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Mebane

A city on the Alamance and Orange county line, incorporated in 1881 as Mebanesville and named for the Mebane family. The White Furniture Company, founded there the same year, made it a furniture town for a century.

Source: NCpedia, North Carolina Gazetteer

144 works about Mebane are indexed here. 2 held at OCPL →

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Schools & EducationRoads, Rail & TransportationCedar Grove and rural northern OrangeUNC & Campus LifeOrange County’s nineteenth-century academiesChurches & FaithWars & Military ServiceBusiness, Shops & Commerce
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StorylineThe Bingham School at Mebane after the 1890 fire, 1890–19131890–1913 · 12 events · After fire destroyed the Bingham School's academy building near Mebane on December 24, 1890, and Robert Bingham moved his school to Asheville in 1891, the old grounds became home to a school backed by William Bingham's family, which ended in court over the Bingham name. Orange Presbytery leased them for a Presbyterian High School opening in 1893, with William Bingham's widow paying most of its costs, by the 1905 catalogue's account. In 1897 Preston Lewis Gray, married to William Bingham's daughter, took over and called it the William Bingham School. Robert Bingham sought an injunction, but in April 1898 Judge W. A. Hoke ruled that the family could call their school the Bingham School.

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  1. Tryon's army halts at Colonel Mebane's for Sunday worship on the march to Alamance Leaving Hillsborough on May 11, Tryon stopped on Sunday at Colonel Mebane's for divine service, then marched to the Haw River, where 23 mounted men under Captain Bullock joined as his only cavalry. He ordered his troops not to take property and reached Alamance Creek on May 14. People: William Tryon Also named: Colonel Mebane, Captain BullockInternet Archive: Bassett, The Regulators of North Carolina (1765-1771) (1896), p. 202
  2. The Paisley-Rice log house is built near Mebane A log dwelling now called the Paisley-Rice Log House went up in western Orange County near Mebane, probably for the Rev. William D. Paisley after he bought the 200-acre tract from James Davis on February 7, 1801. It is one of the few county log houses already on the National Register by 1993. People: William D. Paisley Also named: James Davis · Also mentions: Paisley-Rice Log HouseSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 83 · Also: NC State Historic Preservation Office: Paisley-Rice Log House nomination, p. 5, citing Orange County Deed Book 9, p. 284; Mark Chilton’s abstract of Deed Book 9/284, in Orange County Indexed’s historic deeds
  3. William D. Paisley buys the farm where the Paisley-Rice log house stands The Presbyterian minister William D. Paisley bought a 200-acre tract from James Davis in February 1801. Local tradition and the nomination hold that he built the dovetailed log house on this land in the early 1800s. People: William D. Paisley Also named: James DavisSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Paisley-Rice Log House, National Register nomination (OR0015), p. 5
  4. William D. Paisley sells his Orange County farm to Elijah Pickard Paisley left the Hawfields in 1818 to head the Greensborough Academy and in September 1819 sold the log house farm to Elijah Pickard. The chain of title is unclear for some years after the sale. People: William D. Paisley Also named: Elijah PickardSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Paisley-Rice Log House, National Register nomination (OR0015), p. 5
  5. John A. Pettigrew sells the former Paisley farm to Lemuel Pettigrew By 1835 the log house tract had passed to John A. Pettigrew, who sold it that year to Lemuel Pettigrew. Lemuel later sold it to (John) Elkins Pettigrew, a small farmer whose farm the 1860 census valued at $500. Also named: John A. Pettigrew, Lemuel Pettigrew, Elkins PettigrewSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Paisley-Rice Log House, National Register nomination (OR0015), p. 5
  6. A Hawfields muster meeting nominates convention candidates and demands their views on the religious test After a militia muster at David Mebane's in the Hawfields, a meeting chaired by Dr. James A. Craig nominated William Montgomery, James S. Smith and James Mebane for the constitutional convention, added Joseph Allison, and resolved to support no candidate who would not state his views on the 32nd article (the religious test for office) and on judges' salaries. People: William Montgomery, James Strudwick Smith, James Mebane, Joseph Allison, James A. Craig Also named: David MebaneSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, May 15, 1835, p. 3
