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Natural feature in Orange County

Morgan Creek

A creek rising in western Orange County and flowing east past Carrboro and south of Chapel Hill toward Jordan Lake. The university dammed it in 1932 to make University Lake.

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StorylineBridging Morgan Creek: McCauley’s and Merritt’s mills, 1793–18181793–1818 · 10 events · Where the road from Hillsborough to Fayetteville crossed Morgan Creek, the county court had to get a bridge sited, built and paid for, and the record shows how a county did public works through its court. The court fixed a site at Matthew McCauley's public mill in 1794 and named commissioners and inspectors, and after a nine to nine vote in 1797 it paid the builder, Tobias Rogers, 94 pounds in 1798. Henry Merritt later built a mill and a bridge, which the court made a toll bridge in 1811, and in 1818 it paid Merritt 195 dollars for a bridge across the creek.

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  1. Mark Morgan sits in the General Assembly for Orange County Mark Morgan, a justice of the peace and militia officer who had settled on Morgan Creek near present Chapel Hill, was a member of the colonial General Assembly for Orange County for the 1753-54 session. People: Mark MorganSearch the index · MosaicNC (NC Office of Archives and History): Morgan, Mark
  2. The court sends a jury to alter the Fayetteville road and fix a bridge site on Morgan Creek at McCauley's mill The court appointed a jury to view and alter the road from Hillsborough to Fayetteville where it crossed Morgan Creek at Matthew McCauley's mill, to fix on a spot for a bridge across the creek, and to report to the next court. People: Matthew McCauleySearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: November Term 1794
  3. The court names commissioners to build a bridge over Morgan Creek at McCauley's mill The court appointed Edmond Jones, Alexander Piper and John Hogan to oversee the building of a bridge over Morgan Creek at Matthew McCauley's mill, to be let to the lowest bidder. People: Colonel John Hogan Also named: Edmond Jones, Alexander Piper, Matthew McCauleySearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: February Term 1795
  4. The court names men to inspect the new Morgan Creek bridge at McCauley's mill The court appointed John Strain, Alexander Strain and James Strayhorn to examine the bridge built over Morgan Creek at Matthew McCauley's mill, report whether it was built in a workmanlike way, and give their opinion of the value of the work at the next court. People: James Strayhorn Also named: John Strain, Alexander Strain, Matthew McCauleySearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: May Term 1796
  5. An evenly divided court turns down pay for the Morgan Creek bridge The justices split nine to nine on a motion to pay Tobias Rogers for building the bridge over Morgan Creek at Matthew McCauley's mill, so the motion failed. Also named: Tobias Rogers, Matthew McCauleySearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: August Term 1797
  6. The court pays Tobias Rogers for the Morgan Creek bridge at McCauley's mill The court allowed Tobias Rogers 94 pounds for building a bridge on Morgan Creek at Matthew McCauley's mill, to be paid by the county trustee. Also named: Tobias Rogers, Matthew McCauleySearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: February Term 1798
  7. The court gives Henry Merritt leave to build a grist mill on Morgan's Creek On Henry Merritt's petition, the court gave him leave to build a water grist mill on Morgan's Creek on his own land. Also named: Henry MerrittSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: February Term 1810
  8. The court makes Henry Merritt's bridge over Morgan Creek a toll bridge The court established the bridge across Morgan Creek built by Henry Merritt as a toll bridge and set its tolls, from 20 cents for a wagon and team and 10 cents for a cart or chair down to 5 cents for a man and horse. Also named: Henry MerrittSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: February Term 1811
  9. The court names a committee to contract for a Morgan Creek bridge near Merritt's mill The court appointed Pleasant Henderson, John Taylor, Bryant Kittrell and William Barbee a committee to contract for building a bridge across Morgan Creek at or near Merritt's mill and to report to the next term. People: Pleasant Henderson, William Barbee Also named: John Taylor, Bryant KittrellSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: August Term 1817
