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Calvander

A crossroads community northwest of Carrboro, in the farmland between Chapel Hill and Hillsborough.

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StorylineBreeding and testing the county's dairy cattle and poultry, 1923–19271923–1927 · 10 events · In 1923 the Bank of Chapel Hill backed the Chapel Hill high school's purebred Jersey program, and that fall Jersey owners in the southern half of the county formed a breeders' club. Federal inspectors found no tuberculosis in the town's dairy herds that summer, a result the Weekly credited to the town's testing rule. In 1924 the first county poultry show formed a poultry breeders' association, and in 1925 the Lloyds' large incubator at Sunnyside began hatching farmers' eggs. That year the county joined the federal and state campaign to rid its cattle of tuberculosis and Chapel Hill began grading its dairies under the state milk ordinance, and in 1927 a federal inspector tested more than 400 cows in the town's dairies. StorylineRural electrification and Piedmont Electric, 1933–19641933–1964 · 40 events · Rural power in Orange County began in 1933 with a three-mile federally funded line from Chapel Hill to Calvander, carried on to Orange Grove with farmers' donations. The Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation, a cooperative formed under the Rural Electrification Administration, was incorporated in 1938 and energized its first lines from a Hillsborough substation in 1939. It took bids for 150 miles of new lines in 1945, had 1,271 members in 1947, when its manager reckoned that 65 percent of Orange farms had electricity, and built its Hillsborough headquarters in 1949 with an REA loan; by 1953 it ran about 1,100 miles of line. At its silver anniversary meeting in June 1964 Piedmont Electric reported 6,300 members in six counties, against 356 in three counties in 1939.

