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Natural feature in Orange County

Eno River

The river rises in northwestern Orange County and flows east through Hillsborough into Durham County, where it joins the Flat River to form the Neuse. Named for the Eno people who lived along it, it is followed today by Eno River State Park and the Occoneechee Mountain natural area.

Source: NC State Parks: Eno River State Park

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StorylineThe Few family on the Eno, 1758–17711758–1771 · 11 events · The Few family's years on the Eno show how the Regulation undid a family of mill owners near Hillsborough. William Few came from Maryland in 1758 with four enslaved people, built a mill with his brother and later kept a tavern a mile from town. In 1768 he went on the bond of the Regulator William Butler. In 1771 his son James was captured at Alamance and hanged the next day, Tryon's army turned its horses onto the family's crops, and the Fews, pressed by lawsuits after going surety for several people, left for Georgia that winter. StorylineBridging the Eno, 1787–18161787–1816 · 13 events · For three decades the county court kept ordering, paying for and chasing repairs on bridges across the Eno at Hillsborough. In 1787 it ordered a bridge at the ford near the town and named men to let the building, and in 1788 the superintendents it named were to hold the builder to seven years of repairs. Payments to John Walker and John Elliott followed. In 1804 the court found a bridge "highly necessary" and levied a tax for it, and in 1808 it ordered suit against the builder, Henry Goodloe, unless he repaired it. In 1814 it ordered a new bridge with another tax, and a bridge at Bennehan's and Cameron's mills was finished in 1816 for 600 dollars. StorylineHall's Mill on the Eno, 1835–20171835–2017 · 6 events · A mill on the Eno west of Hillsborough and the brick house across the road passed through several families before a 2017 review found the site did not qualify for the National Register. The Rev. Ira Ellis bought the land in 1835, and his Federal brick house, later called Little Ayr Mount, is usually dated to that purchase. In 1878 Nelson Parrish Hall bought the house and 267 acres, and the mill took the Hall name. After Hall died, his widow Martha bought the farm from his estate and sold it to sheriff R. D. Baine. Only the mill's stone dam, a foundation and the trace of its race survived. StorylineProhibition and the blockaders in Orange County, 1901–19301901–1930 · 22 events · Hillsborough's fight over its saloons gave way to a long struggle against illegal stills across Orange County. In 1903 the town elected a board chosen mostly on the prohibition ticket, which refused every saloon license, and the barrooms closed that June. In 1905 the county commissioners refused the licenses a new town board recommended, and the town voted against liquor dispensaries. The county voted against state prohibition in 1908, though the state carried it, and in 1919 Orange's representative voted against ratifying national prohibition. Blockading, the illegal distilling of whiskey, went on: in 1920 Louis Graves wrote in the New Republic that Orange had the largest distilling operations in the state, and officers kept capturing stills through 1930. StorylineSaving the Eno1966 to present · 16 events · The Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley, formed in 1966 to stop Durham's reservoir plans, won Eno River State Park and has kept adding land to it.

