mayor of Carrboro, dies
• Studebaker, Mrs. R. D. 1 entry, 1949
  • January 19, 1949: Orange County teachers organize a unit of the state Classroom Teachers Department
• Stuhlman, Mrs. Otto 3 entries, 1929–1940
  • late October 1929: The Chapel Hill Red Cross chapter plans its roll call and public health work
  • June 23 to 28, 1930: Community Club tuberculosis clinic examines 65 white and Black residents
  • by April 26, 1940: Chapel Hill women organize a Humane Society
• Sturdivant, Eugene 1 entry, 1957
  • May 6, 1957: Carrboro reelects Mayor R. B. Todd over Grover C. Brookbank
• Sturdivant, J. F. 1 entry, 1924
  • 1924: J. F. Sturdivant completes a master's thesis on the Carrboro mill village
• Sturdivant, Josie 1 entry, 1958
  • September 8, 1958: A new Carrboro Elementary School is built at the end of Ash Street
• Sturdivant, L. R. 1 entry, 1919
  • December 12, 1919: County commissioners call a $25,000 school bond election for the Carrboro district
• Sturdivant, Mrs. L. R. 3 entries, 1942–1948
  • May 4-8, 1942: Chapel Hill and Bingham townships register for sugar ration books
  • February 21, 1946: Orange County school principals form the United Principals Association
  • May 25, 1948: The Carrboro P.-T. A. honors retiring principal Mrs. L. R. Sturdivant
• Sturdivant, Luther 2 entries, 1910–1920
  • late 1910s: Luther Sturdivant and Knute Mann plat Partridge Field for houses
  • early 1920s: Merchant Luther Sturdivant builds a house in Partridge Field
• Sturdivant, W. E. 1 entry, 1953
  • May 4, 1953: Carrboro reelects Mayor J. Sullivan Gibson and fills its first six-member town board
• Sturtevant, Edgar H. 1 entry, 1941
  • June 12 to July 19, 1941: The Linguistic Society of America holds its summer Linguistic Institute at the University
• Suckey 1 entry, 1799
  • November Term 1799: The court leaves Rachel, Suckey and Billey in Mary Doherty's care while their freedom petition is heard
• Sugg, Charles 1 entry, 1919
  • May 19, 1919: Chapel Hill aldermen elect S. F. Long chief of police
• Sugg, Eugene 1 entry, 1941
  • October 12, 1941: Grandchildren of Madison and Rebecca Sugg mark their graves at Bethel church
• Sugg, Madison R. 1 entry, 1941
  • October 12, 1941: Grandchildren of Madison and Rebecca Sugg mark their graves at Bethel church
• Sugg, Rebecca Watson 1 entry, 1941
  • October 12, 1941: Grandchildren of Madison and Rebecca Sugg mark their graves at Bethel church
• Suggs, Reid 2 entries, 1955–1958
  • September 8, 1955: Carrboro parents get a fourth-grade class moved out of a flooded basement room
  • June 30, 1958: Klay K. Box is named principal of the new Carrboro Elementary School
• Suh, Do-Ho 2 entries, 2005–2021

  See all 2 entries in the chronology · Also printed as Do Ho Suh

• Suits, Andrew 1 entry, 1831
  • August Term 1831: The court binds Andrew Suits, a two-year-old boy of color, to Josiah Turner as a warden of the poor
• Suitt, CJ 1 entry, 2019

