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Efland

An unincorporated community in western Orange County that grew along the North Carolina Railroad and took the name of a local family. Its records are mostly church, school and family histories.

Source: NCpedia, North Carolina Gazetteer

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Cedar Grove and rural northern OrangeChurches & FaithSchools & EducationRoads, Rail & TransportationBlack Life & Civil RightsFamilies, Land & GenealogyEno & EnvironmentWomen's Lives & History
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Consolidation and desegregation in the Orange County Schools1917–1968 · 125 events · In 1917 Orange County ran 42 one-teacher schools. From 1919 its board closed small schools and merged them into larger ones such as Aycock and Efland, ordering its first buses in 1924 and selling the closed schoolhouses, while keeping separate schools for Black and white pupils. Sixty-six Black parents petitioned against segregated schools in 1964; the county answered with freedom of choice until 1968, when Central High students marched and the county schools integrated.

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  1. German settler David Ephland comes to Orange County David Ephland, later spelled Efland, arrived with other German settlers in the 1760s. His descendants still lived in the railroad town that carries the family name when the county was surveyed in 1993.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 25
  2. David Faucette buys the home tract and a grist mill from his father David Faucette paid his father Richard 400 pounds for two adjoining tracts of 100 acres where he was already living, with a grist mill and other improvements. He later built the two-story frame house that still stands above the Eno.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: David Faucette House, National Register nomination (OR1376), p. 8
  3. 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
  4. The Rev. Ira Ellis buys 300 acres on the Eno near Hall's Mill Road Ira Ellis, a minister and farmer then in his fifties, bought 300 acres on the Eno River and added 184 more four years later. His three-part Federal brick house, later called Little Ayr Mount, is usually dated to this purchase, and local tradition holds that it took in stagecoach travelers.Search the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: MdM Historical Consultants, Historic Structures Survey Report, Replace Bridge No. 11 on Hall's Mill Road (SR 1336) over the Eno River, Orange County (2016), filed as ER 17-0159
  5. William Gattis, superintendent of the county poorhouse, dies William Gattis, for many years superintendent of the Orange County poorhouse and an elder of the Presbyterian church, died in his seventy-first year. Two days later the Court of Wardens met in Hillsborough, recorded that he had served the public with the utmost fidelity and sent its sympathy to his widow.Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, May 23, 1844, p. 3
  6. The 1850 census lists four enslaved people on Joseph Faucette's farm Joseph Faucette, David's son, grew wheat, corn, oats, potatoes and hay on the home farm and held four enslaved people in one household, a number the nomination calls typical of a yeoman farmer.NC State Historic Preservation Office: David Faucette House, National Register nomination (OR1376), p. 8
  7. The Gordan house is built near Efland A story-and-a-half frame house, recorded as the Gordan House, is built near Efland in 1856.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 90
  8. Orange County reports on its poorhouse to the new Board of Public Charities Orange County's report to the state Board of Public Charities described two one-story brick buildings of six rooms each on a 400-acre tract five miles from Hillsborough. The poorhouse held 41 people, ten able to do light work, with ten deaths since July 1868. People: Edmund StrudwickSearch the index · Documenting the American South: First Annual Report of the Board of Public Charities of North Carolina (1870), pp. 122-123
  9. Nelson P. Hall buys the Ellis house and 267 acres on the Eno Nelson Parrish Hall bought 267 acres of the Ellis land with the brick house, though his family may have lived there since about 1870, when his son Simeon was listed as a miller. The mill on the Eno across the road took the Hall name as Hall's Mill.Search the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: MdM Historical Consultants, Historic Structures Survey Report, Replace Bridge No. 11 on Hall's Mill Road (SR 1336) over the Eno River, Orange County (2016), filed as ER 17-0159
  10. Fairfield Presbyterian Church builds a new Gothic frame church north of Efland The Fairfield congregation, dating to 1834, put up a new steep-roofed church with Gothic windows in the 1880s, sheathed inside with flush boards.Search the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 59
  11. James L. Currie is installed as pastor of Fairfield Church The Rev. James L. Currie was installed as pastor of Fairfield Church and preached the next day to an unusually large congregation.Search the index · Hillsboro Recorder, November 10, 1887, p. 3
  12. H. S. Bradshaw is installed as pastor of Fairfield Presbyterian Church S. M. Hall of Greensboro installed H. S. Bradshaw as pastor of Fairfield Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning. The same report describes a pastor's installation at the Hillsborough Presbyterian church before a large congregation, with a sermon by D. I. Craig of Reidsville and charges to pastor and people by Hall and Craig. People: D. I. (David Irwin) CraigSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 6, 1894, p. 3
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  1. S. T. Forrest & Co. open a general store at Efland S. T. Forrest & Co. opened a general store at Efland with a fair stock of merchandise, soon after Forrest left the Hillsboro Exchange.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), February 16, 1895, p. 3
  2. A gold find near Efland draws the state geologist A Durham man named Wright, who had been digging for gold on a farm near Efland, began crushing ore and found some gold. By late April the state geologist, a Chapel Hill professor, had come to look at the mine, and Bur Forrest contracted with J. H. Mebane to go into gold mining.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 2, 1896, p. 3
  3. 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
  4. Blacksmith H. D. Brown becomes postmaster at Efland H. D. Brown, a blacksmith, was appointed postmaster at Efland, five miles west of Hillsborough, and was to move the office into a new store where patrons would call for their mail.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 13, 1898, p. 3
  5. The school board names committees for every district school, township by township The July 1899 appointments list about 55 district schools in five townships, among them schools marked as Black at Payne's Chapel, North Side and Hillsboro, and white schools at Breeze, Efland, Rail Road and Flat Rock.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 47
  6. Grippe kills four aged inmates of the Orange County Home On their quarterly visit to the County Home for the Aged and Infirm on April 3, the county commissioners found a grippe epidemic there that had killed four very old inmates within ten days.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 12, 1900, p. 3
  7. The first Yearly Union Picnic of Orange draws nearly a hundred Confederate veterans to Efland The first Yearly Union Picnic of Orange, organized by the county's Christian Temperance Union for its white citizens and especially its Confederate veterans, was held at Efland; nearly a hundred old soldiers attended, and the Hillsborough chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy helped feed them.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 25, 1902, p. 3
