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StorylineRural electrification and Piedmont Electric, 1933–19641933–1964 · 40 events · Rural power in Orange County began in 1933 with a three-mile federally funded line from Chapel Hill to Calvander, carried on to Orange Grove with farmers' donations. The Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation, a cooperative formed under the Rural Electrification Administration, was incorporated in 1938 and energized its first lines from a Hillsborough substation in 1939. It took bids for 150 miles of new lines in 1945, had 1,271 members in 1947, when its manager reckoned that 65 percent of Orange farms had electricity, and built its Hillsborough headquarters in 1949 with an REA loan; by 1953 it ran about 1,100 miles of line. At its silver anniversary meeting in June 1964 Piedmont Electric reported 6,300 members in six counties, against 356 in three counties in 1939.

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  1. Cane Creek Baptists replace their first meeting-house with a larger building The church's history committee judges that the log meeting-house of 1789 was probably replaced by a larger and more lasting building around 1806, the year the Sandy Creek Baptist Association held its meeting at Cane Creek.Search the index · Cane Creek Baptist Church Historical Research Committee, A Cane Creek Tapestry: A Picture History of Cane Creek Baptist Church and the Orange Grove Community (2003), scan p. 12
  2. Cane Creek Baptist Church joins the Beulah Association Cane Creek joined the Beulah Baptist Association in 1837. Its pastor Stephen Pleasant, put out of the County Line Association for supporting missions, had been one of the Beulah Association's founders. Also named: Stephen PleasantSearch the index · Cane Creek Baptist Church Historical Research Committee, A Cane Creek Tapestry: A Picture History of Cane Creek Baptist Church and the Orange Grove Community (2003), scan p. 31
  3. Cane Creek Baptist Church buys ten acres from Thomas Brewer The congregation bought ten acres from Thomas Brewer; the deed calls it the Regular Missionary Baptist Church of Christ. The committee thinks a third church went up on this land near the old stage road. Also named: Thomas BrewerSearch the index · Cane Creek Baptist Church Historical Research Committee, A Cane Creek Tapestry: A Picture History of Cane Creek Baptist Church and the Orange Grove Community (2003), scan p. 12
  4. Rock Spring Academy advertises under principal H. M. Cates The Hillsboro Recorder in 1867 praised Rock Spring Academy, then headed by H. M. Cates, who was also Cane Creek's church clerk, and noted special terms for disabled Confederate veterans. The school did not last much longer. Also named: H. M. CatesCane Creek Baptist Church Historical Research Committee, A Cane Creek Tapestry: A Picture History of Cane Creek Baptist Church and the Orange Grove Community (2003), scan p. 98
  5. Cane Creek Baptists build a new church after five years of setbacks In November 1883 the congregation chose to build instead of repairing its old church. Failed lumber orders, two refused calls to preachers, cost overruns and a building chairman's resignation held the work up until late 1888, and the old building was sold at auction for $58.50.Search the index · Cane Creek Baptist Church Historical Research Committee, A Cane Creek Tapestry: A Picture History of Cane Creek Baptist Church and the Orange Grove Community (2003), scan p. 13
  6. Cane Creek Baptist Church gives part of its lot for an academy Under pastor J. F. MacDuffie the church voted to set aside church land for an academy and school, called Rock Spring in the motion. MacDuffie bought a house nearby and the school opened as Orange Grove Academy. Also named: J. F. MacDuffie · Also mentions: Orange Grove AcademyCane Creek Baptist Church Historical Research Committee, A Cane Creek Tapestry: A Picture History of Cane Creek Baptist Church and the Orange Grove Community (2003), scan p. 40
  7. The name Orange Grove first appears with the Cane Creek church school Through the 1800s the Hillsborough Recorder called the neighborhood around Cane Creek Church Rock Spring. The earliest use of the name Orange Grove the church historians found is the renaming of the church's academy as Orange Grove Academy. Also mentions: Orange Grove AcademySearch the index · Cane Creek Baptist Church Historical Research Committee, A Cane Creek Tapestry: A Picture History of Cane Creek Baptist Church and the Orange Grove Community (2003), scan p. 74