  See the entry in the chronology

• Suitt, W. I. 1 entry, 1956
  • December 6, 1956: W. I. Suitt wins a Goodyear award for soil conservation
• Sullivan, Edward 1 entry, 1945
  • April 14 or 15, 1945: More than 6,000 Navy men, students and townspeople mourn President Roosevelt in Kenan Stadium
• Sullivan, Joseph 1 entry, 1820
  • August Term 1820: Polly Sullivan asks the court to bind her son Joseph to John Long
• Sullivan, Louis W. 1 entry, 1981
  • April 24, 1981: Louis Sullivan gives the first Lawrence Zollicoffer lecture on Black doctors
• Sullivan, Mark 1 entry, 1931
  • January 14-16, 1931: Seventh Newspaper Institute meets at Chapel Hill
• Sullivan, Nancy 1 entry, 1820
  • August Term 1820: Polly Sullivan asks the court to bind her son Joseph to John Long
• Sullivan, Polly 1 entry, 1820
  • August Term 1820: Polly Sullivan asks the court to bind her son Joseph to John Long
• Summerlin, Irl W. 1 entry, 1931
  • by September 11, 1931: The McClelland Company finishes building Chapel Hill's new sewage disposal plant in Strowd's lowgrounds
• Summey, Lawrence 1 entry, 1955
  • by June 23, 1955: Lawrence Summey opens a shoe repair shop in the old Latta Cooperative Dairy building
• Sumner, C. C. 1 entry, 1959
  • May 16, 1959: West Hillsboro residents organize a Community Family Club
• Sumner, Cid Ricketts 1 entry, 1947
  • early March 1947: The Playmakers stage Hear the Hammers Ringing, from Cid Ricketts Sumner's novel Quality
• Sumner, Clarence R. 1 entry, 1920
  • by February 8, 1920: Students charter the Carolina Tar Baby Company to publish the Tar Baby
• Sumner, G. A. 2 entries, 1935
  • July and August 1935: The temporary county health unit vaccinates 4,200 people against typhoid in southern Orange
  • July 1, 1935: Temporary county health unit starts work in Orange during a typhoid outbreak
• Sumner, G. H. 1 entry, 1935
  • July 1, 1935: The Orange County Board of Health asks that public gatherings stop during the infantile paralysis epidemic
• Sumner, Jethro 1 entry, 1783

  See the entry in the chronology

• Sumner, Roy 1 entry, 1945
  • May 1945: The U.S. Employment Service opens a county office in the Chapel Hill Town Hall
• Sunderland, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1947
  • May 5, 1947: Preservationists ask the county commissioners to spare the courthouse stair hall
• Superchunk 1 entry, 1992
  • December 1992: The Chapel Hill sound gains national attention
• Suther 1 entry, 1768
  • September 1768: Henry Pattillo preaches to Tryon's troops at Hillsborough
• Sutherland, Ransom 1 entry, 1768
  • August 3, 1768: Justice James Thackston reports William Butler vowing not to pay the palace tax
• Sutton, J. L. 1 entry, 1927
  • June 28, 1927: Work begins on the Sutton building on Franklin Street

  May be the same person as Sutton, James Linwood

• Sutton, James Linwood 2 entries, 1923–1950
  • July 1923: Sutton's Drug Store opens on Franklin Street
  • June 14, 1950: Chapel Hill druggist James L. 'Doc' Sutton dies

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

• Sutton, Lucy Alderman 1 entry, 1950
  • June 14, 1950: Chapel Hill druggist James L. 'Doc' Sutton dies
• Sutton, R. B. 2 entries, 1868–1879
  • 1868 to May 1878: The Chapel of the Cross nearly empties while the university is closed
  • April 30 to May 2, 1879: The Episcopal Convocation of Raleigh meets at the Chapel of the Cross
• Sutton, Robert 1 entry, 1878
  • May 1878: Joseph Blount Cheshire is assigned to the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill
• Sutton, W. T. 1 entry, 1886
  • by August 14, 1886: Sutton & Strudwick open a hardware store on King Street
• Sutton, Winney 1 entry, 1810
  • 5 April 1810: Four women are summoned on one day to name the fathers of their children
• Swaim, W. S. 1 entry, 1937
  • October 13, 1937: Chapel Hill aldermen pass a $16,000 street bond ordinance and call an election
• Swain, Annie 1 entry, 1869
  • mid-December 1869: The remains of David L. Swain and his daughter Annie are taken from Chapel Hill to Raleigh for reburial
• Swain, C. E. 1 entry, 1997
  • December 2, 1997: Former UNC police officer C. E. Swain sues the university
• Swain, David L. 112 entries, 1822–1913