  8. The county school board merges districts for new schoolhouses at Efland and near Ridge Meeting at Efland on September 18, 1903, the county board of education merged the Efland and Railroad districts and voted a two-room schoolhouse at Efland, merged the Occoneechee and Ridge districts with a schoolhouse to be built near M. C. Ray's, and obtained a loan from the State Board of Education to build both.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 1, 1903, p. 3
  9. A Mr. Graham grains the doors and wainscot of the Faucette House The six-panel doors and pine wainscot of the house were given their combed graining in 1904-05, work that survives.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: David Faucette House, National Register nomination (OR1376), p. 6
  10. Efland Baptist Church is organized Baptists at Efland organized a church in 1904. It had 55 members in 1953.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 302
  11. The Efland district finishes a new public school building The new public school building for the Efland district was completed. The Observer called it one of the best, if not the best, public school buildings in the county.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), December 1, 1904, p. 3
  12. Martha Hall sells the Ellis house to Sheriff R. D. Baine After Nelson Hall died, his widow Martha bought the house and farm from his estate and sold them two years later to Orange County sheriff R. D. Baine.Search the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: MdM Historical Consultants, Historic Structures Survey Report, Replace Bridge No. 11 on Hall's Mill Road (SR 1336) over the Eno River, Orange County (2016), filed as ER 17-0159
  13. Rural Free Delivery Route No. 1 opens out of Efland A rural free delivery mail route began running from the Efland post office, with Dan W. Clark appointed its carrier.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), February 2, 1905, p. 3
  14. Efland Methodist Church is organized Methodists at Efland organized a church and built it the same year. People: O. E. BivinsSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 298
  15. Gains Chapel AME Church is organized at Efland Robert Watson, Shurman Morrow and Brown Wright led the organization of Gains Chapel, an African Methodist Episcopal church at Efland, about 1906.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 304
  16. The Efland family opens an excelsior plant at Efland The Efland family founded one of North Carolina's first excelsior, or wood wool, plants at Efland in 1906, with Mack P. Efland as manager. By 1911 the Orange Manufacturing Company was listed as an excelsior maker at Efland.Search the index · Orange County Courthouse Mural: Mack P. Efland
  17. S. T. Forrest buys out his partners in S. T. Forrest & Co. at Efland The Efland firm of S. T. Forrest & Co. was dissolved by mutual consent. Partners C. C. Taylor and Charles L. Boggs sold and assigned their whole interest to Stephen T. Forrest.Search the index · DigitalNC: Orange County Observer, February 7, 1907, p. 3 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 31, 1907, p. 3
  18. 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)
  19. Orange County votes against state prohibition Orange County voted against the state prohibition law by a majority of 314 out of 1,538 votes cast, though the state carried it; by the unofficial returns Chapel Hill, Efland, Cole's Store, Cates' and Cheek's Crossing gave dry majorities while Hillsboro and the other precincts went wet.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), June 4, 1908, p. 3
  20. Efland Presbyterian Church is organized Presbyterians at Efland organized a church and built a 150-seat building in 1910.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 295
  21. Efland Presbyterian Church completes its first building Two years after twenty charter members organized the church under M. C. Arrowood, the congregation finished its first church at Efland.Search the index · Women of the Church of Orange Presbytery, Celebrating Our History (1988), scan p. 24
  22. The county board builds a new school for white children at Efland The board sought a state loan of $750 for a new Efland building, chose a three-acre lot of Jordan land south of the railroad, and had the superintendent hire carpenters while patrons supplied the framing and free hauling from West Hillsboro depot. It paid Mary W. Jordan $246 for the land in 1911 and sold the old Efland schoolhouse to J. R. Riley for $50 in February 1912.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 60
  23. The county board buys 2.46 acres from Mary E. Jordan for an Efland school Early in Lockhart's term the board bought 2.46 acres at Efland from Mrs. Mary E. Jordan, paying $246, as the site for the Efland School. People: Samuel Paul LockhartSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 121
  24. John L. Efland starts a hosiery mill at Efland Efland's first hosiery plant, opened by John L. Efland in 1912, first made half hose and later full-fashioned stockings. Relatives' later mills grew from it.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 278
  25. Wade's Temple is organized at Efland Wade's Temple, a United Holy Church congregation at Efland, was organized in 1912 with George Wade as first pastor and built its church in 1915.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 308
  26. Orange County public schools average a 122-day term, with longer terms in six local-tax districts In 1913-14 the county's public schools ran an average of 122 days, while the six districts that taxed themselves for schools averaged 154. Those districts were Hillsboro, University (Eno), Chapel Hill, Efland, Carrboro and Mount Hope.Search the index · M. C. S. Noble (University of North Carolina Bureau of Extension), The Teaching of County Geography (1915), scan p. 31
  27. 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
  28. The Efland Hosiery Mills is incorporated at Efland The Efland Hosiery Mills received a state certificate of incorporation with its principal office at Efland and an authorized capital of $50,000. By July the mill was reported nearly finished.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Mooresville Enterprise, May 22, 1913, p. 1 · Also: DigitalNC newspaper, May 23, 1913, p. 3; DigitalNC newspaper, July 10, 1913, p. 7
  29. Cotton, knitting and flour mills make up Orange County's manufacturing Carrboro and Hillsboro had cotton and knitting mills, and Carrboro, Hillsboro and Efland had flour mills. Efland, still unincorporated, also had a factory making excelsior for packing furniture.Search the index · M. C. S. Noble (University of North Carolina Bureau of Extension), The Teaching of County Geography (1915), scan p. 26
  30. 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
  31. The Efland excelsior mills burn Fire destroyed the Efland Excelsior Mills, four miles from Hillsborough, with a loss estimated at $15,000 plus about $3,000 in wood. The fire was believed to have been set.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Alamance Gleaner, January 24, 1918, p. 2
  32. 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
  33. Charlotte Hawkins Brown starts the clubwomen's drive for a home for delinquent Black girls As president of the North Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Charlotte Hawkins Brown of Palmer Memorial Institute began a public campaign in late 1919 for a reformatory for Black girls, the same year the legislature set up juvenile courts. The drive led to the Efland Home in western Orange County.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 12