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  1. Indigenous communities occupy the Eno River Valley Excavations at the Hogue and Wall sites on the Eno near Hillsborough show farming communities growing corn, beans and squash, first in small scattered settlements (Haw River phase, about 1000–1400) and then in compact palisaded villages (Hillsboro phase, about 1400–1600). The Wall site village held perhaps 100 to 150 people in the mid-1400s.Search the index · UNC Research Laboratories of Archaeology, Ancient North Carolinians: Central Piedmont
  2. John Lederer visits the Eno people near present Hillsborough The German physician described an Eno town on the Eno River laid out around a playing field, with large grain harvests and a government guided by its elders. About fourteen miles away he also met the Shakori, placed by the book on the Haw River near the Haw Fields. Also named: John LedererSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 10
  3. Gabriel Arthur leaves his trade goods at the Eno town Returning to Virginia from the Tomahitan country, Abraham Wood's young trader Gabriel Arthur hired four Sara men to carry his packs to the Eno. They would go no farther than the Eno town, so Arthur left the goods with the Eno and went on with a single Tomahitan, reaching Fort Henry on June 18. The year before, his companion James Needham had set out from the Eno town on the journey on which he was killed. Also named: Gabriel Arthur, James Needham, Abraham WoodSearch the index · Internet Archive: Douglas L. Rights, "The Trading Path to the Indians", North Carolina Historical Review 8 (1931), p. 420
  4. Enoe Will agrees at Occaneechi Town to guide John Lawson to the English settlements Within two hours of John Lawson's arrival at Occaneechi Town on the Eno, Enoe Will came into the king's cabin and agreed to guide Lawson's party to the English, leaving his pay to their discretion. The next morning they set out for Adshusheer, his town about 14 miles east, which Lawson described as Shoccories mixed with Eno and Adshusheer people with Will as their chief man. People: Eno Will, John Lawson Also named: Enoe WillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: John Lawson, A New Voyage to Carolina (1709), pp. 55-57
  5. John Lawson reached Occaneechi Town on the Eno and wrote about its people and the trading path John Lawson visited Occaneechi Town on the Eno. People: John LawsonAncient North Carolinians — Historic period
  6. Occaneechi Town on the Eno is largely abandoned By 1713, when the Occaneechi signed a peace treaty with Virginia at Williamsburg, their town on the Eno near present-day Hillsborough was almost empty. They moved north to Fort Christanna in Virginia, and some Saponi families later resettled in North Carolina.Excavating Occaneechi Town (UNC Press web edition): Pre-Revolutionary War
  7. An order in Council grants Henry McCulloh's associates warrants for 1,200,000 acres along the Yadkin, Eno and Catawba On a petition from Henry McCulloh, Murray Crymble, James Huey and others, Arthur Dobbs among them, an order in Council allowed them warrants for 1,200,000 acres in the back country, to be located chiefly along the Yadkin, the Eno and the Catawba. Under the grant McCulloh was to settle substantial people on the land to carry on the potash trade and raise hemp and other naval stores. People: Henry McCulloh, Arthur Dobbs Also named: Murray Crymble, James HueySearch the index · Internet Archive: R. D. W. Connor, William K. Boyd and J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, History of North Carolina (1919), vol. 1, p. 165
  8. Orange County tax lists record Bunch, Gibson and Collins families as mulatto Several Orange County tax lists of the 1750s class families named Bunch, Gibson and Collins as mulatto, and Jeremiah and Henry Bunch took land grants near the Eno. The term then covered many people of mixed descent, and Hazel argues some of these families may have been Indian people who never left the region. Also named: Jeremiah Bunch, Henry BunchNorth Carolina Archaeological Society: Forest Hazel, Occaneechi-Saponi Descendants in the North Carolina Piedmont: The Texas Community, Southern Indian Studies 40 (1991), p. 11
  9. Synnott's Mill is at work on the Eno River A water mill known as Synnott's Mill was already running on the Eno before Orange County was formed. It is the earliest Eno mill Mattson names.Search the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 7
  10. The Orange County court holds its first session at John Gray's house Eight justices of the peace held the county's first Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions at John Gray's house near the Eno River, with Alexander Mebane as sheriff and Richard Caswell as clerk. They named fifteen road commissioners and several constables and laid a poll tax of one shilling on each tithable. People: John Patterson, John Gray, Richard Caswell Also named: Alexander MebaneLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 19
  11. The Earl Granville grants 371 acres on the Eno to John Tinnin and James Taylor The land that became the Faucette farm, lying on both sides of the Eno, began as a 371-acre Granville grant to John Tinnin and James Taylor. Also named: John Tinnin, James TaylorSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: David Faucette House, National Register nomination (OR1376), p. 8
  12. Cane Creek Quakers found the Eno Friends Meeting Quakers from the Cane Creek meeting set up a meeting in the Eno River valley, the one Friends meeting Mattson places inside present Orange County.Search the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 4
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  1. The Hawfields and Eno settlements ask Hanover Presbytery to send them ministers After Hugh McAden's visits, the Hawfields and Eno Presbyterians applied to Hanover Presbytery for supply preachers. None came regularly until the congregations called Henry Pattillo in 1765. People: Henry Pattillo, Hugh McAdenSearch the index · Elizabeth Scott Carrington (Mrs. George Carrington), Historical Sketch of Hawfields Presbyterian Church (about 1946), scan p. 13
  2. Hugh McAden returns to preach at the Hawfields and on the Eno Heading home at the end of his year-long mission, McAden stopped again at John Anderson's on the Eno, preached at the Hawfields on Tuesday, April 27, 1756, and at Eno the next day, then rode on to the Hico settlement. People: Hugh McAden Also named: John AndersonSearch the index · Documenting the American South: William Henry Foote, Sketches of North Carolina (1846), p. 175
  3. Henry Pattillo preaches to the Eno congregation on his first supply tour Licensed by Hanover Presbytery in September 1757, Henry Pattillo was sent at once to hold services for churches that had no minister. His first tour took in congregations at Meherrin, Nutbush, Hico, Eno and several Virginia places. People: Henry PattilloSearch the index · Internet Archive: Durward T. Stokes, "Henry Pattillo in North Carolina", North Carolina Historical Review 44 (1967), p. 379
  4. Thomas Hart receives his first Orange County land grant Thomas Hart, newly come from Hanover County, Virginia, settled at Hillsborough and was granted 273 acres in 1757, then 1,058 acres in 1759 and 951 in 1779, on the Eno River, Seven Mile Creek, Horseley Creek and Country Line Creek. On his land at Seven Mile Creek and the Eno, about two miles northwest of town, he built his home, Hartford; up the river stood his grist mill, and the community there was known as Hart's Mill. People: Thomas Hart Also mentions: Hart's MillSearch the index · Internet Archive: Durward T. Stokes, "Thomas Hart in North Carolina", North Carolina Historical Review 41 (1964), p. 325
  5. Barnaby McCabe settles on the Eno on land bought from William Few Barnaby McCabe (later Cabe), a Presbyterian of Scots-Irish descent, settled in Orange County in 1758, bought 330 acres of William Few's tract on the northeast bank of the Eno, registered his cattle mark and took up farming with his wife Betsy Perkins. People: Barnaby Cabe Also named: Betsy Perkins Cabe, William FewSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cabe-Pratt-Harris House, National Register nomination (OR0656), p. 9
  6. The Eno and Hico congregations ask Hanover Presbytery for Henry Pattillo By 1758 the Hico and Eno churches were established and petitioned the presbytery for a minister, asking particularly for Henry Pattillo. He took a call to Willis, the Byrd and Buck Island in Virginia instead, and came to the Eno churches only in 1765. People: Henry PattilloSearch the index · Internet Archive: Durward T. Stokes, "Henry Pattillo in North Carolina", North Carolina Historical Review 44 (1967), p. 379
  7. William Few attends a school opened in his Eno neighborhood A schoolteacher came to the Few family's neighborhood on the Eno in 1760 to teach local children, and William Few Jr. attended. He later recalled the school with pleasure. People: William Few Also named: William Few Jr.Search the index · Eno River Association: The History of Few's Ford
  8. Thomas Hart buys Joseph Maddock's mill on the Eno Joseph Maddock, a Quaker who had run the grist mill on the Eno west of Hillsborough since 1755, sold it to Thomas Hart, a friend of Governor William Tryon, who built it up with a sawmill, oil mill, fulling mill, distillery, tannery and other works. This is the mill, known as Hart's Mill, that a British guard held in February 1781. People: Thomas Hart Also named: Joseph Maddock, William TryonNC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources: Hart's Mill (G-122)
  9. Members of the Eno Friends Meeting move to Georgia A group of Eno Quakers left for Georgia in 1768, one of the losses that weakened the meeting in the late colonial years.Search the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 4
  10. Richard Faucette buys part of the Tinnin and Taylor land on the Eno The Faucettes, a Huguenot family by way of Ireland, reached Orange County in the 1760s. In 1768 Richard Faucette bought part of the Tinnin and Taylor grant, where his family would farm for two centuries. Also named: Richard FaucetteSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: David Faucette House, National Register nomination (OR1376), p. 8
  11. John Collett's map of North Carolina shows a row of mills on the Eno and Little River Collett's 1770 map of the colony marks a series of mills along the Eno and on the main branches of the Little River. Also named: John CollettSearch the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 7
  12. Tryon's army camps on the south bank of the Eno opposite Hillsborough Marching west from New Bern, Tryon's army entered Orange by an old road past Patterson's and camped across the Eno from the town on May 9. A hospital and a supply depot were set up at Hillsborough, and on May 11 the army marched through town and west along the later Graham road. People: William Tryon, Edmund Fanning, John AsheNash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), p. 23
  13. Governor Tryon's army turns its horses onto the Few farm's crops Back at Hillsborough in mid-June 1771 after the Battle of Alamance, Governor William Tryon's army turned its horses onto the wheat, barley and oats of the Few farm a mile east of town, where William Few Sr. had given bond for Regulator leaders. The family left for Georgia that winter. People: William Few, William Tryon Also named: William Few Sr.Search the index · Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), Appendix C, p. 94 · Also: NCpedia: Few, William, Jr.; Colonial and State Records of North Carolina, vol. 8, pp. 574-600: Tryon's order book in the campaign against the Regulators
  14. Tradition says parts of the town clock were hidden in the Eno during Fanning's raid According to local tradition, parts of the clock were thrown into the river so that the Loyalist raiders under David Fanning and Hector McNeill could not turn them into war material. People: David Fanning Also named: Hector McNeillLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 22
  15. Patriots and Loyalists clash at Hart’s Mill At daybreak about 45 North Carolina cavalry under Captain Joseph Graham and mounted riflemen under Captain Richard Simmons, sent out by General Andrew Pickens, surprised the British guard of about 26 regulars and two Loyalists that was keeping Thomas Hart's mill on the Eno grinding for Cornwallis's army. Graham's accounts report the whole guard killed, wounded or captured with no Patriot dead, and the party reached Pickens's camp with its prisoners ahead of pursuing British cavalry. People: Andrew Pickens, Joseph Graham (1759-1836) Also named: Richard Simmons, Thomas HartSouthern Campaigns Revolutionary War Pension Statements: Pension application of Joseph Graham S6937
  16. Cornwallis's troops plunder Jesse Benton's brandy and sugar Jesse Benton wrote Thomas Hart in June 1781 that when Cornwallis's army held Hillsborough he had saved everything from the troops except 110 gallons of brandy, 60 pounds of brown sugar, and some jugs, bottles and other trifles that they plundered. People: Jesse Benton, Thomas HartInternet Archive: William N. Chambers, "As the Twig Is Bent: The Family and the North Carolina Years of Thomas Hart Benton, 1752-1801", North Carolina Historical Review 26 (1949), p. 394
  17. William Cabe and thirty neighbors on the Eno post a warning against hunters William Cabe published a broadside, signed by his brother John and 28 neighbors, warning that people hunting with dogs and guns on their land had driven off their cattle and hogs and would be prosecuted. People: William Cabe Also named: John CabeSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cabe-Pratt-Harris House, National Register nomination (OR0656), p. 10
  18. The court orders a bridge over the Eno at the ford near Hillsborough The court ordered a bridge built across the Eno at the ford near Hillsborough and named John Estes, William Lytle, William Waters, William McCawley and John Hogan to let the contract and oversee the building. People: Colonel John Hogan Also named: John Estes, William Lytle, William Waters, William McCawleySearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: February Term 1787
  19. The court orders a public bridge over the Eno at the Town Ford The court ordered a bridge built over the Eno at or near the Town Ford and named William McCauley, John Taylor, John Hogan, William Lytle and James Carson to let the building. The bridge was to be a public one when finished. People: William McCauley, Colonel John Hogan Also named: John Taylor, William Lytle, James CarsonSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: May Term 1787
  20. The court names men to oversee the Town Ford bridge and sets a seven-year repair term The court appointed William McCauley, John Taylor, William Lytle, William Watters and Absalom Tatom to oversee the building of a bridge over the Eno at or near the Town Ford. The undertaker was to keep the bridge in repair for seven years. People: William McCauley, Absalom Tatom Also named: John Taylor, William Lytle, William WattersSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: May Term 1788
  21. The court repays John Walker for spending on the Eno bridge at the Town Ford The court allowed John Walker £50 for money he had spent on the bridge over the Eno at or near the Town Ford by Hillsborough. Also named: John WalkerSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: August Term 1788
  22. The court lets John, a man enslaved by William Hooper, carry a gun on Hooper's land On William Hooper's motion through his attorney Jesse Benton, the court allowed John, a man Hooper held in slavery, to hunt with and carry a gun on Hooper's plantation on the Eno about two miles below Hillsborough, to protect Hooper's stock and kill game for his family. People: William Hooper, Jesse Benton Also named: JohnMark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: May Term 1789
  23. Eno and Little River form a charge of their own, apart from Hawfields and Cross Roads When Jacob Lake left about 1790, the old Pattillo field was split: Hawfields and Cross Roads shared one pastor, and Eno and Little River another. The two Orange churches were still paired when the history was written, apart from short breaks. Also named: Jacob LakeSearch the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 7
  24. John Elliott is paid more for the bridge over the Eno opposite Hillsborough On a petition from John Elliott about the bridge over the Eno River opposite Hillsborough, the court allowed him £15 in addition to what he had already received. Also named: John ElliottSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: February Term 1790
  25. The court lets Isaac Hicks build a public grist mill across the Eno The court admitted Isaac Hicks to build a water grist mill across the Eno River under the petition he had filed at the last term, the mill to be public once built. Hicks paid the court one pound, the value four freeholders had set on an acre of land adjoining his mill seat. At February Term the court had granted the same leave on a petition of inhabitants and rescinded it the next day. Also named: Isaac HicksSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: May Term 1791
  26. The court orders the road east of Hillsborough turned along the road to the mineral spring on James Hogg's land On a petition from a number of inhabitants, the court named a jury of fourteen, among them William Watters, Sterling Harris and Absalom Tatom, to lay out a new course for the road running east from Hillsborough on the south side of the Eno, so that it would take the road that went to the mineral spring on James Hogg's land, and to report to the next court. People: James Hogg, Absalom Tatom Also named: William Watters, Sterling HarrisSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: May Term 1791
  27. 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
  28. Faucett's grist mill is working at the Eno ford northwest of Hillsborough The county's architectural survey records the Faucett Mill in operation by at least 1792, at a place where a wagon road forded the Eno River northwest of Hillsborough, and says it may have been built as early as the 1760s by the Quaker milling family of Isaac Lowe. Mills of this kind ground the corn and wheat that Orange farmers hauled north to Petersburg or south toward the Cape Fear, and doubled as gathering places; the Faucett family later added a house that served as an inn and tavern. Also named: Isaac Lowe, David Faucett · Also mentions: Faucett MillSearch the index · North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County, North Carolina, 1996
  29. James Hogg moves across the Eno to Poplar Hill Hogg, who owned the land along the south bank of the Eno opposite the town, lived east of Hillsborough on the later Cameron property until 1793 or 1794. He then moved across the river to Poplar Hill, later the site of Julian S. Carr's Occoneechee Farm. People: James Hogg, Julian S. CarrSearch the index · Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), p. 38
  30. James H. Bowman becomes pastor of Eno and Little River Bowman took the Eno and Little River charge and held it for about twenty years, gathering many members during the revival that began in 1802. His ministry at Eno ended in 1815. Also named: James H. BowmanSearch the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 7
