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Samuel Paul Lockhart

Samuel Paul Lockhart (1890–1956), born in Orange County and schooled at Bingham Academy and the University of North Carolina, was superintendent of the Orange County schools from 1911 to 1917. He and the school board built new schoolhouses with the county and each community paying half, and he visited the schools on a motorcycle.

Source: DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 121-122

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  1. Eight new rural schoolhouses go up in Orange County in one school year Lockhart's report for 1911-12 counted four new schoolhouses for white children and four for Black children, built for $4,515 in all. Seven Black schools still met in log houses, while no white school did. People: Samuel Paul Lockhart Place: Orange CountySearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 122
  2. The county board buys 2.46 acres from Mary E. Jordan for an Efland school Early in Lockhart's term the board bought 2.46 acres at Efland from Mrs. Mary E. Jordan, paying $246, as the site for the Efland School. People: Samuel Paul Lockhart Place: Efland · Also named: Mary E. JordanSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 121
  3. Samuel Paul Lockhart rejects the school board's re-election of Superintendent T. Wingate Andrews At a meeting on July 3, 1911, the outgoing county board of education re-elected T. Wingate Andrews as superintendent of schools. Chairman George Pickard and Joseph W. Pickett voted for Andrews and Sterling Browning for Lockhart; Charles A. McDade, the new member named to succeed Pickett, was not allowed to take part, and his sealed vote for Lockhart was not counted. Lockhart, a candidate for the post, said he would not abide by the result because the election was illegal. On July 5, on a Durham lawyer's advice, he took the oath of office before the clerk and demanded the office, but Andrews held on, and a new election was called for July 28. By August Lockhart was superintendent himself, and in early September Andrews left to head the Reidsville graded schools. Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Thomas Wingate Andrews, T. Wingate Andrews, Sterling Browning, George Pickard, Joseph W. PickettSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 60-61 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 13, 1911, p. 5; Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 7, 1911, p. 5
  4. Samuel Paul Lockhart becomes superintendent of the Orange County schools Lockhart, a Bingham and UNC student from the New Hope area, took over the county schools in August 1911 and set to work with the board on new schoolhouses. He served until his cousin R. H. Claytor defeated him in 1917. People: R. H. Claytor, Samuel Paul Lockhart Place: Orange CountySearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 99
  5. The county school board orders the old District 9 school property in Cheek Township sold At its August meeting the Orange County Board of Education ordered the old school property of District No. 9 in Cheek Township sold at auction at the court house on October 2. People: Samuel Paul Lockhart Place: District No. 9, Cheek TownshipOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 14, 1911, p. 5
  6. The county board agrees to pay half the cost of new schoolhouses built by local districts At its meeting of October 10, 1911, early in Lockhart's term, the board planned new schoolhouses in several districts, the county paying half the cost and each community raising the other half. People: Samuel Paul Lockhart Place: Orange CountySearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 121
  7. The county board buys the Annie Hughes Academy to house a Cedar Grove high school Answering a petition from Cedar Grove residents, the board offered on May 3, 1915 to buy the old Cedar Grove Academy from Annie Hughes and on May 15 paid her $1,500 for it, deeding her the lot of the one-teacher school it closed. The new Cedar Grove High School took grades one through eleven. People: Samuel Paul Lockhart Place: Cedar Grove · Also named: Annie Hughes · Also mentions: Cedar Grove AcademyDigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 121
  8. The county board re-elects Superintendent Lockhart and funds an assistant for him The Board of Education returned Samuel P. Lockhart to office and set aside $400 to pay Mary O. Graham as his assistant. People: Samuel Paul Lockhart Place: Orange County · Also named: Mary Owen GrahamSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 121
  9. Superintendent Lockhart's first township teachers' meeting meets at the Carrboro school With rural supervisor Lula Cassidy, Lockhart set up meetings of the teachers in each township, smaller than the county meeting. The first, at the Carrboro school, drew a state education official and University School of Education staff, and the Merritt school came with all its teachers and its whole committee. People: Lula M. Cassidy Place: Carrboro · Also named: Lula Cassidy · Also mentions: Carrboro schoolSearch the index · DigitalNC: The University of North Carolina News Letter, December 22, 1915, p. 1 (The First in Orange)
  10. The Orange County school board asks Superintendent Lockhart to resign, and he refuses The board said Lockhart had failed to adjust to the county's enlarged educational plans and would not cooperate with county supervisor Lula Cassidy. He refused to resign and stayed in office until his term ended in 1917. People: Lula M. Cassidy Place: Orange County · Also named: Lula CassidySearch the index · DigitalNC: The Smithfield Herald, May 23, 1916, p. 2 (Superintendent Asked to Resign)
  11. Samuel P. Lockhart, a former superintendent of the county schools, dies Lockhart, 76, a native of the county educated at Bingham Academy and the university, had taught in the Orange County schools and served as county superintendent before running the Lockhart Turkey Farm. He died at Watts Hospital in Durham and was buried at New Hope Presbyterian Church after a funeral there on May 8. Place: New Hope Presbyterian Church, New Hope community · Also mentions: Watts HospitalSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 10, 1956, p. 1