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  1. John Kirkland builds a two-story frame farmhouse near Calvander A two-story frame house apparently built for John Kirkland in the 1850s stands at Old NC 86 and Homestead Road. It was enlarged about 1900 and later; three early log outbuildings remain. Also named: John Kirkland · Also mentions: Homestead RoadSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Kelly Lally and Ruth Little, Chapel Hill Township Survey Final Report (1992), p. 40
  2. Thomas and Mary Hogan build a farmhouse at Calvander About 1860, around the time Thomas J. Hogan married Mary, the couple built a story-and-a-half frame farmhouse with Greek Revival trim on the old Hillsborough Road at Calvander; family tradition has their first child born there in 1862. Thomas served in the Civil War, and about 1890 the Hogans raised the house to two stories in the Queen Anne style. Also named: Thomas Hogan, Thomas J. HoganSearch the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Thomas and Mary Hogan House, National Register nomination · Also: NC Digital Collections: Kelly Lally and Ruth Little, Chapel Hill Township Survey Final Report
  3. A Hogan family log house goes up on Homestead Road In the 1890s a one-room log house was built for one of the Hogans, a family with homes all along the road. About 1935 it was built over and enlarged.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Kelly Lally and Ruth Little, Chapel Hill Township Survey Final Report (1992), p. 44
  4. William D. Hogan builds a frame I-house on Homestead Road In 1908 a small two-story frame house was built for William D. Hogan near Calvander. It was still well kept in 1992, with two later outbuildings. Also named: William D. HoganSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Kelly Lally and Ruth Little, Chapel Hill Township Survey Final Report (1992), p. 44
  5. Student YMCA members run eight Sunday schools around Chapel Hill In 1910-11 the university YMCA organized Sunday schools at Calvander, Clark's Chapel, Williams' Chapel, Ephesus, Mount Carmel, Orange Church, Rankin's Chapel and Smith's Level, enrolling 321 pupils. Also mentions: Orange Church, YMCASearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 717
  6. The Chapel Hill Red Cross gathers country women into auxiliaries across southern Orange County Auxiliaries of the Chapel Hill chapter formed at Bethel Church, Calvander, Antioch, Williams Chapel, Smith Level, Mount Moriah, Union Grove, Damascus, Carrboro and Orange Church, and among Chapel Hill women who could not come to the workroom. They sewed hospital shirts and refugee garments, paid for supplies by selling eggs, jelly and apples, and passed magazines and papers to families who could not buy them; Mrs. H. C. Hogan of the Calvander circle made 100 hospital bed shirts in 100 days. Also named: Mrs. H. C. Hogan · Also mentions: Orange ChurchSearch the index · State Archives of North Carolina, Military Collection, WWI Papers, Box 2, Folder 37: Orange County Red Cross History (typescripts, 1918-1919), scan 21
  7. Farmer and lumber dealer Brodie Lloyd builds a large bungalow at Calvander Around 1918 Brodie Lloyd, who farmed and ran a lumber business in Carrboro, had a roomy bungalow built on Old NC 86. The report ranks it among the biggest and best kept in the township. People: Brodie LloydSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Kelly Lally and Ruth Little, Chapel Hill Township Survey Final Report (1992), p. 43
  8. The Booker family opens a crossroads store on Old NC 86 Around 1920 the Bookers built a small frame pyramidal cottage and, beside it, a gable-front rural store with a shed canopy over the front, near the Arthur Minnis Road junction.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Kelly Lally and Ruth Little, Chapel Hill Township Survey Final Report (1992), p. 37
  9. Orange County and the State Board of Health hold free typhoid and diphtheria clinics across the county Orange County and the North Carolina State Board of Health offered free typhoid vaccine and diphtheria toxin-antitoxin to every white and Black resident in a campaign that ran from August 13 to September 8, 1923. Each treatment took three doses, and a weekly schedule set hours at the courthouse in Hillsboro and at schoolhouses, churches and crossroads from Carr, Cedar Grove and Efland to White Cross, Calvander and Carrboro, with an afternoon stop for Black residents at the Old Freedman's School House in Chapel Hill.The News (Chapel Hill), August 30, 1923, p. 8
  10. W. G. Neville builds a modern milking house and milk room beyond Calvander W. G. Neville, who lived beyond Calvander and delivered milk in Carrboro each morning, built a concrete-floored milking house and a separate house for sterilizing bottles and cooling milk. Also named: W. G. NevilleSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 13, 1923, p. 1
  11. State Highway Commission puts the Calvander-Graham road on the state map The State Highway Commission voted to put the road from Calvander, four miles from Chapel Hill on the Hillsboro highway, to Graham in Alamance County on the official state map, giving Chapel Hill a state road to the west. A Chapel Hill delegation failed to get the eastward road to Nelson added as well.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 29, 1926, p. 1
  12. State highway commission takes over the Calvander-to-Alamance road District highway commissioner John Sprunt Hill told the Weekly that the state highway commission had decided to take over the county road from Calvander to the Alamance line and oil it later, and had ordered oil treatment for the road from the Carrboro school to Hillsboro. The $38,000 contract to pave from Chapel Hill to the Carrboro school had been let in December 1926. People: John Sprunt Hill Also mentions: Carrboro schoolSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 25, 1927, p. 1
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  1. Clay Hogan builds a large dairy complex off Homestead Road In the 1930s a notable group of frame dairy buildings went up for Clay Hogan on what is now Lake Hogan Farm Road. By 1992 the farmhouse had apparently been lost. Also named: Clay HoganSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Kelly Lally and Ruth Little, Chapel Hill Township Survey Final Report (1992), p. 44
  2. Carl Durham serves on the Orange County Board of Commissioners Durham was appointed to the Orange County Board of Commissioners in April 1933 to succeed R. A. Eubanks, who had resigned to become Chapel Hill postmaster, and served until 1938, when he was elected to Congress. In 1935 he proposed and secured $22,000 in federal aid for a rural electrification line in the Calvander-Orange Grove area, and in 1937 he was elected a UNC trustee. People: Carl T. Durham Also named: R. A. EubanksSearch the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Durham, Carl Thomas (Warner Wells, 1986) · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 11, 1934, p. 1; Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952; Open Orange: Carl Durham; Chapel Hill Weekly, November 11, 1932, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 21, 1933, p. 2; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 7, 1933, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, June 23, 1933, p. 1
