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Cedar Grove

A rural community and township in northern Orange County, farm country settled in the 18th century. Its records are church, school and family histories, and the Cedar Grove storyline gathers the area’s dated entries.

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Cedar Grove and rural northern Orange1755–2013 · 204 events · The crossroads communities north of Hillsborough grew around Eno Presbyterian, organized in 1755, the Hughes Academy of 1845, the Pope farm of the 1870s and Ellis Store of 1923, with nearly half the county’s Black-owned farms in Cedar Grove Township by 1940. The Schley Grange brought telephones in 1948, the schools were consolidated and desegregated in the 1960s, and the branch library came and went between 2004 and 2010.

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  1. Hugh McAden preaches to the Eno Presbyterian settlers On August 10, 1755 the missionary Hugh McAden preached at Eno to a Presbyterian community already settled near the river, southeast of present Cedar Grove; the congregation counts its beginning from these years. The settlers asked Hanover Presbytery for supply preachers in 1756, and by church tradition the congregation was formally organized during the Synod mission of 1764. People: Hugh McAdenSearch the index · Documenting the American South: William Henry Foote, Sketches of North Carolina (1846), pp. 166, 225-226, quoting Hugh McAden's journal of 1755 · Also: Kaye Graybeal, Cedar Grove district National Register nomination, 1997
  2. Henry Pattillo leaves the Hawfields and Eno churches Pattillo, who came to the Hawfields and Eno churches in 1765, left in 1774. The New Hope families still belonged to the Hawfields then, and Craig believed Pattillo had organized New Hope church in its first meetinghouse.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 20
  3. The Allison family settles at Cedar Grove The Allison family settles the Cedar Grove area in the late eighteenth century, and other families follow. Allisons still lived there when the survey was made.NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 122
  4. Joseph Dunn Hughes keeps a school in the Eno Church community Pender lists a school run by Joseph Dunn Hughes near Eno Presbyterian Church in 1785, the earliest of the Hughes family schools that later produced Cedar Grove Academy.DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 16
  5. The John Paisley Hughes House is built at Cedar Grove The oldest part of the John Paisley Hughes House at Cedar Grove dates to the early nineteenth century. It was enlarged around 1860 and again around 1880, and is on the Study List.NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 89
  6. Samuel Paisley begins an eighteen-year pastorate at Eno Paisley followed Bowman in 1816 and stayed until he moved to Moore County in 1834. He was buried in the Old Eno cemetery.Search the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 9
  7. A revival brings many new members into Eno Church Five years into Samuel Paisley's pastorate, a revival added many people to the Eno congregation.Search the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 9
  8. Eno Church reports 59 white and 11 Black communicants, in its oldest surviving records The 1822 session minutes, the earliest Eno records that survive, copy the church's articles of faith and covenant, and that year's report to presbytery counts 70 communicants, 11 of them Black.Search the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 9
  9. Orange County counts twenty-one academies By 1832 Orange County had twenty-one academies, among them Hillsborough Academy, the Bingham school and Cedar Grove Academy, a pace of school founding somewhat ahead of the state as a whole.NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 21
  10. Cedar Grove Methodist Church is organized The Cedar Grove Methodist Episcopal Church was organized on July 23, 1832.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove Rural Crossroads Historic District, National Register nomination (OR1424), inventory no. 20 · Also: Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952
  11. Cedar Grove Methodist Episcopal Church builds its first church The congregation put up a small frame sanctuary facing east on what is now Efland-Cedar Grove Road, on land given by Joseph Allison and John Kelly. It was enlarged on the south side in 1876 and later torn down; its site lies just east of the 1939 stone church.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove Rural Crossroads Historic District, National Register nomination (1998), pdf p. 22
  12. A Cedar Grove muster-day meeting names the Democratic ticket for Orange Farmers and mechanics gathered at the Cedar Grove muster named Joseph Allison for the state Senate and John Stockard, Herbert Sims, George A. Mebane and Benjamin Trollinger for the Commons as the Democratic Republican ticket for the August election, with Maj. Joseph Armstrong in the chair.Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, April 13, 1838, p. 3
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  1. The two-story Wrenn log house is built near Cedar Grove A two-story log house now called the Rosie Wrenn House is built near Cedar Grove around 1840. A large frame addition went on the back around 1869; the house is on the Study List.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 89
  2. Samuel Wellwood Hughes opens a classical school for boys near Cedar Grove Samuel Wellwood Hughes opened his own academy in northern Orange County in January 1845. First called Cedar Grove Academy and later Hughes' Academy, it offered classical and mathematical courses modeled on the Bingham School and ran until his death in 1884.Search the index · NCpedia: Hughes, Samuel Wellwood
  3. Archibald Currie begins a twenty-year pastorate at Eno After twelve years of short-term ministers, Eno called Archibald Currie, who served until 1866 and returned briefly in 1895-1896. His son James L. Currie later held the same pulpit. People: James L. CurrieSearch the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 10
  4. The two-story Pickett log house is built near Cedar Grove The Pickett House near Cedar Grove is a large log dwelling of two full stories, a size uncommon among the county's log houses. The survey could not settle whether it went up in 1846 or 1864.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 85
  5. Enslaved workers build the stone dam at Trimm's Mill near Cedar Grove Enslaved laborers build a large stone dam for Trimm's Mill near Cedar Grove in the 1850s. The dam is all that survived of the mill by 1993.NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 119
  6. The Mary Hughes House is built at Cedar Grove About 1850 a center-hall cottage with Greek Revival touches, louvered shutters and sidelights at both front and back doors was built at Cedar Grove. When surveyed it was little altered outside but badly run down, and its mantels had been removed.NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 58
  7. Samuel Wellwood Hughes opens his own school near Cedar Grove After fourteen years as founder and principal of Cedar Grove Academy, Samuel Wellwood Hughes opened his own classical school five miles northwest of Hillsborough, its first session beginning on the second Monday of January 1859. He taught there until his death in 1884; the surviving schoolhouse, dated about 1862, was later moved to Hillsborough and restored.Search the index · DigitalNC: Hillsborough Recorder, January 5, 1859, p. 3 (Classical School advertisement dated December 10, 1858) · Also: Open Orange: Hughes Academy
  8. The Pitard Place is built near Cedar Grove A two-story frame house with a very low hip roof, widely spaced windows and a two-tier entry porch, the broadest local take on the Greek Revival.NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 31
  9. The Tally family I-house is built near Cedar Grove The main house at the Tally Homeplace near Cedar Grove, a two-story I-house, goes up around 1860 and is altered in the 1880s. The farm keeps tobacco barns, two tenant houses of about 1900 and an office, and is on the Study List.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 89
  10. Allison and Corbin run a plug tobacco factory at Cedar Grove By the late 1860s Cedar Grove had a plug tobacco factory run by Allison and Corbin that employed fourteen men, the largest workforce of any business in the area. Dr. John J. Allison, a large landowner, was also a partner in dry goods, hardware and grocery stores, and William W. Allison kept a hotel.NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 29
  11. Orange County's board of registration begins enrolling voters under the Reconstruction Acts Under General Sickles's registration order, Orange's board of registration opened its sessions on August 16, 1867, sitting in turn at Cedar Grove and other stations and finishing with six days at Hillsborough, the last on September 3. Thomas Wilson chaired the board, which met again at Hillsborough on November 5 to revise the lists before the November convention election.Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, August 14, 1867, p. 2
  12. Bureau agent James Carle reports five freedmen's day schools and fifty districts without schools in Orange The Hillsborough office's school report for February 1868 listed day schools at Hillsborough, taught by Misses Harris and Allen, Cedar Grove (Frank Whitted), Pleasant Green (William Douglass), the Ridge (London Moore) and Durham's (George Bradshaw). It counted 50 school districts without schools and about 6,000 children of both races who might attend, though it advised organizing schools in no more than half of them; agent James Carle had written to men in Orange and Person for the figures.Freedmen's Bureau, North Carolina Field Offices, Hillsboro: Monthly Reports of Schools, Feb.–Dec. 1868, transcription p. 4
  13. Agent Charles B. Whittemore counts 26 freedmen's schools in Orange and Person, most of them Sabbath schools Whittemore's March 1868 report counted 26 freedmen's schools in his two counties, 6 day schools, 2 night schools and 18 Sabbath schools, with 15 teachers, 7 white and 8 Black. Five of the day schools were in Orange, at Hillsborough, Cedar Grove, Pleasant Green, the Ridge and Durham's; he put the Black children without schools at about 1,000 and wrote that at planting time nearly all children outside the towns were needed at work.Freedmen's Bureau, North Carolina Field Offices, Hillsboro: Monthly Reports of Schools, Feb.–Dec. 1868, transcription p. 13
  14. Freedpeople at Cedar Grove put up a school house and win Bureau rent for it Trustees led by Sam F. Martin wrote on July 4, 1868 that they were putting up an 18 by 20 foot school building at Cedar Grove and would open with 20 scholars, and asked the Bureau for $8 a month for a year. Lt. Thomas H. Hay, who had visited on July 2 and met the leading Black men of the district, recommended it, and on July 28 the superintendent of education agreed to pay $8 a month rent, to go to John F. Masters.Freedmen's Bureau, North Carolina Field Offices, Hillsboro: Register of Letters Received, Vol. 129, July 1867–Dec. 1868, transcription p. 24
  15. Lt. Thomas H. Hay reports ten freedmen's day schools in Orange and Person, nearly all with Black teachers In his first school report from Hillsborough, Hay listed five day schools in Orange, at Hillsborough, Chapel Hill, Durham's, Bains and Cedar Grove, and five in Person, with 10 of the 11 teachers Black. The schoolhouses at Hillsborough and Chapel Hill belonged to the Friends' Freedmen's Association of Philadelphia and those at Bains and Cedar Grove to the freedpeople, who in Hay's judgment could scarcely make a living and could give little toward schools.Freedmen's Bureau, North Carolina Field Offices, Hillsboro: Monthly Reports of Schools, Feb.–Dec. 1868, transcription p. 16
  16. Commissioners hire Silas M. Link to divide the county into townships Link was paid $75 to lay the school districts out into townships, and the board approved his plan of eight: Hillsboro, Little River, Mangum, Durham, Patterson, Chapel Hill, Bingham and Cedar Grove. In 1877 the board split Mangum at Little River to form Lebanon Township.Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 194
  17. Georgianna Rumbley opens the freedmen's school at Cedar Grove The Friends' Freedmen's Association of Philadelphia sent Rumbley to teach at Cedar Grove, where the freedpeople guaranteed her board, fuel and light. She went reluctantly after being told the place was dull, but by October 24 Lt. Thomas H. Hay reported the school open since the first week of October and better supplied with books and maps than any in the district except Hillsborough's.Freedmen's Bureau, North Carolina Field Offices, Hillsboro: Letters Sent, Vol. 130, July 1867–Dec. 1868, transcription p. 169
