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Orange County Indexed covers Orange County. The works below were indexed for an Orange County connection and also carry the state as a whole among their catalog subjects; the index does not follow statewide history on its own.

8,155 indexed works are connected with this place. 171 held at OCPL →

Themes here. The subjects the index files most often under North Carolina.

UNC & Campus LifeSchools & EducationWars & Military ServicePolitics & GovernmentBlack Life & Civil RightsArts, Music & PerformanceWork, Labor & IndustryHealth, Medicine & Care
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Maps of North Carolina

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. A Plan of the Camp and Battle of Alamance, the 16th May 1771. Between the Provincials of North Carolina, Commanded by His Excellency Governor Tryon. and Rebels who styled themselves Regulators. Survey'd and Drawn by C. J. Sauthier. DPLA
  2. Property maps of the North Carolina Railroad. No. 3. DPLA
  3. The North Carolina Railroad Map, Book 3 Durham
  4. Map of Orange County, N.C. UNC
  5. Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Hillsboro, Orange County, North Carolina. Library of Congress Digital Collections
  6. A map of Orange County, N.C. UNC
  7. Soil Survey of Orange County NC Cardinal
  8. Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina. Library of Congress Digital Collections
  9. Map of Battle Park UNC
  10. North Carolina region J inventory and atlas NC Cardinal
  11. Soil Survey of Orange County, North Carolina NC Cardinal
  12. Forest Cover Map of Duke Forest [1986 DigitalNC
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  1. 1987 average daily traffic (ADT) maps NC Cardinal
  2. Map of Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Orange County : including University of North Carolina, Research Triangle Park, points of interest. UNC
  3. North Carolina Transportation Map 1993-94 DPLA
  4. North Carolina Transportation Map 1995 DPLA
  5. North Carolina Transportation Map 1996 DPLA
  6. Research Triangle Park: Southern Portion Conceptual Development Plan Durham
  7. North Carolina Transportation Map 1999 DPLA
  8. 2000 State Transportation Map. DPLA
  9. The island of lost maps : a true story of cartographic crime UNC
  10. North Carolina Transportation Map 2002 DPLA
  11. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina: Southern Portion Conceptual Development Plan Durham
  12. North Carolina Transportation Map 2003 DPLA
  13. Northwest Durham quadrangle, North Carolina : 7.5 minute series (topographic) NC State
  14. Southwest Durham quadrangle, North Carolina : 7.5 minute series (topographic) NC State
  15. Fish Dam Road Maps Durham
  16. North Carolina Transportation Map 2004 DPLA
  17. Defining a state : a selection of maps of North Carolina, 1776-1860 UNC
  18. Geologic map of the White Cross 7.5-minute quadrangle, Orange and Chatham Counties, North Carolina NC Cardinal
  19. Geologic map of the Bynum 7.5-minute quadrangle, Orange, Chatham and Alamance Counties, North Carolina NC Cardinal

Indexed works

Related works found in catalogs and archives across North Carolina, the most widely held first, novels aside. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it.

Narrow these works. Each link opens the search already limited to this place. Counts are indexed works, not copies on a shelf; a work can carry more than one period or place.

Material

Histories 2,368Periodicals 1,362Photographs & portraits 681Letters & correspondence 452Biography 400other types 2,285

Period

Colonial era (to 1775) 8317th century 9618th century 697Revolution (1775–1783) 37419th century 1,067Civil War (1861–1865) 40720th century 647World War II era 65

Widely held

To Free A Family

Nathans, Sydney · 2012 · Harvard University Press

Sydney Nathans's biography of Mary Walker, an enslaved woman from Orange County who escaped to the North in the mid nineteenth century and spent the following decades in Cambridge, Massachusetts, working to free the family she had left behind. Chapter titles trace her flight, her years among Northern friends, a rescue plot, a long silence, and the reunion that gives the book its close. Published 2012 by Harvard University Press, 330 pages with 20 pages of plates, illustrations and maps.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina.

Reviewed in Choice Reviews Online (2012), Civil War Book Review (2012).

✓ Held at OCPL · BIO WALKER NAT NC Cardinal UNC Duke NC State NCCU Durham Chapel Hill PL Library of Congress Davidson Methodist Wingate UNCSA

The Blue Divide: Duke, North Carolina, and the Battle on Tobacco Road

Moore, Johnny; Chansky, Art · 2014 · Triumph Books

The Duke and North Carolina basketball rivalry written together by Johnny Moore and Art Chansky, the latter a sports reporter who has followed it since his student days at UNC. The book opens with the 2014 season and moves through recruiting battles old and new, 'Black and Blue Sunday', 'Blood and Roses', and chapters on the rivalry's heroes, leaders and teachers, with a foreword by Jay Bilas and a photo gallery. Published by Triumph Books in 2014, 289 pages.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina.

NC Cardinal UNC Duke NC State NCCU Durham Library of Congress Wake Forest Davidson Methodist Wingate UNCSA

Miss Mary's Money

Jones, H. G. · 2014 · McFarland & Co.