  31. James Hogg sells Poplar Hill to his son-in-law William Norwood James Hogg, who had built the house later called Poplar Hill on an 1,100-acre tract on the south bank of the Eno, sells the estate in 1803 to his son-in-law William Norwood. It later became the home of John Wall Norwood. People: James Hogg, William Norwood Also named: John Wall NorwoodSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation, National Register (OR0077ad, 2014), 203 South Cameron Street, Poplar Hill
  32. The court orders a bridge across the Eno at Hillsborough and levies a tax for it Finding a bridge across the Eno at Hillsborough 'highly necessary', the court named Sterling Harris, Samuel Benton, Samuel Hopkins, Abner B. Bruce and John Taylor Jr. commissioners with full power to contract for it. It ordered the sheriff to collect a tax of sixpence on the poll, on every 300 acres and on every 100 pounds of town property to pay for the bridge. People: Samuel Hopkins Also named: Sterling Harris, Samuel Benton, Abner B. Bruce, John Taylor Jr.Search the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: May Term 1804
  33. The Faucett family builds a two-story house and inn beside their Eno mill After buying the mill at the Eno ford northwest of Hillsborough, the Faucetts put up a two-story house next to it that also served travelers as an inn and tavern. It still stands beside the mill. Also named: David FaucettSearch the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 34
  34. The court tells Henry Goodloe to repair the Eno bridge at Hillsborough or be sued on his bond The court ordered that unless Henry Goodloe, the undertaker and builder of the bridge across the Eno near Hillsborough, put it in good repair by April 1, suit be brought against him on his bond. Also named: Henry GoodloeSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: February Term 1808
  35. The court lets four enslaved men on the Bennehan and Cameron lands carry guns The county court gave leave to carry guns to three men enslaved by Richard Bennehan, Frank Kennon at the store, Humphrey at the Little River plantations and a man at the Brick House whose name the transcription gives as Donom with a query, and to David, enslaved by Duncan Cameron at his Eno plantation. The owners gave bond and security as the law required. People: Richard Bennehan, Duncan Cameron Also named: Frank Kennon, David, HumphreyMark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: November Term 1809
  36. The court orders the road from Bennehan's shop to the Eno mill turned past Duncan Cameron's new house The court ordered the sheriff to summon a jury to view and turn the road that ran from the forks at Bennehan's shop to the mill on the Eno, so that it would pass on the west side of the house Duncan Cameron had lately built, and to report at the next term. People: Duncan CameronSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: February Term 1810
  37. The court names a committee to have the Eno bridge at Hillsborough repaired The court appointed John Taylor, James Phillips and James Child a committee to contract with a suitable person to repair the bridge across the Eno at Hillsborough and to report to the next court. Also named: John Taylor, James Phillips, James ChildSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: May Term 1813
  38. The court pays James Faucett for repairing the Eno bridge at Hillsborough On the report of the committee for repairing the bridge across the Eno at Hillsborough, the court allowed James Faucett 50 pounds for the work, to be paid by the county trustee. Also named: James FaucettSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: August Term 1813
  39. The earliest part of the Walker House is built off St. Mary's Road The heavy-timber rear section of the Walker House on the Robert Walker farm, on Schley Road just off St. Mary's Road northeast of Hillsborough, is said to date from 1814. Also mentions: St. Mary's RoadSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 92 · Also: GAI Consultants, St. Mary's Road Study, Final Report
  40. The court orders a new bridge across the Eno at Hillsborough and levies a tax for it The court ordered a bridge built across the Eno at or near Hillsborough, named Dr. James Webb, James S. Smith, Thomas Clancy, Samuel Child and John Young a committee to contract for building it and keeping it in repair for seven years, with bond from the builder, and levied a tax of ninepence on each poll, each 100 pounds of town property and each 300 acres to pay for it. People: James Webb, James Strudwick Smith, Samuel Child Also named: Thomas Clancy, John YoungSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: May Term 1814
  41. Samuel Paisley begins an eighteen-year pastorate at Eno Paisley followed Bowman in 1816 and stayed until he moved to Moore County in 1834. He was buried in the Old Eno cemetery. Also named: Samuel PaisleySearch the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 9
  42. The court names a committee to contract for an Eno bridge near Bennehan's mill The court appointed Hugh Cain, John Cabe and Robert Harris a committee to contract for building a bridge across the Eno near Bennehan's mill and to report to the next term. Also named: Hugh Cain, John Cabe, Robert HarrisSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: February Term 1816
  43. The court cancels the Bennehan's mill bridge contract and orders it let again The court rescinded the contract for building a bridge across the Eno near and below Richard Bennehan's mill and appointed John Cabe, Robert Harris and Hugh Cain to let the building of a bridge at the same place, in Hillsborough, to the lowest bidder after twenty days' notice. The builder was to give bond to keep it up for seven years. People: Richard Bennehan Also named: John Cabe, Robert Harris, Hugh CainSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: May Term 1816
  44. The court pays for the finished Eno bridge at Bennehan's and Cameron's mills The commissioners reported that Thomas Atkins, John Arnold and William Leathers had built the bridge across the Eno at or near Bennehan's and Cameron's mills under contract for 600 dollars and had finished it. The court ordered the county trustee to pay them. Also named: Thomas Atkins, John Arnold, William LeathersSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: November Term 1816
  45. The court licenses Sam, the enslaved man who ran Ephraim Cain's Eno plantation, to carry a gun Ephraim Cain told the court that he had no white overseer on his plantation on the Eno, that the place was run by an enslaved man of his named Sam, and that no other enslaved person there held a license to carry a gun. The court granted a license for Sam to carry a gun on that plantation, on Cain's giving bond and security as the law required. Also named: Ephraim Cain, SamMark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: November Term 1817
  46. A hall-and-parlor farmhouse is built on the Cabe land by the Eno The one-and-a-half-story frame house, with unpainted heart pine walls and late Georgian mantels, was probably built in the 1820s by Jamima Cabe and her husband Jehu Brown, who married in 1827. It may instead date from before William Cabe's death in 1828. People: William Cabe Also named: Jamima Cabe, Jehu BrownSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cabe-Pratt-Harris House, National Register nomination (OR0656), p. 8
  47. A revival brings many new members into Eno Church Five years into Samuel Paisley's pastorate, a revival added many people to the Eno congregation. Also named: Samuel PaisleySearch the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 9
  48. Eno Church reports 59 white and 11 Black communicants, in its oldest surviving records The 1822 session minutes, the earliest Eno records that survive, copy the church's articles of faith and covenant, and that year's report to presbytery counts 70 communicants, 11 of them Black.Search the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 9
  49. Jonathan P. Sneed builds the house on the bluff south of the Eno later called Eno Lodge Jonathan P. Sneed built a two-story Federal house on the high ground above the Eno across from town. It was later known as Norwood, Eno Lodge and the Eagles' Nest. Also named: Jonathan P. SneedSearch the index · Hillsborough Historic District National Register Additional Documentation (2014), pdf p. 50
  50. Planter William Cabe dies and is buried in the family graveyard on the Eno William Cabe, who held 1,389 acres of corn and wheat land on the Eno, died without a will. His marked stone is one of two legible among twelve graves in the Cabe family cemetery south of the house. People: William CabeSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cabe-Pratt-Harris House, National Register nomination (OR0656), p. 11
  51. William Cabe's estate offers his residence and 14 or 15 enslaved people for sale After a sale of Cabe's household goods, stock and crops set for October 22, 1828, a December notice in the Hillsborough Recorder offered his late residence together with 14 or 15 enslaved people. People: William CabeNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cabe-Pratt-Harris House, National Register nomination (OR0656), p. 11
  52. Commissioners divide William Cabe's 1,389 acres among his heirs Court-appointed commissioners split Cabe's land into nine lots. Lot three, 160 acres where the Cabe-Pratt-Harris House stands, went to his daughter Jamima, then married to Jehu Brown. People: William Cabe Also named: Jamima Cabe, Jehu BrownSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cabe-Pratt-Harris House, National Register nomination (OR0656), p. 11
  53. Zedekiah Husbands, a free man of color and former apprentice, buys 48 acres on the Eno River Mark Chilton found that Zedekiah Husbands, a free man of color who had been bound out as a boy and later became a millwright, bought 48 acres on the Eno River sometime in 1834 or 1835, making him one of very few people of color to own land in Orange County before the Civil War. Chilton notes the deed was apparently never recorded. Also named: Zedekiah HusbandsSearch the index · Mark Chilton, Freedom Bound: Apprenticeship, Racism & Liberation in Orange County, North Carolina 1777 to 1868 (book edition, 20 September 2021; Durham County Library)
  54. 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 EllisSearch 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
  55. Commissioners seek bids to repair the Eno bridge at Hillsborough John U. Kirkland was one of five commissioners, with Cadwallader Jones, Edmund Strudwick, Josiah Turner and Catlett Campbell, who advertised for proposals to repair the bridge over the Eno at Hillsborough, with bids due in November. People: John U. Kirkland, Edmund Strudwick, Cadwallader Jones, Josiah Turner Jr. Also named: Catlett CampbellSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, October 18, 1838
  56. William A. Graham builds a law office on his new Eno River property, Montrose On buying the property in 1842, William A. Graham built a one-and-a-half-story frame law office there. It survives on the Montrose grounds; his son John W. Graham added a two-room rear ell around 1893. People: William A. Graham, John W. Graham Also mentions: MontroseSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation, National Register (OR0077ad, 2014), 320 St. Mary's Road, Montrose and William Alexander Graham Law Office
  57. William A. Graham buys the Eno River house that became Montrose Senator William A. Graham bought 59 acres on the Eno River east of Hillsborough from John U. Kirkland, with the house the Rev. William Mercer Green had built there, paying $3,200 plus his town residence and three lots. Graham named the place Montrose, and his son and grandson lived there after him until 1977. People: William A. Graham, John U. Kirkland, William Mercer Green Also named: Susan Washington GrahamSearch the index · National Register nomination: Montrose, Orange County (2001), pdf p. 11
  58. Thomas W. Holden, now living in Milton, offers Enoe Mills for sale Thomas W. Holden advertised all or half of Enoe Mills, five miles below Hillsborough, for sale. The works had about 300 acres, a threshing machine, saw mill, cotton gin, two wool-carding machines, an oil mill and a corn and flour mill, with his partner J. F. Lyon on the premises. Also named: Thomas W. Holden, John F. Lyon, J. F. LyonSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 20, 1845, p. 3 · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, March 6, 1845, p. 3
  59. Archibald Currie begins a twenty-year pastorate at Eno After twelve years of short-term ministers, Eno called Archibald Currie, who served until 1866 and returned briefly in 1895-1896. His son James L. Currie later held the same pulpit. People: James L. Currie Also named: Archibald CurrieSearch the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 10
  60. The Eno Friends Meeting closes The Eno meeting, which never recovered the membership it lost in the eighteenth century, came to an end in 1847.Search the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 4
  61. Ira Ellis's mill, later Hall's Mill, is working on the Eno west of Hillsborough A mill stands on the Eno west of Hillsborough by the middle of the nineteenth century, part of the Rev. Ira Ellis's home place; it took the name Hall's Mill after Nelson P. Hall acquired the Ellis house and land. Only its stone dam, a stone foundation and the trace of the race survived. People: Nelson Parrish Hall Also named: Ira EllisSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 118 · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, January 2, 1867, p. 3
  62. 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
  63. The 1850 census records 47 enslaved people on James H. Pratt's farm by the Eno James H. Pratt and his wife Malvina worked a farm of 300 improved and 500 unimproved acres with 47 enslaved people, raising wheat, corn, oats, flax and livestock. People: James H. Pratt Also named: Malvina PrattNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cabe-Pratt-Harris House, National Register nomination (OR0656), p. 12
  64. Brown and Wilkinson's Eagle Foundry is at work on the Eno The Eagle Foundry, about three miles east of Hillsborough near Berry's mill, had opened shortly before February 1852 and could barely keep up with orders. It ran for many years.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 269-270
  65. Robert and John Shields ready a woollen factory on the Eno The Shields brothers built a woollen factory on the Eno about seven miles east of Hillsborough, whose machinery arrived in April 1852; it had just begun work when Robert M. Shields died that September. The Recorder thought it one of the first three or four in the state; it later ran as the Alpha Woolen Mills. Also named: Robert Shields, John ShieldsSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 269-270 · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, September 29, 1852, p. 3; Hillsborough Recorder, April 7, 1852, p. 3
  66. Orange County contracts for a new bridge over the Eno at Hillsborough The Orange County court at its May 1853 term named commissioners to contract for a new bridge over the Eno at Hillsborough in place of the old one, and by early August the contractor had taken the old bridge down and was laying the foundations for a new and durable span. With no bridge, the Raleigh stage overturned in the rain-swollen river at the Hillsborough crossing on the night of July 26; the passengers were saved with difficulty, but three trunks were lost and the mails soaked.Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, August 10, 1853, p. 2
  67. Judge John L. Bailey buys the Norwood house south of the Eno and names it Eno Lodge Superior court judge John Lancaster Bailey bought the house above the Eno from Joseph C. Norwood, probably added the rear ell and north bay, and called it Eno Lodge. He lived there until about the start of the Civil War, when he moved to Buncombe County. Also named: John Lancaster Bailey, Joseph C. NorwoodSearch the index · Hillsborough Historic District National Register Additional Documentation (2014), pdf p. 50 · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, July 11, 1877, p. 2; Hillsborough Recorder, November 14, 1855, p. 2
  68. William Nelson goes into partnership in the Alpha Woolen Mills The Hillsborough merchant William Nelson entered a partnership with John C. Shields in 1854 to operate the Alpha Woolen Mills on the Eno River, which the firm's advertisement placed seven miles east of Hillsborough. Their notice, signed by both on June 9, 1854, said the mill was in successful operation and offered cash for wool or to make it up into cloth. In 1852 the mill's notices had been signed by R. M. and J. C. Shields. People: William Nelson Also named: John C. ShieldsSearch the index · Burwell School Historic Site research database: Jane Rebecca Parker (from Mary Claire Engstrom, The Book of Burwell Students, 2007) · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, June 28, 1854, p. 3
  69. John and Louisa Turner inherit the Jackson farm on the Eno Louisa Jackson Turner and her husband received the 140-acre Jackson farm outside Hillsborough, with its log and frame homeplace, from her widowed mother Mary Jackson. By 1860 the Turners farmed 713 acres on four tracts. Also named: John Turner, Louisa Jackson Turner, Mary JacksonSearch the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 21
  70. The railroad bridge frame over the Eno collapses with nine men on it While hands were raising the North Carolina Railroad bridge near Brown's mills, two miles west of Hillsborough, a support standing on poor footing in midstream gave way and the frame fell about sixty feet into the river. The superintendent, Mr. Wells, and eight hands, five white and three Black, were on it; all survived, but Wells broke a thigh and several others were badly cut and bruised. Also mentions: North Carolina RailroadSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, May 2, 1855, p. 2
  71. An Eno River flood sweeps away two bridges and breaks mill dams A heavy night rain raised the Eno River high enough to sweep away the bridge above Brown's mill and a temporary bridge lower down that Gen. Trolinger had built. The flood broke the dam at Mr. Faucett's mill, and the dam at George Ray's mill on Forrest's Creek was also washed away.Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, July 11, 1855, p. 2
  72. A fire set on the railroad bridge over the Eno is caught in time Between two and three o'clock on the morning of Sunday, March 16, the passing train found the North Carolina Railroad bridge over the Eno above Hillsborough on fire, and the fire was put out. The editor judged it the work of an incendiary, suspected the same of the Cates Creek fire four days earlier, and reported that a watch would be kept at each bridge on the road.Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, March 19, 1856, p. 2
  73. James H. Pratt buys the Jehu Brown tract and a second share of the Cabe land John Burton, Jamima Cabe's son by her first marriage, sold the 160-acre Jehu Brown tract with the house to Pratt by a deed dated 1860. The same year Pratt bought 130 adjoining acres that had been Nancy Cabe's share of her father's land. People: James H. Pratt Also named: John Burton, Nancy Cabe, Jehu Brown, Jamima CabeSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cabe-Pratt-Harris House, National Register nomination (OR0656), p. 12
