Rogers Road

The Hogan-Rogers House was built on the Hogan plantation on Purefoy Road

The two-story frame house on Purefoy Road, on land now owned by St. Paul AME Church, dates to the 1840s or 1850s; the 1992 township survey recorded it as the Lloyd-Rogers House at 1612 Purefoy Road, the only house in the township on a raised basement. A fireplace in that basement led the Preservation Society's director to conclude that enslaved people on the Hogan plantation probably lived and worked there. INDY Week reported in 2012 that many Rogers-Eubanks residents descend from people held on the plantation.

Robert Campbell moves to Rogers Road as the county landfill is built beside it

Campbell, who grew up in the Northside community of Chapel Hill, moved to Rogers Road in the early 1970s, as the Orange County landfill was going in next to the neighborhood. He later became president of the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association and of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP.

Subject: Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association

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 a lawsuit in late September 1972. The suit was denied in early October.

Orange County begins discussing the first expansion of the Eubanks Road landfill

Ten years after the landfill opened, the county began discussing an expansion even though it had estimated the site would be full by 1985. Residents had been told the landfill would close after about ten years.

Chapel Hill authorizes buying land beside the landfill to widen its buffer

The council unanimously authorized the town manager to buy the 4.05-acre Wilson property adjoining the Eubanks Road landfill at $6,000 an acre to expand a minimal buffer, subject to approval by Carrboro and Orange County.

Orange County chooses to keep expanding the Eubanks Road landfill instead of opening a new site

With site OC-17 blocked, the county announced it would expand the existing landfill rather than close it. A new construction and demolition landfill was later built on the north side of Eubanks Road.

Robert Campbell petitioned Chapel Hill for bus service to the Rogers Road neighborhood

Minister Robert Campbell asked the Chapel Hill council to extend free transit service to the Rogers Road community, noting that it lacked sidewalks and sewer service and that children walked along the landfill's heavy truck route. He suggested rerouting underused Airport Road buses.

People: Robert Campbell

Subject: Chapel Hill Transit

Carrboro annexed subdivisions on the west side of Rogers Road

Carrboro annexed six subdivisions north of Homestead Road, including Fox Meadow and Highlands, bringing part of the Rogers Road area inside town limits. In September 2004 the aldermen had voted 6 to 1 to go ahead even though the historic neighborhood had asked the two towns to move their annexation boundary so the community would not be split.

People: Mark Chilton

Orange County commissioners vote to put a waste transfer station at the Eubanks Road landfill

The board voted unanimously to develop a solid waste transfer station at the landfill site, following its Solid Waste Advisory Board's recommendation, over objections from Rogers Road residents. The landfill was then expected to fill in 2010.

People: Mike Nelson · Robert Campbell · Valerie Foushee

Commissioners drop Eubanks Road and choose two other transfer station candidates

Conceding that the 2007 choice had not adequately weighed its effect on Rogers Road, the commissioners voted 5 to 1 to pursue two other sites, the 143-acre Howell property and an OWASA tract in Bingham Township.

RENA opened its first community center on Edgar Road

Three years after incorporating as a nonprofit, the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association opened a small community center on Edgar Road so the neighborhood had a place of its own to gather and run programs.

Part of Historic Rogers Road neighborhood · 25 events

Subject: Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association

Commissioners set the landfill's closing date and created the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood Task Force

On the night the Orange County commissioners voted to close the landfill on June 30, 2013, they also authorized an eight-member task force, with two members each from Chapel Hill, Carrboro, the county and RENA, to recommend how to deliver sewer service and a community center and how to guard against displacement. An interim report was due that August and a final report to the Assembly of Governments on December 6, 2012.

People: Penny Rich

Subject: Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association

The county-funded Rogers Road Community Center opened at 101 Edgar Street

Orange County commissioners awarded a $522,488 contract to Riggs-Harrod Builders of Durham on April 1, 2014 after a first round of bids came in at two to three times the authorized budget and the building was redesigned. The larger center, with a community room, kitchen, computer lab and outdoor courts, opened that December a short walk from RENA's 2010 building.

Subject: Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association

Carrboro broke ground on the Rogers Road sidewalk and bus stop project

A $1.37 million project put a five-foot sidewalk from the west side of Rogers Road to Meadow Run Court, together with a new bus pad and shelter. Ground was broken in late June 2018 and construction began that fall. The project traced back to a New Horizons task force created in 2005.

Pop-up vaccine clinic held at the Rogers Road Community Center

The Orange County Health Department held a pop-up COVID-19 vaccine clinic at the Rogers Road Community Center for Hispanic and Asian American residents, many of whom do not speak English, after local volunteers asked for one and printed flyers in several languages.

Subject: Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association