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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

51 works about Efland are indexed here. 3 held at OCPL →

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Cedar Grove and rural northern OrangeSchools & EducationChurches & FaithRoads, Rail & TransportationBlack Life & Civil RightsFamilies, Land & GenealogyWomen's Lives & HistoryEno & Environment
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StorylineHighways through Orange County, 1911–19241911–1924 · 17 events · Hillsboro fought to be on the Central Highway, and between 1911 and 1924 hard roads were built across Orange County. In 1911 Hillsboro, joined by delegations from Durham and Mebane, pressed its claim, and the trustees chose the route by way of Hillsboro and Mebane. In 1919 the commissioners let the national highway across the county. The 1921 Highway Act, championed by Harriet Morehead Berry of Hillsborough, paid for a state network whose Central Highway ran through the town. The state bridged the Eno at Hillsboro in 1922, and the Durham-Hillsboro highway opened in 1924, after paving had sent traffic through Chapel Hill and onto a private detour whose owner charged drivers. StorylineConsolidation and desegregation in the Orange County Schools1917–1968 · 180 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. StorylineLiberty Loans in Orange County, 1917–19191917–1919 · 9 events · Orange County passed its allotments in the later Liberty Loan drives of 1917 to 1919, and women's committees raised much of the money. Hillsborough banker Paul C. Collins chaired the county men's committee for all four loans. For the second, a women's committee under Mrs. James H. Webb raised $79,800. In the third, with Harriet M. Berry as county chairman, women organized in every township made $59,600 of the county's $99,150 in sales. Influenza called off a Liberty Day meeting in 1918, but Orange passed its fourth-loan allotment, and a committee of Black residents in Hillsborough Township raised $1,350 from 27 Black subscribers. In May 1919 the county passed its Victory Liberty Loan allotment too. StorylineConsolidating the rural schools and hauling the children, 1919–19261919–1926 · 32 events · Between 1919 and 1926 Orange County closed many of its small country schools and began carrying the children by truck and bus to larger ones. The Chapel Hill Graded School had a Ford truck for country children by 1919, and in 1923 superintendent Claytor began folding the county's one- and two-teacher schools into larger ones. The county board set an order for new buildings at Efland, White Cross, the Orange County Training School, Orange Grove and Caldwell, ordered its first school buses in 1924 and sold the emptied schoolhouses. By April 1926 the county had put up seven brick consolidated schools since 1922, including the Orange County Training School for Black pupils, and ran 24 buses. StorylineCounty school finance and the special tax districts, 1923–19241923–1924 · 5 events · In 1923 Orange County began its first round of school consolidation and, for the first time by Lefler and Wager's account, funded its school deficits with bonds. Robert Hume Claytor folded one- and two-teacher schools into larger ones and sought local tax elections. In August the commissioners voted six percent bonds to pay debts the Board of Education had run up to keep a six-month term, and called school tax elections in the Carrboro district and part of Cedar Grove Township. In April 1924 the county board moved building money to Efland, which had a local tax, an eight-month term and a paved road for school trucks, and put it first in the building order. StorylineThe county home for the aged and infirm, 1924–19411924–1941 · 8 events · Grand juries urged Orange County to replace its county home for the aged and infirm, far from the county seat, and the home closed in 1941 once most of its residents qualified for old age assistance. In 1924 a grand jury asked for a modern home on the highway nearer Hillsboro, and in August 1928 another condemned the buildings as unfit for human habitation. That October George Lawrence described them in the Chapel Hill Weekly: two narrow brick buildings north of Efland, heated by fireplaces and lit by kerosene, with no plumbing. At the closing the last residents were boarded with relatives and friends at county expense, and on October 4, 1941 the county auctioned the home and its farm.
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StorylineOrange County’s elections of 1936, 1938 and 19401936–1940 · 10 events · In the 1936 Democratic primary for governor Orange County stood by its native son, A. H. (Sandy) Graham, giving him 2,754 votes to 817 for Ralph McDonald and 230 for Clyde Hoey. In the July runoff the county went for Hoey, and B. J. Howard of Chapel Hill won the runoff for the state House. In 1938 Carl T. Durham became the Democratic nominee for Congress, the county executive committee voted 7 to 6 for Collier Cobb Jr. to take Durham's place on the commissioners ticket, and every Democrat on the county ticket won by a wide margin. In 1940 three Chapel Hill candidates entered the Democratic primary for the House, and the election board chose to re-list voters. StorylineThe 1956 school bonds and what they built, 1955–19581955–1958 · 14 events · In 1955 commissioners' chairman R. J. M. Hobbs asked the county and Chapel Hill school boards to plan for a large bond election, and the board called a vote on $2 million in school bonds, divided among the county schools, Carrboro and the Chapel Hill unit. At the February 1956 hearing two Hillsboro men objected, citing the uncertainty left by the Supreme Court's school decision; Remus J. Smith Sr. answered that the classrooms would be needed even if segregation ended. Voters approved the bonds on March 27, 1956. The county board put a new Carrboro school first and that fall adopted a $1.17 million building program, and contracts for work from Carrboro to Efland followed through 1958. StorylineInterstate 85 comes to northern Orange County, 1955–19621955–1962 · 22 events · Rebuilding US 70 to interstate standards through northern Orange County meant a road that would bypass Efland, Hillsboro and University Station, and at a 1957 hearing landowners on the new route and businesses on old Highway 70 protested. In 1956 the Highway Commission had decided to rebuild the road as a limited-access highway, with the new federal road act paying 90 percent, and federal officials approved a route south of Hillsboro. Contracts for the stretch south of Hillsboro were let in November 1957. Near the new Interstate 85 James Freeland built a motel, the General Sherman Restaurant and the county's fourth ABC store, a government liquor store, in 1960 and 1961, and in 1962 the Dixie Motor Inn.

