Places in the chronology: S

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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42 places

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• Salem meeting houseOrange County · 2 entries · 1821–1829
• Samuel N. Tate's store (Hawfields)Orange County · 2 entries · 1841–1844

  Also printed as Samuel N. Tate's store

• Sandy Creek (then Orange County, now Randolph County)Orange County · 3 entries · 1755–1771
  • 1755: Shubal Stearns gathers the first Baptist congregation in Orange County at Sandy Creek
  • 1758: Baptists form the Sandy Creek Association
  • May 21-28, 1771: Tryon's army camps a week at Sandy Creek after Alamance
• Sans SouciHillsborough · 7 entries · 1813–1971

  See also Open Orange: Sans Souci · National Register nomination: Sans Souci · On a map

• Saunders drugstoreChapel Hill · 3 entries · 1855–1862
• Saunders Hall (later Carolina Hall)Chapel Hill · 4 entries · 1929–1999
  • 1925 Sanborn map, sheet 7: “Saunders Hall”

  Also printed as Saunders Hall; Saunders Hall and Bingham Hall

• Schley communitySchley · 4 entries · 1948–1961
• Schley Grange HallSchley · 10 entries · 1949–2020

  Also printed as Farms in the St. Mary's and Schley communities and Schley Grange Hall

  See also Open Orange: Schley Grange Hall · National Register nomination: Schley Grange Hall · On a map

• School of DentistryChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1953–1958
  • October 24-25, 1953: A plaque honoring Hillsborough dentist J. S. Spurgeon is given to the UNC School of Dentistry
  • October 10, 1958: Dentists hold a free one-day oral cancer clinic at the UNC School of Dentistry
• School of JournalismChapel Hill · 6 entries · 1976–1988
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  • October 29-30, 1976: The School of Journalism holds a workshop on the Black press
  • by August 18, 1978: Black journalism students demand Black faculty and a Black press course in the journalism school
  • by February 1979: The journalism school hires Harry Amana and adds a course on the Black press
  • about 1983: Regina Sherard becomes the first Black woman on UNC's journalism faculty
  • fall 1983: Regina Sherard joins the UNC journalism faculty
  • spring 1988: The School of Journalism establishes a minority scholarship named for publisher Vivian Austin Edmonds
• Senlac (Battle house)Chapel Hill · 3 entries · 1886–1920

  Also printed as Senlac

  See also Open Orange: 203 Battle Ln · On a map

• Seven Hearths (William Reed’s Ordinary)Hillsborough · 3 entries · 1754–1954

  Also printed as 157 East King Street (William Reed's Ordinary, Seven Hearths); William Reed's Ordinary (Seven Hearths)

  See also Open Orange: Seven Hearths · On a map

• Sewage disposal plant and incinerator (Chapel Hill)Chapel Hill · 4 entries · 1930–1941

  Also printed as Sewage disposal plant; Strowd's Lowgrounds

• SharpsburgHillsborough · 2 entries · 1862
  • September 17, 1862: Maj. Robert F. Webb is wounded leading the 6th Regiment at Sharpsburg, where the Orange Grays lose their captain
  • September 17, 1862: The Orange Guards lose three killed and about twenty wounded at Sharpsburg
• Smith Hall (Playmakers Theatre)Chapel Hill · 41 entries · 1848–1971

  Also printed as Playmakers Theatre; Smith Hall; Playmakers Theatre and Memorial Hall; Smith Hall (library and ball room); Old law building (Smith Hall); Playmakers Theatre (old law building, Smith Hall); Memorial Hall and Playmakers Theatre; Playmakers Theatre (Smith Building)

  See also National Register nomination: Playmakers Theatre (NHL) · On a map

• Snow Hill (William Johnston plantation)Hillsborough · 2 entries · 1768–1775

  Also printed as Snow Hill

• Sonja Haynes Stone Center (Black Cultural Center)Chapel Hill · 10 entries · 1988–2010

  Also printed as Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center; Black Cultural Center; Sonja Haynes Stone Center

• South BuildingChapel Hill · 58 entries · 1798–1997
  • 1925 Sanborn map, sheet 7: “South Building”

  Also printed as South Building and Memorial Hall; South Building and the road from the depot to the hotel; Power plant near South Building; South of South Building; Space between South Building and the new library; Campus between South Building and the library; Elementary school and South Building; Franklin Street and South Building

