The Crawford surname

In the chronology 22 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.

• Crawford, Cecil 1 entry, 1989
  • 1989: Cane Creek Baptist Church marks its two hundredth year
• Crawford, Charles M., Jr. 1 entry, 1953
  • by January 8, 1953: Charles M. Crawford buys the Colonial Inn in Hillsboro
• Crawford, Charlie M. 1 entry, 1941
  • 1941: Fitch Lumber buys the Crawford brothers' spoke plant on Lloyd Street
• Crawford, D. F. 3 entries, 1896–1902
  • September 1, 1896: Clerk names registrars for an entirely new registration of voters
  • February 19, 1896: The clerk of court redraws Orange County's election precincts
  • August 23, 1902: Orange Republicans elect Luico Lloyd county chairman
• Crawford, D. Frank 2 entries, 1892–1894
  • 1892–1898: The People's Party and fusion in Orange County, 1892–1898
  • December 8, 1894: New clerk of court D. Frank Crawford and treasurer William F. Jackson take office
• Crawford, E. B., Jr. 1 entry, 1964
  • January 1964: Survey finds N.C. Memorial Hospital still separates patients by race
• Crawford, E. F. 1 entry, 1891
  • by July 11, 1891: E. F. Crawford of Hillsborough becomes deputy collector for Chatham and Orange
• Crawford, E. M. 1 entry, 1940
  • May 1940: The Chapel Hill-based Hospital Saving Association pays out its millionth dollar
• Crawford, J. A. 1 entry, 1947
  • July 1947: The Crawfords charter Carr Street Apartments, Inc., in Chapel Hill
• Crawford, John 4 entries, 1813–1895
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  • 1813–1837: Zedekiah Husbands, from bound boy to master, 1813–1837
  • May Term 1817: The court rebinds Zedekiah and Alexander Husbands, boys of color, after their masters leave the county
  • November 11 or 12, 1886: A jury acquits Ann Eliza Lawrence and John Crawford of poisoning her husband
  • April 22, 1895: John Crawford opens a grocery store opposite the Hillsborough court house
• Crawford, Kaye 1 entry, 1989
  • March 1989: James Freeland is buried after a funeral at Fairview Baptist Church
• Crawford, Lonnie A. 4 entries, 1911–1919
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  • 1911–1924: Highways through Orange County, 1911–1924
  • 1915–1917: The 1915 road law and the county road supervisor, 1915–1917
  • by July 19, 1917: Lonnie A. Crawford contracts to build a sand-clay road from Dodson's Cross Roads
  • by July 10, 1919: County commissioners award the national highway contract through Hillsboro to the Crawford brothers
• Crawford, Margo 36 entries, 1970–1996
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  • 1970–1993: Honoring Martin Luther King Jr. in Chapel Hill, 1970–1993
  • 1984–1989: Founding the Black Cultural Center, 1984–1989
  • 1985–1991: The Inter-Faith Council shelter and the old municipal building, 1985–1991
  • October 24, 1988: C. Eric Lincoln opens the Black Cultural Center's Monday night lecture series
  • July 1, 1988: UNC formally opens the Black Cultural Center in the Carolina Union under its first director
  • by April 19, 1988: Margo Crawford is named the first director of UNC's Black Cultural Center
  • July 1988: Margo Crawford begins work as director of the Black Cultural Center
  • October 27, 1988: Trustee John Pope questions the need for a Black Cultural Center
  • December 1989: The African Studies Club brings Kwanzaa to UNC for the first time
  • by October 17, 1989: Black Cultural Center delegates form the UNC Collegiate Black Caucus
  • by November 1990: Afro-One starts a Chapel Hill class under the Black Cultural Center's artist-in-residence program
  • November 8, 1990: The BSM's Umoja series takes up the need for a Black Cultural Center
  • by November 1, 1990: Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools adopt a plan to stress cultural diversity
  • 1990–1994: The movement for a freestanding Black Cultural Center, 1990–1994
  • 1990: Hate incidents and the Rally Against Hate at UNC, fall 1990
  • 1990–1996: UNC housekeepers’ movement, 1990–1996
  • March 19, 1990: A multicultural education task force reports racial tension in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools
  • October 22, 1990: Students hold a Rally Against Hate in the Pit
  • 1990: UNC creates a Pauli Murray scholarship from a cross-cultural program's proposal
  • fall 1991: The BSM keeps Black Cultural Center programs in the center's cramped Union office to press for a building
  • 1991–1994: Chapel Hill's crime and drug task force, 1991–1994
  • August 19, 1991: Chapel Hill's crime task force hears calls to keep people with records out of the downtown shelter
  • November 18, 1991: The Friends of the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center hold a memorial luncheon to press for a freestanding center
  • October 1992: Anonymous 'Brothers of the Sierte' letters go to both sides of the Black Cultural Center debate
  • by November 11, 1992: UNC faculty leaders deplore threats in the Black Cultural Center debate
  • June 24, 1992: Chancellor Hardin proposes a student fee vote for a larger Black Cultural Center and agrees with the coalition to form a planning group
  • September 16, 1992: UNC holds its second annual celebration of Sonja Haynes Stone
  • February 15, 1993: Black Cultural Center working group endorses a 48,000-square-foot building as Director Margo Crawford walks out
  • October 17, 1993: The Carolina Review, a conservative student magazine, publishes its first issue
  • by February 1993: The Center for Peace Education moves from Chapel Hill to East Main Street in Carrboro
  • January 15, 1993: UNC housekeepers hold a Unity Day celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.
  • September 24, 1993: UNC trustees refuse to reconsider the Coker Woods site for the Stone Center
  • May 25, 1993: UNC freezes the Black Cultural Center's operating budget after an audit
  • January 12, 1994: Chancellor Hardin names Harold Wallace interim director of the Stone Black Cultural Center
  • January 6, 1994: Hardin accepts Margo Crawford's resignation as director of the Stone Black Cultural Center
  • January 1996: Gerald Horne becomes director of the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center
• Crawford, Mary Whittington 1 entry, 1954
  • November 9, 1954: Mary Whittington Crawford, one of Hillsboro's best-known citizens, dies at 81
• Crawford, Moses 1 entry, 1789
  • May 26, 1789: A jury assesses damages for the wardens of the poor against two former wardens
• Crawford, S. S. N. 1 entry, 1890
  • by March 22, 1890: The government gives the Hillsborough depot mail route to a new low bidder
• Crawford, Sam 2 entries, 1887–1891
  • by September 15, 1887: Sam Crawford adds a flour bolt to his mill south of Hillsborough
  • March 8-16, 1891: A mad dog bites a boy at Hillsborough and is killed, and a second dog is killed a week later
• Crawford, Sam 3 entries, 1982–1985
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• Crawford, Shirley 2 entries, 1972–1977
  • 1972–1994: Apple Chill and Festifall, 1972–1994
  • April 17, 1977: Apple Chill Fair draws about 25,000 to Franklin Street
• Crawford, W. S., Jr. 1 entry, 1947
  • July 1947: The Crawfords charter Carr Street Apartments, Inc., in Chapel Hill
• Crawford, Walter 1 entry, 1906
  • by August 23, 1906: A new Orange Grove school building goes up at Cane Creek
• Crawford, Walter S. 11 entries, 1919–1947
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In books and archives 1 heading

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.

• Crawford, Sam, 1 work

In the historical records 263 records

59 deeds, 3 records of enslaved people, 70 marriages, 102 court minutes, 6 tax list entries and 23 wills and papers, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Crawford marriages in full · Search the name in every collection