Places in the chronology: D

The chronology’s entries name 573 places at least two times each, besides 130 streets and street addresses. 428 of the places have a page of their own and link to it. Every other place lists the entries that name it.

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• The Daily Tar HeelChapel Hill · 3 entries · 1930–1973

  Also printed as Daily Tar Heel

• Damascus3 entries · 1850–1890
  • mid-1800s: The Lindsey-Wilson farmstead takes shape on Damascus Church Road
  • about 1872: Bill Crabtree's grandfather builds a log homestead on Damascus Church Road
  • about 1890: A miller's house is built above Pritchard Mill
• Damascus communityChapel Hill · 3 entries · 1900–1926
  • about 1900: Damascus Christian Church builds a Gothic Revival frame church
  • about 1910: The Damascus Church School is built
  • Christmas holidays 1926-27: Damascus School burns over the Christmas holidays
• Daniel Boone VillageHillsborough · 8 entries · 1966–2007

  Also printed as Daniel Boone Village and Boone Square; 341 Ja-Max Drive

  See also On a map

• David Faucette House (The Elms)Efland · 7 entries · 1792–1999

  Also printed as David Faucette House

  See also National Register nomination: David Faucette House · On a map

• Davie HallChapel Hill · 6 entries · 1907–1967
  • 1911 Sanborn map, sheet 3: “Davie Hall”
  • 1915 Sanborn map, sheet 4: “Davie Hall”
  • 1925 Sanborn map, sheet 7: “Davie Hall”

  Also printed as Davie Hall site

  See also On a map

• D.C.5 entries · 1871–2015
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  • February 15, 1871: Clerk of court George Laws testifies on Orange County before the Senate committee
  • January–September 1871: The congressional Ku Klux hearings, 1871
  • 1979: Edwin M. Yoder Jr. wins the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
  • March 1, 2011: James Taylor wins the National Medal of Arts
  • November 16, 2015: James Taylor wins the Presidential Medal of Freedom
• D.C. (testimony on Orange County)Orange County · 4 entries · 1871–1967

  Also printed as D.C.

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  • June 5, 1871: The congressional committee splits over making Pride Jones name Orange Klansmen
  • June 5, 1871: Dr. Pride Jones of Hillsborough testifies before Congress on the Orange County Klan
  • December 8, 1966: Supreme Court hears Klopfer v. North Carolina
  • March 13, 1967: The U.S. Supreme Court decided Klopfer v. North Carolina, the speedy-trial case that grew out of a Chapel Hill sit-in arrest
• Dean E. Smith CenterChapel Hill · 6 entries · 1990–2022
• Dialectic and Philanthropic SocietiesChapel Hill · 9 entries · 1823–1930

  Also printed as Dialectic Society hall; Dialectic Society plot; Dialectic and Philanthropic Society plots; Philanthropic and Dialectic society halls; Philanthropic Society; Philanthropic Society hall and base ball ground; Philanthropic Society hall

• Dickerson Chapel AME ChurchHillsborough · 12 entries · 1845–1958

  Also printed as Corner of North Churton and East Queen streets; Dickerson's Chapel A.M.E. Church; Dickerson Chapel A.M.E. Church; A.M.E. church; Black Methodist church; Dickerson Chapel A.M.E. Church (old Orange County Courthouse)

  See also Open Orange: Dickerson's Chapel AME Church · On a map

• District Health UnitChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1936
  • by February 21, 1936: The Orange-Person district health unit wins a federal grant of about $20,000 a year
  • March 1936: The county welfare and health departments set up a free syphilis clinic in Chapel Hill
• Dorrance FieldChapel Hill · 2 entries · 2019–2023
• Dud’s TavernHillsborough · 6 entries · 1945–1961

  Also printed as Dud's Tavern

  See also Open Orange: 633 Cornelius St · On a map

• Duke Homestead (Washington Duke farm)Orange County · 4 entries · 1859–1920

  Also printed as Duke Homestead (then Orange County); Duke farm

• Duke HospitalChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1933–1939
  • March 13 or 14, 1933: Eugene Cunningham Branson, head of rural social economics, dies
  • January 4, 1939: Zoologist Henry Van Peters Wilson dies after 47 years on the University faculty
• Duke land purchases in Orange CountyChapel Hill · 4 entries · 1925–1996

  Also printed as Duke Forest; Duke Forest (New Quarry)

• Durham's StationOrange County · 12 entries · 1855–1868

  Also printed as Durham's Station (then Orange County); Durham's Station (now Durham)

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  • by March 7, 1855: John A. McMannen pays $4,000 for land at Durham's Depot
  • late February 1855: Orange flour starts going to Wilmington by rail from Durham's Station
  • by September 29, 1858: Raleigh stonecutters McCowan and Grier take freestone from a quarry at Durham's Station
  • 1858: A small smoking-tobacco factory opens by the depot at Durham's Station
  • February 4, 1859: Dr. Bartlett L. Durham dies at Durham's Station
  • March-April 1859: Durham's Station ships 1,733 barrels of flour in two months
  • by April 24, 1861: Volunteers at Durham's form a company called the Orange Greys
  • by October 15, 1862: Hillsborough women ride to Durham's almost daily to feed sick and wounded soldiers on the trains
  • September 1, 1866: R. F. Morris & Son form a partnership to make Durham smoking tobacco at Durham's Station
  • 1866-67 session, by March 13, 1867: The legislature authorizes the Durham North-Carolina Industrial Association
  • August 1868: Freedpeople at Durham's Station buy land and build a school house
  • October 1868: Three justices, one of them Black, investigate a fight and a shooting at Durham's

  See also Open Orange: Durham's Station