Morgan Creek

In the chronology

Dated events connected with this place, earliest first. See these 10 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. April 1879 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: Charles B. AycockSearch the index · Almonte Charles Howell, A History of the Chapel Hill Baptist Church, 1854-1924 (1945), scan p. 28
3. June 29, 1883 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.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 7, 1883, p. 3
4. late February 1908 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.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), March 5, 1908, p. 3
5. 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. People: Toney Strayhorn, Alfred David Barbee Sr.Search the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Heather Fearnbach, Troy M. and Roberta C. Andrews House, National Register nomination (draft, 2026)
6. 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
7. by 1967 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.Search the index · Research Triangle Regional Planning Commission, Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Development Alternatives (1969), scan p. 66
8. 1969 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
9. 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
10. 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