  10. Mount Carmel Baptist Church ordains Abner W. Clopton to the ministry Abner W. Clopton of Virginia, a member of Mount Carmel Baptist Church and principal of the preparatory school at Chapel Hill, was ordained a minister by Elders George Roberts and Daniel Newlin, according to a history of the church printed in the News in 1922. He resigned as the church's minister the next year and became its clerk. People: Abner Wentworth Clopton Also named: George Roberts, Daniel NewlinSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), June 22, 1922, p. 1
  11. The court pays Henry Merritt for a bridge across Morgan Creek The court ordered the county trustee to pay Henry Merritt 195 dollars for building a bridge across Morgan Creek. Also named: Henry MerrittSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: May Term 1818
  12. A. C. Dixon baptizes twenty converts in Morgan Creek, among them Charles B. Aycock At the close of a spring revival Dixon baptized twenty people in Morgan Creek near the Purefoy mill. Among them were the student Charles B. Aycock, later governor, and James Y. Joyner, later state superintendent of public instruction. People: A. C. (Amzi Clarence) Dixon, Charles B. Aycock, James Yadkin JoynerSearch the index · Almonte Charles Howell, A History of the Chapel Hill Baptist Church, 1854-1924 (1945), scan p. 28 · Also: The Chapel Hill Ledger, April 19, 1879, p. 2
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  1. Fire destroys M. A. McCauley's mill on Morgan Creek west of Chapel Hill Fire destroyed M. A. McCauley's mill on Morgan Creek, west of Chapel Hill, on June 29, 1883, together with the wheat and corn stored in it. The mill carried no insurance. Also named: M. A. McCauleySearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 7, 1883, p. 3
  2. A new steel bridge over Morgan Creek at Purefoy's mill is finished and accepted The Carolina Engineering Company finished a steel bridge over Morgan Creek at the Purefoy mill near Chapel Hill, and county commission chairman J. F. McAdams inspected and accepted it; work had begun on January 20. People: John F. McAdamsSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), March 5, 1908, p. 3
  3. A night of heavy rain floods the streams around Chapel Hill and washes out highway bridges Rain that began Sunday night, July 6, and lasted into Monday morning sent the streams around Chapel Hill over their banks, nearly to the high-water mark of 1901. Water rose to within three or four feet of the Purefoy Mill bridge, several bridges on the State Highway between Chapel Hill and Saxapahaw washed away, and corn on the creek bottoms was flattened or torn up.Search the index · The News (Chapel Hill), July 10, 1919, p. 5
  4. Work begins on a concrete bridge over Morgan Creek on the Pittsboro road Work began on a new concrete bridge across Morgan Creek on the Pittsboro road just above the Purefoy mill, with Collier Cobb Jr. setting up a rock crusher nearby to supply the stone. It was part of the new road from Chapel Hill to the Chatham County line, on which work was to begin the first of December. People: Collier Cobb Jr.Search the index · The News (Chapel Hill), December 1, 1921, p. 5
  5. R. M. Trimble plats the Kittrell Mill Property for H. G. Dorsett Surveyor R. M. Trimble subdivided and platted the Kittrell Mill Property along Morgan Creek near Chapel Hill into lots and small farms for H. G. Dorsett. The plat went into Orange County Plat Book 1, and a road through the tract was later known as Trimble Road. People: Ralph M. Trimble Also named: H. G. DorsettSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 3, 1929, p. 2
  6. Two nights of downpours wash out bridges on Morgan Creek and ruin bottomland crops Downpours on the nights of Sunday, June 29, and Monday, June 30, 1924, dropped six or seven inches of rain around Chapel Hill. Creeks overran their banks, two or three wooden bridges on Morgan Creek washed away, including the one above the old McCauley mill site, sidewalks were cut into gullies, and crops on low ground were drowned or washed out.Search the index · The News (Chapel Hill), July 3, 1924, p. 1
  7. County commissioners decide to rebuild the washed-out bridges on Morgan's and Phil's creeks After going out to see the sites, commissioners Ralph Ward, J. D. Webb and Arthur Wilson decided to rebuild the bridges on Morgan's and Phil's creeks that the June and July floods had carried away, and to set them somewhat higher. One bridge had floated downstream nearly whole against some trees; the other was torn apart and had to be replaced. People: Ralph H. Ward, Junius D. Webb Also named: Arthur WilsonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 25, 1924, p. 1
  8. A cloudburst flood carries off Purefoy's and King's mills and county bridges around Chapel Hill A Sunday morning cloudburst sent Morgan and New Hope creeks out of their banks; Thorndike Saville of the Geological Survey measured 5 1/4 inches of rain and called it the heaviest ever recorded there in 24 hours. The flood swept away Purefoy's mill and the iron bridge below it, King's Mill, the Flat bridge on the old Pittsboro road and other county bridges, and drowned the pumps of the University water works, so that town and campus ran out of water for several hours on August 5. Also named: Thorndike SavilleSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 7, 1924, p. 1
