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StorylineNew Hope Presbyterian Church, 1740–18401740–1840 · 35 events · When Orange Presbytery called in 1820 for long-vacant churches to be reorganized, New Hope Presbyterian Church had no roll of members, and it reorganized with four elders and ten members. Elijah Graves, then teaching at Hillsborough, had preached there from 1818 as stated supply, a minister serving without being installed as pastor, and he returned from 1825 to 1831 after Shepherd K. Kollock ended his connection. A revival in 1831 and 1832 added at least seventy communicants. George W. Ferrill was pastor from 1833 until 1836, and that August James Phillips, a university mathematics professor, began preaching at New Hope, which he served until 1865, longer than any other minister. Four more elders were ordained in 1840. StorylineHugh McAden, Henry Pattillo and the first Presbyterian congregations, 1753–17901753–1790 · 19 events · Orange County's Presbyterian settlers had congregations before they had ministers. Hugh McAden preached on the Eno and at the Hawfields in 1755 and 1756, and the settlements asked Hanover Presbytery for preachers, but none came regularly until Henry Pattillo became pastor of the Hawfields, Eno and Little River churches in 1765. Pattillo and his fellow ministers condemned the Regulators in 1768 and he preached to Tryon's troops; in 1770 they formed Orange Presbytery, which first met at Hawfields. In 1775 the Provincial Congress sent Pattillo to win former Regulators to the American cause, and about 1790 the old Pattillo field was split into two pastoral charges. StorylineThe Great Revival in Orange County, 1800–18051800–1805 · 5 events · In 1800 a great camp-meeting revival was held at New Hope: people came from long distances and camped on the church grounds for days, and the revival spread into other neighborhoods. In 1801 William D. Paisley took charge of the Hawfields and Cross Roads Presbyterian churches near present Mebane. At a general communion at Cross Roads in March 1801, before a large crowd, the congregation broke into the outcries and physical frenzy of the western camp meetings just as an ordinary service was ending, and the ministers present let the demonstration run its course. A 1966 article in the North Carolina Historical Review dates the start of the Great Revival in North Carolina from this meeting. The revival reached Hawfields, where people from long distances camped on the church grounds in their wagons for several days. The Hawfields church historian credits Paisley with organizing that meeting, and Foote and the 1966 article call it the first camp meeting in North Carolina, though the accounts differ on its date. At New Hope, D. I. Craig thought the revival did much to prompt the building of a third church. It went up in 1805 with 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. StorylineThe Grange in Orange County, 1873–19481873–1948 · 6 events · The Patrons of Husbandry, or Grange, took root in Orange County twice. James Means of Concord organized the Eno Grange at Cedar Grove in December 1873, and in October 1874 delegates of seven Granges organized a county council with John K. Hughes as master. A state Grange revival from 1929 to 1931 produced five Orange chapters, among them Schley Grange No. 710. Schley and Fairfield made their halls out of abandoned schoolhouses, and the chapters met every two weeks with women and children as members. A Grange was organized at New Hope in 1946, and in 1948 W. Kerr Scott, the Democratic nominee for governor and a former State Grange master, spoke to the county's Granges. StorylineProhibition and the liquor question, 1879–18921879–1892 · 13 events · Between 1879 and 1892 the sale of liquor in Orange County was argued over in the legislature, at the polls, before town and county boards and in court. In 1879 the legislature widened the ban on selling liquor around the university to four miles. Before the 1881 statewide prohibition vote, supporters organized the county under Rev. N. H. Cobb, with every minister, white and Black, a vice president. In 1882 Anderson Hill ran for the House as an Independent Prohibition candidate. Hillsborough's town board refused liquor licenses in 1890 and 1891, but the county commissioners licensed John U. Smith, and the town's suit against him was compromised and dismissed in 1892. StorylineNew Hope Presbyterian Church’s divided session, 1884–18901884–1890 · 7 events · Disputes in the session, the elders who governed the congregation, kept New Hope Presbyterian Church unsettled from 1886 to 1890. Pastor Pleasant H. Dalton offered his resignation in 1886; most of the congregation would not accept it, but after the session fell into disagreement the relation was dissolved. James L. Currie became pastor in 1887. A quarrel over a member's settlement of an estate then went to Orange Presbytery, whose 1889 ruling deepened the split. Most members petitioned the active elders to resign, three refused, and the presbytery dissolved all six elders' relation to the church and ordered a new election. Currie's pastorate ended after new troubles, and in 1890 New Hope began sharing a pastor with Chapel Hill.
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StorylineBig farms sold in small tracts, 1919–19231919–1923 · 3 events · Between 1919 and 1923 three big Orange County farms were broken up and sold at auction in smaller tracts. On July 12, 1919 the 508-acre Williams-Snipes farm near Carrboro sold in tracts laid off by a Greensboro realty company, and Professor H. H. Williams of the University bought most of it. That October the New Hope Valley tobacco farm east of Chapel Hill, owned by Maynard Mangum of Durham, was auctioned as sixteen farms and brought $98,260.70. On November 22, 1923 Julian Carr's Occoneechee Farm near Hillsboro was sold at auction in small farms along the Durham-Greensboro highway, with its personal property; Carr had already sold his Holstein herd to Chapel Hill dairyman C. H. Weaver. StorylineHome demonstration and 4-H clubs in Orange County, 1935–19391935–1939 · 7 events · Home demonstration work, the teaching of homemaking to farm women and girls by a county agent, began in Orange in September 1935, when no county school but Hillsboro's taught home economics. Grace Holcombe, hired jointly by Orange and Chatham counties, led it. That month women of New Hope and Blackwood Station organized what the Weekly called the county's first club, and Fairfield women the second. Holcombe organized girls' 4-H clubs that fall, and by May 1936 there were seven clubs with 106 members and ten girls' 4-H clubs with 231. The boys' 4-H clubs were reorganized in 1938, Woodward Byars succeeded Holcombe by 1939, and by 1941 the county had 17 home demonstration clubs.