  34. Efland Methodist Church builds a brick Gothic Revival church The Efland Methodist congregation builds a brick church in the Gothic Revival style on US 70 around 1920.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 108
  35. Mount Olive Baptist Church is organized at Efland Black Baptists at Efland organized Mount Olive Baptist Church and built a church the same year.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 306
  36. The Bank of Efland receives its state charter The Secretary of State chartered the Bank of Efland with $25,000 in authorized capital, $10,000 of it paid in by three Efland men. The charter gave Efland its own bank.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Mooresville Enterprise, September 16, 1920, p. 6 · Also: DigitalNC newspaper, September 17, 1920, p. 8
  37. Black clubwomen buy the Forrest farm at Efland for their home for girls The North Carolina federation of Black women's clubs, led by Charlotte Hawkins Brown, bought the 143-acre farm of S. C. and Carrie Forrest at Efland as the site of its industrial home for Black girls. Plans for the first building were drawn that September, and the federation deeded the land to the home's trustees on August 3, 1922. People: Charlotte Hawkins BrownSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls National Register nomination (2018), sec. 8
  38. Plans are drawn for the first cottage of the Efland Home In a letter of September 5, 1921, to state welfare commissioner Kate Burr Johnson, Charlotte Hawkins Brown reported that plans were under way for a cottage at the Efland site estimated at $5,000. The architect is not known, but the finished building follows a professional drawing except for its weatherboard walls, which replaced brick to save money. People: Charlotte Hawkins BrownSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 15
  39. Black clubwomen sell two-cent stamps across the state to build the first cottage at Efland The state federation of Black women's clubs, led by Charlotte Hawkins Brown, sold two-cent stamps across the state in November 1922 to raise $5,000 for the first cottage of the North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls at Efland, on land it had bought the year before. People: Charlotte Hawkins BrownSearch the index · DigitalNC: Twin City Sentinel (Winston-Salem), November 4, 1922, p. 5 · Also: DigitalNC newspaper, July 25, 1922, p. 7
  40. Orange County begins merging its one- and two-teacher schools into larger ones Claytor started the county's first round of consolidation in 1923, folding small schools into larger ones and seeking local tax elections, with a budget request of $92,100. Efland, Aycock and Hillsborough were to carry grades one through eleven and the rest grades one through seven. People: R. H. ClaytorSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 125
  41. Efland gets a three-teacher Rosenwald school for Black children Efland's three-teacher Rosenwald school for Black children went up in 1924-25 (Rosenwald budget year 1924-25) at a cost of $4,810: $900 from the Rosenwald Fund, $200 from Black residents and $3,710 in public money. The county board put the $501 from its August 4, 1924 sale of the old Efland school toward it and inspected the building while it was under way that October.Search the index · Fisk University Rosenwald Fund Card File: Efland School, Orange County, N.C. (application 38-D) · Also: NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County
  42. The county board moves $30,000 in building money to Efland and sets the order of its new schools The board shifted $15,000 each from the White Cross and Caldwell building funds to Efland, reasoning that Efland had the greater need, a local tax with an eight-month term, and a paved road for school trucks. It then fixed the building order as Efland, White Cross, Orange County Training School, Orange Grove and Caldwell.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 70
  43. A new consolidated school for white children is built at Efland The board let the Efland contract to A. R. Davis for $21,388, with steam heat by Dermott of Durham, placed the school east of the highway and made the contractor replace inferior brick. The board inspected and accepted the building in March 1925, and John Efland paid $1,135 for the old white schoolhouse.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 71
  44. Black clubwomen open the North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls at Efland After years of fundraising, the North Carolina federation of Black women's clubs led by Charlotte Hawkins Brown opened a home and school for Black girls on a 143-acre farm on US 70 at Efland. The state gave only occasional small grants; the federation's board voted in October 1938 to close within five months, and the home closed on March 15, 1939. The state later opened a training school for Black girls, first at Rocky Mount and then at Dobbs Farm near Kinston. People: Charlotte Hawkins BrownSearch the index · DigitalNC: Africo-American Presbyterian, October 22, 1925, p. 2 · Also: Open Orange: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls; The Carolina Times, March 30, 1940, p. 8; The Carolina Times, August 17, 1940, p. 1; The Carolina Times, November 11, 1939, p. 3; NC State Historic Preservation Office: Efland Home nomination
  45. The state farm census records the Efland Home's first crops The 1925 North Carolina farm census found the Efland Home's farm manager, staff and girls working 33 acres of corn, tobacco, wheat, cotton and Irish potatoes. Within a year the home was also keeping pigs, chickens and dairy cows for its own table.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 16
  46. Contractor James Henry Liner and others finish the Efland Home cottage By May 1925, when the clubwomen marked its completion at their annual meeting in Wilson, a one-story weatherboarded cottage with a hip roof stood on the Efland farm, built for about $4,600 by contractors including James Henry Liner of Cedar Grove. It held a classroom-living room, dormitory rooms, matrons' quarters, dining room and kitchen; a Greensboro firm added a pump and Delco generator house, and Efland merchant S. C. Forrest drilled the well and held the mortgage.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 15
  47. A Superior Court judge rules against the county school board in the Efland School site dispute The county board of education had gone to court against Thomas Forrest and James O. Webb over the acre-and-a-fraction Efland School site. At a hearing in Graham the judge ruled against the board, which told its lawyers to appeal to the state Supreme Court.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 74
  48. Three armed men rob the Bank of Efland Three men held up the Bank of Efland in mid-morning, locked cashier Roberts Riley in the vault and drove off with a few thousand dollars. Two men were tried for the robbery at Hillsborough in March 1926.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Mooresville Enterprise, December 17, 1925, p. 1 · Also: The Alamance Gleaner, December 17, 1925, p. 3; The Roxboro Courier, March 17, 1926, p. 1
  49. The Efland Home takes in thirty girls in two years under matron Mary E. Hill Juvenile courts had sent twelve girls to Efland by 1926. Between July 1, 1926, and June 30, 1928, matron Mary E. Hill, who had worked at the Virginia home for Black girls, cared for thirty; seven ran away and seventeen remained, more than the cottage's fifteen places.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 16
  50. The General Assembly votes $2,000 for the Efland home for Black girls The 1927 legislature added $2,000 for the Efland school for delinquent Black girls to its appropriations bill on the House floor. The clubwomen had asked the state to take the home over entirely, which it did not do.Search the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, March 18, 1927, p. 2 · Also: DigitalNC newspaper, March 17, 1927, p. 2; DigitalNC newspaper, January 3, 1929, p. 8