  74. The Eno Soldiers' Relief Society gathers supplies for the army The women of the Eno Soldiers' Relief Society had sent or readied a large store of supplies for Confederate soldiers by late October, among them blankets, comforts, sheets, pillows, towels, shirts, drawers and more than a hundred pairs of socks, with hospital stores such as old linen, lint, bandages, sugar and tea.Hillsborough Recorder, October 30, 1861, p. 3
  75. County commissioners call for builders of a new bridge over the Eno at Hillsborough In a notice dated March 4, 1863, commissioners William H. Brown and J. W. Norwood announced they would let the building of a bridge over the Eno at Hillsborough to contract at the courthouse on Saturday, March 14. The plan was on view at the county court clerk's office. People: John Wall Norwood, William H. BrownSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, March 11, 1863, p. 3
  76. A flood on the Eno sweeps away the Hillsborough bridge A heavy rainstorm that began on Wednesday, August 14, broke into a downpour between one and two o'clock the next afternoon and raised the Eno at Hillsborough eighteen inches to two feet above any level in years. The flood carried off the bridge at the town, and the editor heard that every bridge on the river had gone, with mill dams and bottomland crops ruined.Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, August 21, 1867, p. 2
  77. Pleasant Green Methodist Church builds a frame church on the site of its log churches In 1869 the Pleasant Green congregation in the Eno neighborhood replaced the second of its log churches, the first dating from the 1830s, with a frame building.Search the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 59
  78. Great freshet sweeps away bridges and mill dams across Orange A flood on the Eno, Little River and Flat River carried away bridges and mill dams, among them Thompson's, Berry's, Lyon's and Compton's dams on the Eno and all but one dam on Flat River, and ruined crops on the creek bottoms.Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, June 1, 1870, p. 2
  79. Eno Church elects its first deacons The session noted in October 1873 that the church had no deacons and held an election the next month. Robert W. Anderson and J. P. Forrest were ordained that year. Also named: Robert W. Anderson, J. P. ForrestSearch the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 20
  80. A flood carries away the road bridge over the Eno at Hillsborough After a storm of thunder, lightning, rain and high wind on the night of Monday, March 1, 1875, the Eno rose higher than it had in many years and by Tuesday morning had swept away the town bridge at Hillsborough, and the river rose to within a few feet of the railroad bridge. The same flood took bridges across Caswell County. The new bridge over the Eno at McCown's mill, finished the year before and thought to be above the reach of any water, was also carried off, and in May the county commissioners ordered both rebuilt.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Journal (Wilmington), March 5, 1875, p. 1 · Also: DigitalNC newspaper, March 9, 1875, p. 3; Hillsborough Recorder, March 3, 1875, p. 3; Hillsborough Recorder, March 10, 1875, p. 3; Hillsborough Recorder, May 5, 1875, p. 3
  81. James L. Currie becomes pastor of Eno Presbyterian Church Currie, who had grown up in the Eno congregation under his father, the Rev. Archibald Currie, became its pastor in 1876, and that year also served the Fairfield and Little River churches. He stayed at Eno until 1896, and the congregation's third church was built during his ministry. People: James L. Currie Also named: Archibald CurrieSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 101
  82. The year's heaviest freshet floods the Eno, Flat and Little rivers The heaviest freshet of 1877 struck late in the week before November 28, after heavy rains. Water ran over the Hillsborough town bridge, which held, a small mill dam was damaged, the bottoms where the Eno, Flat and Little rivers meet lay under water like an inland sea, and mill dams on Flat River were reported gone. At their December meeting the county commissioners ordered new bridges built at Mangum's Mill in Mangum Township and over Flat River.Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, November 28, 1877, p. 3
  83. 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
  84. John C. Blake deeds Eno River land to the Catholic diocese John C. Blake conveyed 15 acres on the Eno River to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh, decades before any Catholic parish was organized in the county. Also named: John C. BlakeSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 310
  85. Orange Presbytery holds its 318th session at Eno Church and approves the church order sent down by the General Assembly Forty-nine members of Orange Presbytery met at Eno Church near Cedar Grove, the fullest attendance since the war, with Rev. A. Currie as moderator. They approved, 37 to 7, the new church order the General Assembly had sent down to the presbyteries, elected delegates to the Assembly, and received Eugene L. Harris of the university as a candidate for the ministry. Also named: A. Currie, Eugene L. HarrisSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, May 3, 1879, p. 3
  86. Eno Presbyterian dedicates its third church at the old site Built in 1878 under James L. Currie, the frame church replaced earlier log and frame buildings near the Old Eno cemetery. Orange Presbytery met there in late April 1879, with D. I. Craig preaching the opening sermon; the Chapel Hill Ledger called it the best attended meeting since the war. People: James L. Currie, D. I. (David Irwin) CraigSearch the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 10 · Also: The Chapel Hill Ledger, April 26, 1879, p. 2; The Chapel Hill Ledger, May 3, 1879, p. 3
  87. Orange Presbytery makes Eno, Little River, Stony Creek and Grier's one field under James L. Currie Meeting at Tarboro, Orange Presbytery formed a new pastoral field of the Stony Creek, Grier's, Eno and Little River churches with the Rev. James L. Currie as pastor. Currie, who had resigned the Chapel Hill church that summer, was to live near Fairfield. People: James L. Currie, Nelson Parrish HallSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 17, 1883, p. 3
  88. Court officer Samuel H. Breeze dies Samuel H. Breeze, for many years an officer of the Orange County court who took charge of the grand jury at nearly every session, died suddenly at his home six miles from Hillsborough in his seventy-second year. Also named: Samuel H. BreezeSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 4, 1885, p. 3
  89. The county commissioners create Grover school district No. 38 Granting a petition, the commissioners laid out a new school district, No. 38, called Grover, running from A. Toler's creek on the Roxboro road by Hawkins' mill, Willie Roberts' ford, George Parker's mill and down the Eno past Compton's mill, and named Charles Wilson, Joseph Wright and W. A. Jordan its committeemen. Also named: Charles Wilson, Joseph Wright, W. A. JordanSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 16, 1885, p. 3
  90. Black Methodists and Baptists baptize dozens of converts in the Eno at Hillsborough After two or three weeks of revival services at the Black Methodist church, where 30 or 40 people professed conversion, twelve converts were immersed in the Eno on the afternoon of October 25 and four more were baptized at the church that night. On November 1 twenty-four Black converts, many of them joining the Baptist church, were baptized in the Eno at Hillsborough.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 31, 1885, p. 2
  91. James H. Pratt's will leaves the Cabe farm to the family of Lucinda Harris Pratt left the 140-acre Cabe tract and the 160-acre Jehu Brown tract to Lucinda Harris for life and then to her daughters Emma and Jane, keeping a promise to provide for the family after her husband Benton Harris died in the Civil War. The Harrises held the farm until 1942. People: James H. Pratt Also named: Lucinda Harris, Benton Harris, Jehu BrownSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cabe-Pratt-Harris House, National Register nomination (OR0656), p. 12
  92. Heavy rains send the Eno to a record height at Hillsborough After heavy rain on August 10 and that night, the Eno at Hillsborough rose on the morning of August 11 to about eight inches above any level John Cheek, whose workshop stood near the bridge, had ever seen, and much damage to the corn crop was feared. Also named: John CheekSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 14, 1886, p. 3
  93. Twenty-nine converts are baptized in the Eno before a crowd of more than a thousand Twenty-nine people were immersed in the Eno River above Dimmock's mill pond near Hillsborough, and more than a thousand people watched the baptizing.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 25, 1886, p. 3
  94. An iron bridge over the West Eno nears completion Builders were finishing a new iron bridge over the West Eno in early July, and the paper expected it to be done within days.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 9, 1887, p. 3
  95. The Eno rises over the bridge at Hillsborough after eight days of rain After about eight days of nearly constant rain and sleet, the Eno at Hillsborough rose higher than it had in many years and by sundown on Monday was running over the bridge. It was back in its channel by the next morning, though the paper feared for crops still in the field.Search the index · Hillsboro Recorder, November 3, 1887, p. 3
  96. A railroad bridge crew repairs the West Eno bridge and moves the section house to Hillsborough Captain Adams and his company of bridge builders were repairing the abutments of the railroad bridge over the West Eno and moving the section house from the West Eno to the Hillsborough depot, where they were to put up a section house.Hillsboro Recorder, January 19, 1888, p. 3
  97. A night storm washes out a Cane Creek mill dam and sends the Eno to a six-year high A heavy thunder and rain storm on the night of May 11 did great damage in the Cane Creek country and other parts of the county, washing away the dam of the Company mill on Cane Creek and injuring lands and crops. At Hillsborough the Eno River rose several feet, its highest in six years.Search the index · Hillsboro Recorder, May 17, 1888, p. 3
  98. A bridge crew strengthens the railroad bridge over the Eno at Hillsborough with trestle work A crew of nine from Burlington spent about two weeks building trestle work under the railroad bridge over the Eno just east of the Hillsborough station. The paper reported that all but three bridges between Greensboro and Goldsboro had been strengthened this way so heavier engines could run on the road.Hillsboro Recorder, July 26, 1888, p. 3
  99. The Keystone Bridge Company replaces the wooden railroad bridge over the Eno at Hillsboro with an iron one Crews of the Keystone Bridge Company of Pittsburgh began replacing the wooden railroad bridge over the Eno near the Hillsboro depot with an iron bridge, expecting to finish by August 10. Trains kept running across it at three miles an hour.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 3, 1889, p. 3 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 17, 1889, p. 3
  100. Fourteen Black converts are baptized in the Eno River before a crowd of hundreds Thirteen women and one man, all Black, were baptized in the Eno at Hillsborough while three or four hundred people looked on. The report named neither the church nor the minister.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 25, 1890, p. 3
  101. Julian S. Carr buys Poplar Hill south of the Eno and renames the estate Occoneechee Farm The Norwood family sold Poplar Hill, the house James Hogg had built about 1794 on the south bank of the Eno, to the Durham industrialist Julian S. Carr, who renamed the property Occoneechee Farm. Carr enlarged and altered the house over the next three decades. People: Julian S. Carr, James Hogg Also mentions: Poplar HillSearch the index · National Register: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation (2014), section 7, p. 20
  102. A westbound freight train wrecks by the Eno bridge at the Hillsborough depot About 5 a.m. on February 13, 1893, a westbound freight train wrecked just before it reached the bridge over the Eno at the Hillsborough depot, smashing several box cars loaded with freight. The track was open again within a few hours.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), February 18, 1893, p. 3
  103. Orange County builds a new bridge over the Eno near Hillsborough The county commissioners advertised in March for bids on a new bridge over the Eno, let the contract in early April, and by late May the bridge was going up near Hillsborough.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 27, 1893, p. 3
  104. Work begins on the Eno Cotton Mills as James Webb Jr. breaks ground for the railroad siding Construction of the Eno Cotton Mills at Hillsborough began when James Webb Jr. broke the first dirt on the mill's railroad siding. The builders meant to keep at it without a stop until the factory was finished and running. People: James Webb Jr.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 11, 1896, p. 3
  105. James Webb Jr. lays the first brick of the Eno Cotton Mills James Webb Jr. laid the first brick of the Eno Cotton Mills building at Hillsborough. Henry Richards of Hillsborough, who had overseen the building of several Alamance County mills, took charge of the brickwork. People: James Webb Jr. Also named: Henry RichardsOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 23, 1896, p. 3
  106. Eno Cotton Mill's buildings near completion and its first cottages are occupied Work on the Eno Cotton Mill at West Hillsborough was well along: about a million bricks had gone into the two-story main building, some 252 feet long, and several mill cottages were finished and occupied. The company, capitalized at $100,000 with Allen J. Ruffin as president and Thomas H. Webb as superintendent, planned to start with 10,000 spindles and hoped to run by April. People: Allen Jones Ruffin, James Webb Jr., George A. Durham Also named: Thomas H. Webb, H. Winder WebbOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 26, 1896, p. 3
  107. James Webb Sr., senior warden of St. Matthew's, dies at 81 James Webb Sr., for many years a vestryman of St. Matthew's Church and its treasurer as junior warden before becoming senior warden, died at his home near Hillsborough at 81. He was buried in the family lot in the St. Matthew's churchyard after a funeral led by S. Paxson Watters before a very large congregation. Also named: James Webb Sr., S. Paxson Watters · Also mentions: St. Matthew's ChurchSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), March 25, 1897, p. 3
  108. The Eno Cotton Mill's engine and boilers arrive The 200-horsepower engine and two boilers for the Eno Cotton Mill arrived at Hillsborough, and the mill's tall smokestack was nearly finished. The mill was expected to be in full operation within a few weeks, and by late April machinists were setting the boilers.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 1, 1897, p. 3
  109. Robert W. Anderson is the first person buried in Eno Church's new cemetery at Cedar Grove After the congregation moved to Cedar Grove, a new burying ground opened beside the church being built on the A. T. Finley lot. Robert W. Anderson, an elder, died suddenly at his Cedar Grove home early on Sunday, January 30, 1898, and was buried in the new Presbyterian cemetery the next evening, its first burial. Also named: Robert W. AndersonSearch the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 11 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), February 3, 1898, p. 3
  110. The Eno Cotton Mill installs more machinery for 5,000 added spindles The proprietors of the Eno Cotton Mill at Hillsborough were putting in more machinery to add 5,000 spindles.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 6, 1899, p. 3
  111. Twenty-five Black converts are baptized in the Eno at the town bridge Twenty-five Black converts, twenty-two women and three men, were baptized in the Eno River at the Hillsborough town bridge on a Sunday afternoon, watched by several hundred white and Black onlookers.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 25, 1899, p. 3
  112. H. S. Bradshaw is installed as pastor of Eno Presbyterian Church The Rev. H. S. Bradshaw was installed as pastor of Eno Presbyterian Church at Cedar Grove on Sunday, December 31. He was also pastor of the Presbyterian church at Hillsborough, where he kept regular appointments through the winter. People: H. S. BradshawSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 11, 1900, p. 3
  113. The American Bridge Company replaces the railroad bridge over the West Eno with a heavier iron bridge A crew of about thirty men from the American Bridge Company of Pennsylvania tore out the old Southern Railway bridge over the West Eno, about two miles west of Hillsborough, and began putting up a much heavier iron bridge, which was expected to be finished about March 1.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 24, 1901, p. 3
  114. Contractor Haywood H. Thompson begins a weave mill and dye house at the Eno Cotton Mill Haywood H. Thompson began making brick for a weave mill and dye house at the Eno Cotton Mill, planned to run about 400 looms and employ 75 to 100 more hands; by early June he was preparing the foundations. Also named: Haywood H. ThompsonOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 30, 1903, p. 3
  115. Commissioners create Cheeks and Eno townships Acting on a 1903 act, the county board carved Cheeks Township out of western Hillsboro Township and formed Eno River Township out of pieces of Hillsboro and Little River.Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 205 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 21, 1903, p. 3
  116. 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
  117. The Eno Cotton Mill reopens with James H. Webb as manager The Eno Cotton Mill, shut down for a month or two, resumed work with James H. Webb of Hillsborough, son of the late Thomas Webb, as superintendent and general manager. People: Thomas Webb Also named: James H. WebbOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 15, 1904, p. 3
  118. Heavy rain and wind wash out the railroad trestle over the Eno A storm of heavy rain and wind damaged crops across the county, washed away the Southern Railway trestle over the Eno at Occoneechee Mountain, carried off cordwood and damaged the brickyard of the Eno Cotton Mill, drowned one of Julian S. Carr's mules above the town bridge, and wrecked the bridge over New Hope Creek at Robson Station. People: Julian S. CarrSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 22, 1904, p. 3
  119. P. C. Collins buys the southern part of the future Bellevue mill site from J. W. Hooker Before the Bellevue company was incorporated, P. C. Collins bought the south half of the mill site near the West Hillsborough depot from J. W. Hooker; a later hand added that he acted as the mill's agent. Collins, a shareholder, passed the land to the company in 1905. People: J. W. Hooker, Paul C. CollinsSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 15
  120. M. C. Arrowood organizes the North Eno Presbyterian Church While pastor of Eno from 1905 to 1910, Arrowood, who came from the Burlington church, organized two new congregations, North Eno and Efland. Also named: M. C. ArrowoodSearch the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 11