  8. A late frost kills fruit at Rock Spring and damages it around Hillsborough A late frost killed nearly all the fruit at Rock Spring and badly damaged the fruit around Hillsborough. Wheat in the Rock Spring neighborhood still looked fine.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 21, 1898, p. 3
  9. A new Orange Grove school building goes up at Cane Creek Work was moving fast on the new Orange Grove school building, with five large rooms and offices downstairs and an auditorium and music rooms upstairs. Principal Walter Crawford planned music and business departments; neighbors near Efland were hauling logs to the sawmill to help with the building. Also named: Walter CrawfordSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), August 23, 1906, p. 4
  10. Cane Creek Baptist Church votes a larger school building and sells the first one to the county The church voted to put up a much larger building for its Orange Grove School, south of the church, and to sell the original academy building to Orange County for use as a public school. Also mentions: Orange Grove SchoolSearch the index · Cane Creek Baptist Church Historical Research Committee, A Cane Creek Tapestry: A Picture History of Cane Creek Baptist Church and the Orange Grove Community (2003), scan p. 104
  11. Orange Grove Academy's commencement program reports its music classes and ball team The academy's 1908 commencement program counted 86 enrollments in music under Prof. C. E. Redmon, among them 18 in the band and 12 in the orchestra, and told of a baseball team that played Wake Forest, Trinity Park, Elon and Bingham School. Also named: C. E. Redmon · Also mentions: Bingham SchoolSearch the index · Cane Creek Baptist Church Historical Research Committee, A Cane Creek Tapestry: A Picture History of Cane Creek Baptist Church and the Orange Grove Community (2003), scan p. 102
  12. Cane Creek Baptist Church buys its first organ A 1904 business meeting voted to buy an organ to replace the old piano; the money was not raised until 1919, and John Cheek bought the instrument in 1920. Also named: John CheekSearch the index · Cane Creek Baptist Church Historical Research Committee, A Cane Creek Tapestry: A Picture History of Cane Creek Baptist Church and the Orange Grove Community (2003), scan p. 70
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  1. Orange County's townships hold their school commencements Township school commencements drew large crowds on March 28 at Orange Grove for Bingham, Caldwell for Little River, the new Aycock school for Cedar Grove, Efland for Cheeks and Murphey for Eno, and on March 29 at Chapel Hill and Hillsborough. Each day brought contests in spelling, story-telling, recitation and declamation, a speaker at noon and athletics in the afternoon, ahead of the county commencement in Hillsborough in April.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 3, 1924, p. 1
  2. A new consolidated school is built at Orange Grove The board let the Orange Grove contract to A. R. Davis for $13,600 and set the school about half a mile from the old one on the road to Hillsboro. It inspected and accepted the building in March 1925. Also named: A. R. DavisSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 71 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), June 5, 1924, p. 5; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 16, 1926, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, June 13, 1924, p. 8
  3. Five Grange chapters organize in Orange County County agent Don Matheson reported five new Grange chapters in Orange County: Orange Grove, Schley, White Cross, Gravelly Hill and Fairfield. Schley and Fairfield made their meeting halls out of abandoned schoolhouses, and the chapters met every two weeks with women and children as members. People: Gilbert W. Ray, Don S. MathesonThe Chapel Hill Weekly, December 25, 1931, p. 1
  4. Carl Durham serves on the Orange County Board of Commissioners Durham was appointed to the Orange County Board of Commissioners in April 1933 to succeed R. A. Eubanks, who had resigned to become Chapel Hill postmaster, and served until 1938, when he was elected to Congress. In 1935 he proposed and secured $22,000 in federal aid for a rural electrification line in the Calvander-Orange Grove area, and in 1937 he was elected a UNC trustee. People: Carl T. Durham Also named: R. A. EubanksSearch the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Durham, Carl Thomas (Warner Wells, 1986) · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 11, 1934, p. 1; Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952; Open Orange: Carl Durham; Chapel Hill Weekly, November 11, 1932, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 21, 1933, p. 2; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 7, 1933, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, June 23, 1933, p. 1
