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• Waddell, Alfred Moore 4 entries, 1876–1895

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• Waddell, Francis Nash 2 entries, 1837–1839
  • July 25, 1837: Alfred Moore the younger dies and leaves Moorefields to Francis Nash Waddell
  • 1839: Job is sold with 25 other enslaved people to Hillsborough merchant Stephen Moore
• Waddell, Hugh 1 entry, 1771

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

  • June 9, 1771: Tryon offers 100 pounds and a thousand acres for Husband, Hunter, Howell and Butler, dead or alive
• Waddell, Hugh 40 entries, 1823–1854

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• Waddell, James 1 entry, 1857
  • October 1, 1857: Alves, an enslaved man sentenced to death, is baptized at St. Matthew's
• Waddell, James F. 1 entry, 1847
  • April 1847: Lieutenant James F. Waddell opens an army recruiting station at Hillsborough
• Waddell, Jobe 1 entry, 1832
  • May 1832: White Cross Church, later an AME congregation, is organized
• Waddell, Maurice 1 entry, 1840
  • September 19, 1840: Whigs hold a log cabin festival at Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Waddell, Maurice Q.

• Waddell, Maurice Q. 1 entry, 1859
  • December 13, 1859: Orange Whigs condemn John Brown's raid and name delegates to the state convention

  May be the same person as Waddell, Maurice

• Waddell, William 1 entry, 1963
  • March 4, 1963: Coker Hills residents name their neighborhood park for surveyor E. C. Leonard
• Wade, George 1 entry, 1912
  • 1912: Wade's Temple is organized at Efland
• Wade, Preston 1 entry, 1914
  • 1914: Mebane Chapel builds its church in Hillsborough under its first pastor, B. F. Alston
• Wade, Priscilla 1 entry, 1806
  • May 1806 (court term): Lawyer William Norwood wins a support order for Sarah Ray
• Wade, Rogers 2 entries, 1954–1957
  • November 1954: Chapel Hill aldermen elect Oliver K. Cornwell mayor
  • March 1957: Frances Hargraves teaches Chapel Hill's new special education classes at Northside School
• Wade, Mrs. Rogers 1 entry, 1961
  • May 1, 1961: Carrboro Elementary adopts the ungraded primary plan
• Wade, Samuel 1 entry, 1913
  • 1913: Mebane Chapel is organized in Hillsborough
• Wade, Thomas 1 entry, 1775
  • August to September 1775: The Provincial Congress at Hillsborough votes 1,000 pounds for presents to the Indians
• Wade, Vincey 1 entry, 1790
  • May Term 1790: The court binds Vincey Wade, an eight-year-old girl of color, to James Noey
• Wager, Paul W. 23 entries, 1924–1964

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• Waggoner, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1801
  • February 1801 (court term): A jury finds for Elizabeth Waggoner in her suit against Nathaniel Harris
• Wagner, Musella W. 1 entry, 1950
  • June 1950: The Chapel Hill recorder's court gets its first full-time clerk, succeeding Moody W. Durham
• Wagoner, Leo 2 entries, 1957–1962
  • November 1957: Four families hold the first study meeting toward a new Baptist church in Chapel Hill
  • June 11, 1962: Chapel Hill parents organize the Sandlot Baseball League for all boys
• Wagoner, W. R. 1 entry, 1948
  • by September 9, 1948: Mount Carmel Baptist Church completes a new parsonage
• Wagstaff, H. M. 5 entries, 1919–1936
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  • March 15, 1919: A Chapel Hill committee opens the town canvass for the Graham Memorial fund
  • March 12, 1928: The Orange County Building and Loan Association reports a 7.93 per cent profit for 1927
  • by October 26, 1928: UNC Press publishes James A. Graham's war letters and the Orange Guards' descriptive book
  • July 31, 1934: Mary Elizabeth Strayhorn Berry dies and is buried in Chapel Hill
  • August 12, 1936: Protesting citizens get the aldermen to put off the new garbage ordinance

  May be the same person as Wagstaff, Henry McGilbert

• Wagstaff, Henry McGilbert 2 entries, 1925–1945
  • about 1925: Brodie Thompson builds a house for historian Henry McGilbert Wagstaff
  • May 28, 1945: UNC history professor Henry McGilbert Wagstaff dies

  May be the same person as Wagstaff, H. M.

• Wagstaff, Mary 1 entry, 1925
  • about 1925: Brodie Thompson builds a house for historian Henry McGilbert Wagstaff
• Wait, Kendal B. 1 entry, 1848
  • August Term 1848: The court hears a charge that Kendal B. Wait ill-used his apprentice Pleasant Davis and clears him
• Waite, Morrison R. 1 entry, 1874
  • June 1874: Federal court rules the campus cannot be sold for the bank debt
• Waitt, George N. 2 entries, 1890–1925
  • early January 1890: Conductor George N. Waitt is moved to the University Railroad
  • May 2, 1925: Captain George N. Waitt, Confederate veteran and railroad man, dies in Hillsboro
• Waitt, K. P. 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
• Waitt, Kendall B. 5 entries, 1836–1848

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• Waitt, Thomas 5 entries, 1821–1837

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• Walden, Bartlet 1 entry, 1831
  • May Term 1831: The grand jury asks the court to take charge of a girl living with Bartlet Walden, a man of color
• Walden, Clara Mae 2 entries, 1958
  • September 16, 1958: The county school board denies the Walden family's appeal after a hearing
  • September 2, 1958: The county school board denies a Black Carrboro couple's request to send four children to Carrboro Elementary
• Walden, Darnell 2 entries, 1958
  • September 16, 1958: The county school board denies the Walden family's appeal after a hearing
  • September 2, 1958: The county school board denies a Black Carrboro couple's request to send four children to Carrboro Elementary
• Waldorf, Rosemary 2 entries, 1996
  • February 12, 1996: Chapel Hill Town Council recommends site OC-17 beside the Eubanks Road landfill for the next county landfill
  • September 6–10, 1996: Mayor Rosemary Waldorf declares a state of emergency in Chapel Hill after Hurricane Fran
• Waldrop, John D. 2 entries, 1929
  • by July 12, 1929: Chapel Hill aldermen resolve that abutting owners must pay the whole cost of street improvements
  • July 13, 1929: The tar-surfaced Route 54 short cut from Chapel Hill to Nelson opens
• Walker, A. H. 1 entry, 1954
  • October 11, 1954: A prison camp guard shoots and kills a prisoner fleeing a road gang near Hillsboro
• Walker, Alice 1 entry, 1977
  • March 22-23, 1977: Alice Walker and Benny Andrews appear at UNC with Black Student Movement backing
• Walker, Allen 1 entry, 1961
  • February 17, 1961: The Hillsboro Lions Club marks its 25th anniversary
• Walker, Allen H., Sr. 2 entries, 1922–1963
  • November 22, 1922: Houston J. Walker and Allen H. Walker Sr. open Walker's Funeral Home in Hillsborough
  • December 1, 1963: Walker's Funeral Home dedicates its chapel at 204 North Churton Street
• Walker, Allen, Jr. 1 entry, 1964
  • March 4, 1964: Orange County puts a medical examiner system into effect with Dr. Hubert Patterson as examiner
• Walker, Billy 1 entry, 1960
  • May 13, 1960: Farmers organize the Orange County Feeder Pig Association
• Walker, Burk 1 entry, 1816
  • May Term 1816: The court sentences Jim, an enslaved man, to hang for housebreaking and grants his appeal
• Walker, Captain 1 entry, 1771
  • May 15, 1771: Regulators seize Colonel John Ashe and Captain Walker and whip them
• Walker, Carleton 1 entry, 1823
  • about 1823: A lateral-hall house is built on Margaret Lane for Caroline Mallett Walker and Carleton Walker
• Walker, Caroline Mary Mallett 2 entries, 1823–1846
  • about 1823: A lateral-hall house is built on Margaret Lane for Caroline Mallett Walker and Carleton Walker
  • 1846: Caroline Mallett Walker conveys the Margaret Lane house to James M. Palmer
• Walker, Charles M., Jr. 6 entries, 1946–1963
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  • May 14, 1946: Hillsboro veterans organize the county's first Veterans of Foreign Wars post
  • March 26, 1959: The General Assembly enlarges the Orange County Board of Education to five members
  • May 2, 1961: The Cameron Park PTA honors retiring teachers Jessie Latta and Mamie Ray
  • by September 26, 1963: Charles M. Walker Jr. resigns from the Orange County Board of Education
  • August 5, 1963: The county buys the Walker Milling Co. property on Court Square
  • July 24, 1963: Charles M. Walker Jr. announces that Walker Milling Co. will close
• Walker, D. Samuel 1 entry, 1905
  • February 1905: A. L. Holden is commissioned justice of the peace for Eno Township
• Walker, E. W. 1 entry, 1926
  • August 29, 1926: Chapel Hill's True Reformers hold their annual thanksgiving celebration
• Walker, Ed 2 entries, 1935–1947
  • by March 8, 1935: Rural rehabilitation approves about a hundred Orange farm family budgets
  • March 7, 1947: Fire destroys Ed Walker's corn and feed mill near Cedar Grove
• Walker, Eric 1 entry, 1986
  • November 13, 1986: Students and the Rainbow Coalition hold a vigil against racism at the Franklin Street post office
• Walker, Frank 1 entry, 1945
  • May 8, 1945: Hillsboro reelects Mayor Ben Johnston and seats an all-new board of commissioners

  May be the same person as Walker, Frank H.

• Walker, Frank H. 3 entries, 1959–1961
  • May 5, 1959: Hillsboro reelects Mayor Ben Johnston over Fred S. Cates Jr.
  • 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

  May be the same person as Walker, Frank

• Walker, Freeman 3 entries, 1851–1863
  • 1850-51 session: The Assembly confirms the line between Orange and Alamance
  • late May 1863: The county court sets up commissioners to direct the Soldiers' Fund
  • April 18, 1863: A county meeting at Hillsborough condemns bread riots and buys corn and bacon for the needy
• Walker, George Washington 1 entry, 1900
  • about 1900: The George Washington Walker Farm is laid out on St. Mary's Road
• Walker, H. C. 1 entry, 1906
  • April 2, 1906: Orange County's commissioners decide to buy a road machine and order a bridge over Back Creek
• Walker, Henry 14 entries, 1946–1962
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  • by February 7, 1946: The Bank of Chapel Hill launches a county corn-growing contest
  • September 20, 1948: Kerr Scott speaks to the Orange County Granges at St. Mary's school
  • by April 2, 1953: St. Mary's Grange finishes a rural telephone line serving 35 families
  • March 7, 1955: The county commissioners refuse to call a referendum on ABC liquor stores
  • May 18, 1955: County commissioners inspect the Chapel Hill schools, including the site for a Lincoln High addition
  • February 6, 1956: County commissioners back a five-member Board of Education
  • January 25, 1957: Carrboro and rural neighbors petition to be left out of the recreation district
  • April 1, 1957: County commissioners drop their requests for township limits on county boards
  • April 29, 1957: County commissioners reverse themselves and back limited Sunday racing
  • by April 4, 1957: County commissioners set aside the old courthouse courtroom for a historical museum
  • December 7, 1959: Orange commissioners keep the courthouse home demonstration kitchen for white use and vote a separate one for Black clubs
  • March 25, 1961: Orange County cattle farmers vote for a beef promotion assessment
  • August 3, 1961: St. Mary's families organize community 4-H clubs
  • February 5, 1962: Commissioners sign contracts for the county agricultural building

  May be the same person as Walker, Henry S.

• Walker, Mrs. Henry 1 entry, 1958
  • November 20, 1958: White Cross takes the top prizes at Orange County's Rural Progress achievement night
• Walker, Henry S. 14 entries, 1954–1964
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  • May 29, 1954: Orange Democrats nominate four men for the newly enlarged five-member Board of Commissioners
  • December 6, 1954: The county's new five-member board of commissioners takes office and elects R. J. M. Hobbs chairman
  • November 2, 1954: Orange County voters elect an enlarged five-member board of commissioners
  • July 5, 1955: County commissioners hold the 62-cent tax rate and find money for the Lincoln gymtorium
  • June 30, 1958: Commissioners call a second Carrboro school merger election for August 5
  • August 4, 1958: Commissioners vote down a referendum on ABC liquor stores by one vote
  • May 31, 1958: Orange Democrats renominate Sheriff Clayton and Senator Lanier in the primary
  • November 4, 1958: Orange County Democrats sweep a light general election
  • July 20 and 24, 1959: County commissioners set a 95-cent tax rate and raise school funds by nearly half
  • November 5, 1962: Orange County commissioners reject county-wide zoning
  • December 3, 1962: County commissioners name Henry Walker to the late Donald McDade's seat
  • April 1, 1963: Orange County dedicates its new agricultural building on courthouse square
  • December 7, 1964: Harvey D. Bennett becomes chairman of the county commissioners
  • March 2, 1964: County commissioners create an Orange County Fire Commission

  May be the same person as Walker, Henry

• Walker, Houston J. 11 entries, 1893–1963

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• Walker, I. M. 2 entries, 1936–1937
  • by October 16, 1936: The Walker Funeral Home of Hillsboro buys a West Franklin Street building for a Chapel Hill branch
  • By January 1937: Walker's Funeral Home opens in the enlarged Bill Lloyd house on West Franklin Street
• Walker, J. M. 1 entry, 1941
  • May 29, 1941: The Walker Funeral Home moves back into its repaired West Franklin Street building
• Walker, J. N. 1 entry, 1888
  • June 15, 1888: Governor Scales pardons J. N. Walker of Cedar Grove, jailed for selling liquor without a license
• Walker, James 1 entry, 1800
  • May 28, 1800: County auditors report nearly £1,000 through the public buildings treasury
• Walker, James R. 2 entries, 1951–1952
  • June 1951: UNC Law School begins desegregation
  • June 1952: Harvey Beech and J. Kenneth Lee graduate from UNC's law school
• Walker, John 5 entries, 1775–1832
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  • August to September 1775: The Provincial Congress at Hillsborough votes 1,000 pounds for presents to the Indians
  • August 26, 1788: The court repays John Walker for spending on the Eno bridge at the Town Ford
  • August 26, 1788: The court repays John Walker for repairs to the district courthouse and jail
  • February Term 1794: John Walker resigns as county treasurer and David Ray succeeds him
  • 1832: Mount Zion Christian Church is organized
• Walker, Knox 1 entry, 1956
  • October 26, 1956: Orange growers sell their aromatic tobacco at a sale at Aycock School
• Walker, Lawrence 1 entry, 1950
  • February 4, 1950: Senator Frank Graham addresses Piedmont Electric's annual meeting at Hillsboro
• Walker, Lewis 1 entry, 1935
  • April 1935: Matron Lula B. Henderson and farm manager Lewis Walker are hired at the Efland Home
• Walker, Lila Peck 1 entry, 1942
  • fall 1942: Women teach regular freshman courses at the University
• Walker, Mrs. Margaret 1 entry, 1949
  • January 19, 1949: Orange County teachers organize a unit of the state Classroom Teachers Department
• Walker, Marshall 1 entry, 1879
  • about 1879: Latta Grove Baptist Church is organized
• Walker, Mary 2 entries, 1799–1818

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• Walker, Minnie Montgomery 1 entry, 1963
  • December 1, 1963: Walker's Funeral Home dedicates its chapel at 204 North Churton Street
• Walker, Monroe 1 entry, 1908
  • July 19, 1908: John Ed Collins kills Monroe Walker in Cedar Grove Township
• Walker, Myrtle 1 entry, 1946
  • 1946: Principal J. M. Harris refits the Murphey School lunchroom
• Walker, N. H. 1 entry, 1944
  • by November 23, 1944: Hillsboro's Black Boy Scout troop is reorganized
• Walker, N. W. 27 entries, 1877–1936

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• Walker, Peahead 1 entry, 1959

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• Walker, Philip 1 entry, 1889
  • April 24, 1889: The St. Mary's Chapel land is deeded to the trustees of the Episcopal Diocese
• Walker, R. L. 2 entries, 1902
  • November 4, 1902: Democrats carry Orange and Sheriff Hughes beats an independent challenger
  • September 9, 1902: Senatorial district Democrats nominate R. L. Walker and W. N. Pritchard at Hillsborough
• Walker, R. Y. 1 entry, 1912
  • August 3, 1912: Orange County Republicans nominate H. G. Dorsett for the House
• Walker, Robert P. 1 entry, 1900
  • October 1900: Hillsborough Baptist Church ordains Robert P. Walker
• Walker, W. M. 1 entry, 1920
  • April 18, 1920: Mount Olive Baptist Church is organized at Efland
• Walker, W. T. 1 entry, 1888
  • July 14, 1888: Prohibition candidate for governor W. T. Walker speaks at the Hillsborough court house
• Walker, W. W. 1 entry, 1925
  • May 5, 1925: Hillsboro re-elects Mayor T. M. Arrasmith and a five-man council
• Wall, Agnes L. 1 entry, 1940
  • by February 23, 1940: Orange County's social agencies organize a council in Hillsboro
• Wall, Agnes Tolbert 1 entry, 1940
  • by October 25, 1940: The Junior Service League's well-baby clinics for white and Black children gain a pediatrician
• Wall, Annie 1 entry, 1942
  • 1942: Marinda McPherson starts a library for Black readers in Hillsborough
• Wall, John 1 entry, 1823
  • June 21, 1823: The Presbyterian session admonishes two men for trading in enslaved people
• Wall, Peggy 1 entry, 2015
  • October 8, 2015: State highway marker honoring Carl T. Durham is dedicated at N.C. 54 and Carl Durham Road
• Wall, Rebecca 4 entries, 1939–1952
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  • by February 3, 1939: University student volunteers begin evening classes for prisoners at the county prison camp
  • September 15, 1952: The county board buys the Cameron Park property in Hillsborough for a new elementary school
  • January 7, 1952: County boards offer to buy Cameron Park land for a new Hillsboro elementary school
  • by April 24, 1952: Rebecca Wall turns down the county's offer for the Cameron Park property

  May be the same person as Wall, Rebecca B.