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  1. 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 Also named: William CraigeSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 10
  2. Gilbert Strean takes the surname Strayhorn About the time he got the deeds for his New Hope lands, Gilbert Strean, or Streaughan, changed his name to Strayhorn, saying he had put a 'horn' to it to make it sound. His nephews Alexander, John and James, who came south later to find him, kept the name Strain. People: Gilbert StrayhornSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 9
  3. 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. People: Richard Caswell Also named: William Craig, William BlackwoodSearch the index · Wandering through the NC Piedmont: Recovered Colonial Deeds of Orange (abstracts of the Register of Orange, State Archives of North Carolina) · Also: Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952
  4. New Hope Presbyterian Church traces its beginning to 1756 New Hope Presbyterian Church, south of Hillsborough on the road to Chapel Hill, counts 1756 as its founding year, when the Hawfields and Eno Presbyterians, with whom the New Hope families then worshiped, first asked Hanover Presbytery for preachers. Its early records burned in 1827; D. I. Craig judged it was formally organized later, most likely under Henry Pattillo after his 1765 call, and it first appears with its own minister in the 1795 Orange Presbytery minutes. People: Henry Pattillo Also mentions: New Hope Presbyterian ChurchIn the index: New Hope Presbyterian Church (Orange County, N.C.) · New Hope Presbyterian Church: History of NHPC · Also: William Henry Foote, Sketches of North Carolina
  5. 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. Also named: James Craig, William Craige, John ReaneySearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 15
  6. New Hope congregation builds its first meetinghouse Settlers still attached to the Hawfields congregation built a rough first meetinghouse about five miles south of Hillsborough and a quarter mile east of the road to Chapel Hill. An octagonal log church on higher ground replaced it, which the church dates to 1775.In the index: New Hope Presbyterian Church (Orange County, N.C.) · Internet Archive: D. I. Craig, A Historical Sketch of New Hope Church, in Orange County, N.C. (1891)
  7. James Hunter's family takes refuge at Gilbert Strayhorn's house John A. Freeland, grandson of Alexander Strain, told D. I. Craig that after James Hunter's house was burned and he was outlawed, the Hunter family took refuge at Gilbert Strayhorn's house near New Hope, and that Strayhorn's nephew Alexander Strain met and married Hunter's daughter there. Craig gives no date; the year assumes this was the Regulator James Hunter, outlawed in 1771. People: Gilbert Strayhorn, James Hunter Also named: Alexander StrainSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 10
  8. John DeBow takes the Hawfields and Eno charge and preaches at New Hope DeBow, a young minister, succeeded Pattillo at the Hawfields and Eno about 1775 and preached at New Hope as he could. Craig calls him probably the first preacher with anything like a regular appointment there. People: John DeBowSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 22
  9. Methodists divide their North Carolina circuit and form the New Hope Circuit, taking in part of Orange When the original North Carolina circuit was split in three in 1778, the new New Hope Circuit covered parts of Orange, Chatham, Cumberland and Wake counties. Hillsborough was served by its riders, beginning with James O'Kelly and Philip Adams in 1779. Also named: James O'Kelly, Philip AdamsSearch the index · Pauline O. Lloyd and Allen A. Lloyd, History of the Churches of Hillsborough, N.C., ca. 1766-1962 (1963), scan p. 92
  10. 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 DeBowSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 22
  11. David Craig's 1785 stone is the oldest dated marker in New Hope's old graveyard The earliest date Craig could find in the old graveyard beside the first church site reads 'D. C. - N. 2. - 1785', which he took for David Craig, a son of William Craige, who died November 2, 1785. Earlier graves there were marked with rough, unlettered stones. Also named: David Craig, William CraigeSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 20
  12. Jacob Lake ends his ministry to New Hope Lake followed DeBow and served New Hope with the Hawfields and Eno churches in the same way until about 1790. He left Orange Presbytery in 1794 after about ten years in it. Later pastor tablets give his years as 1784-1792 (Hawfields) and 1786-1794 (Eno). Also named: Jacob LakeSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 22
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  1. Gilbert Strayhorn deeds two hundred acres to New Hope church Soon after Lake left, the aged Gilbert Strayhorn gave two hundred acres 'to the subscribers of the church and their successors.' Every New Hope church stood on this land, and seventy acres of it were still the congregation's in 1891. People: Gilbert StrayhornSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 23
  2. A school begins to be kept at New Hope church Thompson urged the congregation to take up schooling, and after his time the church generally kept a school for many years. His successor James H. Bowman is said to have taught school there while supplying the pulpit. People: William F. Thompson Also named: James H. BowmanSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 23
  3. 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 Hart, James Strayhorn Also named: John Strain, John FreelandSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 35
  4. New Hope builds a parsonage with a farm on the church tract At William F. Thompson's urging the congregation built a parsonage where William C. Claytor later lived and laid off much of Gilbert Strayhorn's two-hundred-acre gift as a farm to go with it. People: William F. Thompson Also named: William C. Claytor, Gilbert StrayhornSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 23
  5. Orange Presbytery holds its earliest recorded meeting at New Hope The oldest surviving Orange Presbytery minutes record a meeting at New Hope church, the first after Concord Presbytery was set off. James Bowman was moderator, William McGee was ordained with William F. Thompson, John Gillispie was licensed, and two candidates, Robert Foster and Robert Tate, sat part of their trials. People: William F. Thompson Also named: James Bowman, William McGee, John Gillispie, Robert Foster, Robert TateSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 22
  6. William F. Thompson is ordained at New Hope as its first pastor Thompson, said to be a native of Connecticut, was ordained at New Hope and apparently installed as its pastor at the same meeting, the first pastor the church had. Earlier ministers had served it as supplies alongside the Hawfields and Eno. People: William F. ThompsonSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 22
  7. The Haw River Circuit takes the place of the New Hope Circuit in serving Hillsborough Methodists In 1797 the Methodists replaced the New Hope Circuit with the Haw River Circuit, whose preachers then served the Hillsborough community. The Hillsborough church organized about 1807 belonged to this circuit.Search the index · Pauline O. Lloyd and Allen A. Lloyd, History of the Churches of Hillsborough, N.C., ca. 1766-1962 (1963), scan p. 92
  8. 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 Also named: John Strayhorn, Gilbert StrayhornSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 23
  9. William F. Thompson resigns as pastor of New Hope Thompson gave up the charge at a called meeting of Orange Presbytery at Cross Roads church and left the presbytery's bounds. In April 1802 the presbytery suspended him from the ministry for false charges he had made against it. People: William F. ThompsonSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 22
  10. A great camp-meeting revival is held at New Hope People came from long distances and camped on the church grounds for days, and the revival spread into other neighborhoods. Craig thought it did much to prompt the building of a third church.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 25
  11. James H. Bowman becomes stated supply at New Hope Bowman, whose charge in 1799 was Eno and Little River, went west as a missionary in 1800, returned in the fall of 1801 and probably came to New Hope in 1802. He preached and taught school there until he left the presbytery in 1815, and was perhaps the first to preach in the third church. Also named: James H. BowmanSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 25
  12. Gilbert Strayhorn, a founder and first elder of New Hope church, dies Strayhorn died at 88 and was buried in the old New Hope graveyard, next to the church he had helped found on his own land. People: Gilbert StrayhornSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 35