  18. New freedmen's schools open at Banocks Chapel, Cotton Run and New Hope, all with Black teachers Hay's October 1868 report counted 13 day schools in Orange and Person, adding schools at Banocks Chapel near Chapel Hill (John Weaver), Cotton Run and New Hope (London Moore) to those at Hillsborough, Chapel Hill, Durham's, Bains and Cedar Grove. All 11 teachers were Black, among them R. G. Fitzgerald and E. E. Anderson at Hillsborough, James Whitted at Bains and Georgianna Rumbley at Cedar Grove, and the freedpeople owned the schoolhouses at Banocks Chapel, Bains and Cedar Grove. People: Robert G. FitzgeraldFreedmen's Bureau, North Carolina Field Offices, Hillsboro: Monthly Reports of Schools, Feb.–Dec. 1868, transcription p. 25
  19. A Cedar Grove meeting expels Samuel H. Martin from the freedmen's school committee At a meeting called by trustees Augustus Allison and Arthur Anderson, the people of Cedar Grove voted unanimously to expel Samuel H. Martin from the freedmen's school committee, elected John Clark in his place, and agreed that the teacher Georgiana Rumbley should receive the Bureau's rent check. The Bureau's superintendent of education had held back the school's $8 monthly rent in October after getting no reports from the school Martin had taught.Freedmen's Bureau, North Carolina Field Offices, Hillsboro: Letters Received, May 1866–Dec. 1868, Part 2, transcription p. 139
  20. Lt. Thomas H. Hay counts about 330 day pupils in Orange County's freedmen's schools Hay's table for the month ending November 30, 1868, gave enrollment at eight Orange schools: Hillsborough 71 day, 20 night and 100 Sunday scholars; Chapel Hill and Cedar Grove 56 day pupils each; Barracks Chapel 42; Durham's 35; New Hope 27; Bains 25; and Mrs. Richardson's school at Hillsborough 18, with Cotton Run lacking a teacher. The Durham's schoolhouse belonged to its Black teacher George Bradshaw, and Fannie Culver at Chapel Hill was the only white teacher in the two counties.Freedmen's Bureau, North Carolina Field Offices, Hillsboro: Monthly Reports of Schools, Feb.–Dec. 1868, transcription p. 28
  21. Post office opens at Cedar Grove with John D. Corbin as postmaster A post office was established at Cedar Grove on mail route 6308 between Hillsborough and Milton, with John D. Corbin as postmaster.Hillsborough Recorder, July 28, 1869, p. 3
  22. John and Mary Jane Pope build their farm near Cedar Grove John S. Pope, a Confederate captain, and his wife Mary Jane McDade Pope built a two-story I-house on land she inherited from her father's estate in 1869; it was likely finished by 1874, when her brother's share brought the tract to about 73 acres. Tobacco was the farm's main cash crop, and its oldest surviving barn dates to about 1875.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Captain John S. Pope Farm, National Register nomination (OR1029)
  23. The Watson family builds an ornate I-house near Cedar Grove An ornate I-house is built on the Watson farm on NC 86 near Cedar Grove in the 1870s; the farm also keeps three log tobacco barns. It is on the Study List.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 97
  24. Eno Church elects its first deacons The session noted in October 1873 that the church had no deacons and held an election the next month. Robert W. Anderson and J. P. Forrest were ordained that year.Search the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 20
  25. The Eno Grange is organized at Cedar Grove James Means of Concord organized the Eno Grange at Cedar Grove with thirty members and more applications, electing John K. Hughes master and Nathaniel L. Bain secretary, after a Hillsborough meeting drew too few farmers and a Durham meeting formed only a small club.Hillsborough Recorder, December 17, 1873, p. 3
  26. Orange County is out of debt Orange County paid off its debt by early February 1876, and the commissioners bought a safe to hold the surplus; the Recorder urged them to spend the money on roads and bridges instead, beginning with the road from Hillsborough to Cedar Grove.Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 9, 1876, p. 3
  27. The Cedar Grove Methodist Church holds its centennial celebration The Cedar Grove Methodist Church kept its centennial with three days of services led by the presiding elder of the district, assisted by visiting clergy, and drew large crowds from four counties.Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, August 2, 1876, p. 3
  28. Mount Zion AME Church is organized at Martinsville Lefler and Wager say five Black men, Jack Horner, Bedford Corbett, Richard Jordan, Sam McBroom and Richard Thompson, organized the church about 1878 at Martinsville, probably the Martin farm near Cedar Grove. The congregation's own history dates its first gatherings to about 1869 and says it was known as Poplar Springs, with a pastor by 1878, until it took the Mount Zion AME name about 1880. It bought an acre from S. W. and Margaret J. Hughes in 1882 and moved to its present site about 1927.Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 304 · Also: Mt. Zion AME Church, Our History
  29. Orange Presbytery holds its 318th session at Eno Church and approves the church order sent down by the General Assembly Forty-nine members of Orange Presbytery met at Eno Church near Cedar Grove, the fullest attendance since the war, with Rev. A. Currie as moderator. They approved, 37 to 7, the new church order the General Assembly had sent down to the presbyteries, elected delegates to the Assembly, and received Eugene L. Harris of the university as a candidate for the ministry.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, May 3, 1879, p. 3
  30. Eno Presbyterian dedicates its third church at the old site Built in 1878 under James L. Currie, the frame church replaced earlier log and frame buildings near the Old Eno cemetery. Orange Presbytery met there the same year, with D. I. Craig preaching the opening sermon. People: James L. Currie, D. I. (David Irwin) CraigSearch the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 10
  31. Five custom grist mills work the creeks of Cedar Grove Township The 1880 manufacturing census found five flour and grist mills in Cedar Grove Township on Back, Eno and Lynch creeks and the South Little River, grinding local farmers' grain about six months a year. James Allen, who owned the township's largest farm, ran one of the smaller mills on Lynch Creek; two sawmills on the Little River ran five months a year.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 34
  32. Pender Store is built at Cedar Grove The two-story weatherboarded Pender Store, with a classical gable front and a hip-roofed porch, was built at Cedar Grove in the 1880s. Its shelves and display cases were still in place in 1996.NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 62
  33. The first McDade Store goes up at McDade crossroads The first McDade Store, a two-story frame building, was put up in the 1880s at the McDade crossroads just north of Cedar Grove, where it would have stood over the small community. A second McDade store with a canopy for motorists buying gas was built across the road in the early 1920s.NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 81
  34. W. R. Hughes makes bricks at Cedar Grove The only brickyard in Cedar Grove Township in 1880 belonged to W. R. Hughes. It worked two months of the year and turned out about 100,000 common bricks.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 35
  35. Independents put up W. W. Allison, Josiah Turner and John Berry against the Democratic ticket An independent ticket was put up in Orange County for the November election, with W. W. Allison of Cedar Grove for the state Senate and Josiah Turner of Hillsborough and John Berry of Little River for the House, plus a candidate for treasurer. Republicans had been advised to back independent Democrats rather than name their own men. People: Josiah Turner Jr.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 23, 1880, p. 3
  36. The county commissioners open election precincts at Bragtown, Red Mountain and Toler's The Orange County commissioners established new election precincts at Bragtown in Durham Township, at Red Mountain in Mangum Township and at Toler's in Cedar Grove Township. People: Jones WatsonSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), February 19, 1881, p. 3
  37. Dr. W. R. Hughes, Cedar Grove physician, dies after a buggy accident Dr. W. R. Hughes, an Orange-born physician who had practiced since before the war, served as a Confederate surgeon, practiced and dealt in tobacco at Durham, and for five years lived at Cedar Grove, died there a few days after being thrown from his buggy. He was a ruling elder of Little River Presbyterian Church and was buried at Eno Church.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 14, 1881, p. 2
  38. The Mount Zion congregation buys an acre for its first church The Black congregation then known as Poplar Springs, which had met in a schoolhouse and on members' farms, bought a one-acre lot from S. W. Hughes and Margaret J. Hughes for $10. Its first church there was a small frame building with benches made by members. People: Samuel Wellwood HughesMount Zion AME Church, Hillsborough: Our History (church website)
  39. Samuel W. Hughes's school at Cedar Grove closes for his illness The school Samuel W. Hughes had kept at Cedar Grove for more than forty years closed because of its principal's poor health. Hughes resigned as county superintendent of public instruction later that summer for the same reason. People: Samuel Wellwood HughesOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 15, 1882, p. 3
  40. The Methodist district conference meets at Cedar Grove, and Bishop Keener preaches in Orange The Hillsboro District Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, under presiding elder N. H. D. Wilson, met at Cedar Grove from June 28 and adjourned to meet next year at Chapel Hill. Bishop Keener, said to be the first Methodist bishop ever to preach in Orange County, preached at Cedar Grove and in the Hillsborough Methodist church, and more than 1,500 people gathered in the grove on Sunday, July 1.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 7, 1883, p. 2
  41. A stock law ends open range in four Orange County townships An 1885 act barred cattle from running at large in Cedar Grove, Little River, Hillsboro and Bingham townships and had the commissioners fence those townships from a special tax. A second act let Chapel Hill Township adopt the stock law on a petition of three-fourths of its freeholders.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 200 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), March 7, 1885, p. 2; Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 31, 1885, p. 3
  42. A union meeting of four denominations opens at Cedar Grove before about 2,000 people A union religious meeting proposed by H. L. McDade and arranged by a committee from eight churches under Thomas H. Hughes opened at Cedar Grove with about 2,000 people and nine Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian and Christian ministers; W. S. Long preached the opening sermon.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 6, 1886, p. 3
  43. W. W. Allison, long a magistrate in Cedar Grove Township, dies W. W. Allison, 73, said to have been the first magistrate ever elected in his township and to have held the office for many years, died in Cedar Grove Township and was buried at Eno church.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 17, 1887, p. 3
  44. Three Farmers' Alliance chapters organize at Cedar Grove, Fairfield church and Ray's school house Three subordinate chapters of the Farmers' Alliance were organized in Orange County in a single week, at Cedar Grove, at Fairfield church and at Ray's school house in Cedar Grove Township, a month after state lecturer Col. G. B. Pickett had spoken at the court house.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 28, 1888, p. 3
  45. Governor Scales pardons J. N. Walker of Cedar Grove, jailed for selling liquor without a license Governor Alfred M. Scales pardoned J. N. Walker of Cedar Grove on June 15. Walker had been serving a six-month sentence for retailing liquor without a license.Search the index · Hillsboro Recorder, June 21, 1888, p. 3