• Wall, Rebecca B. 1 entry, 1987
  • April 1987: Orange County Public Library receives a $50,000 bequest from Rebecca B. Wall

  May be the same person as Wall, Rebecca

• Wall, W. L. 1 entry, 1879
  • January 1, 1879: The Durham Light Infantry gives a New Year's ball at Duke's Hall
• Wall, Mrs. W. L. 3 entries, 1917–1919
  • September 3, 1917: Hillsborough gives a Labor Day dinner for Orange County's first drafted men
  • October 1917: More than 200 Orange County women register for war service
  • June 20, 1919: The Orange County Red Cross commits its women workers and $300 to the soldiers' homecoming
• Wallace, Carolyn Andrews 2 entries, 1967–1975

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• Wallace, Daniel 1 entry, 2022

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• Wallace, DeWitt 2 entries, 1943–1944
  • October 1943: Reader's Digest profiles Albert Coates and the Institute of Government
  • 1944: Coates publishes his first history of the Institute of Government, paid for by DeWitt Wallace
• Wallace, Harold 17 entries, 1974–1998
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  • March 1974: UNC mourns Afro-American Studies director James H. Brewer
  • January 1976: UNC drops its National Achievement weekend after student government refuses its share
  • by September 1977: The rebuilding of Chase and Upendo Lounge's move upstairs are put off a year
  • August 18-19, 1979: Black Pre-Orientation welcomes about 300 freshmen
  • December 1, 1980: Harold Wallace becomes UNC's vice chancellor for university affairs
  • January 15, 1981: The BSM holds an evening memorial program for Martin Luther King's birthday
  • August 1, 1981: Edith M. Elliott becomes assistant vice chancellor for student affairs
  • September 30, 1981: A chancellor's report counts 54 Black faculty among UNC's 1,880
  • by March 1982: UNC forms a Study Committee on Race Relations after the fall's incidents
  • October 11, 1983: The BSM holds a press conference on the future of Upendo Lounge
  • by November 1983: Harold Wallace is named UNC's acting affirmative action officer
  • January 20, 1986: UNC holds classes on the first federal King holiday
  • October 1990: Housing figures show two-thirds of Black campus residents in four South Campus high-rises
  • fall 1991: The BSM keeps Black Cultural Center programs in the center's cramped Union office to press for a building
  • by November 22, 1993: Students form the Umoja Council to unite UNC's Black organizations
  • November 14, 1997: The BSM marches to South Building with 22 new demands for Chancellor Hooker
  • November 11, 1998: Chancellor Hooker answers BSM members' questions on the 22 demands
• Wallace, Harold G. 7 entries, 1973–1999
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  • fall 1973: Harold G. Wallace becomes associate dean of student affairs for special programs
  • by November 6, 1978: The Black Faculty-Staff Caucus asks Chancellor Taylor to meet on Black admissions
  • by September 1979: Harold G. Wallace is named assistant vice chancellor for student affairs
  • November 1980: Harold Wallace is reported chosen as UNC's first vice chancellor for university affairs
  • November 15, 1981: The Black Interdenominational Student Association holds its first worship service
  • April 1988: The Black Faculty/Staff Caucus publicly backs Education dean Frank Brown
  • by November 1999: Archie Ervin succeeds Harold Wallace as head of UNC's Office of Minority Affairs
• Wallace, Henry A. 3 entries, 1937–1948

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• Wallace, Holli 1 entry, 2018
  • August 2018: New Hope Elementary starts a Spanish dual-language program in Orange County Schools
• Wallace, J. T. 1 entry, 1886
  • January 28, 1886: Dickerson's Chapel trustees buy the old courthouse from the Philadelphia Friends
• Wallace, James 3 entries, 1954–1987
  • June 3, 1954: The Chapel Hill Concert Series organizes with William S. Stewart as its first president
  • March 1963: Chapel Hill Planning Board favors a large village in response to the Triangle commission's development plan
  • November 3, 1987: Jonathan Howes is elected mayor of Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Wallace, James C.

• Wallace, James C. 2 entries, 1973–1979
  • June 1, 1973: Robert M. Leary and Associates delivers its study of downtown Chapel Hill to the town committee
  • November 6, 1979: Joe Straley is elected to the Chapel Hill Town Council

  May be the same person as Wallace, James

• Wallace, Patricia 1 entry, 1985
  • March 19, 1985: Student leaders release a report opposing the mandatory meal plan
• Waller, Gary 9 entries, 1966

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• Walter, Thomas U. 3 entries, 1843–1844
  • 1843 to 1848: The Episcopal parish begins building the Chapel of the Cross on East Franklin Street
  • November 28, 1843: Swain reports the Chapel of the Cross walls up to a plan by Thomas U. Walter
  • 1844: Isaac J. Collier serves as contractor for the Chapel of the Cross
• Walters, Adelaide 8 entries, 1950–1983

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• Walters, C. I. 3 entries, 1944–1959
  • September 20, 1944: Hillsboro firemen put out a fire at the state rock crusher by the quarry
  • May 1951: Hillsboro Garden Club ties for first in the state Model Mile contest
  • July 13, 1959: County commissioners approve the state's 1959-60 secondary road program for Orange
• Walters, Carl 1 entry, 1951
  • 1951: Orange County 4-H members win at the Durham Fat Stock Show
• Walters, Clarence 2 entries, 1945–1946
  • September 17, 1945: A flash flood washes out nine bridges across Orange County
  • 1946: County road work hard-surfaces 12.1 miles in a single year
• Walters, Mrs. Harold 4 entries, 1961–1963
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  • November 13, 1961: Chapel Hill aldermen decline to require a permit for Duke's power line
  • December 11, 1961: Chapel Hill requires subdivision developers to pave streets and lay sewers
  • May 2, 1961: Chapel Hill voters approve $160,000 in bonds for town hall land and buildings
  • August 12, 1963: Chapel Hill aldermen vote to require new high-voltage lines to go underground
• Walters, J. Dud 2 entries, 1954–1961
  • July 29, 1954: Dud's Tavern announces it will reopen after a July fire
  • November 10, 1961: Dud Walters reopens his old tavern as Dud's Fish House
• Walters, Reyna 2 entries, 1998–1999
  • February 17, 1998: Reyna Walters wins the UNC student body presidency
  • January 18, 1999: More than 500 march down Franklin Street on King Day for affordable housing
• Wang, Sarah 1 entry, 2012
  • 2012: The Asian American Parent Advisory Council declines to back the Section 74A parents
• Ward, Mrs. B. L. 1 entry, 1953
  • November 24, 1953: The Chapel Hill Junior Service League publishes the cookbook Carolina Cooking
• Ward, Dace 1 entry, 1957
  • April 1, 1957: County commissioners endorse a bill to ban Sunday racing in Orange County
• Ward, Debra Oakley 1 entry, 1989
  • March 12, 1989: Mount Adar Baptist Church celebrates its centennial
• Ward, Douglas Turner 1 entry, 1980
  • March 16, 1980: The BSM's Ebony Readers-Onyx Theatre stages Day of Absence in whiteface
• Ward, Frank 1 entry, 1956
  • June 22, 1956: The Carrboro Cubs stage a folk festival at the Lions park
• Ward, George W. 1 entry, 1905
  • August 11, 1905: Superior court convicts J. Knapp Horner of killing Deputy Sheriff Nichols
• Ward, H. Trawick 1 entry, 1983
  • 1983–1986: The Fredricks site is found and excavated and Occaneechi Town is located
• Ward, Ira 25 entries, 1928–1969

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• Ward, J. J. 2 entries, 1933
  • October 3, 1933: Orange County drys name Hillsboro grocer J. J. Ward to oppose repeal
  • November 7, 1933: Orange County votes against repeal while Chapel Hill votes for it
• Ward, Mrs. Jasper 1 entry, 1958
  • August 19, 1958: White Cross residents petition for a new vote on joining the Chapel Hill school district
• Ward, Jim 2 entries, 2012–2014
  • February 21, 2012: Commissioners set the landfill's closing date and created the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood Task Force
  • 2014: Chapel Hill extended its extraterritorial jurisdiction over the Historic Rogers Road area
• Ward, John 2 entries, 1859–1883
  • 1859: James B. McDade serves as Chapel Hill's magistrate of police
  • May 7, 1883: Chapel Hill elects John Manning and Professor Graves to its town board
• Ward, Juanita 1 entry, 1938
  • by November 25, 1938: Young people form the Orange County Service Club at Hillsboro
• Ward, Nancy 1 entry, 1827
  • May 1827: Polly Sharp and Nancy Ward are indicted for keeping disorderly houses
• Ward, Ralph H. 22 entries, 1915–1926

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• Ward, W. Dace 1 entry, 1956
  • April 3, 1956: Pastor asks the commissioners to stop Sunday jalopy races at a new track
• Ward, W. I. 1 entry, 1961
  • November 13, 1961: Chapel Hill aldermen decline to require a permit for Duke's power line
• Ward, William 1 entry, 1862
  • August 18, 1862: The Baptists sell their old courthouse church to George Bishop of New Bern
• Warfield, Walter 1 entry, 1968
  • April 1968: The county board presents a plan to end its dual school system to federal civil rights officials
• Warmerdam, Cornelius 1 entry, 1943
  • April 10, 1943: World champion Cornelius Warmerdam vaults 15 feet 2 inches at Fetzer Field
• Warnecke, George 2 entries, 1878–1879
  • early September 1878: Assistant chemist George Warnecke joins the Fertilizer Control Station at Chapel Hill
  • October 1879: Chemist George Warnecke resigns from the state Experiment Station
• Warner, A. F. 1 entry, 1904
  • by September 8, 1904: A. F. Warner buys E. A. Rosemond's stock in his Churton Street store
• Warner, J. A. 1 entry, 1881
  • February 14, 1881: Hillsborough replaces its old town pump
• Warner, Roosevelt 18 entries, 1934–1963

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• Warren, David C. 1 entry, 1866
  • 28 November 1866: The court binds Albert Scoggins, seven, to David C. Warren, a man named in a bastardy case
• Warren, Earl 1 entry, 1967
  • March 13, 1967: The U.S. Supreme Court decided Klopfer v. North Carolina, the speedy-trial case that grew out of a Chapel Hill sit-in arrest
• Warren, Mrs. J. A. 1 entry, 1952
  • by April 3, 1952: The Chapel Hill Community Club takes on a library for the new University hospital
• Warren, Joseph H. 1 entry, 1938
  • November 8, 1938: Orange County Democrats sweep the county offices
• Warren, Julia 1 entry, 1934
  • 1934: Girls from the Efland Home receive free care at Durham's Lincoln Hospital
• Warren, Julius A. 1 entry, 1922
  • 1922: Brodie Thompson oversees the building of the Ben Warren house on Hillsborough Street

  May be the same person as Warren, Julius Algernon

• Warren, Julius Algernon 1 entry, 1912
  • June 1912: Trustees split the secretary-treasurer office after Richard H. Battle's death

  May be the same person as Warren, Julius A.

• Warren, Pattie Spurgeon 1 entry, 1922
  • 1922: Brodie Thompson oversees the building of the Ben Warren house on Hillsborough Street
• Warren, Polley 1 entry, 1810
  • 5 April 1810: Four women are summoned on one day to name the fathers of their children
• Warren, Robert 1 entry, 1897
  • by June 17, 1897: Charity Atwater leaves Chapel Hill to rejoin a husband taken from her in slavery
• Warren, Stanford Lee 1 entry, 1934
  • 1934: Girls from the Efland Home receive free care at Durham's Lincoln Hospital
• Warren, Thomas D. 3 entries, 1862–1869
  • November 1862: The Collins family buys the former Burwell School and calls it the Beehive
  • 1866: The Collins women sell their shares of the Beehive to Dr. Thomas D. Warren
  • 1869: The sheriff auctions the former Burwell School to David C. Parks
• Warren, V. L. 1 entry, 1939
  • June 26, 1939: The county board agrees to build an agriculture building at Aycock School
• Warren, W. C. 1 entry, 1934
  • by September 7, 1934: Commissioners name J. G. McAdams superintendent of the county home
• Washburn, Benjamin E. 1 entry, 1919
  • March 17, 1919: The State Board of Health proposes a course for health officers and public health nurses at the university
• Washington, Alex 1 entry, 1937
  • October 1937: Second Baptist Church is organized in Chapel Hill
• Washington, Elliot 2 entries, 1930–1934
  • April 14, 1930: Black janitors organize the UNC Janitors' Association
  • 1934: Janitors' Association president Elliot Washington asks for help joining a union
• Washington, Elliott 1 entry, 1940
  • April 1940: The Janitors' Association puts out the first issue of its newsletter
• Washington, Mary Helen 1 entry, 1981
  • early April 1981: A conference on Black scholarship honors Blyden Jackson, UNC's first Black full professor
• Washington, Scotty 1 entry, 2014
  • July 26, 2014: Local historian Scotty Washington proposes a James Freeland Day
• Waterman, Thomas T. 1 entry, 1948
  • November 1, 1948: Commissioners hear Thomas T. Waterman's report on restoring the courthouse
• Waters, Vincent S. 2 entries, 1949–1956
  • by March 19, 1949: Father Francis J. Morrissey, pastor of Chapel Hill's Catholic church, dies
  • August 1956: The Catholic Diocese of Raleigh buys land on US 70 west of Hillsboro
• Waters, William 1 entry, 1787
  • March 1, 1787: The court orders a bridge over the Eno at the ford near Hillsborough
• Watkins, G. T. 1 entry, 1894
  • May 24, 1894: Caldwell Institute holds its closing exercises
• Watkins, Gotha C. 1 entry, 2000
  • October 8, 2000: Jones Grove pays off its mortgage and adds a steeple built by a deacon
• Watkins, L. S. 1 entry, 1900
  • January 1, 1900: Orange County tobacco growers form a county association
• Watkins, Martin A. 1 entry, 1946
  • September 30, 1946: University laundry workers stage a sit-down strike
• Watkins, Thomas 1 entry, 1961
  • June 11, 1961: Jones Grove dedicates a concrete-block church built by its own members
• Watkins, V. G. 1 entry, 1942
  • 1942: A state farm forester begins part-time work in Orange County
• Watson, Andrew 1 entry, 1839
  • late August 1839: The county court names superintendents of common schools for Orange County
• Watson, Bennet 1 entry, 1799
  • March 2, 1799 (February Term 1799): The court orders a road laid off from Franklin Street to the old Raleigh road
• Watson, C. B. 1 entry, 1963
  • August 1963: A garment plant starts up in the closed Holiday Park building
• Watson, E. 1 entry, 1838
  • May 19, 1838: A meeting at George Foust's votes that Orange County should be divided
• Watson, Frances 1 entry, 1958
  • April 1958: Opponents of the school merger form the Carrboro School Development Council
• Watson, Frank 1 entry, 2003
  • 2003: The Watson-Whisnant House is moved from Burnsville to South Occoneechee Street
• Watson, Harry L. 1 entry, 1993
  • Summer 1993: Southern Cultures publishes its first issue from UNC's new Center for the Study of the American South
• Watson, J. H. 1 entry, 1892
  • May 20, 1892: Three young men are held for the grand jury on a charge of burning Lindsay's stable
• Watson, James 12 entries, 1752–1777

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• Watson, James R. 1 entry, 1842
  • August 11, 1842: James R. Watson advertises his bound girl Nancy Green Rossin as a runaway
• Watson, John 1 entry, 1850
  • May Term 1850: The court takes Samuel Mayhoe from John Watson and binds him to Josiah Turner Sr.
• Watson, John H. 24 entries, 1833–1895

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• Watson, Jones 36 entries, 1829–1891

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• Watson, Jones 1 entry, 1860

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  • mid-September 1860: Superior Court acquits university student Frederick Foard in the death of Nathaniel Watson
• Watson, Nathaniel 1 entry, 1860
  • mid-September 1860: Superior Court acquits university student Frederick Foard in the death of Nathaniel Watson
• Watson, Robert 1 entry, 1906
  • about 1906: Gains Chapel AME Church is organized at Efland
• Watson, Wende 3 entries, 1981–1982
  • November 23, 1981: Black women at UNC hold the first Black Women's Unity Day
  • April 17, 1982: The Campus Governing Council cuts the BSM's budget and Black Ink's funds
  • January 28, 1982: UNC holds its first campus-wide Martin Luther King Jr. celebration
• Watson, Wesley 1 entry, 1866
  • week of September 10, 1866: Orange Superior Court sends Wesley Watson and seven others to the whipping post
• Watson, Whitney 1 entry, 2015
  • 2015: Hillsborough votes to remove "Confederate Memorial" lettering from the former library
• Watson, William 2 entries, 1813–1847
  • 1813: William Watson and William Barbee open a lumber yard
  • 1847: Robert Loder and William Watson run a dry goods store near Franklin and Columbia
• Watt, Melvin 1 entry, 1987
  • January 15-20, 1987: Floyd McKissick gives the King lecture during UNC's sixth annual King celebration
• Watt, William E. 1 entry, 1949
  • by July 7, 1949: The FHA agrees to insure the loan for the Country Club Apartments outside Chapel Hill
• Watters, S. Paxson 3 entries, 1897–1911
  • March 19, 1897: James Webb Sr., senior warden of St. Matthew's, dies at 81
  • December 11, 1897: Former Recorder owner John D. Cameron is buried at St. Matthew's
  • by August 31, 1911: The Rev. S. Paxson Watters resigns as rector of St. Matthew's
• Watters, Samuel Paxson 1 entry, 1896
  • December 1896 to 1911: Samuel Paxson Watters serves nearly fifteen years as rector of St. Matthew's
• Watters, Sara Thomas 2 entries, 1941–1950
  • By August 1941: Sara Thomas Watters buys the Weaver House and its road takes her name
  • 1950s: A Weaver farm barn is rebuilt as a house, the Barnstable
• Watters, William 5 entries, 1788–1795
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  • May 28, 1788: The court names men to oversee the Town Ford bridge and sets a seven-year repair term
  • November and December 1790: General Assembly orders a new district courthouse built at Hillsborough
  • May 27, 1791: The court orders the road east of Hillsborough turned along the road to the mineral spring on James Hogg's land
  • July 1794: A called court discharges Moses, a man enslaved by William Mangom, when no one proves the charge
  • May 27, 1795 to February Term 1798: The county court proves a run of deeds to and from the University's trustees
• Wattleton, Faye 1 entry, 1992
  • February 10, 1992: Faye Wattleton of Planned Parenthood speaks in Memorial Hall
• Watts, Irvin J. 1 entry, 1946
  • March 4, 1946: Bus service begins between Chapel Hill and Carrboro
• Watts, Jeppie 1 entry, 1964
  • January–July 1964: Watts Restaurant protests
• Watts, Josiah 1 entry, 1788
  • August 26, 1788: John Allison is appointed register of Orange County after the death of Josiah Watts
• Watts, Lucy 2 entries, 1839–1846
  • 1839: Lucy Watts buys the hotel on Lot #13
  • 1846: Nancy Hilliard buys the Watts Hotel from Lucy Watts
• Watts, M. M. 1 entry, 1950
  • by May 1950: The Carrboro Lions Club finishes its $30,000 ball park
• Watts, Mack 1 entry, 1976
  • 1976: The Carrboro Bicentennial Commission publishes Mack Watts's Carrboro Yesterday and Today
• Watts, Thomas 4 entries, 1792–1801
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  • May 31, 1792: The court licenses Thomas Watts to sell liquor and keep a billiard table
  • May Term 1794: The court licenses Thomas Watts and Francis Dunn to keep an ordinary in Hillsborough
  • February 27, 1800: The court orders James Christmas brought before it to test his jailing for debt
  • August 27, 1801: A jury finds Africa Parker did not escape the prison bounds
• Watts, Thomas D. 7 entries, 1790–1839

