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Hillsborough's commissioners voted in March 2021 to rename Thomas Ruffin Street as Lydia Lane for Lydia, the enslaved woman whom John Mann shot and injured as she ran from punishment. Ruffin, a Hillsborough resident, ruled in her 1829 case that slave owners could not be criminally punished for battery on an enslaved person.
Source: Chapelboro, 97.9 The Hill WCHL: Hillsborough Approves Removal of Thomas Ruffin From Street Name
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