  7. A railroad depot is built at the Orange-Alamance line and Mebanesville grows up around it The North Carolina Railroad put a depot on the county line in 1854, and the settlement of Mebanesville, later Mebane, soon formed there. Also mentions: North Carolina RailroadSearch the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 21
  8. William Bingham begins teaching in his father's school Fresh from the university, William Bingham joins the Bingham School as a teacher in 1856 and stays until his death in 1873, the last years as its head. People: William Bingham (1835-1873), William James BinghamThe Bingham School Catalogue, 1905-1906, scan p. 15 · Also: NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Bingham, Robert
  9. Bingham School moves from the Oaks to Mebaneville William Bingham and Robert Bingham, sons of William James Bingham, moved the school, late in 1864 or in 1865, to a site east of Mebane's Station on the North Carolina Railroad, after the legislature incorporated it in 1864 as a military and classical academy. The highway marker's 1865 may be when classes began at the new site. People: Robert Bingham, William Bingham (1835-1873), William James Bingham Also mentions: North Carolina RailroadNC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources: Bingham School (G-39)
  10. Robert K. Rice buys the Pettigrew log house farm Elkins Pettigrew sold the farm to his son-in-law Robert K. Rice, husband of his daughter Martha, for $375 in 1869. Rice improved the place, which the 1880 census valued at $1,500, and it stayed in the Rice family for more than a century. Also named: Robert K. Rice, Elkins Pettigrew, Martha Pettigrew RiceSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Paisley-Rice Log House, National Register nomination (OR0015), p. 6
  11. Robert Bingham takes charge of the Bingham School near Mebane When his brother William died in 1873, Robert Bingham became headmaster of the Bingham School, which had moved from the Oaks to Mebane. In May 1879 he bought out his cousin William B. Lynch's interest and became sole proprietor. People: Robert Bingham, William Bingham (1835-1873), W. B. (William Bingham) LynchSearch the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Bingham, Robert
  12. Mebaneville, the railroad village on the Orange-Alamance line, is incorporated The settlement that grew along the North Carolina Railroad from 1854 was incorporated in 1881 and shortened its name to Mebane in 1883. Part of the town lies in Orange County. Also mentions: North Carolina RailroadSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 279
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  1. Charles White, merchant and postmaster at Bingham School, dies Charles White, who kept the store and post office at Bingham School near Mebane, died on Thursday, May 24, 1883. The Observer called him successful in business; his widow, Mary E. White, qualified as executrix of his will. Also named: Charles White, Mary E. WhiteSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), June 2, 1883, p. 3 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 1, 1883, p. 3
  2. Foxes Knob School opens as a one-room log school near Mebane Foxes Knob School opened in the mid-1880s in a single log room. It gained a frame addition about 1900 and was later turned into a house.Search the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 60
  3. A building of Mrs. Charles White's used by Bingham School cadets as a mess burns Early on Tuesday morning, August 19, 1884, fire destroyed a building owned by Mrs. Charles White that some Bingham School cadets used as a messing club. Its insurance had lapsed and the loss was put at about $1,000. Also named: Mary E. WhiteSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 23, 1884, p. 3
  4. Bingham School organizes a volunteer company to compete at New Orleans A volunteer company was organized at Bingham School to go to the World's Exposition at New Orleans in December and compete for the $3,000 prize offered to the best company.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 29, 1884, p. 2
  5. Fire destroys the Bingham School academy building and hall The academy building and hall at the Bingham School burned on the morning of December 24, probably from a defective flue. The building was insured, and the school planned to carry on with classes in the barracks, which were not damaged.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 3, 1891, p. 3