  See all 112 entries in the chronology · Also printed as David Lowry Swain

• Swain, Eleanor 1 entry, 1865
  • May 3, 1865: General Smith D. Atkins leads his troops out of Chapel Hill
• Swain, Eleanor H. 2 entries, 1870–1875
  • June 1870: Historical society reorganized at the university's 1870 commencement
  • March 22, 1875: Historical Society of North Carolina is incorporated
• Swain, Eleanor White 1 entry, 1869
  • early 1869: Great oaks are cut down in the faculty yards under the Pool administration
• Swain, Joseph 1 entry, 1931
  • by May 22, 1931: Black veterans in Chapel Hill organize the John Allen Post of the American Legion
• Swain, Jurdon 1 entry, 1866
  • July 4, 1866: Freedpeople hold a Black Fourth of July celebration
• Swalin, Benjamin 5 entries, 1932–1946

  See all 5 entries in the chronology · Also printed as Benjamin F. Swalin

• Swalin, Mrs. Benjamin 1 entry, 1948
  • October 25, 1948: Hillsboro organizes a chapter of the North Carolina Symphony Society
• Swalin, Maxine M 1 entry, 1935

  See the entry in the chronology · Also printed as Maxine M. Swalin

• Swanson, David 1 entry, 1987
  • 1987: A master plan for the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery is completed
• Swecker, Claude 1 entry, 1980
  • March 28, 1980: UNC housekeepers present grievances to the Physical Plant
• Swepson, George W. 2 entries, 1870–1876
  • July 14, 1870: Railroad stockholders at Hillsborough ask for lawyers to look into the sale of sinking-fund bonds to George W. Swepson
  • May 1876: George W. Swepson's murder trial is moved out of Orange
• Swift, W. H. 1 entry, 1911
  • May 29, 1911: Alumni set up a General Assembly and plan an alumni monthly
• Swofford, John 4 entries, 1980–1994

  See all 4 entries in the chronology

• Sykes, Benton 1 entry, 1898
  • March 21-22, 1898: Superior court convicts Chapel Hill men of selling liquor without a license
• Sykes, D. M. 1 entry, 1892
  • July 23, 1892: Orange County People's Party holds its county convention and names a ticket
• Sykes, Edward R. 2 entries, 1903–1905
  • by October 8, 1903: Two rural free delivery routes are laid out from Hillsborough
  • by September 28, 1905: Three rural free delivery routes run out of Hillsborough
• Sykes, Enoch 1 entry, 1884
  • late September 1884: Orange County Republicans nominate Enoch Sykes for the House
• Sykes, Eugene 1 entry, 1959
  • September 16, 1959: The Bible Presbyterian Church of Hillsboro is organized
• Sykes, G. P. 1 entry, 1956
  • about June 1956: Will Ed Thompson's mausoleum at Efland Presbyterian Church is finished but stands empty

  May be the same person as Sykes, Gary P.

• Sykes, Gary P. 1 entry, 1953
  • November 30, 1953: About 2,000 farm people gather in Hillsborough for Rural Progress Night

  May be the same person as Sykes, G. P.

• Sykes, Graham 1 entry, 1879
  • November 9, 1879: Officers recapture jailbreaker and liquor seller Graham Sykes near Chapel Hill
• Sykes, Jesse E. 1 entry, 1936
  • 1936: Oak Grove Baptist Church is organized
• Sykes, L. Graham 1 entry, 1894
  • April 11, 1894: Eight men convicted in federal court of selling liquor without a license are jailed at Hillsborough
• Sykes, L. R. 1 entry, 1906
  • by August 23, 1906: L. R. Sykes becomes principal of White Cross School
• Sykes, Presley 1 entry, 1879
  • August 1879: The school board creates Buckhorn school district from four neighboring districts
• Sykes, R. H. 1 entry, 1938
  • December 20, 1938: Chapel Hill and Durham men form a committee to push a four-lane highway between the towns

  May be the same person as Sykes, Robert H.

• Sykes, Robert H. 1 entry, 1940
  • July 3, 1940: Chapel Hill defense committee asks Congress for a national emergency and full mobilization

  May be the same person as Sykes, R. H.

• Syme, Andrew 1 entry, 1834
  • late June 1834: The university makes Thomas Ruffin, George E. Badger and Bishop Ives Doctors of Laws
• Synnott, Michael 1 entry, 1755
  • January 1, 1755: Storekeeper Michael Synnott sells weaver Thomas Holden 500 acres on Buck Quarter Creek