  5. Farmers at an Orange Grove Grange gathering form committees to bring electricity to their homes At the Orange County Grange assembly at Orange Grove, D. S. Weaver of the governor's rural electrification committee told farmers that Orange and Hoke were the only counties with a CWA power line and that Orange might be chosen as the state's demonstration county. The farmers pledged to cooperate and formed local committees to map routes and estimate use; by late July thirteen committees were at work. People: George H. Lawrence, Don S. Matheson Also named: D. S. WeaverThe Chapel Hill Weekly, July 20, 1934, p. 1
  6. Rural power lines reach four more Orange County communities During 1935 about 30 miles of rural electric lines were built into four Orange communities, bringing current within reach of more than 100 families, who bought more than 25 electric refrigerators and other appliances, county farm agent Don Matheson reported. He cited the state director of rural electrification for the claim that the 10-mile Orange Grove line, built by the FERA and its consumers together, was the first so financed in the United States. People: Don S. MathesonThe Chapel Hill Weekly, December 13, 1935, p. 1
  7. Farmers and the relief administration build a ten-mile power line to Orange Grove After the Civil Works Administration built the power line from Chapel Hill to Calvander in the winter of 1933-34, five farmers paid $200 each to have it carried 2 1/2 miles beyond Calvander along the Saxapahaw road, the Weekly reported in July 1934. The Orange Grove line came the next year. At a meeting at White Cross School on April 1, 1935, Emergency Relief Administration officials laid out a ten-mile extension from near Calvander by Dodson's crossroads to Orange Grove and on toward Teer, estimated at $15,510, of which the farmers along the route were to raise $3,000; most of it was pledged within a week. Work began that spring under the engineer Archie Davis, the line was nearly done at the end of May, and in early September the Weekly reported it built. The county agent's report for 1935 called it the first line in the country paid for jointly by the federal relief administration and its users. The 1993 survey form describes the farmer-funded line as running from Calvander to Orange Grove. Also named: Archie Davis · Also mentions: White Cross SchoolSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 45 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, July 6, 1934, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, July 13, 1934, p. 4; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 5, 1935, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 12, 1935, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, May 31, 1935, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 6, 1935, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, December 13, 1935, p. 1
  8. Home agent Grace Holcombe organizes girls' 4-H clubs in rural Orange schools County home demonstration agent Grace Holcombe organized a girls' 4-H club at St. Mary's school on November 1 and another at Orange Grove on November 8, then junior and senior clubs at White Cross on November 15 and at Aycock the same week. Clubs at Efland and Carrboro were set for later in the month. People: Grace E. Holcombe Also named: Grace HolcombeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 15, 1935, p. 1
  9. Orange Grove School gets new toilets, water, sewage disposal and steam heat By May 22, 1936 work was under way at Orange Grove School on new toilet rooms, a water supply system, sewage disposal and a steam-heating plant, contract price $5,921, with completion expected in about a month, as part of the county's PWA school program. People: H. D. CarterSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 22, 1936, p. 6
  10. The district health department opens its summer vaccination clinics in the county The district health department began its summer campaign against diphtheria, typhoid and smallpox with clinics in the southwestern part of the county, at the Wilson service station, Antioch, White Cross and Orange Grove, to be repeated on later dates into July. Health officer Dr. W. P. Richardson urged people missed the year before to come. People: William P. RichardsonThe Chapel Hill Weekly, June 19, 1936, p. 2
