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StorylineSouthern Power and electric service, 1911–19191911–1919 · 4 events · By June 1911 Duke's Southern Power Company had carried its line of towers across Orange County, and within a few years it had a generating plant in the county and was bringing electric power to its mills. In 1915 the company built a coal-fired steam plant beside the Eno near University Station as a backup for its hydroelectric stations, and by July 1916, with flooding shutting the river stations, it was sending current as far as Charlotte. That October the company surveyed a line to Carrboro to power the mills and light the town. In West Hillsborough the steam-driven Bellevue mill ran partly on electricity by 1919 and completely by the mid-1920s.

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  1. Charles Tew buys land west of Hillsborough for a military academy On December 18, 1858, Charles C. Tew of South Carolina bought from Cad Jones a 61 1/4-acre tract lying between the Greensborough road and the North Carolina Railroad, on what is now the west end of Hillsborough, for a military academy modeled on the Citadel. His advertisements, dated September 15, 1858, had already announced that the school would open at Hillsborough in January 1859. People: Charles Courtenay Tew, John Berry, Moses Ashley Curtis Also mentions: North Carolina RailroadSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: The Commandant's House, National Register nomination (OR0006), p. 4 · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, November 10, 1858, p. 1; NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey; Open Orange: Hillsborough Military Academy
  2. Hillsborough Military Academy opens Charles C. Tew, then superintendent of the state military academy at Columbia, South Carolina, opened the Hillsborough Military Academy in January 1859, holding its first classes in the old Hillsborough Academy buildings. His advertisements had set the opening for January 12. In October 1860 the Hillsborough Recorder reported that the academy's barracks, built to house 125 cadets, had been erected at a cost of $30,000. People: Charles Courtenay Tew Also mentions: Hillsborough Academy, Hillsborough Military AcademySearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: The Commandant's House, National Register nomination (OR0006), p. 4 · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, November 10, 1858, p. 1; Hillsborough Recorder, October 24, 1860, p. 3; NCpedia: Tew, Charles Courtenay; Open Orange: Hillsborough Military Academy
  3. Masons lay a cornerstone at the Hillsborough Military Academy On Saturday, August 13, 1859, the Masons of Eagle Lodge, with the Orange Guards, the academy's cadets and a large crowd, marched from the court house to the site about a mile and a half west of town, near the railroad, and laid the cornerstone of the Hillsborough Military Academy's barracks. Henry K. Nash gave the address. People: Henry Kollock Nash Also mentions: Eagle LodgeLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 319 · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, August 17, 1859, p. 3
  4. The Hillsborough Military Academy holds its first annual examination The academy examined its cadets in arithmetic, algebra, geometry and French over two days at the close of its first annual session. A visitor whose report the editor adopted as his own praised the system and the teachers, and said the school's training and discipline had won him over to military schools. People: Charles Courtenay TewHillsborough Recorder, November 23, 1859, p. 2
  5. The Hillsborough Military Academy's commandant's house is built The academy's castellated brick superintendent's house, known locally as the Commandant's House, with a turret at each corner and crenellated battlements, was presumably built about the same time as the barracks, which were complete by 1860. It was the home of Charles C. Tew, his wife Elizabeth and their children. John Berry was its builder, to designs by the Columbia architect John A. Kay, and Henry Richards Sr. is credited as its brickmason. People: Charles Courtenay Tew, John Berry Also named: Henry RichardsSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: The Commandant's House, National Register nomination (OR0006), p. 4 · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, October 24, 1860, p. 3; Open Orange: Hillsborough Military Academy
  6. Hillsborough Military Academy cadets move into Colonel Tew's new barracks The cadets of the Hillsborough Military Academy paraded and marched out to the new barracks that Col. Charles C. Tew had built for them just outside the town limits, putting the whole school in its own buildings under his eye. The editor credited Tew's energy since he had settled in Hillsborough eighteen months before. People: Charles Courtenay TewHillsborough Recorder, June 13, 1860, p. 2
  7. Captain W. D. Gaillard, a professor at the Hillsborough Military Academy, dies Captain W. D. Gaillard, a 24-year-old South Carolinian who had taught for eighteen months at the Hillsborough Military Academy, died on the morning of July 3. On July 8 the cadets met, adopted resolutions of regret and agreed to wear mourning for thirty days. Also named: W. D. Gaillard · Also mentions: Hillsborough Military AcademyHillsborough Recorder, July 4, 1860, p. 3
  8. The Hillsborough Military Academy's register lists 107 cadets from eight states The academy's semi-annual register, just published, counted 107 cadets entered since February, from North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Mississippi and Virginia. People: Charles Courtenay TewHillsborough Recorder, September 12, 1860, p. 3
  9. George Attmore Sparrow is a cadet at the Hillsborough Military Academy Sparrow, the teenage son of the Washington lawyer Thomas Sparrow, was enrolled as a cadet at the Hillsborough Military Academy in 1861 and 1862. He wrote home to his father from the academy through that period. People: George Attmore Sparrow, Thomas Sparrow Also mentions: Hillsborough Military AcademySearch the index · East Carolina University: Thomas Sparrow Papers collection guide
  10. William H. S. Burgwyn enrolls as a cadet at the Hillsborough Military Academy Later in 1861 Burgwyn entered the Hillsborough Military Academy as a cadet. By the autumn he had been appointed drill master of the camp of instruction near Raleigh, and he was then elected a lieutenant in the Thirty-fifth North Carolina Regiment. People: William H. S. Burgwyn Also mentions: Hillsborough Military AcademySearch the index · NCpedia: Burgwyn, William Hyslop Sumner
  11. The legislature incorporates the Hillsborough Military Academy The 1860-61 General Assembly passed an act to incorporate the Hillsborough Military Academy, Col. Charles C. Tew's school west of Hillsborough. Also mentions: Hillsborough Military AcademyHillsborough Recorder, March 6, 1861, p. 2
  12. Col. Charles C. Tew leaves the Military Academy to command Fort Macon Col. Charles C. Tew, superintendent of the Hillsborough Military Academy, left Hillsborough on Thursday, April 18, 1861, to take command of Fort Macon. Capt. Lightfoot of the academy followed the next day after the Governor named him to his staff. People: Charles Courtenay Tew Also mentions: Hillsborough Military AcademyHillsborough Recorder, April 24, 1861, p. 2
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  1. The Hillsborough Military Academy counts 131 cadets in its new brick barracks The academy's annual register reported 131 cadets, new and old, entered between February 6 and April 1, in new buildings put up under Superintendent Charles C. Tew: a brick main building 215 feet long and three stories high, and a second long building holding the mess hall, kitchen, hospital, surgeon's office and society hall. Two literary societies had formed among the cadets. People: Charles Courtenay TewHillsborough Recorder, April 3, 1861, p. 3
  2. George Attmore Sparrow gets approval for his discharge from the Hillsborough academy Writing from the academy on 21 July 1862, Sparrow told his father he had approval for his discharge and would leave with other cadets when the session ended on 31 July. He was writing from the academy again that fall, through November 1862, and by April 1863 he was in camp with the Army of the Pamlico near Kinston. People: George Attmore Sparrow, Thomas SparrowSearch the index · East Carolina University Digital Collections: Letter from George Attmore Sparrow to Thomas Sparrow, 1862-07-21
  3. Col. Charles C. Tew, founder of the Hillsborough Military Academy, is killed at Sharpsburg Col. Charles C. Tew, who had founded the Hillsborough Military Academy and led the 2nd North Carolina State Troops, was shot in the head while leading his regiment at Sharpsburg. His body was never recovered, and Hillsborough held out hope for weeks that he had been taken prisoner. People: Charles Courtenay Tew Also mentions: Hillsborough Military AcademyHillsborough Recorder, October 1, 1862, p. 3
  4. Hillsborough meeting resolves to erect a monument to Col. Charles C. Tew A Hillsborough meeting chaired by M. E. Manly resolved to raise a monument to Col. Tew, killed at Sharpsburg, at or near the front of his Military Academy, and named Dr. Edmund Strudwick, Dr. Pride Jones and Thomas Webb to collect funds and build it. People: Thomas Webb, Charles Courtenay Tew, Edmund Strudwick, Pride Jones, Thomas Blount Hill Also named: M. E. ManlySearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, December 17, 1862
  5. Military Academy cadets take up a subscription for the Tew monument Meeting on March 5, the cadets of the Hillsborough Military Academy joined the plan of Col. Charles C. Tew's regiment and the townspeople for a monument to Tew, their founder and former superintendent, killed at Sharpsburg, and opened a subscription to which former cadets were invited. By early July the officers and cadets had raised $500, which cadet W. K. Cathcart paid to Pride Jones, chairman of the Hillsborough monument committee. People: Pride Jones Also named: W. K. Cathcart, Charles C. Tew · Also mentions: Hillsborough Military AcademyHillsborough Recorder, April 1, 1863, p. 3
  6. Hillsborough Military Academy closes for a time at the end of the Civil War After Charles C. Tew left for the army in 1861, the academy stayed open through the war under Maj. William M. Gordon. Its 1865 term began in February, but that spring, with Sherman's army in the adjoining county, the school closed for a time. It reopened on October 2, 1865, for its eighth academic year, without the military feature, under J. B. White, formerly superintendent of the South Carolina Military Academy. Gen. Raleigh E. Colston announced that it would resume under his direction on October 1, 1866, as a polytechnic school on a military basis. People: Charles Courtenay Tew Also named: William Gordon, Raleigh Edward Colston, J. B. WhiteNC State Historic Preservation Office: The Commandant's House, National Register nomination (OR0006), p. 5 · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, July 29, 1863, p. 3; The Daily Journal (Wilmington), August 28, 1866, p. 1; Open Orange: Hillsborough Military Academy; Hillsborough Recorder, September 20, 1865, p. 3
