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White Cross

A crossroads community in southwestern Orange County, west of Carrboro.

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StorylineThe Grange in Orange County, 1873–19481873–1948 · 6 events · The Patrons of Husbandry, or Grange, took root in Orange County twice. James Means of Concord organized the Eno Grange at Cedar Grove in December 1873, and in October 1874 delegates of seven Granges organized a county council with John K. Hughes as master. A state Grange revival from 1929 to 1931 produced five Orange chapters, among them Schley Grange No. 710. Schley and Fairfield made their halls out of abandoned schoolhouses, and the chapters met every two weeks with women and children as members. A Grange was organized at New Hope in 1946, and in 1948 W. Kerr Scott, the Democratic nominee for governor and a former State Grange master, spoke to the county's Granges. StorylineSmallpox and the county's first pest house, 1899–19001899–1900 · 5 events · With no pest house, a building for isolating contagious patients, Orange County had to quarantine each smallpox patient at home when the disease came in 1899 and 1900. In 1899 Hillsborough quarantined itself against an outbreak in Alamance County. In 1900 a University medical student caught smallpox and recovered, and in February Postmaster J. Clyde Cheek of Hillsborough was found to have it; his house was cut off, everyone there was vaccinated, and no other town case followed. Cases then turned up among Black workmen building a telephone line. On Dr. C. D. Jones's advice, the commissioners bought 15 acres that had belonged to William Wheaton, a Black landowner, and ordered a two-room pest house built at once. StorylineThe 1915 road law and the county road supervisor, 1915–19171915–1917 · 10 events · In 1915 Senator Frank Nash's act directed the Orange County commissioners to spend the road tax on the roads of the county at large rather than township by township, and to elect a county supervisor of roads. A. W. Clarke became superintendent of roads that March. In 1916 the county placed the Chapel Hill to Durham road and the road from Carrboro to the Alamance line under the federal engineer and authorized the superintendent to buy equipment to work convicts on the roads. By 1917 inspectors counted 37 miles of central highways and many more miles of Class A and Class B roads, and the commissioners were ordering straightening, bridge work and a sand-clay road. StorylineConsolidating the rural schools and hauling the children, 1919–19261919–1926 · 32 events · Between 1919 and 1926 Orange County closed many of its small country schools and began carrying the children by truck and bus to larger ones. The Chapel Hill Graded School had a Ford truck for country children by 1919, and in 1923 superintendent Claytor began folding the county's one- and two-teacher schools into larger ones. The county board set an order for new buildings at Efland, White Cross, the Orange County Training School, Orange Grove and Caldwell, ordered its first school buses in 1924 and sold the emptied schoolhouses. By April 1926 the county had put up seven brick consolidated schools since 1922, including the Orange County Training School for Black pupils, and ran 24 buses. StorylineCounty school finance and the special tax districts, 1923–19241923–1924 · 5 events · In 1923 Orange County began its first round of school consolidation and, for the first time by Lefler and Wager's account, funded its school deficits with bonds. Robert Hume Claytor folded one- and two-teacher schools into larger ones and sought local tax elections. In August the commissioners voted six percent bonds to pay debts the Board of Education had run up to keep a six-month term, and called school tax elections in the Carrboro district and part of Cedar Grove Township. In April 1924 the county board moved building money to Efland, which had a local tax, an eight-month term and a paved road for school trucks, and put it first in the building order. StorylineWhite Cross School burns and is rebuilt, 19331933 · 3 events · When fire destroyed the White Cross school building in April 1933, the county replaced it within months with a one-story brick school built from plans the state obtained from the Tennessee office of the Julius Rosenwald Fund. The board authorized a new building for $10,859, and by July the contract had gone to the Home Construction Company of Durham for $9,400; the fire insurance had paid $11,400. The finished school had four large classrooms split by an auditorium, and they were in use by late September 1933. A later documentation form named White Cross one of the county's two best examples of the larger central schools that replaced one- and two-room schools during consolidation.
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StorylineHome demonstration and 4-H clubs in Orange County, 1935–19391935–1939 · 7 events · Home demonstration work, the teaching of homemaking to farm women and girls by a county agent, began in Orange in September 1935, when no county school but Hillsboro's taught home economics. Grace Holcombe, hired jointly by Orange and Chatham counties, led it. That month women of New Hope and Blackwood Station organized what the Weekly called the county's first club, and Fairfield women the second. Holcombe organized girls' 4-H clubs that fall, and by May 1936 there were seven clubs with 106 members and ten girls' 4-H clubs with 231. The boys' 4-H clubs were reorganized in 1938, Woodward Byars succeeded Holcombe by 1939, and by 1941 the county had 17 home demonstration clubs. StorylineCurb markets and community canneries, 1937–19611937–1961 · 17 events · Orange County farm women opened a curb market in Carrboro in September 1937 with the county home demonstration agent and moved it to Chapel Hill the next January. Government-sponsored community canneries, where families came to can meats and vegetables, opened at White Cross in 1943 and at the Hillsborough school in 1944. The women's market's sellers took in $30,280 in its seventh year and $40,004 in its eighth, and in May 1945 Black farm families opened the Orange County Negro Curb Market on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. Another cannery was being finished at Aycock School in 1947. The Chapel Hill women's market, in the old church building on North Columbia Street by 1954, marked its twentieth anniversary in October 1957. In August 1961 the market's 16 sellers from the county home demonstration clubs moved into a new block building beside Brady McLennan's Durham Road restaurant. StorylineShort wartime school days, 1943–19441943–1944 · 3 events · Wartime farm work shaped Orange County's school hours in 1943 and 1944. In August 1943 Superintendent R. H. Claytor announced that most county schools would run from 8:15 to 1:15 for the first six weeks so children could help on farms. Chapel Hill's schools ran a wartime short day from 8 to 1. In November, 99 of 160 parents favored a day from 8:40 to 2, but on November 16 the Chapel Hill school board put an 8:45 to 3:15 schedule into effect, against most parents' wishes. By May 1944 all Orange County schools had gone on a short schedule, after young farmers were drafted and heavy spring rains delayed the crop year. StorylineWhite Cross School: merger votes, Black families’ transfers and the closing, 1958–19611958–1961 · 18 events · After White Cross voters rejected joining the Chapel Hill school unit, the area's Black pupils rode to Hillsboro, and after Black parents applied to the all-white White Cross School the county board closed it. The merger lost in a May 1958 election with Carrboro, 916 to 565, and White Cross rejected it again, 116 to 110, in August 1959; 70 of its Black pupils began riding to Central School in Hillsboro, 15 miles or more from home. A third vote failed in 1960. In January 1961 parents of 23 Black children applied to White Cross School. The county board refused, and on May 1 voted to close the school and move its 75 white pupils to Cameron Park School.

