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Camp New Hope

In New Hope. 9 dated events, 1947–1962.

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  1. The New Hope community helps build Camp New Hope for Orange Presbytery Beginning in 1947 the New Hope Grange community contributed a good deal toward building Camp New Hope, which belonged to Orange Presbytery. The camp was also open to other youth groups, among them 4-H clubs and Boy Scouts. Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 261
  2. Orange Presbytery holds its first camps at Camp New Hope Orange Presbytery moved its summer youth conferences from Peace College to its own Camp New Hope, holding a senior conference for 148 young people and two eight-day Pioneer camps there between June 21 and July 14. The camp had added three double cabins, bath houses and refrigeration, and the N. N. Fleming Memorial Lodge was finished except for its fireplace and windows. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 21, 1949, p. 1
  3. Camp New Hope dedicates the Fleming Memorial Lodge Orange Presbytery, meeting at New Hope Church, dedicated the new Fleming Memorial Lodge at Camp New Hope at noon on July 13, in memory of the Rev. N. N. Fleming, the presbytery's stated clerk and pastor of Hawfields Church. Its stone chimney was built of stone from old chimneys on two farms. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 20, 1950, p. 8
  4. Five Orange County churches hold a joint day camp at Camp New Hope In place of their vacation church schools, the New Hope, Chapel Hill, Efland and Hillsboro Presbyterian churches and the Hillsboro Methodist Church ran a joint day camp at Camp New Hope, with study, handicrafts and recreation. The Rev. John E. Ensign and the Rev. Irving E. Birdseye directed it. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 17, 1951, p. 1
  5. Former Elm Grove School pupils hold their first reunion and form an association About 300 former teachers and pupils of Elm Grove School, a school south of Hillsboro that began in a hewn-log building before the Civil War and served until the county consolidated its schools, met at New Hope Church for a first reunion. They formed a permanent organization and elected officers. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 6, 1951, p. 5
  6. The state society for crippled children runs a two-week camp at Camp New Hope The North Carolina Society for Crippled Children and Adults, headquartered in Chapel Hill, held a two-week camp at Orange Presbytery's Camp New Hope for disabled children aged 6 to 15, paid for partly with Easter Seal money, and 53 boys and girls attended. Their departure on August 29 closed the camp's sixth season, in which it had served 561 children. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 2, 1954, p. 5
  7. The Carrboro Lions Club pays off the debt on its ball park At its ladies' night banquet at Camp New Hope the club announced it had paid off the $12,500 debt on the Carrboro Lions Park, valued at about $35,000 and seating about 1,500, the community's only stadium outside the University and its only place for night games. The club bought the first land near the Carrboro school in 1947, graded it with a bank loan, and formally opened the lighted park in the summer of 1950. People: Lloyd M. Senter The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 16, 1954, p. 8
  8. Terry Sanford takes his campaign for governor to 200 Orange backers at Camp New Hope Terry Sanford laid out his campaign for governor to about 200 Orange County supporters at a noon meeting in the dining hall of the Presbyterian Camp New Hope, arranged by backers in Chapel Hill and Hillsboro. It was his fortieth county meeting in eight days of a tour meant to reach every county before the formal campaign. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 21, 1960, p. 1
  9. The New Hope Grange holds a community fair at Camp New Hope The New Hope Grange staged a community fair at Camp New Hope with 77 exhibitors, more than 300 exhibits and 125 ribbons, an antique scene around the lodge fireplace and a rolling-pin throw. The News called it the first New Hope Community Fair. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 4, 1962, p. 9

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Indexed works

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Surveys and maps of the area

Not about Camp New Hope alone: the architectural surveys that cover its town or the county, and maps drawn while it stood. Several of the surveys can be read free online at NC Digital Collections.

History and Architecture of Orange County, North Carolina

Mattson, Richard L. · 1996 · Unpublished manuscript

Richard L. Mattson's manuscript survey of the history and architecture of Orange County, completed in September 1996. Its 78 pages cover the county's historic buildings and structures and end with a bibliography.

Included because: A survey or map of the town or county where the site stands.

NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

Orange County multiple property documentation form: "Historic resources of Orange County."

1993

National Register multiple property documentation form on the historic resources of Orange County, completed in 1993. Kelly Lally and M. Ruth Little led the first phase of the survey, and Jody Carter and Todd Peck the second. It runs 123 pages with a bibliography.