  11. Orange County's terracing machine has terraced more than 4,000 acres of farmland The county-financed terracing machine, a $4,500 caterpillar tractor rented to farmers at $3 an hour with a surveyor, had terraced more than 4,000 acres and built or worked 60 miles of interior roads. After work around Cedar Grove, Hillsboro and Orange Grove it moved to the southern end of the county in May.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 6, 1938, p. 1
  12. Orange County Board of Health orders a county-wide dog quarantine after rabies cases After three rabies cases in the county in ten days, the Board of Health at a special meeting declared a quarantine, effective at noon April 12, requiring every dog to be kept at home or on a leash, with loose dogs liable to be killed or impounded. One mad dog had bitten many dogs in West Hillsboro and another several cows in the Orange Grove section; on April 16 a rabid dog bit several dogs in Carrboro and western Chapel Hill. People: William P. Richardson, William T. SloanSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 11, 1941, p. 1
  13. Two road projects near Orange Grove get under way The two main road projects in Orange County were the improvement of about three miles of road from Hillsboro toward Orange Grove and about three and a half miles from Orange Grove to Highway 54, both being top-soiled that year with a tar-and-crushed-stone surface expected the next spring. The commissioners were also asking the state highway commission to build a few miles of good surface each year instead of scraping dirt roads.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 22, 1941, p. 1
  14. Orange County holds rabies vaccination clinics for dogs Under a 1941 state law requiring every dog to be vaccinated, the county's new rabies inspectors held clinics at rural schools and crossroads across the county and then in Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Hillsboro, charging 75 cents a dog. By late April they had vaccinated almost 700 dogs in the rural areas, and a separate clinic for the dogs of Black owners was held at the Orange County Training School. People: S. A. Nathan, William P. Richardson Also mentions: Orange County Training SchoolSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 24, 1942, p. 1
  15. Fire destroys Orange Grove School Fire destroyed Orange Grove School in December 1942. On December 6, 1943 the county board sought a $16,000 insurance settlement, and at the Orange Grove committee's request classes went on in the old Orange Grove building rather than moving to Hillsboro. Also mentions: Orange Grove SchoolSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 7, 1944, p. 2 · Also: DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983
  16. John W. Umstead, Jr., buys the 1,000-acre Thompson place near Orange Grove Mr. and Mrs. John W. Umstead, Jr., bought the Thompson place, a 1,000-acre farm about two miles from Orange Grove and ten miles from Chapel Hill that the Weekly counted among the county's famous farms; its house, more than a century old, stood in a grove of large oaks. Also named: John W. UmsteadSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 29, 1943, p. 4
  17. The county school board lets Orange Grove pupils stay in their old school building On Monday, May 1, 1944, the Orange County Board of Education granted the request of Orange Grove school patrons, who had met on April 28, that their children keep attending school in the old Orange Grove building, built in 1900, rather than be sent to schools elsewhere in the county. The board also told Superintendent R. H. Claytor to prepare the next year's school budget. People: R. H. Claytor, John W. Umstead Jr.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 11, 1944, p. 1
  18. German prisoners of war from Camp Butner work Orange County farms To meet the farm labor shortage, Orange County farmers, with the Pomona Grange as sponsor, hired German prisoners of war from Camp Butner for the tobacco harvest. By August 9 fifteen prisoners were working in the Orange Grove section, with 40 applications on file; farmers paid 30 cents an hour for days of up to ten hours and carried the men to and from camp. By late August the county's quota of thirty prisoners had moved to filling silos and haying in the Orange Grove and Chapel Hill neighborhoods.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 9, 1945, p. 1