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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. Also named: David EphlandSearch 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. Also named: David Faucette, Richard FaucetteSearch 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. People: Joseph Allison Also named: John KellyNC 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. Also named: Ira Ellis · Also mentions: Eno RiverSearch 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. People: Nathaniel D. Bain Also named: William Gattis · Also mentions: Orange County poorhouseSearch 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. Also named: Joseph FaucetteNC 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. People: Nelson Parrish Hall Also named: Simeon HallSearch 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. People: James L. CurrieSearch 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) Craig, H. S. Bradshaw Also named: S. M. HallSearch 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. People: Stephen T. Forrest Also mentions: Hillsboro ExchangeSearch 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. Also named: Bur Forrest, J. H. MebaneSearch 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. Also mentions: Caldwell Institute, University StationSearch 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. Also named: H. D. BrownSearch 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. People: Robert D. Bain, Nelson Parrish Hall Also named: Martha Hall, R. D. Baine, Nelson HallSearch 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. Also named: Dan W. ClarkSearch 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. Bivins Also named: Mrs. M. P. EflandSearch 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. Also named: Robert Watson, Shurman Morrow, Brown WrightSearch 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. People: Mack P. EflandSearch the index · Orange County Courthouse Mural: Mack P. Efland
  17. Confederate veteran S. Workman dies in the Efland neighborhood S. Workman, a first lieutenant of Company G, 44th North Carolina Regiment, in the Civil War, died on July 24 at age 66, about 32 months after a fall from his porch broke his hip. The Efland correspondent of the News reported his death; a widow and three children survived him. Also named: S. WorkmanSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), August 16, 1906, p. 4
  18. 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. People: Stephen T. Forrest Also named: C. C. Taylor, Charles L. BoggsSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), February 7, 1907, p. 3 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 31, 1907, p. 3
  19. 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)
  20. 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
  21. Efland Presbyterian Church is organized Presbyterians at Efland organized a church and built a 150-seat building in 1910. Lefler and Wager date the organization to November 1, 1908; a 1959 News of Orange account of the new church says it was organized on November 1, 1909 with 20 members. Also named: M. L. Efland, John Efland Sr.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 295 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 22, 1959, p. 1
  22. 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. Also named: M. C. ArrowoodSearch the index · Women of the Church of Orange Presbytery, Celebrating Our History (1988), scan p. 24
  23. 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. Also named: Mary W. JordanSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 60
  24. 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 Lockhart Also named: Mary E. JordanSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 121
  25. 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. Also named: John L. EflandSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 278
  26. 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. Also named: George WadeSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 308
  27. 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
  28. 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. Also named: Claude Murray Hughes, Claude M. HughesNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove Rural Crossroads Historic District, National Register nomination (OR1424, 1998), p. 6
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 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. Also mentions: University StationSearch the index · M. C. S. Noble (University of North Carolina Bureau of Extension), The Teaching of County Geography (1915), scan p. 28
  32. Efland Graded School holds its commencement The three-day closing drew talks on Saturday by Mr. Harrison of the U.S. health survey corps then stationed at Hillsboro and by Messrs. King and Dameron of Burlington, a declamation and elocution contest with a medal, and a ball game in which Buck Horn beat Efland 12 to 9.The News (Chapel Hill), May 6, 1915, p. 1
  33. The Mt. Zion Baptist Association meets at Cross Roads church and admits a new church at Efland The association's 45th annual session, with delegates from 50 churches in seven counties, met at Cross Roads church six miles south of Hillsboro, admitted a new church at Efland, and elected Dr. W. R. L. Smith of Chapel Hill moderator. Also named: W. R. L. Smith · Also mentions: Cross Roads churchSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), October 14, 1915, p. 1
  34. H. D. Smith resigns as superintendent of the county home H. D. Smith, superintendent of the Orange County home, gave his resignation to the county commissioners at their July meeting; they accepted it, to take effect in October 1917. Also named: H. D. Smith · Also mentions: Orange County homeSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), July 12, 1917, p. 5
  35. H. D. Brown becomes superintendent of the Orange County Home The county commissioners elected H. D. Brown to fill the unexpired term of H. D. Smith as superintendent of the County Home for the aged and infirm, at the salary Smith had been paid. Also named: H. D. Brown, H. D. SmithSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), September 13, 1917, p. 1
  36. Efland holds a Liberty Loan bonfire Efland held a bonfire for the Second Liberty Loan on October 22, the night before Hillsborough's. The Efland column also reported a well-attended food conservation meeting there the next Saturday, with a house-to-house canvass to follow.The News (Chapel Hill), November 1, 1917, p. 5
  37. The Efland school stages a blackface minstrel show The Efland school put on a 'Burnt Cork Minstrel', with the proceeds going to the school. Minstrel shows were built on demeaning caricatures of Black people. The paper's Efland correspondent called it 'very good for local talent'.Search the index · The News (Chapel Hill), December 6, 1917, p. 1
  38. 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. People: Mack P. EflandSearch the index · DigitalNC: The Alamance Gleaner, January 24, 1918, p. 2
  39. 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
  40. 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. 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. 12
  41. Efland's Junior Order lodge gives Fairfield School a flag and Bible The Junior Order of United American Mechanics lodge at Efland presented a flag and a Bible to Fairfield School, the members attending in a body with others from the community.The News (Chapel Hill), May 7, 1919, p. 4
  42. The Efland school opens its term with Miss McCloud as principal The Efland school opened on Monday, September 1, with good attendance. Miss McCloud of Red Springs was principal, Pearl Efland taught the intermediate grades and Rebecca Liner the primary department. Also named: Pearl Efland, Rebecca LinerThe News (Chapel Hill), September 4, 1919, p. 4
  43. Diphtheria breaks out at Efland Several cases of diphtheria appeared at Efland, and precautions were taken to keep it from spreading.Search the index · The News (Chapel Hill), November 6, 1919, p. 1
  44. 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
  45. Efland Hosiery Mills raises all its workers' wages 15 percent The Efland Hosiery Mills gave all of its operatives a 15 percent increase in wages.Search the index · The News (Chapel Hill), January 29, 1920, p. 4
  46. 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
  47. 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. Also mentions: Bank of EflandSearch the index · DigitalNC: The Mooresville Enterprise, September 16, 1920, p. 6 · Also: DigitalNC newspaper, September 17, 1920, p. 8
  48. 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
  49. 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 Brown Also named: Kate Burr JohnsonSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 15
  50. State Highway crews build the new state road through Efland The Efland correspondent reported that the State Highway construction crew was at work on the new state highway road in and near Efland.Search the index · The News (Chapel Hill), June 15, 1922, p. 1
  51. The Efland roller mill is overhauled with new machinery J. S. Efland and Hastings Gentry had the Efland roller mill overhauled and new machinery put in so that it could soon make self-rising flour. Also named: J. S. Efland, Hastings GentrySearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), June 22, 1922, p. 8
  52. 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
  53. 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
  54. Efland Hosiery Mills pays a dividend after a good year The Efland Hosiery Mills had a very good year in 1922 and paid a good dividend, the Efland correspondent reported, and plans were under way to put in new and modern machinery.Search the index · The News (Chapel Hill), February 1, 1923, p. 4