  9. The University starts a three-mile water line from Morgan Creek Dropping its plan for a large reservoir, the University began laying a 12-inch pipe line about three miles long from a new intake on Morgan Creek near the Matthew McCauley farm, able to bring 500,000 gallons a day to campus and town. More than 2,000 feet were in the ground by late March 1925, and a $35,000 filter plant southwest of Memorial Hall and a $15,000 elevated tank west of Pittsboro Street were being built; the old line from Bolin Creek was to be given up. Also mentions: Bolin Creek, Memorial Hall, Pittsboro StreetThe Chapel Hill Weekly, March 26, 1925, p. 1
  10. The state opens the new concrete highway from Chapel Hill to Morgan Creek The state highway commission finished laying concrete from the Carolina Inn at the west campus gate to the Morgan Creek bridge near the old Purefoy mill site on the Pittsboro-Pinehurst highway. The stretch from the bridge to the Pittsboro Street junction was open to traffic and the last piece to the Inn was due within days. Also mentions: Carolina Inn, Pittsboro StreetSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 18, 1925, p. 1
  11. Mason Toney Strayhorn and his grandson Alfred Barbee finish a stone dam across Morgan Creek Toney Strayhorn, a formerly enslaved Carrboro mason and preacher, completed a thirty-foot-wide stone dam spanning Morgan Creek near University Lake with his grandson Alfred Barbee, whose first masonry job it was. Alfred and his brother Willis Barbee went on to build walls, dams and chimneys around Chapel Hill and Carrboro for sixty years. People: Alfred David Barbee Sr., Toney StrayhornSearch the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Heather Fearnbach, Troy M. and Roberta C. Andrews House, National Register nomination (draft, 2026)
  12. C. C. Edwards begins building houses on the Pittsboro road south of Chapel Hill Contractor W. G. Fields finished one house and began another for C. C. Edwards of Durham on a 50-acre tract on the Pittsboro road near Morgan's Creek, north of the old Purefoy home and mill, where Edwards planned 20 or 25 houses for faculty families. Also named: C. C. Edwards, W. G. Fields · Also mentions: Morgan's CreekSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 9, 1928, p. 1
  13. J. G. Williams opens a flagstone quarry on Morgan Creek near Chapel Hill A flagstone quarry on the near bank of Morgan Creek opposite Laurel Hill, near the site of the old King's Mill, began supplying the slabs that Chapel Hill people had long hauled over from Hillsboro for garden walks. J. G. Williams ran the quarry and made deliveries, and Collier Cobb called the stone "Monroe slate." Also named: J. G. Williams, Collier CobbSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 22, 1931, p. 1
  14. Work begins on the University's dam and reservoir on Morgan Creek About 30 laborers for the contractors T. C. Thompson & Bros. began clearing the site of the University's dam on Morgan Creek, about three miles west of Chapel Hill, near the old weir and pumping station. Designed by T. C. Atwood, the concrete dam was to be 380 feet long and 30 feet high and to flood about 200 acres; with land and clearing it was expected to cost about $130,000 from the 1929 legislature's appropriation. People: Thomas C. Atwood Also named: T. C. ThompsonThe Chapel Hill Weekly, October 16, 1931, p. 1
  15. Work on the University dam ends the last remains of Matthew McCauley's mill dam on Morgan Creek H. D. Carter of Atwood and Weeks wrote that the building of the University's dam and reservoir would put into tradition the last remains of the earth dam and corn mill built on Morgan Creek by Matthew McCauley, one of the donors of the University's land. The Weekly headed the item as the destruction of the last vestiges of the historic structure. People: H. D. Carter, Matthew McCauleyThe Chapel Hill Weekly, November 6, 1931, p. 4
  16. Builders put a cofferdam across Morgan Creek for the University's new dam A temporary dam of log crib-work filled with stone was built across Morgan Creek above the site of the University's water-supply dam, with a timber flume to carry the stream. It backed water nearly to the Damascus road and served as a road for hauling out wood cleared from the reservoir site. People: H. D. CarterThe Chapel Hill Weekly, December 4, 1931, p. 2
