Orange County Indexed

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

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Vaid, Urvashi 1 entry, 2003
- 2003: The GLBT-SA holds the first Unity Conference
Valand, Leif 1 entry, 1958
- July 14, 1958: Chapel Hill aldermen send a $2.5 million shopping center rezoning to the planning board
Valentine, Henry 1 entry, 1828
- May Term 1828: The court binds Henry Valentine, a free boy of color, to bricklayer Samuel Hancock for six years
Valentine, Mrs. J. M. 2 entries, 1930–1932
- October 12, 1930: Community Club judges tour filling stations to open a beautification contest
- May 11, 1932: Chapel Hill aldermen pledge support for clearing billboards from the roads
Valentine, J. Manson 2 entries, 1935–1936
- by January 4, 1935: Work begins on a University teaching museum of natural history in the pharmacy building
- May 1936: Paul and Elizabeth Green sell their village home and lay out a new house east of town
Valines, Corina 1 entry, 1946
- May 10, 1946: Orange County's Black home demonstration clubs win the western district gavel
van Buren, Maude 1 entry, 1914
- April 1914: The Community Club affiliates with the American Civic Association
Van Cleave, Mrs. C. D. 1 entry, 1943
- by February 12, 1943: Junior Service League runs well-baby clinics in Carrboro and at the Training School
Van Doren, Carl 1 entry, 1925
- November 19-20, 1925: The North Carolina Library Association meets in Chapel Hill
Van Hecke, M. T. 6 entries, 1930–1940
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Van Hecke, Maurice T. 3 entries, 1933–1968
- June 6, 1933: Coates and law dean Van Hecke withdraw their resignations after meeting with President Graham
- Summer 1935: Graham refuses to move Albert Coates out of the law school
- 1968: The university's new law building is named Van Hecke-Wettach Hall
Van Hecke, Maurice Taylor 1 entry, 1931
- June 9, 1931: UNC trustees elect M. T. Van Hecke dean of the law school
Van Hook, John 2 entries, 1820–1821
- November 13, 1820: Child and Clancy dissolve and join John Van Hook in a new mercantile firm
- by November 13, 1821: John Van Hook & Co. dissolves and Thomas Clancy & Co. takes over its store
Van Hook, John C. 1 entry, 1875
- February 2, 1875: The new Orange Warehouse opens for tobacco sales at the Hillsborough depot
Van Hook, John Henry 1 entry, 1952
- August 21, 1952: Farmers Home Administration pushes livestock to raise tenant incomes near Cedar Grove
Van Hook, John, Jr. 1 entry, 1820
- June 6, 1820: William Huntington and John Van Hook Jr. dissolve their Hillsborough partnership
Van Kenyon, Mrs., Jr. 2 entries, 1954–1959
- September 21, 1954: The Hillsboro PTA asks the town to build a sewage plant and clean up the Eno
- April 25-26, 1959: The Hillsboro Garden Club holds its Historic Homes and Gardens Tour
Van Loon, Eric 7 entries, 1965–2014

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Van Patten, W. E. 1 entry, 1945
- June 5, 1945: Hillsboro High graduates forty-five seniors, two of them war veterans
Van Sant, Laura 1 entry, 2015
- February 3, 2015: Frank Heath tells the Carrboro Board of Aldermen that the Cat's Cradle has outgrown its building
Van Sprinkle, William 7 entries, 1937–1960

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Van Wyk, Judson J. 1 entry, 1957
- 1957: Pediatrician Judson Van Wyk builds a house in the Highland Woods cooperative
Vanatta, E. S. 3 entries, 1917–1919
- 1917 to 1918: Federal and state agriculture departments survey Orange County's soils
- March 4, 1918: The county agent buys a carload of pigs to sell to farmers at cost
- November 13, 1919: Orange County Training School holds a farmers' conference and community fair
Vance, Deane H. 3 entries, 1943–1944
- February 1943: The Pre-Flight School's new Navy hospital opens behind the university's medical building
- June 25, 1943: Chapel Hill Red Cross Grey Ladies are capped for service at the Navy Pre-Flight hospital
- July 1, 1944 to February 15, 1945: Townswomen, students and Navy wives make 36,618 surgical dressings for the Pre-Flight medical department
Vance, Rupert B. 2 entries, 1928–1933