  7. General Colston takes charge of the reopened Hillsborough Military Academy After closing at the end of the war, the academy reopened with General R. C. Colston as superintendent. In 1868 he signed a lease with Col. Tew's widow to live in the superintendent's house, but his family later moved to Wilmington. Also named: R. C. Colston, Elizabeth TewNational Register: The Commandant's House nomination (1972)
  8. General Colston offers the state free scholarships at the Hillsborough Military Academy Gen. R. E. Colston, superintendent of the Hillsborough academy, offered without charge one scholarship for a young man from each congressional district and one from the state at large, to be named by the governor. Governor Jonathan Worth laid the offer before the General Assembly in his annual message and asked it to help the poor young men chosen meet their other costs. People: Jonathan Worth Also named: R. E. ColstonHillsborough Recorder, December 5, 1866, p. 2
  9. Paul C. Cameron buys the Hillsborough Military Academy at public sale Two years after Elizabeth Tew's death in 1870, the academy property was sold at public auction to Paul C. Cameron. His heirs sold it to the Farmers' State Alliance in 1891. People: Paul C. Cameron Also named: Elizabeth TewNational Register: The Commandant's House nomination (1972)
  10. James H. Horner withdraws from the Hillsborough Military Academy James H. Horner withdrew from the Hillsborough Military Academy, the boys' school he and Ralph H. Graves had brought from Oxford to the old academy buildings, a loss the Recorder later said gave the school a serious shock; Graves and his assistants kept it going, and new pupils were reported weekly. Also named: James H. Horner, Ralph H. Graves · Also mentions: Hillsborough Military AcademyHillsborough Recorder, February 16, 1876, p. 3
  11. D. H. Hamilton and Mr. Morson take charge of the Hillsborough Military Academy After Ralph H. Graves's death, his assistants Maj. D. H. Hamilton, a South Carolina Military Academy graduate who had served with Col. Tew at the first Hillsborough Military Academy, and Mr. Morson, a University of Virginia graduate, carried the school through the session and opened its next session in early August. Also named: D. H. Hamilton · Also mentions: Hillsborough Military AcademyHillsborough Recorder, May 17, 1876, p. 3
  12. Col. Davis is asked to move his military school from La Grange to the Hillsborough barracks After Col. Davis's military school at La Grange closed over meningitis among the cadets, he was invited to bring the school to Hillsborough and use the empty barracks, and the Observer urged the town to work for it.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), February 15, 1890, p. 3
  13. The Farmers' State Alliance buys the old Hillsborough Military Academy grounds The Farmers' State Alliance's executive committee bought the old Hillsborough Military Academy barracks and about 40 acres from the Cameron heirs on November 16, 1895, with 70 acres from D. C. Parks and 20 from James Webb Jr.; the deeds were delivered and paid for by the end of the month. A 1913 plat of the neighborhood labels the old barracks as the Farm Life School building. People: James Webb Jr. Also named: D. C. ParksNC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 14 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 23, 1895, p. 2; Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 30, 1895, p. 2
  14. The State Farmers' Alliance moves its headquarters to Hillsborough The North Carolina Farmers' Alliance moved its state offices to its new property at Hillsborough, and its executive committee met there for the first time in mid-January. The committee voted to press ahead with the Alliance's planned enterprises, chief among them a shoe factory, and state business agent T. Ivey and secretary Barnes moved their families to the town. Also named: T. IveySearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 25, 1896, p. 3
  15. Several hundred attend an Alliance rally at the State Alliance headquarters Several hundred people came to an Orange County Farmers' Alliance rally at the State Alliance headquarters in the old academy barracks at Hillsborough. Senator Mewborne gave an Alliance speech that kept clear of politics, a dinner followed, and the county Alliance held a private meeting with members from other counties in the afternoon. Also mentions: State Alliance headquartersSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), February 22, 1896, p. 3
  16. Work begins on the Eno Cotton Mills as James Webb Jr. breaks ground for the railroad siding Construction of the Eno Cotton Mills at Hillsborough began when James Webb Jr. broke the first dirt on the mill's railroad siding. The builders meant to keep at it without a stop until the factory was finished and running. People: James Webb Jr.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 11, 1896, p. 3
  17. James Webb Jr. lays the first brick of the Eno Cotton Mills James Webb Jr. laid the first brick of the Eno Cotton Mills building at Hillsborough. Henry Richards of Hillsborough, who had overseen the building of several Alamance County mills, took charge of the brickwork. People: James Webb Jr. Also named: Henry RichardsOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 23, 1896, p. 3
  18. Eno Cotton Mill's buildings near completion and its first cottages are occupied Work on the Eno Cotton Mill at West Hillsborough was well along: about a million bricks had gone into the two-story main building, some 252 feet long, and several mill cottages were finished and occupied. The company, capitalized at $100,000 with Allen J. Ruffin as president and Thomas H. Webb as superintendent, planned to start with 10,000 spindles and hoped to run by April. People: Allen Jones Ruffin, James Webb Jr., George A. Durham Also named: Thomas H. Webb, H. Winder WebbOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 26, 1896, p. 3
  19. Eno Cotton Mill begins production Yarn production started late in the year.Eno River Mill — The Mill’s History
  20. The Eno Cotton Mill's engine and boilers arrive The 200-horsepower engine and two boilers for the Eno Cotton Mill arrived at Hillsborough, and the mill's tall smokestack was nearly finished. The mill was expected to be in full operation within a few weeks, and by late April machinists were setting the boilers.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 1, 1897, p. 3
  21. The Farmers' State Alliance meets at Hillsborough and elects John Graham president The Farmers' State Alliance held its annual session at its headquarters near Hillsborough, with forty-nine counties represented. It elected John Graham of Warren County president, cut its officers' salaries, enlarged its executive committee to five and set aside money to restart its Hillsborough shoe factory. People: Thomas J. Oldham Also named: John GrahamSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 19, 1897, p. 3
  22. R. G. Allsbrook moves the Hillsboro Male Academy into the Barracks Principal R. G. Allsbrook moved the Hillsboro Male Academy from the academy building to the Barracks in West Hillsborough. Also named: R. G. AllsbrookOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 20, 1898, p. 3
  23. The Eno Cotton Mill installs more machinery for 5,000 added spindles The proprietors of the Eno Cotton Mill at Hillsborough were putting in more machinery to add 5,000 spindles.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 6, 1899, p. 3
  24. A Pilgrim Holiness congregation is organized in West Hillsborough A Holiness congregation, later the Pilgrim Holiness Church of West Hillsborough, was organized in 1902. It had a 250-seat building and 27 members in 1953.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 308
  25. Contractor Haywood H. Thompson begins a weave mill and dye house at the Eno Cotton Mill Haywood H. Thompson began making brick for a weave mill and dye house at the Eno Cotton Mill, planned to run about 400 looms and employ 75 to 100 more hands; by early June he was preparing the foundations. Also named: Haywood H. ThompsonOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 30, 1903, p. 3
  26. Eno Mill adds cloth weaving New looms extended operations beyond spinning yarn.Eno River Mill — The Mill’s History
  27. Shepperd Strudwick builds the Bellevue cotton mill on South Nash Street The Bellevue mill west of South Nash Street, a short way beyond the town line of the day, was backed by local investors and staffed by people leaving farm work. The Observer reports a Bellevue knitting mill going up late in 1904, its engine first fired on July 7, 1905, and a railroad siding and new stock for spinning that year; Heather Wagner Slane's 2017 architectural survey dates the mill to 1909, perhaps an enlargement or rebuilding. By 1912 it ran 5,000 spindles and 200 narrow looms. People: Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961) Also named: Heather Wagner SlaneSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 13 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 13, 1905, p. 3
  28. The Eno Cotton Mill reopens with James H. Webb as manager The Eno Cotton Mill, shut down for a month or two, resumed work with James H. Webb of Hillsborough, son of the late Thomas Webb, as superintendent and general manager. People: Thomas Webb Also named: James H. WebbOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 15, 1904, p. 3
  29. P. C. Collins buys the southern part of the future Bellevue mill site from J. W. Hooker Before the Bellevue company was incorporated, P. C. Collins bought the south half of the mill site near the West Hillsborough depot from J. W. Hooker; a later hand added that he acted as the mill's agent. Collins, a shareholder, passed the land to the company in 1905. People: J. W. Hooker, Paul C. CollinsSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 15
  30. Shepperd Strudwick heads the new Bellevue Manufacturing Company in west Hillsborough The Bellevue Manufacturing Company, a cotton mill in west Hillsborough, was incorporated on October 13, 1904, with Shepperd Strudwick as its president and Norfleet Webb as secretary and treasurer. Strudwick remained president until he resigned in 1929. By 1912 the mill ran 5,000 spindles and 200 looms making dress ginghams. People: Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961) Also named: T. Norfleet Webb, Norfleet Webb · Also mentions: Bellevue Manufacturing CompanySearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 15 · Also: Open Orange: Bellevue Manufacturing Company
  31. Haywood H. Thompson builds a knitting mill west of Hillsborough for the Bellevue Manufacturing Company Contractor Haywood H. Thompson was pushing work on a knitting mill being built west of town by the Bellevue Manufacturing Company, which was expected to be running by spring. Also named: Haywood H. Thompson · Also mentions: Bellevue Manufacturing CompanySearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 24, 1904, p. 2
  32. Mill engineer Richard C. Biberstein lays out the machinery for the Bellevue mill The new company hired Richard C. Biberstein, a Charlotte mill designer trained in Massachusetts, to plan the arrangement of its machinery; his drawings run from 1905 to 1907. Fifteen years later he designed the mill's weaving room. Also named: Richard C. BibersteinSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 15