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• Wauchope, Robert 4 entries, 1938–1942
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  • 1938–1941: Archaeologists excavate the wall site believing it to be Occaneechi Town
  • by September 27, 1940: UNC adds anthropology courses as archaeologist Robert Wauchope joins the faculty
  • March 1941: University archaeologists excavate burials at the Indian village site near Hillsborough
  • by December 11, 1942: University archaeology laboratory moves to the Alumni Building under Guy B. Johnson
• Waugh, Alfred S. 1 entry, 1835
  • November 1835: Philanthropic Society has a cast made of Caldwell's features
• Waugh, Edward 3 entries, 1950–1960
  • May 1950: Archie Royal Davis replaces H. Raymond Weeks as architect of the Cedar Grove school
  • 1953: Architect Edward Waugh designs a house for Dr. C. G. Thomas on Morgan Creek Road
  • 1960: Edward and Elizabeth Waugh publish The South Builds
• Waugh, Edward W. 3 entries, 1950–1960

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• Waugh, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1960
  • 1960: Edward and Elizabeth Waugh publish The South Builds
• Way, Alfred 1 entry, 1823
  • February 1823 (court term): The court binds Alfred Way to Benjamin Way, the man his mother named as his father, and ends her claim
• Way, Benjamin 1 entry, 1823
  • February 1823 (court term): The court binds Alfred Way to Benjamin Way, the man his mother named as his father, and ends her claim
• Waynick, Capus 5 entries, 1935
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  • September 13, 1935: Carolina Coach begins bus service from Greensboro to Raleigh by way of Chapel Hill
  • February 26 to 27, 1935: Chapel Hill's Kiwanis and Rotary clubs ask for concrete on Route 54 toward Raleigh
  • February 6, 1935: Chapel Hill delegation asks the highway commission to keep U.S. 15 through the town
  • June 20, 1935: The state finishes widening the Pittsboro highway at the edge of Chapel Hill
  • June 21, 1935: State crews close the Raleigh road east of Chapel Hill for resurfacing
• Weatherly, Joe 3 entries, 1961–1964

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• Weaver, C. H. 3 entries, 1921–1931
  • August 5, 1921: Eastern Chapel Hill township residents meet at Blackwood school and denounce the commissioners over the road
  • by August 19, 1927: C. H. Weaver builds a pasteurizing plant at his Oak Grove Dairy
  • September 1931: George Noah buys C. H. Weaver's dairy farm and stocks it with a new herd
• Weaver, D. S. 5 entries, 1934–1935
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  • August 28, 1934: Rural electrification surveyors for fourteen counties are trained in Chapel Hill
  • August 21, 1934: Federal relief engineers weigh Orange as the state's test county for rural electrification
  • July 2, 1934: Orange County commissioners order a study of power lines for farm homes
  • July 14, 1934: Farmers at an Orange Grove Grange gathering form committees to bring electricity to their homes
  • by March 15, 1935: Federal relief approves $165,000 for rural electric lines in Orange County
• Weaver, David 1 entry, 1804
  • February 29, 1804: The court binds Edy Weaver's five children to their mother, a free woman of color
• Weaver, David, Jr. 1 entry, 1864
  • August Term 1864: The court calls David Weaver Sr. to show why David Weaver Jr.'s binding to him should stand
• Weaver, David S. 1 entry, 1957
  • December 12, 1957: The county honors its Blue Ribbon farm families at the courthouse
• Weaver, David, Sr. 1 entry, 1864
  • August Term 1864: The court calls David Weaver Sr. to show why David Weaver Jr.'s binding to him should stand
• Weaver, Doc 1 entry, 1955
  • by September 1, 1955: Doc Weaver offers lots in his Weaver Village on the new road to Hillsboro
• Weaver, Edith 1 entry, 1808
  • February 24, 1808: The court binds out seven children of Penny Weaver, a free woman of color
• Weaver, Edy 1 entry, 1804
  • February 29, 1804: The court binds Edy Weaver's five children to their mother, a free woman of color
• Weaver, Frances 1 entry, 1826
  • 12 September 1826: James Weaver is jailed for want of bail after Frances Weaver names him as her child's father
• Weaver, Franky 1 entry, 1808
  • February 24, 1808: The court binds out seven children of Penny Weaver, a free woman of color
• Weaver, Isaac 1 entry, 1815
  • August Term 1815: The court releases Isaac Weaver, a boy of color, from his binding to Edward Harris
• Weaver, J. R. 1 entry, 1919
  • June 1919: The university's School of Education publishes a study of the Orange County public schools
• Weaver, J. Ralph 4 entries, 1928–1945
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  • by March 16, 1928: The county commissioners name J. Ralph Weaver county surveyor
  • by March 28, 1930: The Junior Order council at Chapel Hill grows to 109 members and sets up a jobs committee
  • May 19, 1932: Orange County Republicans name H. D. Carter for the legislature and a full county ticket
  • by March 1, 1945: Orange County is found to have only two justices of the peace
• Weaver, James 2 entries, 1826–1838
  • 12 September 1826: James Weaver is jailed for want of bail after Frances Weaver names him as her child's father
  • May Term 1838: The court binds John Weaver, a boy of color whose father had left the family, to Henry McDaniel
• Weaver, Jenn 3 entries, 2020–2021

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• Weaver, John 3 entries, 1838–1868
  • May Term 1838: The court binds John Weaver, a boy of color whose father had left the family, to Henry McDaniel
  • October 1868: New freedmen's schools open at Banocks Chapel, Cotton Run and New Hope, all with Black teachers
  • October 1868: Trustees open a freedmen's school at a chapel near Chapel Hill
• Weaver, Jordan 1 entry, 1893
  • by 1893: Black families' homes on Lot 16 are razed and an Alpha Tau Omega cottage goes up
• Weaver, L. J. 3 entries, 1879–1880
  • May 5, 1879: Chapel Hill elects a board of commissioners pledged to let hogs run free
  • May 7, 1879: Chapel Hill commissioners require hogs penned only during Commencement and the Normal School
  • August 24, 1880: The Mount Zion Baptist Association meets at Durham
• Weaver, Levin 1 entry, 1852
  • November 1852 (court term): A jury finds Levin Weaver to be the father of Ava Dossett's child
• Weaver, Lucy 1 entry, 1808
  • February 24, 1808: The court binds out seven children of Penny Weaver, a free woman of color
• Weaver, Major 1 entry, 1804
  • February 29, 1804: The court binds Edy Weaver's five children to their mother, a free woman of color
• Weaver, Max 3 entries, 1945–1946
  • late January and early February 1945: Carrboro Boy Scouts help fight a forest fire on the old Iron Mine hill
  • May 7, 1946: Judge Whitfield orders a taxi driver and the Tar Heel editor to explain a letter criticizing his court
  • September 20, 1946: Orange County Republicans name a ticket and adopt a five-point platform
• Weaver, Max C. 1 entry, 1948
  • April 17, 1948: Orange County Republicans file a nearly full slate as filing closes
• Weaver, Max G. 1 entry, 1946
  • March 25, 1946: Orange County Republicans elect George N. Harward chairman
• Weaver, Nancy 1 entry, 1808
  • February 24, 1808: The court binds out seven children of Penny Weaver, a free woman of color
• Weaver, Paul J. 2 entries, 1921–1926
  • November 29, 1921: The Chapel Hill Community Chorus organizes
  • by July 16, 1926: The Music Supervisors Journal moves its office to Chapel Hill under editor Paul J. Weaver

  May be the same person as Weaver, Paul John

• Weaver, Paul John 2 entries, 1919–1929
  • 1919: Paul John Weaver is hired as the University's first director of music
  • by July 19, 1929: Harold S. Dyer is named head of the university's music department

  May be the same person as Weaver, Paul J.

• Weaver, Penny 2 entries, 1808–1811
  • February 24, 1808: The court binds out seven children of Penny Weaver, a free woman of color
  • August Term 1811: The court takes Franky Weaver, a girl of color, from Edward Harris and binds her to Nathaniel Carrington
• Weaver, Preston 4 entries, 1957–1958
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  • June 1957: Orange County Patriots ask Preston Weaver to withdraw his transfer application
  • June 1957: Preston Weaver applies to move his son to Chapel Hill Elementary School
  • September 8, 1958: The county school board denies the Vickers family's appeal for a place at Carrboro Elementary
  • September 2, 1958: The county school board denies a Black Carrboro couple's request to send four children to Carrboro Elementary

  May be the same person as Weaver, Preston R.

• Weaver, Preston R. 1 entry, 1956
  • July 16, 1956: Preston R. Weaver applies to move his son from Northside School to the white Chapel Hill Elementary School

  May be the same person as Weaver, Preston

• Weaver, Raymond 2 entries, 1949–1953
  • June 5, 1949: New Sharon Methodist Church dedicates its new Gothic church
  • February 2, 1953: Commissioners ask the legislature for a five-member board elected at large
• Weaver, Richard 1 entry, 1948
  • March 20, 1948: The North Carolina Bird Club meets in Chapel Hill and votes to merge with South Carolina's club
• Weaver, Sally 1 entry, 1804
  • February 29, 1804: The court binds Edy Weaver's five children to their mother, a free woman of color
• Weaver, Simon 1 entry, 1808
  • February 24, 1808: The court binds out seven children of Penny Weaver, a free woman of color
• Weaver, Tabitha 1 entry, 1804
  • February 29, 1804: The court binds Edy Weaver's five children to their mother, a free woman of color
• Weaver, Thomas 2 entries, 1811–1816
  • 1811: Allan Bubberly sells the future Weaver House property to Thomas Weaver
  • August Term 1816: The court takes Emily Underhill from her master pending a hearing and gives her to her guardian
• Weaver, Timothy 1 entry, 1801
  • February 1801 (court term): The court orders Bolling Jolley to pay support for Polly Dixon's child to her and her new husband
• Weaver, W. G. 1 entry, 1854
  • April 14, 1854: The Chapel Hill Baptist branch holds its first meeting and receives James P. Mason
• Weaver, William 2 entries, 1804–1941
  • February 29, 1804: The court binds Edy Weaver's five children to their mother, a free woman of color
  • by October 31, 1941: Boy Scout Troop 107 is organized at the Orange County Training School
• Webb, A. G. 1 entry, 1915
  • May 1, 1915: The Carolina Drug Company takes over the Norwood Drug Company
• Webb, Alex 1 entry, 1889
  • by March 30, 1889: Black builders James Nichols, Peter Benton and Alex Webb form a contracting firm
• Webb, Alexander 1 entry, 1888
  • January 20, 1888: Hillsborough's Black Independent Literary Society installs its officers at the A.M.E. church
• Webb, Annie Huske 1 entry, 1874
  • December 17, 1874: Joseph Blount Cheshire marries Annie Huske Webb at St. Matthew's
• Webb, Clarence 2 entries, 1938–1941
  • by July 22, 1938: The WPA takes on a $29,000 school-grounds project across Orange County
  • January 9, 1941: Construction begins on the Negro Community Center
• Webb, Erasmus 1 entry, 1865
  • October 26, 1865: The Freedmen's Bureau apprentices Cadmus and Erasmus Webb to Robert F. Webb
• Webb, G. E. 1 entry, 1879
  • January 1, 1879: The Durham Light Infantry gives a New Year's ball at Duke's Hall

  May be the same person as Webb, Garland E.

• Webb, Garland E. 1 entry, 1861
  • May 16, 1861: Robert F. Webb becomes captain of the Flat River Guards

  May be the same person as Webb, G. E.

• Webb, Green 1 entry, 1880
  • October 16-18, 1880: Orange Republicans endorse Henry N. Brown for the state House at court-house meetings
• Webb, H. Winder 12 entries, 1894–1932

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• Webb, H. Winder 1 entry, 1896

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  • by November 26, 1896: Eno Cotton Mill's buildings near completion and its first cottages are occupied
• Webb, Harold 3 entries, 1961–1962
  • by September 21, 1961: The state accredits Cedar Grove School
  • by February 1, 1962: Harold Webb joins the Orange County Board of Public Welfare
  • by April 26, 1962: Harold Webb leaves Cedar Grove School for a state science post

  May be the same person as Webb, Harold Hudson

• Webb, Harold Hudson 1 entry, 1954
  • September 1954: Harold H. Webb becomes principal of Cedar Grove School

  May be the same person as Webb, Harold

• Webb, Henry 1 entry, 1841
  • November 10-13, 1841: Hillsborough men form the Washington Temperance Society of Orange County
• Webb, J. C. 1 entry, 1866
  • November 1866 (court term): A jury finds Washington Day, a freedman, not the father of Betsy Payne's child
• Webb, J. Cheshire 28 entries, 1868–1932

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• Webb, Mrs. J. Cheshire 4 entries, 1917–1918
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  • 1917: Hillsborough children aged six to sixteen learn to knit for soldiers in a Red Cross class
  • May 1917: The Daughters of the Confederacy in Hillsborough move to start a Red Cross chapter
  • August 1, 1917: Orange County women organize the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense
  • May 11, 1918: Mrs. J. Cheshire Webb is named the Orange County Red Cross's director of woman's work
• Webb, J. Clarence 1 entry, 1939
  • March 27 to April 5, 1939: A WPA crew lays a sewer line for twelve Forest Hills homes
• Webb, J. H. 1 entry, 1917
  • May 1917: The Spurgeon Building Company is chartered at Hillsborough to put up buildings
• Webb, J. L. A. 1 entry, 1857
  • June 4, 1857: Ten senior orators, John W. Graham and the valedictorian speak on commencement day
• Webb, J. Richard 1 entry, 1830
  • about 1830: A two-story frame farmhouse is built on the land later called Webb's Happy Acres
• Webb, James 45 entries, 1752–1944

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• Webb, James 25 entries, 1870–1966

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  • March 5, 1870: Hillsborough men ask Governor Holden to commission Pride Jones against the Klan
  • December 14, 1891: Rev. Joseph W. Murphy resigns as rector of St. Matthew's Church because of ill health
  • May 7, 1901: Hillsborough elects Mayor Norwood and a five-member town board under its amended charter
  • May 30, 1901: Mayor Norwood breaks a tie to license Hillsborough's three saloons for another year
  • by February 27, 1902: Southern Bell puts a telephone in James Webb's store at Hillsborough
  • May 5, 1903: Hillsborough votes for prohibition for the first time and elects Joseph A. Harris mayor
  • January 28, 1904: James Webb, a builder of the Eno Cotton Mills, dies at Hillsboro
  • February 1, 1944: Fire breaks out in stored cotton at the Eno Cotton Mills
  • June 25, 1945: Thieves break into the Hillsboro ration board office
  • October 7, 1946: Hillsboro merchants drop their fall festival and go on record against carnivals
  • September 19, 1946: The new Hillsboro Youth Center opens with a Scout court of honor
  • May 25, 1946: Sheriff S. T. Latta defeats R. R. Thomas in the Democratic primary
  • November 5, 1946: Orange County Democrats sweep the 1946 general election
  • November 26, 1946: The state elections board certifies James Webb as senator after a ballot omission protest
  • March 1947 (by March 20): The General Assembly gives Hillsboro elections by ballot in place of the mass meeting
  • March 29, 1947: The legislature limits carnivals and road shows in Orange County to one-day stands
  • December 6, 1948: New county board reappoints Judge Phipps and names Jerry Stone recorder's court prosecutor
  • October 4, 1948: County commissioners and school board name a citizens' committee to study capital needs
  • November 2, 1948: Orange County casts its largest presidential vote and returns the Democratic ticket
  • January 3, 1949: County commissioners ask the legislators for a lien on welfare recipients' property
  • December 1949: Eno Cotton Mills finishes installing new spinning machines
  • February 7, 1949: The county fact-finding committee presents its report on Orange County's needs
  • December 31, 1951: Eno Cotton Mills files for dissolution as a corporation
  • May 21, 1966: The first phase of the Burwell School restoration is finished
  • Spring 1966: Laurence E. Hensley is named supervising contractor for the Burwell School restoration
• Webb, James H. 6 entries, 1904–1927
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  • September 12, 1904: The Eno Cotton Mill reopens with James H. Webb as manager
  • August 11, 1913: A Just Freight Rate Association organizes at Hillsboro
  • 1915: Eno Cotton Mill rents its village houses to workers for 25 cents a week
  • by July 19, 1917: R. L. Strowd joins Orange County's draft exemption board
  • July 30, 1917: The county exemption board summons its first 400 drafted men to Hillsboro
  • May 23, 1927: Hillsboro textile man James H. Webb dies
• Webb, Mrs. James H. 2 entries, 1917
  • June 11, 1917: A Sunday rally at the Hillsborough court house gives $400 to the Red Cross War Fund
  • October 23, 1917: A Liberty Bonfire on the court house square rallies Hillsborough for the Second Liberty Loan
• Webb, James, Jr. 27 entries, 1845–1936

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• Webb, James M. 23 entries, 1947–2000

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• Webb, James M. 3 entries, 1953–1957

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  • 1953: The Webb brothers build a small two-level house for Ruth Price in Westwood
  • 1956: The Webb brothers design core-plan houses for the Highland Woods cooperative
  • 1957: A Webb-designed house is built for Bob and Josie Stipe in Highland Woods
• Webb, James O. 11 entries, 1884–1925
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  • August 23, 1884: Orange County Democrats nominate their legislative and county ticket
  • September 4, 1886: Orange Democrats nominate their county ticket
  • August 11, 1888: Orange County Democrats nominate their county ticket and leave the sheriff's race open
  • December 12, 1889: Webb & Morrow, merchants at Oaks, make an assignment
  • November 3, 1896: The Democratic-Populist fusion ticket carries Orange County
  • September 19, 1896: Orange County Democrats nominate S. M. Gattis for the House and a county ticket
  • by September 29, 1898: Orange Democrats name their 1898 county ticket with S. M. Gattis for the House
  • June 2, 1900: Orange Democrats nominate Samuel M. Gattis and the 1900 county ticket
  • December 12, 1903: A survey enlarging the graveyard is laid before the Chapel Hill aldermen
  • August 10, 1912: Orange County Democrats nominate George C. Pickard for the House and renominate the county officers
  • September 8, 1925: A Superior Court judge rules against the county school board in the Efland School site dispute
• Webb, James, Sr. 4 entries, 1886–1900
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  • April 27, 1886: Thomas B. Hill is elected senior warden of St. Matthew's Church
  • July 4, 1891: The list of Orange County claimants for the refunded federal direct tax reaches the clerk of court
  • March 19, 1897: James Webb Sr., senior warden of St. Matthew's, dies at 81
  • May 7, 1900: Hillsborough re-elects Mayor Joseph A. Harris over William Strain
• Webb, John 2 entries, 1887–1888
  • March 6, 1887: Hillsborough's Black Odd Fellows march to their annual thanksgiving service
  • March 4, 1888: Bud of Hope Lodge of Black Odd Fellows marks its second anniversary with a procession
• Webb, John B. 9 entries, 1949–1957

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• Webb, John B. 1 entry, 1952

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  • 1952 to 1957: Architect John B. Webb joins his brother James in Chapel Hill
• Webb, John Cox 1 entry, 1904
  • July 18, 1904: H. W. and J. C. Webb take over the James Webb Jr. & Bro. store
• Webb, John H. 2 entries, 1853–1858
  • by March 16, 1853: A post office opens at Orange Factory with John H. Webb as postmaster
  • May 11, 1858: John H. Webb buys 9 9/16 acres from Ellen Bain for the St. Mary's congregation
• Webb, Joseph C. 3 entries, 1861–1890
  • April 20, 1861: The Orange Guards leave Hillsborough for Fort Macon
  • February 18, 1887: The Webb & Co. tobacco partnership in Hillsborough is dissolved
  • January 1890: James Webb Jr. and Joseph C. Webb buy town lot 94 in Hillsborough
• Webb, Joseph Cheshire, Sr. 1 entry, 1853
  • 1853: Thomas Blount Hill buys the Phillips place and makes it the BelleVue villa
• Webb, Josiah H. 1 entry, 1855
  • between October 27 and November 7, 1855: Hillsborough forms the Orange Guards volunteer company
• Webb, Junius 1 entry, 1913
  • about 1913: A Colonial Revival house is built for businessman Junius Webb on Pittsboro Street
• Webb, Junius D. 27 entries, 1879–1931

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• Webb, L. H. 1 entry, 1917
  • June 13, 1917: Dr. Eric A. Abernethy leaves his Chapel Hill practice for the Army medical corps

  May be the same person as Webb, Louis; Webb, Louis H.

