Laws

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1. 1841 Hillsborough Academy students print the constitution and laws of their Polemic Society Students of the Hillsborough Academy formed the Polemic Society for debate and speaking, with officers elected monthly, Saturday morning meetings and its own library, and had its rules printed in Hillsborough by Dennis Heartt. Only teachers and students of the academy could join. People: Dennis HearttPolemic Society, Hillsborough Academy, Constitution and Temporary Laws of the Polemic Society (1841), scan p. 5
2. 1890 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
3. 1891 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. Also named: J. Laws, G. W. ParkerSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 36
4. about 1910 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
5. 1920s 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
6. 1940s 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