  13. 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.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 26
  14. The court orders a road laid out to the New Hope bridge near Captain Collier's The court ordered the sheriff to summon a jury to lay off the best road from the place where Mrs. Sears's path left the road from Chapel Hill to Raleigh to the bridge across New Hope Creek near Captain Charles Collier's. Also named: Mrs. Sears, Charles CollierSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: May Term 1807
  15. A log house said to date from 1811 is built for the Craig family near New Hope Local tradition puts the building of this story-and-a-half log house on New Hope Church Road in 1811, for the Craigs; the Blackwoods owned it for many years and added to it around 1900. If the date holds it is the oldest log house in the survey.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Kelly Lally and Ruth Little, Chapel Hill Township Survey Final Report (1992), p. 45
  16. Robert H. Chapman serves New Hope as stated supply After James H. Bowman left, Chapman supplied the New Hope pulpit about 1815. People: Robert Hett Chapman Also named: James H. BowmanSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 27
  17. John Craig, a founder and first elder of New Hope church, dies John Craig, eldest son of William Craige, died at about 90. Craig names him with Gilbert Strayhorn as the church's original founders and first elders. Also named: John Craig, William Craige, Gilbert StrayhornSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 35
  18. The court names commissioners to repair or rebuild the Ben's Creek and New Hope bridges The court appointed William Barbee, Abram Craig, Sampson Moore, Charles Trice and Ezekiel Trice commissioners to repair or rebuild the bridges across Ben's Creek and New Hope Creek on the road from Chapel Hill to Raleigh, and to report to the next term. People: William Barbee Also named: Abram Craig, Sampson Moore, Charles Trice, Ezekiel Trice · Also mentions: Ben's CreekSearch the index · Mark Chilton, transcription of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions minutes: February Term 1816
  19. 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 Also named: Samuel Strayhorn, Gilbert StrayhornSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 24
  20. Elijah Graves preaches at New Hope as stated supply Graves, who was teaching at Hillsborough, preached at New Hope from November 1818 until April 1820. A temperance reformer, he persuaded many hearers to sign a pledge. People: Elijah GravesSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 27
  21. New Hope church is reorganized under Shepherd K. Kollock On April 22, 1820, Kollock laid before the session Orange Presbytery's call for long-vacant churches to be reorganized; finding no roll of members and little discipline, the session resolved to reorganize the next day. On April 23 four elders and ten members publicly assented to the articles of faith and covenant. People: James Strayhorn, James Hart Also named: Shepherd K. KollockSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 27
  22. Alexander Gattis, Samuel Faucett and Gilbert Strayhorn are ordained elders at New Hope The session added three ruling elders; Gilbert Strayhorn was a grandson of the founding elder and a son of William Strayhorn. Also named: Alexander Gattis, Samuel Faucett, Gilbert StrayhornSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 36
  23. Shepherd K. Kollock's connection with New Hope is dissolved Kollock, who had preached at New Hope with the Hillsborough church since 1820, ended his connection in May 1825. Elijah Graves came back as stated supply that November and stayed until May 1831. People: Elijah Graves Also named: Shepherd K. KollockSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 28
  24. 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. Also named: Daniel L. Russell, John S. McCutcheon, Philip PearsonSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 28
  25. Five elders are ordained at New Hope during the revival William Brown, Alexander Strain, Samuel Hart, David Hart and Allen Petty were added to the session. The two Harts were grandsons of Gilbert Strayhorn, and Strain was a son of the earlier elder Alexander Strain. Also named: William Brown, Alexander Strain, Samuel Hart, David Hart, Allen Petty, Gilbert StrayhornSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 36
  26. James Phillips is licensed to preach and later serves New Hope Presbyterian Church Mathematics professor James Phillips joined the Presbyterian church in 1832 and was licensed to preach by Orange Presbytery in 1833. He was later ordained and installed as minister of New Hope Presbyterian Church, about seven miles outside Chapel Hill, and shared the university chapel work with Elisha Mitchell. People: James Phillips Also named: Elisha MitchellSearch the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Phillips, James
  27. New Hope elects George W. Ferrill as pastor The congregation unanimously elected Ferrill pastor, and he was installed soon after. The pastoral relation was dissolved in July 1836. Also named: George W. FerrillSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 29
  28. James Phillips begins nearly thirty years as stated supply at New Hope The university professor began preaching at New Hope in August 1836 and served it until December 1865, longer than any other minister. Because Chapel Hill long had no Presbyterian church, New Hope heard him almost every Sunday for years. People: James PhillipsSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 29
  29. A great freshet sweeps away bridges and mill dams on New Hope and Morgan's creeks A tremendous rain south of Hillsborough carried away all the bridges on New Hope and Morgan's creeks, most of the mill dams and some of the mills, and badly damaged soil and fences. The Recorder called it the greatest freshet known in forty years.Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, May 7, 1840, p. 3
  30. 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. Also named: George A. Faucett, David Craig, William C. Blackwood, Joseph Kirkland, William Craige, Alexander KirklandSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 36
  31. Charles Phillips joins New Hope church James Phillips's son Charles, later a minister and teacher at the university, joined the church at New Hope. He often preached there with his father in later years. People: Charles Phillips, James PhillipsSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 29
  32. David L. Swain and Charles Phillips transfer from New Hope to the Chapel Hill church University president David L. Swain, who first joined a church at New Hope, and Charles Phillips were released by letter to the Presbyterian church at Chapel Hill, according to the New Hope church's history. Lucy Phillips Russell, writing from the Chapel Hill church records in 1936, said the first Session record there, dated June 8, 1845, shows Swain and Phillips ordained as ruling elders of the Chapel Hill congregation, months before the date the New Hope history gives for their release. People: David L. Swain, Charles PhillipsSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 29 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, April 24, 1936, p. 3
  33. Five elders are ordained at New Hope Samuel S. Claytor, Alexander Dickson, William S. Kirkland, Bryant Strayhorn and George R. Long were ordained and installed. Craig traces each to the founding families except Dickson. People: Alexander Dickson Also named: Samuel S. Claytor, William S. Kirkland, Bryant Strayhorn, George R. LongSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 36
  34. Thirty-five men of the New Hope congregation die in Confederate service Craig lists thirty-five men from within the bounds of the congregation who died in the Civil War, eight of them Strayhorns and three Craigs.NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 40
  35. 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 PhillipsSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 26
  36. New Hope Presbyterian Church builds its fourth church In the middle of the Civil War, New Hope Presbyterian Church put up its fourth building, the one still in use in 1953.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 295
  37. Thomas Lynch becomes stated supply at New Hope after James Phillips Lynch took up the New Hope pulpit after Phillips stopped preaching there at the end of 1865 and served until the winter of 1867. People: James Phillips Also named: Thomas LynchSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 30
  38. Charles Phillips is ordained at New Hope Church in Orange County Phillips was ordained on 14 April 1866 at Orange County's New Hope Church, which had long been under the pastoral charge of his father James Phillips. Orange Presbytery had convened there on Wednesday, April 11, and ordained Phillips and Calvin H. Wiley during the meeting. People: Charles Phillips, James Phillips Also named: Calvin H. WileySearch the index · NCpedia: Phillips, Charles
