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StorylineThe Grange in Orange County, 1873–19481873–1948 · 6 events · The Patrons of Husbandry, or Grange, took root in Orange County twice. James Means of Concord organized the Eno Grange at Cedar Grove in December 1873, and in October 1874 delegates of seven Granges organized a county council with John K. Hughes as master. A state Grange revival from 1929 to 1931 produced five Orange chapters, among them Schley Grange No. 710. Schley and Fairfield made their halls out of abandoned schoolhouses, and the chapters met every two weeks with women and children as members. A Grange was organized at New Hope in 1946, and in 1948 W. Kerr Scott, the Democratic nominee for governor and a former State Grange master, spoke to the county's Granges. StorylineConsolidating the rural schools and hauling the children, 1919–19261919–1926 · 32 events · Between 1919 and 1926 Orange County closed many of its small country schools and began carrying the children by truck and bus to larger ones. The Chapel Hill Graded School had a Ford truck for country children by 1919, and in 1923 superintendent Claytor began folding the county's one- and two-teacher schools into larger ones. The county board set an order for new buildings at Efland, White Cross, the Orange County Training School, Orange Grove and Caldwell, ordered its first school buses in 1924 and sold the emptied schoolhouses. By April 1926 the county had put up seven brick consolidated schools since 1922, including the Orange County Training School for Black pupils, and ran 24 buses. StorylineSchley Grange and its hall, 1931–20201931–2020 · 15 events · Thirty residents of the Schley farming community north of Hillsborough chartered Schley Grange No. 710 in 1931. In 1948 its members staged a one-day soil conservation makeover of Milton Latta's farm and strung three miles of telephone wire to bring service to 51 families, and after national judges toured the community that November the Grange won the National Grange and Sears-Roebuck Foundation community service contest. The prize hall the foundation built was dedicated on December 6, 1949, and the Schley Grange Hall was listed in the National Register in 2020. StorylineThe Klan in Orange County, 1964–19881964–1988 · 10 events · Between 1964 and 1968 the Ku Klux Klan held rallies with cross burnings east of Chapel Hill and near Hillsborough, called a night rally beside Interstate 85 and gathered off Highway 54 west of Carrboro. In 1965 a House committee named the Sportsman's Lakeside Lodge as the Klan organization in Orange County, and the sheriff reported three recent Klan meetings in the county. That December Congressman Charles Weltner urged an audience of about 1,700 in Memorial Hall to stop supporting the Klan. In 1987 Klan members marched on Franklin Street beside numerous protesters, and in 1988 about 50 marched through Hillsborough and rallied at the courthouse before a crowd of hecklers.