  33. Shepperd Strudwick buys Allen Ruffin's land north of the future Bellevue mill Four years before the Bellevue mill was built, Strudwick acquired the tract north of the site from Ruffin, one of the Eno Cotton Mill's founders, probably to build company housing there. People: Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961), Allen Jones RuffinSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 13
  34. Bellevue stockholders enlarge the company to spin its own yarn At a meeting the stockholders of the Bellevue Manufacturing Company decided to raise its subscribed stock above $35,000 so it could install a spinning plant and make its own yarns. Cold weather slowed work on the buildings, and in May Samuel M. Gattis described the new plant as a $60,000 knitting mill. People: Samuel Mallett GattisSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), February 2, 1905, p. 3
  35. The Bellevue mill builds a railroad siding to its plant The Bellevue Manufacturing Company built a siding from the Southern Railway, starting east of the Hillsborough depot and running to its new plant.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), March 9, 1905, p. 3
  36. The Bellevue Knitting Mill fires up its engine for the first time The engine at the Bellevue Knitting Mill in West Hillsborough was fired up for the first time on the morning of July 7, and its whistle told the town that work was near. The following week the tank that fed the mill's hose and sprinklers gave way, a loss of about $500 that delayed the start of operations.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 13, 1905, p. 3
  37. Durham wins an injunction against the Eno Cotton Mills for fouling the Eno The City of Durham, which drew its drinking water from the Eno, obtained a temporary order in early February barring the Eno Cotton Mills at Hillsboro from running sewage and filth into the river. After arguments at Durham on February 10, Judge G. S. Ferguson continued the injunction to a final hearing but suspended it until April 20 so the mill could put in a purifying system approved by the State Board of Health. People: John W. Graham, Frank Nash, Samuel Mallett Gattis Also named: G. S. Ferguson · Also mentions: Eno Cotton MillsOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), February 22, 1906, p. 3
  38. The state supreme court orders the Eno Cotton Mills to purify its waste or stop dumping it in the Eno On May 29 the North Carolina Supreme Court decided Durham's suit against the Eno Cotton Mills: the mill had to put in a crematory or other purifying plant at its own cost or be enjoined from emptying the sewage and dye refuse of the mill and its workers' houses into the Eno. The court ruled so although the mill stood about seventeen miles above Durham's intake and had been running before the city took water from the river, and mill owners across the state took note. Also mentions: Eno Cotton MillsSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), June 7, 1906, p. 3
  39. The school board divides the Hillsboro district and orders a two-teacher school at West Hill The board split the Hillsboro district and ordered a school with two teachers built at West Hill, the mill section west of town.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 56
  40. The Durham Recorder hails "Progressive Hillsboro" and the mill town at its depot A Recorder article pointed to Hillsborough's new buildings, macadam roads and growing textile trade, and to a large mill that had raised a settlement around the depot called West Hillsboro. The authors think the mill meant was the Eno Cotton Mill, since Bellevue was not yet running.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 14
  41. C. M. and W. H. Andrews take over the West End Drug Company in West Hillsboro Two Chapel Hill natives, C. M. and W. H. Andrews, bought the West End Drug Company, a drug store with a soda fountain serving the mill families of West Hillsboro. C. M. Andrews ran it until he left town in 1926. People: Charles M. Andrews Also named: W. H. AndrewsSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 25, 1910, p. 2 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 5, 1950, p. 10
  42. Eno Methodist Church is founded in West Hillsborough Eno Methodist Church began among the Eno Cotton Mill's workers, with services upstairs in the mill's company store, until 1908, when it moved into its own frame church on land Allen Ruffin gave. It had 147 members in 1953. People: Allen Jones Ruffin Also mentions: Eno Methodist ChurchSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Eno Cotton Mill, National Register nomination (OR1300, 2011), section 8 · Also: Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952
  43. The Eno Methodist congregation builds its church on land given by Allen Ruffin The congregation formed for Eno Cotton Mill workers first met in an upper room of a mill building. In 1908 it moved into a simple front-gabled frame church with pointed-arch windows and a small belfry, on land Ruffin donated facing the mill across the railroad tracks. People: Allen Jones RuffinSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 16
  44. Eno Cotton Mill is enlarged and adds gingham In 1909 the Hillsborough mill was expanded again and began weaving gingham alongside chambray and plaids. Some yarn was still sold unwoven until the First World War.Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 276
  45. The Bellevue Commercial Block is built as West Hillsborough's shopping street Five one-story brick buildings with seven storefronts on South Nash Street near the old depot became the West End business district for the mill village and West Hillsborough. Over the years they held a drug store, the Cates brothers' general store with a branch post office, a barber, a dry cleaner, a cafe and a movie theater. Also mentions: West EndSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 29
  46. The Bellevue mill superintendent's house is built on South Nash Street The two-story house built for the mill superintendent, with corbelled brick chimneys, a canted bay and a wraparound porch, is the most decorative early house in the surveyed area and stands out beside the plain mill houses next to it.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 25
  47. The First Pentecostal Holiness Church of West Hillsborough is organized A. G. Cannady, Charles Martin, R. S. Andrews and others organized a Pentecostal Holiness church in West Hillsborough, with Cannady as first pastor. Its 1953 building dated from 1948. Also named: A. G. Cannady, Charles Martin, R. S. Andrews, Ed Cannady, W. J. AndrewsSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 308
  48. Typhoid cases appear in the Hillsborough mill villages Six to eight typhoid cases appeared among Hillsboro's roughly 2,500 people, most of them in the mill villages and five near one well. J. Cheshire Webb and Commercial Club secretary M. Lockhart wrote to the Durham Herald denying a report of an epidemic. People: J. Cheshire Webb Also named: M. LockhartSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 20, 1911, p. 5
  49. The Bellevue mill runs 5,000 spindles and 200 looms making dress ginghams By 1912 the Bellevue mill had 5,000 spindles and 200 narrow looms weaving dress ginghams 27 and 32 inches wide, sold through agents in New York and New Jersey.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 15
  50. Abe and Annie B. Mebane sell a lot in west Hillsborough to the trustees of Mebane Chapel For $25 the Mebanes sold a 30-by-40-foot lot at the corner of Union Street, opposite the later Central High School, to trustees Elisha Williams and Arthur Hood. The chapel was named in their memory. Also named: Abe Mebane, Annie B. Mebane, Elisha Williams, Arthur Hood · Also mentions: Central High SchoolSearch the index · Pauline O. Lloyd and Allen A. Lloyd, History of the Churches of Hillsborough, N.C., ca. 1766-1962 (1963), scan p. 83
  51. R. B. Mason's land west of the Bellevue mill is platted as the West Hill Property To meet the need for workers' housing near the two mills, Mason's holdings were laid out in 1913 as a grid of roughly equal lots, bounded by the Bellevue mill village, Eno Street and the railroad, West Hill Street, and Mount Willing Road (later King Street). Most houses there went up from the 1920s to the 1940s, and the section beyond West Hill Avenue was platted in the 1930s. Also named: R. B. Mason · Also mentions: King StreetSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 14
  52. The Hillsboro Building and Loan Association is organized in the back of the West End Drug Store Six incorporators put up $5,500 to start the Hillsboro Building and Loan Association, with Charles H. Robertson as president and druggist C. M. Andrews as secretary-treasurer. Andrews took members' payments at his drug counter until 1926. People: Charles H. Robertson, Charles M. Andrews, N. W. Brown Also mentions: Hillsboro Building and Loan AssociationSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 5, 1950, p. 10 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 13, 1961, p. 27
  53. Eno Cotton Mill rents its village houses to workers for 25 cents a week The Eno Cotton Mill, founded in 1896 by Allen J. Ruffin and James H. Webb Jr., built a company village for its fast-growing workforce, and by 1915 the company was renting the houses to employees for a quarter a week. The 1924 Sanborn map shows about 100 mill houses west and south of the mill. People: Allen Jones Ruffin Also named: James H. Webb, James H. Webb Jr.NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 12 · Also: Eno Cotton Mill National Register nomination
  54. Eno Cotton Mill reports 150 women among its 500 workers Reports from the years before the wartime changes count about 500 workers at Hillsborough's Eno Cotton Mill, 150 of them women and 50 children under 16, on a 60-hour week. The top average daily wage for women was $1.75 against $4.00 for men; at the smaller Bellevue mill nearby women's top average was $2.50.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Eno Cotton Mill, National Register of Historic Places nomination
  55. The Bellevue mill is also turning out cheviot cloth By 1916 the Bellevue mill was weaving cheviot, a rough-finished cloth, alongside its ginghams.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 15
  56. West Hill Baptist Church is organized in West Hillsborough J. F. McDuffie and S. W. Oldham led the organization of West Hill Baptist Church, and Oldham became its first pastor. The book dates its building to May 1, 1920. Also named: J. F. McDuffie, S. W. OldhamSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 302
  57. The Ernest P. Cox House is built on Bellevue Street The one-story hip-roofed house with projecting gabled wings and a wraparound porch at 112 Bellevue Street is the best preserved of West Hillsborough's one-story houses of the period. Also named: Ernest P. CoxSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 26
  58. Eno Mill opens an influenza diet kitchen at West Hill school When influenza reached the Eno Mill district, the mill opened and paid for a diet kitchen at the West Hill school for about seven weeks, run by home demonstration agent Elizabeth Cornelius. It fed as many as 150 people a day, and the mill hired nurses for the sick. People: Charles H. Robertson Also named: Elizabeth Cornelius · Also mentions: Eno MillDocumenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 76