  39. Calvin H. Wiley is ordained at New Hope At the last meeting of Orange Presbytery held at New Hope, Calvin H. Wiley was ordained with Charles Phillips, both sine titulo, without a pastoral charge. People: Charles Phillips Also named: Calvin H. WileySearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 31
  40. 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 Also named: Henry B. Pratt, D. I. CraigSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 31
  41. Freedpeople at New Hope rent a building and hire a teacher for a school Trustees led by Nelson Kirklin wrote from New Hope that they had rented a school building and secured a teacher and could send about 40 scholars, and asked the Bureau for $10 a month during the school season. Lt. Thomas H. Hay recommended the aid, citing the many Black children of the neighborhood and the freedmen's poverty, and visited the school in November. Also named: Nelson Kirklin, Thomas H. HayFreedmen's Bureau, North Carolina Field Offices, Hillsboro: Register of Letters Received, Vol. 129, July 1867–Dec. 1868, transcription p. 23
  42. New freedmen's schools open at Banocks Chapel, Cotton Run and New Hope, all with Black teachers Hay's October 1868 report counted 13 day schools in Orange and Person, adding schools at Banocks Chapel near Chapel Hill (John Weaver), Cotton Run and New Hope (London Moore) to those at Hillsborough, Chapel Hill, Durham's, Bains and Cedar Grove. All 11 teachers were Black, among them R. G. Fitzgerald and E. E. Anderson at Hillsborough, James Whitted at Bains and Georgianna Rumbley at Cedar Grove, and the freedpeople owned the schoolhouses at Banocks Chapel, Bains and Cedar Grove. People: Robert G. Fitzgerald Also named: Thomas H. Hay, John Weaver, London Moore, James A. Whitted, Georgianna Rumbley, James WhittedFreedmen's Bureau, North Carolina Field Offices, Hillsboro: Monthly Reports of Schools, Feb.–Dec. 1868, transcription p. 25
  43. Lt. Thomas H. Hay counts about 330 day pupils in Orange County's freedmen's schools Hay's table for the month ending November 30, 1868, gave enrollment at eight Orange schools: Hillsborough 71 day, 20 night and 100 Sunday scholars; Chapel Hill and Cedar Grove 56 day pupils each; Barracks Chapel 42; Durham's 35; New Hope 27; Bains 25; and Mrs. Richardson's school at Hillsborough 18, with Cotton Run lacking a teacher. The Durham's schoolhouse belonged to its Black teacher George Bradshaw, and Fannie Culver at Chapel Hill was the only white teacher in the two counties. Also named: Thomas H. Hay, George Bradshaw, Fannie Culver, Ann RichardsonFreedmen's Bureau, North Carolina Field Offices, Hillsboro: Monthly Reports of Schools, Feb.–Dec. 1868, transcription p. 28
  44. Alexander Kirkland, a son of the congregation, supplies New Hope The Rev. Alexander Kirkland, son of the New Hope elder Joseph Kirkland, supplied the church for part of 1869 and 1870 after Pratt. Also named: Alexander Kirkland, Joseph KirklandSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 31
  45. New Hope's present graveyard is begun Because the old graveyard lay so low that winter graves filled with water, James Newton Craig and elder David Craig chose a dry site a little south of east of the church. His nine-month-old son Vernon, who died on December 31, 1868, was buried there on January 1, 1869 as its first grave. Also named: James Newton Craig, David CraigSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 40 · Also: Cemetery Census, New Hope Presbyterian Church Cemetery
  46. T. U. Faucett becomes stated supply at New Hope Thomas U. Faucett served the church as stated supply from 1870 until the fall of 1872. Also named: Thomas U. FaucettSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 31
  47. 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 Also named: Samuel D. Blackwood, John Craig, John FreelandSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 36
  48. Pleasant H. Dalton becomes stated supply at New Hope Dalton, who had joined New Hope as a university student in 1842, began supplying the church in August 1874. By his own count at least fifty members were added in his twelve years there. People: Pleasant Hunter DaltonSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 31
  49. William C. Claytor, Nettleton G. Craig and Charles W. Johnston are ordained elders at New Hope Three elders were added to the session. Claytor was a son of the 1859 elder Samuel Claytor; Johnston's grandmother was Mary Cabe, a daughter of Gilbert Strayhorn. People: Charles W. Johnston Also named: William C. Claytor, Nettleton G. CraigSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 37
  50. The Orange Sunday School Convention meets at New Hope Church and names a committee to write its constitution Delegates from eight Sunday schools in Orange, from Chapel Hill to Cedar Grove, met at New Hope Church with Vice-President L. Turner of Chapel Hill in the chair and reported their schools. The convention named an executive committee under Rev. J. F. Heitman to draft a constitution and by-laws and chose Cedar Grove for its September meeting. Also named: L. Turner, J. F. HeitmanSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, April 19, 1879, p. 2
  51. Samuel Kirkland and Leroy Craig are ordained elders at New Hope The two were added to the session in what Craig in 1891 called the last ordination of elders at New Hope. Also named: Samuel Kirkland, Leroy CraigSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 37
  52. The State University Railroad reaches New Hope Creek Track on the State University Railroad was completed to New Hope, with cars due to cross the New Hope bridge that week. The sills, roadbed repairs, culverts, cattle guards and trestles were finished to within two and a half miles of Chapel Hill, and more than fifty hands were at work. Also mentions: State University RailroadSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 26, 1881, p. 2
  53. Pleasant H. Dalton is installed as pastor of New Hope After nearly ten years as stated supply, Dalton was installed as the church's pastor. People: Pleasant Hunter DaltonSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 31
  54. 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 DaltonSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 31
  55. Prohibitionists organize a club at New Hope A prohibition club was organized at New Hope on Saturday, October 1, with a minister as its president, as prohibitionists in the county began to organize.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 8, 1887, p. 3
  56. James L. Currie is installed as pastor of New Hope Currie, who had preached there briefly in 1874, was installed as pastor in 1887; Craig's history gives March, but the Orange County Observer announced the installation service for Sunday, November 20, and the Hillsboro Recorder reported it held that day, with the Rev. Mr. Wilhelm giving the charge to the pastor. The relation was dissolved in November 1889 after new troubles in the session. People: James L. CurrieSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 32 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 19, 1887, p. 3; Hillsboro Recorder, November 24, 1887, p. 3
  57. Orange Presbytery decides an estate dispute that had divided New Hope's session A quarrel over a member's settlement of an estate, which Craig thought belonged in the civil courts, had been brought before the session. An adjourned meeting of the presbytery decided it, and the ruling deepened the split in the session.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 32
  58. Orange Presbytery removes all six active elders of New Hope Member David A. Claytor had carried a petition, which most of the members signed, calling on the active elders to resign; three agreed and three refused. Meeting at the church, the presbytery heard the parties, dissolved all six elders' relation to the church and ordered a new election. People: John T. Hogan, Charles W. Johnston Also named: David A. Claytor, William C. ClaytorSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 32
  59. New Hope re-elects three of its removed elders With the Rev. F. H. Johnston presiding, the congregation chose Charles W. Johnston, John T. Hogan and William C. Claytor again, and they were reinstalled before a large congregation. People: John T. Hogan, Charles W. Johnston Also named: William C. ClaytorSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 32
  60. James E. Fogartie is installed as pastor of New Hope Fogartie, already installed as pastor of the Chapel Hill Presbyterian church that November, was installed at New Hope on November 30, 1890, serving the two churches jointly. 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. Also named: James E. FogartieSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 33 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 29, 1890, p. 3
  61. Former solicitor Isaac R. Strayhorn dies near Hillsborough Isaac R. Strayhorn, a Hillsborough lawyer and former solicitor, died of pneumonia at his home a short distance from town. He was buried from New Hope Presbyterian Church on May 23. People: Isaac R. StrayhornSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 27, 1893, p. 3