  51. George Lawrence describes the county home near Efland in the Chapel Hill Weekly George Lawrence described the county home two and a half miles north of Efland: two narrow brick buildings, probably of 1824, heated by fireplaces and lit by kerosene, with no plumbing. It held 19 residents and two prisoners, and white and Black residents ate in separate rooms. People: George H. LawrenceSearch the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, October 26, 1928, p. 5
  52. Gaines AME Chapel builds its church at Efland The Black congregation of Gaines AME Chapel at Efland builds its church in 1929. It was covered in brick veneer in 1964.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 108
  53. The Efland Home's farm cuts its yearly cost per girl The home's 1928-1929 report showed the girls working ten acres, 24 fruit trees and a small stock of mule, cows, hogs and chickens, which helped bring the cost per resident down from about $598 in 1928 to $182.50 in 1929. That year fifteen girls were paroled and eleven placed in working homes; assistant matron Margaret Cromwell taught classes and Mebane physician Thomas David Tyson came when needed.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 16
  54. Marie Clay Clinton of Charlotte becomes interim superintendent of the Efland Home Marie Clay Clinton, a Charlotte widow active in the federation's work but not a trained teacher or social worker, was named interim superintendent in December 1929. Her assistant Bertha Vincent, a Scotia Seminary graduate, taught the classes, and both women served as house mothers.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 17
  55. The Efland Home's eighteen girls come from ten counties across the state In 1930 the home held eighteen girls, all committed by juvenile courts, from Buncombe, Carteret, Durham, Forsyth, Guilford, Mecklenburg, Pasquotank, Robeson, Vance and Wake counties; Durham sent the most, five. It was then one of ten such institutions for Black girls in the United States.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 17
  56. University students plant donated fruit trees and grapevines at the Efland Home In the spring of 1930 Lindley Nurseries gave the Efland Home 75 fruit trees and 25 grapevines, and University of North Carolina students set them out on the farm.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 17
  57. An Efland merchant kills a robber outside the Bank of Efland A holdup at the Bank of Efland failed when Mrs. George Shambley warned merchant Carl Forrest, a bank officer, who shot robber Bruce Carpenter of Durham as he came out. His partner escaped by car, and a coroner's jury found Forrest acted in self-defense.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Elkin Tribune, November 6, 1930, p. 1 · Also: DigitalNC newspaper, November 1, 1930, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, November 4, 1930, p. 1
  58. The Bank of Efland fails and goes into receivership Efland's small bank failed in November 1930. Days after a robbery in which a merchant shot the robber dead, the cashier, Roberts Riley, handed the state bank examiner the keys; the bank was found $15,000 to $40,000 short and put in receivers' hands, and Riley was jailed at Hillsboro.Search the index · DigitalNC: Alamance Gleaner, November 13, 1930, p. 3 (Efland Bank In Hands of Receivers) · Also: Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952
  59. John Henry Blue and his wife take charge of the Efland Home John Henry Blue and his wife ran the Efland Home in 1931-1932 with a second matron. The farm then had forty acres in cultivation and supplied beef, pork, chicken, eggs, milk, butter, fruit and vegetables.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 18
  60. The county board merges nine more rural schools into larger ones At a special meeting on reorganizing the schools, the board sent Merritts to Chapel Hill, Damascus to Carrboro, Tom's Creek and Rock Hill to Orange Grove, Union and Rehobeth to Efland, and Harmony with others to Aycock, leaving few one-teacher schools for white children.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 77
  61. Girls from the Efland Home receive free care at Durham's Lincoln Hospital In 1934 the Efland Home's residents were treated without charge at Lincoln Hospital, the Black hospital in Durham, where Dr. Stanford Lee Warren, husband of home trustee Julia Warren, had been a founding trustee.NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 18
  62. Certified teacher J. A. Lassiter becomes matron of the Efland Home J. A. Lassiter, a certified teacher, replaced Sadie F. Powell as matron in May 1934, and her husband took over the farm. That year the girls canned, sewed clothes and bedding, and made cornhusk mattresses, baskets and rag rugs, and the cottage's porch was painted and its floors oiled.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 18
  63. Hilda C. Allen becomes superintendent of the Efland Home after a poor state report Following a critical June 1935 state inspection and complaints about the home's management, the board's executive committee met in Durham in July and soon hired Hilda C. Allen as superintendent, keeping Lula Henderson as matron. People: Hilda C. Allen, Lula B. HendersonSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 19
  64. Superintendent Hilda Allen sends the girls' Efland Quartette to sing in local churches To raise money and show the home's progress, Hilda Allen taught the girls spirituals and arranged for the Efland Quartette to sing at churches around the area during her superintendency. People: Hilda C. AllenSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 19
  65. Parents turn back a plan to merge the Aycock, Efland and Hillsboro schools A large crowd of parents appeared before the board to fight a plan that would have folded the Aycock, Efland and Hillsboro schools into one. The opposition was strong enough that the board dropped the plan, which returned in 1963 as Orange High School.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 79
  66. Matron Lula B. Henderson and farm manager Lewis Walker are hired at the Efland Home After J. A. Lassiter's husband was let go in March 1935, the home hired Lula B. Henderson as matron and Lewis Walker to run the farm in April. Henderson's husband, a retired minister living in Chapel Hill, taught the girls under the Emergency Relief Administration's adult education program. People: Lula B. HendersonSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 19
  67. A runaway tells a Greensboro official that the new Efland Home matron whipped her with a board During a wave of runaways in May 1935, a month after Lula B. Henderson was hired as matron, Corinne Cannady of Greensboro returned a twelve-year-old girl who said the matron had whipped her with a board and that girls were locked in small rooms on bread and water for days. Cannady asked the state welfare commissioner, Mrs. W. T. Bost, for an investigation at once.Search the index · Souls, vol. 20: Lauren N. Henley, Contested Commitment: Policing Black Female Juvenile Delinquency at Efland Home, 1919-1939
  68. A state mental health survey finds the Efland Home's building failing its girls At Hilda Allen's request, the state welfare board's Division of Mental Health studied the home in November 1935. It urged more vocational training, and reported one bathroom for all, a furnace idle every winter because the basement flooded, a pump that often failed, and barbed wire over every window to stop runaways, which it advised removing. People: Hilda C. AllenSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 19
