Schools and academies
In Hillsborough. 7 dated events, 1844–1907.
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People named in this site’s dated entries, the most often named first, each with one of those entries; its card in the chronology cites the source.
Books, articles, records and pictures in the index about Nash and Kollock School, found by its names in titles, catalog subjects and the index’s descriptions, and read one by one. Those held at OCPL come first.
Ella P. Primrose's short sketch of the school kept by the Misses Nash and Miss Kollock in Hillsborough, a select boarding and day school for girls in the nineteenth century. Printed in Raleigh in 1926, 13 pages with a single plate.
Why this is here: Found by the site’s name in its title, catalog subjects or description, and read by hand.
Ann Strudwick Nash's history of the Nash and Kollock School, the select boarding and day school the Misses Nash and Miss Kollock ran in Hillsborough from 1859 to 1890, mostly for girls with a few boys. Published in Hillsborough in 1964 with plans and portraits. Part of the Wall Local History Collection.
Why this is here: Found by the site’s name in its title, catalog subjects or description, and read by hand.
Julia E. Horner's papers, about thirty items from 1880 to 1882, survive as typed transcriptions made when the originals were in private hands in 1947, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 1337-z. Horner attended the Nash and Kollock School at Hillsborough, and topics include schoolgirl writing, women's education in North Carolina, and social life at Oxford.
Why this is here: Found by the site’s name in its title, catalog subjects or description, and read by hand.
Single-sheet program for a soiree musicale given June 10, 1891 at the Misses Nash and Miss Kollock's School in Hillsborough, a girls' school of the period. It lists the student performers and the music they played, a small record of a school evening and of Hillsborough printing in 1891. One unnumbered page, 22 by 13 centimeters.
Why this is here: Published by or for the site; found by its name and read by hand.
Printed invitation and program for a musical entertainment given by the young ladies of the Nash and Kollock School in Hillsborough on Thursday evening, June 22, 1882, under the direction of Miss Mary Nash, listing performers and their pieces. A single folded sheet dated June 3, 1882. The Misses Nash and Miss Kollock ran their girls' school in Hillsborough for three decades after the Civil War.
Why this is here: Published by or for the site; found by its name and read by hand.
Program for the soirée musicale of Thursday evening, June 21, 1877 at the select boarding and day school of the Misses Nash and Miss Kollock in Hillsborough, given under the direction of Emile Burgy. A folded sheet of two pages listing the performers and their pieces. An earlier program from June 25, 1868 is included in the same grouping. A companion to the school's 1891 program in this bibliography.
Why this is here: Published by or for the site; found by its name and read by hand.
Printed quarterly report form from the school of the Misses Nash and Miss Kollock at Hillsborough, meant to be filled in by hand for an individual pupil. The surviving example is associated with Margaret Cotten. Dated to the 1860s as a Hillsborough imprint, it is a single sheet 20 by 15 centimeters, and it appears in neither Crandall nor Parrish and Willingham.
Why this is here: Published by or for the site; found by its name and read by hand.
An 1864 announcement for the Nash and Kollock select boarding and day school in Hillsborough, concerning tuition for boarders and day pupils. A Confederate-era printing, one unnumbered page on a sheet 22 by 19 centimeters.
Why this is here: Published by or for the site; found by its name and read by hand.
Program for a musical evening given on 24 June 1869 by pupils of the boarding and day school kept by the Misses Nash and Miss Kollock in Hillsborough. From Duke's Broadsides and Ephemera Collection.
Why this is here: Published by or for the site; found by its name and read by hand.
Hillsborough's Nash and Kollock school, the boarding and day school run by the Misses Nash and Miss Kollock, gave the recital on this printed program on 25 June 1868. From Duke's Broadsides and Ephemera Collection.
Why this is here: Published by or for the site; found by its name and read by hand.
Not about Nash and Kollock School 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.
Why this is here: 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.
Why this is here: 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.
Why this is here: 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.
Why this is here: 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.
Why this is here: A survey or map of the town or county where the site stands.
Found a book OCPL doesn’t own? You can often borrow it through interlibrary loan at OCPL.
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.
Ann Strudwick Nash's history of the Nash and Kollock School, the select boarding and day school the Misses Nash and Miss Kollock ran in Hillsborough from 1859 to 1890, mostly for girls with a few boys. Published in Hillsborough in 1964 with plans and portraits. Part of the Wall Local History Collection.
Ella P. Primrose's short sketch of the school kept by the Misses Nash and Miss Kollock in Hillsborough, a select boarding and day school for girls in the nineteenth century. Printed in Raleigh in 1926, 13 pages with a single plate.
These books don’t necessarily mention Nash and Kollock School, 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.
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.
Irene Oliver Pender's history of the public schools of Orange County from 1752 to 1983, covering more than two centuries of schooling in Hillsborough, Efland, Cedar Grove and the rural districts of the county. Published in 1983, 186 pages with illustrations.
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.
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.
Maps, surveys, and the ground itself
Newspapers, photographs, and records of the time
Other catalogs, databases, and guides worth searching
Local organizations that preserve the story and can help you go further
Other sources to search and local organizations that can help.