  62. David Craig, for many years an elder of New Hope church, dies David Craig died at his home near New Hope church. He had been a leading ruling elder of the New Hope Presbyterian congregation for many years. Also named: David CraigSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 28, 1893, p. 3
  63. Albert Long, a Black man, joins the Hillsborough Presbyterian Church by letter from New Hope Albert Long transferred his membership by certificate from New Hope Presbyterian Church, one of two Black members the book names as received after the Civil War. Also named: Albert Long · Also mentions: New Hope Presbyterian ChurchSearch the index · Pauline O. Lloyd and Allen A. Lloyd, History of the Churches of Hillsborough, N.C., ca. 1766-1962 (1963), scan p. 133
  64. New Hope Presbyterian Church celebrates its centennial New Hope Presbyterian Church held its centennial with a day of services, dinner in the grove and a centennial address by Rev. M. McG. Shields of Burlington; Rev. H. S. Bradshaw of Hillsborough spoke on missions. The day also brought in the children's missionary corn crop, 14 and a half bushels grown from 2,000 grains handed out the spring before. People: H. S. Bradshaw Also named: M. McG. ShieldsSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 30, 1895, p. 2
  65. New Hope's women organize a missionary society At New Hope Presbyterian Church's centennial, Mrs. Harris of Chapel Hill organized the women of the congregation into a missionary society. Also named: Mrs. HarrisSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 30, 1895, p. 2
  66. The Rev. H. S. Bradshaw is installed as pastor of New Hope Presbyterian Church A presbytery committee led by the Rev. D. I. Craig installed the Rev. H. S. Bradshaw as pastor of New Hope Presbyterian Church on August 13; ruling elder Shepperd Strudwick of Hillsborough gave the charge to the congregation. People: D. I. (David Irwin) Craig, Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961), H. S. BradshawSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 17, 1905, p. 3
  67. David K. Blackwood is moved from a family burying ground to New Hope churchyard In 1912 the remains of David K. Blackwood, who had died in 1859, were taken from the family graveyard and reburied at New Hope Presbyterian Church. His marble headstone records the move. Also named: David K. BlackwoodSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Kelly Lally and Ruth Little, Chapel Hill Township Survey Final Report (1992), p. 11
  68. The Orange County Red Cross grants New Hope Church a branch The chapter's executive committee read and granted New Hope Church's application to form a Red Cross branch on September 7, 1917, and filed Cedar Grove's certificate of organization at the same meeting. By December New Hope was sending surgical dressings to Hillsborough for shipment with Cedar Grove's.Search the index · State Archives of North Carolina, Military Collection, WWI Papers, Box 2, Folder 37: Orange County Red Cross History (typescripts, 1918-1919), scan 6
  69. The Orange County Red Cross counts 850 knitted articles and 41,396 dressings for 1918 During 1918 the chapter and its branches at Cedar Grove, New Hope and Oaks sent 850 knitted articles to Atlanta and fourteen boxes holding 41,396 bandages and surgical dressings. The history adds that the Black auxiliary did little sewing but drew in Black members.Search the index · State Archives of North Carolina, Military Collection, WWI Papers, Box 2, Folder 37: Orange County Red Cross History (typescripts, 1918-1919), scan 16
  70. The New Hope Valley farm east of Chapel Hill is auctioned off as sixteen farms The New Hope Valley farm, a tobacco farm on the New Hope Valley road three miles east of Chapel Hill owned by Maynard Mangum of Durham, was sold at auction in sixteen farms of 69 to 207 acres. Prices ran from $28 to $200 an acre and the sale brought $98,260.70; the Virginia-Carolina Land Corporation was among the buyers. Also named: Maynard MangumSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), October 16, 1919, p. 5
  71. A 30-mile short cut from Chapel Hill to Raleigh by way of Lowe's Grove opens After the Orange commissioners on September 7 voted unanimously to put a road gang on the old Raleigh road out of Chapel Hill, including Blake's hill, and Durham County's road forces worked their end, the Weekly announced the short cut open. Travelers went by the old Raleigh and New Hope Valley roads to Evergreen farm and through Lowe's Grove to Nelson, 30 miles instead of 38 through Durham. People: W. S. Roberson, John Sprunt Hill, Junius D. WebbSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 30, 1925, p. 1
  72. New Hope Presbyterian Church holds a homecoming New Hope Presbyterian Church, a few miles north of Chapel Hill, held a homecoming on August 24, 1930. Rev. Daniel J. Currie, a former pastor, preached in the morning, and after an outdoor dinner the president of Greensboro Female College and the Reidsville Presbyterian pastor spoke; the Weekly gave the church's founding as 1756. Also named: Daniel J. CurrieSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 29, 1930, p. 6
  73. New Hope and Mount Moriah landowners organize to fight forest fires Farm owners north and northeast of Chapel Hill met and formed a society for mutual protection against forest fires, pledging to answer calls in their territory and to pay a small sum per acre for rakes, pumps and other gear kept in members' homes. Those at the meeting owned about 4,000 acres.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 11, 1931, p. 1
  74. Women of New Hope and Blackwood Station organize a home demonstration club Women of the New Hope and Blackwood Station communities met at the home of Mrs. Henry Tapp on September 24, 1935, to organize a home demonstration club under the new county agent, Grace Holcombe, and elected Mrs. John Powell president. First called the University Station club, it voted that November to take the name Blackwood-New Hope Club as a better fit for its members. The Weekly called it the first club organized in the county, and the club's 1951 history, written by reporter Elizabeth Kirkland, made the same claim and counted sixteen charter members; a 1953 club history in the News of Orange County gave the year as 1938. Also named: Mrs. Henry Tapp, Mrs. John Powell, Janie Blackwood, Elizabeth Kirkland, Grace Holcombe · Also mentions: News of Orange County, University StationSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 3, 1951, p. 8 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 7, 1953, p. 3; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 27, 1935, p. 6; Chapel Hill Weekly, October 4, 1935, p. 3; Chapel Hill Weekly, November 15, 1935, p. 1
  75. Fairfield women organize a home demonstration club Women of the Fairfield community met on October 2 and organized a home demonstration club under Grace Holcombe, the new agent for Orange and Chatham counties. The Weekly called it the second such club in the county, after the New Hope and Blackwood club formed the week before, and said more would follow. People: Grace E. Holcombe Also named: Grace Holcombe · Also mentions: Orange and Chatham countiesSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 4, 1935, p. 3
  76. 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.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Kelly Lally and Ruth Little, Chapel Hill Township Survey Final Report (1992), p. 46
  77. Haywood Craig Borland, born enslaved, is buried beside New Hope Presbyterian Church Haywood Craig Borland, born in 1861 to parents enslaved by the Craig family and a lifelong helper to New Hope families, was buried at his request a few yards from New Hope Presbyterian Church, where his old master had tied his horse on Sundays. White and Black ministers held the graveside service and a brick and concrete mound was raised over the grave. Also named: Haywood Craig BorlandSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 21, 1946, p. 1
  78. Farmers organize an Orange County Farm Bureau with 300 members Orange County farmers organized a county Farm Bureau with 300 members in 1946, and a new Grange was begun at New Hope, according to the county agent's year-end report to the commissioners. The same report counted a record 6,237 tons of lime and 500 acres of alfalfa, ten new fish ponds and eleven dairies raised to grade A. People: Don S. MathesonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 9, 1947, p. 6
  79. Farmers organize a Grange at New Hope At an open meeting in the New Hope hut addressed by state Grange master Mrs. Harry B. Caldwell, those present decided to organize a Grange at New Hope and elected J. R. Pulley master. People: Garland O. Reitzel Also named: J. R. Pulley, Mrs. Harry B. CaldwellSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 15, 1946, p. 1
  80. The New Hope Grange opens a recreation center in the Presbyterian church hut A recreation center for all ages opened on Saturday nights in the New Hope Presbyterian church hut, sponsored by the New Hope Grange, with ping-pong, checkers, darts, indoor horseshoes and card games. A piano was bought for community sings.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 31, 1946, p. 1