  59. The Bellevue mill changes over from steam to electric power The mill was built to run belt-driven machinery from a steam engine. By 1919 it ran partly on electricity, and by the mid-1920s it had changed over completely, with individual motors on the machines and the belt-way removed.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 19
  60. Eno Methodist Church adds rear classrooms used for West Hillsborough school classes A side-gabled addition built about 1920 gave the church its T plan and held classrooms where early West Hillsborough school classes met, before the West End School was built on Bellevue Avenue.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 15
  61. The Bellevue company builds its mill village north of the mill In the early 1920s, as it doubled the mill, the company set closely spaced houses along a narrow loop road reached from West King and South Nash streets, in three plain types; the one-and-a-half-story houses had two front doors so workers on different shifts could come and go separately. All the houses appear on the 1924 Sanborn map.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 24 · Also: NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company nomination, sec. 8, p. 8 and p. 14 note 7
  62. The Bellevue mill is enlarged in 1920 and again in 1923 Expansions in 1920 and 1923 were part of a decade of growth in which the mill more than doubled its spindles and looms, and they coincided with the building of much of its company housing. The 1923 work, announced by late June, was an addition to the mill and a two-story slasher, cloth-finishing and storage building, with T. H. Lawrence of Durham named as contractor.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 13 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), June 28, 1923, p. 5
  63. Fire destroys N. W. Brown's store building at West Hillsboro Fire early on Friday morning, January 30, destroyed N. W. Brown's store building at West Hillsboro, which held H. D. Smith's grocery, Victor Allen's dry goods store and the millinery shop of the Misses Jordan and Dunn. The News put the loss at $20,000; the building was partly insured and the stocks of goods not at all. People: N. W. Brown Also named: H. D. Smith, Victor Allen · Also mentions: Brown's storeSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), February 5, 1920, p. 5
  64. The Farmers' State Alliance auctions off its old academy headquarters The Farmers' State Alliance had found the old Barracks property a burden since about 1901. On June 21, 1920 it was cut into lots and sold at auction, and John W. Hill got the parcel with the commandant's house. Also named: John W. HillNational Register: The Commandant's House nomination (1972)
  65. The Paul Riley House is built on Riley Avenue in West Hillsborough The Paul Riley House, a one-story frame bungalow with a shed dormer and tapered porch posts, was built at Riley Avenue and Eno Street. The Rileys were among the leading West Hillsborough families, and the Paul Riley Store went up nearby on Eno Street about 1942. Also named: Paul RileySearch the index · Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), pdf p. 27
  66. Parts of the old academy land are subdivided as Oak Ridge and the Murray property Portions of the Alliance tract were laid out as the Oak Ridge Development in 1923 and as the Murray property in 1924. Together they make up the west end of West Hillsborough.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 14
  67. Bellevue Manufacturing Company builds fifteen mill houses at Hillsboro The Bellevue Manufacturing Company had begun fifteen dwellings for its workers and had recently built a storage warehouse, with a dye house and a mill addition planned. The Eno Mills planned 30 to 40 houses, a warehouse and a factory addition; both companies made ginghams and cheviots and called demand only fair. Also mentions: Bellevue Manufacturing CompanySearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 1, 1923, p. 1
  68. After its 1920s additions the Bellevue mill runs 10,740 spindles and 592 looms The additions of the early 1920s more than doubled the mill's spindles and looms, and by 1926 the company's capital stock stood at $500,000. In 1919 it had still declared only its original $125,000.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 18
  69. Eno Cotton Mill installs new machinery and switches to combed yarn New machinery went in at the Eno mill in 1929, and combed yarn replaced coarse carded yarn. Broadcloth shirting and corduroy became its main products.Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 276
  70. Shepperd Strudwick resigns as president of Bellevue, and L. E. Beard takes over After twenty-five years as president, Shepperd Strudwick stepped down in 1929, the year its stock value fell from $500,000 to $419,600. L. E. Beard succeeded him and his partner Norfleet Webb as president and treasurer. People: Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961), L. E. Beard Also named: Norfleet WebbSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 19
  71. C. B. and Myrtle Ray Stanley's house is built on Allen Ruffin Avenue in West Hillsborough The house at 406 Allen Ruffin Avenue was built for Charles B. and Myrtle Ray Stanley in the Eno mill neighborhood of West Hillsborough. Charles Stanley died at home there in 1958, and his funeral was held at the nearby Eno Methodist Church. Also named: Charles B. Stanley, Myrtle Ray Stanley · Also mentions: Eno Methodist ChurchSearch the index · Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), pdf p. 38 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 15, 1958, p. 3
  72. The Weldon Riley House is built on Eno Street The one-and-a-half-story bungalow at 811 Eno Street, with a gabled dormer, knee brackets and a wide engaged porch, is judged the best Craftsman house in West Hillsborough. Also named: Weldon RileySearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 27
  73. County welfare officer George H. Lawrence reports $4,000 spent on relief in the past year In a letter to the Weekly, George H. Lawrence said about $4,000 had passed through his hands for relief in the past year, half of it county money, and that $2,000 was again available from the county. He wrote that the worst unemployment had been among the mill people of West Hillsboro, whose two mills were now doing better, and expected harder times in Chapel Hill as University pay cuts reached Black servants and yard hands. People: George H. LawrenceThe Chapel Hill Weekly, September 11, 1931, p. 7
  74. Orange County pays special deputies who guarded Carrboro and West Hillsboro during the textile strike Orange County paid $346.50 for special deputies on guard duty during the September 1934 general textile strike: $280.50 to the deputies at Carrboro and $66 to those at West Hillsboro. The Weekly gave no other account of strike activity at either mill village.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 5, 1934, p. 1
  75. A Church of God congregation is organized in West Hillsborough Garland Crabtree and T. E. Boman organized the Church of God of West Hillsborough, with Edd Mize as first pastor. It built a 250-seat church in 1945. Also named: Garland Crabtree, T. E. Boman, Edd MizeSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 309
  76. A federal PWA grant pays for ten Orange County school building projects The Public Works Administration approved Orange County's school building program on August 8, 1935, and the jobs were let in late 1935 under PWA Docket 1005. A federal grant of $155,454 to the county school board, about 45 per cent of the cost, with county bonds paying the rest, built new schools at West Hillsboro, the Hillsboro Negro School and Chapel Hill High School, and additions and updated equipment at Murphey, Carrboro, Aycock, St. Mary's, Orange Grove, Chapel Hill Negro School and Hillsboro schools; the work was still under way in May 1936. Also mentions: Chapel Hill High SchoolSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Murphey School, National Register nomination (OR0467), p. 22 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, August 9, 1935, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, October 11, 1935, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, January 3, 1936, p. 3; Chapel Hill Weekly, May 22, 1936, p. 1
  77. The county board of education divides the PWA school money among nine schools The Orange County board of education approved allotments of $205,000 from the $272,000 program: $75,000 for the Chapel Hill white school and $20,000 for its Black school, $50,000 and $25,000 for the white and Black schools in Hillsboro, $15,000 for West Hillsboro, and $6,000 each for Carrboro, Aycock, Murphey and St. Mary's. The remaining $67,000 was left for the commissioners and the board to divide. People: H. D. CarterSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 20, 1935, p. 1
  78. West End Graded School is built on the old Cadwallader Jones homesite A larger one-story brick Colonial Revival school for grades one through six, six classrooms and an auditorium, was built in 1936 to replace the two-story frame West End School on Bellevue Avenue, which became a community club building. It stood on the highest ground in West Hillsborough, inside a low stone wall, where the Cadwallader Jones house had stood.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 15 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 22, 1936, p. 1
  79. The Historic American Buildings Survey records the academy barracks By the Depression the empty Barracks of the old military academy sheltered homeless families. In 1937 the Historic American Buildings Survey measured and photographed it, a year before it was torn down.Search the index · National Register: The Commandant's House nomination (1972)
  80. Eno Methodist Church is moved back from the road and remodeled In 1938 the congregation shifted its frame church back from Eno Street and remodeled it.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 16
  81. The Hillsborough Military Academy's brick barracks are torn down The academy's three-story brick barracks, later used by the Farm Life School, were dismantled in 1938. Only the Commandant's House and a frame dining hall survive, with parts of the barracks foundation in the woods south of the hall.NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 14
  82. Typhoid fever breaks out in West Hillsborough An outbreak of typhoid fever in West Hillsborough affected eight people; district health officer Dr. W. P. Richardson said in mid-March that he hoped it was checked. People: William P. RichardsonThe Chapel Hill Weekly, March 17, 1939, p. 1
  83. Wartime orders push the Eno Cotton Mill to about 600 workers Military demand for cloth during World War II enlarged the Eno Cotton Mill, which by the 1940s employed as many as 600 workers on three shifts.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation, National Register (OR0077ad, 2014), Historical Background, 1940-1960s
  84. 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
  85. The Paul Riley Store is built on Eno Street A one-story brick store with a stepped parapet and inset entrance went up at 907 Eno Street, carrying the West End commercial style farther west. A longtime resident recalled it, with the nearby Methodist church, as a center of childhood life in West Hillsborough. Also named: Paul Riley · Also mentions: West EndSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 29