  55. Orange County and the State Board of Health hold free typhoid and diphtheria clinics across the county Orange County and the North Carolina State Board of Health offered free typhoid vaccine and diphtheria toxin-antitoxin to every white and Black resident in a campaign that ran from August 13 to September 8, 1923. Each treatment took three doses, and a weekly schedule set hours at the courthouse in Hillsboro and at schoolhouses, churches and crossroads from Carr, Cedar Grove and Efland to White Cross, Calvander and Carrboro, with an afternoon stop for Black residents at the Old Freedman's School House in Chapel Hill.The News (Chapel Hill), August 30, 1923, p. 8
  56. Efland school patrons organize a parent-teacher association A parent-teacher association was organized at the Efland school shortly before Thanksgiving 1923, the paper's Efland correspondent reported.Search the index · The News (Chapel Hill), December 13, 1923, p. 1
  57. Asphalt crews finish paving the new Mebane-Hillsboro road at Efland The asphalt crew laid the last of the paving on the new road between Mebane and Hillsboro on Saturday night, December 8, 1923, the paper's Efland correspondent reported. Once the smoothing and edges were done, the road was to be turned over to the State Highway Commission.Search the index · The News (Chapel Hill), December 13, 1923, p. 1
  58. 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. Also mentions: Efland schoolSearch 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
  59. Orange County's townships hold their school commencements Township school commencements drew large crowds on March 28 at Orange Grove for Bingham, Caldwell for Little River, the new Aycock school for Cedar Grove, Efland for Cheeks and Murphey for Eno, and on March 29 at Chapel Hill and Hillsborough. Each day brought contests in spelling, story-telling, recitation and declamation, a speaker at noon and athletics in the afternoon, ahead of the county commencement in Hillsborough in April.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 3, 1924, p. 1
  60. 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. Also mentions: Orange County Training SchoolSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 70
  61. 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. Also named: A. R. DavisSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 71 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), June 5, 1924, p. 5; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 16, 1926, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, June 13, 1924, p. 8
  62. A rain and hail storm damages tobacco and corn around Efland A heavy rain and hail storm struck the Efland section on a Sunday night. The hail damaged tobacco, and in some fields corn was almost stripped of its leaves; the News said the storm covered a small area but did much damage to growing crops.Search the index · The News (Chapel Hill), September 4, 1924, p. 5
  63. 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
  64. 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
  65. 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. Also named: James Henry Liner, S. C. ForrestSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 15
  66. Hillsboro residents protest the Hillsboro Power and Light Company's electric rates Some Hillsboro people protested the Hillsboro Power and Light Company's residential rate of 11 cents a kilowatt hour, pointing out that Efland would pay only 9 cents once the North Carolina Public Service Company had wired the village.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 12, 1925, p. 6
  67. 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. Also named: Thomas Forrest, James O. WebbSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 74
  68. 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. Also named: Roberts RileySearch 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
  69. Orange County counts seven new brick schools and 24 school buses Since 1922 the county had put up seven brick consolidated school buildings worth $152,000 in all: White Cross, Orange Grove, Efland, Aycock, Murphey, Caldwell and the Orange County Training School for Black pupils. It ran 24 buses, which made their rounds all winter, and its one-teacher schools had fallen from 26 to 16 in a year. Also mentions: Orange County Training SchoolThe Chapel Hill Weekly, April 16, 1926, p. 1
  70. Orange County Democrats nominate A. W. Kenion for clerk and a new board of commissioners In the Democratic primary of June 5, 1926, which the Weekly treated as the real county election, A. W. Kenion of Hillsboro beat S. W. Andrews of Chapel Hill for clerk of court, 1,096 to 970, with Hillsboro's mayor T. M. Arrasmith far behind. John A. McCauley, George A. Johnston and John H. Hanner of Efland won the three commissioner nominations over sitting commissioners J. D. Webb and J. E. Hawkins, and Sheriff L. Bunn Lloyd, Treasurer S. T. Latta Jr. and Register of Deeds J. F. McAdams were renominated. People: Samuel Weldon Andrews, John F. McAdams, Junius D. Webb, John Hodge Hanner, Samuel T. Latta Jr., Alonzo W. Kenion Also named: T. M. Arrasmith, John A. McCauley, George A. Johnston, L. Bunn Lloyd, S. T. Latta Jr., J. E. HawkinsSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 11, 1926, p. 1
  71. 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. Also named: Mary E. HillSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 16
  72. 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. Also mentions: Efland schoolSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 18, 1927, p. 2 · Also: DigitalNC newspaper, March 17, 1927, p. 2; DigitalNC newspaper, January 3, 1929, p. 8
  73. County road force rebuilds the road west from Fairfield church For about two months the county road force under supervisor McKee worked on a road running west toward Alamance from near Fairfield church in Cheek Township, then moved to Bingham Township. The Weekly called it needless new building past Commissioner J. H. Hanner's home while busy roads went unscraped; Efland and Cedar Grove citizens answered that the old board had ordered the work, that it was a mail route of more than twenty years, and that no new road was built. People: John Hodge HannerSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 13, 1927, p. 1
  74. Hillsboro and Efland school heads start a county school newspaper A four-page county school newspaper issued its first number in the week before November 4, under the direction of G. A. Brown, superintendent of the Hillsboro school, and E. B. Goodwin, principal of the Efland school. A second issue was promised within two or three weeks. People: Grady A. Brown Also named: E. B. Goodwin · Also mentions: Hillsboro schoolSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 4, 1927, p. 4
  75. 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. Lawrence Also named: George LawrenceSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 26, 1928, p. 5
  76. 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
  77. 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. Also named: Margaret Cromwell, Thomas David TysonSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 16
  78. 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. Also named: Marie Clay Clinton, Bertha VincentSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 17
  79. 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
  80. 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
  81. Orange County parent-teacher associations meet at Efland on school libraries The parent-teacher associations of Orange County held a meeting at Efland in the interest of libraries.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 31, 1930, p. 2
  82. 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. Also named: Carl Forrest, Bruce CarpenterSearch 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
  83. 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. Also named: Roberts RileySearch the index · DigitalNC: Alamance Gleaner, November 13, 1930, p. 3 (Efland Bank In Hands of Receivers) · Also: Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952
  84. 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. Also named: John Henry BlueSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 18
  85. 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. Also mentions: HarmonySearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 77 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, September 18, 1931, p. 3
  86. Efland school opens the year with 300 pupils and a fleet of six buses The Efland school enrolled 300 pupils for the fall and added a new Chevrolet truck to the fleet of six buses carrying children to the school. Its Parent-Teacher Association chose grade mothers for all eleven grades.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 9, 1931, p. 5
  87. Orange County commissioners cut off county relief to families with able-bodied men On September 5, 1932 the county commissioners, short of money, told the welfare officer to stop county relief to every family that had an able-bodied man, cutting the relief list to 70 families, and ended the work projects for the unemployed at Hillsborough and Efland. Those projects had supported the families of about 75 jobless men for three months; only $547 was left for relief for the rest of the fiscal year. People: George H. LawrenceSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 9, 1932, p. 4
  88. Volunteer committees give out federal Red Cross cloth in Chapel Hill, Efland and Hillsboro The Chapel Hill Red Cross chapter and the Central Welfare Committee set up centers to hand out cloth from the federal government's cotton appropriation: the old Methodist church for Chapel Hill and Bingham townships, the old post office at Efland for Efland and part of Cheeks township, and rooms over the Hayes drugstore in Hillsboro for Hillsboro, Eno, Little River and part of Cedar Grove townships. Cloth went out only on orders signed by welfare workers, and a Methodist circle sewed some of it into clothing for emergencies. People: George H. Lawrence Also named: Mrs. M. P. Efland, Sue Hayes · Also mentions: Chapel Hill and Bingham townshipsThe Chapel Hill Weekly, October 14, 1932, p. 1