  69. Hilda Allen asks the state for help with medical care at the Efland Home When superintendent Hilda Allen raised the need for medical care for the girls at the Efland Home, the state Division of Institutions and Corrections replied on January 13, 1936, only that she should get in touch with the county health officer.Search the index · Souls: Lauren N. Henley, Contested Commitment: Policing Black Female Juvenile Delinquency at Efland Home, 1919-1939 (vol. 20, 2018)
  70. A state field agent tells Hilda Allen the WPA cannot help the Efland Home Hilda Allen asked whether the Works Progress Administration could do manual work at the Efland Home. A field agent of the state Division of Institutions and Corrections answered that the WPA could not approve a project on land deeded to a private body, the North Carolina Federation of Negro Women's Clubs, and that he knew of no other source of aid.Search the index · Souls: Lauren N. Henley, Contested Commitment: Policing Black Female Juvenile Delinquency at Efland Home, 1919-1939 (vol. 20, 2018)
  71. District health department holds midwife classes across Orange County Classes for midwives were held at Efland and Hillsboro and began for those in and near Chapel Hill at the health department offices, with attendance required before a permit to practice would be issued. Health officer W. P. Richardson said 17 percent of births in the county were attended by midwives, against 31 percent statewide.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 21, 1936, page 5 (classes for midwives)
  72. Hilda Allen resigns as superintendent, leaving Lula Henderson in charge of the Efland Home Saying she could not handle all her duties, Hilda C. Allen resigned in early May 1937 after making real gains in the home's conditions, and matron Lula Henderson took charge. People: Hilda C. Allen, Lula B. HendersonSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 19
  73. A state welfare agent records the Efland Home matron's account of beating a girl In a report of June 16, 1937, state welfare agent William R. Johnson wrote that matron Lula Henderson, by then the only adult in charge, told him and two other visitors that she had choked and beaten a girl who snatched her whip from her. He also found a girl locked in a room as punishment.Search the index · Souls, vol. 20: Lauren N. Henley, Contested Commitment: Policing Black Female Juvenile Delinquency at Efland Home, 1919-1939
  74. State inspectors find the Efland Home failing and tell its board to fund it or close it State welfare agents W. C. Ezell and T. L. Grier visited on July 2, 1937, and found the heat, plumbing and building in poor repair, about twenty acres in crops, the only cow dead and the mules unfit. Grier judged the home was not rehabilitating its girls and told the federation's board to raise enough money to fix it or shut it down. People: Lula B. HendersonSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 19
  75. The Dr. Efland Forrest House is built at West King and North Wake streets A two-story Neoclassical Revival house with a full-height Corinthian portico, one of few in Hillsborough, was built around 1938 at 202 West King Street; a sign in the yard names it the Dr. Efland Forrest House.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation, National Register (OR0077ad, 2014), 202 W. King Street (Dr. Efland Forrest House)
  76. Lula Henderson reports jobs found for former Efland Home girls In January 1938 Lula Henderson reported that former residents of the Efland Home had been placed in work in Mebane, Greensboro, Washington, D.C., and Seneca, South Carolina. Churches and patrons gave clothing, food and supplies, but not enough to keep up the home.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 20
  77. UNC field work director George H. Lawrence reports the Efland Home's conditions as appalling After a visit in April 1938, George H. Lawrence, field work director at the University of North Carolina, wrote to the state welfare director that the home was doing more harm than good and that the girls would be better fed in a county jail. Gifts from churches and neighbors had not kept up with the girls' needs. People: George H. LawrenceSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 20
  78. Harvey's Chapel builds a frame church near Efland The Harvey's Chapel congregation near Efland built its present front-gable frame church in the 1940s. Lefler and Wager put it about 1946 and the congregation's own history about 1940; the 1993 county survey had estimated about 1930 from the building's style.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 109 · Also: Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952
  79. The Efland Knitting Company is started A second family hosiery firm, the Efland Knitting Company, began about 1940 as an offshoot of John L. Efland's mill.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 278
  80. Orange County sells the county home and its farm at auction The county auctioned the old county home, its 241-acre farm, buildings, stock and tools, and a Forrest was the high bidder. Its last residents had been boarded with relatives and friends at county expense, which the welfare superintendent said cost less than half as much. People: William T. MattoxSearch the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, October 17, 1941, p. 1 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, September 19, 1941, p. 3
  81. The Black women's clubs pay off the last of the Efland Home's debt Four years after the home closed, the North Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs cleared its remaining debt on the Efland reformatory in 1943, the year the legislature voted $25,000 for a state-run training school for Black girls.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 28
  82. 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)
  83. County commissioners refuse to relicense beer sales at the Log Cabin filling station The Orange County commissioners voted unanimously to keep refusing J. A. Thompson a license to sell beer at his filling station, the Log Cabin, on the Mebane road. Thompson and his wife called it a "Dirty Deal" and their lawyer pleaded for another chance without success.Search the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, May 9, 1946, p. 1
  84. The county board ends high school classes at Efland The board voted to discontinue Efland High School and send its students to Aycock and Hillsboro, leaving Efland an elementary school.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 81
  85. The Orange Hosiery Mill starts at Efland Opened in 1947, the Orange Hosiery Mill was the only one of Efland's four family hosiery plants under corporate ownership. Together the four employed about 100.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 278
  86. Efland Elementary School sets up the county schools' first centralized library Under supervisor Cora Paul Bomar, Efland Elementary turned two empty classrooms into one library: local men took out the partition, painted and built shelves, Bomar classified the books, and Mrs. Turner Forrest, one of the teachers, ran it as teacher-librarian. When Irene Pender took over in 1951 it was still the only centralized library in the county schools. People: Cora Paul BomarSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 154
  87. Superintendent Proffit's $1 million school bond pays for a new Efland school for Black children and county lunchrooms The $1,000,000 school bond passed under Superintendent Glenn T. Proffit paid for grounds and a building for the Efland school for Black children, an addition to Hillsboro High School, and lunchrooms at Aycock, Efland, West Hillsborough and White Cross. It also bought a cannery and gymnasium at Aycock and a remodeling and auditorium at Caldwell. People: Glenn T. ProffitSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 129