H. G. Jones follows the fortune of Mary Ruffin Smith (1814-1885), the unmarried heiress whose Orange and Chatham County lands passed at her death to the University of North Carolina and the Episcopal Church. Chapters profile her grandfather Francis Jones, then trace the bequest through a quarrel among Episcopalians over Price Creek, the Chapel of the Cross and the university's buildings. A December 1885 New York Times report called the gift money; Jones shows it was land. Published by McFarland in 2014, 231 pages.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina.

✓ Held at OCPL NC Cardinal UNC Duke NC State NCCU Durham Library of Congress Wake Forest Davidson Methodist CH Historical Society

William Friday

Link, William A. · 1995

Biography of William C. Friday, president of the University of North Carolina system, by historian William A. Link, published by UNC Press in 1995 with the subtitle power, purpose, and American higher education. It covers Friday's career and the history of the university at Chapel Hill and statewide. Part of the Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Chapel Hill PL record: North Carolina -- Biography.

✓ Held at OCPL · NC BIO FRIDAY LIN NC Cardinal UNC Duke Durham Chapel Hill PL Library of Congress Methodist Wingate UNCSA CH Historical Society

Light on the Hill

Snider, William D. · 1992

William D. Snider's history of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1992. It runs 370 pages with illustrations, a bibliography and an index.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina.

Reviewed in History of Education Quarterly (1993), The Journal of Southern History (1993).

✓ Held at OCPL · NC 378.756 SNI NC Cardinal UNC Duke NC State NCCU Durham Chapel Hill PL Library of Congress Wingate CH Historical Society

The Free Men

Ehle, Jr., John Marsden · 1965

John Ehle's account of the civil rights demonstrations in Chapel Hill in 1963 and 1964 and the young people who led them, first published by Harper & Row in 1965. This reprint from Lewisville, North Carolina adds an afterword by Wayne King. Civil rights and race relations in Chapel Hill are its subjects. 340 pages with illustrations and portraits.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: North Carolina -- History.

✓ Held at OCPL · NC 323.4 EHL NC Cardinal UNC Duke NC State NCCU Durham Chapel Hill PL Library of Congress UNCSA CH Historical Society
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Chapel Hill in Plain Sight

Athas, Daphne · 2010 · Eno Publishers

Twelve essays by novelist Daphne Athas (1923-2020) on the Chapel Hill she knew across the twentieth century. Subjects include Carrboro as 'the Paris of the Piedmont', philosopher Horace Williams, Betty Smith writing in Chapel Hill, Junius Scales, Ab Abernethy and the Intimate Bookshop, Richard Wright's visit, and a set of Chapel Hill murders. Published 2010, 243 pages with illustrations.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina.

✓ Held at OCPL · 975.656 ATHAS NC Cardinal UNC Duke NC State NCCU Durham Chapel Hill PL Library of Congress CH Historical Society

What it means to be a Tar Heel: Roy Williams and North Carolina's greatest players

Fowler, Scott · 2010 · Triumph Books

Scott Fowler gathers recollections from Carolina basketball players, decade by decade from the 1950s to the 2000s, organized around Roy Williams and the question in the title. Contributors include Lennie Rosenbluth, Larry Brown, Billy Cunningham, Charlie Scott, Phil Ford, James Worthy, Brad Daugherty, Eric Montross, Vince Carter, Antawn Jamison, Raymond Felton and Sean May, each entry giving position and playing years. Published 2010 by Triumph Books of Chicago, 270 pages, here as an e-book.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina.

NC Cardinal UNC Duke NC State NCCU Durham Library of Congress Methodist Wingate UNCSA

Recently indexed: The ... report of the North Carolina Memorial Hospital (1981) · The "value-added" effects of two-year college transfer programs (1976) · The 100 best art towns in America : a guide to galleries, museums, festivals, lodging, and dining (2005) · 25th anniversary (1975) · 50 years of change and challenge, 1940-1990 (1989) · Academic ability and commitment to teaching : a longitudinal study of graduates of the UNC-Chapel Hill Teacher Education Program (1986)

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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 · 320.975 EAMON The Making of A Southern Democracy: North Carolina Politics From Kerr Scott to Pat McCrory Eamon, Tom · 2014

    North Carolina politics from the late 1940s, when Kerr Scott won the governorship, to the election of Pat McCrory in 2012. Tom Eamon contends that the state's remaking as a modern democracy was a revolution won through politics, pushed forward by movements and individuals who wanted change. Published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2014; 402 pages with illustrations, maps, portraits, notes and an index.

  • Foundational · NC 975.604 CHRISTEN The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics: The Personalities, Elections, and Events That Shaped Modern North Carolina Christensen, Rob · 2010

    Journalist Rob Christensen follows a century of North Carolina politics, from the Simmons machine and the Shelby dynasty through the Jessecrats and Jim Hunt's Democratic revival, asking how one state could send Jesse Helms and John Edwards to the Senate. He credits party competition with the state's rise from poverty. This 2010 second edition adds the Edwards and Easley scandals, Elizabeth Dole's defeat, Beverly Perdue's election and Barack Obama's 2008 win in the state.