  19. County road work hard-surfaces 12.1 miles in a single year Orange County roads received $422,000 in repairs in 1946, with 12.1 miles hard-surfaced and crushed stone spread on 92 miles, according to commissioners' chairman Collier Cobb Jr. The year's paving, mostly on the Orange Grove and Carmel Church roads, was more than the 9.3 miles surfaced in all the years from 1931 through 1945. People: Collier Cobb Jr.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 19, 1946, p. 1
  20. The Gospel Baptist Tabernacle is organized Willie Thompson, S. E. Elmore and W. J. Johnson organized the Gospel Baptist Tabernacle and built a 250-seat church the same year, with Elmore as first pastor. Also named: Willie Thompson, S. E. Elmore, W. J. JohnsonSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 302
  21. The county board closes Orange Grove School and sends its pupils to Hillsboro The board discontinued Orange Grove School and first planned to split its children between Hillsboro and White Cross. Parents objected strongly to White Cross, so the board voted to send them all to Hillsboro; the school site went to Cane Creek Baptist Church for $50 in 1947. Also mentions: Cane Creek Baptist Church, Orange Grove SchoolSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 81
  22. The county school board sells the closed Orange Grove and Flat Rock school properties The Orange County board of education approved the sale of the Orange Grove school site to the trustees of Cane Creek Baptist Church and of the Flat Rock school building and grounds to a private buyer, and rejected the bid on the former Wardsville school for Black children. The board also adopted a resolution honoring R. H. Claytor's thirty years as superintendent. People: R. H. Claytor Also mentions: Cane Creek Baptist ChurchSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 10, 1947, p. 1
  23. The old Orange Grove Academy building is torn down After Orange Grove School closed, Cane Creek Church took over its 1907 building, holding Sunday school downstairs while the Grange met in the upstairs hall. The building was demolished in 1949. Also mentions: Orange Grove SchoolSearch the index · Cane Creek Baptist Church Historical Research Committee, A Cane Creek Tapestry: A Picture History of Cane Creek Baptist Church and the Orange Grove Community (2003), scan p. 104
  24. Cane Creek Baptist Church breaks ground for a new church After committees appointed in May 1949 priced a remodeling of the old church against a new building, the congregation chose to build. Tommy Lloyd, chairman of the deacons, turned the first earth at the groundbreaking. Also named: Tommy LloydSearch the index · Cane Creek Baptist Church Historical Research Committee, A Cane Creek Tapestry: A Picture History of Cane Creek Baptist Church and the Orange Grove Community (2003), scan p. 24
  25. Cane Creek Baptist sells its old church building at auction Cane Creek Baptist Church sold its old church building at public auction, putting the money toward finishing its new church. The congregation had advertised the sale of the building, about eight miles south of Hillsboro, in February.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 9, 1950, p. 4
  26. Newly paved Orange Grove, Antioch and Jones Ferry roads open By September 1 the State Highway Commission had paved 13.8 miles of secondary road in Orange under the $200 million bond program, opening the Orange Grove Road to Orange Grove (4.9 miles), the Antioch Road west of University Lake (2.4 miles), the Jones Ferry Road from Antioch toward the Chatham line (1.8 miles) and the Cedar Grove Road from Efland toward Cedar Grove. Orange's share of the first $125 million of bonds was $931,500. Also mentions: Jones Ferry RoadThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 7, 1950, p. 1
  27. The 1950 polio season brings 19 cases and a child's death to Orange County Polio cases in Orange rose from 12 in mid-August, mostly mild and centered on Chapel Hill, to 19 by September 21. An eight-year-old boy from Orange Grove died on September 1, the county's first polio death of the year.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 21, 1950, p. 1
  28. Cane Creek Baptist Church holds its first service in its new church The congregation's fifth building was finished in 1951 and first used for worship on May 7. The 1888 church, already stripped of doors and windows, was torn down soon after.Search the index · Cane Creek Baptist Church Historical Research Committee, A Cane Creek Tapestry: A Picture History of Cane Creek Baptist Church and the Orange Grove Community (2003), scan p. 22