  86. 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
  87. Fire breaks out in stored cotton at the Eno Cotton Mills Fire started in stored cotton at the Eno Cotton Mills in Hillsborough about noon. Chief G. W. Gilmore and the volunteer fire department fought it for about half an hour, and mill vice president James Webb said the damage was slight and covered by insurance. Also named: G. W. Gilmore, James WebbThe News (Chapel Hill), February 10, 1944, p. 1
  88. Fire destroys three Eno Cotton Mills houses in West Hillsborough A fire of unknown origin that broke out about 11 a.m. on Saturday, August 26, 1944, burned three frame mill houses in the West End of Hillsborough to the ground by about 2 p.m.; no one was hurt. The section had no fire hydrants, so the volunteer firemen under Chief George W. Gilmore, joined by the Mebane department, had to draw water from wells and haul it by truck, and they saved the houses on either side. Eno Cotton Mills, which owned the houses, moved the families into other mill houses that day. Also named: George W. Gilmore · Also mentions: Eno Cotton Mills, West EndThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 31, 1944, p. 1
  89. E. D. Young takes up the pastorate of West Hill Baptist Church The Rev. E. D. Young of Columbia, S.C., took over as pastor of West Hill Baptist Church in West Hillsboro, succeeding W. V. Brown, who had resigned to get further religious training. Young moved into the West Hill parsonage with his wife and daughter. Also named: E. D. Young, W. V. BrownSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 5, 1944, p. 1
  90. Hesslein and Company buys the Belle-Vue mill, ending local ownership Belle-Vue Manufacturing Company had been run from Hillsborough since 1904, lately under L. E. Beard. In 1945 Hesslein and Company bought it and spent over half a million dollars on new machinery and on baths for the mill village houses. People: L. E. Beard Also mentions: Belle-Vue Manufacturing CompanySearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 275
  91. Town electricity and water are extended to West Hillsborough Before the town took over in the late 1940s, the mills supplied power and water to their workers, cutting electricity to the houses during the day so the machinery could run, which left families without refrigeration.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 16
  92. Hillsboro stores close for an hour during President Roosevelt's funeral Every store and business in Hillsboro and West Hillsboro closed from four to five o'clock on the afternoon of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's funeral, after highway patrolman T. P. Hofler carried a petition around town that every merchant signed. The town siren sounded briefly at four as the doors shut. Also named: T. P. Hofler, Franklin D. RooseveltSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 19, 1945, p. 1
  93. West Hillsboro organizes a community health campaign At a community meeting in the West Hillsboro school on August 24, with district health department representatives and free health films, residents talked over the mill village's health problems and elected an eighteen-member steering committee, including six pastors, to plan a permanent community health program and a clean-up. Health educator Elizabeth Lovell was named chairman and Mrs. J. W. Richmond secretary. Also named: Elizabeth Lovell, Mrs. J. W. RichmondSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 30, 1945, p. 1
  94. A white man's attack on a Black family's house sets off a street fight in West Hillsboro On the night of September 2, according to The News, a white man who had been drinking heavily struck a Black man going into his father-in-law's house in West Hillsboro to see his children, was knocked down, and then with companions stoned the house and fired a shotgun into it. Black and white men fought in the street until officers arrived to find the house riddled with holes; the paper called it a near race riot. The white man was released under $1,000 bond to await a hearing.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 6, 1945, p. 1
  95. Diphtheria breaks out in Orange County, with twelve cases in two months Health officials reported twelve diphtheria cases in Orange County in October and November, beginning with four confirmed cases in West Hillsborough. They urged parents to have children vaccinated at the county clinics.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 22, 1945, p. 1
  96. CIO organizers hold meetings for Eno Cotton Mill workers in West Hillsboro CIO affiliates from Greensboro held a series of union meetings at the West Hillsboro school, beginning with one on February 2 to which all Eno Cotton Mill employees were urged to come. A meeting billed as for the United Textile Workers of America followed on February 16, with a CIO representative speaking.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 14, 1946, p. 1
  97. A mass chest X-ray survey screens Hillsboro and West Hillsboro The district health department and the local tuberculosis committee X-rayed residents free at West Hillsboro and at the Agriculture Building in Hillsboro. Some 1,460 small films found six previously unknown cases of tuberculosis, and the Lions Club voted full cooperation. People: O. David GarvinThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 14, 1946, p. 1
  98. C. S. Cates advertises a new movie theater in the old Hollywood Theatre building in West Hillsborough Cates, a World War II veteran, remodeled the building the Hollywood Theatre had used, with new sound and projection equipment and seats, and advertised the opening for Wednesday, May 1, with a contest to name the house. Also named: C. S. CatesSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 18, 1946, p. 3 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 25, 1946, p. 2
  99. The West Hillsboro Civic Organization starts a monthly well-baby clinic A well-baby conference sponsored by the West Hillsboro Civic Organization opened at the West Hillsboro elementary school, to meet on the first Tuesday of each month. Public health nurse Elizabeth Robertson ran it under district health officer Dr. O. David Garvin, offering diphtheria, whooping cough and smallpox protection. People: O. David Garvin Also named: Elizabeth RobertsonThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 29, 1946, p. 1 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 26, 1946, p. 5
  100. The William Edward McPherson House is built on Nash Street in West Hillsborough The 2017 Hillsborough architectural survey records the William Edward McPherson House at 303 Nash Street and dates it to 1947. The McPherson family, whose Edward (Pete) McPherson managed Hillsboro's Black All-Stars baseball team in these years, owned several lots along the west side of Nash Street. Also named: William Edward McPhersonSearch the index · Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), pdf p. 39 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 12, 1959, p. 7; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 10, 1947, p. 6
  101. Hillsboro's Black baseball team opens its season at McPherson's Baseball Park before a record crowd The News of Orange County's column for the Black community reported that the baseball season opened at McPherson's Baseball Park on Sunday, April 6, before a record crowd; the home team lost to the Roxboro Stars and on Easter Monday to the Graham Stars.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 10, 1947, p. 7
  102. Eno and Belle Vue mills pay about $30,000 in vacation wages as they close for a week The two West Hillsboro cotton mills, Eno and Belle Vue, paid roughly $30,000 in vacation money, on top of the weekly payroll and scaled to length of service, to their 900 to 1,000 full- and part-time workers as they shut down for a week through the Fourth of July.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 3, 1947, p. 1
  103. Three Orange County roads are taken into the state highway system On petitions from residents, three Orange County roads were added to the state system for upkeep: about 1,200 feet of the Davie road from Weaver Road to the cemetery used by Carrboro, about 639 yards of North Avenue in West Hillsboro, and a 1.6-mile middle section of a direct road from Mebane to Cedar Grove.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 10, 1947, p. 1
  104. Macon Cates opens Hillsborough's first self-service laundry Macon Cates opened a self-service laundry with 12 Bendix automatic washers in a new building next to Cates Cafe in West Hillsboro, the first automatic laundry service in the town. Also named: Macon CatesSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 6, 1947, p. 1
  105. A bus route begins running through West Hillsborough Until 1948, when a bus line started running through its streets, mill families without cars had no easy way to reach downtown Hillsborough, nearly a mile away, or the rest of the county.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 16
  106. Fire guts Pete McPherson's cafe and pool hall in West Hillsborough A fire that started in a defective flue gutted the frame and brick building near the Black school in West Hillsboro where Pete McPherson ran a cafe with a pool and beer hall. Most of the stock was saved, but all the pool tables were lost.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 8, 1948, p. 1 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 8, 1949, p. 10
  107. Fire destroys the Pentecostal Holiness Church in West Hillsboro The Pentecostal Holiness Church in West Hillsboro burned to the ground shortly after noon on a Sunday, perhaps from a heating plant installed the fall before, with only a little insurance. Members began raising money to rebuild, and on April 5 the county school board let the congregation meet in the West Hillsboro School auditorium until it could. Also mentions: West Hillsboro SchoolSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 11, 1948, p. 10
  108. Hillsboro's Black All-Stars beat the town's white All-Stars at McPherson's Park In a Sunday game at McPherson's Park billed as the Stars against the Stars, Hillsboro's Black All-Stars defeated the town's white All-Stars 13 to 10.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 19, 1948, p. 7
  109. Fred Cates Jr. buys the Gem Theater in West Hillsboro and starts Sunday movies Fred Cates Jr. of Hillsboro bought the Gem Theater in West Hillsboro from Scott Cates and kept it running under the same name, adding Sunday showings, a new feature for Hillsboro moviegoers. Also named: Fred Cates Jr., Scott CatesSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 23, 1948, p. 1
  110. The Pilgrim Holiness Church in West Hillsborough announces its first service in a new building The Pilgrim Holiness congregation announced its first service in its new church, under construction since August 1948 near the site of its old building, for Sunday, March 6. District superintendent William S. Deal was to preach, and the Rev. J. F. Kernodle was pastor. Also named: William S. Deal, J. F. KernodleSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 3, 1949, p. 1
  111. Eno Cotton Mills finishes installing new spinning machines Eno Cotton Mills in West Hillsboro completed installing larger, faster machines in its spinning department, ending almost a year of changeover work, president James Webb said. Also named: James WebbThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 22, 1949, p. 1
