Name: Hillsborough
Location: Orange County, North Carolina

Context

What it was and why it mattered

Alliance for Historic Hillsborough: Alexander Dickson House Alliance for Historic Hillsborough Johnston's headquarters during the April 1865 surrender negotiations; now the visitor center

NCpedia: Nash-Hooper House NCpedia

Visit Hillsborough: Dickerson's Chapel AME Church Town or county website A Black congregation's building, first raised in 1790 as the county's Methodist church

American Revolution Tour of N.C.: Hillsborough American Revolution Tour of North Carolina Every Revolutionary site in town, walked and explained

Marker: Boone Expedition for Kentucky Historical Marker Database (HMdb.org)

Marker: Eagle Lodge No. 71, A.F. and A.M. Historical Marker Database (HMdb.org)

Marker: Town of Hillsborough Historical Marker Database (HMdb.org)

See the place

Maps, surveys, and the ground itself

North Carolina Maps: Hillsborough North Carolina Maps

Hillsborough Old Town Cemetery Site steward The cemetery's own site: burials, tours, and history

National Register: Ayr Mount National Register nomination Nomination (8/26/1971), Hillsborough: history, description, and sources for the property

National Register: Burwell School National Register nomination Nomination (9/15/1970), Hillsborough: history, description, and sources for the property

National Register: The Commandant's House National Register nomination Nomination (11/9/1972), Hillsborough: history, description, and sources for the property

National Register: Eagle Lodge National Register nomination Nomination (4/16/1971), Hillsborough: history, description, and sources for the property

National Register: Hazel-Nash House National Register nomination Nomination (3/31/1971), Hillsborough: history, description, and sources for the property

National Register: Heartsease National Register nomination Nomination (4/11/1973), Hillsborough: history, description, and sources for the property

National Register: Moorefields National Register nomination Nomination (4/25/1972), Hillsborough vicinity: history, description, and sources for the property

National Register: Nash-Hooper House National Register nomination Nomination (11/11/1971), Hillsborough: history, description, and sources for the property

National Register: Nash Law Office National Register nomination Nomination (9/28/1971), Hillsborough: history, description, and sources for the property

National Register: Old Orange County Courthouse National Register nomination Nomination (6/24/1971), Hillsborough: history, description, and sources for the property

National Register: Ruffin-Roulhac House National Register nomination Nomination (8/5/1971), Hillsborough: history, description, and sources for the property

National Register: Saint Mary's Chapel National Register nomination Nomination (7/12/1978), Hillsborough vicinity: history, description, and sources for the property

National Register: Saint Matthew's Episcopal Church and Churchyard National Register nomination Nomination (6/24/1971), Hillsborough: history, description, and sources for the property

National Register: Sans Souci National Register nomination Nomination (8/26/1971), Hillsborough: history, description, and sources for the property

National Register: Montrose National Register nomination Nomination (10/18/2001), Hillsborough: history, description, and sources for the property

National Register: Hillsborough Historic District National Register nomination Nomination (10/15/1973), Hillsborough: history, description, and sources for the property

National Register: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation National Register nomination Nomination (1/22/2014), Hillsborough: history, description, and sources for the property

National Register: Faucett Mill and House (Chatwood) National Register nomination Nomination (8/4/1988), Hillsborough vicinity: history, description, and sources for the property

National Register: Rigsbee's Rock House National Register nomination Nomination (10/20/1988), Hillsborough vicinity: history, description, and sources for the property

National Register: Murphey School National Register nomination Nomination (8/20/2009), Hillsborough vicinity: history, description, and sources for the property

National Register: Holden-Roberts Farm National Register nomination Nomination (5/2/2002), Hillsborough vicinity: history, description, and sources for the property

National Register: Jacob Jackson Farm (Maple Hill) National Register nomination Nomination (3/17/1994), Hillsborough vicinity: history, description, and sources for the property

National Register: Eno Cotton Mill National Register nomination Nomination (9/1/2011), Hillsborough: history, description, and sources for the property

National Register: Occoneechee Speedway National Register nomination Nomination (5/2/2002), Hillsborough: history, description, and sources for the property

National Register: Bellevue Manufacturing Company National Register nomination Nomination (8/28/2003), Hillsborough: history, description, and sources for the property

Read contemporary evidence

Newspapers, photographs, and records of the time

Ask locally

Organizations that keep the county’s own knowledge

Alliance for Historic Hillsborough Alliance for Historic Hillsborough Visitor center, walking tours, and historic sites

Orange County Historical Museum Orange County Historical Museum

Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) The county library’s local-history room in Hillsborough: books, maps, microfilm, family files, and staff who know the county

In the index

Works across North Carolina libraries and archives whose catalog description names this place. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it.

Forged in the Spirit

Haines, Nancy Learned · 2026 · Pleasant Green Books

Can a community rooted in peace survive in a world of unrest? The year is 1750. Seeking fertile soil and spiritual freedom, Quaker pioneers journey from Pennsylvania to the heart of North Carolina. Along the banks of th…

NC Cardinal OCPL

Wagging tongues and tittle tattle : gossip, rumor, and reputation in a small Southern town

Sylvia D. Hoffert. · 2025 · University of Georgia Press

More than idle chatter -- Almost (but not quite) free -- School days, rule day -- To work the livelong day -- The plague of madness in our midst.

UNC NC State Library of Congress Wake Forest

Collective History

Boyd, Amanda · 2021 · Amanda Boyd?

UNC OCPL

Ghost Fields

Bradley, John · 2021

OCPL

Anna Burwell and the business of being a Presbyterian minister's wife in North Carolina, 1835-1857

Sylvia D. Hoffert · 2019 · Historical Research Office, Office of Archives and History

UNC

Antebellum Hillsborough, Slavery, and Enslaved and Free People of Color Who Worked at the Burwell School, 1837-1857

Historic Hillsborough Commission (Hillsborough, N.C.) · 2019

OCPL

The welcome table

a collection of recipes by Hillsborough United Church of Christ · 2019 · Hillsborough United Church of Christ

UNC

Last girl gone

J.G. Hetherton. · 2018 · Crooked Lane

UNC

Haiku hike : aiku hiku : Occoneechee 05-28-17

Emily Lin. · 2017 · Dodo Bookshop

UNC

Hidden Hillsborough

2017 · Eno Publishers

An evolving townscape : the location and early importance of Hillsborough / Barbara Hume and Stewart E. Dunaway -- Historic kitchens / Callie Connor -- Slave houses / Jean B. Anderson -- Smokehouses / Jim Parsley -- Spr…

NC Cardinal UNC OCPL Durham

The Elizabeth Keckley Reader

McKoy, Sheila Smith · 2016

Duke NC State NC Cardinal OCPL Durham Chapel Hill PL NCCU

Everything Orange : the most comprehensive guide to living in Orange County : Hillsborough, Chapel Hill, Carrboro

a publication of The Herald-Sun. · 2016 · Herald-Sun

UNC

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