  81. The New Hope community helps build Camp New Hope for Orange Presbytery Beginning in 1947 the New Hope Grange community contributed a good deal toward building Camp New Hope, which belonged to Orange Presbytery. The camp was also open to other youth groups, among them 4-H clubs and Boy Scouts.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 261
  82. Orange Presbytery votes to buy land beside New Hope church for a summer camp Meeting in Greensboro, Orange Presbytery endorsed a committee plan to buy 60 acres of the W. A. Craig estate next to New Hope Presbyterian Church for a summer camp and recreation center, and accepted a $1,000 gift toward the price. The plans called for a dam and lake, an administration building and dormitories.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 23, 1947, p. 1
  83. New Hope church gives its grounds as about 450 Presbyterians view the camp site On Easter Monday about 450 people from the eight-county Orange Presbytery gathered at New Hope to see the camp site, where the church's 67 acres and 60 acres held by the presbytery made a 127-acre tract. The trustees showed plans for 23 cabins each for boys and girls, four main buildings, a lake and a swimming pool, and asked every church for a dollar a member.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 10, 1947, p. 1
  84. Orange Presbytery holds its first camps at Camp New Hope Orange Presbytery moved its summer youth conferences from Peace College to its own Camp New Hope, holding a senior conference for 148 young people and two eight-day Pioneer camps there between June 21 and July 14. The camp had added three double cabins, bath houses and refrigeration, and the N. N. Fleming Memorial Lodge was finished except for its fireplace and windows.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 21, 1949, p. 1
  85. Camp New Hope dedicates the Fleming Memorial Lodge Orange Presbytery, meeting at New Hope Church, dedicated the new Fleming Memorial Lodge at Camp New Hope at noon on July 13, in memory of the Rev. N. N. Fleming, the presbytery's stated clerk and pastor of Hawfields Church. Its stone chimney was built of stone from old chimneys on two farms. Also named: N. N. Fleming · Also mentions: New Hope ChurchThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 20, 1950, p. 8
  86. Five Orange County churches hold a joint day camp at Camp New Hope In place of their vacation church schools, the New Hope, Chapel Hill, Efland and Hillsboro Presbyterian churches and the Hillsboro Methodist Church ran a joint day camp at Camp New Hope, with study, handicrafts and recreation. The Rev. John E. Ensign and the Rev. Irving E. Birdseye directed it. People: Irving E. Birdseye Also named: John E. Ensign · Also mentions: Hillsboro Methodist ChurchSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 17, 1951, p. 1
  87. Former Elm Grove School pupils hold their first reunion and form an association About 300 former teachers and pupils of Elm Grove School, a school south of Hillsboro that began in a hewn-log building before the Civil War and served until the county consolidated its schools, met at New Hope Church for a first reunion. They formed a permanent organization and elected officers. Also mentions: Elm Grove SchoolSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 6, 1951, p. 5
  88. Former pupils of Elm Grove School unveil a marker at the old school site At their second annual homecoming on October 12, 1952, former pupils and teachers of the old Elm Grove School heard UNC Chancellor R. B. House at Union Grove Methodist Church and then unveiled a marker at the school's old site, with the Rev. J. R. Hailey leading the service. About 400 of them had met at New Hope Presbyterian Church in September 1951 for a first reunion and formed an alumni association. People: R. B. House Also named: J. R. Hailey · Also mentions: New Hope Presbyterian Church, Union Grove Methodist ChurchSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 16, 1952, p. 8
  89. Charles M. Jones asks Orange Presbytery to release him from the Presbyterian ministry At the presbytery's summer meeting at New Hope Presbyterian Church, Jones declined the trial the General Assembly had offered, saying a fair hearing in that presbytery was unlikely and would only prolong the strain on the Chapel Hill congregation, and asked to be divested of office without censure. He answered the commission's report point by point and said he would go on serving in some capacity, lay or ministerial. People: Charles M. JonesSearch the index · Internet Archive: Charles M. Jones, A Statement on the Occasion of His Withdrawing from the Presbyterian Ministry (1953), p. 6
  90. Rep. Umstead objects to a new Chapel Hill-Hillsborough road through New Hope Speaking for citizens who had complained to him, Rep. John W. Umstead Jr. told the county commissioners that the state should not extend the Chapel Hill-New Hope road into Hillsborough while 75 to 100 miles of roads promised stabilization under the rural roads bond program were still unimproved, and he said he would carry his objection to the Highway Commission. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, John W. Umstead Jr.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 4, 1954, p. 1
  91. The state society for crippled children runs a two-week camp at Camp New Hope The North Carolina Society for Crippled Children and Adults, headquartered in Chapel Hill, held a two-week camp at Orange Presbytery's Camp New Hope for disabled children aged 6 to 15, paid for partly with Easter Seal money, and 53 boys and girls attended. Their departure on August 29 closed the camp's sixth season, in which it had served 561 children.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 2, 1954, p. 5
  92. Work is under way on a shorter road from New Hope Church to Hillsboro State highway crews using Orange County work forces were well along on a new link of the Chapel Hill-Hillsboro highway that would leave the old road just north of New Hope Church and rejoin NC 10 at the Farmers Exchange livestock market a mile east of Hillsboro, cutting two miles from the route by way of Airport Road. Also mentions: New Hope Church, Airport RoadSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 12, 1954, p. 1
  93. New Hope Presbyterian Church breaks ground for its fifth building The congregation broke ground after Sunday worship for a U-shaped colonial brick church designed by H. H. Haines of Duke University and estimated at about $50,000, meant to be finished for the 200th anniversary in 1956. Mattie Craig, one of the oldest members, turned the first spade. James Freeland, whose father had been a member, volunteered the excavation, and construction began at the end of May. People: James J. Freeland Also named: H. H. Haines, James FreelandSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 12, 1955, p. 1
  94. Exchange delegates from Lebanon and Jordan live and work on Orange County farms Isam Yaktin of Lebanon and Basheer Khawaga of Jordan, International Farm Youth Exchange delegates, spent four weeks living with farm families in the St. Mary's and New Hope communities. They spoke to civic clubs, granges and churches, and wrote letters of thanks that the paper printed. Also named: Isam Yaktin, Basheer KhawagaSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 18, 1955, p. 3
  95. A new road opens from New Hope Church to the livestock market on old NC 10 A newly opened stretch of highway through the woods from New Hope Church to the farmers' cooperative livestock market on old NC 10 cut two miles from the trip between Hillsboro and Chapel Hill. It crossed the Southern Railway tracks near the Hillsboro end on a new bridge with concrete rails.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 11, 1955, p. 1
  96. New Hope Presbyterian Church holds its first service in its fifth building New Hope Presbyterian Church, organized in 1756, held its first service in its new brick church and educational building, built largely by the members' own labor, with Dr. James M. Carr of the Presbyterian Church U.S. as guest speaker. The cornerstone had been laid a week earlier after the last service in the old church. Also named: James M. CarrSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 15, 1956, p. 1
  97. Samuel P. Lockhart, a former superintendent of the county schools, dies Lockhart, 76, a native of the county educated at Bingham Academy and the university, had taught in the Orange County schools and served as county superintendent before running the Lockhart Turkey Farm. He died at Watts Hospital in Durham and was buried at New Hope Presbyterian Church after a funeral there on May 8. People: Samuel Paul Lockhart Also mentions: Watts HospitalSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 10, 1956, p. 1
