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Books, articles, records and pictures in the index about Eno River State Park, found by its names in titles, catalog subjects and the index’s descriptions, and read one by one. Those held at OCPL come first.
A short history for young readers of how the Eno River was kept free of a dam. The Eno rises in Orange County and runs through Hillsborough into Durham County. When Durham proposed a dam in the 1960s, Margaret Nygard (1925-1995) and her neighbors formed the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley; Julie J. Thomson tells how they won Eno River State Park instead. Eno River Association, Durham, 2023; 25 illustrated pages.
The North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation's master plan for Eno River State Park, dated June 1979, for the park that follows the river through Orange and Durham counties. Plans and maps, some in color, lay out the proposed development. Published by the Division in Raleigh, 64 pages in an oblong format.
Scott Hartley's set of classroom and streamside activities on stream ecology for elementary teachers, published in 1992 by the North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation for use at Eno River State Park, which runs along the Orange and Durham county line. Issued loose-leaf in one volume with illustrations. Topics include environmental education activity programs in North Carolina.
Michael McIntyre's 23-minute documentary video on the Eno River and Eno River State Park, produced in Durham in 1993 with support from the Duke University Institute of the Arts. It covers the river's past, its geology and the effort to preserve it, including the Indigenous peoples of the Eno River region. The container credits it with the 1993 Hal Kammerer Film and Video Award at Duke. VHS videocassette, color with sound.
Plan map of regional recreation lands for the Eno River park, dated 2 December 1974, covering the Eno valley in Durham and Orange counties with north to the upper left. From the Images of North Carolina collection.
Blue line print map dated 14 March 1973 showing the proposed Eno River State Park along the river in Durham and Orange counties, oriented with north to the upper left. From the Images of North Carolina collection.
Jean Bradley Anderson's history of Few's Ford, the Eno River crossing that gave its name to the Fews Ford section of Eno River State Park, published in 1989 as volume 8, number 1 of Eno, the journal of the Eno River Association. Topics include the Few family and eighteenth-century Orange and Durham county history.
Herbert N. Englishman sets down what is known of Michael Synnott and the Synnott family, whose land lay in the Eno River valley now inside Eno River State Park, near West Point on the Eno. Written in 2011, it serves as family history for Synnott descendants and as site history for park land that spans the Orange and Durham county line.
Englishman's 2011 study of the Anthony Cole homestead, a farm site inside Eno River State Park on the Orange and Durham county line. Cole family genealogy sits beside the history of the place itself.
The Breeze family and the land they held in the Eno River valley, now within Eno River State Park, set down by Herbert N. Englishman in 2011. One of his short studies of families whose farms the park absorbed, it carries genealogy for Breeze descendants and the history of the old homestead ground along the river.
A folded recreation map of the Eno, printed on both sides in color and covering the river from Occoneechee Mountain at Hillsborough downstream to Penny's Bend. Polaris Cartography issued it in 2005 with help from the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley, Eno River State Park staff and the Nature Conservancy. Side text covers canoeing, old mill sites and a checklist of common birds along the river.
Jacquelyn E. Presley's 2004 study of the relationship between place attachment and environmental attitudes, drawing on Eno River State Park, which follows the river from Orange County into Durham. Runs vii and 86 leaves with illustrations and a bibliography. The study concerns environmental psychology and attachment behavior in the Durham area.
Environmental education activity guide for Eno River State Park, by Scott Hartley, issued in 2000 by the North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation. It concerns stream ecology teaching at the elementary level and activity programs in environmental education, so it is aimed at teachers bringing classes to the park. The extent is given as one volume in online form.
Survey of aquatic life in Eno River State Park near Hillsborough, prepared for the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission in 1996 by Gabriela B. Mottesi, Mara E. Savacool and John M. Alderman. The 36-page report records the snails, mussels and Sphaeriid (fingernail) clams, crayfish and fish found in the river, and closes with a section on point-source discharges and animal facilities as threats to water quality. Illustrated, with maps.
Jean Bradley Anderson traces the history of Few's Ford on the Eno River and the Few family associated with it, in a fifteen page booklet issued by the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley in 1989. Illustrations, maps and portraits accompany the text, and the account connects the site with both Orange and Durham county history.
Maps and figures from 1972 giving the acreage and assessed value of tracts along the Eno River in Orange and Durham counties. The sheets concern Eno River State Park and recreation areas.
Daffodils bloom in front of the historic homestead at Eno River State Park in a photograph from about 2013, entered in a State Parks photo scavenger hunt in the historic feature category.
Eno River State Park photograph taken by the North Carolina Division of State Parks in August 1996: a field of wildflowers at sunset, with the moon in view.
Correspondence, reports and newspaper clippings from 1979 to 1981 on building and running Eno River State Park, compiled by Neil S. Grigg. Water supply, water pollution, landscape protection, outdoor recreation and public use of the park all come up. 27 images.
Margaret Nygard, a co-founder of the Eno River Association, guides a group of hikers through the Cabe Lands section of Eno River State Park, which runs through Durham and Orange counties.
Folded brochure and trail map for Eno River State Park, which lies along the Eno in Orange and Durham counties, from N.C. State Parks and Recreation. The map, at about 1:30,000 with a location map and an inset, has trail notes and park rules on the back. A revised edition, with the map dated March 2018.
Park map of Eno River State Park issued by North Carolina State Parks and Recreation in 1994. The park follows the Eno through northern Orange and Durham counties, and the sheet shows how the state presented the river and its lands in the mid nineties.
The companion sheet to the park's western trail map, covering the eastern trails of Eno River State Park and published in November 2005 by the N.C. Division of Parks and Recreation in Raleigh. Trail descriptions appear on the verso. Topics include trails, recreational use of the Eno River, and maps of both Orange and Durham counties. One folded map.
Trail map for the western side of Eno River State Park, published in November 2005 by the N.C. Division of Parks and Recreation in Raleigh. Topics include the park, its trails and recreational use of the Eno River, with map coverage of both Orange and Durham counties. Descriptions of the park trails are printed on the verso. One folded sheet.
A trail map of the eastern side of Eno River State Park, issued in May 2008 by the Division of Parks and Recreation within the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources. One sheet, 27 by 39 centimeters, with trail descriptions, park hours and rules printed on the verso. The Eno runs through northern Orange County on its way toward Durham.
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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.
The North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation's master plan for Eno River State Park, dated June 1979, for the park that follows the river through Orange and Durham counties. Plans and maps, some in color, lay out the proposed development. Published by the Division in Raleigh, 64 pages in an oblong format.
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