• Webb, Louis 1 entry, 1929
  • May 1929: The county board funds a two-room Morris Grove School, with Black families paying part

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

• Webb, Louis H. 1 entry, 1917
  • May 28, 1917: Chapel Hill and Carrboro residents vote to form a Red Cross chapter at the Graded School

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

• Webb, Mary Alice Hill 1 entry, 1853
  • 1853: Thomas Blount Hill buys the Phillips place and makes it the BelleVue villa
• Webb, Mrs. Norfleet 1 entry, 1918
  • September 2, 1918: The Hillsborough Community Chorus formally organizes
• Webb, Norfleet 3 entries, 1929–1949
  • 1929: Shepperd Strudwick resigns as president of Bellevue, and L. E. Beard takes over
  • November 30, 1948: Hillsboro opens the Christmas season with a parade and the courthouse lawn tree
  • by March 17, 1949: Civic groups join a central committee to preserve Hillsboro's historic places
• Webb, Robert F. 4 entries, 1860–1865
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  • February 4, 1860: Flat River men organize the Flat River Guards
  • October 1 to 2, 1860: The Orange Guards celebrate their fifth anniversary with visiting companies
  • September 17, 1862: Maj. Robert F. Webb is wounded leading the 6th Regiment at Sharpsburg, where the Orange Grays lose their captain
  • October 26, 1865: The Freedmen's Bureau apprentices Cadmus and Erasmus Webb to Robert F. Webb
• Webb, Robert Fulton 2 entries, 1861–1877
  • May 16, 1861: Robert F. Webb becomes captain of the Flat River Guards
  • 1877: Robert F. Webb moves to Durham as a leaf tobacco dealer
• Webb, Robina 1 entry, 1899
  • October 26, 1899: Hillsborough women organize the Gen. George Burgwyn Anderson Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy
• Webb, S. H. 1 entry, 1874
  • October 7, 1874: Orange County Granges form a county council of the Patrons of Husbandry
• Webb, S. S. 4 entries, 1880–1888
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  • by May 29, 1880: Census enumerators are named for Orange County's eleven districts
  • early June 1887: Bingham Township farmers form a club and call a county farmers' meeting
  • September 17, 1887: Orange County farmers organize the Orange County Club at the court house
  • February 25, 1888: Oaks citizens back a projected Durham-to-Charlotte railroad and name delegates
• Webb, Samuel 1 entry, 1929
  • April 15, 1929: Captain Samuel Webb, last of the Webb brothers, dies at Oaks
• Webb, Sarah F. 1 entry, 1917
  • May 1917: The Daughters of the Confederacy in Hillsborough move to start a Red Cross chapter
• Webb, T. N. 9 entries, 1917–1951
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  • July 9, 1917: The Council of Defense forms a committee to handle soldiers' business affairs
  • October 26, 1918: The Orange County Red Cross organizes volunteer nursing for the epidemic
  • August 5, 1946: Hillsboro merchants are asked to raise $1,000 toward buying the Nash-Kollock building
  • May 6, 1947: Hillsboro elects a new board of town commissioners
  • April 17, 1947: The Hillsboro Garden Club holds a one-day garden pilgrimage
  • January 15, 1948: J. M. Blieden sells Hillsboro's Dollar Store to J. Martin Crabtree
  • June 1948: The Hillsboro town board limits the town's five taxicabs to two parking spaces
  • by May 19, 1949: The Hillsboro Garden Club wins a national purple ribbon for its flower show
  • January 2, 1951: Hillsboro's town board ends rent control
• Webb, Mrs. T. N. 1 entry, 1918
  • 1918 (Third Liberty Loan): Orange County women's committees sell $59,600 in Third Liberty Loan bonds
• Webb, T. Norfleet 6 entries, 1904–1956
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  • 1904-1929: Shepperd Strudwick heads the new Bellevue Manufacturing Company in west Hillsborough
  • January 9, 1907: Stockholders organize the Hillsboro Clay Manufacturing Company and elect Shepperd Strudwick president
  • July to November 1908: Hillsborough macadamizes Churton Street
  • December 2, 1944: T. N. Webb opens the Hillsboro Flower Shop
  • January-February 1946: Orange County finishes its part of the Victory Clothing Collection
  • February 1, 1956: Fire guts Dr. Marion B. Roberts's house at King and Hassell streets
• Webb, Thomas 29 entries, 1849–1904

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• Webb, Thomas H. 3 entries, 1896–1900
  • by November 26, 1896: Eno Cotton Mill's buildings near completion and its first cottages are occupied
  • July 29, 1899: Hillsboro Township names separate committees for the town district's white and Black schools
  • July 12, 1900: Charles B. Aycock addresses a White Supremacy rally at Hillsborough
• Webb, Thomas Norfleet 1 entry, 1928
  • December 12, 1928: Hillsborough textile manufacturer Thomas Norfleet Webb dies
• Webb, Mrs. W. H. 1 entry, 1918
  • May 11, 1918: Mrs. J. Cheshire Webb is named the Orange County Red Cross's director of woman's work
• Webb, W. H. 1 entry, 1925
  • May 5, 1925: Hillsboro re-elects Mayor T. M. Arrasmith and a five-man council
• Webb, William Edwards 1 entry, 1799
  • 1799: Students rise against the faculty and beat principal Gillaspie
• Webb, William P. 1 entry, 1833
  • November 1833: Students win the use of Steward's Hall for the commencement ball
• Webb, Winder 2 entries, 1928–1935
  • April 6, 1928: The Orange County Civic Association takes up the county's roads
  • October 6, 1935: Hillsboro merchant and farmer Winder Webb dies
• Webber, C. B. 2 entries, 1930
  • May 1930: The Friendly Cafeteria opens on East Franklin Street in the old University Cafeteria space
  • March 26, 1930: The Bank of Chapel Hill forecloses on the University Cafeteria and sells it to the Friendly Cafeterias
• Webster, C. F. 1 entry, 1895
  • August 1895: Orange County farmers organize a Farmers' Mutual Insurance association
• Webster, James 1 entry, 1781
  • February 21-24, 1781: The British keep a guard at Kello's Mill during the Hillsborough occupation
• Webster, Jim 1 entry, 1973
  • fall 1973: Bill Dooley hires Jim Webster and John Guy, UNC's first Black football coaches
• Weedon, Fred 1 entry, 1957
  • 1957: Jim Webb designs a Contemporary Ranch on Pine Lane as a retirement home for Fred and Josephine Weedon
• Weedon, Josephine 1 entry, 1957
  • 1957: Jim Webb designs a Contemporary Ranch on Pine Lane as a retirement home for Fred and Josephine Weedon
• Weeks, Howard Raymond 9 entries, 1930–1950

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• Weeks, Raymond 1 entry, 1946
  • by February 11, 1946: Ground is broken for the first wing of the new Chapel Hill High School
• Weeks, Stephen B. 1 entry, 1887

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• Weeks, Stephen B. 7 entries, 1887–1918

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• Weems, Mason Locke 1 entry, 1821
  • winter of 1821-1822: Parson Weems sells books at Chapel Hill and Hillsborough
• Wei, Hsar Ree Ree 1 entry, 2022
  • Spring 2022: Hsar Ree Ree Wei becomes executive director of Transplanting Traditions
• Weidenger, John A. 1 entry, 1953
  • November 19, 1953: Catholic men of Chapel Hill organize and call for a parish church
• Weil, Gertrude 2 entries, 1927
  • March 10-12, 1927: The North Carolina League of Women Voters holds its convention in Chapel Hill
  • October 25, 1927: The League of Women Voters holds a conference on living costs at the Carolina Inn
• Weil, Henry 1 entry, 1899
  • by November 25, 1899: Henry Weil of Goldsboro gives the university library $1,000
• Weil, Leslie 2 entries, 1930–1941
  • November 13-15, 1930: Association of Governing Boards of State Universities meets at Chapel Hill
  • June 10, 1941: The University gives Louis Graves an honorary degree
• Weill, Henry 1 entry, 1899
  • by August 10, 1899: John Manning's widow gives his law library to the university
• Weill, Kurt 1 entry, 1937
  • October 29 to November 2, 1937: The Carolina Playmakers stage Paul Green's Johnny Johnson
• Weill, Solomon C. 1 entry, 1886
  • January 23, 1886: Professor John DeBerniere Hooper dies
• Weinholtz, Diane 1 entry, 1977
  • spring 1977: Chapel Hill High fields its first women's soccer team
• Welborn, Thomas 1 entry, 1771
  • later 1771: Outlawed Regulator leaders petition Governor Martin for pardon
• Welch, Robert 1 entry, 1966
  • February 13, 1966: Nicholson rebuts the Conservative Club chairman's charge about Forum speakers
• Welch, S. W. J. 1 entry, 1942
  • February 16, 1942: Third draft registration enrolls 2,075 men in Orange County
• Weld, Manchester W. 2 entries, 1868
  • May 18, 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay is ordered to Hillsborough to take charge of Orange and Person counties
  • May to October 1868: The Hillsborough Bureau office dockets about sixty complaints in the summer of 1868
• Weldon, Charlotte 1 entry, 1847
  • May Term 1847: The court grants Jehu Hall indentures for Charlotte Weldon and James Taburn, children of color
• Weldon, Daniel 1 entry, 1754
  • about 1754: Daniel Weldon settles as the county town's first lawyer
• Weldon, Lydia 1 entry, 1847
  • May Term 1847: The court grants Jehu Hall indentures for Charlotte Weldon and James Taburn, children of color
• Wellein, William G. 1 entry, 1957
  • June 17-30, 1957: A Catholic motor chapel holds a two-week mission in Hillsboro
• Welling, Sarah 2 entries, 1888–1891
  • probably January and February 1888: Sarah Welling's gift pays to repair the Chapel Hill Presbyterian belfry
  • 1891: Laura Phillips sells the old Fetter house to Sarah Welling
• Wellman, Manly Wade 2 entries, 1951–1960

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• Wellons, James A. 1 entry, 1911
  • June 16, 1911: Hillsboro presses its claim to the Central Highway route
• Wells, Arthur 8 entries, 1949–1968

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• Wells, Charles 1 entry, 1914
  • about 1914: White Oak Grove Baptist Church is organized
• Wells, Elizabeth 4 entries, 1799–1803
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  • March 1799: The Cane Creek women's meeting disowns Elizabeth Wells
  • May Term 1801: The court binds Margaret Crayton, Elizabeth Wells's daughter, to Levi Gifford
  • February Term 1801: Elizabeth Wells gets a writ to arrest Thomas Crayton in Chatham County
  • April 1803: The Cane Creek women's meeting accepts Elizabeth Wells's acknowledgment
• Wells, Flossie 1 entry, 1956
  • January 12, 1956: Black farm and school leaders form the Rural Activity Organization of Orange County
• Wells, James 1 entry, 1822
  • August 28, 1822: Reuben Day advertises his apprentice James Wells, a youth of color, as a runaway
• Wells, Katharine 1 entry, 1930
  • April 1930: The Philanthropic Society votes to admit women
• Wells, L. T. 1 entry, 1945
  • May 14, 1945: A wartime poultry set-aside order takes in Orange County farms
• Wells, Lightnin' 1 entry, 2007
  • March 24, 2007: Lightnin' Wells and John Dee Holeman play the Hillsborough Arts Council's Traditional Music Series
• Wells, Prudence 1 entry, 1822
  • August 28, 1822: Reuben Day advertises his apprentice James Wells, a youth of color, as a runaway
• Wells, Robert, Jr. 2 entries, 1971–1972
  • 1971: Robert Wells Jr. is mayor of Carrboro and Bill B. Britt its town manager
  • November 30, 1972: Officials signed the landfill agreement that carried promises to the Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood
• Wells, Samuel F. 1 entry, 1970
  • May 9, 1970: Student Government's 'The Strike Continues?' release turns the strike toward canvassing and calls a Memorial Hall teach-in
• Wells, Warner 3 entries, 1952–1961

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• Welsh, Barnard T. 1 entry, 1945
  • June 13, 1945: Bill Tilden and Vincent Richards play a tennis exhibition before 1,100 fans at Chapel Hill
• Welsh, J. Elwood 1 entry, 1921
  • October 11 to 13, 1921: The Mount Zion Baptist Association, meeting at Bethel, endorses the Washington arms conference
• Wentworth, H. W. 2 entries, 1944–1945
  • November 28, 1944: Army troops stage a chemical warfare show and war bond rally at Fetzer Field
  • April 13-20, 1945: Carrboro munitions workers triple their Seventh War Loan quota in a week
• Wentworth, Herb 1 entry, 1948
  • October 21, 1948: Chapel Hill and Carrboro young men organize a Junior Chamber of Commerce
• Wesley, Rue 1 entry, 1958
  • August 11, 1958: Hillsboro's Little League finishes its first season
• Wesson, Ron 1 entry, 1971
  • fall 1971: UNC restricts entry to campus and bars twelve Black Chapel Hill residents
• West, Cornel 1 entry, 1993
  • November 4, 1993: Cornel West gives the 1993 Weil Lecture on American Citizenship
• West, Hubert 1 entry, 1981
  • by September 1, 1981: UNC names Hubert West its head track coach
• West, I. A. 6 entries, 1945–1949
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  • May 7, 1945: Carrboro reelects Mayor I. A. West and its aldermen without opposition
  • May 2, 1947: The Carrboro Athletic Club dedicates its lighted ball field at the Carrboro school
  • by September 18, 1947: Carrboro opens Westwood Cemetery
  • May 5, 1947: Carrboro re-elects I. A. West mayor
  • May 25, 1948: The Carrboro P.-T. A. honors retiring principal Mrs. L. R. Sturdivant
  • May 3, 1949: Carrboro voters elect I. F. Hardee mayor over Mayor I. A. West
• West, James E. 2 entries, 1935–1938
  • April 25 to 28, 1935: About 1,600 Boy Scouts camp in Chapel Hill for a state Scout Jubilee
  • October 6-9, 1938: About 1,800 Boy Scouts camp on the University campus for the Region Six Jubilee
• West, Mrs. Jesse 4 entries, 1948–1958
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  • May 25, 1948: The Carrboro P.-T. A. honors retiring principal Mrs. L. R. Sturdivant
  • December 9, 1955: The county school board names Lloyd Senter and Mrs. Jesse West to the Carrboro school committee
  • June 2, 1958: Carrboro parents, Black and white, ask the county board to release their children to Chapel Hill schools
  • March 3, 1958: The county school board asks for a vote on joining Carrboro and White Cross to the Chapel Hill district
• West, Jesse 1 entry, 1954
  • August 16, 1954: The College Cafe moves across Franklin Street into the former Marathon building
• West, N. E. 1 entry, 1911
  • by September 14, 1911: N. E. West becomes principal of the Hillsboro High School
• West, Ruth 2 entries, 1958–1975
  • February 3, 1958: Carrboro citizens petition for a vote on joining the Chapel Hill school district
  • November 4, 1975: Ruth West, a former mill worker, wins Carrboro's mayoral race on saving the mill
• West, Sarah 2 entries, 1961–1962
  • week of October 2, 1961: Chapel Hill schools begin a state experiment for exceptionally talented pupils
  • May 14, 1962: Chapel Hill school board names Woodrow Edmonds first principal of Frank Porter Graham School
• Westbrook, James 2 entries, 1969
  • December 8, 1969: The 31-day SAGA strike is settled
  • November 21, 1969: Striking SAGA cafeteria workers vote 94 to 26 to join AFSCME
• Wettach, Alpha B. 1 entry, 1951
  • 1951: Alpha B. Wettach joins the university as dean of women students
• Wettach, John 1 entry, 1961
  • June 30, 1961: R. D. Smith is named to a new Chapel Hill Planning Board
• Wettach, Mrs. R. H. 9 entries, 1929–1942
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  • May 1929: Citizens' committee founds the Mary B. Pratt Library for Chapel Hill children
  • May 19, 1930: Mary Bayley Pratt Library Association adopts a constitution and dues
  • April 28, 1930: Children's library board makes a $1,500 Bayley gift its first endowment
  • by May 19, 1939: Mrs. R. H. Wettach is elected to the Chapel Hill school board
  • July 31, 1940: The Chapel Hill aldermen create a town recreation commission
  • by October 23, 1942: A ceiling-price committee is named for Chapel Hill and Bingham townships
  • by December 18, 1942: Citizens Service Corps canvasses Chapel Hill homes for the share-the-meat plan
  • November 23, 1942: Chapel Hill Civilian Defense Council holds a public mass meeting
  • June 13, 1942: A service center for men in the armed forces opens in Chapel Hill's old Methodist church

  May be the same person as Wettach, Mrs. Robert; Wettach, Mrs. Robert H.

• Wettach, Mrs. Robert 1 entry, 1934
  • September 8, 1934: Catholics organize a congregation in Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Wettach, Mrs. R. H.; Wettach, Mrs. Robert H.

• Wettach, Robert H. 24 entries, 1933–1968

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• Wettach, Mrs. Robert H. 1 entry, 1942
  • January 8, 1942: Mrs. Robert H. Wettach receives the theatres' trophy as Chapel Hill's most valuable citizen

  May be the same person as Wettach, Mrs. R. H.; Wettach, Mrs. Robert

• Whalen, Katharine 2 entries, 1993–1996
  • Summer 1993: Squirrel Nut Zippers form near Chapel Hill
  • 1996: Squirrel Nut Zippers release Hot on Mammoth Records
• Whatley, Shearley 1 entry, 1744
  • 1744: Shearley Whatley buys 200 acres from the Earl Granville
• Wheat, Dr. 1 entry, 1859
  • by July 6, 1859: Professors Shipp and Wheat resign from the university
• Wheaton, William 1 entry, 1900
  • April 2, 1900: Orange commissioners buy land for a smallpox pest house
• Whedbee, Charles 1 entry, 1919
  • February to May 1919: Richard H. Lewis chairs the trustees' search for a new university president
• Wheeler, A. S. 2 entries, 1919–1940

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• Wheeler, J. H. 1 entry, 1878
  • 1878: The wife of pastor J. H. Wheeler is buried in front of the Hillsborough Methodist Church

  May be the same person as Wheeler, John H.