  29. Harry Byrd becomes Cane Creek Baptist Church's first full-time pastor Until the late 1940s Cane Creek shared its preacher with another church and held services on two Sundays a month. Harry Byrd, a 1953 Wake Forest graduate, came that year as its first full-time pastor and stayed until 1957. Also named: Harry ByrdSearch the index · Cane Creek Baptist Church Historical Research Committee, A Cane Creek Tapestry: A Picture History of Cane Creek Baptist Church and the Orange Grove Community (2003), scan p. 52
  30. Kerr Scott tells an Orange Grove supper it looks as if he will run for the Senate Former governor W. Kerr Scott, touring the state before announcing for the U.S. Senate, spoke at an oyster supper at Manley Snipes's store in Orange Grove attended by 45 or 50 friends, said it looked as if he would be in the race, and asked for their support, arguing that North Carolina had sent lawyers to the Senate for 75 years and was due for a change. People: W. Kerr Scott Also named: Manley SnipesSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 7, 1954, p. 1
  31. Cane Creek Baptist Church sets the dedication of its new church The church announced dedication services for its church, built in 1949 to 1951, on the annual homecoming day, Sunday, May 16, 1954, with a dedicatory sermon by I. G. Greer of Chapel Hill, memorial services and recognition of former pastors. Julius Andrews chaired the building committee, and the new pastor Harry Byrd was to take part. Also named: I. G. Greer, Julius Andrews, Harry ByrdSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 13, 1954, p. 1 · Also: Cane Creek Baptist Church Historical Research Committee, A Cane Creek Tapestry: A Picture History of Cane Creek Baptist Church and the Orang
  32. The road from Calvander to Orange Grove is hard-surfaced A stretch of road from Calvander to Orange Grove, through one of the densest groups of Grade A dairy farms in the state, had recently been hard-surfaced.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 15, 1955, p. 1
  33. Opponents of auto racing form the Orange County Anti-Racing Association About 100 people at a mass meeting at the Gospel Baptist Tabernacle on Orange Grove Road organized the association, the outgrowth of a campaign the Rev. W. I. Conway began when a jalopy race track was built near his church; the track drew an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 people to its first race the next day. On May 7 Conway and the Rev. Charles E. Maddry took the matter to the county commissioners, who were told by County Attorney Paul Ransom that they could not tax, limit or ban the races without special legislation. People: Charles Edward Maddry Also named: W. I. Conway, Paul RansomThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 10, 1956, p. 8
  34. W. I. Suitt wins a Goodyear award for soil conservation Orange Grove farmer W. I. Suitt received a Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company certificate of merit for the best and most complete soil and water conservation system in the five-county Neuse River Soil Conservation District, which placed first in North Carolina in Goodyear's 1956 district contest. He won a trip to Goodyear Farms in Arizona, and the district supervisors, among them Henry S. Hogan of Orange, later received a plaque. People: Henry S. Hogan Also named: W. I. SuittSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 13, 1956, p. 1
  35. Orange Grove residents put up a sign naming the community To make the Orange Grove name better known, residents set up a welcome sign beside the Perry farm on Bradshaw Quarry Road. Also named: Wiley PerrySearch the index · Cane Creek Baptist Church Historical Research Committee, A Cane Creek Tapestry: A Picture History of Cane Creek Baptist Church and the Orange Grove Community (2003), scan p. 74
  36. Orange Grove and Aycock communities build new community centers Two new community buildings, at Orange Grove and in the Aycock community near Cedar Grove, were being finished in time for Fourth of July celebrations; the county agent described both as large buildings with modern utilities for social and educational gatherings. Orange Grove held a fish fry at its newly built center on July 4.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 2, 1964, p. 13
  37. Orange Grove wins the area's community development award Orange Grove, already named the county's Community of the Year for building a new community center, raising farm income and improving its roads, took first place among farm communities in the three-county North Central Area Development Association competition. Mrs. Charles Snipes accepted the plaque and $150 check at the association's banquet. Also named: Mrs. Charles SnipesSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 19, 1964, p. 1