  17. Water begins to back up behind the University's new Morgan Creek dam With the dam at full height except for one section, water was rising about a foot a day and spreading out of the creek bed toward what would be a lake of some 200 acres. The University was buying a light motor launch and two rowboats to patrol it and expected the dam done by the end of June. People: Charles T. WoollenThe Chapel Hill Weekly, June 3, 1932, p. 1
  18. Chapel Hill reaches 106 degrees, an August record, in a summer of drought The weather bureau station in Chapel Hill recorded 106 degrees on August 31, 1932, which its chief, C. E. Ray Jr., called a new record for August. Rainfall had run 49 percent below normal in July and 55 percent below in August, and the new University reservoir dropped several inches, though J. S. Bennett said it still held weeks of supply. People: John S. Bennett Also named: C. E. Ray Jr.The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 2, 1932, p. 1
  19. The old Purefoy house near Morgan Creek burns The Purefoy house near the Morgan Creek bridge on the Pittsboro highway, which the Weekly called one of the oldest homes in this part of the country, burned to the ground on December 28. Its owner, Isaac W. Pritchard, had leased it to a University student who was away for the holidays. People: Isaac W. PritchardSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 13, 1933, p. 3
  20. Botanist William L. Hunt buys Laurel Hill and keeps it open to walkers Hunt bought 304 acres at Laurel Hill, across Morgan Creek about two miles from the village, after long negotiations with several white and Black owners of small plots, to hold his plant collections. He said the woods, a favorite walk since the University's founding, would stay open to the public, but he barred hunting, target shooting and flower picking. People: William Lanier HuntSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 17, 1937, p. 1
  21. William Hunt quarries Purefoy slate on Morgan Creek for the new Town Hall's walk and yard Flagstones of blue-gray Purefoy slate for the yard and walk of the new Town Hall were quarried under landscape architect William Hunt's supervision on his 300-acre tract about two miles southeast of the village near Morgan Creek, which takes in the site of the old King's mill. Hunt said he would refill the pit and keep the woodland, bought a year earlier to save it from subdividers, without automobile access. Also named: William HuntSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 3, 1939, p. 1
  22. The Soil Conservation Service nursery on the Mason farm ships about 7,000,000 seedlings Joe Jones reported that the University's Mason farm on Morgan Creek had become one of the largest U.S. Soil Conservation Service experimental stations and nurseries, worked by CCC and WPA crews on about 200 acres. It had shipped about 7,000,000 seedlings the previous winter, chiefly loblolly and shortleaf pine, black locust, lespedeza and dogwood, to the 23 soil conservation projects and camps in North Carolina and beyond. Also named: Joe JonesSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 7, 1939, p. 5
  23. William Lanier Hunt opens trails and stone quarries on his Laurel Hill tract along Morgan Creek By December 1939 horticulturist William Lanier Hunt had assembled from many owners the Laurel Hill tract of about 350 acres on both sides of Morgan Creek, taking in the site of King's mill, meaning to make it a botanical garden. He had cut miles of trails and was quarrying flagstone there; Laurel Hill stone paved the plaza before the Town Hall, the terrace and walks at the Playmakers Theatre and walks on the campus. People: William Lanier Hunt Also mentions: Playmakers TheatreSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 15, 1939, p. 1
  24. Forest fire burns about 56 acres near Laurel Hill south of Chapel Hill A fire, believed started by campers the evening before, burned all day Sunday over about 50 acres of the old Shep Edwards place and about six acres of William L. Hunt's Laurel Hill tract along Morgan Creek, until Black enrollees from the CCC camp south of Chapel Hill and volunteers put it out about two hours after dark. Hunt credited his fire lanes with saving Laurel Hill itself and the University's land. People: William Lanier HuntSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 5, 1940, p. 1
  25. Chapel Hill's new $425,000 sewage plant goes into operation After an inspection by town and University officials, the new sewage disposal plant on the Mason Farm south of Morgan Creek began operating. Begun in August 1948 by Boyd and Goforth of Charlotte, the trickling filter plant cost $425,000, the University paying $225,000 and giving the land and the town paying $200,000, and was built to serve 17,000 people for about 20 years. People: Edwin Sidney LanierThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 28, 1949, p. 1
