In the spring of 1942 neighborhood leaders asked Orange County farm families to pledge the sale price of a pig or an acre of crops toward war bonds and stamps. Rural families pledged $50,000 for the year, and 200 families signed up to raise a bond pig; in the June survey 58 percent of white families and 30 percent of Black families had bought or pledged. The Fourth War Loan opened on January 18, 1944 with a quota of $540,000, under county chairman J. Maryon Saunders of Chapel Hill. On February 7 the commissioners voted to invest $25,000 in war bonds, and by mid-February the county had subscribed $544,000, though sales of E bonds, the small savings bonds sold to individuals, lagged. Aycock School's sales paid for a trainer plane. In the Fifth War Loan that summer Orange bought $837,862 against a $634,000 quota, and by December 20 it had passed its overall Sixth War Loan quota. In April 1945 workers at the National Munitions Corporation plant in Carrboro bought $42,581.25 in bonds in six days. The Seventh War Loan opened on May 14 with a $574,000 quota and closed on July 7 at $1,308,000. In the Victory Loan, the last of the drives, Orange bought $788,000 against a $419,000 quota, and Saunders counted $6,120,000 in bonds bought in the seven drives he led.
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Contract documents for school construction and appurtenant work : Aycock School (white), Carrboro School (white), Chapel Hill school (Negro), Hillsboro School (Negro), Murphey School (white), Orange Grove School (white), St. Mary's School (white)
Atwood and Weeks, Inc., architects and engineers, H.D. Carter, associate · 1935 · Orange County Board of Education
Contract documents prepared in 1935 by the architects and engineers Atwood and Weeks, with H. D. Carter, for a Public Works Administration school-building program in Orange County, PWA project NC 1005, issued by the county Board of Education in Hillsboro. The title lists seven schools, five for white pupils, Aycock, Carrboro, Murphey, Orange Grove and St. Mary's, and two for Black pupils, at Chapel Hill and Hillsboro, in the period's own labels. 49 leaves plus 20 unnumbered.
Plumbing : contract documents for school construction and appurtenant work : Aycock School (white), Carrboro School (white), Chapel Hill school (Negro), Hillsboro School (Negro), Murphey School (white), Orange Grove School (white), St. Mary's School (white)
Atwood and Weeks, Inc., architects and engineers, H.D. Carter, associate · 1935 · Orange County Board of Education
Plumbing contract documents for a 1935 school construction program of the Orange County Board of Education, a Public Works Administration project numbered NC 1005, covering seven schools: Aycock, Carrboro, Murphey, Orange Grove and St. Mary's, designated for white pupils, and the Chapel Hill and Hillsboro schools, designated for Black pupils. Prepared by Atwood and Weeks, architects and engineers, with H. D. Carter, 39 leaves.
Class of 1944 Aycock High School
Aycock High School (Cedar Grove, N.C.) · 2002
Commemorative booklet on the Aycock High School Class of 1944 in Cedar Grove, put together in 2002 by Rachel Hawkins Cole so classmates could remember their school years. Part of the North Carolina Yearbooks collection.
Aycock High School Photograph Collection
Massengill, Stephen E. (Stephen Edwin), 1950- · 1940
Photographs of Aycock High School in Cedar Grove, about 1940 to 1941, showing the school building, teachers and students, probably the class of 1940 to 1941. Basketball is among the subjects, and people named include members of the McDade, Hughes and Warren families. Compiled by Stephen E. Massengill.
UNC alumni event
Morton, Hugh M. · 1970
Hugh Morton photograph, a 35 mm black-and-white negative, of Chancellor Ferebee Taylor in conversation with J. Maryon 'Spike' Saunders at a UNC alumni event sometime in the 1970s or 1980s.
Wider background: Wars & Military Service · the most widely held histories of the theme this storyline is filed under; they may not discuss it
Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary
Nash, Frank · 1953
Francis Nash's history of Hillsborough in colonial and Revolutionary times, first published in 1903 and reprinted in 1953 by Edwards & Broughton with an index and a sketch of the author. Topics include the Regulator Insurrection of 1766 to 1771, the Revolution and local genealogy.
The Cloudbuster Nine
Keene, Anne R. · 2018
Anne R. Keene's history of the Cloudbusters, the baseball team of the Navy Pre-Flight School at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill during the Second World War, on which Ted Williams played in 1943. The chapters move from a batboy's trunk of keepsakes through the pre-flight training program to the players' lives after the war, and Keene's own family is part of the story. Published by Sports Publishing in New York in 2018, 340 pages with sixteen pages of plates.
Some Neglected History of North Carolina: Being an Account of the Revolution of the Regulators
Fitch, William Edward · 1905 · Neale Pub. Co.
William Edward Fitch's account of the Regulator movement and the Battle of Alamance of 1771, which his subtitle calls the first battle of the American Revolution, published by Neale in 1905 in a second edition. Hillsborough, the Orange County seat, was the scene of the Regulators' 1770 courthouse riot and of the hangings that followed Alamance. 307 pages with nine leaves of plates, folding maps and a portrait.
