Community in Orange County
New Hope
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In the chronology
Dated events connected with this place: sixteen of 73, the highlights and a sample of the rest spread across the years, in date order. See all 73 dated events in the chronology →
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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.
People: Gilbert Strayhorn
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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.
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John DeBow, minister to the Hawfields, Eno and New Hope people, dies
DeBow died at 38 and was buried at Hawfields church. Craig was told he was the first person buried in the present Hawfields churchyard.
People: John DeBow
Subject: Hawfields Presbyterian Church · New Hope Presbyterian Church
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James Strayhorn, John Strain and John Freeland become ruling elders at New Hope
Three men were ordained and installed as elders about 1795, joining James Hart. The four made up the whole session when the church was reorganized in 1820.
People: James Strayhorn · James Hart
Subject: New Hope Presbyterian Church
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William F. Thompson deeds a hundred acres of New Hope church land to John Strayhorn
As he was leaving, Thompson sold about a hundred acres of the church tract to Gilbert Strayhorn's son John, stating that Gilbert had conveyed the land to him. No such conveyance was ever seen or recorded, and Craig judged the deed a forgery; the land left the church's hands.
People: William F. Thompson
Subject: New Hope Presbyterian Church
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New Hope builds its third church
The third house of worship went up about two hundred yards southeast of the second, beside a spring that rises from rock. It had a high pulpit at the west end and a gallery at the east end for Black worshippers, and it stood until fire destroyed it in 1862.
Subject: New Hope Presbyterian Church
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New Hope's elders sell seventeen acres of church land for repairs
After what the deed calls mature deliberation, the elders and subscribers sold seventeen acres at the southwest corner of the church tract to Samuel Strayhorn to pay for church repairs. Seventy acres of Gilbert Strayhorn's gift remained.
People: James Strayhorn · James Hart
Subject: New Hope Presbyterian Church
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A year-long revival at New Hope adds at least seventy communicants
Under the evangelists Daniel L. Russell, John S. McCutcheon and Philip Pearson, families built tents on the church grounds and lived in them for weeks to attend the meetings. The session record shows at least seventy people admitted to communion.
Subject: New Hope Presbyterian Church
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Four elders are ordained at New Hope
George A. Faucett, David Craig, William C. Blackwood and Joseph Kirkland were added to the session. All but Faucett were great-grandsons of William Craige; Kirkland was the father of the Rev. Alexander Kirkland.
Subject: New Hope Presbyterian Church
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New Hope's 1805 church burns
The church burned on a Saturday night, most people believing it was set on purpose. The next morning James Phillips preached to the congregation under the trees, and through the summer of 1862 they worshipped under a large arbor built on the grounds.
People: James Phillips
Subject: New Hope Presbyterian Church
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Henry B. Pratt, a missionary to South America, supplies New Hope
Pratt preached at New Hope for six months with the Hillsborough church. On May 24, 1868, D. I. Craig, John T. Hogan and three women were received and baptized as members.
People: John T. Hogan
Subject: New Hope Presbyterian Church
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John T. Hogan and Samuel D. Blackwood are ordained elders at New Hope
The two men were ordained and added to the session. Hogan descended from the early elder John Freeland, and Blackwood from John Craig.
People: John T. Hogan
Subject: New Hope Presbyterian Church
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Pleasant H. Dalton's pastorate at New Hope is dissolved amid a divided session
Dalton offered his resignation in February 1886, but most of the congregation would not accept it; the relation was dissolved that December after the session fell into disagreement. The church stood vacant about a year while a presbytery commission settled the trouble.
People: Pleasant Hunter Dalton
Subject: New Hope Presbyterian Church
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James E. Fogartie is installed as pastor of New Hope and Chapel Hill
Fogartie was called to New Hope jointly with the Chapel Hill church. About the same time the synod's evangelists W. D. Morton and a Mr. Maxwell held a meeting at New Hope that added a number of members.