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  1. 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. Also named: Amos Wilson · Also mentions: St. Mary's RoadSearch the index · Hugh Conway Browning, Information Related to St. Mary's Chapel (1996), scan p. 59 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 14, 1904, p. 2
  2. 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. 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. Also named: Charles Wilson · Also mentions: Hillsboro schoolSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Schley Grange Hall National Register nomination (OR3148) · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, December 25, 1931, p. 1
  4. 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
  5. The temporary county health unit vaccinates 4,200 people against typhoid in southern Orange In its summer campaign against a typhoid outbreak, the temporary county health unit vaccinated 4,200 people in the southern half of Orange County and then held final clinics at St. Mary's, Caldwell, Schley, Walnut Grove, Carr and Aycock schools on August 6 and 8. People: Charles Staples MangumThe Chapel Hill Weekly, August 2, 1935, p. 4
  6. Elmer R. Dowdy holds forestry thinning demonstrations for Schley farmers Elmer R. Dowdy, agriculture teacher at the Hillsboro school and director of its veterans' farm training program, held forestry thinning demonstrations on the Ed Wilson and H. Parker farms in the Schley neighborhood, with the district forester and the Soil Conservation Service marking the trees. About fifty farmers attended. People: Elmer R. Dowdy Also named: Ed Wilson, H. Parker · Also mentions: Hillsboro schoolSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 6, 1947, p. 6 (Soil Conservation News)
  7. Thousands watch a one-day conservation makeover of the Milton Latta farm near Schley Schley Grange No. 710 staged what was billed as North Carolina's first soil conservation field day on Milton Latta's 195-acre farm northeast of Hillsboro, where about 250 volunteers with 25 to 30 tractors, bulldozers and earth movers built terraces, a fish pond, pastures, strip crops and wildlife borders that would take an ordinary farmer three to five years. Estimates of the crowd ran from three thousand to ten thousand. People: Don S. Matheson, Robert L. Mohler, Henry S. Hogan Also named: Milton A. Latta, Milton LattaSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 1, 1948, p. 1
  8. Kerr Scott speaks to the Orange County Granges at St. Mary's school W. Kerr Scott, the Democratic nominee for governor and a former State Grange master, spoke to 300 to 400 people of the county's Granges at the St. Mary's school, again calling for all-weather school bus roads, rural telephones and rural electrification. The St. Mary's Grange served barbecue and Brunswick stew before the talk. People: W. Kerr ScottSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 23, 1948, p. 1
  9. National judges tour the Schley community's Grange projects Judges of the National Grange community service contest flew to the Durham-Raleigh airport and toured the Schley community, North Carolina's winning Grange, seeing its new cooperative telephone line, the landscaped Mars Hill Baptist churchyard and the Milton Latta farm of the spring soil conservation field day before a barbecue at the Grange hall. People: Don S. Matheson, Robert L. Mohler Also named: Milton A. Latta, Milton LattaSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 11, 1948, p. 1
  10. 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)
  11. Newcastle disease kills poultry in the St. Mary's and Schley area An outbreak of Newcastle disease, brought in from other areas, caused heavy losses in several poultry flocks in the St. Mary's and Schley section, and the county agent urged owners within a mile of the outbreaks to vaccinate. A week later no new cases had been reported.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 9, 1949, p. 1
  12. Schley Grange lets the contract for the hall it won in a national contest The Durham firm of Cole and Crumpacker won the general contract for the $40,000 Schley Grange Hall, the prize from the national community service contest, and began clearing the site, where a well had already been drilled. Plans called for an assembly hall, dining room, kitchen, lobby and heating plant. Also mentions: Schley Grange HallSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 9, 1949, p. 1
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  1. Governor Kerr Scott tours northeastern Orange to see rural progress Governor W. Kerr Scott spent about three and a half hours in Orange County, speaking to some 200 people at the newly finished New Sharon Methodist Church, inspecting the nearly complete Schley Grange hall and farm conservation work, and ending at barbecue suppers at Pleasant Green and St. Mary's. He denied charges that he was setting country against town and said he wanted rural living to equal town living. People: W. Kerr Scott, Carl T. Durham, John W. Umstead Jr., Charles S. HubbardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 22, 1949, p. 1
  2. Schley Grange dedicates the hall it won in a national contest On Tuesday, December 6, 1949, National Grange master Albert S. Goss gave the dedication address for the new $50,000 Schley Grange Hall, and E. J. Condon of the Sears-Roebuck Foundation spoke. The foundation built and furnished the hall after the Grange won the 1948 national community service contest. People: W. Kerr Scott Also named: Albert S. GossSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 1, 1949, p. 1 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 25, 1948, p. 1; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 8, 1949, p. 1
  3. The State Grange Youth Conference meets at the new Schley Grange Hall The eleventh annual State Grange Youth Conference brought about 100 representatives of Grange youth from a number of counties to the recently dedicated Schley Grange Hall for a two-day meeting. It closed on Sunday, January 1, with the election of new youth officers and a talk by E. B. Garrett, state coordinator of the U.S. Soil Conservation Service. Also named: E. B. GarrettThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 5, 1950, p. 1
  4. Orange Democrats hold their election rally at Schley Grange Hall, with Willis Smith on the platform Orange County Democrats held their pre-election barbecue rally at the Schley Grange Hall, where William B. Umstead of Durham praised the county's government and the party's record, and Senate nominee Willis Smith, who had beaten Orange County's Frank P. Graham in the spring primary, appeared and was introduced as an old friend. The paper judged Smith's welcome cooler than Congressman Carl T. Durham's but put it down to his being little known. People: William B. Umstead, Carl T. Durham, Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham Also named: Willis Smith, Frank P. GrahamThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 2, 1950, p. 1
  5. William B. Umstead opens the Orange County Democrats' fall campaign at Schley Grange At a Young Democrats barbecue rally in the Schley Grange Hall on October 13, 1952, gubernatorial nominee William B. Umstead gave a 35-minute speech backing Adlai Stevenson for president, arguing that General Eisenhower's lifetime in the army disqualified him, and urged the party faithful to work. His brother John W. Umstead, running again for Orange's seat in the General Assembly, and state senate nominee Ralph H. Scott were introduced. People: William B. Umstead Also named: John W. Umstead, Ralph H. ScottSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 16, 1952, p. 1