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  1. Thomas Lloyd is appointed a justice of the peace Thomas Lloyd, a settler of Welsh descent with a land grant on Mark Creek, was made a justice of the peace in 1757 and later sat in the North Carolina Assembly. He founded the large Lloyd family of southern Orange; by 1850 nineteen of his grandsons and great-grandsons lived around White Cross. People: Thomas Lloyd (died 1792)Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 25
  2. Haw River Mountain Church becomes Antioch Baptist Church The Baptist congregation on Collins Mountain, first called the Haw River Mountain Church, took the name Antioch Baptist Church in 1830. Many White Cross families descend from its first members.Search the index · Duncan MacCalman, The Families Which Built White Cross, N.C. and Antioch Baptist Church (about 2006), scan p. 6
  3. White Cross Church, later an AME congregation, is organized The church list dates the White Cross congregation and its first building to May 1832. It was rebuilt in 1921 and was an African Methodist Episcopal church by 1953.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 304
  4. A stage inn, later the Snipes House, is built near White Cross The Snipes House near White Cross began in the 1840s as a stagecoach inn, with paired chimneys at each end. It has since been altered.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 91
  5. The Morris Lloyd family builds its first home, a log house near White Cross A log house of about 1840 near White Cross was the first home of the Morris Lloyd family. When Lloyd later put up a much larger timber-frame house in front of it, the log house stayed in use behind it as a kitchen and sleeping space. Also named: Morris LloydSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 50
  6. The Morris Lloyd farmhouse is built near White Cross A farmhouse is built around 1850 on the Morris Lloyd place near White Cross, a farm that keeps an early log house and a half-dovetailed log corn crib. The survey put it on the Study List. Also named: Morris LloydSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 89
  7. William Strowd builds a two-story frame house near White Cross A two-story frame house is built in 1851 on the William Strowd place near White Cross. Also named: William StrowdSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 92
  8. A one-room log house goes up on the Bryant Nevilles farm near White Cross By family tradition a one-room log house and log smokehouse on the Nevilles farm near White Cross date to about the Civil War years. Bryant Nevilles (1850-1931), who married Julia Lloyd in 1872, later farmed here, and a frame bungalow was added to the farmstead in 1926. The farm is on the Study List. Also named: Bryant NevillesSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 96 · Also: Find a Grave, Bryant Neville
  9. Diphtheria appears in the White Cross settlement Diphtheria broke out in the White Cross settlement. The paper's state column the same week listed Orange among the counties reporting deaths from the disease.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, October 11, 1879, p. 3
  10. The White Cross Store is built A country store is built at White Cross in the late nineteenth century. It was later covered in vinyl siding.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 119
  11. Congressional candidates B. H. Bunn and Alexander McIver hold joint debates across Orange County Democrat B. H. Bunn and Republican Alexander McIver, rivals for Congress, met in joint discussion at six Orange County stops from Cedar Grove to Chapel Hill, closing at Hillsborough on Saturday night, where C. D. Turner spoke in McIver's place. People: Alexander McIver, Chester D. Turner Also named: B. H. BunnSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 25, 1890, p. 2
  12. Antioch Baptist Church completes a new sanctuary A family note in the book records that Antioch's sanctuary, roofed with hand-hewn wooden shingles, was finished in 1898; church member Will Copeland worked on the roof. Also named: Will CopelandSearch the index · Duncan MacCalman, The Families Which Built White Cross, N.C. and Antioch Baptist Church (about 2006), scan p. 159
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  1. A one-room school for Black children is built at Hickory Grove Hickory Grove, near White Cross, gets a one-room front-gable schoolhouse for African American children early in the twentieth century.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 114
  2. Arch Cates's I-house goes up on what became Arthur Minnis Road The two-story frame I-house at the Cates-Dodson-Minnis Farm was first owned by Arch Cates. It later passed to Albert Dodson and then to Albert and Lois Dodson Minnis, and was remodeled in the 1940s. Also named: Arch Cates, Albert Dodson, Albert Minnis, Lois Dodson MinnisSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Kelly Lally and Ruth Little, Chapel Hill Township Survey Final Report (1992), p. 35
  3. Smallpox appears among telephone-line workers near University Station and White Cross After a first case near University Station on February 19, two more smallpox cases turned up among Black workmen building the telephone line between Hillsborough and Greensboro, one near University Station and one between White Cross and Chapel Hill. On February 24 Dr. Harrill of Statesville, a smallpox expert, went out with county health superintendent Dr. C. D. Jones and confirmed both University Station cases; a suspected case in Brownsville, west of Hillsborough, proved to be measles. The county had no pest house, so each patient was quarantined at home and everyone exposed was vaccinated. People: Clarence Dupre Jones Also mentions: University StationSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), March 1, 1900, p. 3
  4. A school district is created south of White Cross on donated land The board approved a new district south of White Cross whose land and building were given on condition that they revert when no longer used for a public school, with Sunday school and preaching allowed. Children of the Old Field school were moved to it.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 53
  5. L. R. Sykes becomes principal of White Cross School L. R. Sykes accepted the principalship of the White Cross School, whose fall term was to begin September 3. The News called it one of several Orange County high schools doing excellent work. Also named: L. R. SykesSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), August 23, 1906, p. 1
  6. The school survey proposes merging small schools around a central high school in each township The study urged a full reorganization of districts before any new building: small primary schools feeding larger ones, and a well-equipped high school in each township. It named schools that should be merged, among them Oak Grove and White Cross in southern Bingham Township, Breeze and Union Grove at Caldwell, and Chestnut Ridge and Gravelly Hill at Gravelly Hill.L. A. Williams, A Study of the Public Schools in Orange County, North Carolina (1919), scan p. 26