  98. Some 1,100 young farm cooperative delegates tour Orange County Delegates to the American Institute of Cooperation meeting at State College rode 26 chartered buses through the St. Mary's, Schley and New Hope communities, Hillsboro and Chapel Hill, stopping at the Clyde Roberts farm, Schley Grange Hall and the new New Hope Presbyterian Church, while about 400 visited Piedmont Electric in Hillsboro. The News said it was believed to be the largest farm tour ever held in North Carolina. People: Clyde Roberts Also mentions: New Hope Presbyterian Church, Schley Grange HallSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 2, 1956, p. 1
  99. New Hope Presbyterian Church dedicates its new building at its 200th anniversary homecoming The church's bicentennial observance closed with the annual homecoming and the dedication of the $85,000 building that members had put up almost entirely with volunteer labor, with Moderator W. T. Thompson of the Presbyterian General Assembly among the speakers. It was also the farewell of the Rev. John E. Ensign, who left for a post in Richmond, Virginia. Also named: John E. Ensign, W. T. ThompsonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 1, 1956, p. 1
  100. Commissioners make the development commission Orange's voice on the proposed New Hope dam The county commissioners reappointed all 28 members of the Orange County Agricultural and Industrial Commission and made it the county's liaison with the Cape Fear Basin development group on the proposed flood control dam on the Haw River just below the mouth of New Hope Creek, which would flood part of the New Hope Creek basin southeast of Chapel Hill. At the Army Engineers' hearing in Fayetteville on February 8, Orange's representatives turned in factual reports but took no stand, while east Chatham residents opposed the dam. People: Don S. MathesonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 10, 1957, p. 1
  101. The North Carolina Methodist Conference opens Camp Chestnut Ridge The Methodist Conference opened Camp Chestnut Ridge with the first of a summer of junior camps, on a large tract beside Chestnut Ridge Methodist Church in the Buckhorn community. A superintendent's house, a dining hall and kitchen, a frontier-style camp store and sleeping shelters built as hogans and covered wagons had gone up over several months; the News called it the county's second permanent church camp, after the Presbyterians' Camp New Hope. Also mentions: Buckhorn community, Chestnut Ridge Methodist ChurchSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 18, 1959, p. 1
  102. Terry Sanford takes his campaign for governor to 200 Orange backers at Camp New Hope Terry Sanford laid out his campaign for governor to about 200 Orange County supporters at a noon meeting in the dining hall of the Presbyterian Camp New Hope, arranged by backers in Chapel Hill and Hillsboro. It was his fortieth county meeting in eight days of a tour meant to reach every county before the formal campaign. People: Terry SanfordSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 21, 1960, p. 1
  103. County Planning Board takes its draft zoning ordinance to New Hope At its first public airing, about 85 citizens heard Research Triangle Planning Commission staff explain the 11-zone county ordinance the year-old Planning Board, chaired by Mrs. Jake Forrest, had recommended. Farms of five acres or more would be exempt; billboards would be barred from rural residential areas and trailer parks regulated. Also named: Mrs. Jake ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 7, 1961, p. 6
  104. The New Hope Grange holds a community fair at Camp New Hope The New Hope Grange staged a community fair at Camp New Hope with 77 exhibitors, more than 300 exhibits and 125 ribbons, an antique scene around the lodge fireplace and a rolling-pin throw. The News called it the first New Hope Community Fair.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 4, 1962, p. 9
  105. VISTA volunteers begin training at Camp New Hope north of Chapel Hill Thirteen volunteers, the first chosen from about 4,500 applicants for President Johnson's Volunteers in Service to America, arrived at Camp New Hope on the New Hope Church property five miles north of Chapel Hill to begin basic training. The Daily Tar Heel called it the nation's first VISTA training camp; the volunteers were bound for mental hospitals, migrant camps and slum-clearance work around the country. Also mentions: New Hope ChurchSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 6, 1965, p. 1
  106. State geologists report ancient lava flows in central Orange County E. P. Allen and W. F. Wilson of the state Department of Conservation and Development, mapping the county's geology and mineral resources, reported at least seven bodies of altered amygdaloidal basalt, lava they dated to the Paleozoic era about 400 million years ago, east and south of Efland, east and south of Hillsborough and west of New Hope Church. They found springs common just above the basalt outcrops, the old Occoneechee mineral spring among them, and thought the rock might serve for roofing and road building. Also named: E. P. Allen, W. F. WilsonSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, May 20, 1966, p. 4
  107. 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
  108. A Black juror reports being run off NC 86 and harassed by a group of young whites One of the two Black jurors in a Hillsborough assault trial reported that two cars of young white people followed him from the courthouse, ran his pickup truck off Highway 86 near the New Hope Grocery and cursed him with racial slurs before driving off. The Daily Tar Heel reported his account; two sheriff's deputies guarded his home that night, and the sheriff's department said it was not implicating the student group whose worker had been on trial.Search the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 17, 1969, p. 1
  109. The state orders Chapel Hill and other dischargers to cut phosphorus flowing toward the New Hope reservoir The state Department of Air and Water Resources announced that phosphorus discharges into the Haw and New Hope rivers must be cut 90 percent by 1973 to protect water quality in the planned New Hope Reservoir, naming Chapel Hill among 53 significant polluters that would have to modernize or build new treatment plants. Town Manager Robert Peck estimated chemical treatment would add $40,000 to $50,000 a year to the town's sewer costs, and the order went on the aldermen's agenda for September 13. Also named: Robert PeckThe Daily Tar Heel, September 7, 1971, p. 3
  110. A federal judge refuses to halt construction of the New Hope Dam U.S. District Judge Eugene A. Gordon denied a temporary injunction sought by the Conservation Council of North Carolina, ECOS and other plaintiffs against the Army Corps of Engineers' $53 million New Hope Dam, ruling that the Corps' environmental impact statement met the National Environmental Policy Act. The dam, then about 30 percent built, was to flood about 14,000 acres in Chatham, Orange and Wake counties; Chapel Hill and Durham had asked to join the suit over the cost of cleaning sewage bound for the reservoir. The conservationists filed an appeal in Greensboro on March 3. Also named: Eugene A. GordonSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 16, 1972, p. 1
  111. New Hope Improvement Association sues to stop the Eubanks Road landfill Opponents of the landfill formed the New Hope Improvement Association, which drew about 500 members, and filed suit in Orange County Superior Court at Hillsborough on September 18, 1972, against Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Orange County and the former owner of the site. After a show-cause hearing on September 27 and 28, the court denied an injunction on September 29, and the landfill stayed open.RENA Community Center: The Orange County Landfill · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, September 19, 1972, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, October 2, 1972, p. 1
  112. Appeals court sends the New Hope Dam case back and halts reservoir clearing The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals remanded Conservation Council v. Froehlke to the federal court for the Middle District of North Carolina and barred any cutting or clearing in the New Hope reservoir area until the case was decided, setting aside Judge Eugene Gordon's ruling that the court could look only at whether the Corps of Engineers had filed its environmental impact statement. The plaintiffs, including the Conservation Council of North Carolina and ECOS, Inc., called it their first break since going to court in August 1971. Also named: Eugene GordonThe Daily Tar Heel, February 9, 1973, p. 1
  113. Orange and Durham hospitals and rescue squads stage a disaster drill at New Hope Four hospitals, the Orange and Durham rescue squads, police, the sheriff's department and funeral homes held a disaster drill on July 21, 1973, staging a grandstand collapse at the New Hope Volunteer Fire Department and carrying more than 50 volunteer victims to Duke, Watts, N.C. Memorial and the Durham veterans' hospitals; N.C. Memorial's disaster chairman said no drill of that size had been held for both counties before.Search the index · The Daily Tar Heel, July 26, 1973, p. 1