  89. County commissioners and the school board approve a two-room addition to the crowded Efland school At a joint meeting the Orange County commissioners and board of education approved a two-room addition to the Efland school, which had become seriously overcrowded. The commissioners then approved a capital outlay of $8,000 to $9,000 for the schools, covering the Efland addition, part of the new White Cross building and new desks, since under the new law the state now paid the schools' operating costs.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 21, 1933, p. 1
  90. A two-room addition to the Efland school is finished The addition at the Efland school, two classrooms each large enough for 42 pupils, was finished and in use, the Weekly reported alongside the near-completion of the new White Cross school. Also mentions: White Cross schoolSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 29, 1933, p. 3
  91. 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. Also named: Stanford Lee Warren, Julia Warren · Also mentions: Lincoln HospitalNC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 18
  92. 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. Also named: J. A. Lassiter, Sadie F. PowellSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 18
  93. 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: Lula B. Henderson, 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
  94. 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
  95. 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. Also mentions: Orange High SchoolSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 79
  96. 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. Henderson Also named: Lewis Walker, J. A. LassiterSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 19
  97. 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. People: Lula B. Henderson Also named: Corinne Cannady, Mrs. W. T. BostSearch the index · Souls, vol. 20: Lauren N. Henley, Contested Commitment: Policing Black Female Juvenile Delinquency at Efland Home, 1919-1939
  98. 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
  99. 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. People: Hilda C. Allen Also mentions: Efland HomeSearch the index · Souls: Lauren N. Henley, Contested Commitment: Policing Black Female Juvenile Delinquency at Efland Home, 1919-1939 (vol. 20, 2018)
  100. 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. People: Hilda C. Allen Also mentions: Efland HomeSearch the index · Souls: Lauren N. Henley, Contested Commitment: Policing Black Female Juvenile Delinquency at Efland Home, 1919-1939 (vol. 20, 2018)
  101. 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. People: William P. RichardsonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 21, 1936, p. 5 (classes for midwives)
  102. Rural power lines in Orange County reach 111 miles and about 425 farm families A survey by county farm agent Don Matheson found that rural electric lines outside the towns had grown from 28 miles before 1933 to 111 miles built or under construction, serving about 425 farm families, with the Duke Power Company building most of the new mileage. New lines ran along route 64 from the Alamance line to White Cross and on to Antioch church and Chapel Hill, from Hillsboro along route 14 to Calvander, and from Cedar Grove to Efland, the last serving the county home; when the approved lines were done, every public school in the county but one would have power. People: Don S. MathesonThe Chapel Hill Weekly, November 20, 1936, p. 1
  103. Measles spreads in the Efland community District health officer W. P. Richardson reported 44 cases of measles from the Efland community in the four weeks before April 23, 1937, and warned that it might be the start of a considerable outbreak in the county. The health department urged parents to watch for early symptoms and pointed to a new preparation that could make the disease milder in exposed young children. People: William P. RichardsonThe Chapel Hill Weekly, April 23, 1937, p. 1
  104. 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: Lula B. Henderson, 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
  105. 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. People: Lula B. Henderson Also named: William R. JohnsonSearch the index · Souls, vol. 20: Lauren N. Henley, Contested Commitment: Policing Black Female Juvenile Delinquency at Efland Home, 1919-1939
  106. 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. Henderson Also named: W. C. Ezell, T. L. GrierSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 19
  107. John H. Hanner leaves the Orange County board of commissioners John H. Hanner of Efland, chairman of the county commissioners, did not run again in the 1938 Democratic primary. His service on the board, which Lefler and Wager date 1926 to 1928 and 1929 to 1938, ended that year. People: John Hodge HannerSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 29, 1938, p. 1 (Orange County Candidates)
  108. 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. Also named: D. Efland Forrest · Also mentions: West King StreetSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation, National Register (OR0077ad, 2014), 202 W. King Street (Dr. Efland Forrest House)
  109. 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. People: Lula B. Henderson Also mentions: Efland HomeSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 20
  110. John T. Johnston circulates petitions for an Orange County liquor store election In a letter to the Weekly, John T. Johnston said he had had petitions prepared under the statute asking for an election on A.B.C. liquor stores in Orange, and that many sheets had come back full of names. He answered William Henry Jordan of Efland, who opposed the stores. Also named: John T. Johnston, William Henry JordanThe Chapel Hill Weekly, March 4, 1938, p. 2
  111. 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
  112. Assistant county agent Joe Howard reorganizes Orange County's six boys' 4-H clubs The county's six 4-H clubs for boys, at Chapel Hill, Efland, White Cross, Caldwell, St. Mary's and Murphy, were reorganized in the fall of 1938 under assistant county agent Joe Howard. Every boy carried a farm project through the year and reported on it, the clubs studied approved farming practices and citizenship, and a joint picnic for all the boys' and girls' 4-H clubs in the county was planned for the next summer. Also named: Joe HowardSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 22, 1938, p. 4
  113. 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
  114. 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. Also named: John L. EflandSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 278
  115. The Orange County board of elections orders a re-listing of voters, with new registration in three precincts Given the choice by the 1939 election law between re-listing and a complete new registration, the county board of elections decided to re-list voters, ordering a new registration only in the University, Efland and Caldwell precincts, and voters had to declare a party to vote in the May 25 primary. Chairman C. A. Bivens, successor to the late O. L. Thomas, and secretary C. P. Hinshaw set registration for April 27, May 4 and May 11. People: Clarence P. Hinshaw Also named: C. A. Bivens, O. L. ThomasSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 12, 1940, p. 1
  116. William H. Jordan of Efland announces for state senator on the Republican ticket William H. Jordan of Efland announced his candidacy for state senator from the district on the Republican ticket with a platform that included a $1,000 tax exemption on every home, cutting or ending the sales tax, the return of Prohibition, abolition of capital punishment and a popular vote on laws. He also proposed state-made liquor sold for medicine and home use by bonded deputies, a state cement plant, and state and federal cold-storage and tobacco re-drying plants with grower-owned warehouses. Also named: William H. JordanSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 5, 1940, p. 4
  117. Orange County sends three volunteers to Fort Bragg under the new draft James Lee Andrews of Hillsboro, Cecil Cabot Lloyd of University Station and Edward Day, a Black man from near Efland, went to Fort Bragg, the men the Weekly called Orange County's first soldiers in the new draft. More volunteers followed, among them five Black men from Chapel Hill and Cedar Grove, and the board had 28 white and 19 Black men classed as ready for service. People: Owen S. Robertson Also named: James Lee Andrews, Cecil Cabot Lloyd, Edward Day · Also mentions: University StationSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 20, 1940, p. 1
  118. 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. Mattox Also named: Carl ForrestSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 17, 1941, p. 1 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, September 19, 1941, p. 3
  119. Orange County holds rabies vaccination clinics for dogs Under a 1941 state law requiring every dog to be vaccinated, the county's new rabies inspectors held clinics at rural schools and crossroads across the county and then in Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Hillsboro, charging 75 cents a dog. By late April they had vaccinated almost 700 dogs in the rural areas, and a separate clinic for the dogs of Black owners was held at the Orange County Training School. People: S. A. Nathan, William P. Richardson Also mentions: Orange County Training SchoolSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 24, 1942, p. 1
  120. Orange County women sell $22,775 in War Bonds in Women at War Week The newly organized county women's division of the War Savings Staff, with Mrs. Sturgis E. Leavitt as chairman and local chairmen for Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Cedar Grove, Efland, Hillsboro, West Hillsboro and University, held window displays, talks in schools, churches and clubs, and bond booths in stores and post offices, and counted $22,775 in Series E sales for the week. People: Woodward Byars Also named: Alga E. LeavittThe Chapel Hill Weekly, December 4, 1942, p. 1