  7. Alston Grove Congregational Church builds its frame church near White Cross The Alston Grove Congregational Church near White Cross builds a front-gable frame church around 1920 beside its cemetery.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 108
  8. White Cross AME Church builds its present church White Cross AME Church builds a new church in 1921; the congregation refaced it in brick veneer in 1958.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 110
  9. County road crews and a convict camp rebuild the roads west of Chapel Hill Under commissioner J. D. Webb and superintendent A. G. Pierce, county road gangs working from a convict camp and with a caterpillar tractor were clearing, crowning and ditching the roads toward Antioch and White Cross, which had been nearly impassable with mud the winter before. People: Junius D. Webb Also named: A. G. PierceSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 26, 1923, p. 1
  10. Orange County and the State Board of Health hold free typhoid and diphtheria clinics across the county Orange County and the North Carolina State Board of Health offered free typhoid vaccine and diphtheria toxin-antitoxin to every white and Black resident in a campaign that ran from August 13 to September 8, 1923. Each treatment took three doses, and a weekly schedule set hours at the courthouse in Hillsboro and at schoolhouses, churches and crossroads from Carr, Cedar Grove and Efland to White Cross, Calvander and Carrboro, with an afternoon stop for Black residents at the Old Freedman's School House in Chapel Hill.The News (Chapel Hill), August 30, 1923, p. 8
  11. Bingham Township citizens meet at White Cross to advise on a consolidated school site Between 75 and 100 Bingham Township citizens met the county school board at White Cross to argue over the site for a new consolidated school, choosing between 8.5 acres the county owned and a tract at the White Cross road junction offered by Lueco Lloyd; F. J. Eubanks offered four or five more acres to give the county's land frontage on the Chapel Hill-Saxapahaw-Graham highway. Most of those present favored the county's land, and the board, which had about $15,000 from the State school loan fund, said it would decide at its April 7 meeting. People: Mack P. Efland, Lueco Lloyd, Edgar Wallace Knight Also named: F. J. EubanksThe Chapel Hill Weekly, March 27, 1924, p. 1
  12. The county board moves $30,000 in building money to Efland and sets the order of its new schools The board shifted $15,000 each from the White Cross and Caldwell building funds to Efland, reasoning that Efland had the greater need, a local tax with an eight-month term, and a paved road for school trucks. It then fixed the building order as Efland, White Cross, Orange County Training School, Orange Grove and Caldwell. Also mentions: Orange County Training SchoolSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 70
  13. The White Cross school holds its commencement The White Cross school in Bingham township held its commencement on a Saturday afternoon and evening, with an address by Rev. Eugene C. Olive, a picnic supper at a long table, prizes for speaking and scholarship, and songs and plays by the pupils. Average attendance that year had been about 70. Also named: Eugene C. OliveSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 24, 1924, p. 3
  14. Bingham township citizens protest the White Cross school site before the county board A large crowd from Bingham township came to the court house in Hillsboro to ask the county board of education to undo its April choice of Lueco Lloyd's donated land at White Cross for the new township school and build instead on the county's lot about three-quarters of a mile west. A. H. Graham spoke for the protesters, whose petition carried more than 100 names and 13 of the district's 14 school committeemen; the board heard Harmon McIver and Lloyd in closed session and made no decision. People: Lueco Lloyd, Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham Also named: Harmon McIverThe Chapel Hill Weekly, May 8, 1924, p. 1
  15. A new consolidated school is built at White Cross on the Saxapahaw road After neighbors rejected a site at the crossroads near Leuco Lloyd's, the board placed the new White Cross school on the north side of the Chapel Hill and Saxapahaw road and let the contract to A. R. Davis for $14,436. It accepted the building in March 1925 and sold the old White Cross schoolhouse to F. J. Eubanks for $250. Also named: A. R. Davis, F. J. Eubanks · Also mentions: White Cross schoolSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 71 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), June 5, 1924, p. 5; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 16, 1926, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, June 13, 1924, p. 8
  16. The county board settles on a third site for the Bingham township school and lets the contract To end the quarrel over its new Bingham township school, the county board of education took neither Lueco Lloyd's White Cross land nor the county's own lot but the Eubanks land across the road from the county lot, let the contract, and began a school of about $15,000 for the elementary grades, due by October 1. The same contractor, Davis of Burlington, was to build the board's new schools at Orange Grove and Efland that summer. Also named: Lueco LloydThe Chapel Hill Weekly, June 13, 1924, p. 8
  17. Court upholds the county school board in the Bingham township school site fight At Oxford the court ruled for the Orange County board of education and dissolved the injunction Lueco Lloyd had obtained to stop work on the new Bingham township school at White Cross. Lloyd had argued the county lacked clear title to the Eubanks land the board chose as a compromise site, and Fred Eubanks met that objection by making a deed to the county. People: Lueco Lloyd Also named: Fred EubanksThe Chapel Hill Weekly, July 25, 1924, p. 8
  18. Bingham Township schools hold their commencement contests at White Cross The preliminary county commencement contests for Bingham Township were held at the White Cross school on March 20, 1925, before a big crowd.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 26, 1925, p. 3
  19. Orange County counts seven new brick schools and 24 school buses Since 1922 the county had put up seven brick consolidated school buildings worth $152,000 in all: White Cross, Orange Grove, Efland, Aycock, Murphey, Caldwell and the Orange County Training School for Black pupils. It ran 24 buses, which made their rounds all winter, and its one-teacher schools had fallen from 26 to 16 in a year. Also mentions: Orange County Training SchoolThe Chapel Hill Weekly, April 16, 1926, p. 1