  See also On a map

• South campusChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1962–1990
  • 1962 to 1967: Four high-rise dormitories go up on UNC's south campus
  • October 1990: Housing figures show two-thirds of Black campus residents in four South Campus high-rises
• south of CarrboroCarrboro · 2 entries · 1928–1957
  • February 28, 1928: Mason Toney Strayhorn and his grandson Alfred Barbee finish a stone dam across Morgan Creek
  • by February 21, 1957: Carrboro decides to build its new sewer plant without federal aid
• south of Chapel HillChapel Hill · 4 entries · 1923–1961
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  • February 5, 1923: County commissioners vote to route a new road past J. W. Bennett's to the Pittsboro road
  • by December 1939: William Lanier Hunt opens trails and stone quarries on his Laurel Hill tract along Morgan Creek
  • June 30, 1940: Forest fire burns about 56 acres near Laurel Hill south of Chapel Hill
  • by August 10, 1961: Duke Power sues Chapel Hill-area owners for transmission line rights
• Southwest Orange CountyOrange County · 2 entries · 1861–1890
  • August 2, 1861: Women of southwest Orange form a Soldiers' Relief Society
  • about 1890: The Manly Snipes House is built in southwest Orange County
• southwestern Orange CountyOrange County · 4 entries · 1869–1954
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  • summer 1869: Three barns burn on one night after a Black tenant family is evicted in southwestern Orange
  • 1878: The present Morrow's Mill is built on Cane Creek
  • November 24, 1882: Fire destroys the late W. C. Minor's store in southwestern Orange
  • May 1954: Armyworms destroy small grain fields in southwestern Orange County
• Spring Monthly Meeting of FriendsOrange County · 3 entries · 1800–1825
  • September to November 1800 (9th to 11th month): Spring women's meeting of Friends issues a testimony against Rachel Jackson
  • December 1816: Spring Friends disown James Jackson after he is charged as the father of a child
  • February 1825: Spring women's meeting of Friends disowns Anna Culbertson
• St. Mary’s ChapelHillsborough · 25 entries · 1759–1983

  Also printed as St. Mary's Chapel; St. Mary's community; St. Mary's Chapel cemetery; northeast of St. Mary's Chapel; Lockhart land northeast of St. Mary's Chapel

  See also Open Orange: St. Mary's Chapel · National Register nomination: St. Marys Chapel · On a map

• St. Mary's communityHillsborough · 2 entries · 1930–1952
  • 1930-1931: St. Mary's School burns and the county builds a new one
  • October 20, 1952: St. Mary's Grange is named one of ten state winners for community service
• St. Mary's SchoolHillsborough · 8 entries · 1917–1971

  Also printed as St. Mary's Chapel; Old St. Mary's School

  See also Open Orange: St. Mary's School · On a map

• St. Matthew’s Episcopal ChurchHillsborough · 80 entries · 1824–2003
  • 1888 Sanborn map, sheet 1: “St. Matthews Episcopal Church”
  • 1894 Sanborn map, sheet 2: “St. Matthew's Epis. Church”
  • 1900 Sanborn map, sheet 2: “St. Matthew's Episc. Church”, Oxford Street
  • 1905 Sanborn map, sheet 2: “St. Matthew's Episcopal Church”
  • 1911 Sanborn map, sheet 2: “St. Matthew's Episc'l. Church”

  Also printed as St. Matthew's Episcopal Church; St. Matthew's Church; St. Matthew's churchyard; funeral at St. Matthew's Church; burial at St. Matthew's churchyard; St. Matthew's Episcopal Church Rectory; Episcopal churchyard (St. Matthew's); St. Matthew's Parish House

  See also National Register nomination: St. Matthews Episcopal Church and Churchyard · On a map

• St. Paul AME ChurchChapel Hill · 7 entries · 1892–1989

  Also printed as St. Paul's A.M.E. Church (agenda gives Carrboro)

• St. Thomas More Catholic ChurchChapel Hill · 2 entries · 2012–2023
• StagvilleOrange County · 5 entries · 1778–1870

  Also printed as Stagville (then Orange County, now Durham County); Road from the forks at Bennehan's shop to the mill on the Eno (near Stagville, now Durham County); near Stagville (then Orange County, now Durham County)

• Standard TheatreChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1929–1937

  See also Open Orange: 601 W. Franklin St

• State CapitolChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1929–1937
  • January 9, 1929: Hillsborough's A. H. (Sandy) Graham is elected Speaker of the state House
  • by March 5, 1937: Chapel Hill citizens petition the legislature to keep an elected recorder's judge
• Steele BuildingChapel Hill · 8 entries · 1921–2006
  • 1925 Sanborn map, sheet 7: “Steele Building”
• Stephen's...after allChapel Hill · 3 entries · 1982
• Steward’s HallChapel Hill · 4 entries · 1804–1847

  Also printed as Steward's Hall

  See also Open Orange: Steward's Hall

• Streets of Chapel HillChapel Hill · 3 entries · 1832–1934
  • 1832: A state law puts Chapel Hill's streets under an overseer named by the Orange County Court
  • fall 1911: Water and sewer ditches are dug through the streets of Chapel Hill
  • by July 1934: Federal relief labor hard-surfaces most of Chapel Hill's streets
• Streets of HillsboroughHillsborough · 4 entries · 1884–1953
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  • November 24, 1884: Hillsborough's commissioners order new street bridges and new street trees
  • December 26, 1887: A costumed John Commons band parades through Hillsborough at Christmas
  • by September 11, 1902: Mayor Norwood surfaces Hillsborough's sidewalks and crossings with crushed stone
  • July 1953: Hillsboro paves, widens and extends streets with its first Powell Bill money
• Strowd's garageChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1933
• Strudwick Office (139 West King Street)Hillsborough · 2 entries · 1830–1907

  Also printed as 139 West King Street

• Sunnyside (John Berry farm)Hillsborough · 3 entries · 1846–1993

  Also printed as Sunny Side; Sunnyside

  See also Open Orange: Sunnyside · On a map

• Swain HallChapel Hill · 15 entries · 1913–1961
  • 1915 Sanborn map, sheet 4: “Swain Hall”
  • 1925 Sanborn map, sheet 7: “Swain Hall”

  Also printed as Behind Swain Hall; Swain Hall and other sites

  See also On a map