  6. Bingham School leaves Orange County for Asheville After fire destroyed the academic buildings and dormitories at the Mebane campus in December 1890, Robert Bingham moved the school to Asheville in 1891. A Presbyterian High School then used the old grounds at Mebane, paid for mostly by Col. William Bingham's widow; his son Herbert became its principal in 1896, and in 1897 her son-in-law Preston Lewis Gray took it over and named it the William Bingham School. People: Robert Bingham, William Bingham (1835-1873) Also named: Herbert Bingham, Preston Lewis Gray · Also mentions: William Bingham SchoolNC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources: Bingham School (G-39) · Also: The Bingham School Catalogue, 1905-1906, scan p. 16
  7. The Bingham School post office is discontinued and its mail sent to Mebane A school post office in Orange County was discontinued, and mail for it was to be addressed to Mebane. The post office appears to be the one at Bingham School, which left for Asheville in 1891.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 8, 1891, p. 3
  8. A Presbyterian high school takes over the old Bingham School grounds near Mebane After Robert Bingham moved the Bingham School to Asheville in 1891, Orange Presbytery leased the old grounds at Mebane in October 1892, elected trustees and a principal, and named the Rev. E. C. Murray principal of a Presbyterian High School that was to open January 1, 1893. The 1905 catalogue of the later Bingham School says William Bingham's widow paid most of its costs. Church control ended in 1897. People: Robert Bingham, William Bingham (1835-1873) Also named: Mrs. William BinghamThe Bingham School Catalogue, 1905-1906, scan p. 16 · Also: DigitalNC newspaper, June 7, 1895, p. 1; Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 29, 1892, p. 3; Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 26, 1892, p. 3
  9. Herbert Bingham becomes principal of the Presbyterian High School at Mebane Herbert Bingham, son of William Bingham and a recent graduate of the university, is chosen in March 1896 to succeed the principal of the Presbyterian High School at Mebane, who had resigned. The school stood on the grounds where his father had run the Bingham School, and Herbert had joined its faculty the year before. People: William Bingham (1835-1873) Also named: Herbert BinghamThe Bingham School Catalogue, 1905-1906, scan p. 16 · Also: The News and Observer (Raleigh), March 26, 1896, p. 1
  10. Herbert Bingham dies months after taking charge of the school Herbert Bingham, principal of the Presbyterian High School at Mebane, dies of typhoid fever at his home there after ten weeks' illness, seven months after taking charge. His sister later gave a scholarship at the school in his memory. Also named: Herbert BinghamThe Bingham School Catalogue, 1905-1906, scan p. 16 · Also: The News and Observer (Raleigh), October 17, 1896, p. 1
  11. Preston Lewis Gray takes charge of the Mebane school and renames it the William Bingham School In 1897 the church gave up the Presbyterian High School at Mebane, and Preston Lewis Gray, a Virginia lawyer married to William Bingham's daughter, became its principal. By July he was calling it the William Bingham School, a name Robert Bingham of the Bingham School at Asheville sought an injunction against in 1898. Gray was still running it on the old grounds in 1905. People: Robert Bingham Also named: Preston Lewis Gray, William BinghamThe Bingham School Catalogue, 1905-1906, scan p. 16 · Also: The News and Observer (Raleigh), June 25, 1897, p. 5
  12. Robert Bingham sues to keep Preston Gray from using the Bingham School name at Mebane Maj. Robert Bingham, superintendent of the Bingham School at Asheville, sued out an injunction before Judge W. A. Hoke to stop Preston L. Gray from calling the former Presbyterian High School at Mebane the William Bingham School, saying the name invaded his school's charter. Gray claimed his was the true Bingham School. People: Robert Bingham Also named: Preston L. Gray, W. A. HokeOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), March 31, 1898, p. 2
  13. Judge Hoke rules that the Mebane school may keep the Bingham School name Judge Hoke dissolved the injunction Col. Robert Bingham had sought and ruled that Preston Lewis Gray and the widow and children of Col. William Bingham were entitled to call their school the Bingham School. Col. Bingham was left free to use the name as well. People: Robert Bingham Also named: Preston Lewis Gray, William BinghamOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 7, 1898, p. 3