  121. 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
  122. Mill engineer Richard C. Biberstein lays out the machinery for the Bellevue mill The new company hired Richard C. Biberstein, a Charlotte mill designer trained in Massachusetts, to plan the arrangement of its machinery; his drawings run from 1905 to 1907. Fifteen years later he designed the mill's weaving room. Also named: Richard C. BibersteinSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 15
  123. A Southern Railway freight train wrecks at the Eno railroad bridge in Hillsboro Eastbound freight No. 72 left the track just west of the Eno bridge; one car went over the side into the river and eleven more piled up, twisting the bridge's iron supports. No one was hurt, and mail trains crossed again the next morning.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 23, 1905, p. 2 · Also: DigitalNC newspaper, November 22, 1905, p. 2
  124. Durham wins an injunction against the Eno Cotton Mills for fouling the Eno The City of Durham, which drew its drinking water from the Eno, obtained a temporary order in early February barring the Eno Cotton Mills at Hillsboro from running sewage and filth into the river. After arguments at Durham on February 10, Judge G. S. Ferguson continued the injunction to a final hearing but suspended it until April 20 so the mill could put in a purifying system approved by the State Board of Health. People: John W. Graham, Frank Nash, Samuel Mallett Gattis Also named: G. S. Ferguson · Also mentions: Eno Cotton MillsOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), February 22, 1906, p. 3
  125. The state supreme court orders the Eno Cotton Mills to purify its waste or stop dumping it in the Eno On May 29 the North Carolina Supreme Court decided Durham's suit against the Eno Cotton Mills: the mill had to put in a crematory or other purifying plant at its own cost or be enjoined from emptying the sewage and dye refuse of the mill and its workers' houses into the Eno. The court ruled so although the mill stood about seventeen miles above Durham's intake and had been running before the city took water from the river, and mill owners across the state took note. Also mentions: Eno Cotton MillsSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), June 7, 1906, p. 3
  126. A new iron bridge is set over the Eno just east of the Hillsboro station On June 4 the Iron Bridge Company of Virginia, with Joseph Zilk as foreman, put in place a new iron bridge over the Eno just east of the Hillsboro station. J. M. Hall of Clarion, Virginia, bridge inspector for the Southern Railway, passed the work as first class. Also named: Joseph Zilk, J. M. HallSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), June 7, 1906, p. 3
  127. The Eno Methodist congregation builds its church on land given by Allen Ruffin The congregation formed for Eno Cotton Mill workers first met in an upper room of a mill building. In 1908 it moved into a simple front-gabled frame church with pointed-arch windows and a small belfry, on land Ruffin donated facing the mill across the railroad tracks. People: Allen Jones RuffinSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 16
  128. Heavy rains flood Orange County, wrecking bridges and damaging the Eno Cotton Mills A week of heavy rains raised the county's rivers and creeks higher than in many years, ruined bottomland crops and tobacco, and carried away county bridges over New Hope Creek, the Eno above Dimock's mill and Little River, at a loss to the county of at least $2,000. In Hillsborough nearly every town bridge washed out and the county bridge was shifted on its base, while at the Eno Cotton Mills the railroad trestle was lost and floodwater did about $2,000 in damage.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 3, 1908, p. 3
  129. Eno Cotton Mill is enlarged and adds gingham In 1909 the Hillsborough mill was expanded again and began weaving gingham alongside chambray and plaids. Some yarn was still sold unwoven until the First World War.Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 276
  130. Seven Black converts are baptized in the Eno below the town bridge Two Black women and five Black men were baptized in the Eno River just below the Hillsborough town bridge on Sunday afternoon.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 7, 1909, p. 3
  131. A cluster of Craftsman bungalows goes up at Eno Crossroads Several Craftsman bungalows with shed dormers and knee braces are built at Eno Crossroads on US 70 between the 1910s and the early 1920s, the survey's example of how fast the style took hold.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 105
  132. Pleasant Green Methodist Church completes its present Gothic frame church The congregation finished a steep-gabled frame church with Gothic windows and door in 1910, replacing the 1869 building.Search the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 59
  133. The Rev. J. H. Moore baptizes ten converts in the Eno at the town bridge The Rev. J. H. Moore, pastor of Hillsboro's Black Baptist church, baptized ten people in the Eno River at the town bridge on a Sunday afternoon, watched by nearly a thousand Black and white onlookers. Also named: J. H. MooreSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 5, 1911, p. 5
  134. The Bellevue mill runs 5,000 spindles and 200 looms making dress ginghams By 1912 the Bellevue mill had 5,000 spindles and 200 narrow looms weaving dress ginghams 27 and 32 inches wide, sold through agents in New York and New Jersey.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 15
  135. Eno Cotton Mill rents its village houses to workers for 25 cents a week The Eno Cotton Mill, founded in 1896 by Allen J. Ruffin and James H. Webb Jr., built a company village for its fast-growing workforce, and by 1915 the company was renting the houses to employees for a quarter a week. The 1924 Sanborn map shows about 100 mill houses west and south of the mill. People: Allen Jones Ruffin Also named: James H. Webb, James H. Webb Jr.NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 12 · Also: Eno Cotton Mill National Register nomination
  136. Southern Power Company builds a steam plant on the Eno near University Station Duke's Southern Power Company built a coal-fired steam generating plant beside the Eno near University Station, a backup for its hydroelectric stations, with Fiske-Carter Construction Company holding the contract in 1915. By July 1916 the Eno steam plant was sending current as far as Charlotte while flooding shut down the company's river stations. Its power went to Durham's factories, not to Orange County.Search the index · DigitalNC: Durham Morning Herald, July 25, 1915, p. 12 (the new Southern Power plant being erected near University Station) · Also: NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County; The Charlotte Observer, July 18, 1916, p. 3
  137. The Bellevue mill is also turning out cheviot cloth By 1916 the Bellevue mill was weaving cheviot, a rough-finished cloth, alongside its ginghams.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 15
  138. County commissioners order another span for the Eno bridge at Hall's Mill After inspecting the new bridge over the Eno at Hall's (Smith's) Mill, the county commissioners ordered an additional span built at the same rate per span, and paid the Joliet Bridge and Iron Works $500 on the bridge. People: Alonzo W. KenionSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), August 2, 1917, p. 1
  139. The Bellevue mill changes over from steam to electric power The mill was built to run belt-driven machinery from a steam engine. By 1919 it ran partly on electricity, and by the mid-1920s it had changed over completely, with individual motors on the machines and the belt-way removed.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 19
  140. Eno Methodist Church adds rear classrooms used for West Hillsborough school classes A side-gabled addition built about 1920 gave the church its T plan and held classrooms where early West Hillsborough school classes met, before the West End School was built on Bellevue Avenue.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 15
  141. Eno Presbyterian adds to its Cedar Grove church and remodels it almost completely During C. D. Whiteley's pastorate, a time of growth for the congregation, an addition was built and the 1890s building was remodeled so thoroughly that the book likens it to a new church. Also named: C. D. WhiteleySearch the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 11
  142. The State Highway Commission builds a concrete bridge over the Eno at Hillsboro The commission let State Project 453, a bridge over the Eno at Hillsboro, to contractor George W. Kane for $30,651.20 on February 8, 1922, and work was well along by July. The reinforced concrete bridge, now on Exchange Park Lane, was the main way into town from the south until 1964. Also named: George W. KaneSearch the index · DigitalNC: Greensboro Daily News, February 9, 1922, p. 1 · Also: Durham Morning Herald, July 16, 1922, p. 4; The News (Chapel Hill), February 1, 1923, p. 1; National Register 2014 additional documentation, section 7 p. 8
  143. The concrete highway bridge over the Eno at Hillsboro is opened to use The concrete bridge over the Eno on the state highway east of Hillsboro was in use while its approaches were graded, and Hillsboro's own new pavement to the depot was open to cars ahead of its asphalt top.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 24, 1923, p. 3
  144. The county board of education calls a school tax election for all of Eno township At its monthly meeting in Hillsboro the county board of education ordered an election on a special school tax of no more than 20 cents on the $100 for the whole of Eno township, part of which already ran its schools under a local tax.The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 8, 1924, p. 1
  145. Commissioners call a school tax election for the Eno Township area next to the Murphey district On the petition of the Murphey special tax school district's committee, the Orange County commissioners ordered an election for July 16, 1924, in the part of Eno Township next to that district, on a special school tax of up to 20 cents on $100 to supplement the six-month term. They ordered a new registration and named St. Mary's schoolhouse the polling place. People: John F. McAdams, Ralph H. WardSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), June 5, 1924, p. 4
  146. Road crews begin pouring concrete on the Hillsboro-Durham highway at the Eno bridge In the week before June 26, 1924, the road force building the hard-surfaced highway from Hillsboro to Durham began pouring concrete at the Eno bridge. By early July Route 10 between Hillsboro and Durham was closed for the work, expected to take a month or more, and traffic between the two towns was sent through Chapel Hill on routes 75 and 4.Search the index · The News (Chapel Hill), June 26, 1924, p. 5
  147. Eno Church women organize a Woman's Auxiliary at the manse Pastor C. D. Whiteley presided at the meeting that formed the auxiliary, later renamed Women of the Church. Also named: C. D. WhiteleySearch the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 11
  148. Two new county bridges near completion on the Eno and Little River Ralph Ward, chairman of the county commissioners, said two new bridges costing about $8,000 were nearly finished, one over the Eno River at the Southern Power plant and one over Little River about seven miles east of Hillsboro. People: Ralph H. WardSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 17, 1925, p. 1
  149. After its 1920s additions the Bellevue mill runs 10,740 spindles and 592 looms The additions of the early 1920s more than doubled the mill's spindles and looms, and by 1926 the company's capital stock stood at $500,000. In 1919 it had still declared only its original $125,000.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 18
  150. J. Walter Mann, a son of Hawfields Church, is ordained and installed pastor of Eno Mann began preaching at Eno as stated supply in the spring of 1926 and was ordained and installed that October. Forty-eight members joined during his fifteen years, and his wife, Esther Covington Mann, led much of the women's work. Also named: J. Walter Mann, Esther Covington MannSearch the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 11
  151. Eno Church holds what it believes was Orange County's first daily vacation Bible school Eno held the school with Cedar Grove Methodist Church. Summer Bible school became a lasting part of the church's work and was later held at Camp New Hope. Also mentions: Camp New Hope, Cedar Grove Methodist ChurchSearch the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 12
  152. Eno Cotton Mills stockholders approve a recapitalization On November 19, 1928, the directors and then all the stockholders of the Eno Cotton Mills near Hillsborough voted to reorganize the company's stock. Holders of common stock gave it up for 75 per cent of its par value in new shares, 4,383 shares of non-voting second preferred stock were authorized, and the common stock was cut to 3,755 shares. People: J. Cheshire WebbThe Chapel Hill Weekly, November 30, 1928, p. 4
  153. Eno Cotton Mill installs new machinery and switches to combed yarn New machinery went in at the Eno mill in 1929, and combed yarn replaced coarse carded yarn. Broadcloth shirting and corduroy became its main products.Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 276
  154. Shepperd Strudwick resigns as president of Bellevue, and L. E. Beard takes over After twenty-five years as president, Shepperd Strudwick stepped down in 1929, the year its stock value fell from $500,000 to $419,600. L. E. Beard succeeded him and his partner Norfleet Webb as president and treasurer. People: Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961), L. E. Beard Also named: Norfleet WebbSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 19
  155. Sheriff Sloan's deputies seize a still on the Eno in Eno Township On the morning of July 27, 1930, three of Sheriff Sloan's deputies came on a 25-gallon copper still and five barrels of mash in the woods by the Eno River about a mile from the Duke power plant; the three men at the still swam the river and escaped. The Weekly added that in the past twelve months the sheriff's force had destroyed more than 100,000 gallons of mash and captured 107 stills. People: William T. SloanSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 1, 1930, p. 1
  156. The Weldon Riley House is built on Eno Street The one-and-a-half-story bungalow at 811 Eno Street, with a gabled dormer, knee brackets and a wide engaged porch, is judged the best Craftsman house in West Hillsborough. Also named: Weldon RileySearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 27
  157. Annie Hughes, longtime schoolteacher, dies at Hillsborough Miss Annie Hughes, who taught school for many years and was remembered by former pupils across the state, died on July 5, 1932 at the home of her nephew, Samuel Hughes, in Hillsborough. Her funeral was held the next day at the Eno Presbyterian church near Cedar Grove. Also named: Annie HughesSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 8, 1932, p. 4
  158. Eno Methodist Church is moved back from the road and remodeled In 1938 the congregation shifted its frame church back from Eno Street and remodeled it.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 16
  159. Wartime orders push the Eno Cotton Mill to about 600 workers Military demand for cloth during World War II enlarged the Eno Cotton Mill, which by the 1940s employed as many as 600 workers on three shifts.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation, National Register (OR0077ad, 2014), Historical Background, 1940-1960s
  160. University archaeologists excavate burials at the Indian village site near Hillsborough Chapel Hill Brownie Scouts touring Hillsborough watched University archaeologists remove a skeleton from a grave at the recently excavated Indian village near the town that the Weekly called Occoneechee, with each bone cleaned and bagged for the laboratory in Chapel Hill. In May Robert Wauchope, director of the University's anthropology laboratory, told the Rotary Club about mounds being excavated on the Eno River near Hillsboro. Also named: Robert WauchopeThe Chapel Hill Weekly, April 4, 1941, p. 1
  161. Douglas and Frances Hill buy the Cabe-Pratt-Harris House and add a large rear wing The Hills bought the house and about 180 acres from the Harris family in 1942 and soon added a rear wing, removing the old boxed stair to the loft. The farm's later name, Riverbend Farm, dates from the twentieth century. Also named: Douglas Hill, Frances HillSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cabe-Pratt-Harris House, National Register nomination (OR0656), p. 12
  162. The Paul Riley Store is built on Eno Street A one-story brick store with a stepped parapet and inset entrance went up at 907 Eno Street, carrying the West End commercial style farther west. A longtime resident recalled it, with the nearby Methodist church, as a center of childhood life in West Hillsborough. Also named: Paul Riley · Also mentions: West EndSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 29
  163. Fire breaks out in stored cotton at the Eno Cotton Mills Fire started in stored cotton at the Eno Cotton Mills in Hillsborough about noon. Chief G. W. Gilmore and the volunteer fire department fought it for about half an hour, and mill vice president James Webb said the damage was slight and covered by insurance. Also named: G. W. Gilmore, James WebbThe News (Chapel Hill), February 10, 1944, p. 1
  164. The Eno River floods at Hillsborough after drenching rains end a drought Heavy rain that began about midnight on Friday, July 14, 1944, sent the Eno River at Hillsborough to what residents called its highest level in many years, an estimated 10 to 12 feet above normal, before it fell back on the afternoon of July 15. A house beside the Eno bridge on the Durham road had to be tied down, farmland was covered, the town water plant was reported flooded, and people across the river were nearly cut off from the town.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 20, 1944, p. 1
  165. The Orange County Council of Churches renews its Bible teacher for the county schools Meeting at Eno Presbyterian Church in Cedar Grove on June 10, the Orange County Council of Churches elected the Rev. J. S. Cook president and announced that Miss Florence Root, a missionary from Korea, would teach the Bible in the county schools for another year. Seventeen congregations had paid for the program in its first year, which began in December 1944, and churches were to be asked for sixty cents a member for the next. People: Annie Sutton Cameron Also named: J. S. Cook, Florence RootSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 14, 1945, p. 1
  166. A flash flood washes out nine bridges across Orange County Creeks and rivers rose overnight and washed out nine county bridges, among them the steel bridge at Dimmock's Mill and the Haw River bridge north of White Cross. The Eno rose four feet above its high-water mark at Hillsborough's water plant and put a pump out of service.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 20, 1945, p. 1