• Wheeler, John H. 1 entry, 1870
  • June 1870: Historical society reorganized at the university's 1870 commencement

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

• Wheeler, Joseph 4 entries, 1865
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  • April 14, 1865: Johnston's retreating infantry marches through Chapel Hill
  • April 14, 1865: Wheeler's Confederate cavalry fought Union pursuers at New Hope Creek east of Chapel Hill
  • April 17–May 3, 1865: Union troops occupy Chapel Hill
  • April 14, 1865: Wheeler's cavalry reaches Chapel Hill and posts a guard on the university
• Wheeler, W. F. 1 entry, 1879
  • February 27, 1879: Prof. W. F. Wheeler exhibits the phonograph at the university
• Whetstone, Ethel 1 entry, 1945
  • January 1, 1945: Ethel Whetstone becomes librarian for Orange, Person and Caswell counties
• Whetstone, R. David 1 entry, 1975
  • 1975: Botanists list Occoneechee Mountain as a potential ecological natural landmark
• Whichard, Willis 1 entry, 1992
  • June 14, 1992: Binkley rescinds the preface on sexuality adopted with the licensure vote
• Whitaker, Mrs. Allen 1 entry, 1945
  • March 20, 1945: The Orange County Red Cross chapter oversubscribes its war fund quota
• Whitaker, Charles A. 2 entries, 1906–1911
  • by March 15, 1906: The Hillsboro Milling and Manufacturing Company buys the old river mill from Jackson Crabtree
  • May 2, 1911: Hillsboro elects Charles A. Whitaker mayor
• Whitaker, J. B. 1 entry, 1924
  • June 7, 1924: Orange Democrats nominate L. B. Lloyd for sheriff over Jug Whitaker
• Whitaker, J. R. 1 entry, 1888
  • October 6, 1888: The school board forms Bethel district for the Bethel Church community
• Whitaker, Jack 1 entry, 1963
  • October 13, 1963: Binkley Church breaks ground for its fellowship hall and education wing
• Whitaker, John K. 1 entry, 1948
  • June 12, 1948: Belle-Vue Manufacturing Company gives service pins to 220 workers
• Whitaker, Junius B., Jr. 1 entry, 1879
  • by July 5, 1879: J. B. Whitaker Jr. opens his own job printing office at Durham
• Whitaker, Nancy 1 entry, 1818
  • February Term 1818: The court cancels Nancy Whitaker's indenture to Polly Comb and binds her to Henry Thompson Jr.
• Whitaker, Starlin 2 entries, 1933–1934
  • by December 8, 1933: A federal Re-Employment Service office opens for Orange County
  • March 31, 1934: The Civil Works program ends in Orange County
• White, Anna 1 entry, 1802
  • 1802: Women of Raleigh give the university a new pair of globes
• White, Mrs. Carl 1 entry, 1939
  • May 23, 1939: Faculty wives organize the Newcomers' Club and elect Mrs. Harl Douglass president
• White, Carl M. 2 entries, 1938–1941
  • by April 1, 1938: Carl M. White is appointed Librarian of the University
  • April 22, 1941: Charles E. Rush takes charge of the university library
• White, Carter 5 entries, 1955–1959

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• White, Charles 2 entries, 1882–1883
  • July 1882: Bingham School finishes new buildings after the spring fire
  • May 24, 1883: Charles White, merchant and postmaster at Bingham School, dies
• White, Eugene 6 entries, 1932–1943
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  • By January 29, 1932: Kennon Cheek moves that the Janitors' Association give to the student loan fund
  • by May 3, 1935: Black citizens of Chapel Hill organize the Colored Civic Club
  • April 1940: The Janitors' Association puts out the first issue of its newsletter
  • February 1941: Black citizens of Chapel Hill campaign for funds and labor for the Negro Community Center
  • early September 1943: Black citizens of Chapel Hill organize their own Third War Loan campaign
  • by February 19, 1943: Civilian Defense gives arm bands to twelve Black volunteer fire-fighters in Chapel Hill
• White, Gilbert C. 1 entry, 1946
  • February 21, 1946: Chapel Hill aldermen hire an engineer to plan a larger sewer system
• White, Harvey 1 entry, 1971
  • November 19, 1971: Black Student Movement holds a first-anniversary memorial for James Cates
• White, J. B. 1 entry, 1865
  • spring to October 1865: Hillsborough Military Academy closes for a time at the end of the Civil War
• White, J. M. 2 entries, 1922–1923
  • by July 6, 1922: The Chapel Hill Funeral Home takes over E. A. Brown's undertaking business
  • December 19, 1923: Durham partners sell their share of Chapel Hill's Funeral Home to Eugene Andrews
• White, J. Sam 1 entry, 1946
  • December 17, 1946: The state gives Orange Furniture Craftsmen its first Certificate of Safety Achievement
• White, John C. 1 entry, 1822
  • 1822–1824: Named enslaved workers build the third story of Old East
• White, John E. 1 entry, 1919
  • June 15 to 18, 1919: UNC holds its 124th commencement with Secretaries Lane and Daniels
• White, Jordan 1 entry, 1868
  • April to October 1868: The Bureau agent orders a Mebaneville landowner to pay Jordan White for railroad cordwood
• White, Leon 1 entry, 1971
  • November 19, 1971: Black Student Movement holds a first-anniversary memorial for James Cates
• White, Mary 1 entry, 1850
  • 10 April 1850: The poorhouse account book records a $5 bastardy payment from Mary White

  May be the same person as White, Mary E.

• White, Mary E. 2 entries, 1883–1884
  • May 24, 1883: Charles White, merchant and postmaster at Bingham School, dies
  • August 19, 1884: A building of Mrs. Charles White's used by Bingham School cadets as a mess burns

  May be the same person as White, Mary

• White, Maurice 1 entry, 1973
  • November 2, 1973: Earth, Wind & Fire plays Carmichael Auditorium
• White, Mel 1 entry, 1998
  • March 27, 1998: Students march across campus from the Pit to close Celebration Week
• White, Philip S. 1 entry, 1850
  • October 12, 1850: Four professors and fifteen students join the Sons of Temperance at Chapel Hill
• White, Richard J., III 1 entry, 2022
  • May 5, 2022: Ground is broken for the Southern Branch Library in Carrboro
• White, Richard S. 1 entry, 1880
  • January 16-17, 1880: University societies elect the 1880 commencement speakers and marshals, leaving the ball to its backers
• White, Stephen A. 3 entries, 1881–1956
  • 1881: Mebaneville, the railroad village on the Orange-Alamance line, is incorporated
  • September 11, 1894: Republicans of the 18th Senatorial District meet at Hillsborough and nominate Stephen A. White, leaving the second seat to a Populist
  • April 27, 1956: White Furniture Company workers at Hillsboro and Mebane vote down a union
• White, Steuben 1 entry, 1849
  • June 4, 1849: Alamance County court holds its first session and elects county officers
• White, Steve 2 entries, 1955–1962
  • December 5, 1955: County commissioners cut the tax value of White Furniture Company's Hillsboro plant by about a third
  • October 3, 1962: Hillsboro merchants name White Furniture Company their industry of the year
• White, Susan 1 entry, 2013
  • January 2013: Foster's Market in Chapel Hill passes to Sera Cuni and Susan White
• White, Mrs. T. B. 1 entry, 1932
  • January 18, 1932: Carrboro Night School for Adults closes its second session
• White, Tom 2 entries, 1968
  • March 8, 1968: The trustees' executive committee asks Governor Moore to name a subcommittee on a permanent speaker policy
  • February 26, 1968: The UNC trustees adopt six temporary speaker rules in place of the voided regulations
• White, Will 1 entry, 1911
  • June 16, 1911: Hillsboro presses its claim to the Central Highway route
• White, William 1 entry, 1801
  • 1801-1802: The university raises money for the Main Building by lottery
• White, William Allen 1 entry, 1925
  • April 3 to 5, 1925: William Allen White gives the Weil lectures on citizenship
• Whitefield, Bernard 2 entries, 1956–1971
  • April 26, 1956: Carrboro Lions Club opens its new Boy Scout hut
  • 1971: The Carrboro Appearance Commission, chaired by Mrs. Howard Thomas, works on the town survey
• Whitehead, Richard Henry 4 entries, 1890–1912

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• Whiteley, C. D. 2 entries, 1921–1925
  • between 1921 and 1926: Eno Presbyterian adds to its Cedar Grove church and remodels it almost completely
  • March 22, 1925: Eno Church women organize a Woman's Auxiliary at the manse
• Whitfield, A. B. 1 entry, 1947
  • by November 1947: A. B. Whitfield and Roy W. Oakley buy Campbell's clothing store in Carrboro
• Whitfield, Bernard 3 entries, 1955–1958
  • March 11, 1955: Carrboro's new industry committee elects officers to court manufacturers
  • September 5, 1955: The Carrboro Lions Club receives the charter for its new Boy Scout Troop 45
  • by June 26, 1958: Mayor Todd names a committee to find a new industry for the Carrboro mill buildings
• Whitfield, C. P. 4 entries, 1921–1933
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  • by August 4, 1921: The county road superintendent halts all road work except by the county force
  • March 6, 1922: Orange County commissioners borrow $20,000 to keep the county schools running
  • June 2, 1928: Orange County Democrats choose county nominees in the June primary
  • week of February 27, 1933: County relief requires farm families on aid to grow their own food
• Whitfield, Mrs. Henry 1 entry, 1931
  • by October 9, 1931: The King's Daughters report $778 raised for relief in Chapel Hill and Carrboro
• Whitfield, Henry 2 entries, 1947–1949
  • May 6, 1947: Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor R. W. Madry and Recorder's Court Judge Henry Whitfield
  • April 26, 1949: The League of Women Voters holds a candidates' meeting for Chapel Hill's town election
• Whitfield, Henry A. 27 entries, 1919–1949

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• Whitfield, J. J. 1 entry, 1877
  • September 5, 1877: The school board approves Piney Mountain as school District 53

  May be the same person as Whitfield, John Joseph

• Whitfield, J. R. 2 entries, 1921–1935
  • August 5, 1921: Eastern Chapel Hill township residents meet at Blackwood school and denounce the commissioners over the road
  • March 23, 1935: Orange County cotton contract signers elect their 1935 committeemen at Carrboro
• Whitfield, John Joseph 1 entry, 1879
  • about 1879: John Joseph Whitfield builds a farmhouse on Whitfield Road

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

• Whitfield, N. B. 1 entry, 1891
  • February 19-20, 1891: A legislative committee inspects the university's buildings and grounds
• Whitfield, U. F. 1 entry, 1943
  • July 12, 1943: County commissioners appropriate $700 for a cannery building at White Cross
• Whithed, John 2 entries, 1813–1817
  • February Term 1813: The court binds Alexander, Zedekiah and Patsy Husbands, children of William Husbands, to three masters
  • May Term 1817: The court rebinds Zedekiah and Alexander Husbands, boys of color, after their masters leave the county
• Whitley, John 1 entry, 1954
  • January 21, 1954: Orange Presbytery dissolves Covenant Presbyterian Church in Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Whitley, John C.

• Whitley, John C. 1 entry, 1949
  • June 21 to July 14, 1949: Orange Presbytery holds its first camps at Camp New Hope

  May be the same person as Whitley, John

• Whitley, Millard 1 entry, 1952
  • by February 1952: Lincoln High's agriculture department launches the Rural Progress Program in the Hickory Grove community
• Whitley, Milliard 1 entry, 1955
  • March 1955: Five Black farm communities organize for the county Farm and Home Efficiency program
• Whitmire, Bruce 2 entries, 1937–1953
  • by July 2, 1937: Chapel Hill and Carrboro merchants agree to close on Wednesday afternoons
  • by December 3, 1953: The Pope brothers' Apex Jobbing Company buys Bruce's 5c to $1 Store in Hillsborough
• Whitmore, Andrew 1 entry, 1992
  • May 31, 1992: Goetha C. Whitmore, one of the oldest Occaneechi elders, dies at 97
• Whitmore, Caroline 1 entry, 1847
  • February 1847: The court dismisses a bastardy warrant against Samuel Rolen for a faulty examination
• Whitmore, Charles 1 entry, 1787
  • 1787–1820: Indian families from Virginia settle the Texas community in northern Orange County
• Whitmore, Goetha C. 1 entry, 1992
  • May 31, 1992: Goetha C. Whitmore, one of the oldest Occaneechi elders, dies at 97
• Whitmore, James 1 entry, 1959
  • January 1959: A Hollywood crew films a racing drama at Orange Speedway and the Colonial Inn
• Whitmore, Jesse 1 entry, 1787
  • 1787–1820: Indian families from Virginia settle the Texas community in northern Orange County
• Whitmore, Rudy 1 entry, 1947
  • 1947: Bethsada Baptist Church builds a 500-seat church
• Whittaker, John 2 entries, 1813–1817
  • February Term 1813: The court binds John and Nancy Whittaker, children of color, to James Forsyth and Polley Comb
  • February Term 1817: The court summons James Forsyth to produce John Whittaker, a boy of color bound to him
• Whittaker, Nancy 1 entry, 1813
  • February Term 1813: The court binds John and Nancy Whittaker, children of color, to James Forsyth and Polley Comb
• Whitted, Mrs. A. O. 1 entry, 1955
  • October 1955: The Orange County Negro Public Library joins the county's summer reading club awards
• Whitted, Agnes 1 entry, 1951
  • May 27, 1951: Orange County Negro Public Library dedicates its own building

  May be the same person as Whitted, Agnes Johnson

• Whitted, Agnes Johnson 1 entry, 1947
  • by October 16, 1947: Agnes Johnson Whitted runs a kindergarten in Hillsborough's Black community center

  May be the same person as Whitted, Agnes

• Whitted, Alston A. 1 entry, 1901
  • March 26, 1901: Lightning kills Black schoolteacher Alston A. Whitted near Hillsborough
• Whitted, Alvis 1 entry, 1906
  • 1906: Mount Bright Baptist Church is rebuilt
• Whitted, Anderson 2 entries, 1919–1957
  • July 16, 1919: Black women of Hillsborough serve the homecoming dinner for Black soldiers and sailors
  • August 5, 1957: The Rev. Anderson Whitted, Hillsboro's oldest citizen, dies
• Whitted, Clyde 1 entry, 1948
  • early August 1948: Hillsboro's Black veterans of the Lewis Mayo American Legion post elect their officers
• Whitted, Cynthia 1 entry, 1948
  • January 22, 1948: Orange County's library committee for Black readers plans to move the library
• Whitted, D. D. 1 entry, 1947
  • September 26, 1947: Black veterans organize an American Legion post in Hillsborough

  May be the same person as Whitted, Dempsey D.

• Whitted, Dempsey D. 1 entry, 1948
  • early August 1948: Hillsboro's Black veterans of the Lewis Mayo American Legion post elect their officers

  May be the same person as Whitted, D. D.

• Whitted, Fletcher 1 entry, 1929
  • November 9, 1929: Fletcher Whitted, head waiter at the Loop Eating Club, dies
• Whitted, Frank 2 entries, 1868–1869
  • February 1868: Bureau agent James Carle reports five freedmen's day schools and fifty districts without schools in Orange
  • August 1869: Frank Whitted, a Black candidate, is ruled not elected Hillsborough Township magistrate
• Whitted, George S. 1 entry, 1908
  • March 16, 1908: The Hillsboro Township road commission organizes a chain gang
• Whitted, Henry 1 entry, 1963
  • July 30, 1963: Hillsboro's new bi-racial committee holds its first meeting
• Whitted, J. Y. 5 entries, 1862–1883
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  • September 17, 1862: The Orange Guards lose three killed and about twenty wounded at Sharpsburg
  • December 9, 1871: Senator Graham of Orange introduces a charter for the Bank of Hillsboro
  • 1873: J. Y. Whitted's tobacco is shown at the Vienna Exposition
  • by January 30, 1878: Hillsborough counts four plug tobacco factories and one smoking tobacco factory
  • May 7, 1883: Hillsborough elects George O. Corbin mayor
• Whitted, James 1 entry, 1811
  • May 30, 1811: The court elects James Whitted register of Orange County
• Whitted, James A. 4 entries, 1868–1892
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  • August to December 1868: Freedpeople at Bains put up a school house on their own land
  • October 1868: New freedmen's schools open at Banocks Chapel, Cotton Run and New Hope, all with Black teachers
  • early October 1879: Chapel Hill's public school for Black children opens its term under James A. Whitted
  • October 21, 1892: Durham school principal James A. Whitted is buried at Hillsborough
• Whitted, John M. 1 entry, 1892
  • September 3, 1892: Black Republicans meet apart after the county convention and name John M. Whitted for the House
• Whitted, L. B. 1 entry, 1899
  • April 15, 1899: L. B. Whitted & Co., general merchants at Carr, dissolve
• Whitted, Levi 4 entries, 1796–1821
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  • February Term 1796: The court orders Levi Whitted to support Mary Jackson's child
  • August Term 1798: The court binds Nancy Jackson to Levi Whitehead, named as her reputed father
  • May Term 1816: The court names election inspectors for the county's polling places
  • January 24, 1821: Martin Murphey and Levi Whitted dissolve their partnership
• Whitted, London 1 entry, 1888
  • May 5, 1888: Orange Republicans name convention delegates and back James B. Mason for state auditor

  May be the same person as Whitted, London A.

• Whitted, London A. 5 entries, 1882–1897
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  • May 27, 1882: Hillsborough Republicans recommend Albert Haughawout, a Black man, for the state House
  • September 30, 1882: Orange Republicans endorse the Liberal coalition ticket
  • October 20, 1890: Black candidates Lisbon P. Berry and London A. Whitted address voters at the court house
  • September 20, 1890: Black Republicans of Orange form their own county executive committee and back Berry and London A. Whitted
  • February 15, 1897: Teacher London A. Whitted dies at Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Whitted, London

• Whitted, Loudon A. 1 entry, 1892
  • September 3, 1892: Black Republicans meet apart after the county convention and name John M. Whitted for the House
• Whitted, M. A. 1 entry, 1884
  • November 8, 1884: Black teachers meet as the Colored Teachers' Association of Orange County
• Whitted, Maynor 1 entry, 1949
  • by June 30, 1949: Hillsboro's Odd Fellows offer a lot for the Black public library
• Whitted, Norfley 1 entry, 1952
  • November 13, 1952: Black farm families hold their Rural Progress Night at Cedar Grove School
• Whitted, Richard E. 2 entries, 1972–1976
  • 1972: Richard E. Whitted becomes Orange County's first Black county commissioner
  • 1976: Richard E. Whitted becomes the first Black chair of the Orange County commissioners
• Whitted, S. L. 2 entries, 1897–1899
  • by November 18, 1897: Faucette, Whitted & Co. dissolves and S. L. Whitted carries on the store
  • February 11, 1899: The Union Mercantile Company takes over S. L. Whitted's Hillsborough store

  May be the same person as Whitted, Samuel L.

• Whitted, Sam 1 entry, 1897
  • September 13, 1897: Hillsborough's town board levies the 1897 town tax and orders the last Commons lots sold
• Whitted, Samuel L. 2 entries, 1897–1898
  • May 4, 1897: Hillsborough elects Mayor Joseph A. Harris and its first Black town commissioner, Samuel L. Whitted
  • January 17, 1898: Fire in S. L. Whitted's store is put out before it reaches the wooden row by the court house

  May be the same person as Whitted, S. L.