  14. The Foxes Knob schoolhouse is enlarged and becomes a house Soon after 1900 the one-room log Foxes Knob School near Mebane is enlarged; after its school years it served as a residence.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 116
  15. Bingham School near Mebane reports its enrollment, courses and charges The school's catalogue lists 96 students from twenty-five counties for the session that ended May 17, 1905. At least ten were girls, and four of them completed courses that spring. For the coming year the catalogue set board, room and tuition at four quarterly payments of $59 and offered the school diploma in any of three courses: classical, scientific or commercial.Search the index · The Bingham School Catalogue, 1905-1906, scan p. 11
  16. Mebane School District becomes the first to tax itself for a longer school term After a district election, the commissioners gave the sheriff a tax list for the Mebane district at 30 cents per $100 and 90 cents a poll. By 1910 special school taxes were collected in six districts.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 209
  17. County commissioners levy special school taxes in the Caldwell and Mebane districts At their monthly meeting on July 3 the county commissioners levied a special school tax of 15 cents on property and 45 cents on the poll in the Caldwell school district, and 30 cents on property and 90 cents on the poll in the Mebane school district. People: John F. McAdamsSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 6, 1905, p. 2
  18. Preston Lewis Gray buys the Bingham School property near Mebane Superintendent Preston Lewis Gray and his wife bought the Bingham School property near Mebane, a purchase that added a large farm to supply the boarding department and the building known as Midlawn to the school. Also named: Preston Lewis GraySearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 15, 1908, p. 3
  19. Abe and Annie B. Mebane sell a lot in west Hillsborough to the trustees of Mebane Chapel For $25 the Mebanes sold a 30-by-40-foot lot at the corner of Union Street, opposite the later Central High School, to trustees Elisha Williams and Arthur Hood. The chapel was named in their memory. Also named: Abe Mebane, Annie B. Mebane, Elisha Williams, Arthur Hood · Also mentions: Central High SchoolSearch the index · Pauline O. Lloyd and Allen A. Lloyd, History of the Churches of Hillsborough, N.C., ca. 1766-1962 (1963), scan p. 83
  20. The Bingham School in the old buildings near Mebane enrolls 53 students The preparatory school opened in the old Bingham School buildings on the Orange County side of Mebane after the original school left for Asheville had 53 students in 1913-14.M. C. S. Noble (University of North Carolina Bureau of Extension), The Teaching of County Geography (1915), scan p. 34
  21. Mebane Chapel builds its church in Hillsborough under its first pastor, B. F. Alston A year after the United Holy Church congregation organized, it put up its chapel, seating about 200, with thirty-five members and Rev. B. F. Alston as first pastor. People: R. C. Turner Also named: B. F. AlstonSearch the index · Pauline O. Lloyd and Allen A. Lloyd, History of the Churches of Hillsborough, N.C., ca. 1766-1962 (1963), scan p. 83
  22. A Christian Church congregation is organized near Mebane The congregation later called Mebane Congregational Christian Church was organized on May 16, 1915, with W. C. Clements, pastor of the Christian church in Chapel Hill, as first pastor. Its building was finished in 1931. Also named: W. C. ClementsSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 303
  23. Hard surfacing of the state highway from Mebane nears Hillsboro Work on the state highway link from Mebane to Hillsboro was well along by the end of August 1923, and the News said the first layer of hard surface would soon reach Hillsboro from the north. By October, Efland residents were noting new filling stations going up along the new road.Search the index · The News (Chapel Hill), August 30, 1923, p. 5
  24. Asphalt crews finish paving the new Mebane-Hillsboro road at Efland The asphalt crew laid the last of the paving on the new road between Mebane and Hillsboro on Saturday night, December 8, 1923, the paper's Efland correspondent reported. Once the smoothing and edges were done, the road was to be turned over to the State Highway Commission.Search the index · The News (Chapel Hill), December 13, 1923, p. 1