  46. Cedar Grove is the busiest post office community in its township In the early 1890s Cedar Grove, with about sixty-five people, had the most businesses in its township. It had Cedar Grove Academy, the Methodist church, a doctor named Terrell, a tanner, a carriage maker and a dry goods merchant, with Eno Presbyterian Church and Compton's and Warren's mills a short way off. The High Rock and Yanceyville roads joined and ran east-west through the village.NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 37
  47. Laws and Border post offices serve the far corners of Cedar Grove Township In 1890 Cedar Grove Township had post offices at Cedar Grove, Laws and Border. Border, in the far southwest of the township, counted about twenty people, and Laws, in the far northeast, about twenty-five.NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 36
  48. Cedar Grove residents vote to build a school building to be called Cedar Grove Academy A meeting of Cedar Grove citizens decided to put up a large school building named Cedar Grove Academy, elected a board of trustees with John McCracken as chairman, and named an executive committee to buy a lot and build; the lot was bought and work begun at once, with completion hoped for by early summer.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), March 29, 1890, p. 3
  49. Cedar Grove citizens put up a new academy building and plan a chapel in memory of Samuel W. Hughes Citizens of Cedar Grove were building a handsome academy near the site of Samuel Wellwood Hughes's old school, now under Rev. J. R. Game of South Carolina. The trustees proposed a chapel beside it named for Hughes and asked his former pupils for a dollar or more each toward it. People: Samuel Wellwood HughesOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 12, 1890, p. 2
  50. B. C. Patton becomes postmaster at Cedar Grove B. C. Patton, who kept a high school and academy at Cedar Grove, was named postmaster there, apparently after the post fell vacant with the death of T. C. Ellis.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 24, 1890, p. 3
  51. Census enumerators begin the 1890 count in Orange County Seven enumerators went to work: Miss M. E. Allison for Cedar Grove, Dr. John Berry for Little River, Frank Pickard for Bingham, two men for Chapel Hill, and T. L. Tinnin and C. D. Turner for Hillsboro.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), June 7, 1890, p. 3
  52. John W. Thompson of Cedar Grove becomes superintendent of the Orange County schools John W. Thompson, a Cedar Grove teacher, took over the county schools from B. C. Patton in June 1890. He held the post until the board was abolished in 1895 and stayed on as supervisor under the county commissioners. People: John W. ThompsonSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 105
  53. Cedar Grove Academy opens its fall term in a new schoolhouse Under Rev. J. B. Game the academy opened in a newly built, painted and plastered schoolhouse with 40 students, and more enrolled in its first week.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 6, 1890, p. 3
  54. B. C. Patton gives up his Cedar Grove high school to go into business Patton, whose 'High School and Academy' at Cedar Grove had been advertised for a fall term, decided not to teach the coming session and to open a store at Cedar Grove instead.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 16, 1890, p. 3
  55. Cedar Grove Academy is incorporated Simeon J. Hall, Robert H. Hughes and Artemus A. Compton incorporated Cedar Grove Academy before the clerk of superior court to run a school for the youth of the area, for thirty years, with $2,500 in stock in $5 shares. People: Robert Hughes, Samuel Mallett GattisOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 13, 1890, p. 3
  56. Congressional candidates B. H. Bunn and Alexander McIver hold joint debates across Orange County Democrat B. H. Bunn and Republican Alexander McIver, rivals for Congress, met in joint discussion at six Orange County stops from Cedar Grove to Chapel Hill, closing at Hillsborough on Saturday night, where C. D. Turner spoke in McIver's place.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 25, 1890, p. 2
  57. Cedar Grove Academy closes its first fall term in the new building with 80 students Principal J. B. Game reported that the academy's fall term closed on December 19 with 80 enrolled and a student entertainment that Friday night. He expected 100 in the spring term, planned uniforms for the boys and was thinking of hiring another teacher.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 3, 1891, p. 3
  58. Five Forks rivals Cedar Grove as a crossroads settlement In 1891 the crossroads of Five Forks was probably as populous as Cedar Grove. Allen's flour and grist mill and Sharp's sawmill stood nearby, and a Dr. Murphy lived at the fork and likely kept a store. Riley School, Harmony Primitive Baptist Church and Mount Zion Church lay between Five Forks and Border.NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 36
  59. J. Laws keeps a country store at Laws post office In 1891 J. Laws ran a small country store at the Laws post office in northeastern Cedar Grove Township. Walnut Grove Methodist Church, Sartain School, G. W. Parker's sawmill and Hawkins's flour and grist mill stood nearby.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 36
  60. J. McAdams runs a mill and a country store near Border Around 1891 J. McAdams operated a mill and a small country store near the Border post office in southwestern Cedar Grove Township.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 36
  61. Cedar Grove Academy holds its 1891 commencement Rev. L. L. Johnson was to preach the commencement sermon on Sunday, and Judge R. W. Winston and W. W. Kitchin gave addresses. Irene Hughes won the principal's gold medal and C. C. McDade the silver, and the fall term was set to open August 27. People: Robert W. Winston, William W. (William Walton) KitchinOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), June 27, 1891, p. 3
  62. A new tobacco barn full of tobacco burns in Cedar Grove Township A new tobacco barn belonging to Col. W. G. Robson of Cedar Grove Township was destroyed by fire on Saturday morning, September 12. It was full of good tobacco.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 19, 1891, p. 3
  63. W. S. Snipes opens Cedar Grove Academy's spring term as its new principal Cedar Grove Academy opened its spring term on Monday under a new principal, W. S. Snipes, a University of North Carolina graduate. The school's notice said competent assistants would be employed.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 16, 1892, p. 3
  64. Forest fire destroys Eno Presbyterian Church Wind-driven woods fires on Saturday, April 1, 1893 burned the Eno Presbyterian church and its session house at the old site near the river. The loss preceded the congregation's move to Cedar Grove, where it built again in 1897 to 1899.Search the index · DigitalNC: Orange County Observer, April 8, 1893, p. 2 (A Fire Scourged Township, Cedar Grove letter of April 3) · Also: Kaye Graybeal, Cedar Grove district National Register nomination, 1997
  65. A summer drought damages crops across Orange County Dry spells in July and again in mid-August hurt crops and gardens in parts of the county, and Cedar Grove reported its crops suffering for rain. The best rain in months fell at Hillsborough on August 23.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 29, 1893, p. 3
  66. Annie L. Hughes keeps Cedar Grove Academy Annie L. Hughes carried on a Cedar Grove Academy from 1894 until 1915, a decade after the death of Samuel W. Hughes ended his Hughes Academy. People: Samuel Wellwood HughesDigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 16
  67. Fire destroys Frank Smith's sawmill in Cedar Grove township Fire destroyed Frank Smith's steam sawmill in Cedar Grove township, and he lost a good deal of lumber and about ten thousand shingles.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 28, 1894, p. 3
  68. The county is divided into five school townships, each with a five-man committee When the county commissioners took over the schools, the county was regrouped into five school townships (Cedar Grove, Little River, Hillsboro, Bingham and Chapel Hill), each run by a committee of five in place of the many district committees.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 45
  69. James A. Wilkerson gets four years for the Cedar Grove robberies At the fall term of Orange Superior Court, James A. Wilkerson, a white man from Cedar Grove, pleaded guilty to larceny and receiving in three cases and was sentenced to four years at hard labor in the state penitentiary. Four Black men and a white man tried at the same term for larceny and receiving were found not guilty, and another Cedar Grove larceny case was continued when no jury could be seated.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 9, 1895, p. 3
  70. Fire breaks out in the Cedar Grove Academy building A defective flue set the third story of the Cedar Grove Academy building on fire and burned a hole about the size of a barrel in the ceiling before the pupils put it out and saved the building.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), February 29, 1896, p. 3
  71. The clerk of court redraws Orange County's election precincts Under the 1895 election law calling for a polling place for about every 350 voters, Superior Court clerk D. F. Crawford set new precinct lines and polling places for the county. Chapel Hill township was split into North and South Chapel Hill, Patterson's and Cole's Store; Hillsborough township into East Hillsboro at the court house, West Hillsboro at Zach Cunningham's store, University Station and Cheek's Crossing; and Cedar Grove township into Carr's, Cedar Grove and Toler's, while the Bingham and Little River boxes stayed as they were.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), February 22, 1896, p. 3
  72. Clerk names registrars for an entirely new registration of voters Superior court clerk D. F. Crawford named registrars for every Orange County precinct under the election law of 1895 and ordered an entirely new registration of voters in Hillsboro, Cedar Grove and Chapel Hill townships.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 10, 1896, p. 2
  73. Orange County has twenty-one post offices The U.S. Official Postal Guide listed twenty-one post offices in Orange County: Blackwood, Border, Bradshaw, Breeze, Caldwell Institute, Carr, Cedar Grove, Chapel Hill, Efland, Faucette, Gath, Hillsboro, Joppa, Law, Lindsay, Meredith, Oaks, Rock Springs, Teer, Toler and University Station.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 1, 1896, p. 3
  74. Orange County voters elect township magistrates and constables At the general election Orange County's voters chose justices of the peace and a constable in each township; in Cedar Grove Township, for example, Democrats W. A. Allison (constable) and S. J. Hall won, and in Bingham Township the Populist John W. McCauley became constable. The state attorney general later ruled that magistrates elected in 1896 would not take office until August 1897.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 19, 1896, p. 2
  75. Eno Presbyterian builds at Cedar Grove The replacement church was constructed over three years.Search the index · Kaye Graybeal, Cedar Grove district National Register nomination, 1997
  76. The late William H. Jordan's home place in Cedar Grove Township is put up at auction Under a court decree, Jennie Jordan McDade, executrix of William H. Jordan, offered his 260-acre home place at the courthouse door in Hillsborough to pay the estate's debts, subject to the life estate of his widow, Mary F. Jordan.DigitalNC: Orange County Observer, July 15, 1897, p. 3 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 8, 1897, p. 3
  77. D. E. Forrest becomes postmaster at Cedar Grove D. E. Forrest was appointed postmaster at Cedar Grove in place of B. C. Patton.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 21, 1897, p. 3
  78. Robert W. Anderson is the first person buried in Eno Church's new cemetery at Cedar Grove After the congregation moved to Cedar Grove, a new burying ground opened beside the church being built on the A. T. Finley lot. Robert W. Anderson, an elder, was its first burial.Search the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 11
  79. H. S. Bradshaw is installed as pastor of Eno Presbyterian Church The Rev. H. S. Bradshaw was installed as pastor of Eno Presbyterian Church at Cedar Grove on Sunday, December 31. He was also pastor of the Presbyterian church at Hillsborough, where he kept regular appointments through the winter.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 11, 1900, p. 3
