The Botanical Garden Foundation was incorporated on January 25, 1966, with William Lanier Hunt, who became its first president, leading the effort. On Easter Sunday, April 10, 1966, the North Carolina Botanical Garden opened its 329 acres on the southeastern edge of Chapel Hill to the public with about a mile of pine-needle paths, under director C. Ritchie Bell of the Botany Department. An eight-acre lake was made in the tract by April 1967, and in 1970 Azalea Hill, designed by Hunt and sponsored by the Men's Garden Club of Chapel Hill, became the garden's first specific planting project. When the University turned down the garden's request for $56,000 in 1973 and it warned that it would have to close its trails, the divided Chapel Hill aldermen voted it $6,000 for one year, a compromise proposed by Mayor Howard Lee. The Totten Center, the garden's first permanent building, made possible by a bequest from Henry Roland and Adelaide Totten, opened in 1976.
Reading on the places and people in this storyline
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A conservation garden: the North Carolina Botanical Garden at 50 (1966-2016)
2019 · North Carolina Botanical Garden, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
A fiftieth anniversary history of the North Carolina Botanical Garden at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, covering 1966 to 2016 and published by the garden in 2019. The first volume treats the garden's conservation mission, its teaching and research, its opening to the community, its partnerships and its founders and supporters, followed by a reference timeline; biographical material on garden figures fills out the set. Two volumes in one, 384 pages with color maps.
The North Carolina Botanical Garden Visitor Education Center : capital campaign information
Jones-Roe, Charlotte A.; White, P. S.; North Carolina Botanical Garden · 2007 · North Carolina Botanical Garden, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Capital campaign material dated April 2007 for the Visitor Education Center at the North Carolina Botanical Garden, the university garden in Chapel Hill. Charlotte A. Jones-Roe and P. S. White are also credited, and the piece deals with sustainable buildings in Chapel Hill. A fundraising document, useful as evidence of how the building project was put to donors.
Checklist of the vascular plants of the Hunt Arboretum and Gray Bluff Garden : including tables on the taxonomic composition of the flora, largest plant families, summary of the flora, noteworthy plants, and plants occurring on adjacent lands
Larke, Julia O'Brian · 1991
Julia O'Brian Larke's 1991 checklist of the vascular plants growing in the Hunt Arboretum and Gray Bluff Garden at Chapel Hill, with tables on the taxonomic composition of the flora, the largest plant families, noteworthy plants and species found on adjacent land. A botanical inventory of two small preserves that is a baseline for later surveys of the same ground.
A communications assessment with recommendations for the North Carolina Botanical Garden
Pinner, Diantha J. · 1990
Diantha J. Pinner's 1990 assessment of communications at the North Carolina Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill, with recommendations, written as a case study in organizational communication that also takes in the garden's public relations. A bibliography runs from leaf 53 to leaf 65. The garden belongs to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Conservation project : the William Lanier Hunt Arboretum and Gray Bluff Garden
White, P. S. · 1991
Conservation assessment of the William Lanier Hunt Arboretum and Gray Bluff Garden prepared by P. S. White in January 1991, treating the two Chapel Hill sites as natural areas connected with the North Carolina Botanical Garden. It pairs with the plant checklist compiled for the same ground that year.
Recording with William Lanier Hunt, 1978 (Chapel Hill Historical Society cassette)
1978
William Lanier Hunt, recorded on cassette in 1978 for the Chapel Hill Historical Society. Part of the society's CHHS.012 Audiovisual Materials Collection.
William Lanier Hunt papers, 1880s-1996.
Hunt, William Lanier · 1884
Papers of the horticulturist William Lanier Hunt, dated from the 1880s to 1996, about 40,000 items in 130 linear feet, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5286. Topics include southern gardens and garden design, horticultural societies and teaching, the North Carolina Botanical Garden and its foundation, photographs of flowers, and the botanist William Chambers Coker at Chapel Hill.
Hunt, William Lanier (Chapel Hill Historical Society vertical file)
Promotional materials on William Lanier Hunt, the Chapel Hill horticulturist and garden writer. Undated folder from box 5 of the Individuals and Families series, CHHS.001 Vertical File Collection.
