Churches and lodges
Eagle Lodge is the Masonic hall at 142 West King Street in Hillsborough, a Greek Revival brick building designed by William Nichols and begun in 1823 for a lodge first chartered in 1791. Paid for with a lottery run from 1821 to 1832, it still belongs to the lodge and was listed in the National Register in 1971.
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Books, articles, records, and images about Eagle Lodge. Each has been reviewed for relevance; materials held at OCPL appear first.
History of Eagle Lodge No. 19 of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons in Hillsborough, by R. B. Studebaker and J. Frank Ray. Three volumes bound as one carry the lodge's story from 1791 to 2022; the first volume originally appeared in 1937. Illustrated with portraits.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
Robert B. Studebaker's history of Eagle Lodge No. 19, the Masonic lodge in Hillsborough, from its chartering in 1791 to 1937. Published in 1937, 104 pages with three leaves of plates and illustrations.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
The Masonic Temple in Hillsborough, with its brickwork and columned portico, photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston in 1938 for the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South. One 8 by 10 inch safety film negative.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
Eagle Lodge at 142 West King Street, Hillsborough, a brick Masonic building, in Historic American Buildings Survey documentation compiled after 1933: three photographs, five data pages and a caption page. Names connected with it include Edmund Fanning, William Nichols, John Berry, Samuel Hancock and members of the Lytle family. Topics include fraternal organizations and the building's use as an assembly and lecture hall.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
Hillsborough's stone Masonic Hall with its columned entrance and a sign for Eagle Lodge No. 71, A.F. and A.M., described on the card as the oldest lodge in the state. Postcard number 1448, about 1900 to 1910.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
Eagle Lodge No. 71 in Hillsborough, published as a postcard by the Paul C. Koeber Company of New York. It is a masonic building and a historic one, concerning fraternal lodges and fraternal organizations.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
The masonic lodge building at Hillsborough, published by the W. A. Hayes Drug Store there. Fraternal lodges, fraternal organizations, masonic buildings and historic buildings are all indexed, along with Hillsborough and Orange County.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
Letter from the officers of Eagle Lodge No. 71 in Hillsborough, dated 20 September 1825, inviting the Masons of Greensboro Lodge No. 76 to the dedication of their lodge. The cover asks the postmaster to deliver it promptly. Part of North Carolina Memory.
Included because: Published by or for this institution.
Lodge records of Eagle Lodge No. 19 of the Freemasons in Hillsborough, running from 1791 to about 1950 and amounting to some 1,200 items in 2.75 linear feet. Part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5194. Topics include Freemasonry and masonic lodges in Hillsborough and North Carolina, and the history of clubs and societies in the town.
Included because: Published by or for this institution.
Not about Eagle Lodge 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.
Survey of Hillsborough's historic buildings by Heather Wagner Slane of hmwPreservation, completed in September 2017. The 40-page report covers the town's architecture and history with color illustrations and maps.
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.
Cheryl Davis Warren's 2005 study of history and sense of place in Hillsborough, 216 leaves with illustrations, maps and a bibliography. Written as human geography, it treats the town's past alongside its social conditions and the ways residents understand where they live.
Included because: A survey or map of the town or county where the site stands.
Claude Joseph Sauthier's 1768 plan of the town of Hillsborough in Orange County, reproduced as a colored facsimile of the pen and ink manuscript on a sheet 43 by 53 centimeters. Relief is shown by hachures and the sheet is indexed for points of interest. The 1975 reproduction was made from negatives taken of the original in the Map Room of the British Museum.
Included because: A survey or map of the town or county where the site stands.
Plan of Hillsborough drawn in October 1863, showing the downtown blocks around the crossing of Tryon and Churton Streets, with the Eno River, spelled Enoe on the sheet.
Included because: A survey or map of the town or county where the site stands.
Fire insurance map of Hillsborough, spelled Hillsboro, drawn by the Sanborn Map Company in January 1905 on two sheets, from the Sanborn Maps collection.
Included because: A survey or map of the town or county where the site stands.
Bird's-eye view of Hillsborough looking east, with houses and industrial buildings, on a postcard published by A. C. Bosselman & Co. of New York about 1905 to 1915. Card number 11116.
Included because: A survey or map of the town or county where the site stands.
