The Bennett surname

In the chronology 17 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.

• Bennett, Caroline 1 entry, 1862
  • 1862: Caroline Bennett and Sallie Brooks, free Black women, join the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church
• Bennett, David 2 entries, 1937
  • fall 1937: Chapel Hill High School starts a band with instruments from the Carrboro mill
  • September 6, 1937: Chapel Hill's schools start bands under David Bennett
• Bennett, Harvey 25 entries, 1930–1972
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• Bennett, Harvey 3 entries, 1939
  • June 19, 1939: Bennett and Blocksidge open a coal yard beside the railroad in Carrboro
  • June 26, 1939: The University gives up its coal and appliance trade to Bennett and Blocksidge under a new state law
  • 1939: The 1939 law ending University merchandising
• Bennett, H.D. 1 entry, 1972
  • November 30, 1972: Officials signed the landfill agreement that carried promises to the Rogers-Eubanks neighborhood
• Bennett, Herman 2 entries, 1986
  • March 27, 1986: About 75 people hold a candlelight vigil against apartheid at the South Building shanties
  • 1986–1987: The South Building shanties and sit-ins, 1986–1987
• Bennett, Hugh H. 1 entry, 1948
  • by November 11, 1948: Soil Conservation Service grows Kentucky 31 fescue seed at its Mason Farm nursery
• Bennett, J. S. 2 entries, 1974
  • January 9, 1974: Chapel Hill Housing Authority chairman Edwin Caldwell Sr. and commissioner J. S. Bennett resign
  • 1974–1994: Public housing and the Chapel Hill Housing Authority, 1974–1994
• Bennett, J. W. 2 entries, 1923–1927
  • February 5, 1923: County commissioners vote to route a new road past J. W. Bennett's to the Pittsboro road
  • by April 22, 1927: New county tax supervisor names Chapel Hill Township's assessors
• Bennett, James 1 entry, 1994
  • by February 9, 1994: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints breaks ground for a stake center on Airport Road
• Bennett, John S. 40 entries, 1916–1962
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• Bennett, Judith 1 entry, 1988
  • February 19, 1988: UNC Faculty Council votes to make Women's Studies a curriculum with its own degree
• Bennett, L. Kenneth 1 entry, 1977
  • 1977–1979: St. Joseph CME sold Henry W. Baldwin's Broad Street land to Carrboro for a park
• Bennett, Lerone, Jr. 1 entry, 1993
  • January 22, 1993: Lerone Bennett Jr. gives the keynote of UNC's King celebration
• Bennett, Stanley 1 entry, 1969
  • January 13, 1969: The Rockefeller Foundation gives UNC $2 million for birth control research
• Bennett, Walter, Jr. 1 entry, 1994
  • by August 26, 1994: UNC School of Law receives a Keck Foundation grant for a legal ethics program
• Bennett, William 2 entries, 1980–1987
  • by February 14, 1980: Chapel Hill High School receives a $25,000 National Humanities Faculty grant
  • September 10, 1987: Students for Educational Access hold a bread-and-water protest outside the candidates' banquet

In the historical records 34 records

16 deeds, 10 marriages, 7 court minutes and 1 tax list entries, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Bennett marriages in full · Search the name in every collection