Hearts Torn Asunder: Trauma in the Civil War's Final Campaign in North Carolina
Dollar, Ernest · 2022
Ernest Dollar examines the mental toll of the Civil War's last weeks in North Carolina on Confederate and Union soldiers and on civilians, using letters, diaries and later accounts. After chapters on each group, the narrative follows the days from April 10 to early May 1865 as Sherman's army moved through the central counties, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough among them; an epilogue considers how the trauma colored later memory of the conflict's end. Published 2022, 265 pages.
Reviewed in Civil War Book Review (2023).
Journey to New Hope
Murphy, Barbara A. · 2006
A congregational history of New Hope Presbyterian Church in Orange County, written by Barbara A. Murphy and published in 2006 by Chapel Hill Press. Chapters take up the five successive church buildings, the land itself, the ministers who served, the cemeteries, members who went to war, the church's organization, its music, gifts and memorials, and its outreach to the surrounding community. It also covers Presbyterian experience of the Civil War. 126 pages with illustrations and portraits.
The Forgotten First
Albright, Alex · 2013 · R.A. Fountain
Alex Albright's history of the B-1 band, the group of Black musicians drawn largely from students and graduates of North Carolina A&T who became the first Black sailors of the modern Navy to serve above the rank of messman, and the first of more than a hundred Black Navy bands in wartime. The band was posted to the Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill, the book's Orange County link. Published by R.A. Fountain in 2013, 194 pages with illustrations and portraits.
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Dispatches from William Tryon to the Earl of Hillsborough numbered 59-67, enclosing documents concerning the Regulators
2019 · Adam Matthew Digital
Numbered dispatches 59 through 67 from Governor William Tryon to the Earl of Hillsborough, with enclosures about the Regulators, whose protests broke into riot at Hillsborough in 1770. Reproduced by Adam Matthew Digital in 2019 from Colonial Office CO 5/302. The papers touch on the council and assembly, naval stores and trade, oaths, militia and provincial troops, judges, sheriffs and juries, voting, currency, Cherokee affairs, clergy, quitrents and land, and name officials such as Richard Caswell, Richard Henderson, Maurice Moore and Hugh Waddell.
Letters and dispatches from William Tryon to the Earl of Hillsborough, October 1768 - May 1769
2019 · Adam Matthew Digital
Governor William Tryon's correspondence with the Earl of Hillsborough for the months from October 1768 to May 1769, just after Tryon marched militia to Hillsborough to protect the court from the Regulators. Adam Matthew Digital reproduced the file, Colonial Office CO 5/301, in 2019. Topics include legislation, Anglican clergy, soldiers' wages, sheriffs, land and quitrents, trade and currency, taxes and education, the Catawba and the boundary line, roads, a murder case, punishment and prison, and people such as Richard Caswell, James Hasell and John Rutherford.
Letters from William Tryon to the Lords Commissioners, enclosing legislation and accounts of the ship 'Brigantine Fox'
2019 · Adam Matthew Digital
Letters from Governor William Tryon to the Lords Commissioners in London, with enclosed legislation and the accounts of the ship Brigantine Fox, reproduced by Adam Matthew Digital in 2019 from Colonial Office file CO 5/300. They show the range of a governor's business: council appointments, judges and courts, assembly acts, cotton manufacturing, poverty, naval stores, rice, tobacco and indigo, currency, the Tuscarora, education, marriage, debt and customs. Hillsborough is among the places named, and people include William Johnston, Richard Henderson, Cornelius Harnett and Samuel Strudwick.
The Battle at Lindley's Mill
Dunaway, Stewart E. · 2009
Stewart E. Dunaway's account of the Battle of Lindley's Mill, fought in September 1781 after the Loyalist David Fanning raided Hillsborough and carried off Governor Thomas Burke. Burke, Fanning and the Lindley family, whose mill gave the fight its name, are the people at its center, with the Revolutionary campaigns in North Carolina as the frame. Published in 2009.
Jesse Benton Letters (1780-1790)
Dunaway, Stewart E. · 2009 · lulu.com
Stewart E. Dunaway's transcription of letters exchanged between Jesse Benton and Thomas Hart from 1780 to 1790, concerning Hart's affairs at Hartford, his place at Hillsborough. The letters concern the economic and social conditions of Hillsborough in the eighteenth century and the Revolution in North Carolina. Self-published through lulu.com in 2009, 68 pages with illustrations and facsimiles, and part of the library's Wall Local History Collection.
Undaunted heart : the true story of a Southern belle & a Yankee general
Barile, Suzy · 2009
Suzy Barile's account of Eleanor Hope Swain, daughter of the University of North Carolina's president, and Smith D. Atkins, the Union general whose troops occupied Chapel Hill in April 1865; the two married later that year. Published by Eno in Hillsborough in 2009, 237 pages with illustrations and portraits.