  167. Eno and Belle Vue mills pay about $30,000 in vacation wages as they close for a week The two West Hillsboro cotton mills, Eno and Belle Vue, paid roughly $30,000 in vacation money, on top of the weekly payroll and scaled to length of service, to their 900 to 1,000 full- and part-time workers as they shut down for a week through the Fourth of July.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 3, 1947, p. 1
  168. The county school board sells the closed Orange Grove and Flat Rock school properties The Orange County board of education approved the sale of the Orange Grove school site to the trustees of Cane Creek Baptist Church and of the Flat Rock school building and grounds to a private buyer, and rejected the bid on the former Wardsville school for Black children. The board also adopted a resolution honoring R. H. Claytor's thirty years as superintendent. People: R. H. Claytor Also mentions: Cane Creek Baptist ChurchSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 10, 1947, p. 1
  169. Durham's health officer charges that Hillsboro's raw sewage is polluting the Eno River Durham County health officer J. H. Epperson said that raw sewage from Hillsboro was polluting the Eno River for Durham County residents, called the stream a health menace and said the legislature should act. The charge rested on his statement; the item carried no reply from Hillsboro. Also named: J. H. EppersonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 8, 1948, p. 1
  170. The North Eno Church is sold at auction The North Eno Church in the Cedar Grove section was sold to the highest bidder. Also mentions: Cedar Grove sectionSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 18, 1949, p. 9
  171. Eno Cotton Mills finishes installing new spinning machines Eno Cotton Mills in West Hillsboro completed installing larger, faster machines in its spinning department, ending almost a year of changeover work, president James Webb said. Also named: James WebbThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 22, 1949, p. 1
  172. Overseer James G. Faucette retires after 52 years at Eno Cotton Mills James G. Faucette, overseer in the spinning room, finished 52 years at Eno Cotton Mills, a career that began during the Spanish-American War, and on his last night the second shift presented him a leather platform rocker at a ceremony in the department. Also named: James G. FaucetteThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 7, 1950, p. 1
  173. Grand jury relays a warning about Eno River pollution and the Eno Mill village sewers In its report to the March term of Superior Court the grand jury passed on word from the health department that pollution of the Eno River and poor sewage at the Eno Mill village needed attention. District health officer O. D. Garvin said he knew of no such report and praised the mill's program of replacing sanitary facilities in village homes. People: O. David GarvinThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 22, 1951, p. 1
  174. Eno Cotton Mills files for dissolution as a corporation All the stockholders of the Eno Cotton Mills, the Hillsborough corporation founded in 1896, filed a written consent to its voluntary dissolution with the North Carolina Secretary of State, who issued a preliminary certificate of dissolution the same day. The notice does not say what became of the mill, which the chronology already records joining Cone Mills in 1952.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 10, 1952, p. 7
  175. West Hillsboro churches hold a joint Easter sunrise service on Eno Mountain About 500 people attended the 6 a.m. service sponsored by the Laymen's League and ministers of six West Hillsboro churches, with the Rev. J. A. Lowe of Burlington preaching and a union choir of sixty; the News called it the first Easter sunrise service ever held on Eno Mountain and the churches' first joint venture, and said it would become an annual event. Also named: J. A. LoweSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 17, 1952, p. 1
  176. About 1,000 largemouth bass are put into the Eno River near Hillsboro State wildlife protector Robert F. Logan and J. T. Howard of Chapel Hill stocked the river with fish from the Wildlife Resources Commission's hatchery near Morganton, placing them above the polluted stretch of the river. Also named: Robert F. Logan, J. T. HowardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 26, 1952, p. 1
  177. The Wildlife Resources Commission stocks the Eno River with young fish By early October 1952 the state Wildlife Resources Commission had finished stocking the Eno River in Orange County with 1,000 young fish about two inches long, bass among them, raised at the state hatchery near Morganton. District game and fish protector Bob Logan directed the release. Also named: Bob LoganSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 9, 1952, p. 8
  178. The Bellevue mill employs 355 workers on two shifts In 1953 the mill had 355 workers on two shifts, and the company still owned its mill village, whose houses now had indoor plumbing.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 20
  179. The Methodist conference sends new pastors to four Orange County charges At the annual North Carolina Methodist Conference in Durham, the Rev. Charles S. Hubbard, a former Hillsboro pastor, was sent to University Methodist Church in Chapel Hill, the Rev. G. W. Crutchfield to Carrboro in place of the late M. E. Tyson, the Rev. R. Z. Newton to the Cedar Grove-Walnut Grove charge and the Rev. C. F. Grill to the Eno and Palmer's Grove churches. People: Charles S. Hubbard Also named: G. W. Crutchfield, R. Z. Newton, C. F. GrillSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 5, 1953, p. 1
  180. Hillsboro's town board orders an engineering survey for a new Eno River dam As the water behind the old Eno mill dam kept dropping, Hillsboro's commissioners voted to get an engineers' preliminary survey of the cost of an adequate dam on the Eno to replace the old rock dam at Dimmock's mill, asking Chapel Hill town manager Thomas D. Rose to advise. The board said a special bond election would be called once the figures were in. Also named: Thomas D. RoseSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 23, 1954, p. 1
  181. The Bellevue company's stock is worth $219,600, well under half its 1926 value Still listed under the Bellevue name in 1955, the company had stock valued at $219,600, with 14,712 spindles and 499 looms.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 20
  182. Textile union workers hand out the TWUA paper at the Eno plant of Cone Mills At the close of both shifts at Cone Mills' Eno plant in Hillsborough, union workers handed out hundreds of copies of Textile Labor, the paper of the CIO Textile Workers Union of America. The paper reported five Cone locals returning to the TWUA after NLRB elections; neither the company nor the union said whether more organizing at the Eno plant would follow.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 6, 1955, p. 1
  183. Hillsborough's board votes to seek a $50,000 water bond election for an Eno River dam After a severe water shortage the summer before, Hillsborough's town commissioners voted unanimously to have the town attorneys arrange a bond election as soon as the law allowed, seeking $50,000 to dam the Eno River. In January engineer Thomas D. Rose had recommended a concrete dam of about $39,000 at the old Dimmock's Mill site above the water plant, which he said would store a hundred days' supply. Also named: Thomas D. RoseSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 10, 1955, p. 1
  184. Hillsboro buys 41 acres on the Eno River for its new water supply dam Town officials completed the purchase of 41 acres on the Eno River from the heirs of J. W. Koon for $4,500, the site for a dam to store water for Hillsboro. The land lay near the old Dimock's mill west of the Eno Mill village. The town advertised for bids on a concrete dam, to be opened June 7; engineer Thomas Rose estimated a long, narrow lake reaching about a mile and a quarter up the Eno and up Seven Mile Creek that would hold enough water for about 100 days without rain. Also named: Thomas P. Rose · Also mentions: Eno Mill villageSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 19, 1955, p. 1
  185. Eno Presbyterian Church marks its two hundredth anniversary The congregation held a bicentennial program counting from 1755, and Annie H. Hughes brought the church history up to date for it. Also named: Annie H. HughesSearch the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 3 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 19, 1955, p. 1
  186. A permanent truck weighing station opens on US 70 near Hillsboro The state opened a permanent, round-the-clock truck weighing station on US 70 between Hillsboro and the Eno River, with a unit on each side of the highway and a staff of ten under the Department of Motor Vehicles. Highway Commission chairman A. H. Graham said more than 600 tractor-trailers a day used that stretch and that the station would protect roads and bridges from overloaded trucks. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" GrahamSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 2, 1955, p. 1
  187. Hillsboro awards the contract for its Eno River water supply dam Meeting Tuesday night, the Hillsboro town board accepted the low bid of William Muirhead Construction, just under $50,000, to build a dam on the Eno River at the J. W. Koon estate, paid for by the $50,000 in water bonds voters had recently approved. The dam was to hold about 20 million gallons, some 100 days' supply at the town's rate of use, and Muirhead promised to finish in 140 days.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 16, 1955, p. 1
  188. Eno and Bellevue mills raise wages five cents an hour The Eno plant of Cone Mills and the Bellevue Manufacturing Company put a five-cent hourly raise into effect for all production workers, following a wave of raises across the Southern textile industry. Cone said the raise brought its average straight-time pay to $1.33 an hour. People: L. E. Beard Also mentions: Eno plantSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 25, 1955, p. 1
  189. Hillsboro pours the last section of its new Eno River dam Crews began pouring concrete for the final section of the new dam the Town of Hillsboro was building on the Eno River for water storage. Two sections already reached the south bank, and the river was to be rerouted before the last pour was finished.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 22, 1955, p. 1
  190. Hillsboro finishes its new dam on the Eno River west of town The last section of Hillsboro's new dam on the Eno River, just west of the town water plant, was poured in the first week of October 1955. With only smoothing and cleanup left, the town planned to close the flood gates within a day or two and let the new lake fill until water ran over the broad spillway.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 13, 1955, p. 1
  191. Hillsboro names its new Eno River dam the Ben Johnston Dam The Hillsboro town commissioners unanimously named the town's new $50,000 dam the Ben Johnston Dam for the mayor, then in his twelfth term, who had pushed for a town water system soon after his 1933 election and led the bond drive for the dam. They ordered a bronze plaque for the dam. Also named: Ben JohnstonThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 9, 1956, p. 1
  192. The State Highway Commission decides to rebuild US 70 through Orange as a limited-access interstate road Adopting a study committee's report, the commission decided to add a second lane to the 8.5 miles of US 70 between the Eno River and the Eno substation to interstate standards with limited access, since the new federal road act would pay 90 percent of the cost; whether it would follow the old road or a new route north or south of Hillsboro was left to further surveys. On July 25 Chairman A. H. Graham of Hillsboro announced about $2.1 million in interstate funds for grading and right of way on that stretch, with more for paving a second lane from Efland toward Greensboro. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" GrahamSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 5, 1956, p. 1
  193. Hillsboro buys 15 acres around its water plant to guard the town water supply The town board bought three tracts totaling 15 acres on both sides of the water plant on old NC 10 near the Eno River from W. John Clayton and Ira A. Ward for $4,500. The land had been laid out as house lots for buyers of the Eno Mill village houses being moved away, and the board feared pollution so close to the town's water source. People: Ira Ward Also named: W. John Clayton · Also mentions: Eno Mill villageThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 15, 1956, p. 1
  194. Hillsboro's town board protests a post office site by the Eno River bridge The town commissioners unanimously resolved against a proposed post office site on the west side of Churton Street just north of the Eno River bridge, calling it inconvenient and a hindrance to the town's growth, and sent the resolution to the Postmaster General, Congressman Carl Durham and Senators Scott and Ervin. Fred Cates Jr. was negotiating to build a post office there on the old livery stable lot and lease it to the government, and he defended the plan in a letter to the News. People: W. Kerr Scott, Carl T. Durham Also named: Fred Cates Jr. · Also mentions: Eno River bridge, Churton StreetSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 10, 1957, p. 1
  195. The Post Office Department approves Fred Cates's Churton Street building for Hillsborough's post office The Post Office Department accepted Fred Cates's offer to build and lease a new one-story, air-conditioned post office on the west side of Churton Street beside the Eno River, ending a delay caused by the town board's protest against the site, which Senator W. Kerr Scott had backed. It took a ten-year lease with two five-year options and expected the building done about September 1, 1958; carpenters were at work on it by the end of January. People: W. Kerr Scott Also named: Fred Cates · Also mentions: Churton StreetSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 19, 1957, p. 1
  196. An engineer's report proposes a joint sewage plant for Hillsboro and its two mills Mayor Ben Johnston made public engineer Thomas D. Rose's study of Hillsboro's sewage, which proposed carrying the town's sewage and the wastes of the Belle Vue and Eno mills to a 400,000-gallon-a-day treatment plant east of town at a total cost of about $130,575. Rose found that the dye wastes from Belle Vue gave the sewage in the river its main character, and he put the nuisance at 54 per cent from the town, 43 per cent from Belle Vue and the West Hillsboro School, and 3 per cent from Eno. Also named: Ben Johnston, Thomas D. Rose · Also mentions: West Hillsboro SchoolSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 15, 1958, p. 1
  197. Joseph P. Hughes succeeds Sydney Green as manager of the Eno plant Cone Mills named Joseph P. Hughes, superintendent of its Eno plant at Hillsboro since 1936, manager of the plant on the retirement that week of Sydney Green. Green, a native of Lancashire, England, had come to Eno as superintendent in 1933 and became plant manager when the mill was joined to Cone Mills. Also named: Joseph P. Hughes, Sydney GreenThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 4, 1958, p. 1
  198. Duke Power dismantles its Eno steam plant Duke Power sold most of the equipment of its standby steam plant in Eno Township to the Sid Rancer Company, a junk dealer, for $30,500 before January 1, 1960, and tore down six of the twelve company houses. The county lost several hundred thousand dollars in tax valuation.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 5, 1960, p. 7 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 24, 1954, p. 1; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 21, 1960, p. 3
  199. Cedar Grove residents start a move to restore the old Eno church cemetery A group met at Cedar Grove Methodist Church to plan restoring the old Eno cemetery about two miles east of Cedar Grove, the first site of Eno Church, which the item says moved to Cedar Grove in 1893 after burning a third time. Prominent people and ancestors of most long-settled families of the area are buried there; a public meeting was set for the fourth Sunday in January. Also mentions: Cedar Grove Methodist Church, Eno ChurchThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 19, 1959, p. 11
  200. The open court in the middle of the Bellevue mill is roofed over for storage For more storage, the owners roofed the space inside the U-shaped mill with open-web steel trusses running from the main mill to the weaving room and closed its east side with a new wall, removing the 1923 stair tower.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 10
  201. The Murphy School community votes to organize a Grange Residents of the Murphy School community in eastern Orange County, led by the Rev. R. H. Rivers, met with a state Grange organizer, decided to form a Grange and elected temporary officers, planning to meet in the old Murphy School building. By the end of June the new East Orange Grange had J. A. Taylor as its master. Also named: R. H. Rivers, J. A. TaylorSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 26, 1960, p. 20
  202. County law officers switch to a new radio network relayed from Eno Mountain Orange County law enforcement agencies switched to a new 600-watt radio network relayed through a newly built transmitter on Eno Mountain near Hillsborough, replacing a 60-watt set run from the Chapel Hill police station. The county ABC board paid most of the cost; by late December 13 cars were on the hook-up. Also mentions: Chapel Hill police stationSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 8, 1960, p. 10
  203. 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
  204. The Bellevue mill changes hands and runs as Hillsboro Mills On May 23, 1962 Hillsboro Mills, Inc., a newly formed subsidiary of the Schepps brothers' textile firm of Holyoke, Massachusetts, announced that it would occupy the closed Belle Vue Manufacturing plant in Hillsboro, to make and dye fancy yarn-dyed cotton goods on three shifts, with operations to begin by July 1. The National Register nomination says the mill was sold in the 1960s to investors from the Northeast, and trade directories list it as Hillsboro Mills.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 20 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 24, 1962, p. 1; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 7, 1962, p. 13
  205. Eno Fire Protection Association equips a volunteer fire department near I-85 and US 70 The Eno Fire Protection Association secured modern fire-fighting equipment for its community, with both of its trucks to be housed in a new station near the junction of routes 85 and 70. Lewis Tetterton was the volunteer fire chief. Also named: Lewis TettertonThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 19, 1962, p. 15
  206. Bids are opened for the new access road from Interstate 85 into Hillsboro The State Highway Commission opened bids on the 1.129-mile relocation of SR 1009 from Interstate 85 north to a point south of Margaret Lane, and C. C. Mangum, Inc., of Raleigh was low at $351,925.19, subject to approval on September 5. The route crosses the Eno at the south end of Churton Street, and the town had voted on July 9 to pay $2,000 as its share of the right of way. Also mentions: Churton Street, Margaret LaneSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 29, 1963, p. 1