  38. Efland and Orange Grove volunteer fire departments are incorporated As the Orange Rural Fire Department's board worked from 1971 to set up fire districts covering the whole county, rural communities formed their own departments: the Efland Volunteer Fire Department incorporated in September 1972 and the Orange Grove Volunteer Fire Company on February 1, 1973. New Hope followed later in February 1973.Search the index · Orange Rural Fire Department: History of the Fire Service in Hillsborough · Also: opencorporates.com; opencorporates.com
  39. Cane Creek Baptist Church holds an annual Old Timers' Day Pastor James Bouseman started an Old Timers' Day at which members dressed in the fashions of an earlier time; it was held each year from 1974 through 1976, the last one part of the national bicentennial. Also named: James BousemanSearch the index · Cane Creek Baptist Church Historical Research Committee, A Cane Creek Tapestry: A Picture History of Cane Creek Baptist Church and the Orange Grove Community (2003), scan p. 68
  40. The Orange Grove Volunteer Fire Company builds its first station Started after neighbors waited a long time for an Eli Whitney fire truck at a house fire around 1970, the company built its first station in 1974 and received its first truck later that year.Search the index · Cane Creek Baptist Church Historical Research Committee, A Cane Creek Tapestry: A Picture History of Cane Creek Baptist Church and the Orange Grove Community (2003), scan p. 90
  41. Orange Grove residents form the Cane Creek Conservation Authority Farm families around Cane Creek organized the Cane Creek Conservation Authority to stop the dam and elected 23-year-old dairy farmer Bobby Kirk president; the group had about 100 active members and said 12 dairy farms would be affected. It argued that the reservoir would end farming in the area, that owners had not been consulted, and that Jordan Lake and other sources were alternatives. People: Bobby KirkThe Daily Tar Heel: Area groups opposed to planned Cane Creek reservoir, December 6, 1976
  42. Court rules OWASA may survey Cane Creek land, staying the order for an appeal The Orange Water and Sewer Authority won a court ruling that it could survey land along Cane Creek for its proposed reservoir, but the court granted the Cane Creek landowners' association a 30-day stay to appeal to the state Court of Appeals. The Orange Grove group, formed in October 1976, said the reservoir would ruin dairy farms and drown bottomland forest; OWASA called Cane Creek the best long-term source.The Daily Tar Heel, June 2, 1977, p. 4
  43. Cane Creek landowners vote to take the reservoir survey case to the state Supreme Court A week after the N.C. Court of Appeals let OWASA survey their land, members of the Cane Creek Conservation Authority voted unanimously to ask the N.C. Supreme Court to review the decision and considered seeking a stay of the survey. By mid-October their petition was before the Supreme Court while OWASA scheduled its surveyors to start Oct. 17.The Daily Tar Heel, October 5, 1977, p. 3
  44. OWASA agrees to buy 218 acres beside the Cane Creek reservoir site The Orange Water and Sewer Authority approved buying 218 acres on State Road 1101, a quarter mile east of the proposed Cane Creek reservoir, from the estate of Dr. Rainey Stanford for $152,000, its first land purchase for the project. Executive director Everett Billingsley said the land would serve as wildlife mitigation land and for trades with owners whose farms the reservoir would take; OWASA still had to acquire 758 acres inside the project area. Also named: Everett BillingsleyThe Daily Tar Heel, December 4, 1979, p. 2
  45. Cane Creek Baptist Church marks its two hundredth year The church celebrated its bicentennial with former pastor James Bouseman back as guest preacher. During the year Cecil Crawford led members on a walk to the site of the first meeting-house above Cane Creek. Also named: James Bouseman, Cecil CrawfordSearch the index · Cane Creek Baptist Church Historical Research Committee, A Cane Creek Tapestry: A Picture History of Cane Creek Baptist Church and the Orange Grove Community (2003), scan p. 68

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  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, White Cross quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)

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