New Hope Creek

In the chronology

Dated events connected with this place, earliest first. See these 8 dated events in the chronology →

1. as early as 1745 Land grants on New Hope Creek are recorded in Bladen County Bladen County records show grants on New Hope Creek, in what became eastern Orange, as early as 1745, seven years before Orange County existed.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 14
2. 1747 Mark Morgan is granted land in the New Hope Creek section Morgan secured land in the New Hope Creek section of eastern Orange. By 1755 he held more enslaved people than anyone else in the county.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 15
3. about 1750 Hawfields families move to New Hope Creek over doubts about their Granville titles When word spread through the Hawfields that the land titles got through Earl Granville's agents were not genuine, William Craige, Gilbert Strayhorn and other families left and took up land on the waters of New Hope. Family tradition held that the settlers named the stream for the 'new hopes' they found there.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 10
4. 1754 and 1755 William Craig and Richard Caswell take up land in the New Hope area William Craig took Granville grants on New Hope Creek on September 6, 1754 (475 acres on Batts Creek) and March 13, 1755 (280 acres on Richland Fork), in the section of eastern Orange where Scotch-Irish families were settling. Richard Caswell held 640 acres at the forks of New Hope Creek by June 1756, when he sold them to William Blackwood.Search the index · Wandering through the NC Piedmont: Recovered Colonial Deeds of Orange (abstracts of the Register of Orange, State Archives of North Carolina)
5. June 1758 James Craig buys back the Richland Fork tract on New Hope Creek William Craige's Richland Fork tract, surveyed in December 1754 and deeded in September 1755, was sold to John Reaney in June 1756 and bought back from him by Craige's son James in June 1758. It was still in the family in 1891.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 15
6. April 14, 1865 Wheeler's Confederate cavalry fought Union pursuers at New Hope Creek east of Chapel Hill Retreating cavalry under Joseph Wheeler destroyed the bridge over the rain-swollen New Hope and the other bridges on the road toward Chapel Hill, then attacked Union cavalry trying to cross on fallen trees and driftwood at the Atkins plantation, about eight miles from the village. Cornelia Phillips Spencer, writing from Chapel Hill, called it the last skirmish and perhaps the last blood of the war and recorded that several men were killed on both sides. People: Cornelia Phillips Spencer, Smith D. AtkinsDocumenting the American South: Cornelia Phillips Spencer, The Last Ninety Days of the War in North-Carolina (1866), chapter XII
7. 1930s An owner of Durham's Erwin Cotton Mill builds a log retreat above New Hope Creek In the 1930s a log house was built on a steep ridge over New Hope Creek, reportedly as a getaway for Mr. Erwin of the Erwin Cotton Mill in Durham. Older log outbuildings, among them a tobacco barn, mark an earlier house site.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Kelly Lally and Ruth Little, Chapel Hill Township Survey Final Report (1992), p. 53
8. August 1969 Fiber Industries withdraws its New Hope Creek rezoning request; commissioners chairman Carl Smith blames opponents Fiber Industries withdrew its request to rezone 450 acres near New Hope Creek for a plant after opposition from UNC, Duke and Mayor Howard Lee. County commissioners chairman Carl Smith blamed 'unintelligent intellectuals' and a town political 'machine', and said Lee, the town's Black mayor, was not serving Black residents by opposing the plant. People: Howard N. LeeSearch the index · Daily Tar Heel (DigitalNC): Fiber Industries withdraws request, August 7, 1969, p. 1