  121. 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
  122. NYA war training places five Orange County youths in war industries The National Youth Administration's war production training projects placed five young men from Orange County, four of them from Efland and one from Chapel Hill, in industries holding war contracts.The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 2, 1943, p. 4
  123. The Orange County Council of Churches hires a Bible teacher for four county schools With superintendent R. H. Claytor's approval, the Orange County Council of Churches engaged Florence E. Root, a former missionary to Korea, to teach elective Bible courses at the Hillsboro, Aycock, Efland and Caldwell schools, and asked every church to give 40 cents a member to pay for them. People: R. H. Claytor Also named: Florence E. RootSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 23, 1944, p. 1
  124. Efland High's senior class gives the school a plaque for former students who died in the war At Efland High School's class day exercises on May 31, the senior class presented the school a plaque bearing the names of boys who had attended Efland school and died in the service of their country; principal Winona Williams accepted it. Commencement closed the next night with an address by Dr. A. M. Proctor of Duke University and diplomas for twelve seniors. People: R. H. Claytor Also named: Winona Williams, A. M. ProctorSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 7, 1945, p. 8
  125. 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. Also named: Charles Crisp Oliver, T. L. OliverNational Register: Cedar Grove Rural Crossroads Historic District (1998)
  126. Orange County churches pay for Bible teaching in four county schools Fifteen churches, a Knights of Pythias lodge and one individual gave $943.35, figured at 60 cents per church member, for Bible classes in the Hillsboro, Caldwell, Aycock and Efland schools during the 1945-46 term. Florence Root, a former missionary to Korea, taught Bible in the county schools. Also named: Florence RootSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 18, 1946, p. 1
  127. 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. Also named: J. A. ThompsonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 9, 1946, p. 1
  128. 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. Also mentions: Efland High SchoolSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 81
  129. 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
  130. Orange County voters defeat the $1,045,000 school, office building and courthouse bonds Orange County voters turned down all three bond questions: $810,000 for school buildings, much of it to finish the Chapel Hill high school, $150,000 for a county office building, and $85,000 to remodel the courthouse interior. The two Chapel Hill boxes voted heavily for the bonds, but Hillsboro and the rural precincts, led by organized opposition at Efland and St. Mary's, outvoted them. Also mentions: Chapel Hill high schoolSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 19, 1947, p. 1
  131. State Education Commission consultants begin studying Orange County's schools The first consultants of the State Education Commission, created by the 1947 General Assembly and headed by R. Grady Rankin, arrived to study every part of Orange County's schools, one of nine counties and seven city units, Chapel Hill among them, chosen for the statewide study. That week they visited the Hillsboro, Chapel Hill, Aycock, Efland and West Hillsboro schools and the Black schools at Fairfield, Hillsboro, Efland, Graveley Hill and High Rock. Also named: R. Grady RankinSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 20, 1947, p. 1
  132. The state takes the Dunn road near Efland and Sunset Drive in Chapel Hill into its road system The county commissioners were told that the State Highway and Public Works Commission had added the Dunn road near Efland and Sunset Drive in Chapel Hill to the state system. It turned down the Bivins road near the Hillsboro Black school, Hillcrest Circle in Chapel Hill and the F. C. Hunter and Sam Briggs roads north of Efland.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 4, 1947, p. 1
  133. Orange County's library committee for Black readers plans to move the library Before a county-wide meeting of Black parent-teacher associations at the Efland school, the Orange County library committee met to plan moving the library for Black readers to a new location and recommended enlarging the committee with Mrs. A. O. Whitted, Cynthia Whitted, Mrs. John Faucette, Mrs. Walter Faribault and Mrs. M. C. Burt. Also named: Cynthia Whitted, Mrs. A. O. Whitted · Also mentions: Orange County libraryThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 29, 1948, p. 3
  134. 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. Proffit Also mentions: Efland school, Hillsboro High SchoolSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 129
  135. 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. Also named: John L. EflandSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), 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
  136. A new flour and feed mill nears completion at Efland on the site of the burned mill A new flour and feed mill was nearly finished near Efland on the site of the mill that had burned, with full flour-making equipment, a hammer mill and mixing equipment for custom feed, and separate fireproof grain storage.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 3, 1949, p. 1
  137. 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 between January and the end of May 1950: 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 Bomar Also named: Turner Forrest, Irene PenderSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 154 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 1, 1950, p. 1; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 7, 1950, p. 1
  138. Black health clubs in Orange County campaign for adult checkups during Negro Health Week For National Negro Health Week, the Black community health clubs in Hillsboro, Chapel Hill and Efland ran a two-week drive urging every adult to have a physical examination. Members called on their neighbors, gave receipts for 'an investment in health' to those who had checkups, and posted their names on a health honor roll in a public place.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 6, 1950, p. 1
  139. Orange County turns out in record numbers for the 1950 Democratic primary About 7,000 of the county's 8,964 registered voters went to the polls, the heaviest vote on record in Orange, and gave Senator Frank P. Graham about 75 percent of their votes for the U.S. Senate. Sheriff S. T. Latta and Register of Deeds J. Ed Laws were renominated, Sim Efland unseated commissioner Ben F. Wilson, and Harry P. Breeze edged school board member Zeb C. Burton. People: Frank Porter Graham, Sim Efland, Collier Cobb Jr., Ben F. Wilson, Samuel T. Latta Jr. Also named: S. T. Latta, J. Ed Laws, Harry P. Breeze, Zeb C. BurtonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 1, 1950, p. 1
  140. Efland teacher and farmer George F. Crutchfield dies at 82 George F. Crutchfield, 82, who had taught school in Orange and neighboring counties for many years and farmed near Efland, died in a Durham hospital after a ten-day illness. Educated at the Siler City Military Academy and the University, he was buried at Efland Methodist Church. Also named: George F. CrutchfieldSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 6, 1950, p. 1
  141. Efland's Black school patrons refuse a plan to drop their promised school and send pupils to Hillsboro School officials met committees from the Efland area to ask Black patrons to give up the $74,000 Efland school promised in the 1949 bond campaign and send children from the Efland, Gravelly Hill and High Rock schools to an enlarged Central School at Hillsboro. Board of education chairman Kemp Cate reported that the officials 'didn't get to first base': the patrons wanted the $74,000 spent at Efland, and the commissioners kept the school in the program. People: Kemp S. Cate Also named: Kemp Cate · Also mentions: Central School, Efland schoolThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 12, 1950, p. 1
  142. 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
  143. 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. People: Cora Paul Bomar Also mentions: Efland schoolSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 15, 1951, p. 1
  144. 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. Also named: Stephen Carl Forrest, Carrie Turner Forrest, S. C. Forrest, S. C. Forrest Jr. · Also mentions: Duke HospitalSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 12, 1951, p. 1
  145. The county board buys the Morrow land for Efland-Cheeks, a new school for Black children A committee chose the Morrow land for a new school for Black children in the Efland district in December 1950, and on May 7, 1951 the Board of Education approved the deeds and ordered $150 an acre paid to the Morrow heirs. The school was named Efland-Cheeks.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 82 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 21, 1950, p. 1; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 10, 1951, p. 1
  146. School board lets contracts for the new Efland school for Black children On June 4 the Board of Education awarded contracts totaling $72,725.10 with the architect's fee for the Efland Negro School, the first bids in the bond building program to come within the money set aside, $74,000. Cole and Crumpacker of Durham got the general contract at $55,735; the board also let contracts for a cafeteria at the Efland school for white children. People: Archie Royal Davis Also mentions: Efland schoolThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 7, 1951, p. 1
