Community in Orange County
Laws
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In the chronology
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- Laws and Border post offices serve the far corners of Cedar Grove Township In 1890 Cedar Grove Township had post offices at Cedar Grove, Laws and Border. Border, in the far southwest of the township, counted about twenty people, and Laws, in the far northeast, about twenty-five.NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 36
- J. Laws keeps a country store at Laws post office In 1891 J. Laws ran a small country store at the Laws post office in northeastern Cedar Grove Township. Walnut Grove Methodist Church, Sartain School, G. W. Parker's sawmill and Hawkins's flour and grist mill stood nearby.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 36
- The Laws Store is built at Laws Crossroads A small store is built at Laws Crossroads near Caldwell around 1910. By 1993 it was abandoned and was all that remained of the crossroads.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 118
- A service station opens across from the store at Laws In the 1920s a service station went up across the road from the late nineteenth-century store at the Laws crossroads, as the automobile shifted crossroads trade from the country store to the gas pump.NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 44
- McDade and Laws stop functioning as crossroads communities In the 1940s the crossroads of McDade and Laws in northern Orange ceased to hold together as communities and their stores closed, while Cedar Grove, where the Pender Store stayed open, kept its identity.NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 45
Maps of Laws
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.
- Map of Orange County UNC · a county map
- Map of Orange County, N.C. UNC · a county map
- A map of Orange County, N.C. UNC · a county map
- Soil map, North Carolina, Orange County sheet Duke · a county map
- School map, Orange County, North Carolina. UNC · a county map
- Map of Orange County, N.C. : 1939 UNC · a county map
- An atlas for Orange County, North Carolina UNC · a county map
- USGS topographic map, Caldwell quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)
- USGS topographic map, Caldwell quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)
Start at OCPL
Books in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection whose titles, catalog subjects, or descriptions match this place. The Friends’ recommended starting points are labelled.
- Foundational · NC 342.756 BYRD
Against the Peace and Dignity of the State: North Carolina Laws Regarding Slaves, Free Persons of Color, and Indians
Byrd, William L. · 2007
North Carolina's laws on enslaved people, free people of color and Native Americans, compiled by William L. Byrd III: the statutes that governed slavery and fixed the legal standing of free Black and Indian residents. Willow Bend Books first published the compilation in 2004; this 2007 Heritage Books printing runs to 479 pages with an index.
- Rebecca Wall Collection · NC BIO GRAHAM GRA
General Joseph Graham and His Papers on North Carolina Revolutionary History: With Appendix: An Epitome of North Carolina's Military Services in the Revolutionary War and of the Laws Enacted for Raising Troops
Graham, William Alexander · 1904
Joseph Graham (1759 to 1836) fought in fifteen engagements in the Carolinas during the Revolution, rising from private to major, and after 1820 wrote accounts of the war for the historian Archibald D. Murphey. His grandson William A. Graham collected them with a biography and an appendix on the state's Revolutionary troops and the laws that raised them. Published in Raleigh in 1904, 385 pages with portraits, a folding map and an index.
Research sources
Additional research sources
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- Places to visit: Geographic Names Information System: Laws USGS Geographic Names Information System The federal gazetteer’s record: official name, location, the map it was taken from, and any other names it has gone by
- Search beyond the index: NC LIVE: prepared search for Laws NC LIVE An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
- Ask locally: Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
- Ask locally: Local History Help Hours and request form OCPL Local History Liaison The library’s Local History Liaison helps in person most Mondays, 12 to 3, at the Main Library, or by the online request form
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