  88. The old flour mill at Efland burns and is rebuilt The Efland Milling Company's flour mill, owned by John L. Efland Sr. and in use for more than 150 years, burned on the night of May 13, 1949, with losses put above $50,000, and was rebuilt almost at once. It may stand near the old Hart's mill on the Thomas Hart place.Search the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, May 19, 1949, p. 1 (Fire Destroys Old Landmark in Efland Mill); Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), pp. 277-278 · Also: Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952
  89. 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
  90. The county board buys the Morrow land for Efland-Cheeks, a new school for Black children The board decided to buy the Morrow land for a new school for Black children in the Efland district, named Efland-Cheeks.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 82
  91. Visiting Japanese educator-librarians tour the Efland school library A group of Japanese educator-librarians hosted by the UNC School of Education visited the Orange County schools under the lead of helping teacher Cora Paul Bomar. They asked to see the Efland school library, built the year before by community volunteers, after reading her article on it in North Carolina Education.Search the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, February 15, 1951, p. 1
  92. Efland businessman Stephen Carl Forrest dies S. C. Forrest, 68, a leading Efland businessman whose 1920s house on US 70 is on the state Study List, died at Duke Hospital after a heart attack and was buried at Fairfield cemetery. His sons T. J. and S. C. Forrest Jr. stayed in Efland.Search the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, April 12, 1951, p. 1
  93. 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
  94. The Tar Heel Hosiery Mill starts at Efland The newest of the Efland family hosiery plants, the Tar Heel Hosiery Mill, began in 1952 making full-fashioned hose.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 278
  95. The last three schools for Black children near Efland are consolidated at Efland-Cheeks In the 1952-53 school year the three remaining small schools for Black children in the Efland area were merged into Efland-Cheeks School, completing the consolidation of the county's Black schools begun the year before.DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 139
  96. The county board gives up the High Rock School land The county board waived its rights to the two acres of the abandoned High Rock School near Efland in favor of the landowner, John A. Thompson. High Rock had been merged into the Efland-Cheeks school in 1952.Search the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, March 5, 1953, p. 1
  97. A windstorm blows down trees and damages roofs around Hillsboro High winds on a Tuesday afternoon blew down a large tree in a Hillsboro yard and damaged the roofs of several houses in Hillsboro and Efland, along with at least one television aerial.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 24, 1955, p. 1
  98. 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
  99. First Salk polio vaccinations given to Orange County first and second graders Local physicians working under the county health department gave the first round of Salk polio vaccine to more than 1,150 Orange County first and second graders. The work began on Monday, April 18, 1955 with about 500 Chapel Hill area children and finished on April 21 with the Hillsboro, Efland and Aycock schools. People: O. David GarvinDigitalNC: The News of Orange County, April 21, 1955, p. 1 (Salk Vaccinations for 1150 Orange Children Is Progressing Smoothly)
  100. 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
  101. The Mebane Telephone Company builds 140 miles of rural lines in western Orange The Mebane Telephone Company was building 140 miles of new telephone lines over a 140-square-mile area from NC 49 north of Mebane to NC 54 south, and from Efland west to the Southern Bell territory, covering the southwestern and northwestern parts of Orange County.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 22, 1955, p. 3
  102. The new controlled-access US 29-70 opens to traffic from Efland west to the Davidson County line The State Highway Commission opened its new US 29 and 70 superhighway, 55 miles from Efland to the Davidson County line, built on a 260-foot right of way with entrances only at grade separations. The road cost more than $10 million and was part of a plan to make US 29 and 70 a divided highway from Charlotte to Raleigh.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 27, 1955, p. 1
  103. Efland Home trustees sell the old reformatory farm to W. G. Fields Jr. and Nannette Fields After nearly two decades of unknown use, the home's trustees sold the Efland property on April 29, 1957, to W. G. Fields Jr. and his wife Nannette, Chapel Hill investors, who cut the land west of the cottage into eight tracts between Redman Crossing and what is now I-40. The federation later gave about $12,000 from the sale toward a chapel at Dobbs School near Kinston.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 20
  104. Efland-Cheeks School gets its first addition An addition went up in 1959 on the north side of the 1952 Efland-Cheeks School, which Archie Royal Davis had designed for Black children in western Orange County. A modern wing larger than the original school followed around 1980. People: Archie Royal DavisSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 31
  105. Efland Presbyterian Church dedicates a new sanctuary A large bequest from a member's estate in 1952 let the congregation replace its worn 1910 church with a new building, dedicated on January 25, 1959.Search the index · Women of the Church of Orange Presbytery, Celebrating Our History (1988), scan p. 24
  106. James and Myrtle Graham, a Black Efland couple, buy the old Efland Home cottage In December 1959 James Nills Graham, called Nello, and Myrtle McAdoo Graham, both raised on Efland farms, bought the former reformatory cottage and 2.4 acres, and the Graham family kept it for more than fifty years. They belonged to White Cross A.M.E. Church and are buried there.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 21
  107. Teacher Maude Faucette retires after a long career in elementary schools Maude Faucette, the last of the family at the house on the Eno, taught elementary school, seventh grade above all, in Orange and Caswell counties and in Arkansas before retiring in 1961.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: David Faucette House, National Register nomination (OR1376), p. 8
  108. Two federally funded kindergartens operate at the Efland schools A federal research grant was paying for two public kindergartens in the county, one at Efland Elementary and one at Efland-Cheeks, the Black school. The board limited them to five-year-olds living in the Efland district.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 84
  109. The Efland brothers form Efland Tractor and Equipment Company John L. Efland Jr. and Wilson Efland took the International Harvester franchise for Orange County and formed Efland Tractor and Equipment Company, with parts and service in the front of the Efland Knitting Company building.Search the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, February 13, 1964, p. 3 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 13, 1964, p. 9
  110. 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")
  111. 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