  20. Highway commission routes the Graham road straight from Carrboro to White Cross On June 7, 1928, district highway commissioner John Sprunt Hill announced that the new state road from Chapel Hill to Graham would run straight from the end of the pavement at the Carrboro school to White Cross, cutting out the bend by Calvander and saving 1.6 miles. The contract for the four-mile section was to be let in August, and the Chapel Hill to Nelson short cut to Raleigh was expected to open in September. People: John Sprunt HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 8, 1928, p. 1
  21. Contracts are let for the new state road from Carrboro to the Alamance line The state highway commission let contracts for about ten miles of the new road toward Graham, from the end of the concrete near the Carrboro school house to the Alamance County line: grading of the first five miles to near White Cross to C. B. Hester, its bridges to Benfield Brothers, and the last section to Nello Teer, with the commission grading the middle stretch itself. It expected the road open the next summer. Also named: C. B. Hester, Nello Teer · Also mentions: Carrboro schoolSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 5, 1928, p. 6
  22. Five Grange chapters organize in Orange County County agent Don Matheson reported five new Grange chapters in Orange County: Orange Grove, Schley, White Cross, Gravelly Hill and Fairfield. Schley and Fairfield made their meeting halls out of abandoned schoolhouses, and the chapters met every two weeks with women and children as members. People: Gilbert W. Ray, Don S. MathesonThe Chapel Hill Weekly, December 25, 1931, p. 1
  23. White Cross School burns and the board orders a new building The board learned in April 1933 that the White Cross school building had been destroyed by fire and authorized a new one for $10,859. At the same meeting it set aside $3,325 for two new rooms at Efland. Also mentions: White Cross schoolSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 78 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, December 9, 1932, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, July 14, 1933, p. 5
  24. The county lets the contract for a new brick White Cross School The contract for a new White Cross School, replacing the building lost to fire, went to the Home Construction Company of Durham for $9,400, with plumbing and heating to Paschall Brothers of Durham for $1,459; the fire insurance had paid $11,400. The one-story solid brick building, on plans the state obtained from the Tennessee office of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, was to have four classrooms, an office and library, an auditorium, its own electric plant and a well, with H. D. Carter as supervising inspector and local men doing the work. People: H. D. CarterSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 14, 1933, p. 5
  25. White Cross School is built as a consolidated brick school White Cross School, built in 1933 to replace a school building that had burned, is a brick school with four large classrooms split by an auditorium in the middle. The contract went to the Home Construction Company of Durham by July 1933, and by late September the four classrooms were in use. The form names it one of the county's two best examples of the larger central schools that replaced one- and two-room schools during consolidation. Also mentions: White Cross SchoolSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 79 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, July 14, 1933, p. 5; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 29, 1933, p. 3
  26. Home agent Grace Holcombe organizes girls' 4-H clubs in rural Orange schools County home demonstration agent Grace Holcombe organized a girls' 4-H club at St. Mary's school on November 1 and another at Orange Grove on November 8, then junior and senior clubs at White Cross on November 15 and at Aycock the same week. Clubs at Efland and Carrboro were set for later in the month. People: Grace E. Holcombe Also named: Grace HolcombeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 15, 1935, p. 1
  27. The district health department opens its summer vaccination clinics in the county The district health department began its summer campaign against diphtheria, typhoid and smallpox with clinics in the southwestern part of the county, at the Wilson service station, Antioch, White Cross and Orange Grove, to be repeated on later dates into July. Health officer Dr. W. P. Richardson urged people missed the year before to come. People: William P. RichardsonThe Chapel Hill Weekly, June 19, 1936, p. 2
  28. Rabid dogs at White Cross and Calvander lead to a thirty-day dog quarantine Three dogs killed in the country near Chapel Hill, two at White Cross and one at Calvander, were found rabid by the state laboratory. The district veterinarian, Dr. W. G. Chrisman, traced and killed most of the dogs they had bitten and asked owners in the area to keep their dogs confined for thirty days. Also named: W. G. ChrismanThe Chapel Hill Weekly, June 19, 1936, p. 3
  29. Rural power lines in Orange County reach 111 miles and about 425 farm families A survey by county farm agent Don Matheson found that rural electric lines outside the towns had grown from 28 miles before 1933 to 111 miles built or under construction, serving about 425 farm families, with the Duke Power Company building most of the new mileage. New lines ran along route 64 from the Alamance line to White Cross and on to Antioch church and Chapel Hill, from Hillsboro along route 14 to Calvander, and from Cedar Grove to Efland, the last serving the county home; when the approved lines were done, every public school in the county but one would have power. People: Don S. MathesonThe Chapel Hill Weekly, November 20, 1936, p. 1
  30. Orange County's assessors report on their countywide review of real estate values The Board of Assessors, D. D. Carroll, E. L. Lockhart and B. F. Wilson, reported to the county commissioners, sitting as a board of equalization, that after hearing complaints in every township and looking at nearly every parcel they had raised assessments by an average of about 2 per cent, counting new buildings, and lowered some that were out of line. The board had begun in April in the White Cross neighborhood and put Chapel Hill property at 65 to 70 per cent of market value. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll, Ben F. Wilson Also named: E. L. LockhartSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 30, 1937, p. 3
  31. Assistant county agent Joe Howard reorganizes Orange County's six boys' 4-H clubs The county's six 4-H clubs for boys, at Chapel Hill, Efland, White Cross, Caldwell, St. Mary's and Murphy, were reorganized in the fall of 1938 under assistant county agent Joe Howard. Every boy carried a farm project through the year and reported on it, the clubs studied approved farming practices and citizenship, and a joint picnic for all the boys' and girls' 4-H clubs in the county was planned for the next summer. Also named: Joe HowardSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 22, 1938, p. 4
