Schley

In the chronology

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1. 1904 (ordered April 11) A frame schoolhouse replaces the log St. Mary's School The district built a new frame school beside its log schoolhouse, about three-quarters of a mile northeast of St. Mary's Chapel, and sold the log building to Amos Wilson, who took it apart and moved it to his farm on St. Mary's Road.Search the index · Hugh Conway Browning, Information Related to St. Mary's Chapel (1996), scan p. 59
2. March 30, 1918 Farmers' Union delegates at Schley ask that no wheat be threshed before July 15 At J. Cheshire Webb's request, the county's Farmers' Union, in convention at Schley on March 30, 1918, resolved to favor a Food Administration rule that no threshing machine start before July 15, to protect crop cultivation. Webb issued the order, and only two farmers broke it; both paid to the Red Cross. People: J. Cheshire WebbSearch the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 58
3. September 1931 Schley Grange No. 710 is chartered Thirty residents of the Schley farming community north of Hillsborough chartered Schley Grange No. 710, one of five Orange County Granges formed in the state Grange revival of 1929 to 1931. The county board had merged Schley School into the Hillsboro school that June, and on November 2 it sold the Schley School building for $122 to Charles Wilson, who bought it for the Grange.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Schley Grange Hall National Register nomination (OR3148)
4. November 1948–December 1949 Schley Grange brings telephones to fifty-one families and wins a national community award For a National Grange and Sears-Roebuck Foundation contest, Schley Grange members cleared right-of-way, cut cedar poles and strung three miles of wire so the telephone company could give service to 51 families; they also held a soil conservation workshop with the extension service. Schley won the national prize in November 1948, and the new brick Grange hall it paid for was dedicated on December 6, 1949 before about five hundred people. People: W. Kerr Scott, Don S. MathesonSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Schley Grange Hall National Register nomination (OR3148)
5. December 1949 Schley Grange dedicates the hall it won in a national contest National Grange master Albert S. Goss and Governor W. Kerr Scott were set to take part in the dedication of the new $50,000 Schley Grange Hall. Sears-Roebuck Foundation built and furnished the hall after the Grange won the 1948 national community service contest. People: W. Kerr ScottSearch the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, December 1, 1949, p. 1
6. 1964 to 1965 Eno Church and the Schley Grange restore the Old Eno Cemetery, and a state highway marker goes up In 1964 Eno Church, helped by the Schley Grange, cleared and restored the Old Eno Cemetery and set a bronze plaque on a boulder where the first church stood. A state highway marker for Old Eno Church and Cemetery followed, erected in 1965 by the Department of Archives and History, and was dedicated with Synod executive Harold Dudley present.Search the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 16
7. October 1965 A House committee names the Sportsman's Lakeside Lodge as the Klan unit in Orange County The House Un-American Activities Committee, investigating the Ku Klux Klan, named the Sportsman's Lakeside Lodge as the Klan organization in Orange County. Sheriff C. B. Knight told the Daily Tar Heel that three Klan meetings had been held in the county recently.DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, October 22, 1965, p. 1
8. July 11, 1991 The Ray-Kenion farms and the Charles Davis Farm join the Study List The National Register Advisory Committee placed the Ray-Kenion rural historic district and the Charles Davis Farm on North Carolina's Study List, its list of properties likely to qualify for the National Register. Both came to the committee as public requests, two years before the county survey was finished.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: National Register Advisory Committee agendas, minutes and approved lists, p. 467
9. October 11, 2018 Schley Grange Hall near Hurdle Mills joins the Study List Staff proposed the grange hall as eligible for its place in the social history of the area. With no questions from members or the audience, the committee approved it by a 7-0 roll call vote on October 11, 2018.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: National Register Advisory Committee agendas, minutes and approved lists, p. 1453
10. April 23, 2020 The Schley Grange Hall is listed in the National Register On April 23, 2020 the National Park Service listed the Schley Grange Hall near Schley in the National Register of Historic Places.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Listings in the National Register of Historic Places, Orange County