Orange County Indexed
The Preston surname
The Preston name in Orange County Indexed: 3 people in the chronology.
- In the chronology
- 1929 to 1994 3 people in 51 entries, most in the 1980s
- Search beyond these records
- Preston in Ancestry Library Edition (on the library’s public computers; add Orange County, North Carolina as a place)
- HeritageQuest, through NC LIVE (anywhere, with your OCPL library card; search Preston there)
- Preston in Orange County records on FamilySearch (free account)
A similar spelling may be another family, and two people of the same name are not necessarily the same person.
In the chronology 3 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.
- Preston, Edwin S. 1 entry, 1976
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Preston, Nancy 49 entries, 1939–1994
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- 1939–1991: Chapel Hill's noise ordinance and student parties, 1939–1991
- 1970–1992: The Dey House, the historic district and the Press building, 1970–1992
- 1974–1994: The ArtSchool and the ArtsCenter in Carrboro, 1974–1994
- 1977–1988: The Orange County Women's Center and the battered women's shelter, 1977–1988
- 1979–1989: Town elections and bond votes, 1979–1989
- 1981–1987: Chapel Hill's growth debate and its density limits, 1981–1987
- November 8, 1983: Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor Joe Nassif and puts Preston, Howes, Smith and Thorpe on the Town Council
- December 5, 1983: Joe Nassif takes the oath for a second term as Chapel Hill mayor with the new Town Council
- October 8, 1984: Chapel Hill Town Council refuses to allow larger bed and breakfast inns in the historic district
- summer 1984: Chapel Hill Town Council declines Nancy Preston's call for a development moratorium
- 1984–1994: The new Chapel Hill Public Library and the old one on Franklin Street, 1984–1994
- September 23, 1985: The Chapel Hill Town Council appoints graduate student Meg Parker to the Planning Board
- January 30, 1985: The Town Council approves the preliminary plan for The Oaks II subdivision
- January 30, 1985: The Town Council approves the Rosemary Square contract
- 1985–1991: The Inter-Faith Council shelter and the old municipal building, 1985–1991
- 1985–1994: Rosemary Square and the Rosemary Street deck, 1985–1994
- September 8, 1986: Chapel Hill Town Council endorses Jonathan Howes for president of the N.C. League of Municipalities
- January 27, 1986: Chapel Hill Town Council rejects an earlier cutoff for new building height limits
- 1986–1994: Recycling in Orange County and at UNC, 1986–1994
- March 9, 1987: Chapel Hill Town Council denies a noise permit for Pi Kappa Phi's Burnout
- October 26, 1987: Chapel Hill Town Council votes to pave the town's remaining dirt streets at residents' expense
- November 3, 1987: Chapel Hill returns Nancy Preston and Jim Wallace and elects Roosevelt Wilkerson to the Town Council
- by September 3, 1987: Chapel Hill hires a Raleigh firm to design the $2 million Municipal Building expansion
- September 21, 1987: The Town Council hears Investors Title Company's plan for a five-story Rosemary Street building
- November 9, 1987: Chapel Hill Town Council lets the Orange County Women's Center move to 210 Henderson Street
- November 3, 1987: Joe Herzenberg wins election to the Chapel Hill Town Council
- July 22, 1987: Mayor James Wallace says he will run for the Town Council instead of a new term as mayor
- September 12-13, 1987: The Northside Neighborhood Association questions town candidates on special-use zoning
- summer 1987: The Durham-Orange Regional Solid Waste Task Force hires a consultant to study garbage disposal
- September 23, 1987: Rosemary Square opponents deliver a petition of about 900 names asking for a public hearing
- November 28, 1988: Chapel Hill Town Council backs keeping the Inter-Faith Council shelter in the old Municipal Building
- April 11, 1988: Chapel Hill Town Council defers annexing the N.C. 54 entranceway
- September 12, 1988: Chapel Hill Town Council admits two new Rosemary Square partners and gives the project a fifth and final extension
- October 10, 1988: Chapel Hill Town Council approves closing Franklin Street for a homecoming pep rally
- January 11, 1988: Chapel Hill Town Council votes 5-4 to negotiate the Rosemary Square developers' request for more time
- January 23, 1989: Chapel Hill Town Council limits the size and siting of skateboard ramps
- December 4, 1989: New Chapel Hill Town Council is sworn in and elects Nancy Preston mayor pro tem
- probably March 30, 1989: Residents oppose rezoning the Greene Tract for a landfill at a joint public hearing
- February 13, 1990: The ArtsCenter asks Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County to buy its half of the West End building
- November 26, 1990: Chapel Hill Town Council narrowly backs a pilot of once-a-week curbside garbage pickup
- October 29, 1990: Chapel Hill Town Council votes 5 to 4 to give the ArtsCenter part of a hotel tax grant
- week of January 29, 1990: Chapel Hill Town Council votes to create a town flag
- September 16, 1990: The Inter-Faith Council dedicates its new shelter and community kitchen in the old Municipal Building
- April 8, 1991: Chapel Hill Town Council approves the special use permit for a new public library at Pritchard Park
- December 2, 1991: Ken Broun takes office as mayor of Chapel Hill
- 1991: The 1991 town elections in Chapel Hill and Carrboro
- February 10, 1992: Chapel Hill creates an Endowment for Public Art with a gift from Nancy Preston
- by April 16, 1993: A Chapel Hill public arts committee picks the new library for its first sculpture project
- April 18-24, 1994: The Chapel Hill Bicentennial Art Exhibit opens in the old Hector's building
- Preston, Stanley 1 entry, 1929