  114. Seven Orange County Presbyterian churches form a cooperative in place of the Eno cluster A four-church cluster of Eno, Efland, Fairfield and Bethlehem was dissolved in 1975 and replaced by a cooperative of seven: those four plus Hillsborough, Little River and New Hope. The churches worked together especially on youth programs.Search the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 15
  115. Students, faculty and administrators meet at Camp New Hope on University governance About 35 students, faculty members and administrators met for a weekend conference at Camp New Hope, proposed by Student Body President Bill Bates and Dean Donald Boulton, and suggested a standing consortium of the three groups and changes to the Honor Code. Also named: Bill Bates, Donald BoultonSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 24, 1975, p. 1
  116. County planners hold community meetings across rural Chapel Hill Township To gather views for a township development plan the commissioners had asked for, the planning department met residents at the New Hope Fire Station, Mt. Carmel Church, the Homestead Community Center in Calvander and Damascus Church, handing out a questionnaire on county issues. The report describes this kind of outreach as new for county planning.Search the index · Orange County Planning Department, A Planning/Management Process for Orange County, North Carolina, with Recommendations for Sound Land Development (1976), scan p. 63
  117. Rural Chapel Hill Township residents rank land-use planning and roads as top concerns Questionnaires from the four spring meetings put land-use planning first at New Hope and Calvander, road upkeep first at Damascus and fire protection first at Mt. Carmel, where residents leaned partly on Chatham County fire units. Saving farmland ranked in the top five at every meeting, and planners credited the New Hope Improvement Association for fire protection ranking low at New Hope.Search the index · Orange County Planning Department, A Planning/Management Process for Orange County, North Carolina, with Recommendations for Sound Land Development (1976), scan p. 61
  118. County planners take a preliminary land plan back to four rural communities In a second round of meetings at Mt. Carmel Church on Farrington Road, the Homestead Road Community Center in Calvander, the New Hope Improvement Center on Piney Mountain Road and Damascus Church, planners showed residents the ranked needs, draft goals and a preliminary plan for Chapel Hill Township. Most who came told the staff the process had given their communities more say over their land than ever before.Search the index · Orange County Planning Department, A Planning/Management Process for Orange County, North Carolina, with Recommendations for Sound Land Development (1976), scan p. 65
  119. Town and county officials and citizen groups form a coalition against the I-40 route Orange County commissioners, Chapel Hill officials and more than a dozen citizen groups, among them the League of Women Voters, the Sierra Club, the New Hope Audubon Society, the New Hope Improvement Association, UNC Student Government and both local parties, met to plan a fight against I-40 corridor 1B, preparing both public education and possible legal action. Durham attorney B. B. Olive coordinated the effort. Also named: B. B. OliveSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 14, 1977, p. 1
  120. Sensible Highways and Protected Environment forms to fight the I-40 corridors Orange and Durham County residents formed SHAPE to oppose all three proposed I-40 routes branching off I-85 south of Hillsborough, saying each would ruin historic sites and displace families; by March 1978 it was planning an April 22 festival to raise money and talking of legal action.Search the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 31, 1978, p. 3
  121. UNC shelves its New Hope conference on Black and white relations Student Government and the Office of Student Affairs gave up for the semester a planned weekend conference on race relations at Camp New Hope after Black students did not take part; BSM chairman Byron Horton said the BSM had not been consulted. Also named: Byron HortonThe Daily Tar Heel, December 2, 1977, p. 1
  122. The Army Corps of Engineers closes the Jordan dam gates and the lake begins to fill At 11 a.m. on September 1, 1981, the Army Corps of Engineers lowered the gates of the B. Everett Jordan dam near Moncure, and the reservoir at the meeting of the Haw and New Hope rivers began to fill, 18 years after Congress approved it as New Hope Lake. About 100 officials and visitors, including former residents of the Farrington community the lake would cover, watched; the Corps expected about two months to reach a 190-foot level and set the formal opening for April. The project of about 47,000 acres reaches into southeastern Orange County. Also named: B. Everett Jordan · Also mentions: B. Everett Jordan damSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 2, 1981, p. 1
  123. NOW president Judy Goldsmith urges Jesse Helms's defeat at a NOW convention near Chapel Hill Speaking to about 85 members at a National Organization for Women annual convention at New Hope Camp near Chapel Hill, NOW president Judy Goldsmith called Sen. Jesse Helms perhaps the most anti-woman member of the Senate, urged support for Walter Mondale and asked members to get out the vote. North Carolina NOW president Joanna Ettin said Helms had ignored women's needs for pay equity, day care, job training and health care. Also named: Judy Goldsmith, Joanna Ettin, Jesse HelmsSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 17, 1984, p. 2
  124. New Hope Presbyterian Church installs a Brombaugh tracker organ A mechanical-action organ built by John Brombaugh, his Opus 31B, was installed and voiced at New Hope Presbyterian Church on December 1, 1987. Also named: John BrombaughSearch the index · Women of the Church of Orange Presbytery, Celebrating Our History (1988), scan p. 44
  125. Chapel Hill Town Council joins a study of the New Hope Corridor greenway The Town Council voted unanimously to take part in a $20,000 study of the New Hope Corridor Greenway, an open-space corridor of about 18 miles and 1,800 acres meant to link the Eno River State Park and Jordan Lake. Orange and Durham counties and the cities of Chapel Hill and Durham were to share the cost, with Chapel Hill's $5,000 coming from its planning budget; council member Arthur Werner said the vote did not commit the town to buying land. Also named: Arthur Werner · Also mentions: Orange and Durham countiesSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 26, 1989, p. 1
  126. Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County hold a joint hearing on the New Hope Corridor open space plan The town council, the Board of Aldermen, the county commissioners and the county planning board heard comment at Carrboro Elementary School on the New Hope Corridor Open Space Master Plan, which would link Eno River State Park, New Hope Creek and Corps of Engineers land at Jordan Lake as protected wildlife corridors with unpaved trails. The plan was put at $14.9 million to $26.4 million over 20 years, 85 percent paid by Durham; residents near landfill candidate Site 4 asked that the creek's headwaters be protected too. People: Cal HortonSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 14, 1991, p. 3
  127. 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.Search the index · News of Orange County: Dual language program comes to New Hope Elementary

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.

  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. An atlas for Orange County, North Carolina UNC · a county map
  8. USGS topographic map, Hillsborough quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)
  9. USGS topographic map, Hillsborough quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)

Indexed works

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Widely held

The Chapman family, or, The descendants of Robert Chapman : one of the first settlers of Say-Brook, Conn. : with genealogical notes of William Chapman, who settled in New London, Conn., Edward Chapman, who settled at Windsor, Conn., John Chapman, of Stonington, Conn., and Rev. Benjamin Chapman, of Southington, Conn. : [extracts relating to Robert Hett Chapman]

Chapman, F. W. (Frederick William), 1806-1876 · 1854 · Case, Tiffany and Co.

A genealogy of the Chapman family, tracing the descendants of Robert Chapman of Saybrook, Connecticut, printed at Hartford by Case, Tiffany and Company in 1854. The Chapel Hill link is Robert Hett Chapman, a president of the University of North Carolina, and the extracts gathered here are the biographical and genealogical passages about him.

Included because: The record names this place alongside a heading for the county or its towns.

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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.

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