  25. Orange County cream routes collect more than 500 pounds of cream in a week Cream routes run by the Chapel Hill school's agriculture department collected more than 500 pounds of sour cream from Orange County farms in one week, against 20 pounds a week when the routes began in September 1922. The cream went to the creamery at Burlington, which paid farmers about 45 cents a pound of butterfat in February. Also mentions: Orange County farmsSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 10, 1924, p. 1
  26. The Rice farm is divided in the settlement of Robert Rice's estate In 1927 the 130-acre farm long tied to the log house was split in settling Robert Rice's estate. The house kept a 65-acre share, later owned by his grandson Joseph A. Rice. Also named: Robert K. Rice, Joseph A. Rice, Robert RiceSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Paisley-Rice Log House, National Register nomination (OR0015), p. 11
  27. The Christian church congregation near Mebane builds a brick church The congregation now known as Mebane United Church of Christ builds a cross-gable brick church near Mebane in 1931.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 110
  28. Relief director George H. Lawrence receives federal mules for needy farmers Under the federal farm rehabilitation plan a carload of 26 mules from Atlanta reached Mebane on April 16, consigned to Orange relief director George H. Lawrence for farmers in Orange, Alamance and Caswell counties. He housed them in a tobacco warehouse, and by April 20 eight had gone to Orange farmers, with a second carload expected. People: George H. LawrenceSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 20, 1934, p. 1
  29. A Black company from Mebane gives a play at the Orange County Training School Black actors from Mebane gave 'The Modern Prodigal' in the auditorium of the Orange County Training School, with a quartet and chorus singing spirituals; white people were welcome.The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 20, 1936, p. 6
  30. County commissioners refuse to relicense beer sales at the Log Cabin filling station The Orange County commissioners voted unanimously to keep refusing J. A. Thompson a license to sell beer at his filling station, the Log Cabin, on the Mebane road. Thompson and his wife called it a "Dirty Deal" and their lawyer pleaded for another chance without success. Also named: J. A. ThompsonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 9, 1946, p. 1
  31. Commissioner Ben F. Wilson asks the school board to route buses to the Mebane school A delegation of Orange County people living near Mebane, whose case was put by county commissioner Ben F. Wilson, asked the county board of education to arrange school bus routes so that their children could attend school in Mebane. The board said it would recommend changes in the routing. People: Ben F. WilsonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 8, 1946, p. 1
  32. Charlie McAdams and George Crawford Amick open the A & M Grill in Mebane Charlie McAdams Sr., who had sold barbecue from a service station kitchen since 1947, opened the A & M Grill with building owner George Crawford Amick. The name joined their two initials. Also named: Charlie McAdams Sr., George Crawford AmickSearch the index · Mebane Enterprise, Karen Carter, "A & M Grill: Slice of life remembered," November 3, 2011 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 2, 1952, p. 10
  33. The State Highway Commission takes several Orange County roads into the state system The State Highway and Public Works Commission approved the American Legion Road near Mebane, the Duncan Road, the Old Durham Road, a mile of the Bryant Bradshaw Road and half a mile of the Torian Road for state maintenance, the county commissioners learned. It turned down the McClamroch Road near University Lake as not worth the expense for now.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 10, 1949, p. 1
  34. Orange Textile Products starts making lingerie in the old Midway Building Supply building near Efland Russell Bondurant, who had come to Hillsboro as production manager for Reverie Lingerie, and Bobby R. Roberts set up a lingerie plant in the renovated, air-conditioned former Midway Building Supply building between Efland and Mebane, and production was under way on several machines. Don S. Matheson of the county industrial development commission listed it among three small industries begun in recent weeks. People: Don S. Matheson Also named: Russell Bondurant, Bobby R. RobertsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 18, 1956, p. 1