  112. The Payne rental houses are built on South Nash Street A group of compact rental houses and duplexes at 205-209 South Nash Street used the Minimal Traditional form with deep eaves, concrete block and metal windows, a pattern also seen in the Freeland houses on Daye Street.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 29
  113. West Hillsborough outnumbers Hillsborough In 1950 the mill villages of West Hillsborough held 1,456 people, more than the 1,329 in the town itself, whose population barely moved from 1,311 in 1940 to 1,349 in 1960.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation, National Register (OR0077ad, 2014), Historical Background, 1940-1960s
  114. West Hillsboro elementary school is accredited The State Department of Public Instruction placed the West Hillsboro elementary school on its accredited list for 1949-50, after teachers and parents had worked for two years to meet the standards.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 14, 1950, p. 1
  115. The Hillsboro Building and Loan Association announces an open house for its first office building, on Calvin Street After 37 years of meeting in stores and a depot office, the association announced an open house for its own one-story Colonial-style brick office on Calvin Street in West Hillsboro, built with a fireproof vault. Also mentions: Calvin StreetSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 5, 1950, p. 10 (Building and Loan open house) · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 5, 1950, p. 1
  116. State crews pave 6.7 more miles of Orange County secondary roads in October The State Highway Commission finished 6.7 miles of new paving on Orange County secondary roads in October 1950: the Buckhorn Road from Cheek's Crossroads to Buckhorn, the Power Plant Road from US 70 to the Cole Mill Road, the Cole Mill Road from the Durham County line to the Power Plant Road, and streets in West Hillsboro. That brought the county's new hard surface under the accelerated road program to more than 20.5 miles. Also mentions: BuckhornThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 9, 1950, p. 1
  117. Overseer James G. Faucette retires after 52 years at Eno Cotton Mills James G. Faucette, overseer in the spinning room, finished 52 years at Eno Cotton Mills, a career that began during the Spanish-American War, and on his last night the second shift presented him a leather platform rocker at a ceremony in the department. Also named: James G. FaucetteThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 7, 1950, p. 1
  118. Grand jury relays a warning about Eno River pollution and the Eno Mill village sewers In its report to the March term of Superior Court the grand jury passed on word from the health department that pollution of the Eno River and poor sewage at the Eno Mill village needed attention. District health officer O. D. Garvin said he knew of no such report and praised the mill's program of replacing sanitary facilities in village homes. People: O. David Garvin Also mentions: Eno RiverThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 22, 1951, p. 1
  119. Browning-Cain Company starts making barrel heading in West Hillsboro Browning-Cain Company, formed months earlier with H. Conway Browning and his cousin A. Max Browning as majority owners, began operating a plant on West Hill Avenue that made white oak barrel heading for cooperage firms. It employed about 36 people at the plant and in the woods. People: Hugh Conway Browning Also named: A. Max BrowningSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 18, 1951, p. 1
  120. Contracts are let for lunchrooms at White Cross and West Hillsboro schools The county let contracts for new school lunchrooms at White Cross and West Hillsboro. King Hunter of Greensboro was low bidder at $17,716 for West Hillsboro, Paul P. Thompson of Burlington took the White Cross general contract, and Burlington and Paschall Brothers firms got the plumbing and heating.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 8, 1951, p. 1
  121. Most county teachers vote down the Kellogg school evaluation plan Teachers in every white county school except Carrboro and Efland voted against a self-evaluation program planned under the Kellogg Foundation school improvement project, for which Orange was one of ten counties chosen, and West Hillsboro tied. Superintendent G. Paul Carr reported the votes to the board of education, which decided to go ahead only in the Carrboro, Efland and Negro schools; the paper noted no county school was on the Southern Association accredited list. People: G. Paul CarrSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 6, 1951, p. 1
  122. Eno Cotton Mills files for dissolution as a corporation All the stockholders of the Eno Cotton Mills, the Hillsborough corporation founded in 1896, filed a written consent to its voluntary dissolution with the North Carolina Secretary of State, who issued a preliminary certificate of dissolution the same day. The notice does not say what became of the mill, which the chronology already records joining Cone Mills in 1952.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 10, 1952, p. 7
  123. Cole's Store opens beside its owner's house on West Hill Avenue The small concrete-block store and gas station on North West Hill Avenue, built on the same lot as the owner's home, follows the pattern of rural crossroads stores of the 1940s and 1950s.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 30
  124. Eno Mill becomes part of Cone Mills The subsidiary joined the Greensboro textile corporation. Also named: Cone MillsEno River Mill — The Mill’s History
  125. West Hillsboro churches hold a joint Easter sunrise service on Eno Mountain About 500 people attended the 6 a.m. service sponsored by the Laymen's League and ministers of six West Hillsboro churches, with the Rev. J. A. Lowe of Burlington preaching and a union choir of sixty; the News called it the first Easter sunrise service ever held on Eno Mountain and the churches' first joint venture, and said it would become an annual event. Also named: J. A. LoweSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 17, 1952, p. 1
  126. A wrecking crew pulls down the Southern Railway water tank at West Hillsboro The old tank at the West Hillsboro station, which the News guessed was well over a century old, was no longer needed after the Southern finished changing from steam to diesel locomotives on the line through Orange County.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 24, 1952, p. 1
  127. The county school board accepts new lunchrooms at West Hillsboro and White Cross and an auditorium at Carrboro After inspecting the three bond-financed buildings, the Board of Education approved them for final payment to the builders; at the same meeting it approved the sale of three closed schools for Black children, Morris Grove for $1,700, Hickory Grove for $2,010 and Poplar Grove for $770.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 8, 1952, p. 1
  128. The Bellevue mill employs 355 workers on two shifts In 1953 the mill had 355 workers on two shifts, and the company still owned its mill village, whose houses now had indoor plumbing.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 20
  129. School board buys an acre behind West Hillsboro School for a playground By mid-January 1953 the Orange County Board of Education had bought about an acre behind the West Hillsboro School for $3,000 for a playground, part of the D. B. Mehaffey property; Roy Crawford bought the house and the rest of the land. The board had first tried to buy lots in front of the school but could not get a deed from all the heirs.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 15, 1953, p. 1
  130. The Pentecostal conference expels the West Hillsboro pastor, splitting his congregation Meeting in Greensboro, the Western North Carolina Conference of the Pentecostal Church voted unanimously to expel the Rev. Robert C. Frazier, pastor of its West Hillsboro church for three years, on charges of neglecting his duties and not being in harmony with church government after part of his congregation withdrew from the denomination. The members who withdrew kept meeting with Frazier in the new brick church both sides had built, while 22 members loyal to the conference met in a community building under the Rev. John Terrell. Also named: Robert C. Frazier, John TerrellSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 11, 1953, p. 1
  131. Belle Vue Manufacturing Company cuts production and lays off workers Citing a lack of summer orders, the Belle Vue mill told its employees of further curtailment after its two-week vacation shutdown, laying some off indefinitely and putting others on alternate weeks. An official said the plant, already on a three-day schedule, was running at about a third of its pre-vacation schedule.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 23, 1953, p. 1
  132. Judge Leo Carr rules on the split in West Hillsboro's Pentecostal Holiness church In a rare Friday night session of Superior Court, Judge Leo Carr directed a verdict that the congregation staying with the Western North Carolina Conference of the Pentecostal Holiness Church, led by the Rev. John Terrell, was entitled to the West Hillsboro church, holding that a majority of a connectional church could not withdraw and take the property. When the Rev. R. C. Frazier's group gave notice of appeal, he had the two groups share the building on split days of the week. Also named: Leo Carr, John Terrell, R. C. FrazierSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 14, 1954, p. 1
  133. The Rev. R. C. Frazier's group drops its appeal and organizes Faith Chapel in West Hillsboro The congregation that left the Pentecostal Holiness conference with the Rev. Robert C. Frazier did not perfect its appeal of Judge Leo Carr's October ruling, gave up all claim to the West Hillsboro church building, and organized a non-denominational church, Faith Chapel, at the old Barracks site in West Hillsboro, with a board of deacons and first services set for January 2, 1955. Also named: Robert C. Frazier, Leo CarrSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 30, 1954, p. 1
  134. The Bellevue company's stock is worth $219,600, well under half its 1926 value Still listed under the Bellevue name in 1955, the company had stock valued at $219,600, with 14,712 spindles and 499 looms.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 20
  135. Textile union workers hand out the TWUA paper at the Eno plant of Cone Mills At the close of both shifts at Cone Mills' Eno plant in Hillsborough, union workers handed out hundreds of copies of Textile Labor, the paper of the CIO Textile Workers Union of America. The paper reported five Cone locals returning to the TWUA after NLRB elections; neither the company nor the union said whether more organizing at the Eno plant would follow.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 6, 1955, p. 1
  136. Eno and Bellevue mills raise wages five cents an hour The Eno plant of Cone Mills and the Bellevue Manufacturing Company put a five-cent hourly raise into effect for all production workers, following a wave of raises across the Southern textile industry. Cone said the raise brought its average straight-time pay to $1.33 an hour. People: L. E. Beard Also mentions: Eno plantSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 25, 1955, p. 1