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Background on Cedar Grove and rural northern Orange

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Ridge Garden United Methodist charge cookbook

Clover Garden United Methodist Church & Chestnut Ridge United Methodist Church · 2025 · Clover Garden United Methodist Church

Community cookbook from the Ridge Garden charge, the pairing of Clover Garden United Methodist Church in Chapel Hill and Chestnut Ridge United Methodist Church in Efland, published by Clover Garden in 2025. Topics include both congregations' histories as well as cooking in Chapel Hill and Efland. Seven preliminary pages and 130 pages.

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Orange County local farms and food profile

2017

Two-page profile of farming and local food in Orange County from NC Cooperative Extension, 2017, drawing on the 2012 and 2017 USDA agricultural census figures. It came out of NC State Extension's Local Foods Program and FarmLink.

NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

Sowing seeds of reverence: new agricultural traditions in the North Carolina Piedmont

2017 · Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University

Photobook from a June 2017 workshop at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University in which thirteen participants, from teenagers to retirees, photographed farms in Orange and Alamance counties. Each farm gets a section by one or two of them: Braeburn Farm at Snow Camp, Cane Creek Farm at Saxapahaw, Dawnbreaker Farms at Hurdle Mills, Maple View Farm at Hillsborough, McAdams Farm and others, in color photographs and portraits of the farmers. Published in Durham in 2017, 89 unnumbered pages.

Circle of blessings

2007 · Efland UMC

A community cookbook from Efland United Methodist Church in Efland, in western Orange County, published by the church in 2007, that also carries a history of the congregation alongside its recipes. 116 numbered pages with six unnumbered pages at either end, an illustration and a color portrait.

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Efland, Orange County : an action-oriented community diagnosis: findings and next steps of action

2003

A community diagnosis of Efland, the unincorporated community in western Orange County, prepared in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of North Carolina's School of Public Health and dated May 8, 2003. It reports findings on community health services, health status and socioeconomic factors and proposes next steps for action. One volume in various foliations with illustrations and maps.

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Efland Family History

Richardson, Linda Efland · 2001 · L.E. Richardson

Linda Efland Richardson's history of the Efland family, whose name the Orange County community of Efland carries. The lineage runs from Bernhard Iffelandt through the emigrant Johan Davitt Ifflandt and Peter Iffland, who took the Efland spelling, down to the twentieth century and Sim Efland (1913-2000). Published by the author in Kernersville in 2001, 84 pages with illustrations, portraits and facsimiles.

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Mount Adar Baptist Church, 1889-1989

1989 · The Church

The centennial history of Mount Adar Baptist Church at Cedar Grove in northern Orange County, marking 1889 to 1989 under the motto a century of remembrance, a future of vision. Prepared by a centennial committee co-chaired by Nancy Rogers and Jackie Oakley and published by the church in 1989, 36 unnumbered pages with illustrations. Topics include Baptists in North Carolina and church history for Cedar Grove.

The Couch tract of the Durham division of the Duke Forest: a history of agricultural land-use patterns, 1750-1950

Frankel, Rachel · 1984 · Rachel Frankel (attributed)

Rachel Frankel's Duke University honors paper of 1984 on the Couch tract in the Durham Division of Duke Forest, a history of agricultural land use from 1750 to 1950. The Couch family, family farms and rural land use in Orange County are its subjects. A photocopied typescript, 97 leaves with maps and a bibliography.

The History of Chestnut Ridge United Methodist Church, 1832-1982

Compton, Stephen Charles · 1982

Stephen Charles Compton's 22-page history of Chestnut Ridge United Methodist Church at Efland, spanning the 150 years from 1832 to 1982. A short Methodist congregational history of the kind often printed for an anniversary. Published in 1982, 22 centimeters.

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To preserve our farms : final report of the Orange County Agricultural Task Force

1981 · Orange County Commissioners

Final report of the Orange County Agricultural Task Force, published by the county commissioners in Hillsborough in 1981. A planning document on farms and rural land use in Orange County, 102 pages with illustrations.

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1978 census of agriculture, preliminary report, Orange County, N.C

1980 · U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census

A four-page preliminary report from the Bureau of the Census giving county-level agricultural statistics for Orange County, North Carolina from the 1978 Census of Agriculture. Issued in Washington in August 1980 as report AC78-P-37-135, ahead of the final state volume. 28 cm.

Chestnut Ridge United Methodist Church cemetery, Route 1, Efland, N.C

1980 · W.E. Blalock?

W. Ernest Blalock's listing of burials at Chestnut Ridge United Methodist Church cemetery on Route 1 near Efland, in western Orange County, dated March 1, 1980. Compiled in Greensboro, 29 leaves.

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