  80. Pender Store is moved across the road at Cedar Grove In 1900 the Pender Store building was moved to the other side of the road, where it still stands.NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 62
  81. The William Woods McDade House is built in the Cedar Grove area Around 1900 a story-and-a-half house with a decorated center gable, a cutaway bay and a wraparound porch with turned posts was built near Cedar Grove. The county survey knows it as the William Woods McDade House, though William Woods McDade himself died in 1862; the 1993 survey form dates it about 1890.NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 50 · Also: Captain John S. Pope Farm National Register nomination
  82. Fairfield Presbyterian Church is remodeled with pointed Gothic windows The one-story frame church near Cedar Grove, built about 1834, kept its gable-front shape but got pointed-arch windows and doorway in a 1901 renovation.Search the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 33
  83. Cedar Grove district finishes a new $279 schoolhouse with county help The board paid $150 from the general fund toward the new schoolhouse of Cedar Grove District No. 6, which cost $279.DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 54
  84. B. C. Patton replaces Mrs. William Allison as Cedar Grove postmaster By October 22, 1903, B. C. Patton, a member of the county Republican executive committee, had been appointed postmaster at Cedar Grove in place of Mrs. William Allison, the former postmaster Delia Findley, who had lately married a Democrat.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 22, 1903, p. 3
  85. Dr. William Terrell dies suddenly at Cedar Grove Dr. William Terrell died very suddenly at his home at Cedar Grove on the afternoon of January 15, apparently of heart trouble, and was buried there the next afternoon.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 18, 1906, p. 3
  86. The Oliver family takes over the Cedar Grove crossroads store The Oliver family acquired the frame store the Allison family had built at the Cedar Grove crossroads in the 1880s. They kept it until C. H. Pender and his wife Irene Oliver took it over in the 1960s.National Register: Cedar Grove Rural Crossroads Historic District (1998)
  87. John Ed Collins kills Monroe Walker in Cedar Grove Township John Ed Collins shot and killed Monroe Walker, a young Black man, near R. W. Tate's home in Cedar Grove Township, and a coroner's jury under S. J. Hall named Collins as the killer. Indicted for murder at the August term, Collins was arrested at Julian in Guilford County in September and pleaded guilty to second-degree murder at the October term.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 23, 1908, p. 3
  88. John Kenion's center-gable farmhouse is built north of Hillsborough The Kenion House, a two-story farmhouse with a shingled front gable, pointed window heads and a bracketed porch, was built in 1910 for John Kenion, a farmer and Hillsborough banker. It stands in the Cedar Grove area.NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 50
  89. Dr. C. M. Hughes builds a Colonial Revival house in Cedar Grove Dr. C. M. Hughes's large two-story frame house in Cedar Grove, with a high hip roof, a cutaway bay and a columned wraparound porch, was built in 1912.NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 52
  90. The Cedar Grove pharmacy where Dr. C. M. Hughes practiced is moved beside his house The early 1900s pharmacy building at the Cedar Grove crossroads, where Dr. Claude M. Hughes kept his medical practice, was moved in 1913 to the lot east of his new house so a three-story flour mill could go up on its site. The mill burned about 1931.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove Rural Crossroads Historic District, National Register nomination (OR1424, 1998), p. 6
  91. The Cedar Grove firm of Hughes & Anderson is dissolved The partnership of Hughes & Anderson at Cedar Grove was dissolved by mutual agreement.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 14, 1913, p. 5
  92. Eight post offices and rural free delivery routes serve Orange County Post offices stood at Efland, Hillsboro, Cedar Grove, Teer, Blackwood, University Station, Carrboro and Chapel Hill, and rural free delivery carried daily mail to homes in nearly every part of the county.Search the index · M. C. S. Noble (University of North Carolina Bureau of Extension), The Teaching of County Geography (1915), scan p. 28
  93. The old Cedar Grove one-teacher schoolhouse is moved to serve Black children When Cedar Grove's white pupils moved to the new high school, the one-teacher schoolhouse was hauled to Baxter Thompson's land and used as a school for Black children.DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 121
  94. The county board buys the Annie Hughes Academy to house a Cedar Grove high school Answering a petition from Cedar Grove residents, the board offered on May 3, 1915 to buy the old Cedar Grove Academy from Annie Hughes and on May 15 paid her $1,500 for it, deeding her the lot of the one-teacher school it closed. The new Cedar Grove High School took grades one through eleven. People: Samuel Paul LockhartDigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 121
  95. Cedar Grove voters approve a special school tax district The board allowed Cedar Grove to call an election on a special school tax in July 1917, and the returns reported in September showed 34 votes for and 16 against. The board then set pay for each Cedar Grove high school teacher at $50 a month.DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 65
  96. Cedar Grove organizes a Red Cross branch By August 1, 1917, a Red Cross branch had been organized at Cedar Grove and was making surgical dressings. In the fall the county chapter thanked Cedar Grove for giving it the premiums from the community fair.Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 32
  97. The Orange County Red Cross counts 850 knitted articles and 41,396 dressings for During 1918 the chapter and its branches at Cedar Grove, New Hope and Oaks sent 850 knitted articles to Atlanta and fourteen boxes holding 41,396 bandages and surgical dressings. The history adds that the Black auxiliary did little sewing but drew in Black members.Search the index · State Archives of North Carolina, Military Collection, WWI Papers, Box 2, Folder 37: Orange County Red Cross History (typescripts, 1918-1919), scan 16
  98. Three Black school districts have no schoolhouse, and two others meet in log houses Every white district had a schoolhouse, but the 28 Black districts had only 25: two used churches and one had no place at all. The survey judged every Black school building unsatisfactory, worst at Sunnyside, Merritt's, Cedar Grove and Maple Grove, and the first two were log houses.Search the index · L. A. Williams, A Study of the Public Schools in Orange County, North Carolina (1919), scan p. 27
  99. Marine Samuel Maris Wilkerson of Cedar Grove dies of wounds in France Samuel Maris Wilkerson of Cedar Grove enlisted in the Marine Corps on December 8, 1917, and served with the 5th Marines in France. Reported wounded on June 15, 1918, he died of his wounds on June 17.Search the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 87
  100. The Orange County Red Cross grants a branch to Carr precinct At its August 12, 1918 meeting the chapter granted Carr precinct's petition to become a branch, its fourth after Cedar Grove, New Hope and Oaks. The same meeting heard headquarters' advice to stop giving comfort kits to men leaving for camp.Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 40
  101. Cedar Grove Township counts about 375 influenza cases and four deaths Cedar Grove Township had about 375 cases of Spanish influenza and only four deaths, and the epidemic there lasted until the second week of December 1918.Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 79
  102. A second influenza wave strikes Cedar Grove, Efland and Hillsborough After Christmas 1918 a second epidemic spread through the county and was very bad at Cedar Grove, Efland and Hillsborough. This time schools and churches stayed open, and the outbreak slowly died down.Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 79
  103. Orange County towns and townships win honor flags in the Victory Loan For meeting their Victory Loan quotas, Cedar Grove, Chapel Hill, Cheeks, Eno and Hillsborough townships and the towns of Chapel Hill and Hillsborough were awarded honor flags, the Chapel Hill News reported on May 29, 1919, crediting Mayor W. S. Roberson as Victory Loan chairman. The paper said county residents had put more than a million dollars into government securities since the first Liberty Loan. People: W. S. RobersonSearch the index · State Archives of North Carolina, Military Collection, WWI Papers, Box 2, Folder 37: Orange County Red Cross History (typescripts, 1918-1919), scan 30
  104. McDade Store No. 2 opens as a filling station at Cedar Grove McDade Store No. 2, a small frame store with a gable-front canopy over its gas pumps, was a typical 1920s country filling station at Cedar Grove.NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 63
  105. R. L. Snipes opens a general store and filling station near Cedar Grove A general store and gas station with a stepped front gable, the R. L. Snipes Store, is built on NC 86 near Cedar Grove around 1920.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 119
  106. The Five Forks meeting house north of Cedar Grove The 1993 county survey recorded a small front-gable frame building at Five Forks, north of Cedar Grove, as Five Forks Church and estimated it at about 1920. It was most likely the old pack barn owned by Mr. Laws where Five Forks Baptist Church began meeting in 1952 and was organized in 1953, until its new church was dedicated in 1967.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 108 · Also: Five Forks Baptist Church, Our History
  107. Eno Presbyterian adds to its Cedar Grove church and remodels it almost completely During C. D. Whiteley's pastorate, a time of growth for the congregation, an addition was built and the 1890s building was remodeled so thoroughly that the book likens it to a new church.Search the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 11
  108. The county board agrees to build a new school at Cedar Grove On August 11, 1922, under superintendent Claytor, the county board agreed to build a modern school at Cedar Grove once state building-fund money came. The building was accepted in January 1924 and named Aycock School. Carrboro's new school, planned under the same program, was already going up in 1921. People: R. H. ClaytorSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 125
  109. Ellis Store and post office opens Allen A. Ellis built a new crossroads store.Search the index · Kaye Graybeal, Cedar Grove district National Register nomination, 1997
  110. Aycock School is built at Cedar Grove The county board of education built a new school at Cedar Grove on land bought from Carl C. McDade, because state law barred board member Charles A. McDade from selling his own land to the county. Sam Johnson won the contract in August 1923 with a bid of $19,570. On January 7, 1924 the board voted to name the school Aycock instead of Cedar Grove, and on January 21 it inspected and accepted the building.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 70 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, March 6, 1924, p. 1; Open Orange: 6116 Efland Cedar Grove Rd. / Aycock High School
  111. Harmony School patrons protest a merger with Aycock School A delegation from Harmony School went before the board to object to consolidating their school with the new Aycock School at Cedar Grove. The board told them no such step was planned, though Harmony was merged into Aycock six years later.DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 73
  112. Eno Church women organize a Woman's Auxiliary at the manse Pastor C. D. Whiteley presided at the meeting that formed the auxiliary, later renamed Women of the Church.Search the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 11
  113. J. Walter Mann, a son of Hawfields Church, is ordained and installed pastor of Eno Mann began preaching at Eno as stated supply in the spring of 1926 and was ordained and installed that October. Forty-eight members joined during his fifteen years, and his wife, Esther Covington Mann, led much of the women's work.Search the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 11