• Whitted, T. B. 1 entry, 1864
  • May 5-12, 1864: Capt. Robert Walker Anderson of Hillsborough is killed at the Wilderness and other town men are wounded
• Whitted, W. H. 2 entries, 1889–1892
  • 1889: Mount Adar Baptist Church is organized
  • July 3, 1892: Mount Adar Baptist Church dedicates its first building
• Whitted, Walker 1 entry, 1883
  • August to December 1883: Work begins on the Gray school and church for Black residents at Brownsville
• Whitted, William 5 entries, 1786–1814
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  • about 1786: The William Whitted House is built facing East Queen Street
  • October 16, 1801: Hillsborough Academy reopens for boys and girls under Andrew Flinn
  • March 18, 1803: Hillsborough Academy trustees engage Thomas Baron after George Johnston fails to arrive
  • 1813: Hillsborough men organize a company to build a cotton and woolen factory
  • February Term 1814: The court orders the street opposite the Hillsborough courthouse paved

  May be the same person as Whitted, William N.

• Whitted, William N. 1 entry, 1849
  • October 30, 1849: William N. Whitted advertises Lochiel for sale

  May be the same person as Whitted, William

• Whittemore, Charles B. 9 entries, 1868
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  • April to October 1868: The Bureau agent orders a Mebaneville landowner to pay Jordan White for railroad cordwood
  • April 23, 1868: A freedman is shot on a plantation near South Lowell, and the Bureau orders the planter arrested
  • May 18, 1868: Lt. Thomas H. Hay is ordered to Hillsborough to take charge of Orange and Person counties
  • May to October 1868: The Hillsborough Bureau office dockets about sixty complaints in the summer of 1868
  • April 20 to May 13, 1868: Robert Allen is driven from his farm near Ridge Meeting House over his Republican vote
  • February 27, 1868: The Bureau assigns agent Charles B. Whittemore to Hillsborough in charge of Orange and Person counties
  • March 1868: Agent Charles B. Whittemore counts 26 freedmen's schools in Orange and Person, most of them Sabbath schools
  • March to April 1868: Agent Whittemore makes a planter divide a crop with two freedmen after two former Confederate officers vouch for them
  • March to May 1868: Agent Whittemore summons Orange County employers in more than thirty claims brought by freedpeople
• Whitten, Dick 1 entry, 1936
  • April 22, 1936: University students hold an anti-war demonstration
• Whitter, Henry 1 entry, 1934
  • April 13 to 15, 1934: Chapel Hill holds its second Dogwood Festival
• Whyburn, William M. 2 entries, 1958–1959

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• Wicker, Jake 1 entry, 1959
  • About 1959: Institute of Government staff draft a new state law on municipal annexation
• Wicks, Nancy 2 entries, 1844
  • July 1844: The Hawfields Presbyterian session clears James C. Patton on Nancy Wicks's charge
  • February 1844: A jury finds James C. Patton is not the father of Nancy Wicks's child
• Wiegand, Carl 1 entry, 1923
  • May 8, 1923: Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor W. S. Roberson over Carl Wiegand
• Wiggins, Edith 3 entries, 1986–1989
  • January 24, 1986: The Black Cultural Center steering committee meets to finish its proposal
  • July 1, 1988: UNC opens the Black Cultural Center in temporary space in the Carolina Union
  • November 1989: Planners release a feasibility study for a permanent Black Cultural Center
• Wiggins, Monique 1 entry, 1993
  • October 29, 1993: Black Women United returns with a reception honoring Black women on campus
• Wight, James 2 entries, 1962–1964
  • by February 1, 1962: Harold Webb joins the Orange County Board of Public Welfare
  • by February 6, 1964: The county welfare department opens a full-time branch office in the Carrboro Town Hall
• Wigmore, J. A. 1 entry, 1946
  • by May 30, 1946: Pacific Mills buys the former munitions plant in Carrboro's Mill No. 7
• Wilbon, John D. 1 entry, 1873
  • June 1873: Town commissioners appoint John D. Wilbon mayor of Hillsborough
• Wilbon, Thomas A. 1 entry, 1867
  • July 17, 1867: Cicero M. Faucett is confirmed as clerk of the Bureau office at Hillsborough
• Wilcox, G. 1 entry, 1891
  • February 19-20, 1891: A legislative committee inspects the university's buildings and grounds
• Wilcox, John 1 entry, 1768
  • September 1768: Edmund Fanning orders John Pyle out of Hillsborough before the superior court
• Wilder, L. Douglas 1 entry, 1991
  • by January 1991: The Class of 1991 chooses Douglas Wilder as UNC's first Black commencement speaker
• Wilder, Louise Mae 1 entry, 1936
  • November 1936: Chapel Hill business women organize a Business Women's Circle
• Wilder, Samuel 1 entry, 1847
  • 1 December 1847: John Shepard advertises for William Harriss and Liza Corn, two free bound apprentices who left together
• Wiley, Bell I. 1 entry, 1959
  • February 28, 1959: A Civil War Centennial Conference meets at Chapel Hill
• Wiley, C. H. 1 entry, 1880
  • by February 21, 1880: University trustees name a committee to examine the university's organization

  May be the same person as Wiley, Calvin H.

• Wiley, Calvin H. 2 entries, 1866–1878
  • April 1866: Calvin H. Wiley is ordained at New Hope
  • July 13, 1878: Calvin H. Wiley addresses the Normal School on North Carolina education

  May be the same person as Wiley, C. H.

• Wiley, P. H. 1 entry, 1913
  • 1913: Mebane Chapel is organized in Hillsborough
• Wiley, Mrs. W. L. 1 entry, 1940
  • by April 26, 1940: Mary Bayley Pratt Children's Library Association raises money for school library books
• Wilhelm, S. M. 1 entry, 1908
  • November 1, 1908 or 1909: Efland Presbyterian Church is organized
• Wilhelm, W. F. 10 entries, 1879–1893

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• Wilkerson, Agnes 1 entry, 1947
  • March 20, 1947: A Superior Court jury convicts John Henry Breeze of murder, and he is sentenced to death
• Wilkerson, Emeline 1 entry, 1867
  • 15 April 1867: Emeline Wilkerson, a freedwoman, names Elijah Veazey, a freedman, as her child's father
• Wilkerson, Harris 1 entry, 1852
  • February 1852: Orange County seats a Board of Superintendents for its common schools
• Wilkerson, J. C. 1 entry, 1878
  • May 6, 1878: Durham elects D. C. Parrish mayor and a new board of commissioners
• Wilkerson, James A. 1 entry, 1895
  • week of October 28, 1895: James A. Wilkerson gets four years for the Cedar Grove robberies
• Wilkerson, John A. 1 entry, 1895
  • by March 23, 1895: The Fusion legislature names new magistrates for Orange County's townships
• Wilkerson, Roosevelt, Jr. 1 entry, 1987
  • November 3, 1987: Joe Herzenberg wins election to the Chapel Hill Town Council
• Wilkerson, Samuel Maris 1 entry, 1918
  • June 17, 1918: Marine Samuel Maris Wilkerson of Cedar Grove dies of wounds in France
• Wilkerson, T. J. 2 entries, 1948
  • May 29, 1948: Orange County voters return the incumbent board of commissioners in the Democratic primary
  • April 17, 1948: Orange County Republicans file a nearly full slate as filing closes
• Wilkerson, William 1 entry, 1888
  • September 3, 1888: The school board creates Cole's District at Walnut Grove on Anthony Cole's petition
• Wilkes, Edward 1 entry, 1866
  • July 12, 1866: Thomas Webb of Hillsborough becomes president of the North Carolina Railroad
• Wilkins, Ernest 1 entry, 1961
  • April 20, 1961: The reorganized Hillsboro Merchants Association and Chamber of Commerce adopts by-laws
• Wilkinson, A. D. 1 entry, 1880
  • by May 29, 1880: Census enumerators are named for Orange County's eleven districts
• Wilkinson, C. C. 1 entry, 1959
  • September 16, 1959: The Bible Presbyterian Church of Hillsboro is organized
• Wilkinson, Frank 12 entries, 1962–1987

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• Wilkinson, Joseph 1 entry, 1799
  • February Term 1799: The court binds Joseph Wilkinson, seven, to learn gunpowder making
• Wilkinson, S. M. 1 entry, 1868
  • June 27, 1868: The Court of Wardens of the Poor holds its last meeting
• Wilkinson, Sylvia 2 entries, 1967–1998

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• Will, Eno 1 entry, 1701

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• Will, Enoe 1 entry, 1701
  • 1701: Enoe Will agrees at Occaneechi Town to guide John Lawson to the English settlements
• Willard, William H. 1 entry, 1866
  • September 1, 1866: R. F. Morris & Son form a partnership to make Durham smoking tobacco at Durham's Station
• Willhoit, Don 1 entry, 1986
  • June 1986: Orange County Commissioners chair Don Willhoit signs a proclamation against discrimination toward gay men and lesbians
• Williams, A. M. 1 entry, 1953
  • February 1, 1953: The Rev. Robert C. Masterton retires as rector of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church
• Williams, A. S. 1 entry, 1891
  • April 13, 1891: Students organize the University German Club
• Williams, Albert 2 entries, 1960–2020

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• Williams, Alfred, Jr. 1 entry, 1931
  • by August 28, 1931: Alfred Williams & Co. of Chapel Hill is formed to take over the University's Students' Supply Store
• Williams, Archie G. 1 entry, 1954
  • May 29, 1954: Betty June Hayes wins the Democratic nomination for Register of Deeds
• Williams, B. S. 2 entries, 1925–1926
  • May 5, 1925: Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor Roberson and chooses its first six-member board under a new charter
  • April 12, 1926: Chapel Hill's aldermen approve a grass median for West Franklin Street and new sidewalks
• Williams, Ben 1 entry, 1895
  • about 1895: Brodie Lloyd builds a rental house on Oak Avenue before the Alberta mill opens
• Williams, Mrs. Ben 2 entries, 1945–1971
  • May 11, 1945: A Carrboro club for town improvement and beautification organizes
  • 1971: The Carrboro Appearance Commission, chaired by Mrs. Howard Thomas, works on the town survey
• Williams, Benjamin 3 entries, 1775–1807

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• Williams, C. F. 2 entries, 1955–1956
  • February 7, 1955: A Black delegation asks the commissioners for a gymnasium-auditorium at Lincoln High
  • July 12, 1956: The Negro Men's Civic Club asks for a Black member on the Chapel Hill school board
• Williams, C. R. 1 entry, 1949
  • June 20, 1949: Southern Railway renames its Chapel Hill depot Carrboro
• Williams, Carter 1 entry, 1951
  • by October 25, 1951: Contract let for the 100-bed state tuberculosis hospital at Chapel Hill
• Williams, Charlie 1 entry, 1953
  • January 1, 1953: Morris Telephone Company puts its country lines around Hillsboro on two-code ringing
• Williams, Clawson 2 entries, 1957–1958
  • October 28, 1957: Judge Clawson Williams upholds the Orange County racing law against Orange Speedway
  • January 10, 1958: The state Supreme Court strikes down Orange County's Sunday racing law

  May be the same person as Williams, Clawson L.

• Williams, Clawson L. 2 entries, 1946
  • December 9, 1946: Superior court revokes a tavern's beer license in the first case under the Sunday ban
  • August 20, 1946: A Superior Court judge rules Orange justices of the peace cannot try speeding and other traffic cases

  May be the same person as Williams, Clawson

• Williams, Dessie 1 entry, 1943
  • April 14, 1943: Dessie Williams, the University's superintendent of building operations, dies
• Williams, Donald 1 entry, 1993
  • April 5, 1993: UNC men’s basketball wins the 1993 NCAA national championship
• Williams, Elisha 1 entry, 1912
  • July 16, 1912: Abe and Annie B. Mebane sell a lot in west Hillsborough to the trustees of Mebane Chapel
• Williams, F. Carter 2 entries, 1961–1963
  • January 23, 1961: Orange County Building and Loan renames itself Orange County Savings and Loan
  • October 13, 1963: Binkley Church breaks ground for its fellowship hall and education wing
• Williams, George F. 9 entries, 1969–1977

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• Williams, Gloria 4 entries, 1964–2009

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• Williams, Harold 1 entry, 1938
  • late April 1938: Black Chapel Hill mothers organize a garden club at the Orange County Training School
• Williams, Hattie 1 entry, 1960
  • by August 25, 1960: Louise C. Hamlin becomes librarian of Hillsboro's Confederate Memorial Library
• Williams, Henry Horace 24 entries, 1883–1943

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• Williams, India 1 entry, 1997
  • November 14, 1997: The BSM marches to South Building with 22 new demands for Chancellor Hooker
• Williams, J. A. 2 entries, 1945–1960
  • March 1945: Black laundry workers take complaints of racial pay discrimination to the Fair Employment Practice Committee
  • November 11, 1960: The university's attorney finds the trustees never deeded the cemetery to the town
• Williams, J. Alvin 5 entries, 1952–1963
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  • November 11, 1952: Carrboro commissioners keep Police Chief J. Alvin Williams after rival petitions
  • March 29, 1956: Carrboro commissioners suspend the police chief for two weeks
  • July 1959: The Carrboro Lions Club finishes its $12,000 clubhouse beside its ball park
  • May 7, 1963: Carrboro re-elects Mayor C. T. Ellington in a record turnout
  • March 3, 1963: Carrboro police chief J. Alvin Williams leaves office
• Williams, J. C. 1 entry, 1953
  • January 3, 1953: Fire destroys the Carolina Club night spot west of Chapel Hill
• Williams, J. G. 1 entry, 1931
  • by May 22, 1931: J. G. Williams opens a flagstone quarry on Morgan Creek near Chapel Hill
• Williams, James E., Jr. 1 entry, 2019
  • November 2019: The Orange County Community Remembrance Coalition collects soil at the site of Manly McCauley's lynching

  May be the same person as Williams, James, Jr.

• Williams, James, Jr. 1 entry, 2023
  • April 29, 2023: Soil collection ceremony at the Orange County courthouse honors Cyrus Guy and four other 1869 lynching victims

  May be the same person as Williams, James E., Jr.

• Williams, Joe 2 entries, 1981
  • February 6-8, 1981: Ben Chavis gives the keynote at the BSM's Discovery conference for Black History Month
  • October 1981: Stephen's...after all opens as a cafe and supper club in Village Plaza
• Williams, John 11 entries, 1767–1799

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• Williams, John 2 entries, 1795–1796

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  • August Term 1795: The court issues a habeas corpus for Sarah Rickets's daughter Polly, held by Absalom Roach
  • February Term 1796: The court orders Levi Whitted to support Mary Jackson's child
• Williams, John S. 2 entries, 1952–1953
  • February 4, 1952: County commissioners put three farmers on the Chapel Hill zoning commission
  • October 5, 1953: County commissioners name the rural members of Chapel Hill's enlarged planning and zoning boards
• Williams, Mrs. Jonathan 1 entry, 1941
  • February 10, 1941: Chapel Hill women's war relief workroom displays and ships its winter's garments
• Williams, Jonathan 1 entry, 1989
  • April 9-15, 1989: Poets Jonathan Williams and Thomas Meyer give a reading in the Biology Department's Coker Room
• Williams, L. A. 5 entries, 1916–1953
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  • May 3, 1916: Orange County holds a county-wide school commencement at Hillsboro
  • October 10, 1916: State and university educators set up a teacher-training program for Orange County
  • June 1919: The university's School of Education publishes a study of the Orange County public schools
  • by March 6, 1919: The University School of Education begins a survey of the Orange County schools
  • December 14-18, 1953: A grand jury reports the Carrboro School extremely shabby
• Williams, Lilly B. 1 entry, 1917
  • about 1917: Lewis J. Johnson builds a two-story house on Shadylawn Road
• Williams, Lonas 3 entries, 1949–1961
  • May 29 to June 5, 1949: The Chapel Hill Jaycees open the Williams Lustron house for public inspection
  • April 1949: Railway Express agent Lonas Williams starts Chapel Hill's first Lustron house, on Stephens Street
  • August 4, 1961: The Railway Express Agency moves its office to East Main Street in Carrboro
• Williams, M. J. 1 entry, 1944
  • May 25, 1944: The National Munitions plant at Carrboro receives the first National Security Award given in North Carolina
• Williams, Mack 3 entries, 1927–1958
  • May 1, 1927: Chapel Hill policeman Mack Williams dies on duty
  • April 1958: Opponents of the school merger form the Carrboro School Development Council
  • April 9, 1958: The county school board leaves the Carrboro school committee seats unfilled during the merger fight
• Williams, Marcus 2 entries, 1974–1975
  • by March 1974: Marcus Williams is elected UNC's second Black student body president
  • January 16, 1975: Protesters stop Klan leader David Duke from speaking in Memorial Hall
• Williams, Mary Louise Gunter 1 entry, 1960
  • 1960: Architect Wade Williams builds a Wright-influenced house for himself on Whitfield Road
• Williams, Mrs. O. B. 1 entry, 1929
  • October 1, 1929: Mrs. O. B. Williams opens the Chapel Hill Kindergarten School in the Methodist church
• Williams, Otho Holland 1 entry, 1781
  • March 2, 1781: Pickens's cavalry fights Tarleton's horse at Clapp's Mill
• Williams, Patty 1 entry, 1794
  • May Term 1794: The court orders Thomas Nelson to bring in the child Patty Williams says he took from her
• Williams, Paul 1 entry, 1963
  • by August 1, 1963: Young men of Hillsboro organize a Jaycees club
• Williams, R. B. 1 entry, 1959
  • February 6, 1959: County school board moves to overhaul its school bus system after a state survey
• Williams, R. Murphy 1 entry, 1917
  • late October or early November 1917: James Sprunt gives $30,000 for a new Presbyterian church at Chapel Hill
• Williams, R. Wade 1 entry, 1960
  • 1960: Architect Wade Williams builds a Wright-influenced house for himself on Whitfield Road
• Williams, Richard 1 entry, 1790
  • November 24, 1790: A road jury reroutes the road from Hillsborough to General Person's around a hill
• Williams, Robert F. 1 entry, 1943
  • April 10, 1943: The Pre-Flight School is to open its Synthetic Devices Building
• Williams, Roy 8 entries, 1978–2021

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• Williams, Talcott 1 entry, 1916
  • December 7-9, 1916: The state Press Association holds a Newspaper Institute at the university
• Williams, Ted 2 entries, 1942–1943

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• Williams, Thomas A. 1 entry, 1891
  • February 25, 1891: St. Matthew's rector invites bids to build a chapel
• Williams, V. S. 1 entry, 1867
  • 1867–1868: Sarah J. Woodson teaches at the freedmen's school in Hillsborough
• Williams, Virginia 1 entry, 1945
  • November 30, 1945: Hillsborough's wartime ration board closes to the public
• Williams, Mrs. W. E. 2 entries, 1945–1947
  • May 11, 1945: The Carrboro Civic Club is organized for town improvement
  • December 3, 1947: The new Carrboro Health Center becomes home of the area's well-baby clinics
• Williams, W. E. 2 entries, 1947–1958
  • by September 18, 1947: Carrboro opens Westwood Cemetery
  • by September 11, 1958: Carrboro finishes and pays for its $100,000 sewer plant improvement

  May be the same person as Williams, Winslow; Williams, Winslow E.