  137. Ground is broken for a new classroom at West Hillsboro School The superintendent reported that ground had been broken for a classroom at West Hillsboro School, and that the Cameron Park school under construction would be ready after the Christmas holidays. People: G. Paul Carr Also mentions: Cameron ParkSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 8, 1955, p. 1
  138. Cone Mills holds its first service-award dinner for Eno plant workers Cone Mills gave a barbecue dinner at West Hillsboro Graded School for 65 workers at its Eno plant with 25 or more years of service, who received the company's service pins. President Herman Cone gave engraved gold watches to the three with half a century at the mill: Nelia Belle Faucette, at Eno since 1901, Allen Thomas Doherty, since 1903, and William Henry Dixon, since 1905. Also named: Herman Cone, Nelia Belle Faucette, Allen Thomas Doherty, William Henry Dixon · Also mentions: Eno plantThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 24, 1955, p. 8
  139. Eno Mill houses are relocated Most company houses moved into nearby neighborhoods.Eno River Mill — The Mill’s History
  140. The Hillsboro Building and Loan Association becomes Hillsboro Savings and Loan Association On a vote of its stockholders, the association changed its name to Hillsboro Savings and Loan Association, announced alongside the largest dividend in its history. People: Ira WardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 28, 1956, p. 1 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 28, 1956, p. 8
  141. Cone Mills honors Anna Dixon for fifty years at the Eno plant At the Eno plant's second annual service-award dinner, held at West Hillsboro School, Cone Mills board chairman Benjamin Cone told about 65 workers with 25 or more years of service that the company's future rested on flexible converting plants, and four employees received 25-year awards. Anna Dixon was honored for half a century at the plant and given an engraved gold watch. Also named: Benjamin Cone, Anna DixonThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 22, 1956, p. 3
  142. Fire destroys the old West Hillsboro School, then a mill-owned apartment house About 11:30 on a Monday night the three-story frame building that had been the West Hillsboro School, later made into 13 apartments, burned to the ground. A taxi driver saw the flames and woke the five people inside, who escaped. Also mentions: West Hillsboro SchoolSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 18, 1957, p. 1
  143. Twenty-two freight cars derail at West Hillsboro About 10:30 at night 22 cars of a freight train left the track near the West Hillsboro station, a few hundred yards from the Eno mill, scattering cars loaded with leaf tobacco, fertilizer and wallboard. No one was hurt, five scheduled trains were held up until the damaged track reopened 19 hours later, and the News called it Hillsboro's costliest train wreck.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 29, 1957, p. 1
  144. Hesslein and Company, owner of Hillsboro's Belle Vue mill, is acquired by the William L. Barrell Company The New York gray-goods selling agency Hesslein and Company, which had owned the Belle Vue Manufacturing Company of Hillsboro since 1945, was acquired by the William L. Barrell Company of New York, with ownership passing November 1. Belle Vue president L. E. Beard would not say how the change might affect the mill, which employed about 300 people, but expected it to bring wider selling coverage. People: L. E. BeardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 24, 1957, p. 1
  145. The Bellevue mill village is platted and its houses sold to private owners After the mill company had been sold by 1956, its village was surveyed into lots in 1958 so the houses could be sold. Unlike the Eno mill houses, which were carried off to new sites, the Bellevue houses stayed where they were, which is why the village keeps its original streets but has irregular lot lines.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 13
  146. The William L. Barrell Company of New York owns the Belle Vue mill in Hillsboro Belle Vue Manufacturing Company, the West Hillsboro mill, was by now wholly owned by the William L. Barrell Company of New York, which had bought it a few months earlier. At the commissioners' March 17 tax equalization hearing the firm's vice president asked for a review of the county's valuation of the mill machinery, about $700,000, which he said was out of line with what Barrell had paid. People: L. E. BeardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 20, 1958, p. 1
  147. Superintendent Carr names new principals for Murphey, Efland and West Hillsboro schools Superintendent G. Paul Carr announced three new principals: Maude McCauley, a teacher in the county schools for 31 years, at Murphey School; Perry W. Harrison, a graduate student at UNC, at Efland Elementary in place of John Black; and Mrs. Leona M. Snider of Salisbury at West Hillsboro, succeeding Mrs. Gladys Harris after her twelve years there. People: G. Paul Carr Also named: Maude McCauley, Perry W. Harrison, Leona M. Snider · Also mentions: Murphey SchoolSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 12, 1958, p. 1
  148. Belle-Vue Manufacturing Company files articles of dissolution The Hillsboro company that had run the Belle Vue cotton mill filed articles of dissolution with the North Carolina Secretary of State and began liquidating, according to a notice signed by its president, L. E. Beard. People: L. E. BeardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 16, 1959, p. 7
  149. A wind and rain storm knocks the front off a West Hillsboro warehouse A Friday afternoon storm did scattered damage around the area. The paper's photograph showed a block-front storage warehouse next to the Hillsboro Savings and Loan office in West Hillsboro whose whole front a gust had knocked off, sending blocks across the street.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 2, 1959, p. 1
  150. Wellman Operating Corporation takes over operation of the Belle Vue mill A New York firm, the Wellman Operating Corporation, took over running the Belle Vue textile plant, with another New York company as sole selling agent. The William L. Barrell Company, a mill machinery firm that had bought the plant from Hesslein about two years before, kept ownership and leased out the operations; L. E. Beard stayed on as manager and the mill kept its name. People: L. E. BeardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 16, 1959, p. 1
  151. West Hillsboro residents organize a Community Family Club After a first meeting at West Hillsboro School on May 5, residents formed a community club open to everyone from four to ninety, with no dues, and on May 16 elected C. C. Sumner temporary chairman. Committees had won the agreement of the Cone Mills Eno plant and the Belle Vue mill to let the club use their land for play areas. Also named: C. C. Sumner · Also mentions: Belle Vue millSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 21, 1959, p. 6
  152. The West Hillsboro Community Family Club opens its ball field on Belle Vue mill land After some forty boys and a crew of men cleared the Belle Vue land with scythes and mowers, the club held an opening day; a West Hillsboro midget team lost its first game to Saxapahaw, 6 to 2, before a large crowd, and club women ran a refreshment stand to buy equipment.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 28, 1959, p. 8
  153. The West Hillsboro Community Family Club formally opens its park The new West Hillsboro Community Family Club held a white elephant sale and then formally opened its Community Family Club Park on Memorial Day, on Bellevue and Cone mill land the club had been allowed to use; it thanked L. E. Beard and Joe Hughes for the land. Ball games and church gatherings were held at the park through the summer. People: L. E. Beard Also named: Joe HughesSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 11, 1959, p. 8
  154. The Bible Presbyterian Church of Hillsboro is organized A small group that had held services at the Barracks in West Hillsboro since September 1958 voted to organize as the Bible Presbyterian Church of Hillsboro, an independent premillennial congregation holding to the Westminster Confession as amended in 1946, with 18 names on a charter roll still open. The Rev. Martin C. Freeland was pastor and C. C. Wilkinson ruling elder. Also named: Martin C. Freeland, C. C. WilkinsonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 24, 1959, p. 11
  155. Belle Vue mill head L. E. Beard asks the commissioners to cut the tax value of the mill machinery L. E. Beard, chief executive of the Belle Vue mill, asked the Orange County commissioners to lower the $400,000 tax valuation on the West Hillsboro plant's machinery, set in the 1954 revaluation, calling it discriminatory after a 1959 appraisal by the Comer Machinery Corporation put its worth at $124,000; he proposed $200,000. The board took no action that day. People: L. E. Beard Also mentions: Belle Vue millSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough): "cut in valuation at Belle-Vue mill,", November 5, 1959, p. 3
  156. The open court in the middle of the Bellevue mill is roofed over for storage For more storage, the owners roofed the space inside the U-shaped mill with open-web steel trusses running from the main mill to the weaving room and closed its east side with a new wall, removing the 1923 stair tower.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 10
  157. Hillsboro voters begin registering in the township's three new precincts On the first day of registration for the 1960 primaries, 282 voters re-registered in the three precincts made from the old single Hillsboro precinct, whose book had held some 2,700 names. Every voter had to register again in Hillsboro, West Hillsboro or Cameron Park precinct, and Democrats elected the first committees for the new precincts on May 7. Also mentions: Cameron ParkSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 5, 1960, p. 9
  158. Orange County begins handing out federal surplus food in West Hillsboro The county opened its federal surplus food store in the former Shue grocery building in West Hillsboro and gave out the first monthly parcels of meal, flour, rice, powdered milk, lard and other staples to needy families. The News called Orange the first county in the state to put the program into operation.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 13, 1961, p. 1
  159. The Bellevue mill changes hands and runs as Hillsboro Mills On May 23, 1962 Hillsboro Mills, Inc., a newly formed subsidiary of the Schepps brothers' textile firm of Holyoke, Massachusetts, announced that it would occupy the closed Belle Vue Manufacturing plant in Hillsboro, to make and dye fancy yarn-dyed cotton goods on three shifts, with operations to begin by July 1. The National Register nomination says the mill was sold in the 1960s to investors from the Northeast, and trade directories list it as Hillsboro Mills.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 20 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 24, 1962, p. 1; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 7, 1962, p. 13