  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC BIO SWAIN WHI A Consequential Life: David Lowry Swain, Nineteenth-century North Carolina, and Their University Whichard, Willis P. · 2022

    Willis P. Whichard's biography of David Lowry Swain, governor of North Carolina from 1832 to 1835 and president of the University of North Carolina from 1835 until his death in 1868. The subtitle ties Swain, nineteenth-century North Carolina and the university together, and the book belongs with the lives of college presidents and governors. Published in 2022.

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  • Start here · REF 975.6 ENC Encyclopedia of North Carolina 2006

    A reference work on North Carolina in one volume, edited by William S. Powell with Jay Mazzocchi as associate editor and published in 2006 by the University of North Carolina Press with the university's library at Chapel Hill. More than 2,000 alphabetical entries, from long essays to short definitions, center on history and the humanities, and most end with suggested reading. Nearly 400 photographs and maps illustrate its 1,314 pages.

  • Start here · 975.6 WAY The Way We Lived in North Carolina 2003

    Social history of North Carolina from precolonial times to the present, told through historic sites and the ordinary people who lived and worked around them. Joe A. Mobley edited this 2003 revision, which gathers the five books of 1983 into one volume of 614 pages, with text by Elizabeth A. Fenn, Harry L. Watson and others, more than 250 photographs, new maps by Mark Anderson Moore and a list of sites to visit.

  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 929.375 FED 1820 Federal Census North Carolina: Supplemented With Tax Lists Potter, Dorothy Williams · 1993

    Dorothy Williams Potter's transcription of the 1820 federal census of North Carolina, supplemented with tax lists. The Orange County schedules are among those covered, naming heads of household in the county a generation after the Revolution. Potter first published it in 1972; the copy in the library's Wall Local History Collection is her second edition of 1993.

  • Foundational · NC 975.6 BLA The Black Presence in North Carolina North Carolina Museum of History · 1978

    An illustrated booklet from 1978 on the history and culture of African Americans in North Carolina, part of a project of the North Carolina Museum of History, with Jeffrey J. Crow and Robert E. Winters Jr. as co-editors. The 55 pages end with a short bibliography.

  • Foundational · NC 973.049 LEE Indian Wars in North Carolina, 1663-1763 Lee, Enoch Lawrence · 2011

    E. Lawrence Lee's account of a century of fighting between colonists and Indian nations in North Carolina: early clashes to 1711, the Tuscarora War and the Barnwell and Moore expeditions, the Yamassee and Cheraw wars, the Catawbas of the Piedmont, the Cherokees of the mountains, and the French and Indian and Cherokee wars. First published in 1963 for the Carolina Charter Tercentenary Commission; this 2011 reprint has 105 pages with maps.

  • Foundational · NC 371.35 HAMMETT Ordinary Women Extraordinary Service to Family, Community, and North Carolina Hammett, Wilma · 2011

    Wilma Hammett, Jan Christensen and Joan Gosper wrote and compiled this illustrated book about North Carolina women whose service reached their families, communities and state. The North Carolina Family and Consumer Sciences Foundation published the 340 pages in 2011 with the foundation of the state's Extension and Community Association.

Research sources

Additional research sources

Other catalogs to search and local organizations that can help.

  • Search beyond the index: NC LIVE advanced search NC LIVE Articles, journals, e-books, and newspapers across the state’s shared databases; sign in through your North Carolina library
  • Ask locally: Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
  • Ask locally: Local History Help Hours and request form OCPL 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

Background reading at OCPL

Held in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection. Selected because their titles or catalog subjects provide wider historical context for this place; they may not discuss the Orange County place directly.

  • Background reading · Rebecca Wall Collection Lynching in North Carolina: A History, 1865-1941 Newkirk, Vann R. · 2009

    Vann R. Newkirk documents the lynching of at least 168 people in North Carolina between 1865 and 1941, giving full accounts of the most notorious cases, including the killing of Plummer Bullock. Later chapters take up the Klan, the state's attempts from 1919 to 1923 to punish mob members, the Needleman case and a drift toward what he calls legal lynching. An appendix lists every documented case.

    Subjects in the Library of Congress catalog record: Lynching -- North Carolina; Murder -- North Carolina; North Carolina -- Race relations -- History OCPL call number: 364.134 NEWKIRK
  • Background reading · Rebecca Wall Collection A Lasting Gift of Heritage: A History of the North Carolina Society for the Preservation of Antiquities, 1939-1974 Brook, David Louis Sterrett · 1997

    Founded in 1939 chiefly to see Tryon Palace rebuilt at New Bern, the North Carolina Society for the Preservation of Antiquities went on after the war to fight for old buildings across the state. David Louis Sterrett Brook, a former head of the State Historic Preservation Office, tells its story through 1974. Published in 1997 by the Division of Archives and History with Preservation North Carolina, 205 pages.

    Subjects in the Library of Congress catalog record: North Carolina Society for the Preservation of Antiquities -- History; Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration -- North Carolina; North Carolina -- Antiquities -- Collection and preservation OCPL call number: NC 975.604 BRO

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