  147. The state paves 16 miles of Orange roads in September, including the streets of Efland The State Highway Commission finished 16 miles of new paving in Orange County in September 1951 under the secondary road bond program. The work covered the St. Mary's road, the Walnut Grove Church road, the Clyde Walker road to Caldwell School, a road from McDade to the Person line and 1.4 miles of streets in Efland. Also mentions: Caldwell SchoolThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 11, 1951, p. 1
  148. 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. Also mentions: Cedar Grove communitySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 22, 1951, p. 1
  149. Most county teachers vote down the Kellogg school evaluation plan Teachers in every white county school except Carrboro and Efland voted against a self-evaluation program planned under the Kellogg Foundation school improvement project, for which Orange was one of ten counties chosen, and West Hillsboro tied. Superintendent G. Paul Carr reported the votes to the board of education, which decided to go ahead only in the Carrboro, Efland and Negro schools; the paper noted no county school was on the Southern Association accredited list. People: G. Paul CarrSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 6, 1951, p. 1
  150. 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
  151. 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
  152. Orange County Democrats renominate Forrest and Efland, add R. J. M. Hobbs and choose Clarence D. Jones for the school board In the primary Orange gave William B. Umstead 3,314 votes to Hubert Olive's 1,594 for governor and Congressman Carl T. Durham 3,028 to Tom Sawyer's 1,228. For three commissioner seats R. O. Forrest, Sim L. Efland and UNC professor R. J. M. Hobbs beat R. E. Murray and Roland McClamroch, keeping the board's balance between Chapel Hill and the rest of the county, and Jones of Hillsboro won the school board nomination with 2,006 votes over four Chapel Hill candidates. People: Sim Efland, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, William B. Umstead, Carl T. Durham, Roland P. McClamroch, Robert O. Forrest Also named: Clarence D. Jones, Roland McClamroch, Hubert OliveSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 5, 1952, p. 1
  153. County commissioners approve, on a condition, a state road through Governor Kerr Scott's Orange County farm After a long wrangle on July 7, 1952, the commissioners approved a petition to add to the state system a 2.5-mile road off the Efland-Cedar Grove road that ran through a farm Governor W. Kerr Scott had lately bought and served four homes, provided the highway commission gave Orange 2.5 extra miles for it. Commissioner Sim Efland pressed for the road, while Chairman Collier Cobb Jr. and R. O. Forrest held that approving it outright would break the board's rule of backing the roads that served the most people. People: W. Kerr Scott, Sim Efland, Collier Cobb Jr., Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 10, 1952, p. 1
  154. John Hodge Hanner, a former chairman of the county commissioners, dies John Hodge Hanner, 77, a farmer of the Efland section who had been a member and chairman of the Orange County Board of Commissioners and had served on the county welfare board, died in a Burlington hospital on July 7, 1952. He was a deacon and trustee of Fairfield Presbyterian Church, where he was buried the next day. People: John Hodge HannerSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 10, 1952, p. 1
  155. Black parents from Efland ask the school board to keep an eighth grade at their school A delegation of Black parents with Walter McDade as spokesman asked the county Board of Education to let an eighth grade stay at the Efland school for Black children rather than send those pupils to Central High in Hillsborough. The board put off a decision, and when the delegation came back on April 7 it asked for figures on Efland's teacher allotment before acting. Also named: Walter McDade · Also mentions: Efland schoolThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 5, 1953, p. 1
  156. 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. People: John W. ThompsonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 5, 1953, p. 1
  157. Will Ed Thompson's will leaves most of his estate to the Efland Presbyterian Church The will of Will Ed Thompson, a wealthy property owner known across Orange and Alamance counties as an eccentric, was filed for probate five days after his death and put most of his estate, first estimated at about $500,000, in a trust for the Efland Presbyterian Church and its cemetery, beginning with a mausoleum for himself. Six nieces and nephews were left $5,000 each, three of them shared his 502-acre farm in Cheeks Township, and executor Clarence Ross of Graham received $10,000. People: W. E. Thompson Also named: Clarence Ross · Also mentions: Orange and Alamance countiesSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 19, 1953, p. 1
  158. Orange County's 1949 school building program nears its end, with most Black schools rebuilt Of the $1,401,000 in 1949 county bonds and state aid, all had been spent except $160,000 held for a Chapel Hill elementary school and $105,000 for one in Hillsboro, and the county system had spent $602,944.68 on buildings since 1950. The largest outlays went to Black schools, a new Cedar Grove school ($159,154.75), eight classrooms and a lunchroom at Central High ($137,128.69) and a new six-classroom Efland school ($80,932.41), while white schools got lunchrooms, a new Aycock gymnasium and a Carrboro auditorium. Also mentions: Chapel Hill elementary school, Efland schoolThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 14, 1953, p. 1
  159. Morris Telephone Company asks the Utilities Commission for a general rate increase The Roxboro company, which served 828 telephones in Orange through its Hillsboro and Efland exchanges, applied for a substantial increase, saying its earnings returned only 2.12 percent and that its Hillsboro rates had gone up only slightly since 1947. The Utilities Commission set a public hearing in Raleigh for October 27.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 20, 1953, p. 1
  160. Betty June Hayes wins the Democratic nomination for Register of Deeds Betty June Hayes, 25, assistant to Register of Deeds J. E. Laws since 1947, won a heavy majority over Archie G. Williams of Efland in the Democratic primary for the office Laws was leaving after twelve years. The News called her the county's first woman candidate for a major public office. Also named: Betty June Hayes, Archie G. Williams, J. E. LawsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 3, 1954, p. 1
  161. Orange Democrats nominate four men for the newly enlarged five-member Board of Commissioners In the Democratic primary, the first election for a five-member county board, Edwin S. Lanier, Henry S. Walker, R. J. M. Hobbs and Sim L. Efland won majorities among twelve candidates, with Dwight M. Ray narrowly ahead of H. Broadwell for the fifth place. In the sheriff's race to succeed the retiring Sam T. Latta Jr., Odell H. Clayton led with 2,434 votes but fell short of a majority, and Frank C. Maddry, voting from a hospital bed, called a runoff. People: Edwin Sidney Lanier, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Sim Efland, Dwight Ray, Odell H. Clayton Also named: Henry S. Walker, Frank C. Maddry, Sam T. Latta Jr., H. BroadwellSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 3, 1954, p. 1
  162. The Utilities Commission lets Southern Railway drop passenger train 21-22 through Hillsboro and Efland The State Utilities Commission held that Southern's train 21-22 between Goldsboro and Greensboro, one of three on the run, was losing money and could be dropped without serious inconvenience, and let the railroad move its mail and express to train 111-112. On a rehearing petition from North Carolina Railroad stockholders, the town of Garner and the Durham and Selma chambers of commerce, the commission refused on September 1 to reopen the case. Also mentions: North Carolina RailroadSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 2, 1954, p. 8
  163. The state accredits the Aycock and Efland elementary schools The State Department of Public Instruction placed the Aycock and Efland elementary schools on its accredited list, making them the third and fourth county elementary schools to qualify, after West Hillsboro in 1950 and Carrboro in 1952. Both had first been accredited in 1927 and had lost and regained it, and no county elementary school had been accredited in 1949-50. People: G. Paul CarrThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 19, 1954, p. 1
  164. 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
  165. 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. Also mentions: Cedar Grove SchoolSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 24, 1955, p. 1
  166. 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 GarvinThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 21, 1955, p. 1 (Salk Vaccinations for 1150 Orange Children Is Progressing Smoothly)
  167. 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
  168. 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. Also mentions: NC 54Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 22, 1955, p. 3
  169. 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
  170. Orange County Democrats renominate R. J. M. Hobbs and Carl Durham and leave two races for a runoff Commission chairman R. J. M. Hobbs led the commissioners' race with 2,821 votes, John Hawkins of Cedar Grove beat Vernon Truesdale for the school board seat, and Congressman Carl Durham carried the county 4,150 to 1,107 over Ralph Scott. Donald Stanford (2,199) led Sim Efland (1,879) for the second commission seat and John T. Manning (2,025) led Edwin S. Lanier (1,773) and Edwin J. Hamlin (1,362) for the State Senate, but neither leader had a majority. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Carl T. Durham, Sim Efland, Edwin Sidney Lanier Also named: John Hawkins, Vernon Truesdale, Ralph H. Scott, Donald M. Stanford, John T. Manning, Edwin J. Hamlin, Ralph Scott, Donald StanfordSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 31, 1956, p. 1