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Vance, Zebulon B. 22 entries, 1851–1890

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Vandegrift, A. A. 1 entry, 1944
- October 12, 1944: Marine Corps commandant A. A. Vandegrift gives the University Day address
Vandemark, Aaron 2 entries, 2006–2021
- 2006: Chef Aaron Vandemark opens Panciuto on South Churton Street
- May 2021: Panciuto reopens after its pandemic closure, now sharing space with the Hillsborough Bakeshop
Vanderbilt, W. H. 1 entry, 1958
- November 3, 1958: The county commissioners adopt a meat inspection ordinance
Vanderbilt, William H. 1 entry, 1879
- December 20, 1879: Charles F. Deems starts the Deems Fund for student loans
Vanderford, William B. 1 entry, 1846
- 24 February 1846: Two Chapel Hill justices ask the county court to hold Lucy Truelove's case until the child's parentage is clearer
Vann, Taliajah 1 entry, 2022
- November 21, 2022: UNC dedicates the James L. Cates Jr. Memorial in the Pit
Vanore, Andrew, Jr. 1 entry, 1977
- February 4, 1977: BSM leaders tell Chancellor Taylor they will fight the court ruling on minority seats
Varley, Robert 3 entries, 1938–1969

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Varner, H. B. 1 entry, 1911
- June 16, 1911: Hillsboro presses its claim to the Central Highway route
Varner, J. D. 1 entry, 1920
- by January 8, 1920: J. D. Varner opens a grocery at the Eisenberg stand
Vashaw, C. E. 1 entry, 1945
- November 12, 1945: Sportsmen organize the Orange County Wild Life Club
Vaughan, Hudson 2 entries, 2012–2016
- January 9, 2012: Council adopts the Northside and Pine Knolls community plan
- May 2016: RENA and the Jackson Center published the Rogers Road community plan commissioned by the three governments
Vaughan, Short 1 entry, 1810
- November Term 1810: Short Vaughan, jailed on a bastardy charge, is freed on the insolvent debtor's oath
Vaughn, Bedford 1 entry, 1870
- October 31, 1870: Incendiaries burn Maj. Bedford Vaughn's tobacco factory near Stagville
Vaughn, Ed 1 entry, 1932
- May 23, 1932: The Carrboro Night School closes its third term
Vaughn, H. B. 1 entry, 1950
- September 25, 1950: Chapel Hill aldermen name Thomas F. Taylor the town's civil defense director
Vaughn, John A. 1 entry, 1945
- August 28, 1945: The Orange County Times opens an office on Hillsboro's main street
Vaughn, Maude 1 entry, 1939
- July 9, 1939: The Burch family holds a reunion at the Cedar Grove Methodist church
Veazey, Elijah 1 entry, 1867
- 15 April 1867: Emeline Wilkerson, a freedwoman, names Elijah Veazey, a freedman, as her child's father
Venable, A. W. 1 entry, 1861
- November 6, 1861: Orange's Josiah Turner Jr. loses the Fifth District race for the Confederate Congress
May be the same person as Venable, Abraham W.
Venable, Abraham W. 4 entries, 1847–1853
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May be the same person as Venable, A. W.
Venable, Charles S. 1 entry, 1943

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Venable, Mrs. Francis P. 1 entry, 1943
- by January 29, 1943: University Library exhibits the Venable collection of Confederate orders and letters
Venable, Francis Preston 59 entries, 1854–1934

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Venable, Joseph 1 entry, 1857
- June 4, 1857: Ten senior orators, John W. Graham and the valedictorian speak on commencement day
Vermont, Adolph 5 entries, 1910–1919