Included because: A survey or map of the town or county where the site stands.

NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

[Architectural field surveys for Orange County : collected for the Historic and architectural resources of the Tar-Neuse River basin report]

1974 · Survey and Planning Branch, Historic Preservation Section, Division of Archives and History

Historic building survey forms for Orange County gathered in 1974 by the state's Historic Preservation Section for a report on the Tar-Neuse River basin. About 400 pages of forms covering buildings in Chapel Hill, Hillsborough and the countryside; a form can carry a description, historical notes, location, a photograph and a floor plan.

Included because: A survey or map of the town or county where the site stands.

Map of Orange County, N.C. : 1939

Stanaland, E. A. · 1939 · E.A. Stanaland

Hand colored map of Orange County drawn by E. A. Stanaland and published at Parrott, Georgia, in 1939. It shows towns and townships, roads and railroads, and marks the schools and churches standing in the county. One sheet, 58 by 36 centimeters.

Included because: A survey or map of the town or county where the site stands.

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    Where to look on the shelf

    These books don’t necessarily mention Camp New Hope, but they cover where it stands, its kind of building and the land, family and burial records behind it, and they are where a search for a place like this usually goes next. All are at OCPL, most in the Wall Collection.

    Histories of the town and county

    • Foundational · NC 975.656 ORA Orange County--1752-1952 1953

      Hugh Talmage Lefler and Paul W. Wager's history of Orange County across its first two centuries, 1752 to 1952, prepared for the county's bicentennial. It covers government and politics, biography and the county's families, and doubles as a genealogical reference. Published in Chapel Hill by the Orange Printshop in 1953, 389 pages with illustrations and an index; this copy is a later reprint.

    Buildings and surveys

    • Foundational · NC 720.975 BIS A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Piedmont North Carolina Bishir, Catherine W. · 2003

      Catherine W. Bishir and Michael T. Southern's field guide to the historic buildings of the North Carolina Piedmont, arranged county by county from Wake and Franklin in the east to Mecklenburg and Gaston in the west. The Orange County section takes in Hillsborough, Chapel Hill and Carrboro along with the rural county, with entries on individual buildings and maps for finding them. Published 2003, 596 pages with illustrations and maps.

    • Foundational · NC 917.56 ORANGE An Inventory Of Sites Of Cultural, Historic, Recreational, Biological, And Geological Significance In The Unincorporated Portions Of Orange County Orange County (N.C.) · 1986

      County planning department survey of significant sites in the unincorporated parts of Orange County, published in 1988, 95 pages with maps. The survey covers cemeteries, church buildings and archaeological sites on the cultural side, and plants, animals, endangered species, wildlife refuges, geology and recreation areas on the natural side. Useful for local historians, genealogists tracing burial grounds and land planners alike.

    • Foundational · NC 363.69 HIS Historic Preservation Element: Orange County Comprehensive Plan ; Orange County, North Carolina Orange County (N.C.) · 1996

      The historic preservation element of Orange County's comprehensive plan, prepared for the county Historic Preservation Commission and Planning Department by the Jaeger Company of Gainesville, Georgia, and adopted on 1 April 1996. Partly financed by National Park Service funds through the state Division of Archives and History, it sets county policy on historic buildings and sites and their conservation. 59 pages plus 50 unnumbered, with illustrations and maps, some folded and in color.

    Land, family and burial records

    • Start here · NC 333.16 CHILTON The Land Grant Atlas of Old Orange County Chilton, Mark · 2012

      Mark Chilton's oversized atlas plotting eighteenth-century land grants across the original Orange County, which stretched well beyond today's boundaries into what became Alamance and Durham counties. Published in Carrboro by Hand Made Books beginning in 2012, the set was planned in four volumes: Henry McCulloh's great tract number 11 and the land north of it; the Saxapahaw old fields (volume 2); Chapel Hill, Hillsborough and the Johnston Tract; and Durham, Rougemont and McCulloh's tract number 12. Maps and color illustrations, 41 cm.

    Research sources

    Sources cited in this site’s history, National Register documents, and places to get research help. Research guide: Research a house or property.

    Historic sites, markers, and maps

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    Collections and databases

    Local help 5

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