Wider background: Eno & Environment · the most widely held histories of the theme this storyline is filed under; they may not discuss it
Chapel Hill and Elisha Mitchell the Botanist
McVaugh, Rogers; McVaugh, Michael R.; Ayers, Mary · 1996
Elisha Mitchell, the University of North Carolina professor for whom Mount Mitchell is named, as botanist and as observer of early Chapel Hill, in a study by Rogers McVaugh, Michael R. McVaugh and Mary Ayers. It covers Mitchell's botanical knowledge, the plants of Chapel Hill and the town's historical geography. Published by the Botanical Garden Foundation in Chapel Hill in 1996, 122 pages with illustrations and maps.
Carrboro, N.C
Brown, Claudia Roberts · 1983
Architectural and historical inventory of Carrboro by Claudia Roberts Brown, published in 1983 by the Carrboro Appearance Commission and the town. The 48-page survey, with illustrations and maps, documents the town's historic buildings and their conservation.
Ribbons of Color Along the Eno River
2021
Collected first-hand and second-hand stories from the Eno River valley as told from the standpoint of African Americans and Native people who have lived along the river in Orange and Durham counties, from prehistory to the present day. Issued by the Eno River Association in Durham as volume 10, number 2 of the Eno Journal, 2021, 106 pages with illustrations.
Rogers Road
Pearce, Emily Eidenier · 2009
Emily Eidenier Pearce's history of Rogers Road, the historically African American neighborhood on the edge of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, and of what happened to it after Orange County opened its landfill next door in 1972. Drawing on interviews with residents, the book records the neighborhood's origins, family life, churches and customs, and then the environmental and social burdens of decades beside the landfill. Privately issued in 2009, 298 pages with illustrations, maps and portraits.
Dark Tales of the Eno River
Cook, David · 2025 · The History Press
David Cook collects the grim side of the Eno River's past in Orange and Durham counties: ghost stories, crimes, train wrecks and accidents, including the hanging of rebels near the river in 1771, a sawmill accident said to have started a run of hauntings, and a dance one Valentine's Day that ended badly. Published by The History Press in 2025, 141 pages with illustrations.
Johnston and Robson Mill History, New Hope Creek (Orange Co., N.C.)
Dunaway, Stewart E. · 2010
Stewart E. Dunaway's history of the two mills George Johnston built on New Hope Creek in Orange County, the first in 1793 and the second in 1820, the earlier of which he sold to the Englishman William Robson. Self-published in 2010, 256 pages with illustrations, maps and facsimiles. Topics include gristmills in Orange County and the Blackwood, Johnston, Robinson and Robson families, so the volume serves both mill history and genealogy.
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An Historical Address Delivered in Saint Matthew's Church, Hillsboro, N.C., on Sunday, August 24, 1924
Cheshire, Joseph Blount · 1925
Address by Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire at St. Matthew's Church in Hillsborough on 24 August 1924, marking the parish's hundredth anniversary. Printed in Durham in 1925 at the vestry's order, with a foreword by the rector. Cheshire discusses George Micklejohn, William Mercer Green and Moses Ashley Curtis.
History of Patterson Mill, New Hope Creek, Orange County, NC
Dunaway, Stewart E. · 2010
Stewart E. Dunaway's 2010 study of Patterson Mill, a gristmill site on New Hope Creek where Orange County meets Chatham County. The book pairs a short genealogy of the Patterson family with a close survey of what remains of the mill on land now inside Duke Forest, supported by maps, facsimile documents and illustrations across 176 pages. Self-published in a second issue dated October 10, 2010.
Obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill : the first half century
2000
Departmental history of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill covering its first fifty years, published by the department in 2000. The history covers medical schools, medical education and the teaching of obstetrics in North Carolina. First edition, xvii and 366 pages with illustrations and portraits.
A Generosity of Spirit: The Early History of the Research Triangle Park
Link, Albert N. · 1995 · Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina
Albert N. Link's early history of Research Triangle Park, published in 1995 by the Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina. Topics include research parks, research institutes and industrial research in the state, with the park's own history at the center. 149 pages with illustrations and maps.
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.
Early Quakers in the Eno River Valley
Engstrom, Mary Claire · 1989 · Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley
Mary Claire Engstrom's history of the Quaker settlers of the Eno River valley from about 1750 to 1847, in the country that is now Orange and Durham counties. Published by the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley in Durham in 1989, 73 pages with illustrations, maps and portraits.