  3. A three-mile rural power line from Chapel Hill to Calvander is built with federal money Built in the winter of 1933-34 as a Civil Works Administration project, the line ran about three miles out the Hillsboro road from Chapel Hill to Calvander, connected at Carrboro to the University Consolidated Service Plants, which supplied part of the material. Henry Hogan, who farmed near Calvander with his brother, and his friends gave the cedar trees for its 107 poles, and the book says the Hogan brothers supplied the poles when funds ran short. In late February 1934 the Chapel Hill Weekly expected current to reach 22 families within about a month. The book says it was the first rural electric line in the United States built with federal funds. People: George H. Lawrence, Henry S. Hogan, Don S. Matheson Also named: Henry HoganSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 249 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, February 23, 1934, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, July 13, 1934, p. 4; Chapel Hill Weekly, December 21, 1934, p. 2; Chapel Hill Weekly, February 12, 1937, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, November 3, 1939, p. 4
  4. Farmers and the relief administration build a ten-mile power line to Orange Grove After the Civil Works Administration built the power line from Chapel Hill to Calvander in the winter of 1933-34, five farmers paid $200 each to have it carried 2 1/2 miles beyond Calvander along the Saxapahaw road, the Weekly reported in July 1934. The Orange Grove line came the next year. At a meeting at White Cross School on April 1, 1935, Emergency Relief Administration officials laid out a ten-mile extension from near Calvander by Dodson's crossroads to Orange Grove and on toward Teer, estimated at $15,510, of which the farmers along the route were to raise $3,000; most of it was pledged within a week. Work began that spring under the engineer Archie Davis, the line was nearly done at the end of May, and in early September the Weekly reported it built. The county agent's report for 1935 called it the first line in the country paid for jointly by the federal relief administration and its users. The 1993 survey form describes the farmer-funded line as running from Calvander to Orange Grove. Also named: Archie Davis · Also mentions: White Cross SchoolSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 45 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, July 6, 1934, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, July 13, 1934, p. 4; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 5, 1935, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 12, 1935, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, May 31, 1935, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 6, 1935, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, December 13, 1935, p. 1
  5. Rabid dogs at White Cross and Calvander lead to a thirty-day dog quarantine Three dogs killed in the country near Chapel Hill, two at White Cross and one at Calvander, were found rabid by the state laboratory. The district veterinarian, Dr. W. G. Chrisman, traced and killed most of the dogs they had bitten and asked owners in the area to keep their dogs confined for thirty days. Also named: W. G. ChrismanThe Chapel Hill Weekly, June 19, 1936, p. 3
  6. Rural power lines in Orange County reach 111 miles and about 425 farm families A survey by county farm agent Don Matheson found that rural electric lines outside the towns had grown from 28 miles before 1933 to 111 miles built or under construction, serving about 425 farm families, with the Duke Power Company building most of the new mileage. New lines ran along route 64 from the Alamance line to White Cross and on to Antioch church and Chapel Hill, from Hillsboro along route 14 to Calvander, and from Cedar Grove to Efland, the last serving the county home; when the approved lines were done, every public school in the county but one would have power. People: Don S. MathesonThe Chapel Hill Weekly, November 20, 1936, p. 1
  7. Lloyd descendants dedicate a memorial stone to Thomas Lloyd north of Chapel Hill The Thomas Lloyd Memorial Association set up a granite marker to Thomas Lloyd near Old Highway 86 at Stony Hill Road, northwest of Calvander. Its inscription mixes in details from the life of a different Thomas Lloyd of New Hanover County. People: Thomas Lloyd (died 1792), Archibald Henderson Also named: J. R. LloydSearch the index · Commemorative Landscapes of North Carolina: Thomas Lloyd Marker, Chapel Hill · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, October 8, 1937, p. 1
  8. Dora R. Andrews, who taught in the Orange County schools for 50 years, dies Miss Dora R. Andrews, born in 1860, died at her home near Chapel Hill on a Sunday evening. She had spent her life in the Calvander community, taught in the Orange County schools for 50 years and was active in the Women's Missionary Society for 54. Her funeral was held at Bethel Baptist Church, with burial in the church cemetery. Also named: Dora R. Andrews · Also mentions: Bethel Baptist ChurchSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), January 14, 1943, p. 1
  9. Don S. Matheson receives the county agents' distinguished service award The National County Agents Association gave Orange County farm agent Don S. Matheson its distinguished service award at its convention banquet in Chicago. The account sent for the award credited him with the dairy growth that put Orange first among its neighbors in dairy cattle and with the Chapel Hill to Calvander line, which it called the first REA power line in the country. People: Don S. MathesonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 11, 1947, p. 1
  10. The University's telephone service begins extending lines into rural southern Orange The University Consolidated Service, managed by J. S. Bennett, built a telephone line to Calvander, about four miles from Chapel Hill, and began building lines west on the Antioch Road and south toward the Chatham County line. People: John S. BennettSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 3, 1949, p. 1
  11. Farm families around Calvander and Orange Church organize the Calvander Grange Farm families of the Orange Church and Calvander area, who had asked state Grange leaders to help them start a Grange, organized the Calvander Grange in the spring of 1950. By mid-May it had held its second meeting, in the Orange Church hut, with Everett Cheek as Grange lecturer. People: Garland O. Reitzel Also named: Everett Cheek · Also mentions: Orange ChurchSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 18, 1950, p. 1
  12. The newly organized Calvander Grange receives its charter State Grange Master Harry B. Caldwell presented the charter of the newly organized Calvander Grange at its August meeting, after a summer of monthly programs under Master Floyd D. Turnage. Also named: Harry B. Caldwell, Floyd D. TurnageSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 17, 1950, p. 1
  13. Franc Sidler meets Troy and Robin Andrews on their farm and sketches a house for it In the summer of 1954 the Swiss architect Franc Sidler, a guest of anthropologists renting a small house on the Andrews farm, met Troy and Robin Andrews there and drew a floor plan for a house they might build later. The sketch grew into the house finished on the farm in 1967. People: Roberta C. Andrews Also named: Franc Sidler, Troy M. AndrewsSearch the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Heather Fearnbach, Troy M. and Roberta C. Andrews House, National Register nomination (draft, 2026)
  14. Carrboro extends its rural fire protection a mile north of Calvander At the request of residents about four miles north of town, Carrboro's commissioners extended the town's rural fire protection district one mile north of its former limit at Calvander, covering both sides of the highway. Property owners in the district paid an annual fee in advance, and the volunteer fire department answered rural calls only for those who had joined.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 20, 1955, p. 3
