Places in the chronology: W

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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• Wake County courthouseChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1932–1946
  • December 5, 1932: The Institute of Government stages a statewide radio swearing-in of new county officers
  • January 22, 1946: Governor Cherry honors three Orange draft board members
• Walker’s Funeral HomeChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1937–1941

  Also printed as Walker's Funeral Home; Walker Funeral Home

• Wallace Patterson place (old Harris home)Chapel Hill · 2 entries · 1925–1926

  Also printed as Wallace Patterson place; Wallace Patterson place (the old Harris home)

• Water plant (Hillsborough)Hillsborough · 3 entries · 1950–1956

  Also printed as Hillsboro water plant

• Watts HospitalChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1939–1942
  • January 27, 1939: Atwell Campbell McIntosh, Kenan professor emeritus of law, dies
  • November 1, 1942: Orange County register of deeds S. W. Andrews dies
• Watts Hotel (Lot 13, Chapel Hill)Chapel Hill · 2 entries · 1833–1839

  Also printed as Watts Hotel

• Weaver and Main streetsCarrboro · 2 entries · 1948–1949
  • by September 16, 1948: Shops open in the new brick building on Weaver and Main streets in Carrboro
  • May 1949: Carrboro puts up a stoplight at Weaver and Main streets
• Weaver HouseCarrboro · 5 entries · 1740–1986

  See also On a map

• Webb store (later Sharp-Coleman Company)Hillsborough · 2 entries · 1904–1925

  Also printed as Webb store

• Webb's Happy AcresCarrboro · 2 entries · 1744–1830

  See also On a map

• Webb's WarehouseHillsborough · 4 entries · 1876–1887

  See also Open Orange: Webb's Warehouse · Churton Street, Lot 3 history

• Welfare officeHillsborough · 3 entries · 1938–1954

  Also printed as Orange County welfare office

  • by April 8, 1938: Orange County's welfare superintendent reports $3,650 a month in Social Security and relief aid
  • late July 1954: Annie Strowd steps down as county welfare superintendent and returns to casework
  • August 23, 1954: Jane Parker is named Orange County welfare superintendent
• Wesley FoundationChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1980–1991
• West Chapel Hill Historic DistrictChapel Hill · 3 entries · 1998–2019

  Also printed as West Chapel Hill Historic District (Boundary Increase)

  See also National Register nomination: WEST CHAPEL HILL HISTORIC DISTRICT · On a map

• West End Graded School (West Hillsborough School)Hillsborough · 10 entries · 1936–1969

  Also printed as West Hillsboro School; West End Graded School; White Cross School and West Hillsboro School

  See also Open Orange: West End Graded School · On a map

• West End (now Carrboro)Carrboro · 4 entries · 1880–1902
• West FranklinChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1926–1964
  • April 12, 1926: Chapel Hill's aldermen approve a grass median for West Franklin Street and new sidewalks
  • August 1964: Work resumes on the long-stalled motor hotel in downtown Chapel Hill
• West HouseChapel Hill · 3 entries · 1935–2006

  See also Open Orange: West House

• west of CarrboroCarrboro · 6 entries · 1915–1934
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  • about 1915 (the report's essay says the 1920s): Claude and Ola Neville build a foursquare farmhouse on their dairy farm
  • 1924 and 1925: Jesse Nevilles builds a cow barn and milking barn on the family farm
  • 1930: The McClenan family builds a big gambrel-roofed dairy barn on Old Greensboro Road
  • by December 4, 1931: Builders put a cofferdam across Morgan Creek for the University's new dam
  • late September and October 1932: University Lake is stocked with bass and bream
  • February to April 1934: Civilian Conservation Corps men build a trail and plant 80,000 trees around University Lake
• west of Chapel HillChapel Hill · 4 entries · 1931–1955
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  • by November 6, 1931: Work on the University dam ends the last remains of Matthew McCauley's mill dam on Morgan Creek
  • by June 3, 1932: Water begins to back up behind the University's new Morgan Creek dam
  • by June 2, 1933: Federal relief workers clear a public picnic ground below the University Lake dam
  • by August 18, 1955: A Chapel Hill fireman builds what the paper calls the area's first family storm and bomb shelter
• western Orange CountyOrange County · 5 entries · 1771–1971

  Also printed as Western Orange County (proposed Jefferson County; the area later formed Alamance County); Western Orange County (now Alamance County)

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  • January 26, 1771: Guilford County is formed from Orange and Rowan
  • 1773: English traveler J. F. D. Smyth finds German-speaking districts west of Hillsborough
  • December 4, 1838: The House of Commons passes a bill to form Jefferson County from western Orange
  • August 7, 1846: Col. Handy Wood, lieutenant of the Haw River volunteers, dies of fever
  • 1971: Orange and Alamance agree on Orange children attending Alamance schools
• White Cross communityWhite Cross · 2 entries · 1958–1961
• White Cross SchoolWhite Cross · 13 entries · 1906–1961

  Also printed as Carrboro and White Cross schools

  See also On a map

• White Furniture Company plantHillsborough · 5 entries · 1952–1964

  See also Open Orange: Bivins Basket Factory

• William and Ida Friday CenterChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1991–2016

  Also printed as Friday Center

• William Courtney's Yellow HouseHillsborough · 3 entries · 1777–1924

  See also Open Orange: 116 King St

• William Whitted HouseHillsborough · 4 entries · 1786–1970

  See also Open Orange: William Whitted House · On a map

• Wilson Hall (zoology building)Chapel Hill · 2 entries · 1941

  Also printed as Zoology building (Wilson Hall)

• Women's Curb Market (former Holiness church)Chapel Hill · 2 entries · 1942–1943

  Also printed as Former Holiness church

• Wood House (110 Fern Lane)Chapel Hill · 2 entries · 1957–1969

  Also printed as Wood House

• Woollen GymnasiumChapel Hill · 11 entries · 1938–1977

  Also printed as Bowman Gray Memorial Pool; Town Hall and Woollen Gymnasium polling places; Intramural field beside Woollen Gymnasium

  See also On a map

• Wootten-Moulton studioChapel Hill · 3 entries · 1939–1979

  Also printed as Wootten-Moulton Photography

• WXYCChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1978