  114. Eno Church holds what it believes was Orange County's first daily vacation Bible school Eno held the school with Cedar Grove Methodist Church. Summer Bible school became a lasting part of the church's work and was later held at Camp New Hope.Search the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 12
  115. The county board merges Chestnut Ridge, Jordan's Grove, Smith Level and Grover into larger schools Over objections from families who wanted to keep neighborhood schools, the board sent the pupils of Chestnut Ridge to Gravelly Hill, those of Grover and Jordan's Grove to Aycock, and those of Smith Level to Carrboro. It then adopted a school budget of $180,849.25 for 1930-31.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 76
  116. Black families from five northern Orange schools ask for a brick consolidated school Parents from five schools for Black children, Cedar Grove, Carr, Harmony, Sartins and White Oak, asked the board for a new brick building to replace them. The board promised to look into it; a site near Vincent's Store for a Cedar Grove school for Black children was bought in 1946.DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 79
  117. Cedar Grove Methodist Church's stone building goes up The stone church replaced earlier facilities serving the congregation. Masons laid its cornerstone in late November 1939 at the request of the pastor, S. F. Nicks.Search the index · Kaye Graybeal, Cedar Grove district National Register nomination, 1997
  118. The county board agrees to build an agriculture building at Aycock School Aycock principal Mrs. V. L. Warren and the school committee asked the board for a two-room brick building for agriculture classes, and the board agreed to provide it.DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 80
  119. Census finds nearly half of Orange County's Black-owned farms in Cedar Grove Township The 1940 census counted 1,753 Black and 1,671 white residents in Cedar Grove Township, the county's only township with a near-even racial balance, and about three-fourths of the township lived on farms. Nearly half of Orange County's 503 Black-owned farms were in the township, which also had the county's highest share of Black tenant farmers.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove Rural Crossroads Historic District National Register nomination (OR1424)
  120. Crabtree Store No. 2 is built north of Cedar Grove A frame country store, Crabtree Store No. 2, is built north of Cedar Grove around 1940.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 117
  121. McDade and Laws stop functioning as crossroads communities In the 1940s the crossroads of McDade and Laws in northern Orange ceased to hold together as communities and their stores closed, while Cedar Grove, where the Pender Store stayed open, kept its identity.NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 45
  122. Charles Crisp Oliver builds an auto and tractor repair shop at the Cedar Grove crossroads Oliver put up a one-story concrete block garage with a stepped parapet on the lot where his father, T. L. Oliver, had kept a blacksmith shop early in the century.National Register: Cedar Grove Rural Crossroads Historic District (1998)
  123. The county buys land from Mary Vincent for a Cedar Grove school for Black children In May 1945 board members Charlie Stanford and James Compton were asked to find a site near Vincent's Store crossroads for a Cedar Grove school for Black children. The board bought the land from Mary Vincent for $1,000 in 1946.DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 81
  124. A community cannery is set up at Aycock School G. A. Munn and E. F. Cude told the board in July 1947 that the cannery at Aycock School had used $3,500 and needed $1,500 more to finish.DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 81
  125. Archie Royal Davis becomes architect for the Orange County schools In 1948 the Durham architect Archie Royal Davis became architect for the Orange County school system. His work for the county included Cedar Grove and Efland-Cheeks schools for Black children, the first Cameron Park School building, Central High's 1959-60 main building and Central Elementary. People: Archie Royal DavisSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 18
  126. Architect H. Raymond Weeks presents plans for a school for Black children in Cedar Grove Township H. Raymond Weeks showed the Orange County Board of Education his design for a consolidated school for Black pupils in Cedar Grove Township. The board sent the plans to the Federal Works Agency, which lent school systems money for architects' fees. People: Howard Raymond WeeksNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 16
  127. Arthur Wells is listed for the advisory committee of the Sartin school The News of Orange County printed the county's new school committees, including the suggested advisory committee members for the Black schools. Oscar Beasley, Euddie Villines and Arthur Wells were listed for the Sartin school, on two-year terms. People: Oscar Carver BeasleySearch the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, May 12, 1949, p. 1
  128. The Cedar Grove Ruritan Club is organized Formed in 1950, the club helped landscape the new Aycock School and equip its gym, fielded a community baseball team and arranged group hospital insurance for members. In 1952 it placed first among 22 rural groups in the community improvement contest.Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 262
  129. Cedar Grove parents ask that Black educators help plan their new school A delegation from the Cedar Grove Parent-Teacher Association asked the county board to let Central High principal A. L. Stanback and M. C. Burt, the county's agricultural agent for Black farmers, take part in planning the new Cedar Grove school. People: A. L. StanbackNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 17
  130. Archie Royal Davis replaces H. Raymond Weeks as architect of the Cedar Grove school When state school planners faulted H. Raymond Weeks's design in April 1950, the board sent him to W. F. Credle and Edward Waugh of the Division of Schoolhouse Planning, but Weeks would not rework it on short notice. By May the job had gone to Archie Royal Davis, who was also designing Lincoln High School in Chapel Hill; the board approved his preliminary plans in June. People: Archie Royal Davis, Edward W. Waugh, Howard Raymond WeeksNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 17
  131. Principal E. M. Stanfield reports on the one-room school for Black children at Cedar Grove In her report for 1949-50, E. M. Stanfield told the state she was the only teacher for 36 pupils in seven grades in a single room with no library, gymnasium, fire protection or indoor toilet. The two-room Carr School nearby, under principal Anne May Morrow, had 73 pupils and lacked a drinking fountain and state health approval.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 16
  132. The county board accepts Archie Royal Davis's plans for Cedar Grove School The Orange County Board of Education approved Davis's final design for the Cedar Grove school for Black children: a low, flat-roofed brick building with long bands of classroom windows. People: Archie Royal DavisNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 18
  133. Bids for Cedar Grove School run over budget and the board asks the state for $147,000 None of the construction bids opened on December 6, 1950, came within the budget, so the board rejected them all. On December 28 it voted to ask the state School Plant Construction, Improvement, and Repair Fund for a $147,000 grant to build the school.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 18
  134. Jordan's Grove School for Black children closes as the Cedar Grove Negro School opens Jordan's Grove School for Black children closed in the fall of 1951, when it and six other small Black schools were combined in the new Cedar Grove Negro School, accepted by the county board that November. It is the only surviving rural field school building the 1993 survey could tie to African American pupils, abandoned in a farm field when recorded. A separate white Jordan's Grove school had merged into Aycock in 1930.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 79 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 8, 1951, p. 1
  135. Orange County closes thirteen small schools for Black children and consolidates their pupils At the start of the 1951-52 school year the county shut thirteen one- and two-teacher schools for Black children, put eleven new buses on the roads and consolidated every Black school except three near Efland. New buildings opened that year at the Cedar Grove school.DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 139
  136. Construction of Cedar Grove School begins Work on the new school for Black children on NC 86 north of Hillsborough started in January 1951. By early February a well had been drilled and the footings poured.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 19
  137. The board cuts the north wing and kitchen from the Cedar Grove School plans To lower costs, the county board struck the six-classroom north wing, the kitchen, floor tile, clocks, bells, sidewalks and other items from Davis's design. The gymnasium was to serve as a multipurpose room partitioned into four classrooms until money for more space could be found. People: Archie Royal DavisNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 19
  138. Cedar Grove parents ask for a say in hiring teachers and get a Black building committee Seven Cedar Grove PTA members asked for a local committee with power to hire and dismiss the new school's teachers, and for paint and tile floors. The board named a building committee of Dallas Sheppherd Burnett, Wayne Compton, D. W. Torain, Elijah Poole and Oscar Carver Beasley but gave it no say over staff; it did approve the paint and the floor tile. People: Oscar Carver BeasleyNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 19
  139. Morris Telephone Company opens an exchange at Efland with lines to Cedar Grove The Morris Telephone Company put a new 30-line switchboard into service in its new building next to the Baptist church in Efland, along with about 14 miles of rural lines running to the Cedar Grove community.Search the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, November 22, 1951, p. 1
  140. Farmers Home Administration pushes livestock to raise tenant incomes near Cedar Grove The News of Orange County reported a Farmers Home Administration effort to raise tenant income by adding livestock to tobacco farming. Tenants on the Banks Wilson farm near Cedar Grove added hogs and other animals, and 42 county farm families had FHA operating loans.The News of Orange County (DigitalNC): August 21, 1952, page 1
  141. The county board votes to borrow for a six-classroom wing at Cedar Grove School On a motion by board member Kemp S. Cate, the board voted to borrow $30,000 from the state literary fund and add $25,000 from its capital budget to build the north classroom wing cut from the 1951 plans. The county commissioners approved the loan.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 20
  142. Millard Lee Bess joins the Cedar Grove School staff The county board hired Millard Lee Bess, a Gaston County native, Winston-Salem State graduate and World War II veteran, for Cedar Grove School in September 1952.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 20
  143. The county school board advertises the White Oak Grove school lot for sale The Orange County Board of Education gave notice that it would sell at the courthouse on January 10, 1953, a lot on the Cedar Grove-Carr road beside White Oak Grove Church, with its frame, tin-roofed building. The sale followed the opening of the new Cedar Grove school for Black children, which replaced the small rural schools.Search the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, December 18, 1952, p. 7
  144. Cedar Grove School's six-classroom north wing is finished The north wing Archie Royal Davis had drawn in 1951 was finished late in 1953 and closely matches the original classroom wing. With the new rooms the multipurpose room became the gymnasium and auditorium. Davis and board members Harry Breeze and C. W. Stanford inspected the wing in January 1954. People: Archie Royal DavisNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 20
  145. The News of Orange prints the first picture of the Cedar Grove Negro School A front-page photograph presented the new school as a major piece of the county's three-year building program. The story listed seven classrooms, a library, an office, a heating plant, two toilets and a multipurpose room used from the start as four classrooms.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 20