  15. The road from Calvander to Orange Grove is hard-surfaced A stretch of road from Calvander to Orange Grove, through one of the densest groups of Grade A dairy farms in the state, had recently been hard-surfaced.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 15, 1955, p. 1
  16. The Calvander Grange buys land for a community center The Calvander Grange had bought property for a community building at the corner of the Calvander-Orange Church road and Hogan's Lake road, and planned a harvest festival auction and supper on October 8 to pay for building it as funds came in.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 6, 1955, p. 7
  17. Ready Maid Food Company moves its frozen cookie business to a farm near Calvander John and Helen Gibbs, who had built a frozen cookie-dough business in Raleigh on a family recipe, bought the Bain farm near Bethel Church north of Chapel Hill and put up a concrete block plant there; by mid-October it was nearly finished and the company was moving its whole operation to Orange County. Its dough sold through Colonial and Kroger stores in North Carolina and Virginia. Also named: John Gibbs, Helen GibbsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 18, 1956, p. 1
  18. The Calvander community opens the Homestead Community Center Calvander families opened their new concrete-block community center on Homestead Road, with a 30-by-70-foot hall and a kitchen, finishing a project the Calvander Grange and home demonstration club began raising money for in 1952. The paper said it gave all eight organized rural communities in the county a community building; an open house followed on February 16 despite snow. Also mentions: Homestead RoadSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 6, 1958, p. 3
  19. Troy and Robin Andrews return to the farm and enlarge the old Lloyd log house After Troy Andrews retired in 1961 and inherited the farm with his sister Nita, he and Robin moved back and renovated and enlarged the early nineteenth-century hewn log house built for the Lloyd family, living there while they planned their new house. People: Roberta C. Andrews Also named: Troy M. Andrews, Nita AndrewsSearch the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Heather Fearnbach, Troy M. and Roberta C. Andrews House, National Register nomination (draft, 2026)
  20. Mrs. Troy Andrews asks the county commissioners to pave SR 1111 near Calvander Mrs. Troy Andrews brought the Orange County commissioners a petition from residents asking them to pave SR 1111, a two-mile road between Calvander and the Union Church road. The commissioners agreed to send the petition on to state highway officials. People: Roberta C. Andrews Also mentions: Union ChurchSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 9, 1963, p. 5
  21. Black masons build Troy and Roberta Andrews's Sidler-designed house on the family farm Working from plans by Swiss architect Franc Sidler, a former Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice, builder Carl Ellington and the African American masons Willis, Alfred Sr. and Alfred Jr. Barbee raised the Andrews House from stone gathered on the farm, starting in 1965 and finishing in 1967. It is Sidler's only building in the United States and one of the few architect-designed Modernist houses in rural Orange County. People: Roberta C. Andrews, Alfred David Barbee Sr. Also named: Troy M. Andrews, Franc Sidler, Carl Ellington, Willis Edward Barbee, Alfred David Barbee Jr.Search the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Heather Fearnbach, Troy M. and Roberta C. Andrews House, National Register nomination (draft, 2026)
  22. State championship bicycle races are run near Calvander About sixty riders raced on a road between Calvander and Dobson's Crossroads on Sunday, July 8, 1973, in what the Daily Tar Heel called North Carolina's first annual Championship Bicycle Races, sponsored by the Chapel Hill Recreation Department and the American Bike League. Winners in five age and sex divisions qualified for the national races in Milwaukee, and the department talked of making the race a yearly event.Search the index · The Daily Tar Heel, July 12, 1973, p. 9
  23. County planners hold community meetings across rural Chapel Hill Township To gather views for a township development plan the commissioners had asked for, the planning department met residents at the New Hope Fire Station, Mt. Carmel Church, the Homestead Community Center in Calvander and Damascus Church, handing out a questionnaire on county issues. The report describes this kind of outreach as new for county planning.Search the index · Orange County Planning Department, A Planning/Management Process for Orange County, North Carolina, with Recommendations for Sound Land Development (1976), scan p. 63
  24. Rural Chapel Hill Township residents rank land-use planning and roads as top concerns Questionnaires from the four spring meetings put land-use planning first at New Hope and Calvander, road upkeep first at Damascus and fire protection first at Mt. Carmel, where residents leaned partly on Chatham County fire units. Saving farmland ranked in the top five at every meeting, and planners credited the New Hope Improvement Association for fire protection ranking low at New Hope.Search the index · Orange County Planning Department, A Planning/Management Process for Orange County, North Carolina, with Recommendations for Sound Land Development (1976), scan p. 61
  25. County planners take a preliminary land plan back to four rural communities In a second round of meetings at Mt. Carmel Church on Farrington Road, the Homestead Road Community Center in Calvander, the New Hope Improvement Center on Piney Mountain Road and Damascus Church, planners showed residents the ranked needs, draft goals and a preliminary plan for Chapel Hill Township. Most who came told the staff the process had given their communities more say over their land than ever before.Search the index · Orange County Planning Department, A Planning/Management Process for Orange County, North Carolina, with Recommendations for Sound Land Development (1976), scan p. 65
  26. The Emily Dickinson Centennial Conference holds sessions at Bolin Brook Farm Sessions of the Emily Dickinson Centennial Conference met at Bolin Brook Farm, the Andrews home near Calvander, in April 1986. The Andrewses often opened the property to meetings and house tours. People: Roberta C. AndrewsSearch the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Heather Fearnbach, Troy M. and Roberta C. Andrews House, National Register nomination (draft, 2026)
  27. The Earnhardt family gives Triangle Land Conservancy an easement on the Andrews farm Jean and John Earnhardt, Troy and Robin Andrews's daughter and son-in-law, and their sons' families donated a conservation easement to Triangle Land Conservancy in March 1998, protecting 120 acres of the old Andrews farm around Bolin Creek from development. Also named: Jean Earnhardt, John Earnhardt, Philip A. Earnhardt, David C. Earnhardt · Also mentions: Bolin CreekSearch the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Heather Fearnbach, Troy M. and Roberta C. Andrews House, National Register nomination (draft, 2026)
  28. The Thomas Jefferson Hogan House joins the Study List The National Register Advisory Committee placed the Thomas Jefferson Hogan House near Calvander on North Carolina's Study List, its list of properties likely to qualify for the National Register.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: National Register Advisory Committee agendas, minutes and approved lists, p. 856