  171. Edwin S. Lanier and Donald Stanford win the Democratic runoffs In the second primary County Commissioner Edwin S. Lanier beat John T. Manning for the State Senate nomination, 2,211 to 1,835, carrying 14 of the 19 precincts, and Donald Stanford unseated Commissioner Sim Efland, 2,072 to 1,864. More than 4,000 voters turned out; Stanford carried nine precincts, none north of Chapel Hill and Bingham townships. People: Edwin Sidney Lanier, Sim Efland Also named: John T. Manning, Donald M. Stanford, Donald Stanford · Also mentions: Chapel Hill and Bingham townshipsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 28, 1956, p. 1
  172. Will Ed Thompson's mausoleum at Efland Presbyterian Church is finished but stands empty The brick and marble mausoleum that Will Ed Thompson's will ordered for his body was completed across the highway from Efland Presbyterian Church, but he still lay in the Chestnut Ridge church cemetery where his family buried him in 1953. Executor Clarence Ross sued to move the body; the Chestnut Ridge Memorial Association asked for damages and costs and said Ross had not disclosed the will's burial terms before the funeral. Also named: Clarence Ross, Will Ed ThompsonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 16, 1956, p. 1
  173. Buckhorn is named Community of the Year in the county's Farm and Home Efficiency contest Buckhorn, south of Efland, won the contest that closed June 30, ahead of St. Mary's and White Cross, helped by its new community building and athletic field, a Grange-led extension of Mebane telephone lines through the area, and a year of community health meetings with mass X-rays and inoculations. The extension agents planned a short color film of projects in the six competing communities. Also mentions: BuckhornSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 12, 1956, p. 1
  174. Federal road officials approve a limited-access US 70 bypassing Hillsboro to the south The U.S. Bureau of Public Roads approved plans to relocate 12 miles of US 70 between Efland and the western bypass at Durham as a divided, limited-access highway built to interstate standards south of Hillsboro, crossing the old route near Eno Station. With surveys and right-of-way the cost was put at about $3.5 million, and highway officials hoped to take bids within a year.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 18, 1956, p. 1
  175. Orange Textile Products starts making lingerie in the old Midway Building Supply building near Efland Russell Bondurant, who had come to Hillsboro as production manager for Reverie Lingerie, and Bobby R. Roberts set up a lingerie plant in the renovated, air-conditioned former Midway Building Supply building between Efland and Mebane, and production was under way on several machines. Don S. Matheson of the county industrial development commission listed it among three small industries begun in recent weeks. People: Don S. Matheson Also named: Russell Bondurant, Bobby R. RobertsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 18, 1956, p. 1
  176. 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. Also named: W. G. Fields Jr., Nannette FieldsSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 20
  177. The State Highway Commission lets $2.28 million in contracts for the US 70 bypass south of Hillsboro The State Highway Commission awarded contracts totaling $2,282,198.20 for 9.04 miles of relocated, dual-lane US 70 from south of Efland toward the Durham County line, bypassing Hillsboro on the south as part of the Interstate highway system. Suber and Company of Whitmire, S.C., took the grading at $1,327,882.20 and Wannamaker and Wells of Orangeburg, S.C., the structures, which included 11 major bridges, four of them twin bridges.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 7, 1957, p. 1
  178. The strike at Reverie Lingerie ends when the union stops paying strikers The strike that began at Reverie Lingerie in April ended in early November, when the union stopped paying the strikers, some six weeks after fire destroyed the plant. The county's development commission then called local business and civic leaders together to back a plan to restart limited sewing in the Midway Building Supply building west of Efland, enlarge it, and later build a permanent plant with local and state help. People: Don S. MathesonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 21, 1957, p. 1
  179. The county school board lets contracts for additions at Cedar Grove, Efland and Efland-Cheeks schools The Board of Education let about $200,000 in contracts, with W. L. Jewell & Sons of Sanford as general contractor, for a kitchen and cafeteria at Cedar Grove School, classrooms and a boiler room at Efland School, and classrooms, offices, a boiler room and cold storage at Efland-Cheeks School. It also let an $11,600 contract to Odis Johnson for a principal's home at Aycock School. People: Archie Royal Davis Also named: W. L. Jewell Jr., Odis Johnson · Also mentions: Aycock School, Cedar Grove SchoolSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 6, 1958, p. 1
  180. Superintendent Carr names new principals for Murphey, Efland and West Hillsboro schools Superintendent G. Paul Carr announced three new principals: Maude McCauley, a teacher in the county schools for 31 years, at Murphey School; Perry W. Harrison, a graduate student at UNC, at Efland Elementary in place of John Black; and Mrs. Leona M. Snider of Salisbury at West Hillsboro, succeeding Mrs. Gladys Harris after her twelve years there. People: G. Paul Carr Also named: Maude McCauley, Perry W. Harrison, Leona M. Snider · Also mentions: Murphey SchoolSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 12, 1958, p. 1
  181. Southern Garment Company starts making dresses in the Roberts building west of Efland A dress factory backed by New Jersey manufacturer William Friedman began work in Bobby Roberts's building west of Efland, with about 16 women learning the work and more being hired almost daily. It was chartered that week as Southern Garment Co., Inc., with O. R. Alexander of Hillsboro as general manager; Hillsboro merchants had raised about $2,000 toward a training fund to win the plant. Also named: William Friedman, O. R. Alexander, Bobby RobertsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 3, 1958, p. 1
  182. 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
  183. Dr. D. Efland Forrest, former Hillsborough physician, dies Dr. D. Efland Forrest of Efland, a former practicing physician in Hillsboro, was found dead in the back seat of his car on a muddy road off the US 70 bypass near Durham; the county coroner ruled he died of natural causes. After a funeral led by the Rev. C. H. Reckard, he was buried in the Efland Presbyterian Church cemetery. Also named: D. Efland Forrest, C. H. ReckardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 15, 1959, p. 1
  184. 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
  185. A five-week drought damages Orange County's tobacco and other crops Little rain fell over most of the county from June 3 to July 9, burning tobacco leaves at the bottom, stunting the tops and drawing farm ponds low, and many tobacco farmers around Cedar Grove and Efland bought irrigation outfits to save their crops. One to three inches of rain from the edge of Hurricane Cindy on July 9 to 11 revived the tobacco, corn, gardens and pastures.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 16, 1959, p. 4
  186. The State Highway Commission takes bids on the second lanes of Interstate 85 from NC 54 to Efland Bids were opened in Raleigh for 11.53 miles of grading, surfacing and structures, with a rest area, to add the second lanes of the new Interstate 85 between NC 54 and Efland, and Thompson-Arthur Paving Co. of Greensboro, which had done the earlier work on the road, was low bidder at $1,324,259. Also mentions: NC 54Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 6, 1959, p. 8
  187. State lets a $2.5 million contract to finish four-laning US 70 from Efland to Durham A Charlotte firm was low bidder at about $2.5 million to pave a second lane for some 12 miles from Efland to the northern bypass at Durham, nearly all of it in Orange and bypassing Hillsboro on the south, the last link in four-laning the highway between Thomasville and Raleigh. By October 21 the contract had been let, with paving to follow grading.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 8, 1959, p. 6
  188. 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. Also named: James Nills Graham, Myrtle McAdoo GrahamSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 21
  189. The four-laned US 70 opens from Efland west to near Whitsett Barriers came down at noon on a 22.2-mile section of new four-lane US 70 between Efland and a point near Whitsett, built under three contracts totaling $5,159,278. The new lanes were to become part of Interstate 85 and gave 33.5 miles of divided highway between Durham and Greensboro.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 22, 1960, p. 20
  190. 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. Also named: Maude FaucetteSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: David Faucette House, National Register nomination (OR1376), p. 8
  191. A hailstorm does about $50,000 in crop damage in central Orange County A brief, severe hailstorm on a Monday morning flattened head-high corn, tomatoes and tobacco in central Orange County, with damage put at about $50,000; in places the hail nearly covered the ground.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 29, 1961, p. 1
  192. Interstate 85 opens from near Efland to the Durham line A major segment of Interstate 85 from near Efland, south of Hillsboro, to near the Durham city limits opened to traffic without ceremony, completing the highway loop around Hillsboro.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 26, 1961, p. 11
  193. Jury awards an Efland dairy family $51,457 for highway land In State Highway Commission condemnation proceedings over Andrew Lloyd's 583-acre dairy farm near Efland, crossed by US 70 and Interstate 85, a Superior Court jury awarded $51,457. Lloyd had put his damages near $90,000; court-appointed commissioners had set $43,662.90 in 1958. Also named: Andrew LloydThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 12, 1961, p. 1