  32. Lueco Lloyd, a former legislator, dies at White Cross Lueco Lloyd, a former member of the state legislature and former deputy collector of internal revenue, for half a century a figure in Orange County's civic and church life, died at his home at White Cross on September 24. He was buried at Bethel church, where he was a deacon and trustee, with rites by the University Masonic Lodge, which had made him a life member after 48 years. People: Lueco LloydSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 27, 1940, p. 6
  33. Orange County men register for the first peacetime draft On October 16 men aged 21 through 35 registered under the selective service law, with election officials and unpaid volunteers as registrars. In Chapel Hill 1,868 signed up: 966 University students at Woollen Gymnasium, 331 at the Town Hall, 203 at the elementary school and 368 at the Black Elks Lodge; Carrboro counted 275, and the south end of the county under C. P. Hinshaw 2,287. More than 3,800 registered across the county, about 3,000 of whom belonged to Orange. People: Francis Foster Bradshaw, Clarence P. Hinshaw, Kenneth Jones Also mentions: Woollen GymnasiumThe Chapel Hill Weekly, October 18, 1940, p. 1
  34. An influenza epidemic closes the Chapel Hill, Carrboro and White Cross schools With 335 children absent and hundreds of cases in town, Superintendent A. W. Honeycutt, on the health officer's advice, closed the white and Black schools of Chapel Hill and the Carrboro and White Cross schools at midday until January 27. The University filled its Infirmary and turned the Faculty Club rooms into a ward for 156 sick students, helped by some 200 student volunteer nurses. People: William P. Richardson, W. Reece Berryhill, Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 17, 1941, p. 1
  35. The University art department starts renting framed reproductions to Orange County schools The University's art department bought a series of ten framed reproductions of famous paintings to rent to Orange County's public schools at $3.50 for the series, each picture kept a month and sent with an essay on its history. Hillsboro, Cedar Grove, Carrboro and White Cross schools had joined, with curator Harriet Dyer Adams introducing the series at the Hillsboro P.T.A. and Mrs. R. M. Grumman of the county P.T.A. council helping distribute it. Also named: Harriet Dyer Adams, Mrs. R. M. GrummanSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 21, 1941, p. 1
  36. 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
  37. County commissioners appropriate $700 for a cannery building at White Cross The commissioners voted $700 for a new building for the community canning unit at White Cross, eight miles from Chapel Hill on the Greensboro road, after repairs to an old store proved costly. White Cross people gave the labor, and about 150 of them met in the rain to organize and elect Martha Lloyd, U. F. Whitfield and Alton Durham directors. People: William F. Lathan Also named: Martha Lloyd, U. F. Whitfield, Alton DurhamThe Chapel Hill Weekly, July 16, 1943, p. 1
  38. Orange County schools plan short wartime days as they move to a nine-month term Superintendent R. H. Claytor announced that most county schools, opening September 1, would run from 8:15 to 1:15 for the first and probably the last six weeks so children could help on farms, and that holidays would be cut as the county changed from an eight-month to a nine-month year. Carrboro and White Cross, feeder schools for Chapel Hill, would open September 16 on Chapel Hill's schedule. People: R. H. ClaytorSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 20, 1943, p. 1
  39. A community cannery opens at White Cross A government-sponsored community cannery began operating at White Cross in August 1943 under W. F. Lathan, the vocational agriculture teacher at Chapel Hill, serving families in the southern part of the county who came to can meats and vegetables by government methods. By August 1944 it was open on Tuesdays and Thursdays with a local operator in charge. People: William F. LathanSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 25, 1944, p. 1
  40. White Cross holds a chicken stew and War Bond rally in its new cannery About 150 people came to a chicken stew and War Bond rally in the new cannery building at White Cross, eight miles north of Chapel Hill. After a talk by W. F. Lathan, agriculture teacher at the Chapel Hill high school, $3,450 was pledged for War Bonds. People: William F. Lathan Also mentions: Chapel Hill high schoolThe Chapel Hill Weekly, September 17, 1943, p. 1
  41. The White Cross community cannery reopens The White Cross cannery, built in 1942 and shut a couple of years later for want of staff and a working boiler, reopened after farmers at a July 5 Grange rally asked for it and the county school board advanced money for a boiler. Run by Coleman A. Gentry under agriculture teacher Elmer R. Dowdy, it put up 700 to 800 cans a day on Tuesdays and Thursdays. People: Elmer R. Dowdy Also named: Coleman A. GentrySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 1, 1946, p. 1
  42. The first Kiwanis Junior Dairy Calf Show is held at White Cross Sponsored by the Chapel Hill Kiwanis Club, the county's first junior dairy calf show brought 27 purebred calves shown by 4-H and FFA members to White Cross school, judged by Professor R. H. Ruffner of State College by the Danish system. The club said it would hold the show every year. People: William F. Lathan Also named: R. H. RuffnerSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 24, 1946, p. 1
  43. The White Cross Grange elects W. F. Lathan its master At its regular meeting the White Cross Grange elected W. F. Lathan master for the coming year, with C. E. Teer as overseer and Martha Lloyd as lecturer. People: William F. Lathan Also named: C. E. Teer, Martha LloydSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 28, 1946, p. 1
  44. The Lloyd Memorial Association honors Dr. Braxton Bynum Lloyd About 500 people at the tenth reunion of the Lloyd, Hogan and Lindsey families at Bethel Baptist Church adopted a resolution honoring Dr. B. B. Lloyd, the country doctor who had died on March 20, 1947. Archibald Henderson spoke on the family's history and William deB. MacNider on Lloyd's life and medicine. People: Braxton Bynum Lloyd, Archibald Henderson, William de Berniere MacNiderSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 16, 1947, p. 1
  45. Superintendent Proffit's $1 million school bond pays for a new Efland school for Black children and county lunchrooms The $1,000,000 school bond passed under Superintendent Glenn T. Proffit paid for grounds and a building for the Efland school for Black children, an addition to Hillsboro High School, and lunchrooms at Aycock, Efland, West Hillsborough and White Cross. It also bought a cannery and gymnasium at Aycock and a remodeling and auditorium at Caldwell. People: Glenn T. Proffit Also mentions: Efland school, Hillsboro High SchoolSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 129