  26. The state widens and straightens Highway 15 from Morgan Creek to the Chatham line Highway crews were widening the shoulders, easing curves and adding a four-foot strip of paving on Highway 15 from the Morgan Creek bridge south of Chapel Hill to the Chatham County line, matching work done the year before south through Pittsboro to US 1. The Highway Commission planned later work from the town limits near the Medical School to the bridge.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 10, 1954, p. 1
  27. The State Highway Department sets aside $430,000 for a bypass link south and west of Chapel Hill and Carrboro The department approved $430,000 for grading and bridges on a 3.2-mile link from Morgan Creek on the Pittsboro highway to NC 54 west of Carrboro, with bridges at the Pittsboro road, Smith Level Road and Jones Ferry Road. It would complete the east-west bypass whose first half was built four years earlier; a proposed extension north to old NC 86 was dropped. Also mentions: NC 54, Jones Ferry Road, Smith Level RoadSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 30, 1956, p. 10
  28. Carrboro finishes and pays for its $100,000 sewer plant improvement Carrboro completed a $100,000 improvement of its sewage treatment plant on Smith Level Road at Morgan Creek and finished paying for it. The plant, praised in an Army Corps of Engineers area survey, was built for a town of 5,000, about double its present flow. Also mentions: Smith Level RoadSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 11, 1958, p. 4
  29. Duke Power sues Chapel Hill-area owners for transmission line rights Duke Power filed condemnation proceedings in Superior Court against owners south of town, among them William L. Hunt and the heirs of the Pritchard estate, after failing to get rights of way for a line from its Triangle substation in Durham County to its Chapel Hill substation. People: William Lanier HuntSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 10, 1961, p. 7
  30. William Lanier Hunt gives Morgan Creek gorge land to UNC for an arboretum In November 1961 Chancellor William B. Aycock announced that William Lanier Hunt had given the university 24.5 acres along Morgan Creek next to the Mason Farm and contracted to give 100 more over a period of years, for a William Lanier Hunt Arboretum of about 130 acres within a planned 240-acre botanical garden; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gray gave eight acres nearby. The land of creek gorge and Catawba rhododendron bluffs became the William Lanier Hunt Arboretum, part of the North Carolina Botanical Garden lands. The Botanical Garden's history counts Hunt's gift at about 103 acres. People: William Lanier Hunt Also named: William B. Aycock · Also mentions: Mason Farm, North Carolina Botanical GardenSearch the index · North Carolina Botanical Garden: A Conservation Garden: The North Carolina Botanical Garden at 50 (1966-2016), Vol. I · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 16, 1961, p. 8
  31. Land commissioners hear Duke Power's condemnation cases against Morgan Creek owners Eight court-appointed commissioners heard three days of testimony at the Hillsboro courthouse on Duke Power Company's suits to take easements for a 100,000-volt transmission line on steel towers across Morgan Creek properties south of Chapel Hill. The owners put their damages at about $571,000 and Duke at about $18,800; the commissioners awarded about $158,000, and when the clerk approved the awards both sides appealed to superior court. People: Edwin M. LynchSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 1, 1962, p. 12
  32. The Army Corps of Engineers is buying land for the New Hope Reservoir southeast of Chapel Hill Planners presenting options for the area south of Morgan Creek in October 1967 noted that the Corps was acquiring land for the New Hope Reservoir. The reservoir lands were to take in the Morgan Creek valley farther east, and the flood pool would reach University land around Finley Golf Course, so the planners treated the reservoir as the outer limit for any loop road south of town. Also mentions: Finley Golf CourseSearch the index · Research Triangle Regional Planning Commission, Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Development Alternatives (1969), scan p. 66
  33. Grey Culbreth Junior High School is built south of Morgan Creek Chapel Hill's second junior high school went up in 1969 on a site south of Morgan Creek chosen after October 1967, along with a new access road.Search the index · Research Triangle Regional Planning Commission, Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Development Alternatives (1969), scan p. 44 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, September 27, 1969, p. 5
  34. Chapel Hill approves treating Carrboro's sewage at the Morgan Creek plant The Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen approved an agreement between Carrboro and the University for Carrboro's sewage to be treated at Chapel Hill's Morgan Creek treatment plant.The Daily Tar Heel, February 9, 1972, p. 4