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Vernon, Mary C. 1 entry, 1986
- February 21, 1986: The tenth Minority Health Conference meets at the School of Public Health
Vernon, Mattie Compton 1 entry, 1928
- 1928: Mattie Compton Vernon becomes the first burial in Mount Adar's cemetery
Viñas, Sarah 2 entries, 2019–2024
- 2019: Chapel Hill adopts a Building Integrated Communities action plan
- June 3, 2024: Chapel Hill breaks ground on the Trinity Court redevelopment
Vick, J. W. 1 entry, 1955
- by February 24, 1955: The Carrboro Feed and Seed Store opens as a Purina dealer
Vickers, Jesse 1 entry, 1825
- August 1825 (court term): The court orders execution against Jesse Vickers for Cassandra Standifer's support money
Vickers, John 1 entry, 1825
- August 1825 (court term): The court orders execution against Jesse Vickers for Cassandra Standifer's support money
Vickers, Lattice 10 entries, 1957–1963
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Vickers, Lee 2 entries, 1954–1958
- May 1954: The Pride of Orange Elks lodge clears ground for its hall on South Merritt Mill Road
- September 8, 1958: The county school board denies the Vickers family's appeal for a place at Carrboro Elementary
Vickers, Stanley 13 entries, 1956–2021

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Vickers, Thomas Lee 7 entries, 1958–1961
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Vickers, Thomas S. 1 entry, 1859
- September 1859: Nathan and Jane Marcom sue Thomas S. Vickers for saying she had a child before her marriage
Vilas, Sally 1 entry, 1991
- 1991: Paul Green's writing cabin is moved to the North Carolina Botanical Garden
Villers, Robert 1 entry, 1945
- February 4, 1945: Seven French journalists, among them Jean-Paul Sartre, visit the Pre-Flight School and its French cadets
Villines, Corina 1 entry, 1956
- January 12, 1956: Black farm and school leaders form the Rural Activity Organization of Orange County
Vincent, Bertha 1 entry, 1929
- December 1929: Marie Clay Clinton of Charlotte becomes interim superintendent of the Efland Home
Vincent, Mary 1 entry, 1946
- 1946: The county buys land from Mary Vincent for a Cedar Grove school for Black children
Vine, L. L. 2 entries, 1947–1952
- July 4, 1947: The Navine boarding kennels open at the Nathan Veterinary Hospital
- September 1, 1952: Dr. L. L. Vine buys the Nathan Veterinary Hospital and renames it
Vining, Elizabeth Gray 5 entries, 1926–1943

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Vining, Morgan F. 2 entries, 1928–1930
- January 9, 1928: The University extension division begins a weekly radio hour over WPTF
- January 15-17, 1930: The North Carolina Press Association holds its sixth newspaper institute at Chapel Hill
May be the same person as Vining, Morgan Fisher
Vining, Morgan Fisher 1 entry, 1929
- 1929: Elizabeth Janet Gray marries Morgan Vining of the University Extension division
May be the same person as Vining, Morgan F.
Viollis, Andrée 1 entry, 1945
- February 4, 1945: Seven French journalists, among them Jean-Paul Sartre, visit the Pre-Flight School and its French cadets
Vivian, C.T. 1 entry, 1991
- January 25, 1991: C.T. Vivian gives the King birthday celebration lecture in Memorial Hall
Vogell, H. C. 2 entries, 1867–1868
- October 1, 1867: The Bureau relieves Lt. Isaac Porter and puts Orange County under its Raleigh agent
- November 17, 1868: A Cedar Grove meeting expels Samuel H. Martin from the freedmen's school committee
Voitle, Robert B. 1 entry, 1935
- about 1935: A Colonial Revival cottage with an attached garage is built on Country Club Road for Robert B. Voitle
von Schweinitz, Lewis 1 entry, 1816
- December 1816: Joseph Caldwell is elected president a second time