  46. The Parkvue Drive-In Theatre opens west of Carrboro The Parkvue, a drive-in theater for 280 cars on the Greensboro highway (N.C. 54) west of Carrboro, opened with two evening showings of Three Little Girls in Blue. J. W. Thompson and C. M. Rumley owned and ran it. People: John W. Thompson Also named: C. M. Rumley · Also mentions: N.C. 54Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 15, 1950, p. 8 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 21, 1950, p. 8
  47. The first long-distance call goes out from the new rural telephone lines near White Cross The first long-distance call from a rural telephone in the White Cross area reached the News of Orange County's office from Charles W. Stanford's farm, the farthest point on the new rural lines and the University Telephone Company's test station. The lines had gone up after residents cut the rights of way during the summer, and all the rural telephones were to be in by the end of January. People: Charles W. StanfordThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 14, 1950, p. 1
  48. Carrboro school committeemen oppose putting Carrboro and White Cross in the Chapel Hill school tax district Dwight Ray of the district committee and E. T. Hearn and Raymond Andrews of the Carrboro school committee told the county board of education that Carrboro preferred to stay in the county school unit and opposed a proposal, raised in September by Chapel Hill school board member Carl Smith, to enlarge the special Chapel Hill school tax district to take in Carrboro and White Cross. The county board said it was not sponsoring the idea. People: Dwight Ray, Carl Smith (Chapel Hill businessman and county commissioner) Also named: E. T. Hearn, Raymond Andrews · Also mentions: Carrboro school, Chapel Hill school board, Chapel Hill schoolSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 14, 1950, p. 1
  49. 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
  50. White Cross neighbors start building a community building with their own hands In the summer of 1952 members of the Grange, the home demonstration club and other groups in the White Cross community began putting up a community building, doing all the work without pay and raising money with suppers. The work slowed during the harvest and they hoped to finish by Christmas; the county board of education lent the club the tables, chairs, sink and stove from the old White Cross School lunchroom for it. Also mentions: White Cross SchoolSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 16, 1952, p. 1
  51. 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
  52. The county school board asks the state to split the Carrboro-White Cross school district At the request of Carrboro school patrons protesting heavy teacher loads and crowded rooms, the Orange County Board of Education voted to petition the State Board of Education to divide the Carrboro-White Cross district so that Carrboro could gain a teacher. The board also called for a ten-year study of attendance trends to plan long-range building. Also mentions: Carrboro schoolSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 22, 1953, p. 1
  53. Snow and sleet close most county schools Rain turning to sleet and about an inch and a half of snow fell over Orange County on the night of January 11, which the News called the county's first real blanket of snow in several years, and all county schools except those at Chapel Hill, Carrboro and White Cross closed the next day. Near-record low temperatures followed for several nights.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 14, 1954, p. 1
  54. The school board sets the boundary between the Carrboro and White Cross school areas The county Board of Education approved a line between the Carrboro and White Cross school areas, following the voting precinct line, after Carrboro's committee accepted the line White Cross had proposed. A Carrboro delegation also pressed the board to hurry a new building and to improve the old school's grounds. People: Dwight RaySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 4, 1954, p. 1
  55. The State Board of Education splits the Carrboro-White Cross school district in two At the county board's request the State Board of Education divided the district into District 4-A, Carrboro, and District 4-B, White Cross, ending the old district committee. The stated reason was the difference in background and occupation of the two sections; White Cross, with four teachers and 102 pupils against Carrboro's 12 and 374, had been losing pupils to Carrboro. The county board named a committee for each new district on September 7. People: G. Paul CarrSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 12, 1954, p. 1
  56. Forest fires burn across Orange County, some of them deliberately set Dry weather brought the worst outbreak of forest fires since the county forest office opened, and the first fires the county forester could call deliberately set. About 95 acres burned in four blazes on the 900-acre Strickland tract in the St. Mary's community, all traced to slab piles, and a fire on Bruce Strowd's land on Collins Creek below White Cross burned about 40 acres of timber. Burning permits were cancelled until light rain came on April 6. Also named: Bruce Strowd · Also mentions: St. Mary's communitySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 7, 1955, p. 1
  57. Carrboro and White Cross school committeemen weigh joining the Chapel Hill tax district Meeting with the county board of education, the Carrboro and White Cross district committeemen asked for a "realistic review" of school costs before deciding whether to join the Chapel Hill administrative unit and its supplementary tax. They voted to get the Chapel Hill per-pupil figures straightened out first, and the county board left the choice to the districts. People: Charles W. StanfordSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 8, 1955, p. 8
  58. Buckhorn is named Community of the Year in the county's Farm and Home Efficiency contest Buckhorn, south of Efland, won the contest that closed June 30, ahead of St. Mary's and White Cross, helped by its new community building and athletic field, a Grange-led extension of Mebane telephone lines through the area, and a year of community health meetings with mass X-rays and inoculations. The extension agents planned a short color film of projects in the six competing communities. Also mentions: BuckhornSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 12, 1956, p. 1
  59. Mrs. Raymond Thompson is named Orange County's home demonstration leader of the year At the annual Home Demonstration Achievement Day at the White Cross Community Building, Mrs. Raymond Thompson of the Bethlehem club was named the county's outstanding home demonstration leader and the Caldwell club won a silver pitcher as the outstanding club of 1957. Extension specialist John Harris spoke on yard beautification after a covered-dish supper. Also named: Mrs. Raymond Thompson, John HarrisSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 14, 1957, p. 1