  35. Carrboro approves $300,000 in notes for sewer work in the Morgan Creek and Tom Creek areas The Carrboro Board of Aldermen unanimously approved issuing $300,000 in sanitary sewer bond anticipation notes to pay for sewer improvements in the Morgan Creek and Tom Creek areas. At the same meeting the board put off again setting a date for the town's bus referendum.Search the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 1, 1973, p. 3
  36. Chapel Hill aldermen hear opposition to the Laurel Hill condominiums south of Morgan Creek A standing-room-only crowd heard three hours of argument before the Board of Aldermen on Comprehensive Ventures' plan for 225 condominiums on 150 acres of William L. Hunt's land beside the Laurel Hill subdivision and Hunt Arboretum; Laurel Hill and Morgan Creek residents said it would overload roads and sewers, the planning staff reported an insufficient water supply, and the aldermen sent the testimony to the planning board. People: William Lanier HuntSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 15, 1974, p. 1
  37. The Morgan Creek sewage plant's sludge centrifuge breaks down The centrifuge that dried sludge at the Morgan Creek wastewater treatment plant failed, and the state let Chapel Hill haul the wet sludge to local farms while it was repaired. State inspectors found no sludge had reached Morgan Creek, though the creek's oxygen already fell below state standards at times below the plant.Search the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 29, 1976, p. 1
  38. The EPA approves expanding the Mason Farm sewage plant The Orange Water and Sewer Authority learned that the Environmental Protection Agency had approved expanding the Mason Farm sewage treatment plant in Chapel Hill from 5.5 million to 8 million gallons a day, after a federal review that had held up construction. The project, about $10 million with 75 percent federal funding, was to be finished by 1982, and Planning Director Mike Jennings said it would let more building use town sewer lines instead of septic tanks. Also named: Mike Jennings · Also mentions: Orange Water and Sewer AuthorityThe Daily Tar Heel, November 16, 1979, p. 3
  39. November rains put Morgan Creek out of its banks and refill University Lake About 2.5 inches of rain fell in 24 hours from Tuesday morning, bringing November's total to some 8.3 inches; Morgan Creek left its banks, leaves briefly blocked drains at Slug's restaurant on N.C. 54, and flood warnings were issued for the Triangle. University Lake, 39 inches below full at the start of the month, rose to 7.25 inches above full, and OWASA expected no serious problems. Also mentions: N.C. 54The Daily Tar Heel, November 22, 1985, p. 3
  40. Orange County commissioners take up a request to name the Morgan Creek bridge for James Taylor The Orange County Board of Commissioners was set to vote on a resolution asking the state Board of Transportation to name the U.S. 15-501 bridge over Morgan Creek in Chapel Hill after James Taylor. Alan E. Rimer made the request for the Chapel Hill Museum board, which was planning an exhibition on Taylor. People: James Taylor Also named: Alan E. Rimer · Also mentions: U.S. 15-501Search the index · Billboard (Associated Press): North Carolina Ponders James Taylor Bridge
  41. The U.S. 15-501 bridge over Morgan Creek is named the James Taylor Bridge The 1987 bridge on U.S. 15-501 South, a mile from Taylor's boyhood home, was named the James Taylor Bridge at a public ceremony at the Dean Smith Center held by the N.C. Department of Transportation and the Chapel Hill Museum. Taylor attended. People: James TaylorSearch the index · CelebrityAccess: Bridge to Be Named After James Taylor

Maps of Morgan Creek

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  1. Map of Orange County UNC · a county map
  2. Map of Orange County, N.C. UNC · a county map
  3. A map of Orange County, N.C. UNC · a county map
  4. Soil map, North Carolina, Orange County sheet Duke · a county map
  5. School map, Orange County, North Carolina. UNC · a county map
  6. Map of Orange County, N.C. : 1939 UNC · a county map
  7. USGS topographic map, Chapel Hill quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)
  8. USGS topographic map, Chapel Hill quadrangle (1:31,680) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)
  9. An atlas for Orange County, North Carolina UNC · a county map
  10. USGS topographic map, Chapel Hill quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)
  11. USGS topographic map, Chapel Hill quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)
  12. USGS topographic map, Chapel Hill quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)

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