Little River

Little River Presbyterian Church is organized

Hugh McAden led the organization of Little River Presbyterian Church, with Henry Pattillo as its first pastor.

People: Henry Pattillo · Hugh McAden

Subject: Little River Presbyterian Church

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.

A great freshet sweeps away mills and bridges on Little River and Flat River

After days of rain, a flood on the night of August 6 carried off nearly all the mills and bridges on Little River and Flat River, destroyed most of the corn on the low grounds, swept away hay and overwhelmed sheep and other stock. In the western part of the county the bridge over the Alamance was carried away.

Mrs. Margaret Woods dies when her house on Little River burns

Mrs. Margaret Woods died when her house on Little River, seven miles northeast of Hillsborough, burned one night in the week of the spring Superior Court. A coroner's jury held Presley Riley on suspicion of killing her and setting the fire, but Chief Justice Nash discharged him for want of evidence, and suspicion turned to enslaved men held by William D. Ray and Joseph Brown of the county.

People: Frederick Nash

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.

Thomas J. Wilson, longtime county surveyor, dies at Little River

Thomas J. Wilson, for many years Orange's county surveyor and the senior deacon of Little River Church, died at his Little River home at about 79. Born in Pennsylvania in 1797, he had married a woman he met in Person County and settled on Little River; after giving up active surveying he was still often called in to settle disputed land lines.

Subject: Little River Presbyterian Church

Caldwell Institute holds its closing exercises, with an address by Braxton Craven

Caldwell Institute closed its session before a crowd of at least 800 people from Orange, Person, Caswell and Granville counties. Braxton Craven, president of Trinity College, spoke for about an hour on 'sowing wild oats' and on the need for education. Students gave declamations in the afternoon and a program of young ladies' compositions and music at night.

Subject: Caldwell Institute

Independents put up W. W. Allison, Josiah Turner and John Berry against the Democratic ticket

An independent ticket was put up in Orange County for the November election, with W. W. Allison of Cedar Grove for the state Senate and Josiah Turner of Hillsborough and John Berry of Little River for the House, plus a candidate for treasurer. Republicans had been advised to back independent Democrats rather than name their own men.

People: Josiah Turner Jr.

Dr. Thomas H. Turner of Little River Township dies

Dr. Thomas H. Turner died at his home in Little River Township. His body was brought to Hillsborough for a funeral at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, and he was buried in the churchyard.

Meridith post office serves northern Little River Township

Around 1890 the Meridith post office in northern Little River Township had J. Law's store, the Riley and McKee sawmill and Berry's Grove Baptist Church close by.

Census enumerators begin the 1890 count in Orange County

Seven enumerators went to work: Miss M. E. Allison for Cedar Grove, Dr. John Berry for Little River, Frank Pickard for Bingham, two men for Chapel Hill, and T. L. Tinnin and C. D. Turner for Hillsboro.

The county board of equalization raises every Little River Township assessment by a third

The three county commissioners, joined by one assessor from each township, sat as the board of equalization, compared the standards each of them had applied, and increased every assessment in Little River Township by one-third.

A post office called Mohan opens in Little River Township

A new post office named Mohan was established in Little River Township, seven miles east of Hillsborough, with E. Marvin Lockhart as postmaster.

Caldwell school district votes a special tax for a rural graded school

Voters in Caldwell District No. 5, Little River Township, approved a local tax for a rural graded school by 17 to 10, setting 30 cents on the $100 of property and 90 cents on each poll.

Part of Building the public schools, 1868–1920 · 192 events

The county board merges Little River Township's schools into a new Caldwell School

Little River patrons voted in March 1925 for a new school at Caldwell, the board let the building contract to B. F. Blanchard for $12,956.20, and C. S. Miller gave seven acres just beyond Caldwell for the site. In June the board consolidated every school in the township except Schley into Caldwell, which opened with 124 pupils.

Part of Consolidation and desegregation in the Orange County Schools · 120 events

Subject: Caldwell School

Seven Orange County Presbyterian churches form a cooperative in place of the Eno cluster

A four-church cluster of Eno, Efland, Fairfield and Bethlehem was dissolved in 1975 and replaced by a cooperative of seven: those four plus Hillsborough, Little River and New Hope. The churches worked together especially on youth programs.