  35. Lebanon Church breaks ground for a community building Lebanon Church, about three miles northeast of Mebane, broke ground for a community building with a kitchen, to stand as an annex to the church for church and community activities.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 19, 1958, p. 4
  36. Commissioners ask the state for a bridge to keep Ben Wilson Road open across the new US 70 Former commissioner Ben Wilson asked the county board to back a bridge carrying his road, a school bus and mail route south from Mebane, over the new limited-access US 70 bypass being built with interstate funds, and the board agreed without dissent to write the State Highway Commission. The Alamance commissioners and the Mebane town board had already passed resolutions. People: Ben F. Wilson Also named: Ben WilsonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 10, 1958, p. 1
  37. Orange and Alamance agree on Orange children attending Alamance schools Worried that growing numbers of western Orange children rode Alamance buses to Mebane schools, the board released to Alamance all children living within a mile of the county line and let those farther out stay if they chose. It also allowed out-of-county attendance if families paid tuition and provided transportation.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 89
  38. The Paisley-Rice log house joins the Study List The National Register Advisory Committee placed the Paisley-Rice log house near Mebane 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. 69
  39. The Paisley-Rice Log House is listed in the National Register The Paisley-Rice Log House was entered in the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, one of six rural Orange County properties on the Register by July 1993. Also mentions: Paisley-Rice Log HouseSearch 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
  40. The Eno-Occaneechi Indian Association holds its first annual August powwow A year after it formed, the Eno-Occaneechi Indian Association held its first annual powwow in August 1985, bringing Indian people from many tribes to visit the community. The fifth, at Mebane on August 11 and 12, 1989, had a printed program.UNC Libraries catalog: Welcome to the 5th annual Eno-Occaneechi powwow, August 11-12, 1989, Mebane, N.C. (program, Eno-Occaneechi Indian Association) · Also: North Carolina Archaeological Society: Forest Hazel, Occaneechi-Saponi Descendants in the North Carolina Piedmont: The Texas Community, Sout
  41. Joe Thompson receives a National Heritage Fellowship The National Endowment for the Arts named Thompson, a fiddler from Mebane, a 2007 National Heritage Fellow for the African American string band music of the North Carolina Piedmont. People: Joe ThompsonSearch the index · National Endowment for the Arts: Joe Thompson (National Heritage Fellowships)
  42. The A & M Grill in Mebane closes after 63 years The A & M Grill, run by three generations of the McAdams family, served its last meals at 401 East Center Street. Co-founder George Crawford Amick died three weeks later. Also named: George Crawford AmickSearch the index · Mebane Enterprise, Karen Carter, "A & M Grill: Slice of life remembered," November 3, 2011
  43. The News of Orange merges with the Mebane Enterprise Womack Publishing announced on January 3, 2024, that its weeklies The News of Orange County and the Mebane Enterprise would merge at the end of January. The combined paper, with a section for Mebane, covers Mebane, Hillsborough and Efland from the News of Orange office in Hillsborough, and the Mebane office closed. Also named: Mebane Enterprise · Also mentions: The News of Orange CountySearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel: News of Orange County and Mebane Enterprise to merge at end of January (January 15, 2024)
  44. Buckhorn Flea Market closes on Buckhorn Road The Buckhorn Flea Market on Buckhorn Road in western Orange County, known to many Spanish speakers as La Pulga de Mebane, closed after about four decades when a trucking company bought the land. Its 300 to 500 weekend vendors were largely Latino immigrants, and the Mebane City Council voted on July 1 to annex and rezone the property for a truck terminal.Search the index · Chapelboro: Closure of Buckhorn Flea Market Leaves Vendors, Customers Asking What Happens Now