• Williams, W. H. 1 entry, 1938
  • October 30, 1938: Nunn's Chapel Baptist Church is organized
• Williams, W. R. 1 entry, 1891
  • February 19-20, 1891: A legislative committee inspects the university's buildings and grounds
• Williams, Mrs. W. R. 1 entry, 1948
  • May 30, 1948: The Junior Service League deeds the Carrboro Health Center to the Carrboro Civic Association
• Williams, Wallace 1 entry, 1964
  • November 10, 1964: Chapel Hill Exchange Club gives Police Chief W. D. Blake its Book of Golden Deeds award
• Williams, Walter 1 entry, 1916
  • December 7-9, 1916: The state Press Association holds a Newspaper Institute at the university
• Williams, William 1 entry, 1776
  • summer 1776: Orange County militia join Griffith Rutherford's campaign against the Cherokee
• Williams, Winona 1 entry, 1945
  • May 31, 1945: Efland High's senior class gives the school a plaque for former students who died in the war
• Williams, Winslow 4 entries, 1941–1946
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  • March 24, 1941: Carrboro softball players start a drive to light a softball field
  • February to March 1942: National Munitions Corporation takes over a Carrboro hosiery mill for shell loading
  • January 5, 1942: Tire rationing board for southern Orange County receives its first quota
  • by May 30, 1946: Pacific Mills buys the former munitions plant in Carrboro's Mill No. 7

  May be the same person as Williams, W. E.; Williams, Winslow E.

• Williams, Mrs. Winslow 1 entry, 1945
  • May 11, 1945: A Carrboro club for town improvement and beautification organizes
• Williams, Winslow E. 2 entries, 1943–1960
  • by January 22, 1943: Dwight Ray of Carrboro joins the Chapel Hill ration board
  • by April 7, 1960: Charlie Ellington becomes Carrboro's mayor as R. B. Todd leaves the office to be town clerk

  May be the same person as Williams, W. E.; Williams, Winslow

• Williams, Mrs. Wright 1 entry, 1946
  • by July 25, 1946: The Tri-County librarian reports 18,635 books lent in Orange County in 1945-46
• Williamson, Charles 1 entry, 1996
  • 1996: Course grants from Dr. Charles Williamson's bequest for gay and lesbian studies begin
• Williamson, George 2 entries, 1878–1888
  • August 1, 1878: Orange sends Josiah Turner to the House and votes down A. W. Graham
  • February 25, 1888: Oaks citizens back a projected Durham-to-Charlotte railroad and name delegates
• Williamson, Hugh 7 entries, 1782–1792

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• Williamson, J. L. 1 entry, 1883
  • July to September 1883: Hillsborough Presbyterians decline to share a pastor with the Chapel Hill church
• Williamson, James M. 1 entry, 1836
  • March 15, 1836: Orange County Van Buren men meet at the court house
• Williamson, John H. 1 entry, 1891
  • April 3, 1891: Williamson addresses Hillsborough's Black residents on a Black exhibit at the Raleigh exposition
• Williamson, Ron 1 entry, 1989
  • 1989: Cane Creek Reservoir is filled
• Williamson, Samuel 1 entry, 1980
  • July 1, 1980: Colin A. Palmer becomes co-chairman of Afro-American Studies
• Williamson, Sarah C. 2 entries, 1989
  • December 5, 1989: Jacquelyn Gist is sworn in as a Carrboro alderman
  • December 5, 1989: Eleanor Kinnaird is sworn in for a second term as mayor of Carrboro
• Williamson, Vincent Peter 1 entry, 1787
  • about 1787: A one-story Federal house is built on West Queen Street, later the John Newman House
• Williford, John 1 entry, 1953
  • December 31, 1953: Fire burns the Carrboro Smoke Shop and a barber shop in the center of Carrboro
• Willis, Susan 1 entry, 1828
  • 10 January 1828: A warrant charges Joseph Proctor Jr. with beating Susan Willis, who had named him as her child's father
• Willis, Tommy 1 entry, 1967
  • December 10, 1967: Five Forks Baptist Church dedicates its new block church
• Wills, C. L. 1 entry, 1925
  • May 5, 1925: Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor Roberson and chooses its first six-member board under a new charter
• Wills, Charles Battle 1 entry, 1918
  • December 25, 1918: Sgt. Charles Battle Wills of Chapel Hill dies of pneumonia overseas
• Wills, Clarence 1 entry, 1928
  • by April 20, 1928: The Moore-Johnson Hardware Company takes over the Chapel Hill Hardware Company
• Wills, H. C. 2 entries, 1917
  • June 11, 1917: The Chapel Hill Hardware Company closes and goes into receivership
  • by September 6, 1917: The Chapel Hill Hardware Company comes out of receivership
• Wills, W. H. 1 entry, 1891
  • April 15, 1891: The class of 1891 holds its Class Day in Memorial Hall
• Wilson, A. E. W. 1 entry, 1918
  • Fall 1918: A Black county committee raises $525 for the United War Work drive

  May be the same person as Wilson, Addison E.

• Wilson, Aaron 1 entry, 1867
  • September 23, 1867: Freedpeople near White Oak Spring gather 75 children for a school
• Wilson, Addison E. 1 entry, 1868
  • April to October 1868: The Bureau agent orders a Mebaneville landowner to pay Jordan White for railroad cordwood

  May be the same person as Wilson, A. E. W.

• Wilson, Albert 1 entry, 1920
  • April 18, 1920: Mount Olive Baptist Church is organized at Efland
• Wilson, Alexander 8 entries, 1822–1851

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• Wilson, Alice 1 entry, 1886
  • 1886: The King's Daughters organize in Chapel Hill
• Wilson, Ambra 1 entry, 2018
  • August 2018: New Hope Elementary starts a Spanish dual-language program in Orange County Schools
• Wilson, Amos 1 entry, 1904
  • 1904 (ordered April 11): A frame schoolhouse replaces the log St. Mary's School
• Wilson, Aron 1 entry, 1845
  • May Term 1845: The court calls in the children of six free families of color to be bound out and tells the parents they may object
• Wilson, Arthur 1 entry, 1924
  • July 1924: County commissioners decide to rebuild the washed-out bridges on Morgan's and Phil's creeks
• Wilson, Banks 1 entry, 1952
  • August 21, 1952: Farmers Home Administration pushes livestock to raise tenant incomes near Cedar Grove
• Wilson, Ben 2 entries, 1949–1958
  • March 7, 1949: County commissioners back a bill giving them power over beer licenses
  • July 7, 1958: Commissioners ask the state for a bridge to keep Ben Wilson Road open across the new US 70
• Wilson, Ben F. 19 entries, 1930–1958

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• Wilson, Charles 2 entries, 1885–1931
  • May 4, 1885: The county commissioners create Grover school district No. 38
  • September 1931: Schley Grange No. 710 is chartered

  May be the same person as Wilson, Charles E.

• Wilson, Charles E. 3 entries, 1908–1911
  • August 29, 1908: Orange County Democrats nominate S. M. Gattis and the 1908 county ticket
  • September 4, 1911: County commissioners call off the November vote on $250,000 in road bonds
  • 1911-1914: J. D. Webb chairs the Orange County board of commissioners

  May be the same person as Wilson, Charles

• Wilson, E. H. 3 entries, 1891–1898
  • July 10, 1891: The Orange County Farmers' Alliance elects officers and endorses the sub-treasury plan
  • June 11, 1892: Orange People's Party holds its county convention and votes to nominate a full county ticket
  • September 24, 1898: Eighteenth District Populists nominate Devereux Turner for the state Senate at Hillsborough

  May be the same person as Wilson, Eugene; Wilson, Eugene H.

• Wilson, Ed 1 entry, 1947
  • Late February and early March 1947: Elmer R. Dowdy holds forestry thinning demonstrations for Schley farmers
• Wilson, Eugene 1 entry, 1887
  • January 3, 1887: The school board forms the Mary Smith school district along the Chatham line

  May be the same person as Wilson, E. H.; Wilson, Eugene H.

• Wilson, Eugene H. 1 entry, 1895
  • by March 23, 1895: The Fusion legislature names new magistrates for Orange County's townships

  May be the same person as Wilson, E. H.; Wilson, Eugene

• Wilson, George C. 1 entry, 1924
  • September 1, 1924: Commissioners make the road to New Sharon church a public road
• Wilson, Glenn 1 entry, 1972
  • 1972: UNC School of Medicine launches the Area Health Education Centers program
• Wilson, H. V. 7 entries, 1918–1941

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• Wilson, Herman 1 entry, 1948
  • May 24, 1948: Carrboro adds a full-time policeman to assist its police chief
• Wilson, Hugh 4 entries, 1807–1960
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  • May Term 1807: The court levies a patrol tax on Black polls and pays the patrollers
  • March 1844 term: Superior Court sentences Green and Dick, two enslaved men, to hang
  • January 21, 1953: Rural citizens petition for five-member county boards
  • May 28, 1960: Donald Stanford and Harvey Bennett win the Democratic primary for county commissioner
• Wilson, J. M. 1 entry, 1822
  • October 3, 1822: The Synod of North Carolina meets at Hillsborough
• Wilson, John 3 entries, 1797–1911
  • 1797: James O'Kelly organizes Damascus Christian Church
  • April 1, 1911: The Tar Heel reports the monument's unveiling put off from the 1911 commencement for want of funds
  • March 14, 1911: Bettie Jackson London publishes the design for the campus monument and appeals for the $7,500
• Wilson, John A. 4 entries, 1910–1913

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• Wilson, John R. 1 entry, 1896
  • November 3, 1896: Orange County voters elect township magistrates and constables
• Wilson, Logan 1 entry, 1951
  • May 22, 1951: Trustees make the campus heads chancellors and add a university vice-presidency
• Wilson, Louis 1 entry, 1936
  • March 2, 1936: The county school board buys land for a new Black school in Hillsboro

  May be the same person as Wilson, Louis Round

• Wilson, Louis Round 33 entries, 1904–1964

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• Wilson, Louis Round 1 entry, 1932

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  • 1932: Susan Grey Akers becomes UNC's first woman full professor

  May be the same person as Wilson, Louis

• Wilson, Marcia 1 entry, 1973
  • 1973: Cat's Cradle reopens on West Rosemary Street
• Wilson, Mary Elizabeth Mangum 1 entry, 1944
  • 1944, after July 29: Charles S. Mangum Jr. sells the old Mangum house on East Rosemary Street to Betty Smith
• Wilson, N. H. D. 3 entries, 1883–1940
  • June 28 to July 1, 1883: The Methodist district conference meets at Cedar Grove, and Bishop Keener preaches in Orange
  • November 26, 1897: The university holds a memorial service for David Gaston Worth
  • November 19, 1940: N. H. D. Wilson, Methodist minister, dies in Chapel Hill
• Wilson, Mrs. N. H. D. 1 entry, 1886
  • 1886: The King's Daughters organize in Chapel Hill
• Wilson, N. W. 2 entries, 1861–1867
  • April 26, 1861: Chapel Hill churches hold a farewell service for the Orange Light Infantry
  • July 1867 to January 1869: The Chapel Hill Baptist Church goes without regular services
• Wilson, Mrs. R. L. 1 entry, 1925
  • October 13-14, 1925: Mount Adar hosts the Mount Zion Baptist Association for the first time
• Wilson, R. M. 1 entry, 1911
  • by July 6, 1911: Principal R. M. Wilson resigns from the Hillsboro High School
• Wilson, Robert 1 entry, 1793
  • August Term 1793: The court orders an orphan in Robert Wilson's keeping brought in to be bound out
• Wilson, Robert McArthur 1 entry, 1909
  • 1909-1911: Robert McArthur Wilson teaches at the Hillsboro High School
• Wilson, Rosalie 1 entry, 1961
  • October 1961: A student council takes over Chapel Hill's white teen recreation program
• Wilson, Sallie 1 entry, 1896
  • about 1896: John W. Canada starts the Canada School in Chapel Hill
• Wilson, Sam 1 entry, 1887
  • September 22, 1887: Bud of Hope Lodge, Hillsborough's Black Odd Fellows, celebrates its anniversary
• Wilson, Stephen 1 entry, 1846
  • August Term 1846: The court binds Stephen Wilson, a boy of color, to his late master's widow, Nancy Pratt
• Wilson, T. J. 2 entries, 1874–1880
  • August 6, 1874: Orange County elects the whole Conservative ticket
  • December 6, 1880: Newly elected county commissioners take office and re-elect Jones Watson chairman
• Wilson, Mrs. T. J. 2 entries, 1918–1919
  • 1918 (Third Liberty Loan): Orange County women's committees sell $59,600 in Third Liberty Loan bonds
  • March 15, 1919: A Chapel Hill committee opens the town canvass for the Graham Memorial fund
• Wilson, Mrs. T. J., Jr. 1 entry, 1922
  • 1922-23: Mrs. T. J. Wilson Jr. serves as Chapel Hill's director of the cemetery
• Wilson, T. J., Jr. 5 entries, 1927–1942
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  • by October 28, 1927: University enrollment reaches 2,682
  • by October 10, 1930: University trustees name T. J. Wilson Jr. dean of admissions and registrar
  • by October 3, 1930: University enrollment reaches a record 2,716
  • by August 10, 1934: South Building's first floor is rebuilt into offices for the consolidated University
  • by September 25, 1942: T. J. Wilson Jr. becomes University archivist as Husbands, Armstrong and Parker take new posts

  May be the same person as Wilson, Thomas J., Jr.

• Wilson, Thomas 5 entries, 1861–1868
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  • February 20, 1861: A Union meeting at the court house nominates Graham and John Berry for the convention
  • late May 1863: The county court sets up commissioners to direct the Soldiers' Fund
  • August 16 to September 3, 1867 (as scheduled): Orange County's board of registration begins enrolling voters under the Reconstruction Acts
  • March 30, 1867: An Orange County meeting at the courthouse resolves to submit to the Reconstruction Acts
  • February 25, 1868: Orange Conservatives hold a county meeting at the courthouse and name an executive committee
• Wilson, Thomas J. 9 entries, 1876–1947
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  • November 1876: Thomas J. Wilson, longtime county surveyor, dies at Little River
  • September 9, 1878: The coroner holds an inquest on the exhumed body of Louis Carlton's wife at Chapel Hill
  • September 4, 1880: Orange Democrats nominate their county ticket at Hillsborough
  • May 9, 1885: Dr. Thomas J. Wilson leaves Hillsborough for Asheville
  • by November 7, 1885: Dr. Thomas J. Wilson and E. S. Merritt open a drugstore in Chapel Hill
  • January 1, 1885: Dr. Thomas J. Wilson and Dr. D. C. Parris form a medical partnership in Hillsborough
  • September 19, 1904: Dr. Thomas J. Wilson dies at Chapel Hill
  • October 23, 1945: Thomas J. Wilson, longtime UNC registrar and dean of admissions, dies
  • by April 17, 1947: Thomas J. Wilson resigns as director of the University of North Carolina Press
• Wilson, Thomas J., III 3 entries, 1919–1948
  • by February 20, 1919: Orange County students at the University organize a county club
  • January 1946: Thomas J. Wilson III becomes director of the University of North Carolina Press
  • 1948 (reported January 1949): Lambert Davis is named director of the University of North Carolina Press
• Wilson, Thomas J., Jr. 2 entries, 1933–1934
  • March 1933 (suit denied March 28, 1933): Thomas Hocutt sues to enter the University's school of pharmacy and is refused
  • by February 16, 1934: Registrar's report shows University enrollment down to 2,414

  May be the same person as Wilson, T. J., Jr.

• Wilson, W. C. 1 entry, 1866
  • November 1866: The Methodist conference forms a Hillsborough District, with Hillsborough heading a station of five churches
• Wilson, William 1 entry, 1887
  • October 1, 1887: The school board condemns a lot for a school for Black children at Walnut Grove
• Wilson, Woodrow 4 entries, 1909–1912

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• Wilson, Woodrow 2 entries, 1909–1911

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• Winborne, Stanley 1 entry, 1935
  • September 13, 1935: Carolina Coach begins bus service from Greensboro to Raleigh by way of Chapel Hill
• Wind, Edgar 1 entry, 1927
  • by January 28, 1927: The Carnegie Corporation gives the University $5,000 in fine arts materials
• Windsor, Bob 1 entry, 1984
  • January 19 and February 2, 1984: The Landmark attacks student-fee funding of the Carolina Gay Association
• Winecoff, Kay 1 entry, 1959
  • August 1, 1959: Kay Winecoff and Clarence Rosemond reopen the Osbunn Theater
• Winslow, Mrs. James E. 1 entry, 1946
  • by April 18, 1946: Aycock High's home economics students run a kindergarten
• Winslow, Rex 1 entry, 1950
  • by November 18, 1950: Chapel Hill's Community Chest drive passes its $13,500 goal
• Winslow, Warren 1 entry, 1857
  • June 3, 1857: Warren Winslow of Fayetteville gives the alumni address
• Winston, Barry T. 2 entries, 1970–1971
  • December 1, 1970: Three Durham men bound over to the grand jury in the Cates killing
  • March 22, 1971: Trial of three Storm Troopers for the death of James Cates opens
• Winston, Francis D. 10 entries, 1875–1920

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• Winston, George Tayloe 32 entries, 1875–1932

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• Winston, Henry 1 entry, 1886
  • by November 1886: June Spencer Love teaches a small class of children at Senlac
• Winston, Judge 1 entry, 1891
  • November 2, 1891: Orange Superior Court opens its fall term with Judge Winston presiding
• Winston, Patrick Henry 5 entries, 1832–1940

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• Winston, Robert W. 11 entries, 1875–1944

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• Wirkus, Faustin E. 1 entry, 1945
  • March 1, 1945: The Marine detachment that taught Pre-Flight cadets small arms is disbanded
• Wirt, Todd 1 entry, 2018
  • August 2018: New Hope Elementary starts a Spanish dual-language program in Orange County Schools
• Wise, Leah 1 entry, 1984
  • by April 1984: The United Klans of America puts up recruitment posters in Orange County
• Wisebram, Henry 1 entry, 1941
  • December 8 to 11, 1941: UNC students form the Carolina Volunteer Training Corps and the Library organizes a War Information Center
• Wishard, L. D. 1 entry, 1886
  • March 11-14, 1886: The annual YMCA convention meets at Chapel Hill
• Witaker, Lillie Dell 1 entry, 1917
  • 1917: The university first admits freshman women, limited to daughters of Chapel Hill families
• Witherspoon, John 1 entry, 1819

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  • 1819: William A. Graham enters Hillsborough Academy to prepare for the university
• Witherspoon, John 11 entries, 1822–1844

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• Witherspoon, John Knox 17 entries, 1752–1854