  60. The White Cross school committee asks for a vote on joining the Chapel Hill unit Meeting with the county Board of Education in Hillsborough, the White Cross district school committee voted unanimously to ask for an election on whether the White Cross district should join the Chapel Hill city administrative unit and its special tax district. Committee members did not predict that a majority of White Cross voters would favor the change.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 13, 1958, p. 1
  61. The county school board asks for a vote on joining Carrboro and White Cross to the Chapel Hill district Without dissent the Orange County Board of Education asked the county commissioners to call an election in the Carrboro and White Cross school attendance areas on joining the Chapel Hill special school tax district. The Chapel Hill school board had already endorsed the vote by polling its members, and a delegation from Carrboro's Citizens Committee for Schools pressed for an early date. People: G. Paul Carr, Charles W. Stanford Also mentions: Chapel Hill school board, White Cross schoolThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 6, 1958, p. 1
  62. Telephones are installed for families in the White Cross community Families in the White Cross community who had wanted telephones for a long time had them installed in the first week of March, the county home agents reported.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 13, 1958, p. 5
  63. County commissioners call the May 20 Carrboro-White Cross school merger election On their third try at a legal description of the area, the commissioners adopted the resolution calling a May 20 election on enlarging the Chapel Hill city school unit to take in the Carrboro and White Cross school districts at the Chapel Hill school tax rate. They ordered a new registration of voters and set polling places in Carrboro and White Cross. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Dwight Ray Also mentions: Chapel Hill school, White Cross schoolThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 10, 1958, p. 1
  64. Carrboro and White Cross voters reject joining the Chapel Hill school district In a special election that drew 1,494 of the 1,634 newly registered voters, the Carrboro and White Cross school areas voted 916 to 565 against enlarging the Chapel Hill city school unit to take them in at the Chapel Hill school tax rate. Carrboro voted 723 to 490 against; the News pointed to fear of losing Carrboro's identity, old ill will toward Chapel Hill and, in White Cross, the tax. Also mentions: Chapel Hill school, White Cross schoolThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 22, 1958, p. 1
  65. Chapel Hill accepts the county's terms for Carrboro and White Cross pupils at $30 tuition The Chapel Hill school board approved terms the county board had proposed on June 4, ending a long deadlock after the failed merger vote: the white high school pupils and all the Black pupils of the Carrboro and White Cross areas could stay in Chapel Hill schools for 1958-59 at $30 tuition each. The Chapel Hill board's mass assignment kept existing assignments and so kept its schools segregated, and the News noted that many families, a large share of them Black, now faced tuition bills of several hundred dollars. People: G. Paul Carr Also mentions: Chapel Hill school boardThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 12, 1958, p. 1
  66. White Cross residents petition for a new vote on joining the Chapel Hill school district At a meeting called by the White Cross School PTA, residents gave county school board chairman Charles W. Stanford petitions signed by at least 220 people asking for a new election on merging the White Cross area into the Chapel Hill school district and for tuition-free places in Chapel Hill schools meanwhile. Voters had rejected the merger by more than two to one on May 20. People: Charles W. Stanford Also mentions: Chapel Hill school districtThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 28, 1958, p. 1
  67. The Chapel Hill school board lets White Cross pupils attend without tuition The Chapel Hill school board voted to waive tuition for the coming year for about 75 white and Black pupils from the White Cross attendance area, on condition that White Cross hold another referendum and vote to join the Chapel Hill special tax district as soon as one could be called. People: Charles W. Stanford Also mentions: Chapel Hill school boardThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 4, 1958, p. 1
  68. White Cross takes the top prizes at Orange County's Rural Progress achievement night At a joint achievement night for the county's 14 home demonstration clubs and 8 Rural Progress communities in the courthouse, White Cross won first-place prizes in 11 of the 20 categories of the 1958 Rural Progress program, which drew 4,540 reports of improvements. Mrs. Henry Walker of St. Mary's was named the county's outstanding home demonstration leader and the St. Mary's club the outstanding club. Also named: Mrs. Henry WalkerThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 27, 1958, p. 1
  69. White Cross voters turn down a merger with the Chapel Hill schools a second time White Cross voters defeated a merger of their school into the Chapel Hill city district, 116 to 110, a year after Carrboro had joined it; a first vote, held with Carrboro's on May 20, 1958, had failed 193 to 75. A third vote failed on April 19, 1960, and the county closed the school in 1961. The county board sold the White Cross property to Edmiston Realty Company for $14,900 in 1967.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 13, 1959, p. 1 (continued p. 7) · Also: DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 21, 1960, p. 3
  70. White Cross's Black pupils begin the long bus ride to Central School in Hillsboro With White Cross left outside the Chapel Hill schools after the August merger vote failed, and tuition now required to attend there, 70 Black pupils from the White Cross area, grades 1 through 12, opened the term at Central School in Hillsboro, 15 miles or more from home. White pupils from the area in grades 7 and 8 were bused to Hillsboro High, and at least two families picked up transfer application forms. Also mentions: Chapel Hill schoolsThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 3, 1959, p. 1
  71. White Cross voters reject joining the Chapel Hill school district a third time Voters in the White Cross school area turned down merger with the Chapel Hill district for the third time, about three to two, with 301 votes against and 507 of 538 registered voters taking part. The area stayed in the county system, so its pupils could attend Chapel Hill schools only by paying tuition, without bus service. People: G. Paul Carr Also mentions: Chapel Hill schools, White Cross schoolSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 21, 1960, p. 3