  6. Governor Umstead names Mrs. J. Edmund Latta of Schley to the State Board of Health Governor William B. Umstead appointed Mrs. J. Edmund Latta of the Schley community, a Hillsboro school teacher, to a four-year term on the State Board of Health as its dairy representative, succeeding Mrs. James B. Hunt of Lucama. People: William B. Umstead Also named: Mrs. J. Edmund Latta · Also mentions: Hillsboro schoolSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 28, 1953, p. 1
  7. Some 1,100 young farm cooperative delegates tour Orange County Delegates to the American Institute of Cooperation meeting at State College rode 26 chartered buses through the St. Mary's, Schley and New Hope communities, Hillsboro and Chapel Hill, stopping at the Clyde Roberts farm, Schley Grange Hall and the new New Hope Presbyterian Church, while about 400 visited Piedmont Electric in Hillsboro. The News said it was believed to be the largest farm tour ever held in North Carolina. People: Clyde Roberts Also mentions: New Hope Presbyterian Church, Schley Grange HallSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 2, 1956, p. 1
  8. Orange County farmers tour aromatic tobacco plots at Cedar Grove and Schley About 30 farmers visited the C. T. Pope farm at Cedar Grove and the Brice Poteat farm in the Schley community to see aromatic, or Turkish-type, tobacco grown, wilted, cured and baled, with State College specialist Roy Crouse explaining. The News called it a new industry that had come to Orange County; the district and county Black farm agents also attended. Also named: C. T. Pope, Brice Poteat, Roy CrouseSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 30, 1956, p. 1
  9. Schley Grange celebrates its 25th anniversary About 150 members and guests attended the silver anniversary ceremonies, where Mrs. J. E. Latta, the first lecturer, traced the Grange from its start in the old schoolhouse to its national award and community building, and State Master Harry B. Caldwell honored the past masters. She said Schley, formally organized September 19, 1931, was among the first 125 Granges in the state's revival. Also named: Mrs. J. E. Latta, Harry B. CaldwellThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 4, 1956, p. 1
  10. The Exchange Club enters Grady A. Brown in its Book of Golden Deeds At its annual ladies' night Christmas party at the Schley Grange Hall, the Hillsboro Exchange Club gave its Book of Golden Deeds award, its highest honor, to Grady A. Brown, longtime principal of Hillsboro High School, with the Rev. Charles Hubbard making the presentation. The club also named charter member J. L. 'Luke' Brown Jr. its Man of the Year. People: Charles S. Hubbard, Grady A. Brown Also named: Charles Hubbard, J. L. Brown Jr. · Also mentions: Hillsboro High SchoolSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 20, 1956, p. 1
  11. The state board of farm organizations and agencies tours Orange County farms The State Board of Farm Organizations and Agricultural Agencies made Orange its first county visit, touring the Reid Roberts, Latta-Gardner, Milton Latta and Larry Coleman farms in the St. Mary's and Schley communities and hearing a panel on the county's farm programs over supper at Schley Grange Hall. Progressive Farmer editor William Poe called the county's work 'tremendously inspiring.' People: Reid Roberts, Don S. Matheson Also named: William Poe, Larry Coleman, Milton LattaSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 23, 1957, p. 1
  12. Schley Grange members finish a volunteer pine-thinning project and turn the pulpwood into community funds Schley Grange members with chain saws and axes thinned young pine stands on four farms, as marked by Extension foresters, and sold the pulpwood the owners had donated; on April 22 the community service committee handed the Grange a check for $383.72 for future projects. County Agent Don Matheson called the project the first of its kind in North Carolina. People: Don S. MathesonThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 24, 1958, p. 1
  13. Orange Democrats host the Sixth District rally at Schley Grange Orange County Democrats and Congressman Carl T. Durham hosted the Sixth Congressional District rally of the state party's campaign caravan at Schley Grange Hall, with Senator B. Everett Jordan as principal speaker and Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr. and state party chairman Woodrow W. Jones among the leaders taking part. The barbecue fed 450 plates. People: Carl T. Durham, Robert O. Forrest Also named: B. Everett Jordan, Sam J. Ervin Jr., Woodrow W. JonesThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 23, 1958, p. 1
  14. Schley receives third prize in a two-state soil conservation contest Carolina Power and Light presented its 1957-58 Finer Farms prizes at the Orange County courthouse: $150 to the Schley community for third place in the two-state contest, first place among county boards to Orange's soil conservation supervisors, and $50 Superior Results awards to Jordan Grove, Buckhorn, Orange Grove and Midway-New Hope. People: Reid Roberts, Henry S. Hogan Also mentions: BuckhornSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 23, 1958, p. 1
  15. Schley wins the North Central area community contest Schley, first among ten organized Orange communities, then placed first among 24 neighborhoods in the three-county North Central Area Development Association contest and received a $150 prize and plaque at the association's banquet in Durham.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 23, 1961, p. 13
  16. A hail and wind storm cuts a twister path through the Aycock and Schley communities A severe electrical storm dropped more than three inches of rain in parts of the county, while hail and violent winds hit the Aycock and Schley communities. A tornado-like wind hooked around Chandler's Store and ran about four miles, uprooting trees, unroofing a crib and five sheds and badly damaging tobacco in a mile-wide path; observers called it the worst storm of the year.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 16, 1962, p. 28
  17. 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. Also named: Harold DudleySearch the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 16 · Also: HMDB: Old Eno Church and Cemetery marker; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 9, 1964, p. 9
  18. 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. Also named: C. B. KnightThe Daily Tar Heel, October 22, 1965, p. 1
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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 · Also: NC State Historic Preservation Office: National Register file OR3148

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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, Caldwell quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)
  9. USGS topographic map, Caldwell quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)

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Robert W. Scott (1861-1929) Papers

Scott family · 1848

Papers of the family of Robert W. Scott, 1848 to 1963. Scott was an Alamance County legislator and farm leader and the father of Governor W. Kerr Scott. His letters of 1879 to 1921 go mostly to Lizzie J. Hughes, his fiancee and then wife, sent from home, from Houghton Farm in New York, where he studied experimental farming, and from travels. Hawfields, Cedar Grove and Hillsborough appear. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.200.

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