People named in events about this site, ordered by number of mentions. Each example links to an entry with a source citation.
Indexed works
Books, articles, records, and images about Eno River State Park. Each has been reviewed for relevance; materials held at OCPL appear first.
Held at OCPL
Saving the Eno River
Thomson, Julie J. · 2023
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.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
Eno River State Park Master Plan
North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation · 1979
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.
Included because: Published by or for this site.
Elsewhere
Living water
Hartley, Scott · 1992 · N.C. Division of Parks and Recreation
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.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
Eno: Reflections on Eno River State Park
McIntyre, Michael · 1993
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.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
Eno River Park Plan: Regional Recreation Lands
1974
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.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
Proposed Eno River State Park
1973
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.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
The History Of Few's Ford (Eno V. 8, No. 1)
Anderson, Jean Bradley · 1989
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.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
A History of Michael Synnott, Orange County, North Carolina, Eno River State Park, West Point on the Eno
Englishman, Herbert N. · 2011
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.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
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A History of the 'Anthony Cole Homestead', Eno River State Park, Orange County, North Carolina
Englishman, Herbert N. · 2011
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.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
A History of the Breeze Family, Orange County, North Carolina, Eno River State Park
Englishman, Herbert N. · 2011
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.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
Eno River
2005 · Polaris Cartography
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.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
An examination of the relationship between place attachment and environmental attitudes
Presley, Jacquelyn E. · 2004
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.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
Living water: Eno River State Park
Hartley, Scott · 2000 · N.C. Division of Parks and Recreation, Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources
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.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
Eno River State Park Aquatic Inventory
Mottesi, Gabriela B.; Savacool, Mara E.; Alderman, John M. · 1996 · North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission
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.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
The history of Few's Ford
Anderson, Jean Bradley · 1989 · Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley
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.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
Eno River Park Acreage and Valuation
1972
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.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
Flowers in front of historic homestead, circa 2013
North Carolina. Division of State Parks · 2013
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.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Field at sunset
North Carolina. Division of State Parks · 1996
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.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Documents regarding the development, administration, and management of Eno River State Park, 1979-1981
Grigg, Neil S. · 1979
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.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Margaret Nygard speaking about Cabe Lands
Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley · 1945
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.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Living Water. Eno River State Park: An Environmental Education Learning Experience Designed for the Middle Grades
Hartley, Scott; Woods, Martha · 1992 · North Carolina State Dept. of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources, Raleigh. Div. of Parks and Recreation.
Scott Hartley and Martha Woods wrote this teacher's guide for middle grade classes visiting Eno River State Park, issued in 1992 by the Division of Parks and Recreation in the state Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources. Activities for fifth and sixth graders cover ecology, insect study, classification, computation and map reading along the Eno River, which rises in Orange County.
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Published by or for this site
Eno River State Park
North Carolina · 2005
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.
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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Eno River State Park
North Carolina · 1994 · North Carolina State Parks and Recreation
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.
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Eno River State Park eastern trails
North Carolina · 2005
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.
Included because: Published by or for this site.
Eno River State Park western trails
North Carolina · 2005
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.
Included because: Published by or for this site.
Eno River State Park eastern trails
North Carolina. Department of Environment and Natural Resources · 2008 · N.C. Division of Parks and Recreation, Department of Environment and Natural Resources
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.
Included because: Published by or for this site.
Surveys and maps of the area
Not about Eno River State Park 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.
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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
Collections and databases
Local help 5
- Durham-Orange Genealogical Society Families and records
- Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
- Local History Help Hours and request form Meet with the Local History Liaison at the Main Library, usually Mondays from noon to 3 p.m., or send a question using the online request form
- Alliance for Historic Hillsborough Hillsborough sites, tours, and interpretation
- Orange County Historical Museum Orange County history, objects, and interpretation