  160. The last Southern Railway passenger trains run through Hillsborough Trains 13 and 16, the daily Greensboro-Goldsboro round trip, made their final runs, ending more than a century of passenger service in Orange County. Hillsborough had been a flag stop without ticket sales for two years. Southern had first dropped the trains in September 1962, when a News of Orange columnist described Train 16's departure from the Hillsboro depot as the last scheduled passenger stop in the county, but the trains ran again under a court order from October 24, 1962.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 19, 1964, p. 12 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 25, 1962, p. 2; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 4, 1962, p. 17
  161. The county school board adds a library to the planned ten-classroom school near Central The Orange County Board of Education kept its plan for a ten-classroom elementary school near the Central School site in West Hillsborough but added a library, raising the estimate from $200,000 to $270,000 after studying the plans with a Central committee.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 9, 1964, p. 9
  162. The county school board lets contracts for a new elementary school for Black pupils near Central After the commissioners added $68,800 to the $200,000 set aside a year earlier, the Orange County Board of Education let $271,415.63 in contracts for a ten-classroom elementary school for Black pupils across the road from Central School. Bids opened July 2 had run about $80,000 over the money on hand; the News recounted that the school had been delayed a year while a site acceptable to an integration-minded Black group was sought. People: G. Paul Carr, Carl Smith (Chapel Hill businessman and county commissioner), Archie Royal DavisThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 30, 1964, p. 12
  163. Lucius and Nellie Cheshire buy and restore the Commandant's House Eula Cole, who had bought the house from John W. Hill's estate in 1938, sold it in 1965 to Lucius and Nellie Cheshire. By 1972 they had restored it to excellent condition. Also named: Lucius Cheshire, Nellie Cheshire, Eula Cole, John W. HillSearch the index · National Register: The Commandant's House nomination (1972)
  164. The former Military Academy dining hall is turned into a church The one-story board-and-batten building beside Barracks Road, thought to be a surviving piece of the long frame service building that stood behind the barracks, became a church building in 1965. Also mentions: Barracks RoadNC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 40
  165. Cone Mills honors Eno plant workers, most of them women, for fifty years at the mill At the Eno Plant's seventieth anniversary celebration in Hillsborough, Cone Mills recognized at least six of its 385 employees for fifty or more years of work at the mill, five of them women.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Eno Cotton Mill, National Register of Historic Places nomination
  166. West End Graded School closes The West Hillsborough elementary school closed in 1969, perhaps because the new Central Elementary School took its pupils once schools were integrated. The main building later burned, leaving only the rear wings. Also mentions: Central Elementary SchoolSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 15
  167. The former Bellevue mill is sold again and runs as Falk Fibers and Fabrics In the 1970s northeastern investors bought the mill again; directories list it as Falk, Fibers, and Fabrics, with a dyeing and finishing subsidiary at the same site.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 20
  168. The Commandant's House is listed in the National Register The castellated brick house built for the Hillsborough Military Academy's commandant, the academy's only major surviving building, was entered in the National Register of Historic Places.Search the index · National Register: The Commandant's House nomination (1972) · Also: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey
  169. Hillsborough annexes West Hillsborough West Hillsborough, which in 1950 had 1,456 residents and so outnumbered the town itself, came inside the town limits in 1976. Together with the next year's annexation it probably accounts for the town's population more than doubling between 1970 and 1980, from 1,444 to 3,019.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 10
  170. Families leaving St. Matthew's found All Saints Anglican Church in west Hillsborough Two prominent families broke with St. Matthew's over the ordination of women and the revised Prayer Book and started their own church. Also mentions: St. Matthew'sSearch the index · A Celebration of 250 Years of Anglican and Episcopal Witness in Orange County (2003), scan p. 12
  171. Eno Mill closes Textile production ended at the Hillsborough plant.Eno River Mill — The Mill’s History
  172. The Gold family takes sole ownership of the old Eno Mill A group of investors that included a member of the Gold family bought the vacant Cone Mills plant on Dimmocks Mill Road, which opened in 1985 as the Hillsborough Business Center. When the incubator plan lost money the other investors pulled out, and the Daily Tar Heel reported that Gold became sole owner in April 1987; the mill's own history dates the Gold family's acquisition to 1988. The property became a business center with varied tenants.Eno River Mill — The Mill’s History · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, October 22, 1987, p. 9
  173. Flynt Fabrics and Finishing closes the former Bellevue mill The shutdown of the Flynt Fabrics and Finishing Company, successor to the Bellevue Manufacturing Company, in 2000 followed the Eno mill's 1984 closing and dealt Hillsborough a second economic blow. The mill buildings still stand between the town and West Hillsborough.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 16
  174. The Bellevue mill joins the Study List The National Register Advisory Committee placed the Belle-Vue Manufacturing Company mill in West Hillsborough on North Carolina's Study List, its list of properties likely to qualify for the National Register. Also mentions: Belle-Vue Manufacturing CompanySearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: National Register Advisory Committee agendas, minutes and approved lists, p. 944
  175. The Bellevue Manufacturing Company is listed in the National Register On August 28, 2003 the National Park Service listed the Bellevue Manufacturing Company in Hillsborough 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: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745)
  176. The Eno Cotton Mill joins the Study List The National Register Advisory Committee placed the Eno Cotton Mill in West Hillsborough on North Carolina's Study List, its list of properties likely to qualify for the National Register.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: National Register Advisory Committee agendas, minutes and approved lists, p. 1192
  177. The Eno Cotton Mill is listed in the National Register On September 1, 2011 the National Park Service listed the Eno Cotton Mill in Hillsborough 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 OR1300
  178. The survey proposes adding the Military Academy dining hall and grounds to the Commandant's House listing The report recommended the academy's surviving frame dining hall on Barracks Road, left out of the Commandant's House nomination, for the Study List as an expansion of that listing, with about 21.5 acres over three parcels. The land keeps the barracks foundation, old tree lines and a daffodil-lined path, and the Office of State Archaeology judged it likely to hold remains of the school. The National Register Advisory Committee added the dining hall and site to the Study List on October 12, 2017. Also mentions: Barracks RoadNC Digital Collections: Heather Wagner Slane, Hillsborough Architectural Survey (2017), p. 40 · Also: NC State Historic Preservation Office: National Register Advisory Committee, October 12, 2017, list of approved properties

Maps of West Hillsborough

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  1. Plan of the town of Hillsboro, taken in October 1863 DigitalNC · a map of the town around it
  2. Map of Orange County, N.C. UNC · a map of the town around it
  3. Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Hillsboro, Orange County, North Carolina. Library of Congress Digital Collections · a map of the town around it
  4. Map showing rural free delivery route nos. 1, 2 & 3 from Hillsboro, Orange Co., N.C. UNC · a map of the town around it
  5. Map of Turner Heights, Hillsboro, N.C. UNC · a map of the town around it
  6. School map, Orange County, North Carolina. UNC · a map of the town around it
  7. Highway maintenance map of Orange County, North Carolina DPLA · a map of the town around it
  8. Federal-Aid Systems map of Orange County, North Carolina DPLA · a map of the town around it
  9. Orange County, North Carolina (Highway culture map) DPLA · a map of the town around it
  10. Orange County, North Carolina (Highway maintenance map) DPLA · a map of the town around it
  11. USGS topographic map, Hillsborough quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)
  12. Highway maintenance map of Orange County, North Carolina DPLA · a map of the town around it
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  1. FIRM, flood insurance rate map, town of Hillsborough, North Carolina, Orange County UNC · a map of the town around it
  2. Highway maintenance map of Orange County, North Carolina DPLA · a map of the town around it
  3. Map of Chapel Hill - Carrboro : including school districts with University of North Carolina, Orange County, Hillsborough, Research Triangle Park. UNC · a map of the town around it
  4. USGS topographic map, Hillsborough quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)
  5. Geologic map of the Hillsborough 7.5-minute quadrangle, Orange County, North Carolina NC Cardinal · a map of the town around it

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James J. Freeland

Freeland, Maxine · 1999

Maxine Freeland's biography of James John Freeland (1918-1999), a Hillsborough man of the twentieth century, compiled in 1999.

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  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 975.656 STANLEY West Hillsborough Origins: Stories & Poems by A Native Son Stanley, Charles B. · 2018

    Charles B. Stanley's stories and poems about growing up in West Hillsborough, the mill village on the west side of town, subtitled by a native son. Born in 1940, Stanley writes of the neighborhood's social life and customs in the twentieth century in autobiographical verse and prose. Published in 2018 by the Create Short Book Writers Project, 162 pages with illustrations and portraits.

  • Foundational · NC 975.656 DAV A Folklore Study of West Hillsborough, N.C: Including Local Legends and Games Davis, Bryant Kenneth · 1986

    Bryant Kenneth Davis's folklore study of West Hillsborough from 1986, including local legends and games according to the full title. Twentieth-century folklore of Hillsborough and the town's history are its ground, and it records a neighborhood's own lore at a single point in time.

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