  146. Five Forks Baptist Church is organized in a converted pack barn Prayer meetings begun in 1951 by Gattis Brown of Glen Hope Baptist Church in Burlington moved in 1952 to an old pack barn at the Five Forks crossroads, and the church was organized there on July 2, 1953 with 27 members. Brown was pastor until 1964.Five Forks Baptist Church: Our History (church website)
  147. The name Cedar Grove Negro School gives way to Cedar Grove School The county board and local papers had called the school the Cedar Grove Negro School from the 1946 land purchase on. After 1954 they used Cedar Grove School or Cedar Grove Elementary School.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 15
  148. Harold H. Webb becomes principal of Cedar Grove School Harold Hudson Webb, a Greensboro-born veteran of the Tuskegee Airmen with two degrees from North Carolina A&T who had taught at Central High, was hired as Cedar Grove's principal. He led the school until 1962, when he joined the state education department; in 1977 he became North Carolina's first Black state personnel director.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 20
  149. Five Black farm communities organize for the county Farm and Home Efficiency program Black farm families in the Cedar Grove, Efland, Chapel Hill, Hillsboro and Terrell Creek communities met and organized for the year's Farm and Home Efficiency program run by the county's agricultural agencies, each setting up an advisory committee and choosing a community project. Cedar Grove chose to landscape the Cedar Grove School grounds, Hillsboro to beautify churches in six neighborhoods, and Terrell Creek to finish its community house and improve its churchyard.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 24, 1955, p. 1
  150. The Cedar Grove community gets its first Boy Scout troop The first Boy Scout troop in the Cedar Grove community, sponsored by the Cedar Grove Ruritan Club with the Rev. Kay Misenheimer as scoutmaster, held its first meeting at Aycock School with 26 boys present and ten ready to register.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 12, 1955, p. 4
  151. Eno Presbyterian Church marks its two hundredth anniversary The congregation held a bicentennial program counting from 1755, and Annie H. Hughes brought the church history up to date for it.Search the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 3
  152. Arthur Wells is named to the Cedar Grove school advisory committee The Orange County Board of Education named Wayne Compton, Oscar Beasley, Carter White, Lonnie Thompson and Arthur Wells to two-year terms as the advisory committee of the Cedar Grove school. People: Oscar Carver Beasley, Carter WhiteSearch the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, May 5, 1955, p. 1
  153. About 100 tobacco growers see an irrigation demonstration at Cedar Grove County agents Don Matheson and Ed Barnes brought State College irrigation specialist Howard Ellis and four equipment dealers to the Robert Earl Hughes farm to promote irrigating tobacco, the county's chief cash crop. Twenty Orange tobacco farms had irrigation systems that summer, while about 1,500 growers still depended on rain.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 14, 1955, p. 1
  154. Scouting in Orange County grows, with new Black troops and packs at three schools Opening its fund drive, the Scout council reported a 25 percent rise in Orange County membership that year and four new units, among them a West Hillsboro PTA Cub pack. It noted the growth of Black scouting, led by principal A. L. Stanback, with a Cub pack and a troop at Central School and troops at Efland and Cedar Grove led by their principals. People: A. L. Stanback, Ira WardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 29, 1955, p. 1
  155. Orange County passes a $2 million school bond issue A two-million-dollar county bond issue for schools passed in 1956. The next month Cedar Grove's Black parents went to the board to ask for a share of the building money.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 21
  156. A Cedar Grove committee asks for classrooms, a lunchroom and playground land Wayne Compton, Arthur Wells, Lonnie Thompson, Carter White and Oscar Beasley asked the county board for four more classrooms at Cedar Grove School, a lunchroom large enough to grow, and two more acres for a playground. The board did not act. People: Arthur Wells, Oscar Carver Beasley, Carter WhiteNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 21
  157. The county board approves a cafeteria for Cedar Grove School After voting in September to study the need, the board approved a cafeteria for 150 pupils at Cedar Grove at no more than $40,000, while again putting off new classrooms. Archie Royal Davis's plans for it were approved and sent to the state in October 1957. People: Archie Royal DavisNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 21
  158. A kitchen and cafeteria are added to Cedar Grove School A one-story brick kitchen and cafeteria, 78 by 49 feet, was finished behind the gymnasium late in 1958 to Archie Royal Davis's plans. One open dining room filled two-thirds of it, with the kitchen, dishwashing and storage along the north side. People: Archie Royal DavisNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 21
  159. Carr Store Road is paved through Cedar Grove Carr Store Road, the east-west road through the Cedar Grove crossroads, was paved in 1958, about a decade after the north-south Efland-Cedar Grove Road. Until then farmers in the area could find farm-to-market roads impassable for months of the year.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove Rural Crossroads Historic District National Register nomination (OR1424)
  160. A Cedar Grove delegation asks for a classroom and playground to win accreditation Seeking state accreditation, a delegation from the school asked the board for one more classroom so the library could be used as a library again, land for a playground, paint for the north wing and outdoor floodlights. The board took no action.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 22
  161. The state declines to accredit Cedar Grove School for lack of space Ruth Lawrence Woodson, state supervisor of the Black elementary schools, refused accreditation because the school had too few classrooms and was using its library as a fourth-grade room. Her report counted the parents' involvement, a staff study program, the office, auditorium and clinic room in its favor.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 22
  162. Cedar Grove's advisory committee asks for two more classrooms Lonnie Thompson, Arthur Wells, Carter White, Wayne Compton and Oscar Beasley of the school's advisory committee asked the board for a two-classroom addition. The board agreed to consider it and in August approved Archie Royal Davis's plans with a $20,000 limit. People: Archie Royal Davis, Arthur Wells, Oscar Carver Beasley, Carter WhiteNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 22
  163. Arthur Wells is named to the county's new agricultural extension advisory board A 16-member Orange County Agricultural Extension Advisory Board, proposed by the extension service to advise on the county's farm program, was approved with Arthur Wells of Cedar Grove among its farmer representatives.Search the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, July 9, 1959, p. 1
  164. Orange County builds its third ABC store near the Alamance line at Carr The county ABC board put up a concrete-block liquor store on Mutt Byrd's land about 200 yards from the Alamance County line on the Roxboro-Burlington highway, with opening expected in mid-September. By early 1960 nearly all of its sales went to Alamance County customers.Search the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, August 13, 1959, p. 1 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 3, 1959, p. 1; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 18, 1960, p. 15
  165. Two classrooms are added to the south wing of Cedar Grove School The two classrooms at the south end of the original wing, built to Archie Royal Davis's plans on bids taken in fall 1959, were finished by September 6, 1960, when the board inspected them with Davis and contractor Lindsay Fogelman. People: Archie Royal DavisNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 22
  166. Clara Jones is appointed a supervisor of the Orange County schools Clara Jones, a Person County principal for twenty-seven years, joined the county staff as supervisor in 1961, assigned to the Cedar Grove, Efland-Cheeks and A. L. Stanback schools for Black children. After integration she ran special education testing and placement, and she retired in 1974.DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 162
  167. Belton Edwards becomes principal of Cedar Grove School Belton Edwards, a South Carolina native and North Carolina A&T graduate, followed Harold Webb as principal in 1962 and stayed until 1968, when he became the first Black member of the Orange County Board of Education. George Pierce succeeded him at the school.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 22
  168. Aycock and Hillsborough High schools are consolidated into Orange High School On February 4, 1963 the county board of education resolved to consolidate the high schools at Hillsborough and Aycock into the new Orange High School, which opened in 1963 with Charles Yelverton as its first principal. The new Orange Junior High School was housed in the old Hillsborough High School building, and Aycock continued as an elementary school.DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 85 · Also: Orange County Historical Museum: Integration in Orange County; NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination; Open Orange: 6116 Efland Cedar Grove Rd. / Aycock High School
  169. Teacher Hassie Vanhook Gattis retires after 34 years Hassie Vanhook Brooks Gattis retired in 1963 after 34 years of teaching Black children in northern Orange County, at the Sartin, Grover, Poplar Grove and Carr schools and, from about 1955, at Cedar Grove. The News of Orange County marked her retirement in June.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 19
  170. Eno Church and the Schley Grange restore the Old Eno Cemetery, and a state highway marker goes up In 1964 Eno Church, helped by the Schley Grange, cleared and restored the Old Eno Cemetery and set a bronze plaque on a boulder where the first church stood. A state highway marker for Old Eno Church and Cemetery followed, erected in 1965 by the Department of Archives and History, and was dedicated with Synod executive Harold Dudley present.Search the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 16 · Also: HMDB: Old Eno Church and Cemetery marker
  171. Four of Orange County's 2,001 Black pupils attend white schools The county school system enrolled 2,001 Black students in 1964-65. Four went to formerly white schools; the rest attended Central High, Efland-Cheeks or Cedar Grove.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 28
  172. More than 25,000 Orange County residents take Sabin oral polio vaccine on one Sunday The Durham-Orange County Medical Foundation ran a Sunday oral polio vaccine campaign at eight public school feeding stations in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough, Cedar Grove and Efland. A total of 25,679 people took the vaccine on a sugar cube, about 56 percent of the county, with Glenwood School alone serving 5,063; a second dose was set for May 17.News of Orange County, March 26, 1964, p. 11 ("Polio vaccine is again offered; 25,000 in county are treated")
  173. Sixty-six Black parents petition the county board to stop running schools by race Led by the retired Cedar Grove teacher Hassie Vanhook Gattis, 66 parents signed a petition asking the Orange County board to stop operating its schools on a racial basis. It charged that the board had kept a dual system since the 1954 Brown ruling in disregard of the law.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 27
  174. Fire destroys the home economics building at Aycock School The home economics building at Aycock School in Cedar Grove burned, with the loss put at $15,000 to $20,000 and fully insured through the state. The county board had approved the building in 1948.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 86
