Morgan Creek

In the chronology

Dated events connected with this place, earliest first. See these 5 dated events in the chronology →

1. 1753-54 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.Search the index · MosaicNC (NC Office of Archives and History): Morgan, Mark
2. February 28, 1928 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.Search the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Heather Fearnbach, Troy M. and Roberta C. Andrews House, National Register nomination (draft, 2026)
3. 1961 William Lanier Hunt gives 103 acres of the Morgan Creek gorge to UNC Hunt gave UNC and the state about 103 acres of creek gorge and Catawba rhododendron bluffs along Morgan Creek, which became the William Lanier Hunt Arboretum, part of the North Carolina Botanical Garden lands.Search the index · North Carolina Botanical Garden: A Conservation Garden: The North Carolina Botanical Garden at 50 (1966-2016), Vol. I
4. May 21, 2002 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.Search the index · Billboard (Associated Press): North Carolina Ponders James Taylor Bridge
5. April 24, 2003 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.Search the index · CelebrityAccess: Bridge to Be Named After James Taylor