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Books in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection at the Main Library in Hillsborough whose titles, catalog subjects or descriptions are about this site. The Friends’ recommended starting points are labelled.
History of Eagle Lodge No. 19 of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons in Hillsborough, by R. B. Studebaker and J. Frank Ray. Three volumes bound as one carry the lodge's story from 1791 to 2022; the first volume originally appeared in 1937. Illustrated with portraits.
Hillsborough's Eagle Lodge No. 19, A.F. & A.M., in a history by R. B. Studebaker and J. Frank Ray, two parts bound as one: 1791 to 1937, first published in 1937, and 1938 to 1992. Printed in North Carolina without a date, probably in 1993; 227 pages with eight leaves of plates. The lodge's hall in Hillsborough dates from 1823.
Robert B. Studebaker's history of Eagle Lodge No. 19, the Masonic lodge in Hillsborough, from its chartering in 1791 to 1937. Published in 1937, 104 pages with three leaves of plates and illustrations.
These books don’t necessarily mention Eagle Lodge, 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.
A 1982 revision of Allen Alexander Lloyd's history of Hillsborough, now written with Pauline O. Lloyd and carried forward from the town's founding in 1754 to 1982. Published in Hillsborough by A. A. Lloyd, 310 pages with illustrations and a bibliography.
J. Chris Holaday's Images of America volume on Hillsborough (Arcadia, 2002), built mostly from photographs and postcards. Chapters cover homes, churches and schools, business and industry, local people, scenes around town, and sports, entertainment and events.
Francis Nash's history of Hillsborough in colonial and Revolutionary times, first published in 1903 and reprinted in 1953 by Edwards & Broughton with an index and a sketch of the author. Topics include the Regulator Insurrection of 1766 to 1771, the Revolution and local genealogy.
Elizabeth Shreve Ryan's combined histories and tour guides for Hillsborough, Chapel Hill and Carrboro, the three towns of Orange County, with the University of North Carolina treated alongside Chapel Hill. Each town gets a narrative history and a tour of its streets and buildings. Published by Chapel Hill Press in 2004, 369 pages with illustrations and maps.
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.
An inventory of the buildings in the Hillsborough Historic District, dated 2006. It concerns historic buildings and the buildings and structures of Hillsborough. Useful for anyone checking a particular property in the town's historic district.
Susan McArtor Bellinger's photographic survey of the buildings in the Hillsborough Historic District put up before 1950, self-published in Hillsborough in 1991. Arranged as a guidebook, it records houses and other structures in photographs. 142 pages with illustrations.
Lucile Noell Dula's guidebook to Hillsborough and its historic buildings, published by Pelican in 1989. It pairs a tour of the town with notes on its history, in 128 illustrated pages with a bibliography. Part of the Wall Local History Collection.
Pauline O. Lloyd's history of the churches of Hillsborough from about 1766 to 1962, nearly two centuries of the town's congregations, with attention to the church buildings themselves. Published in Hillsborough in 1962, 151 pages with illustrations, maps and portraits, and a bibliography on the final page.
Stewart E. Dunaway worked through Hillsborough, N.C., lot by lot, giving each town lot a synopsis of its history, a plat showing where it sits and transcripts of the deeds he could locate for it. The second issue runs to 720 pages with illustrations, maps and facsimiles.
Stewart E. Dunaway's 2015 addendum to his history of Hillsborough's town lots, adding deed records arranged by lot number and further town history, with the expansion of the 1890s covered for the first time. Self-published in North Carolina as version 1.0, 446 pages with illustrations, facsimiles and maps. Topics include deeds, court records, land titles and real property in Hillsborough.
An index to the town lots of Hillsborough, Orange County, compiled in 1982 as a guide to the deeds and court records that trace each lot's ownership.
Shirley Jones Mallard's abstracts of the death and marriage notices printed in the Hillsborough Recorder from 1820 to 1879 and in the Hillsboro Recorder of 1887 and 1888. Published by the compiler in Chapel Hill in 1997, 445 pages.
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3 deeds from the county’s deed books that bear on this site, from Mark Chilton’s published abstracts. The note under each says why: the site’s survey file or National Register nomination cites it, it names the site, or it passes the site’s land along the chain of title the survey traces. Each deed’s page links to its deed-book page at the Register of Deeds.
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