Maps of Calvander

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  1. Map of Orange County UNC · a county map
  2. Map of Orange County, N.C. UNC · a county map
  3. A map of Orange County, N.C. UNC · a county map
  4. Soil map, North Carolina, Orange County sheet Duke · a county map
  5. School map, Orange County, North Carolina. UNC · a county map
  6. Map of Orange County, N.C. : 1939 UNC · a county map
  7. USGS topographic map, Chapel Hill quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)
  8. USGS topographic map, Chapel Hill quadrangle (1:31,680) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)
  9. An atlas for Orange County, North Carolina UNC · a county map
  10. USGS topographic map, Chapel Hill quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)
  11. USGS topographic map, Chapel Hill quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)
  12. USGS topographic map, Chapel Hill quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)

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Shetley, Frances Lloyd · 2025 · Self-published

Frances Lloyd Shetley's self-published collection of short recollections, issued in 2025, drawn from the author's own life in Calvander and Carrboro. Calvander is the crossroads community northwest of Carrboro.

Included because: Catalog heading in the OCPL record: Calvander (N.C.) -- Biography.

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A. E. S. Lindsey Family Bible Records

1736

Family records of A. E. S. Lindsey kept in a Bible, with births and other entries from 1736 to 1951. Places named include Hillsborough, Calvander and Chapel Hill in Orange County, along with Wake, Nash and Edgecombe counties and Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh. Nine images.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Calvander (N.C.).

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