Union Hotel (Hillsborough)

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1. by October 30, 1822 The Union Hotel company calls its Hillsborough stockholders for their last installment William Kirkland, president of the stock company that owned Hillsborough's Union Hotel, called on the stockholders to pay their last installment of $14.85 a share by November 28 and summoned them to a general meeting at the hotel in court week. People: William Kirkland Hillsborough Recorder, October 30, 1822, p. 3
2. March 19, 1823 The Orange Agricultural Society offers its first premiums and plans a cattle show for Hillsborough Meeting at the Union Hotel, the Orange Agricultural Society offered premiums, to be paid in inscribed silver plate, for the best crops, livestock, homemade cloth and plows. It also resolved to hold a cattle show, an exhibition of domestic manufactures and a plowing match in Hillsborough on the first Thursday of November. Hillsborough Recorder, April 2, 1823, p. 3
3. by November 9, 1834 Mary A. and James M. Palmer buy the Union Hotel from Samuel Child Mary A. Palmer and James M. Palmer bought the Union Hotel in Hillsborough from Col. Samuel Child and announced that they would keep it themselves, with the stage lines through the town stopping at their house. People: Samuel Child Hillsborough Recorder, November 12, 1834, p. 3
4. by May 18, 1846 Long, Webb and Co. buy and refurnish the Union Hotel Long, Webb and Co. bought the Union Hotel in Hillsborough, repaired it, fitted it with new furniture and hired Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Wren to run it. Hillsborough Recorder, May 28, 1846, p. 3
5. December 10, 1857 Fire destroys the Union Hotel in Hillsborough Fire broke out in an upper front room of the Union Hotel, kept by Maj. Thomas Howerton, about two o'clock on December 10 and destroyed the whole building, though the furniture on the first floor was saved and the flames were kept from the hotel kitchen and nearby buildings. The hotel belonged to Long, Webb & Co. and was insured for $4,000; the Howertons lost $1,450 to $1,600 and Mr. and Mrs. H. Norwood about $1,050. Hillsborough Recorder, December 16, 1857, p. 3

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