  207. Eno Church and the Schley Grange restore the Old Eno Cemetery, and a state highway marker goes up In 1964 Eno Church, helped by the Schley Grange, cleared and restored the Old Eno Cemetery and set a bronze plaque on a boulder where the first church stood. A state highway marker for Old Eno Church and Cemetery followed, erected in 1965 by the Department of Archives and History, and was dedicated with Synod executive Harold Dudley present. Also named: Harold DudleySearch the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 16 · Also: HMDB: Old Eno Church and Cemetery marker; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 9, 1964, p. 9
  208. Hillsborough's new sewage treatment plant goes into operation Mayor Fred Claytor pulled the lever that started sewage flowing into Hillsborough's new $240,000 extended-aeration plant on the Eno River just east of town. The plant could treat 400,000 gallons a day, enough for 4,000 people, and about five miles of lines were already connected. Also named: Fred ClaytorSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 21, 1964, p. 1
  209. The new high bridge over the Eno opens on South Churton Street The 375-foot bridge, 55 feet above the river and built for about $450,000 with state and federal money, opened with the new access road from Interstate 85 into Hillsborough in the summer of 1964, taking traffic off the 1922 bridge.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 27, 1964, p. 6 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 30, 1964, p. 10; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 26, 1964, p. 1; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 10, 1964, p. 21
  210. The Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley forms Residents who had begun organizing in 1965 against plans to dam the Eno for a water-supply reservoir formed the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley on October 14, 1966. Led by Margaret and Holger Nygard, it began the campaign that preserved the river corridor in Durham and Orange counties. People: Margaret Nygard, Holger NygardEno River Association: ERA Through the Eras, Beginnings of the Eno River Association
  211. McCarthy committee asks state and federal investigators to look into the Eno precinct vote Alden Lind, coordinator of the North Carolina McCarthy for President Committee, announced that the committee had asked the State Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department to examine alleged interference with voting in the Eno precinct near Hillsborough during the May 4 primary, which the committee's investigator laid to Ku Klux Klan intimidation. The charges were the committee's; residents of the precinct then sought to move its polling place out of the country store where it had been held. Also named: Alden LindSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, May 12, 1968, p. 1
  212. A new iron railroad bridge is built over the Eno at Hillsborough An iron railroad bridge on poured concrete piers, bearing a plaque of the Virginia Bridge Iron Company of Roanoke dated 1969, is built across the Eno at the south end of the district near Gold Park.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation, National Register (OR0077ad, 2014), Eno River Bridges, Eno River Railroad Bridge
  213. Eno Township has the fastest growth rate of any Orange County township in the 1970s The county's population almost doubled between 1960 and 1980, growing about 3.4 percent a year in each decade, faster than the state as a whole. Chapel Hill Township added the most people, but Eno Township, on the Durham side, grew fastest in the 1970s.Search the index · N.C. Department of Transportation, Statewide Planning Unit, Thoroughfare Plan, Orange County, North Carolina (1990), scan p. 22
  214. The Hill family sells parts of Riverbend Farm for Eno River State Park In the 1970s and 1980s the Hills sold portions of their acreage along the Eno to the new state park, leaving about 27 acres with the house. Also named: Douglas Hill, Frances HillNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cabe-Pratt-Harris House, National Register nomination (OR0656), p. 12
  215. The former Bellevue mill is sold again and runs as Falk Fibers and Fabrics In the 1970s northeastern investors bought the mill again; directories list it as Falk, Fibers, and Fabrics, with a dyeing and finishing subsidiary at the same site.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 20
  216. County zoning and subdivision rules take effect in Eno Township Orange County extended its zoning ordinance and subdivision regulations to Eno Township, on the Durham side of the county. The 1976 report lists no other township under county zoning, and the Planning Board was then still asking for countywide zoning.Search the index · Orange County Planning Department, A Planning/Management Process for Orange County, North Carolina, with Recommendations for Sound Land Development (1976), scan p. 21
  217. The State Board of Conservation and Development endorses a state park on the Eno Won over by the Eno River Association, the board approved the idea of a state park along the river in Orange and Durham counties. Soon afterward The Nature Conservancy bought the 300-acre Red Hills Farm and passed it to the state as the first park land. Also mentions: Orange and Durham countiesN.C. Division of Parks and Recreation, Eno River State Park Master Plan (1979), scan p. 10
  218. Eno River State Park is created After years of citizen opposition to damming the Eno for a reservoir, Governor James Holshouser accepted the first tracts for Eno River State Park in June 1973, including 90 acres donated by Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Bernheim. The first 1,000 acres opened to the public in 1975 along the river in Orange and Durham counties. People: Margaret Nygard Also named: James Holshouser · Also mentions: Orange and Durham countiesEno River Association: ERA Through the Eras, Creation of the Eno River State Park and West Point on the Eno City Park · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, November 6, 1973, p. 3
  219. ECOS's second bike-a-thon raises money for the Eno River park campaign Some 230 cyclists rode the 22-mile route between Chapel Hill and Durham in the environmental group ECOS's second annual bike-a-thon and raised about $3,000, part of it for the Eno River Project Group's effort to buy land for the proposed Eno River State Park and part for the N.C. Heart Association. ECOS kept 60 percent, since it received no student fee money.The Daily Tar Heel, November 12, 1973, p. 1
  220. State planners show three Eno River park plans at a Hillsborough public meeting The Division of Parks and Recreation presented three versions of a river park running about eighteen miles from Guess Road west to near Hillsborough. Landowners along the western river in Orange County objected, above all to the state's use of eminent domain against unwilling sellers.N.C. Division of Parks and Recreation, Eno River State Park Master Plan (1979), scan p. 10
  221. Orange County forms an Eno River task force, and state park planning stops The county formally created a task force to weigh the aims of private owners against protection of the river. At the request of county officials the state put its park planning on hold.N.C. Division of Parks and Recreation, Eno River State Park Master Plan (1979), scan p. 10 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, October 22, 1975, p. 3; The Daily Tar Heel, November 7, 1975, p. 1
  222. Eno River landowners form the Eno River Group to oppose the state park Landowners in the Eno River valley, led by S. G. Barbour of Hillsborough, formed the Eno River Group to oppose the state's park plans and its power to take land by eminent domain. The Daily Tar Heel reported the group alongside the Eno River Association and the county task force studying the river. Also named: S. G. BarbourThe Daily Tar Heel, November 7, 1975, p. 1
  223. Orange County adopts a policy for protecting the Eno River After its task force reported in May 1976, still split over eminent domain, the county adopted a statement calling for permanent protection of the river through both state park ownership and restricted private ownership, backed by conservation zoning and easements. It asked the state to use condemnation only to protect the river, not to enlarge the park.N.C. Division of Parks and Recreation, Eno River State Park Master Plan (1979), scan p. 10
  224. Seven landowners near Hillsborough sue to stop the Eno River State Park plan Just as master planning resumed, seven landowners near Hillsborough sued the state, arguing that adopting a park master plan would be an unlawful taking of their property. A restraining order and injunction halted the planning for more than two years.N.C. Division of Parks and Recreation, Eno River State Park Master Plan (1979), scan p. 10
  225. 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
  226. Hillsborough's new wastewater treatment plant goes into service The town's tertiary treatment plant on the south side of the Eno east of town, rated at 1.5 million gallons a day, began operating, ending the overloads behind earlier violations of the river's water standards.Search the index · N.C. Division of Parks and Recreation, Eno River State Park Master Plan (1979), scan p. 23
  227. Houses of African American families on the Eno flood plain off South Churton Street are removed A row of small houses occupied by African Americans on the north bank of the Eno, east of South Churton Street and just south of the new Orange County Courthouse, is torn down or moved in the 1980s. One is moved within the district to 310 North Hassell Street. Also mentions: Orange County Courthouse, South Churton StreetSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation, National Register (OR0077ad, 2014), South Churton Street at the Eno River, flood plain houses
  228. The first Festival for the Eno is held The Eno River Association held the first Festival for the Eno on July 4, 1980, at West Point on the Eno, a Durham city park on the river. The yearly festival of traditional music, crafts and trades raises money for land protection in the Eno River basin.Eno River Association: ERA Through the Eras, Creation of the Eno River State Park and West Point on the Eno City Park
  229. County commissioners bar new subdivisions in the Upper Eno watershed The Orange County commissioners voted 3-2 on Tuesday night, November 17, 1981, to prohibit the subdivision of land in the Upper Eno watershed until they acted on the recommendations of a county water resources task force. The watershed takes in over half of Cheeks Township and about a third of Cedar Grove Township and includes land around the Ben Johnston Reservoir, Hillsborough's main water supply.Search the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 23, 1981, p. 3
  230. Orange County commissioners refuse to rezone a corner at U.S. 70 and Palmers Grove Road for business The Orange County commissioners turned down a request to rezone a 2.3-acre tract at the northwest corner of U.S. 70 and Palmers Grove Road in Eno Township from Rural Neighborhood to Neighborhood Commercial II. Commissioner Don Willhoit said safety at what he called a confusing and dangerous intersection was the main reason, along with community opposition and the limited potential of the land. Also named: Don WillhoitSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, August 5, 1982, p. 4
  231. 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
  232. Gregory and Dale Georgiade buy the Cabe-Pratt-Harris House and rework the 1940s wing The Georgiades bought the house and 27.3 acres from Robert Hill and remodeled the rear addition on its old footprint, replacing its metal casements with copies of the original sash and leaving the old rooms unpainted on the advice of the state preservation office. Also named: Gregory Georgiade, Dale Georgiade, Robert HillSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cabe-Pratt-Harris House, National Register nomination (OR0656), p. 12
  233. Houses begin going up on Winnawa Walk and Saponi Drive south of the Eno After Poplar Hill is moved off its old site south of the Eno in 1981, the land is divided into lots along two new streets, Winnawa Walk and Saponi Drive, and houses are built there from 1985. Also mentions: Poplar HillSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation, National Register (OR0077ad, 2014), Winnawa Walk and Saponi Drive
  234. The Hillsborough Business Center opens in the closed Cone Mills plant on Dimmocks Mill Road A group of investors bought the vacant Cone Mills textile plant on Dimmocks Mill Road and opened it in 1985 as the Hillsborough Business Center, meant as an incubator for new businesses. When that lost money, the 350,000-square-foot building turned mostly to established firms using it for light manufacturing, distribution and warehouses; by October 1987 it held 17 businesses with more than 150 employees.The Daily Tar Heel, October 22, 1987, p. 9
  235. First Community Baptist Church is organized in Hillsborough First Community Baptist Church, which worships at 509 Eno Street in Hillsborough, dates its founding to 1986. It marked its twentieth anniversary in November 2006 and its twenty-fifth in November 2011.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Carolina Times, November 25, 2006, p. 10 · Also: The Carolina Times, November 26, 2011, p. 6
  236. Trustee Richard Jenrette buys the 20-acre Indian site on the Eno at Hillsborough for UNC's study Richard H. Jenrette, a UNC trustee and New York investment banker, bought for $120,000 the 20-acre Indian site on the Eno River at Hillsborough, taking over a six-month option held by two Hillsborough preservation groups that was to expire February 28, and was to lease it to the University for continued excavation. The sale ended fears that the land would become a private residence and polo ground; UNC archaeologists believed the site might be a pre-colonial Occaneechi town. People: Richard H. Jenrette Also mentions: Eno River at HillsboroughThe Daily Tar Heel, March 3, 1986, p. 4
  237. Orange County's reservoir site committee picks the Eno River above McGowan Creek The Orange County Reservoir Site Selection Committee, chaired by Commissioner John Hartwell, chose an Eno River site above McGowan Creek over four others for a new county reservoir, keeping out the polluted creek with a dam above it. The $18 million site would yield about 8 million gallons a day but would flood a historic mill; the committee was to report to the commissioners in early December and urge a further study. Also named: John HartwellSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 6, 1987, p. 4
  238. Faucett Mill and House, also called Chatwood, is listed in the National Register The Faucett Mill and House, known as Chatwood, joined the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 4 · Also: NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Listings in the National Register of Historic Places, Orange County
  239. UNC archaeologists find what they believe is the Shakori village near Hillsborough Digging just north of the Occaneechi village they had excavated since 1983, the team from UNC's Research Laboratories of Anthropology found an earlier palisaded village from about 1670, which they believed was the lost Shakori town, perhaps twice the size of the Occaneechi village with 150 to 200 people. The dig, on land owned by trustee Richard Jenrette and a local attorney, was to run until July 22 and resume the next summer, with an open house on July 3. Also named: Richard JenretteThe Daily Tar Heel, June 29, 1989, p. 11
  240. UNC's archaeology field school finishes excavating the Shakori village site on the Eno Students and staff of UNC's Research Laboratories of Anthropology finished the summer's dig at a late-1600s village near Hillsborough that they identified as Shakori, part of a 20-acre stretch of the Eno River holding four villages from about A.D. 1000 to the early 1700s. They uncovered the remains of a wooden house, glass trade beads, corn cobs, arrowheads and bone tools; the laboratory had announced a public open house at the site that day, with Eno-Occaneechi people on hand to talk with visitors.The Daily Tar Heel, July 12, 1990, p. 3
  241. Drought puts northern Orange County water users under conservation rules With Lake Orange, Cane Creek and University Lake low after a dry season, users of northern Orange County's water were under the county's conservation ordinance, and a capacity-use agreement limited withdrawals by Hillsborough, the Orange-Alamance Water Corporation and Piedmont Minerals, County Engineer Paul Thames said. October rains, 7.5 inches by Oct. 25, brought University Lake back to normal and ended talk of conservation in Chapel Hill. Also named: Paul ThamesThe Daily Tar Heel, October 19, 1990, p. 3
  242. First annual Occaneechi powwow on the Eno planned for downtown Hillsborough John Jeffries planned the first annual powwow on the Eno River in downtown Hillsborough. The band now holds its annual powwow and fall festival on its tribal land in Alamance County. People: John Blackfeather JeffriesUNC Libraries: John Hayles Blackfeather Jeffries Collection on Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, 1950-2017
  243. The Eno River at Hillsborough reaches its highest recorded flow during Hurricane Fran The USGS gauge on the Eno River at Hillsborough recorded a peak of 10,800 cubic feet per second at a gauge height of 21.13 feet, the largest peak in its record until Tropical Storm Chantal in July 2025. Also mentions: Eno River at HillsboroughUSGS: Peak streamflow, Eno River at Hillsborough (02085000)
  244. Occaneechi Band members build a replica village on the Eno in Hillsborough Tribal members led by John "Blackfeather" Jeffries built a replica of the palisaded Occaneechi village beside the Eno River in Hillsborough, modelled on the site excavated by UNC archaeologists. The village fell into disrepair and was dismantled in 2003. People: John Blackfeather JeffriesNews of Orange County: Occaneechi Village brought back to life by volunteers
  245. 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
  246. 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
  247. The Eno Cotton Mill joins the Study List The National Register Advisory Committee placed the Eno Cotton Mill in West Hillsborough 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. 1192
  248. The Eno Cotton Mill is listed in the National Register On September 1, 2011 the National Park Service listed the Eno Cotton Mill in Hillsborough in the National Register of Historic Places.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Listings in the National Register of Historic Places, Orange County · Also: NC State Historic Preservation Office: National Register file OR1300
  249. 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
  250. Occoneechee Speedway joins Eno River State Park North Carolina finalized the addition of more than 200 acres near Hillsborough, including the Historic Occoneechee Speedway trail and the James M. Johnston Nature Preserve, to Eno River State Park. The Eno River Association had arranged the sale from the Jenrette Foundation, formerly the Classical American Homes Preservation Trust.NC State Parks: Historic Occoneechee Speedway Added to Eno River State Park (January 28, 2025)