  175. Cedar Grove families answer the county's freedom-of-choice forms The county sent 401 school-choice forms to Cedar Grove School families at the end of the 1964-65 year. Fifty-two made no choice, three asked for all-white Aycock Elementary and four for Orange Junior High.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 23
  176. Three Cedar Grove families ask to move their children to the all-white Aycock School At the end of the 1964-65 school year, under its freedom of choice plan, the Orange County Board of Education sent school choice forms to the parents of every school-age child. Of the 401 forms sent to families at Cedar Grove School, the area's school for Black children, three asked for transfer to the all-white Aycock Elementary School and four to Orange Junior High School.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 23 · Also: DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983; Open Orange: 6116 Efland Cedar Grove Rd. / Aycock High School
  177. Hillsborough groups lead a tour of historic sites in northern Orange County The Historic Hillsborough Commission, the Hillsborough Historical Society, the Orange County Historical Museum and the Hillsborough Chamber of Commerce sponsored the tour, with help from Cedar Grove residents led by Mrs. Robert W. Isley. It followed a broad semicircle north of Hillsborough to old churches, chapels and cemeteries, Governor Thomas Burke's grave at Tyaquin, early houses including John Berry's country home Sunnyside and Maple Hill, the sites of early schools and old mills, among them the state's first paper mill of 1777, and several historical markers. At Cedar Grove the visitors heard about the community's recent restoration of its old burial ground.Internet Archive: "Historical News", North Carolina Historical Review 43 (1966), p. 111
  178. Cedar Grove's advisory council asks for a painted lunchroom and a paved playground Oscar Beasley and Arthur Wells of the Cedar Grove Advisory Council asked the board to paint the lunchroom, hang doors on the girls' restroom and give the school a hard-surfaced playground. The board granted part of the request. People: Arthur Wells, Oscar Carver BeasleyNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 23
  179. Five Forks Baptist Church dedicates its new block church Needing room for a cemetery, the congregation moved to land bought from Arthur Wright for $1 and began building in 1966 with 2,400 donated blocks, much of the work done by the pastor, Tommy Willis, and members. The church was dedicated on December 10, 1967.Five Forks Baptist Church: Our History (church website)
  180. Principal George Pierce and Arthur Wells ask for basketball goals and better lighting Cedar Grove principal George Pierce and advisory council chairman Arthur Wells asked the board for basketball goals, better lighting, doors for the boys' restrooms and supplies for the lunchroom. People: Arthur WellsNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 23
  181. Cedar Grove's advisory council petitions to keep the school open As the county prepared to integrate its schools, the Cedar Grove Advisory Council brought the board a petition asking that Cedar Grove School run fully through 1969-70 and that the integration plan be reconsidered. The council said the community did not intend to give up its school.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 23
  182. Cedar Grove School closes under the county's integration plan The county board announced in May 1969 that Cedar Grove School would not operate in 1969-70. The school closed at the end of the 1968-69 year despite the community's appeals, and its pupils moved to schools in Efland and Hillsborough.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 23
  183. The school board sells the empty Cedar Grove School to Orange County for ten dollars After the building had stood vacant for nearly a decade, the Orange County Board of Education conveyed the former school and its eight acres to the county for $10.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 23
  184. Caldwell and Cedar Grove volunteer fire departments are incorporated The Caldwell Volunteer Fire Department was incorporated on December 6, 1977 and the Cedar Grove Volunteer Fire Department a week later, on December 13, extending local fire protection across the northern townships.Search the index · Orange Rural Fire Department: History of the Fire Service in Hillsborough
  185. Efland-Cheeks pupils use the old Cedar Grove School while their school is enlarged Under county ownership the former Cedar Grove School served several purposes, among them holding Efland-Cheeks School students until an addition to their own building was finished in 1978.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 23
  186. Orange County gets a grant to build a park behind the old Cedar Grove School A $30,000 grant let the county develop recreation land behind the school, where it built a baseball field and a children's play area.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 23
  187. The state places rural Orange County houses, churches, schools and districts on the Study List On July 8, 1993, after the survey of the rural county, the National Register Advisory Committee placed 23 rural Orange County properties on the state Study List: eighteen farmhouses and log houses, the Carr Methodist and Harmony churches, White Cross School, and the Cedar Grove and Oaks Rural historic districts.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: National Register Advisory Committee agendas, minutes and approved lists, p. 556 · Also: NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form
  188. A hurricane destroys the old Thomas Cox Ellis wing of the Dr. C. M. Hughes House The mid-1800s frame house of Thomas Cox Ellis, kept as the kitchen ell when his son-in-law Dr. Claude M. Hughes built his larger house beside it in 1912, was destroyed by a hurricane in 1996.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove Rural Crossroads Historic District, National Register nomination (OR1424, 1998), Section 7 p. 12
  189. Orange County buys 39 acres to expand the park at Cedar Grove The county bought thirty-nine acres behind the old Cedar Grove School to enlarge its recreation park.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 23
  190. The Cedar Grove Rural Crossroads Historic District is listed in the National Register On April 23, 1998 the National Park Service listed the Cedar Grove Rural Crossroads Historic District in Cedar Grove in the National Register of Historic Places.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Listings in the National Register of Historic Places, Orange County · Also: NC State Historic Preservation Office: National Register file OR1424
  191. The Old Tavern and White Oak Grove School join the Study List The National Register Advisory Committee placed the log Old Tavern at 419 Hillsborough Street, Chapel Hill, and the White Oak Grove School for Black children near Cedar Grove 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. 796
  192. Cedar Grove Branch Library opens in northern Orange County Orange County opened the Cedar Grove Branch Library in two rooms of the Northern Human Services Center, a former school, to serve Cedar Grove and northern Orange. Budgets describe books, Spanish-language materials, children's and adult programs, computer classes and materials borrowed from other regional libraries.Orange County FY 2008-09 Annual Operating Budget, Library - Cedar Grove Library
  193. A state trust fund grant pays for a larger Cedar Grove Park Beginning in 2007, with a $500,000 grant from the North Carolina Parks and Recreation Trust Fund, the county greatly enlarged the park around the old school. It now has three ball fields, two basketball courts, a playground and parking.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 24
  194. Commissioners reject closing the Carrboro and Cedar Grove branch libraries Facing recession cuts while opening the new Hillsborough main library, the county manager proposed closing the Carrboro branch at McDougle School and the Cedar Grove branch and moving their staff to the new building. After opposition from Commissioner Mike Nelson, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen and residents, commissioners rejected the closures and used reserve funds to staff the new library in the budget adopted in June 2009. People: Mike Nelson, Mark Chilton, Lucinda MungerThe Carrboro Citizen, "Carrboro library cuts on the table" (May 14, 2009)
  195. Orange County closes the Cedar Grove Branch Library The county closed the Cedar Grove Branch Library, northern Orange County's only staffed library, effective August 1, 2010, citing 502 registered borrowers and a cost per patron far above other branches. Its materials and computers went to the main library and the Cybrary, and some Cedar Grove items were reused in 40 Literacy Bag outreach kits.Orange County FY 2010-11 Manager Recommended Budget, Library Services
  196. The Captain John S. Pope Farm joins the Study List The National Register Advisory Committee placed the Captain John S. Pope Farm near Cedar Grove 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. 1203
  197. John S. Pope Farm is listed in the National Register The Capt. John S. Pope Farm at 6909 Efland-Cedar Grove Road, near Cedar Grove, was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on April 23, 2013. The Pope family has farmed the tract, now in organic tobacco, since at least 1870, and its two-story I-house dates from about 1870 to 1874.Search the index · National Park Service: National Register of Historic Places 2013 Weekly Lists (actions 4/22/13 to 4/26/13, ref. 13000206)
  198. Cedar Grove Community Center opens with a self-service library station Orange County dedicated the renovated Cedar Grove Community Center, once home to the Cedar Grove Negro School, in June 2016, with a self-serve library station beside the building. The $180,000 kiosk offered automated borrowing in northern Orange County without a staffed branch; the county's FY 2021–22 budget ended support for it, citing poor performance and low patron use.Chapelboro: Orange County Celebrating Dedication Ceremony of Cedar Grove Community Center (June 17, 2016)
  199. Orange County's library branches are merged into one catalog Preparing for the Southern Branch, the library merged the holdings of the Main Library, the Carrboro branch at McDougle School and the Cybrary into a single catalog during the 2017–18 fiscal year and added the Cedar Grove kiosk's items. Staff reported an immediate rise in circulation at all three branches and in items sent between locations by courier.Orange County FY 2018-19 Manager Recommended Budget (Library Services, FY 2017-18 outcomes, p. 364 of PDF)
  200. The Rocks in Chapel Hill and Cedar Grove School join the Study List Among nine central and southeastern public requests approved on October 12, 2017 were William C. Coker's house, The Rocks, in Chapel Hill and the Cedar Grove School north of Hillsborough. The same meeting placed the Hillsborough survey's Ja-Max Motor Lodge and Military Academy dining hall site on the list. People: William Chambers CokerSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: National Register Advisory Committee agendas, minutes and approved lists, p. 1418
  201. Cedar Grove School is listed in the National Register On April 23, 2020 the National Park Service listed Cedar Grove School near Cedar Grove in the National Register of Historic Places.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Listings in the National Register of Historic Places, Orange County · Also: NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044)
  202. Orange County commissioners proclaim Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett Day The Board of County Commissioners unanimously proclaimed Wednesday, January 20, 2021 Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett Day, honoring the county native who grew up in Cedar Grove and attended Orange County Schools; she accepted by Zoom.Search the index · Orange County, NC: Board of Commissioners proclaim Jan. 20 "Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett Day"
  203. Gaps in vaccination among Black and Hispanic residents reported Chapelboro reported that Black residents were 12.4 percent of Orange County's population but 9 percent of those vaccinated, and Hispanic residents 8.6 percent and 5.5 percent. The county was working with church leaders and advocates in a Human Services Consulting Group and had held clinics at the Hargraves Community Center and in Cedar Grove. People: Renée PriceChapelboro: Orange County's Efforts To Equitably Vaccinate Minority Communities Show Early Success