  194. 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
  195. D. E. Forrest, Efland merchant and longtime postmaster, dies D. E. Forrest, a Cedar Grove native who served four years in the Army in the Indian Wars before coming back to Efland in 1889, died at his son John S. Forrest's home. He ran a store at Efland and was its postmaster until he retired, and he was an elder of Efland Presbyterian Church for over 50 years. Also named: D. E. Forrest · Also mentions: Efland Presbyterian ChurchSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 12, 1962, p. 16
  196. Orange County schools open with 4,459 pupils, including the first kindergarten classes On the first full day of classes the county system enrolled 4,459 pupils, 242 more than a year before: 2,682 in eight white schools and 1,777 in three Black schools. The total included 53 five-year-olds in experimental kindergartens at the Efland and Efland-Cheeks schools. Also mentions: Efland and Efland-Cheeks schoolsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 6, 1962, p. 3
  197. 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. Also named: John L. Efland Jr., Wilson EflandSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 13, 1964, p. 3 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 13, 1964, p. 9
  198. 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. Also mentions: Glenwood SchoolThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 26, 1964, p. 11 ("Polio vaccine is again offered; 25,000 in county are treated")
  199. The county school board orders the old Efland Colored School property sold The Orange County Board of Education resolved to sell at public auction the Efland Colored School property, two tracts on Efland Avenue and Forrest Avenue that the board had bought in 1920 and 1924. The sale was set for July 18 at the courthouse door, subject to the board's confirmation. People: Charles W. StanfordSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 25, 1964, p. 14
  200. 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
  201. State geologists report ancient lava flows in central Orange County E. P. Allen and W. F. Wilson of the state Department of Conservation and Development, mapping the county's geology and mineral resources, reported at least seven bodies of altered amygdaloidal basalt, lava they dated to the Paleozoic era about 400 million years ago, east and south of Efland, east and south of Hillsborough and west of New Hope Church. They found springs common just above the basalt outcrops, the old Occoneechee mineral spring among them, and thought the rock might serve for roofing and road building. Also named: E. P. Allen, W. F. WilsonSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, May 20, 1966, p. 4
  202. 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
  203. 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
  204. Rural owners form the Orange County Farm and Landowners Association About 1977 rural Orange County owners formed the Orange County Farm and Landowners Association to oppose property tax increases and subdivision regulations. By January 1980 its president, Efland dairy farmer Ben Lloyd, had filed for the county commission. Also named: Ben LloydSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 31, 1980, p. 2
  205. 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. Also named: Wiley Shearin, Erika Shearin, Maude FaucetteSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: David Faucette House, National Register nomination (OR1376), p. 5
  206. 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
  207. 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
  208. The Orange County Commission for Women wins a humanities grant for a women's health series in Hillsborough and Efland The N.C. Humanities Committee awarded the Orange County Commission for Women a $4,818 matching grant for "Women's Health: the Individual, the Family, the Community," eight evening programs led by local scholars at Cameron Park School in Hillsborough and the Efland Multi-Purpose Center from October 16 to November 9, on pregnancy and birth, parenting and family life, adolescent sexuality and the maturing woman.Search the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 13, 1978, p. 4
  209. 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 Lynch Also named: Maude Faucette, David Faucette · Also mentions: Fairfield Presbyterian ChurchSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: David Faucette House, National Register nomination (OR1376), p. 9
  210. 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 Simmons Also named: Dannie G. LunsfordSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 152
  211. Sheriff Lindy Pendergrass shoots and kills a man trying to rob an Efland store Orange County Sheriff Lindy Pendergrass, in uniform and stopping to shop at Liner's Red and White store on U.S. 70 in Efland after an afternoon 'Take Back the Streets' march there, shot and killed a man who had pointed a handgun at the cashier and then turned it on him at about 7 p.m. The State Bureau of Investigation took the case as it would any homicide, officials said the man's gun appeared to be fake, and District Attorney Carl Fox said the evidence he had seen would not support a charge against the sheriff. Also named: Lindy Pendergrass, Carl FoxSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 18, 1991, p. 1
  212. District attorney clears Sheriff Pendergrass in the fatal Efland store shooting Orange-Chatham District Attorney Carl Fox ruled on January 7, 1992, that Orange County Sheriff Lindy Pendergrass was justified in shooting and killing a robbery suspect at Liner's Red and White grocery in Efland on November 16, 1991. The man, who was Black, had carried a plastic toy gun that the sheriff, shopping in the store, took for real; Fox called his relatives' charge that the shooting was racially motivated "totally unfounded." Also named: Carl Fox, Lindy PendergrassSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 8, 1992, p. 1
  213. 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
  214. A UNC-led consortium wins a Kellogg grant for minority health work including Efland-Cheeks The UNC School of Public Health, with health departments, community groups and primary care centers in Chatham, Lee, Orange and Wake counties, won a four-year, $2.25 million W.K. Kellogg Foundation grant, reported by November 10, 1992, to improve the health of minority communities, one of seven state groups funded nationally. Its Orange County work was to center on the Efland-Cheeks community. Also mentions: UNC School of Public HealthSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 10, 1992, p. 3
  215. 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. Also named: Jim Mathus, Katharine WhalenEncyclopedia.com: Squirrel Nut Zippers (Contemporary Musicians; Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990)
  216. 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 McCorkle Also named: Thomas S. RankinSearch 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
  217. 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. Also named: Thomas S. RankinSearch 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
  218. 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)
  219. 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
  220. 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. Also named: Mary E. GrantSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 21
  221. 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
  222. 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. Also mentions: David Faucette HouseSearch 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
  223. 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)
  224. 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
  225. 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. Also mentions: Orange County Public LibraryOrange County FY 2025-26 Manager Recommended Budget (Library Services, FY 2024-25 highlights, p. 192 of PDF)

Maps of Efland

Dated maps that show this place, oldest first: town plans, county, road and soil maps, fire insurance sheets and the U.S. Geological Survey’s topographic maps, each linked to the library or archive that holds it. The USGS maps are free to download.

  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)

Indexed works

Works about Efland from library and archive catalogs. The most widely held appear first; novels are not shown here. Follow a link to find a copy or view the material.

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Widely held

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.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina -- Efland.

✓ Held at OCPL · NC 929.209 RIC UNC NC Cardinal

More than petticoats

Cohn, Scotti · 2000 · Twodot

Scotti Cohn's short biographies of notable North Carolina women, including Harriet Jacobs, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Annie Lowrie Alexander and Cornelia Phillips Spencer of Chapel Hill. Published by Twodot in 2000, 198 pages with illustrations.

Included because: The record names this place alongside a heading for the county or its towns.

NC Cardinal CH Historical Society Library of Congress

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.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina -- Efland.

UNC

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.

Included because: 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.

Included because: 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.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina -- Efland.

UNC

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.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Efland (N.C.).

NC Digital Collections DPLA

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)

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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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