  72. Black parents from White Cross ask the Chapel Hill schools to take their children A delegation of Black parents from the White Cross attendance area asked the Chapel Hill school board to let their children attend Northside School in Chapel Hill without the $50 out-of-district tuition. Their spokeswoman said that under the two boards' joint policy some of the children had ridden more than 100 miles a day by bus to Central School in Hillsboro since the year before. Also mentions: Central School, Northside SchoolThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 15, 1960, p. 7
  73. Black parents at White Cross ask to send their children to White Cross School The parents of 23 Black children living near White Cross applied to move them from the Hillsboro Negro elementary school, a long daily bus ride away, to the white school in their own community. Most of the children had gone to school in Chapel Hill until White Cross voters again turned down a merger with the Chapel Hill district in 1960.The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 28, 1961, year-in-review story on integration, p. 1
  74. The county school board refuses the White Cross transfer requests The Orange County Board of Education on February 6, 1961 turned down the Black families' requests for 23 children to attend the all-white White Cross elementary school, saying no reassignment had been asked for within ten days of the parents being notified of their children's school and that three of the children were below the age for starting school. The board said new requests made at the end of the school term would be considered.The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 28, 1961, year-in-review story on integration, p. 2 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 9, 1961, p. 3
  75. Floyd McKissick represents the White Cross children at a school board hearing At a hearing on Friday, March 3, 1961 on the appeal of the parents of 19 of the White Cross children, the children were represented by Durham attorney Floyd McKissick, who argued that they were being denied their constitutional rights, that the area had no school for Black children and that the White Cross school had empty rooms. The Chapel Hill Weekly reported that the county board denied them again, reading a statement it had prepared before the hearing began; The News of Orange reported the board reaffirming its February 6 denial on Monday, March 6, as administratively impossible to change during the school year. People: Floyd B. McKissick Also named: Floyd McKissickThe Chapel Hill Weekly, December 28, 1961, year-in-review story on integration, p. 2 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 9, 1961, p. 6
  76. The school board's lawyer advises closing White Cross School rather than fight the case A. H. Graham, attorney for the county board, told it the transfer fight could not be won and recommended shutting White Cross School instead. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" GrahamThe Chapel Hill Weekly, December 28, 1961, year-in-review story on integration, p. 2
  77. The county board votes to close White Cross School and send its white pupils to Hillsborough Rather than admit the Black children, the Orange County school board decided to close White Cross School at the end of the school year and move its 75 white pupils to Cameron Park School in West Hillsboro, a step it tied to its ten-year building program. Also mentions: Cameron Park SchoolThe Chapel Hill Weekly, December 28, 1961, year-in-review story on integration, p. 2
  78. After closing White Cross School, the county board lets its pupils go to Alamance and Chapel Hill schools At a stormy meeting the Orange County Board of Education released 25 White Cross area pupils to attend Eli Whitney School in Alamance County and ten to the Chapel Hill schools, if parents furnished transportation, and asked the state to fold the White Cross district into the Hillsboro district. It took under advisement petitions for a fourth vote on joining part of the area to the Chapel Hill school district. Also mentions: Chapel Hill schoolsThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 1, 1961, p. 8
  79. The county school board again refuses nine Black children places at the closed White Cross School After a formal hearing requested by their attorney, Floyd B. McKissick of Durham, the Orange County Board of Education unanimously denied the applications of nine Black children, from sixth graders to entering first graders, to be reassigned from Central School in Hillsboro to the white White Cross Elementary School, on the ground that the school had been closed. People: Floyd B. McKissick Also mentions: Central SchoolThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 27, 1961, p. 4
  80. County school board lets an Alamance bus serve the former White Cross district For one year the Orange County board agreed to let an Alamance County school bus come into the former White Cross district as far as Strowd Road, the third road from the county line, after a request to carry White Cross-area pupils to Eli Whitney School.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 7, 1961, p. 22
  81. Antioch Baptist Church opens a new sanctuary The old Antioch church was taken down in 1973 by Eugene (Red) Neville's demolition company, and the congregation cut the ribbon on its new sanctuary in 1974. Also named: Eugene NevilleSearch the index · Duncan MacCalman, The Families Which Built White Cross, N.C. and Antioch Baptist Church (about 2006), scan p. 379
  82. The state places rural Orange County houses, churches, schools and districts on the Study List On July 8, 1993, after the survey of the rural county, the National Register Advisory Committee placed 23 rural Orange County properties on the state Study List: eighteen farmhouses and log houses, the Carr Methodist and Harmony churches, White Cross School, and the Cedar Grove and Oaks Rural historic districts. Also mentions: Harmony, White Cross SchoolSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: National Register Advisory Committee agendas, minutes and approved lists, p. 556 · Also: NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form
  83. The Cates-Dodson-Minnis House joins the Study List The National Register Advisory Committee placed the Cates-Dodson-Minnis farmhouse west of Chapel Hill 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. 1044

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  1. Map of Orange County UNC · a county map
  2. Map of Orange County, N.C. UNC · a county map
  3. A map of Orange County, N.C. UNC · a county map
  4. Soil map, North Carolina, Orange County sheet Duke · a county map
  5. School map, Orange County, North Carolina. UNC · a county map
  6. Map of Orange County, N.C. : 1939 UNC · a county map
  7. An atlas for Orange County, North Carolina UNC · a county map
  8. USGS topographic map, White Cross quadrangle (1:24,000) U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)

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