Subject: New Hope Presbyterian Church · University Presbyterian Church
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A memorial to local Revolutionary War soldiers is placed at New Hope
In 1942 a monument honoring Revolutionary War soldiers from the neighborhood was set in the grounds of New Hope Presbyterian Church, beside its cemetery.
Subject: New Hope Presbyterian Church
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New Hope Elementary starts a Spanish dual-language program in Orange County Schools
After a year and a half of planning, New Hope Elementary opened a 50-50 Spanish-English dual-language program for 48 kindergarten students at the start of the 2018-19 school year, taught on alternating days in English and Spanish. The principal described it as a way for Latino students to take pride in their heritage and keep the Spanish they use with their families.
Maps of New Hope
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.
- Map of Orange County UNC · a county map
- Map of Orange County, N.C. UNC · a county map
- A map of Orange County, N.C. UNC · a county map
- Soil map, North Carolina, Orange County sheet Duke · a county map
- School map, Orange County, North Carolina. UNC · a county map
- Map of Orange County, N.C. : 1939 UNC · a county map
- An atlas for Orange County, North Carolina UNC · a county map
- USGS topographic map, Hillsborough quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)
- USGS topographic map, Hillsborough quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)
Start at OCPL
Books in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection whose titles, catalog subjects, or descriptions match this place. The Friends’ recommended starting points are labelled.
- Foundational · NC 285 MURPHY
Journey to New Hope: The History of New Hope Presbyterian Church, 1756-2006
Murphy, Barbara A. · 2006
A congregational history of New Hope Presbyterian Church in Orange County, written by Barbara A. Murphy and published in 2006 by Chapel Hill Press. Chapters take up the five successive church buildings, the land itself, the ministers who served, the cemeteries, members who went to war, the church's organization, its music, gifts and memorials, and its outreach to the surrounding community. It also covers Presbyterian experience of the Civil War. 126 pages with illustrations and portraits.
- Foundational · NC 664.72 DUNAWAY
History of Patterson Mill, New Hope Creek, Orange County, NC
Dunaway, Stewart E. · 2010
Stewart E. Dunaway's 2010 study of Patterson Mill, a gristmill site on New Hope Creek where Orange County meets Chatham County. The book pairs a short genealogy of the Patterson family with a close survey of what remains of the mill on land now inside Duke Forest, supported by maps, facsimile documents and illustrations across 176 pages. Self-published in a second issue dated October 10, 2010.
- Foundational · NC 664.72 DUNAWAY
Johnston and Robson Mill History, New Hope Creek (Orange Co., N.C.)
Dunaway, Stewart E. · 2010
Stewart E. Dunaway's history of the two mills George Johnston built on New Hope Creek in Orange County, the first in 1793 and the second in 1820, the earlier of which he sold to the Englishman William Robson. Self-published in 2010, 256 pages with illustrations, maps and facsimiles. Topics include gristmills in Orange County and the Blackwood, Johnston, Robinson and Robson families, so the volume serves both mill history and genealogy.
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- Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 285 CRAIG
A Historical Sketch of New Hope Church, in Orange County, N.C
Craig, D. I. · 1891
Rev. D. I. Craig's history of New Hope Church, a Presbyterian congregation in Chapel Hill Township, Orange County, printed at Reidsville in 1891. A closing family history section covers the Strayhorn, Craig, Blackwood and Kirkland families.
Research sources
Resources picked for this place, each with a note on what it holds.
Historic sites, markers, and maps
- Geographic Names Information System: New HopeUSGS Geographic Names Information System The federal gazetteer’s record: official name, location, the map it was taken from, and any other names it has gone by
Collections and databases
- NC LIVE: prepared search for New Hope Library card An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
Local help
- Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
- Local History Help Hours and request formOCPL Local History Liaison The library’s Local History Liaison helps in person most Mondays, 12 to 3, at the Main Library, or by the online request form
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