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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. An atlas for Orange County, North Carolina UNC · a county map
  8. USGS topographic map, Cedar Grove quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)

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A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983

Pender, Irene Oliver · 1983

Irene Oliver Pender's history of the public schools of Orange County from 1752 to 1983, covering more than two centuries of schooling in Hillsborough, Efland, Cedar Grove and the rural districts of the county. Published in 1983, 186 pages with illustrations.

✓ Held at OCPL · NC 371.097 PENDER UNC Duke

Mount Adar Baptist Church, 1889-1989

1989 · The Church

The centennial history of Mount Adar Baptist Church at Cedar Grove in northern Orange County, marking 1889 to 1989 under the motto a century of remembrance, a future of vision. Prepared by a centennial committee co-chaired by Nancy Rogers and Jackie Oakley and published by the church in 1989, 36 unnumbered pages with illustrations. Topics include Baptists in North Carolina and church history for Cedar Grove.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the OCPL record: Cedar Grove (N.C.) -- Church History.

✓ Held at OCPL · NC 286.06 MOU UNC

History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina

Ellis, A. A. · 1980 · The Church

A 1980 edition, issued by the church, of A. A. Ellis's history of Eno Presbyterian Church at Cedar Grove, Orange County. Twenty unnumbered pages with illustrations and portraits. Ellis's original history of the congregation appeared in 1955.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the OCPL record: Cedar Grove (N.C.) -- Church History.

✓ Held at OCPL · NC 285 ELL UNC

History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, N. C

Ellis, A. A. · 1955 · Eno Presbyterian Church

A. A. Ellis's short history of Eno Presbyterian Church at Cedar Grove in northern Orange County, published by the church in 1955, 22 pages with illustrations and portraits. Subjects include the religious aspects of the Civil War among Presbyterians, along with Presbyterian and church history for Orange County.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the OCPL record: Cedar Grove (N.C.) -- Church History.

✓ Held at OCPL · NC 285 ELL UNC

Cedar Grove, 1939 : revisiting Marion Post's photos of a Black rural neighborhood

Bennett, Evan P. · 2025 · Historical Research Office, Office of Archives and History

Evan P. Bennett returns to the photographs Marion Post Wolcott made in 1939 in Cedar Grove, a Black farming neighborhood in northern Orange County that she documented for the federal resettlement program. Published in 2025 by the Historical Research Office in Raleigh, pages 384 to 406, with illustrations and portraits. Topics include rural African Americans in the Cedar Grove township and photographers in the state.

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Your Head is a Storehouse Memoirs by George Wynder Thompson

Thompson, George Wynder · 2013 · Brentwood Christian Press

George Wynder Thompson's memoir of growing up during segregation in Orange and Alamance counties, around Cedar Grove, Mebane and Burlington. Thompson worked as a sharecropper and later for Burlington Industries. Published in 2013 by Brentwood Christian Press.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DigitalNC record: Cedar Grove (N.C.).

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Recently indexed: Community service day, Cedar Grove, Saturday, May 15, 1915 (1915) · The prevalence of physical activity among African Americans in a rural community in North Carolina (1993) · Aloha · Examining the contributions of community gardens to social capital (2009) · InfoUSA City Directories Cross Reference Directory: Consumer and Business Guide for Durham, North Carolina and Vicinity · Cedar Grove, Orange County : an action-oriented community diagnosis : findings and next steps of action (2002)

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  • Foundational · NC 285 ELL History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina Ellis, A. A. · 1980

    A 1980 edition, issued by the church, of A. A. Ellis's history of Eno Presbyterian Church at Cedar Grove, Orange County. Twenty unnumbered pages with illustrations and portraits. Ellis's original history of the congregation appeared in 1955.

  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 286.06 MOU Mount Adar Baptist Church, 1889-1989 1989

    The centennial history of Mount Adar Baptist Church at Cedar Grove in northern Orange County, marking 1889 to 1989 under the motto a century of remembrance, a future of vision. Prepared by a centennial committee co-chaired by Nancy Rogers and Jackie Oakley and published by the church in 1989, 36 unnumbered pages with illustrations. Topics include Baptists in North Carolina and church history for Cedar Grove.

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