Maps of Eno River

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. Map of Orange County UNC · a county map
  2. Map of Orange County, N.C. UNC · a county map
  3. A map of Orange County, N.C. UNC · a county map
  4. Soil map, North Carolina, Orange County sheet Duke · a county map
  5. School map, Orange County, North Carolina. UNC · a county map
  6. Map of Orange County, N.C. : 1939 UNC · a county map
  7. An atlas for Orange County, North Carolina UNC · a county map
  8. Eno River Park Plan: For the City of Durham ; Master Plan, Phase I Durham
  9. Eno River Park Plan: Regional Recreation Lands Durham

Indexed works

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Ribbons of Color Along the Eno River

2021

Collected first-hand and second-hand stories from the Eno River valley as told from the standpoint of African Americans and Native people who have lived along the river in Orange and Durham counties, from prehistory to the present day. Issued by the Eno River Association in Durham as volume 10, number 2 of the Eno Journal, 2021, 106 pages with illustrations.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Eno River (N.C.).

✓ Held at OCPL · NC 975.656 RIBBONS NC Cardinal UNC Duke Durham Chapel Hill PL CH Historical Society

Dark Tales of the Eno River

Cook, David · 2025 · The History Press

David Cook collects the grim side of the Eno River's past in Orange and Durham counties: ghost stories, crimes, train wrecks and accidents, including the hanging of rebels near the river in 1771, a sawmill accident said to have started a run of hauntings, and a dance one Valentine's Day that ended badly. Published by The History Press in 2025, 141 pages with illustrations.

Included because: Catalog heading in the OCPL record: Ghosts -- Eno River (N.C.).

✓ Held at OCPL · 133.109 COOK NC Cardinal UNC NC State Durham

Jesse Benton Letters (1780-1790)

Dunaway, Stewart E. · 2009 · lulu.com

Stewart E. Dunaway's transcription of letters exchanged between Jesse Benton and Thomas Hart from 1780 to 1790, concerning Hart's affairs at Hartford, his place at Hillsborough. The letters concern the economic and social conditions of Hillsborough in the eighteenth century and the Revolution in North Carolina. Self-published through lulu.com in 2009, 68 pages with illustrations and facsimiles, and part of the library's Wall Local History Collection.

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

✓ Held at OCPL · NC BIO BENTON BEN NC Cardinal Durham

Eno: Reflections on Eno River State Park

McIntyre, Michael · 1993

Michael McIntyre's 23-minute documentary video on the Eno River and Eno River State Park, produced in Durham in 1993 with support from the Duke University Institute of the Arts. It covers the river's past, its geology and the effort to preserve it, including the Indigenous peoples of the Eno River region. The container credits it with the 1993 Hal Kammerer Film and Video Award at Duke. VHS videocassette, color with sound.

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

NC Cardinal UNC Durham

Early Quakers in the Eno River Valley

Engstrom, Mary Claire · 1989 · Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley

Mary Claire Engstrom's history of the Quaker settlers of the Eno River valley from about 1750 to 1847, in the country that is now Orange and Durham counties. Published by the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley in Durham in 1989, 73 pages with illustrations, maps and portraits.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Eno River Valley (N.C.) -- History.

✓ Held at OCPL · NC 289.6 ENG NC Cardinal UNC

Forged in the Spirit

Haines, Nancy Learned · 2026 · Pleasant Green Books

Nancy Learned Haines tells the story of the Quaker families who left Pennsylvania around 1750 for the Eno River valley near Hillsborough, where they farmed, traded and built a school, and asks how a community committed to peace fared through the unrest of the colonial years. Published by Pleasant Green Books in 2026, 122 pages with bibliography and index. Subjects include Quakers in North Carolina and the history of Hillsborough, Orange County and the Eno River valley.

Included because: Catalog heading in the OCPL record: Eno River Valley (N.C.) -- History.

✓ Held at OCPL · NC 289.6 HAINES NC Cardinal
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The History Of Few's Ford (Eno V. 8, No. 1)

Anderson, Jean Bradley · 1989

Jean Bradley Anderson's history of Few's Ford, the Eno River crossing that gave its name to the Fews Ford section of Eno River State Park, published in 1989 as volume 8, number 1 of Eno, the journal of the Eno River Association. Topics include the Few family and eighteenth-century Orange and Durham county history.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Durham record: Eno River Valley (N.C.) -- History.

NC Cardinal Durham

An Eno Community Heritage

Englishman, Herbert N. · 2011

Herbert N. Englishman's 2011 history and genealogy of the families of the Eno River valley, including the Cabe, Moreland, Piper and Shields families in Durham County. It also covers the history of the river and its valley. The Eno runs from Orange County into Durham.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Durham record: Eno River (N.C.) -- History.

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Recently indexed: Eno River State Park (1994) · Eno River Park Plan: For the City of Durham ; Master Plan, Phase I (1974) · Eno · Eno River Park Plan: Regional Recreation Lands (1974) · Eno River Park Acreage and Valuation (1972) · Eno Park: Phase II, City of Durham, N.C (1972)

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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.

  • Foundational · NC 975.656 RIBBONS Ribbons of Color Along the Eno River: The History of African Americans and People of Color Living on the Eno 2021

    Collected first-hand and second-hand stories from the Eno River valley as told from the standpoint of African Americans and Native people who have lived along the river in Orange and Durham counties, from prehistory to the present day. Issued by the Eno River Association in Durham as volume 10, number 2 of the Eno Journal, 2021, 106 pages with illustrations.

  • Foundational · NC 289.6 HAINES Forged in the Spirit: Quaker Pioneers on the Eno Haines, Nancy Learned · 2026

    Nancy Learned Haines tells the story of the Quaker families who left Pennsylvania around 1750 for the Eno River valley near Hillsborough, where they farmed, traded and built a school, and asks how a community committed to peace fared through the unrest of the colonial years. Published by Pleasant Green Books in 2026, 122 pages with bibliography and index. Subjects include Quakers in North Carolina and the history of Hillsborough, Orange County and the Eno River valley.

  • Start here · NC 975.656 BROWNING Valley Of The Eno : Some Of Its Lands - Some Of Its People - Some Of Its Mills Browning, Hugh Conway · 1973

    Hugh Conway Browning's 1973 history of the Eno River valley, subtitled some of its lands, some of its people, some of its mills, treating the tracts, families and water mills along the river in Orange and Durham counties. Among the people it covers is William Andrew Browning, 1835 to 1916.

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  • Foundational · NC 289.6 ENG Early Quakers in the Eno River Valley: Ca. 1750-1847 Engstrom, Mary Claire · 1989

    Mary Claire Engstrom's history of the Quaker settlers of the Eno River valley from about 1750 to 1847, in the country that is now Orange and Durham counties. Published by the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley in Durham in 1989, 73 pages with illustrations, maps and portraits.

  • Foundational · NC 917.56 ENO Eno River State Park Master Plan 1979

    The North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation's master plan for Eno River State Park, dated June 1979, for the park that follows the river through Orange and Durham counties. Plans and maps, some in color, lay out the proposed development. Published by the Division in Raleigh, 64 pages in an oblong format.

  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 813.5 CRAIG Life on the Eno and Other Stories Craig-Scott, Ellen J. · 1977

    Ten stories by Ellen J. Craig-Scott, which the catalog calls autobiographical, drawn from life in Hillsborough and along the Eno River: 'Lib's Liberation', 'Every Which Way', 'Life on the Eno', 'The Parade Is Over' and others. Published by Sir Walter Press in Durham in 1977 in a limited edition of 500 signed copies, 222 pages. Topics include Hillsborough social life and customs and Orange County fiction.

  • Foundational · 975.656 TWENTY 27 Views of Hillsborough: A Southern Town in Prose & Poetry 2010

    Hillsborough seen by twenty-seven writers in essays, fiction and poems collected by Eno Publishers in 2010. Allan Gurganus writes on renovating old houses, David Payne and Beverly A. Scarlett on the Eno, Brooks Graebner on the courthouse and the churches, Nancy Goodwin keeps a gardener's journal, and Lee Smith offers scenes from 'On Agate Hill'; Randall Kenan, Michael Malone, Hal Crowther, Jill McCorkle, Craig Nova and Jaki Shelton Green also appear. 210 pages.

  • Foundational · NC 621.2 ENO Eno: Papers From the Seminar on Waterwheels and Windmills Held in Durham, North Carolina, July 1978, in the Bicentennial Year of West Point on the Eno River 1979

    A 1979 item titled simply Eno, the name of the river that rises in northern Orange County and runs east past Hillsborough. Part of the library's Wall Local History Collection.

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

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

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