Maps of Mebane

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. School map, Orange County, North Carolina. UNC
  2. Highway maintenance map of Orange County, North Carolina DPLA
  3. Federal-Aid Systems map of Orange County, North Carolina DPLA
  4. Orange County, North Carolina (Highway culture map) DPLA
  5. Orange County, North Carolina (Highway maintenance map) DPLA
  6. USGS topographic map, Efland quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)
  7. Highway maintenance map of Orange County, North Carolina DPLA
  8. Mebane thoroughfare plan NC Digital Collections
  9. Highway maintenance map of Orange County, North Carolina DPLA
  10. USGS topographic map, Efland quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)

Indexed works

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Your Head is a Storehouse Memoirs by George Wynder Thompson

Thompson, George Wynder · 2013 · Brentwood Christian Press

George Wynder Thompson's memoir of growing up during segregation in Orange and Alamance counties, around Cedar Grove, Mebane and Burlington. Thompson worked as a sharecropper and later for Burlington Industries. Published in 2013 by Brentwood Christian Press.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DigitalNC record: Mebane (N.C.).

DigitalNC DPLA

Bingham Military School volumes, 1872-1876; 1890-1919.

Bingham Military School (Asheville, N.C.) · 1872

Two volumes from the Bingham Military School at Asheville, covering 1872 to 1876 and 1890 to 1919, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. The volumes concern the earlier Bingham School in Orange County, Robert Bingham, 1838 to 1927, debating societies and the history of schools in North Carolina.

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

UNC

Thomas and Mary Bingham Lynch Papers,

Lynch, Thomas · 1794

About 600 family letters of Thomas Lynch, a Presbyterian minister in the Orange Presbytery, and his wife Mary Bingham Lynch, with dates beginning in 1794. There is material on their son W. B. Lynch, who ran an academy at High Point, and on Major Robert Bingham, head of the Bingham School in Orange County. Topics also include Lemuel Lynch and silversmith and jewelry work. At Duke's Rubenstein Library.

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

Duke

Mebane and Faucette family papers, 1782-1908.

1782

Family papers of the Mebanes and Faucettes spanning 1782 to 1908, about fifty items in half a linear foot in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5280. Topics include militia officers and their records during the Civil War, the North Carolina Railroad Company, Presbyterian church history, slavery, and family life in the state. Orange County and the town of Mebane are the places named.

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

UNC

Lenoir family papers, 1763-1936, 1975 (Series 1.2).

Lenoir (Family : Lenoir, William, 1751-1839) · 1763

Series 1.2 of the Lenoir family papers, drawn from 13,200 items in 24.5 linear feet spanning 1763 to 1936 with a 1975 addition, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. Topics include courtship and the death of children in the nineteenth century, health resorts, railroads in North Carolina, medical study at Jefferson Medical College, and schooling at Salem Academy and the Bingham School in Orange County.

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UNC

Lenoir family papers, 1763-1936, 1975 (Series 1.4 and 1.5).

Lenoir (Family : Lenoir, William, 1751-1839) · 1763

Series 1.4 and 1.5 of the Lenoir family papers, part of a body of 13,200 items in 24.5 linear feet dated 1763 to 1936 with a 1975 addition, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. These series cover freed persons and African American migration, the General Assembly, real estate and the Linville Improvement Company, women's lives in the South, and schooling under William Bingham.

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UNC

Recently indexed: Giles Mebane (1900) · Memorial Hall : its tablets and memories : acceptance of tablets memorializing Col. Robert Bingham, Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham and Senator Matt W. Ransom (1939) · Field day ; Franklin Street (1934) · Special circular : Bingham School ... May 31st, 1879. (1879) · Welcome to the 5th annual Eno-Occaneechi powwow, August 11-12, 1989, Mebane, N.C. (1989) · The Alamance-Orange enterprise. (1991)

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  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 975.658 OAKLEY Mebane Oakley, J. Ronald · 2012

    J. Ronald Oakley's pictorial history of Mebane, the railroad town on the Orange and Alamance county line, from Arcadia Publishing in 2012, 127 pages of photographs. Chapters cover the railroad, industries, businesses, the Depression and war years, profiles past and present, churches and civic clubs, recreation and sports, school days, and preserving the past. Topics include Mebane's history, economy, buildings and railroads.

  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 338.768 BAM Closing: The Life and Death of An American Factory Bamberger, Bill · 1998

    Photographs by Bill Bamberger and text by Cathy N. Davidson record the last months of the White Furniture Company of Mebane, a family firm founded in 1881, sold to Hickory Manufacturing in 1985 and closed in 1993, when more than 200 people lost their jobs. Davidson follows six people who worked there, from the chief executive to a laborer. Published in 1998 by Duke's Center for Documentary Studies with W. W. Norton, 223 pages.

  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 929.209 MEB History and Genealogy of the Mebane Family of Colonial Pennsylvania and North Carolina Mebane, Robert M. · 1999

    The Mebane family came from Ireland to Pennsylvania early in the 1700s and moved on to North Carolina, where Alexander Mebane became the first sheriff of Orange County. Robert M. Mebane's account of the family was published by the author in 1999, 250 pages with maps, facsimiles, a genealogical table and an index, with an addendum sheet tipped in.

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