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• Witherspoon, Mary 1 entry, 1854
  • 1854: Hillsborough Presbyterian Church sells the people it held in trust for the Witherspoons
• Witherspoon, Susan Davis Kollock 1 entry, 1845
  • August 29, 1845: Witherspoon's farm Tusculum is sold at the courthouse door
• Witsman, Elizabeth 2 entries, 1821–1822
  • 22 September 1821: Elizabeth Witsman names Nathaniel Norwood as the father of a second child
  • 29 March 1822: Elizabeth Witsman is jailed after refusing to name the father of her third child
• Wolf, H. D. 1 entry, 1933
  • by August 18, 1933: Four economics professors lay out the Davie Woods home colony on part of the old Strowd farm
• Wolf, Harry 1 entry, 1929
  • 1929: A workmen's compensation law that Frank Graham and Harry Wolf helped write passes
• Wolf, Mary Ann 1 entry, 2019
  • March 7, 2019: Joal Broun is elected chair of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board
• Wolfe, Adolphus H. 1 entry, 1909
  • 1909-10 session: Students form the University Council to run the honor system
• Wolfe, Thomas 4 entries, 1900–1969

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• Wolman, Abel 1 entry, 1963
  • April 6-7, 1963: Governor Terry Sanford dedicates the new School of Public Health building
• Womack, Farris 1 entry, 1982
  • 1982: The university drops a plan to take over the cemetery and extend it into the east grove
• Womble, F. B. 1 entry, 1920
  • by February 8, 1920: Students charter the Carolina Tar Baby Company to publish the Tar Baby
• Womble, J. M. 1 entry, 1923
  • February 5, 1923: County commissioners vote to route a new road past J. W. Bennett's to the Pittsboro road
• Womble, Roland 2 entries, 1953–1955
  • October 5, 1953: County commissioners name the rural members of Chapel Hill's enlarged planning and zoning boards
  • August 1, 1955: County commissioners fill the Greater Chapel Hill zoning boards
• Womble, W. N. 1 entry, 1887
  • January 3, 1887: The school board forms the Mary Smith school district along the Chatham line
• Womble, Wallace 2 entries, 1953–1955
  • October 5, 1953: County commissioners name the rural members of Chapel Hill's enlarged planning and zoning boards
  • August 1, 1955: County commissioners fill the Greater Chapel Hill zoning boards
• Womeldorf, Herman 1 entry, 1950
  • July 13, 1950: Camp New Hope dedicates the Fleming Memorial Lodge
• Wong, Yue Kei 1 entry, 1943
  • November 1943: Mathematician Yue Kei Wong joins the University's mathematics staff
• Wood, Abraham 1 entry, 1674
  • May or June 1674: Gabriel Arthur leaves his trade goods at the Eno town
• Wood, Edward Jenner 1 entry, 1917
  • July 27, 1917: Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham dies, leaving the university a fund for professors
• Wood, Ernest 1 entry, 1957
  • 1957: Dr. Ernest Wood, the first radiologist at UNC's hospital, builds a brick Ranch on Fern Lane
• Wood, Handy 2 entries, 1846
  • August 7, 1846: Col. Handy Wood, lieutenant of the Haw River volunteers, dies of fever
  • May 21, 1846: Commissioners let the repair of the Haw River bridge at Ruffin's Mills
• Wood, J. D. 1 entry, 1922
  • March 6, 1922: Orange County commissioners borrow $20,000 to keep the county schools running
• Wood, Reuben 1 entry, 1808
  • November 1808: On a grand jury presentment, the court orders orphans and children of single mothers brought in to be bound out
• Wood, Viny 1 entry, 1808
  • November 1808: On a grand jury presentment, the court orders orphans and children of single mothers brought in to be bound out
• Woodard, Harold 4 entries, 1985–1996
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  • fall 1985: Afro-American Studies adds three instructors and new offices in Alumni Hall
  • November 1993: Darryl Lester becomes assistant dean in UNC's Office for Student Counseling
  • fall 1996: Black and white UNC students return for their sophomore year at the same rate for the first time
  • January 31, 1996: Assistant Dean Sibby Anderson-Thompkins resigns from the Office for Student Counseling
• Woodard, Joanne 1 entry, 1985
  • fall 1985: Afro-American Studies adds three instructors and new offices in Alumni Hall
• Woodard, Mrs. Marvin 1 entry, 1955
  • November 1, 1955: Carrboro parents fill the school auditorium to debate joining the Chapel Hill school district
• Woodard, Mrs. Walter 1 entry, 1927
  • March 30, 1927: United Daughters of the Confederacy hold their district convention in Chapel Hill
• Woodhouse, Chase Going 1 entry, 1927
  • October 25, 1927: The League of Women Voters holds a conference on living costs at the Carolina Inn
• Woodhouse, E. J. 6 entries, 1928–1939
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  • July 23, 1928: A Kiwanis club is organized in Chapel Hill
  • August 14, 1929: The university opens a ten-day police school for officers from North Carolina and beyond
  • September 1935: The Chapel Hill Kiwanis Club elects Dr. J. P. Jones president and W. O. Sparrow vice-president
  • 1935: The University authorizes a Department of Political Science
  • November 8, 1938: Chapel Hill pharmacist Carl T. Durham is elected to Congress from the Sixth District
  • February 15, 1939: An interracial meeting at the Graham Memorial asks the legislature to open graduate study to Black students

  May be the same person as Woodhouse, Edward J.

• Woodhouse, Edward J. 1 entry, 1928
  • by February 10, 1928: The North Carolina Municipal Review begins publication in Chapel Hill

  May be the same person as Woodhouse, E. J.

• Woods, Ada 1 entry, 1945
  • November 1945: WAC corporal Ada Woods becomes the first woman member of the Hillsborough American Legion post
• Woods, Alston 1 entry, 1866
  • August 30, 1866: Joseph Turrentine and Alston Woods, jailed for fines and costs, are bound to Robert Laws for a year
• Woods, Charity 1 entry, 1810
  • 5 April 1810: Four women are summoned on one day to name the fathers of their children
• Woods, Dave 1 entry, 1926
  • January 1926: The county commissioners replace road supervisor C. S. Brown with Dave Woods
• Woods, E. P. 1 entry, 1906
  • September 8, 1906: Orange Republicans name their county ticket
• Woods, E. W. 1 entry, 1880
  • about April 1, 1880: Chapel Hill commissioners make the printed ordinances town law and call the town election
• Woods, Elizabeth 1 entry, 1810
  • May Term 1810: The court binds three-year-old Rebecca Baldwin to her mother, Elizabeth Woods
• Woods, Fred H. 1 entry, 1946
  • September 20, 1946: Orange County Republicans name a ticket and adopt a five-point platform
• Woods, H. P. 1 entry, 1863
  • October 14, 1863: The Orange Guards lose seven killed at Bristoe Station
• Woods, Harris 1 entry, 1841
  • May Term 1841: The court releases Harris Woods from his apprenticeship six months early
• Woods, Harry 2 entries, 1946–1958
  • October 1946: G. O. Reitzel is elected master of the Orange County Pomona Grange
  • April 22, 1958: Schley Grange members finish a volunteer pine-thinning project and turn the pulpwood into community funds
• Woods, Harry P. 1 entry, 1960
  • January to March 1960: Orange Grange leaders take the case for rural zoning to nearly every community
• Woods, James 1 entry, 1857
  • mid-March 1857: Orange Superior Court tries and discharges Jacob, an enslaved man, in the death of James Woods
• Woods, Joseph A. 1 entry, 1821
  • October 31, 1821: A committee seeks builders for a brick academy in Hillsborough
• Woods, Marcus L. 1 entry, 1883
  • June 28 to July 1, 1883: The Methodist district conference meets at Cedar Grove, and Bishop Keener preaches in Orange
• Woods, Margaret 1 entry, 1855
  • mid-March 1855: Mrs. Margaret Woods dies when her house on Little River burns
• Woods, Nannie 1 entry, 1896
  • May 25, 1896: Caldwell Institute holds its commencement, with an address by Rev. M. McG. Shields
• Woods, Paul 1 entry, 1973
  • fall 1973: Paul Woods becomes the first Black director of a UNC residence hall
• Woods, Priscilla 3 entries, 1807–1822
  • November 1807 (court term): A jury finds for Priscilla Woods in two suits against Mark Harris
  • November 24, 1818: William Woods Holden is born near Hillsborough
  • August 28, 1822: Margret Riggs advertises Lively Woods, an indentured girl, as a runaway
• Woods, Roger H. 1 entry, 1945
  • November 1945: WAC corporal Ada Woods becomes the first woman member of the Hillsborough American Legion post
• Woods, S. B. 1 entry, 1866
  • November 1866: The Bureau disputes a coroner's verdict clearing C. C. Tinnen in the shooting of Bill Fuller
• Woods, W. D. 2 entries, 1888
  • June 4, 1888: Magistrates elect a new board of county commissioners and set the 1888 county tax
  • December 3, 1888: A new board of county commissioners takes office with H. P. Jones as chairman

  May be the same person as Woods, William D.

• Woods, W. H. 2 entries, 1923–1935
  • about 1923: The county school board builds a teachers' home at Murphey School from the unfinished Mount Hope School
  • August 1935: The county board hires builders for White Oak Grove, Sartin, Piney Mountain and New Branch schools
• Woods, W. W. 1 entry, 1880
  • by May 29, 1880: Census enumerators are named for Orange County's eleven districts
• Woods, Wesley 1 entry, 1973
  • 1973: The Woods family takes over the King Street hardware store that becomes Dual Supply
• Woods, William 1 entry, 1823
  • July 14, 1823: The Orange County Bible Society holds its first anniversary meeting
• Woods, William D. 1 entry, 1890
  • December 1, 1890: The Orange County commissioners begin a new term and swear in the county officers

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

• Woods, William H. 1 entry, 1841
  • April 24, 1841: Hillsborough holds funeral honors for President Harrison
• Woodson, Randy 1 entry, 2015
  • February 11, 2015: About 2,000 people hold a vigil in UNC's Pit for Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha and Razan Abu-Salha
• Woodson, Ruth Lawrence 1 entry, 1958
  • July 1958: The state declines to accredit Cedar Grove School for lack of space
• Woodward, F. C. 1 entry, 1880
  • June 1880: The student YMCA first takes part in commencement
• Woody, Joseph 2 entries, 1813–1817
  • February Term 1813: The court binds Alexander, Zedekiah and Patsy Husbands, children of William Husbands, to three masters
  • May Term 1817: The court rebinds Zedekiah and Alexander Husbands, boys of color, after their masters leave the county
• Woody, Mary 1 entry, 1800
  • September to November 1800 (9th to 11th month): Spring women's meeting of Friends issues a testimony against Rachel Jackson
• Woody, Mary, Jr. 1 entry, 1825
  • February 1825: Spring women's meeting of Friends disowns Anna Culbertson
• Woody, Thomas 1 entry, 1833
  • 3 June 1833: Zedekiah Husbands petitions the Superior Court to stop his nephew Daniel Burnett's binding to John Jones
• Woollen, Mrs. C. T. 1 entry, 1919
  • March 15, 1919: A Chapel Hill committee opens the town canvass for the Graham Memorial fund
• Woollen, Charles T. 19 entries, 1903–1938

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• Woollen, William Stone 1 entry, 1942
  • November 1942: Chapel Hill's William S. Woollen receives the Navy Cross with gold star
• Woosley, J. B. 2 entries, 1933–1937
  • by August 18, 1933: Four economics professors lay out the Davie Woods home colony on part of the old Strowd farm
  • by May 28, 1937: Chapel Hill faculty members incorporate a cooperative buying group

  May be the same person as Woosley, John B.

• Woosley, John B. 2 entries, 1937–1945
  • July 12-16, 1937: The University holds a conference for North Carolina bankers
  • April 10, 1945: Chapel Hill High holds its first Career Day

  May be the same person as Woosley, J. B.

• Wootten, Bayard 10 entries, 1923–1959

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• Wootten, Rufus M. 1 entry, 1948
  • April 6, 1948: George Moulton leaves the Wootten-Moulton photography partnership
• Work, Robert 1 entry, 1962
  • 1962: Robert Burns and Brian Shawcroft design a house for Robert Work on Hillcrest Circle
• Workman, Francis F. 1 entry, 1832
  • about 1832: Pleasant Green Methodist Church is organized
• Workman, John 1 entry, 1789
  • 1789: Cane Creek Baptist Church is organized
• Workman, Mims Thornburgh 1 entry, 1925
  • 1925 to September 1926: Alfred Lawrence helps found the Chapel Hill School of Religion
• Workman, S. 1 entry, 1906
  • July 24, 1906: Confederate veteran S. Workman dies in the Efland neighborhood
• Works, George A. 2 entries, 1932
  • June 13-14, 1932: The consolidation commission adopts its plan for one university under a single head
  • June 13, 1932: The consolidation survey proposes moving State College's engineering and agriculture to Chapel Hill
• Worth, David Gaston 4 entries, 1885–1897

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• Worth, Jonathan 9 entries, 1823–1884

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• Worth, Martitia Daniel 1 entry, 1823
  • 1823: Jonathan Worth comes to Hillsborough to read law under Archibald D. Murphey
• Wortham, Edward 1 entry, 1788
  • February Term 1788: The court orders a road from Davis's Shop to Hillsborough over the public bridge on Flat River
• Wortham, James L. 1 entry, 1840
  • April 25, 1840: Whig district convention at Red Mountain nominates Dr. James S. Smith as Harrison elector
• Worthy, James 1 entry, 1982

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• Wren, L. G. 1 entry, 1846
  • by May 18, 1846: Long, Webb and Co. buy and refurnish the Union Hotel
• Wren, W. G. 1 entry, 1957
  • by May 16, 1957: A national civil defense warning point is completed on Cates Mountain

  May be the same person as Wren, Walter G.

• Wren, Walter G. 3 entries, 1951–1964
  • July 23, 1951: County commissioners vote rent controls out of Orange County
  • January 3, 1955: The county commissioners name Walter Wren civil defense director
  • October 5, 1964: County commissioners name a fifteen-member antipoverty advisory committee

  May be the same person as Wren, W. G.

• Wrenn, Rosie 1 entry, 1840
  • about 1840; enlarged about 1869: The two-story Wrenn log house is built near Cedar Grove
• Wrenn, Walter 3 entries, 1947–1957
  • October 6, 1947: Walter Wrenn becomes Orange County's veterans service officer
  • February 1956: Hillsboro's Ground Observer Corps post goes on a 24-hour watch
  • October 1957: State civil defense planners shift Orange County from a reception area to an evacuation area

  May be the same person as Wrenn, Walter G.

• Wrenn, Walter G. 2 entries, 1948–1963
  • fiscal year 1947-48: Orange County ranks first in the state in veterans' benefits per veteran
  • March 4, 1963: Former postmaster Thomas E. Bivins is named county veterans service officer

  May be the same person as Wrenn, Walter

• Wright 1 entry, 1871
  • June 13, 1871: W. T. Blackwell has rival tobacco maker Wright arrested at Hillsborough in the Durham brand dispute
• Wright 1 entry, 1873
  • late October 1873: The Blackwell v. Wright trademark case is moved from Orange to Alamance
• Wright, Arthur 1 entry, 1967
  • December 10, 1967: Five Forks Baptist Church dedicates its new block church
• Wright, Brown 1 entry, 1906
  • about 1906: Gains Chapel AME Church is organized at Efland
• Wright, J. D. 1 entry, 1956
  • May 11, 1956: The Tempo Room, a basement beer and sandwich lounge, opens on East Franklin Street
• Wright, Mrs. Jesse G. 1 entry, 1942
  • October 14, 1942: Navy officers' wives organize the Pre-Flight Women's Club
• Wright, John J. 4 entries, 1940–1963
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  • about 1940: Architect Eugene Stroud designs physician John J. Wright's house on Laurel Hill Circle
  • 1940–1950: UNC School of Public Health runs a Rockefeller-funded syphilis study in Orange and neighboring counties
  • April 6-7, 1963: Governor Terry Sanford dedicates the new School of Public Health building
  • 1963: W. Fred Mayes becomes dean of the School of Public Health
• Wright, Joseph 1 entry, 1885
  • May 4, 1885: The county commissioners create Grover school district No. 38
• Wright, Lisa 1 entry, 2011
  • June 26, 2011: The A & M Grill in Mebane closes after 63 years
• Wright, Louis B. 1 entry, 1928
  • by March 23, 1928: Paul Green and Louis B. Wright win Guggenheim fellowships
• Wright, Paul, Jr. 2 entries, 1961
  • May 17, 1961: Shareholders approve merging University National Bank and Durham Bank and Trust
  • October 2, 1961: University National Bank of Chapel Hill becomes part of Central Carolina Bank
• Wright, Rachel 1 entry, 1751

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• Wright, Rachel 1 entry, 1764

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  • January 7, 1764: Cane Creek Monthly Meeting disowns Herman Husband
• Wright, S. H. 1 entry, 1937
  • by November 12, 1937: The PWA closes its Chapel Hill office and moves its staff to Atlanta

  May be the same person as Wright, Stanley H.

• Wright, Stanley H. 3 entries, 1936–1938
  • by October 30, 1936: The PWA grants the University $283,000 toward a gymnasium and a women's dormitory
  • by July 9, 1937: The PWA reports $1.16 million in projects it has helped finance in Orange County
  • March 25, 1938: The P.W.A. formally presents the new gymnasium to the University

  May be the same person as Wright, S. H.

• Wright, Thomas 1 entry, 1931
  • 1931: Thomas Wright becomes the Episcopal Church's first diocesan chaplain to college students
• Wright, W. L. 2 entries, 1880–1885
  • late October 1880: W. L. Wright comes to Hillsborough as pastor of the Baptist church
  • October 1885: W. L. Wright resigns the Hillsborough Baptist pulpit for Reidsville
• Wright, Will 1 entry, 1929
  • November 4, 1929: County commissioners order the Chapel Hill to Orange Church road scraped and graveled
• Wright, William A. 1 entry, 1868
  • about 1868: Dr. Johnston Blakeley Jones sells his West Franklin home to banker William A. Wright
• Wyatt, Jane 1 entry, 1942
  • November 13, 1942: Kate Smith broadcasts her network radio hour twice from Memorial Hall
• Wyche, Mrs. F. B. 1 entry, 1929
  • by December 20, 1929: Three Orange County women win prizes in the national canning contest
• Wynn, Earl 4 entries, 1939–1951
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  • fall 1939: Earl Wynn starts radio production for the Playmakers
  • January 14, 1940: The University's new radio studio makes its first broadcast
  • 1950: Jim and John Webb design a house on Stagecoach Road for Earl Wynn
  • by August 2, 1951: UNC receives a construction permit for an educational FM station
• Wynne, G. V. 1 entry, 1922
  • by July 6, 1922: The Chapel Hill Funeral Home takes over E. A. Brown's undertaking business

  May be the same person as Wynne, George V.

• Wynne, George V. 1 entry, 1923
  • December 19, 1923: Durham partners sell their share of Chapel Hill's Funeral Home to Eugene Andrews

  May be the same person as Wynne, G. V.

• Wynter, Sylvia 1 entry, 1981
  • February 16-26, 1981: Two curricula hold a lecture series on Black and white relations in Gerrard Hall