  112. Efland and Orange Grove volunteer fire departments are incorporated As the Orange Rural Fire Department's board worked from 1971 to set up fire districts covering the whole county, rural communities formed their own departments: the Efland Volunteer Fire Department incorporated in September 1972 and the Orange Grove Volunteer Fire Company on February 1, 1973. New Hope followed later in February 1973.Search the index · Orange Rural Fire Department: History of the Fire Service in Hillsborough · Also: opencorporates.com; opencorporates.com
  113. Seven Orange County Presbyterian churches form a cooperative in place of the Eno cluster A four-church cluster of Eno, Efland, Fairfield and Bethlehem was dissolved in 1975 and replaced by a cooperative of seven: those four plus Hillsborough, Little River and New Hope. The churches worked together especially on youth programs.Search the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 15
  114. Wiley and Erika Shearin buy the Faucette House and name it The Elms Maude Faucette sold the house and about thirty acres to Dr. Wiley Shearin and his wife Erika, who shared the house with her, called it The Elms and added a one-story east wing in the 1970s.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: David Faucette House, National Register nomination (OR1376), p. 5
  115. 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
  116. RFD, a country journal for gay men, moves its office to Efland RFD moved from Wolf Creek, Oregon, to a rural route address at Efland, aiming for a more rural voice and to bring the South into gay life, and had put out two issues from there by early 1979. By October 1980 its address was in Bakersville, in the North Carolina mountains.Search the index · Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), January 1979, p. 9
  117. Maude Faucette dies at 97 and leaves part of her estate to Fairfield Presbyterian Church The last descendant of builder David Faucette died in the family house in 1983. Her will gave a quarter of her property, with family portraits, to Fairfield Presbyterian Church near Efland, where she had been a lifelong member; silver spoons by Lemuel Lynch found in her papers went to the Hillsborough Historical Museum. People: Lemuel LynchSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: David Faucette House, National Register nomination (OR1376), p. 9
  118. Dannie G. Lunsford becomes superintendent of the Orange County schools Dr. Dannie G. Lunsford, who had come to the county in 1971 as principal at Efland and risen through the instruction office to associate superintendent, succeeded Michael Simmons as superintendent in July 1983. People: Michael SimmonsSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 152
  119. Reviewers turn down Tinnin Plantation near Efland for the Study List Staff recommended rejecting the plantation because alterations had cost it much of its historic fabric, and on October 8, 1992 the committee accepted the recommendation. The applicant was to be told that the investigators of the countywide Orange County survey, then about to start, would look at the property again when their work was done.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: National Register Advisory Committee agendas, minutes and approved lists, p. 535
  120. Squirrel Nut Zippers form near Chapel Hill Jim Mathus and Katharine Whalen, who had moved from Chapel Hill to a farmhouse in Efland, started the band in summer 1993, played their first show that November and signed with Mammoth Records in 1994.Encyclopedia.com: Squirrel Nut Zippers (Contemporary Musicians; Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990)
  121. Thomas S. Rankin buys the Ira Ellis House Thomas S. Rankin bought the Ellis house and its mostly wooded 60-acre tract on the Eno, where he lives with his wife Jill McCorkle. The owners later paid for a history of the house (2012) that the state's 2016 survey drew on. People: Jill McCorkleSearch the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: MdM Historical Consultants, Historic Structures Survey Report, Replace Bridge No. 11 on Hall's Mill Road (SR 1336) over the Eno River, Orange County (2016), filed as ER 17-0159
  122. Two large rear wings are added to the Ira Ellis House Owner Thomas Rankin added two-story weatherboarded wings at the back of the brick house, one in 1999 and one in 2005, forming a U around a rear courtyard; a darkroom and a large pond came about 2000. The state later judged the additions too large for the house to qualify for the National Register.Search the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: MdM Historical Consultants, Historic Structures Survey Report, Replace Bridge No. 11 on Hall's Mill Road (SR 1336) over the Eno River, Orange County (2016), filed as ER 17-0159
  123. The David Faucette House is listed in the National Register On November 22, 1999 the National Park Service listed the David Faucette House near Efland 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: David Faucette House, National Register nomination (OR1376)
  124. 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
  125. Mary E. Grant buys the Efland Home cottage at the Graham estate sale After an auction held to settle James Barnard Graham's estate, Mary E. Grant bought the cottage and its 2.4 acres on November 13, 2013; the building was nominated to the National Register four years later.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 21
  126. The North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls at Efland joins the Study List Orange County submitted the Study List application for the former Efland home with the owner's knowledge, and the committee approved it with the other central region requests on February 9, 2017. A member asked whether the grounds had been assessed for archaeology; none had.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: National Register Advisory Committee agendas, minutes and approved lists, p. 1400
  127. The state finds the Ira Ellis House and Hall's Mill site not eligible for the National Register Reviewing a survey for replacing the Hall's Mill Road bridge over the Eno, the State Historic Preservation Office agreed that the Ellis House, the Hall's Mill site and a proposed rural district around them did not qualify for the National Register, while the David Faucette House across the road remained eligible.Search the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: MdM Historical Consultants, Historic Structures Survey Report, Replace Bridge No. 11 on Hall's Mill Road (SR 1336) over the Eno River, Orange County (2016), filed as ER 17-0159
  128. The North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls is listed in the National Register On January 25, 2018 the National Park Service listed the North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls near Efland 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: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815)
  129. Buckhorn Flea Market closes on Buckhorn Road The Buckhorn Flea Market on Buckhorn Road in western Orange County, known to many Spanish speakers as La Pulga de Mebane, closed after about four decades when a trucking company bought the land. Its 300 to 500 weekend vendors were largely Latino immigrants, and the Mebane City Council voted on July 1 to annex and rezone the property for a truck terminal.Search the index · Chapelboro: Closure of Buckhorn Flea Market Leaves Vendors, Customers Asking What Happens Now
  130. A bilingual book walk is installed at Efland-Cheeks Community Park The county parks department and the library installed a bilingual English–Spanish book walk at Efland-Cheeks Community Park during the 2024–25 fiscal year, paid for by the Friends of the Orange County Public Library. It brought a library reading program to a rural part of the county without a branch.Orange County FY 2025-26 Manager Recommended Budget (Library Services, FY 2024-25 highlights, p. 192 of PDF)

