The Barnes surname

In the chronology 12 people

The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.

• Barnes, A. D. 1 entry, 1947
  • October 1947: The university buys land on the University Lake road for a new filter plant
• Barnes, Anne 16 entries, 1978–1994
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  • November 7, 1978: Anne Barnes wins a seat on the Orange County commission as Democrats sweep the county races
  • 1979–1987: New hotels and the room tax in Chapel Hill, 1979–1987
  • November 1, 1979: Women's groups question Chapel Hill candidates and NOW withholds its endorsement
  • April 13, 1980: More than 30 residents meet to save Clearwater Lake for public use
  • December 1981: Gov. Jim Hunt appoints Anne Barnes to the N.C. House seat for Orange and Chatham
  • March 24, 1984: Anti-abortion pickets meet NARAL-NC's political workshop at the Presbyterian Student Center
  • January 22, 1986: Abortion-rights marchers and opponents demonstrate at N.C. Memorial Hospital
  • by March 30, 1987: Chapel Hill Town Council asks for hotel room tax authority and sets aside a ticket tax
  • 1990–1996: UNC housekeepers’ movement, 1990–1996
  • September 3, 1992: UNC housekeepers meet Orange County legislators and decide to seek allies at other campuses
  • February 15-16, 1992: The Orange County League of Women Voters marks its 46th anniversary with a symposium on women in politics
  • November 3, 1992: Orange County's Democratic legislators are re-elected
  • 1992: Orange County in the 1992 election
  • June 11, 1992: UNC housekeepers take their case for higher pay to state officials in Raleigh
  • 1993–1994: LaVonda Burnette and the school board recall, 1993–1994
  • September 18, 1994: The Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP asks legislators to review the petitions to recall LaVonda Burnette
• Barnes, Billy 1 entry, 1987
  • February 11, 1987: Mayor Jim Wallace forms a task force on the homeless and a new shelter site
• Barnes, Denise 1 entry, 1980
  • September 30, 1980: The Carolina Union's Black/White Discussion Group begins its second year
• Barnes, E. P. 6 entries, 1944–1952
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  • August 11, 1944: Hillsborough's community cannery opens at the school for Black and white canners
  • February 27, 1946: Farmers organize the Orange County Farm Bureau at Aycock School
  • 1946-1947: John W. Umstead Jr. sponsors hybrid corn demonstrations for Orange County 4-H boys
  • by December 7, 1950: County agents report Orange's 1950 tobacco crop brought $2,758,000, more than five times the 1940 crop
  • by March 27, 1952: Chapel Hill 4-H and FFA members start a strawberry plant chain
  • December 1, 1952: County agents report a $722,000 fall in Orange tobacco income after the 1952 drought
• Barnes, Ed 3 entries, 1955–1963
  • July 6, 1955: About 100 tobacco growers see an irrigation demonstration at Cedar Grove
  • September 3, 1963: The county agent reports the summer drought will cost Orange tobacco farmers about $1 million
  • June 30, 1963: Orange County farm people honor retiring county agent Don Matheson
• Barnes, Edwin P. 2 entries, 1935–1956
  • 1935: M. C. Burt begins work as the county's agent for Black farmers
  • by January 12, 1956: County agents report a million-dollar gain in the 1955 tobacco crop
• Barnes, J. P. 1 entry, 1842
  • January 29-May 2, 1842: Students kill two of Professor Mitchell's hogs and leave them in the chapel
• Barnes, Michael 1 entry, 1980
  • by September 1980: The Old Book Corner sells a copy of Swann's Revisal for $6,000
• Barnes, O. B. 1 entry, 1917
  • March 10, 1917: The Roberson field is cut into 122 building lots and sold at auction
• Barnes, Sam 1 entry, 1970
  • October 5, 1970: A faculty-administrative board puts a student on probation for round-the-clock visitation
• Barnes, Samuel Gill 1 entry, 1976
  • November 22, 1976: Samuel G. Barnes, English professor and UNC's wrestling coach for 23 years, dies

In books and archives 2 headings

Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.

• Barnes, Billy E. (Billy Ebert), 1931-2018 4 works
• Barnes, Anne Craig 1 work

In the historical records 24 records

15 deeds, 5 marriages and 4 court minutes, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Barnes marriages in full · Search the name in every collection