Oaks

In the chronology

Dated events connected with this place, earliest first. See these 18 dated events in the chronology →

1. 1822 Bethlehem Presbyterian Church is organized Elisha Mitchell, Elijah Graves and Samuel Child led the organization of Bethlehem Presbyterian Church, which built its first church the next year. People: Elisha Mitchell, John Knox Witherspoon, Elijah GravesSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 295
2. November 1844 William James Bingham opens his school at the Oaks William James Bingham gave up Hillsborough Academy after its spring 1844 session and in May announced a select classical and mathematical school twelve miles southwest of Hillsborough, to open that November on the Oaks tract he bought the same year. It became known as the Bingham School and stayed at the Oaks until December 1864. People: William James BinghamNational Register of Historic Places nomination: Bingham School, Oaks (OR0003)
3. 1856-1873 William Bingham begins teaching in his father's school Fresh from the university, William Bingham joins the Bingham School as a teacher in 1856 and stays until his death in 1873, the last years as its head. People: William Bingham (1835-1873), William James BinghamThe Bingham School Catalogue, 1905-1906, scan p. 15
4. July 1857 Robert Bingham becomes a partner in his father's school at the Oaks After graduating from the University of North Carolina in 1857, Robert Bingham was admitted in July as junior partner in his father's school at the Oaks, which took the firm name W. J. Bingham and Sons. His brother William was also a partner. People: William Bingham (1835-1873), William James BinghamSearch the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Bingham, Robert
5. by February 18, 1863 Farmers of the Oaks neighborhood pledge to sell food to soldiers' families at fixed prices A plan for Orange farmers to join an association selling necessities to soldiers' families and the poor at set moderate prices (corn at $1 a bushel, pork at $10 a hundred, bacon at 20 cents and beef at 6 cents a pound) came to little when bad weather stopped the January meeting of delegates at Hillsborough, but one neighborhood, the Oaks, sent in a list of a dozen men willing to join, among them William J. Bingham and Thomas D. Oldham, and the Recorder printed it so that families would know where to find supplies. People: William Bingham (1835-1873)Hillsborough Recorder, February 18, 1863, p. 2
6. by June 24, 1863 A Confederate grand jury refuses to indict the Rev. R. J. Graves of the Oaks The Rev. R. J. Graves, a pastor living at the Oaks, the seat of William J. Bingham's school, had been arrested by Confederate military authority on an anonymous charge that he was a disloyal Northerner, taken out of the state and jailed; the arrest was protested in the Confederate Senate and Bingham defended him in print. In June the grand jury of the Confederate court at Richmond, which heard only the government's witnesses, refused to find a true bill against him, and the case was dismissed. People: William Bingham (1835-1873)Hillsborough Recorder, July 29, 1863, p. 3
7. 1864 William Bingham takes over the family school at the Oaks and incorporates it With his brother Robert in the army and his father in declining health, William Bingham was running the school at the Oaks by 1864. That year he incorporated it as the Bingham School, a military and classical academy, and in December moved it to Mebaneville. People: William James Bingham, Robert BinghamSearch the index · NC DNCR: Bingham School (G-39), highway marker essay
8. late 1864 or 1865 Bingham School moves from the Oaks to Mebaneville William Bingham and Robert Bingham, sons of William James Bingham, moved the school, late in 1864 or in 1865, to a site east of Mebane's Station on the North Carolina Railroad, after the legislature incorporated it in 1864 as a military and classical academy. The highway marker's 1865 may be when classes began at the new site. People: Robert Bingham, William Bingham (1835-1873), William James BinghamNC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources: Bingham School (G-39)
9. late 1860s to early 1870s J. Morrow and Sons grind flour and corn at Oaks In the late 1860s and early 1870s J. Morrow and his sons ran a flour and corn mill at Oaks, where a dry goods store and a tannery also operated in the community that had grown up around the Bingham school.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 30
10. early June 1887 Bingham Township farmers form a club and call a county farmers' meeting Farmers of Bingham Township organized a farmers' club at Oaks, with Alex. McIver as president and S. S. Webb as secretary, and called on every township to send delegates to Hillsborough on July 30 to form a county farmers' club and institute.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), June 11, 1887, p. 2
11. by December 15, 1887 Dr. C. D. Jones opens a medical practice at Oaks Dr. C. D. Jones, a young physician and son of a former Orange County sheriff, hung out his shingle at Oaks after spending some time in and near Hillsborough.Search the index · Hillsboro Recorder, December 15, 1887, p. 3
12. February 25, 1888 Oaks citizens back a projected Durham-to-Charlotte railroad and name delegates A meeting of citizens at Oaks voted unanimously for the projected railroad from Durham by way of Oaks and Asheboro to Charlotte. It named seven delegates to the railroad meeting called at Charlotte for March 15. People: Robert BinghamHillsboro Recorder, March 1, 1888, p. 2