Maps of Efland

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  1. School map, Orange County, North Carolina. UNC
  2. Highway maintenance map of Orange County, North Carolina DPLA
  3. Federal-Aid Systems map of Orange County, North Carolina DPLA
  4. Orange County, North Carolina (Highway culture map) DPLA
  5. Orange County, North Carolina (Highway maintenance map) DPLA
  6. USGS topographic map, Efland quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)
  7. Highway maintenance map of Orange County, North Carolina DPLA
  8. Highway maintenance map of Orange County, North Carolina DPLA
  9. USGS topographic map, Efland quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)

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Efland Family History

Richardson, Linda Efland · 2001 · L.E. Richardson

Linda Efland Richardson's history of the Efland family, whose name the Orange County community of Efland carries. The lineage runs from Bernhard Iffelandt through the emigrant Johan Davitt Ifflandt and Peter Iffland, who took the Efland spelling, down to the twentieth century and Sim Efland (1913-2000). Published by the author in Kernersville in 2001, 84 pages with illustrations, portraits and facsimiles.

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

✓ Held at OCPL · NC 929.209 RIC UNC NC Cardinal

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

Ridge Garden United Methodist charge cookbook

Clover Garden United Methodist Church & Chestnut Ridge United Methodist Church · 2025 · Clover Garden United Methodist Church

Community cookbook from the Ridge Garden charge, the pairing of Clover Garden United Methodist Church in Chapel Hill and Chestnut Ridge United Methodist Church in Efland, published by Clover Garden in 2025. Topics include both congregations' histories as well as cooking in Chapel Hill and Efland. Seven preliminary pages and 130 pages.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina -- Efland.

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Circle of blessings

2007 · Efland UMC

A community cookbook from Efland United Methodist Church in Efland, in western Orange County, published by the church in 2007, that also carries a history of the congregation alongside its recipes. 116 numbered pages with six unnumbered pages at either end, an illustration and a color portrait.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina -- Efland.

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The treatment of African American girls in progressive era North Carolina's juvenile justice system (1890-1930)

Brice, Tanya Smith · 2003

Tanya Smith Brice studies how North Carolina's juvenile justice system treated African American girls between 1890 and 1930, naming among its institutions the North Carolina Industrial School for Negro Girls at Efland in Orange County. Health and hygiene, juvenile delinquency and the state's social conditions are among its subjects. A 2003 typescript of 89 leaves with a bibliography on the closing pages.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina Industrial School for Negro Girls (Efland, N.C.).

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The History of Chestnut Ridge United Methodist Church, 1832-1982

Compton, Stephen Charles · 1982

Stephen Charles Compton's 22-page history of Chestnut Ridge United Methodist Church at Efland, spanning the 150 years from 1832 to 1982. A short Methodist congregational history of the kind often printed for an anniversary. Published in 1982, 22 centimeters.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina -- Efland.

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Council on the Status of Women, Subject Files, Female Firsts Questionnaires

North Carolina Council for Women · 1975

Questionnaires and mailing lists from 1975 to 1977 for the Council's Female Firsts project, from the North Carolina Council on the Status of Women's subject files, 101 images. Hillsborough and Efland are among the Orange County places named.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Efland (N.C.).

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

Council on the Status of Women, Subject Files, Congratulatory Letters, Orange County

North Carolina Council for Women · 1974

Clippings and congratulatory letters from 1974 to 1976 in an Orange County folder of the North Carolina Council on the Status of Women's subject files, with Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Efland among the places named. Eleven images.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Efland (N.C.).

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

Recently indexed: Cross Reference Directory, Greater Durham, Research Triangle Park, Butner, Creedmoor, Hillsborough, Chapel Hill, Carrboro · InfoUSA City Directories Cross Reference Directory: Consumer and Business Guide for Durham, North Carolina and Vicinity · The geology and geomorphology of the Sevenmile Creek drainage basin, Efland, North Carolina (1980) · Telephone Directory [May 1963] (1963) · Champion map of Chapel Hill-Durham, North Carolina and vicinity (1986)

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Start at OCPL

Books in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection whose titles, catalog subjects, or descriptions match this place. The Friends’ recommended starting points are labelled.

  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 929.209 RIC Efland Family History Richardson, Linda Efland · 2001

    Linda Efland Richardson's history of the Efland family, whose name the Orange County community of Efland carries. The lineage runs from Bernhard Iffelandt through the emigrant Johan Davitt Ifflandt and Peter Iffland, who took the Efland spelling, down to the twentieth century and Sim Efland (1913-2000). Published by the author in Kernersville in 2001, 84 pages with illustrations, portraits and facsimiles.

  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 929.209 PET Know your Relatives: The Sharps, Gibbs, Graves, Efland, Albright, Loy, Miller, Snodderly, Tillman, and Other Related Families Peters, Genevieve Elizabeth (Cummings) · 1953

    Genevieve Elizabeth Cummings Peters compiled this 1953 family history around the Sharp family and related lines: Gibbs, Graves, Efland, Albright, Loy, Miller, Snoderly and Tillman. Efland is also the name of the Orange County community west of Hillsborough. 242 pages with illustrations, part of the library's Wall Local History Collection.

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  • NC LIVE: prepared search for Efland Library card An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read

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