The Strowd surname

In the chronology 23 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.

• Strowd, Annie 11 entries, 1919–1954
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• Strowd, Ben 2 entries, 1936–1945
  • August to November 1936: The Methodist parsonage is moved to face Rosemary Street to make way for a Pure Oil station
  • 1945: A. H. Poe buys Ben Strowd's Pure Oil station on West Franklin Street for his DeSoto dealership
• Strowd, Ben R. 1 entry, 1941
  • August 21, 1941: Chapel Hill's four central filling stations agree to take turns opening on Sundays
• Strowd, Ben Rose 2 entries, 1936–1941
  • by November 20, 1936: A Pure Oil filling station opens on the old Methodist parsonage lot
  • August 21, 1941: Chapel Hill's four central filling stations agree to take turns opening on Sundays
• Strowd, Bruce 21 entries, 1907–1955
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• Strowd, Bruce 4 entries, 1929–1955
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  • 1929–1933: Relief in Orange County as the Depression deepens, 1929–1933
  • 1935–1942: Chapel Hill's most valuable citizen award, 1935–1942
  • by July 18, 1941: A theatre chain buys a Franklin Street lot for a new 1,200-seat movie house
  • April 3, 1955: Forest fires burn across Orange County, some of them deliberately set
• Strowd, Callie 3 entries, 1930–1941
  • May 1930: A baby clinic for Black families opens at Rock Hill Baptist Church
  • by July 12, 1935: A clinic examines 19 Black babies in Chapel Hill
  • April and May 1941: Black citizens' committee raises money to finish the Negro Community Center
• Strowd, F. E. 4 entries, 1949–1967
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  • June 1, 1949: Chapel Hill's new zoning ordinance takes effect
  • May 1959: Mayor Cornwell presses the state to widen the highways into Chapel Hill
  • May 5, 1959: Sandy McClamroch is elected to the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen
  • May 2, 1967: Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor Sandy McClamroch and chooses four aldermen
• Strowd, Frances Headen 1 entry, 1886
  • 1886: Robert L. Strowd marries and likely builds a two-story L-plan house on land from his father
• Strowd, Frank 1 entry, 1932
  • May 19, 1932: Orange County Republicans name H. D. Carter for the legislature and a full county ticket
• Strowd, Gene 5 entries, 1955–1965
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  • May 3, 1955: Chapel Hill voters elect members of their school board for the first time
  • October 27, 1959: Chapel Hill aldermen buy two wooded tracts for town parks
  • by May 14, 1964: Chapel Hill aldermen name three members to the Community Action board
  • 1964–1982: Orange County's antipoverty program and JOCCA, 1964–1982
  • 1965–1977: Chapel Hill and Carrboro town and school board elections, 1965–1977
• Strowd, H. C. 2 entries, 1860–1862
  • February 4, 1860: Hillsborough elects Andrew Murdock magistrate of police and seven town commissioners
  • August 18, 1862: The Baptists sell their old courthouse church to George Bishop of New Bern
• Strowd, H. D. 1 entry, 1954
  • August 16, 1954: J. Paul Cheek is sworn in as acting postmaster of Chapel Hill
• Strowd, H. M. C. 1 entry, 1863
  • September 30, 1863: Orange farmers begin delivering the Confederate tax in kind at Hillsborough and Durham's Depot
• Strowd, Henry 3 entries, 1924
  • 1924: Orange County Training School opens a Rosenwald campus
  • September 1, 1924: Black residents lay the cornerstone of the new Orange County Training School building
  • by July 2, 1924: The Training School building committee names the new auditorium for Henry Strowd
• Strowd, Ned 2 entries, 1868–1871
  • 1868: Ned Strowd organizes Terrell Creek Baptist Church
  • March 2, 1871: Ned Strowd of Orange testifies that disguised men whipped him in Alamance
• Strowd, R. L. 4 entries, 1917–1940
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  • Early 1917: Bud Perry and Moody Lloyd open the Carolina Barbershop in new quarters
  • 1927–1930: The failure of the Chapel Hill Insurance and Realty Company, 1927–1930
  • September 28, 1928: Receivers auction the R. L. Strowd farm east of Chapel Hill
  • September 21, 1940: Theodore Best, who ran an early automobile passenger line to Durham, dies
• Strowd, Robert L. 29 entries, 1873–1934
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• Strowd, Robert L. 2 entries, 1923–1925
  • 1923–1925: Auctioning land into house lots, 1923–1925
  • 1925–1951: East of Chapel Hill: the Strowd farm, the DuBose estate and Paul Green's Greenwood, 1925–1951
• Strowd, Thomas W. 1 entry, 1910
  • about 1910: Thomas W. Strowd builds a two-story house on McCauley Street
• Strowd, Weldon M. 1 entry, 1893
  • by August 26, 1893: Weldon M. Strowd replaces J. F. Shumaker as postmaster at University Station
• Strowd, William 2 entries, 1851–1873
  • 1851: William Strowd builds a two-story frame house near White Cross
  • 1873: William Strowd of Chatham County buys land at the edge of Chapel Hill
• Strowd, William F. 3 entries, 1860–1873
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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.

• Strowd, William F. (William Franklin), 1832-1911 1 work

In the historical records 99 records

56 deeds, 5 records of enslaved people, 22 marriages, 4 court minutes and 12 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. Strowd marriages in full · Search the name in every collection