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Cedar Grove and rural northern Orange

The crossroads communities north of Hillsborough: Cedar Grove, Efland, Caldwell, their farms, stores, churches, and schools, and the families who held the land.

In briefThe crossroads communities north of Hillsborough grew around Eno Presbyterian, organized in 1755, the Hughes Academy of 1845, the Pope farm of the 1870s and Ellis Store of 1923, with nearly half the county’s Black-owned farms in Cedar Grove Township by 1940. The Schley Grange brought telephones in 1948, the schools were consolidated and desegregated in the 1960s, and the branch library came and went between 2004 and 2010.

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C. H. Pender’s grocery and the post office, Cedar Grove
C. H. Pender’s grocery and the post office, Cedar Grove

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19th century 6Civil War (1861–1865) 120th century 6World War II era 3

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Orange County 67Efland 47North Carolina (statewide) 42Chapel Hill 28Hillsborough 23Carrboro 20

Ridge Garden United Methodist charge cookbook

Clover Garden United Methodist Church & Chestnut Ridge United Methodist Church · 2025 · Clover Garden United Methodist Church

Community cookbook from the Ridge Garden charge, the pairing of Clover Garden United Methodist Church in Chapel Hill and Chestnut Ridge United Methodist Church in Efland, published by Clover Garden in 2025. Topics include both congregations' histories as well as cooking in Chapel Hill and Efland. Seven preliminary pages and 130 pages.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina -- Efland.

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Orange County local farms and food profile

2017

Two-page profile of farming and local food in Orange County from NC Cooperative Extension, 2017, drawing on the 2012 and 2017 USDA agricultural census figures. It came out of NC State Extension's Local Foods Program and FarmLink.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Agriculture -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- Pictorial works.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

Sowing seeds of reverence: new agricultural traditions in the North Carolina Piedmont

2017 · Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University

Photobook from a June 2017 workshop at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University in which thirteen participants, from teenagers to retirees, photographed farms in Orange and Alamance counties. Each farm gets a section by one or two of them: Braeburn Farm at Snow Camp, Cane Creek Farm at Saxapahaw, Dawnbreaker Farms at Hurdle Mills, Maple View Farm at Hillsborough, McAdams Farm and others, in color photographs and portraits of the farmers. Published in Durham in 2017, 89 unnumbered pages.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Farms -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- Pictorial works.

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Circle of blessings

2007 · Efland UMC

A community cookbook from Efland United Methodist Church in Efland, in western Orange County, published by the church in 2007, that also carries a history of the congregation alongside its recipes. 116 numbered pages with six unnumbered pages at either end, an illustration and a color portrait.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina -- Efland.

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Efland, Orange County : an action-oriented community diagnosis: findings and next steps of action

2003

A community diagnosis of Efland, the unincorporated community in western Orange County, prepared in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of North Carolina's School of Public Health and dated May 8, 2003. It reports findings on community health services, health status and socioeconomic factors and proposes next steps for action. One volume in various foliations with illustrations and maps.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Efland (N.C.).

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Efland Family History

Richardson, Linda Efland · 2001 · L.E. Richardson

Linda Efland Richardson's history of the Efland family, whose name the Orange County community of Efland carries. The lineage runs from Bernhard Iffelandt through the emigrant Johan Davitt Ifflandt and Peter Iffland, who took the Efland spelling, down to the twentieth century and Sim Efland (1913-2000). Published by the author in Kernersville in 2001, 84 pages with illustrations, portraits and facsimiles.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Efland family.

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Mount Adar Baptist Church, 1889-1989

1989 · The Church

The centennial history of Mount Adar Baptist Church at Cedar Grove in northern Orange County, marking 1889 to 1989 under the motto a century of remembrance, a future of vision. Prepared by a centennial committee co-chaired by Nancy Rogers and Jackie Oakley and published by the church in 1989, 36 unnumbered pages with illustrations. Topics include Baptists in North Carolina and church history for Cedar Grove.

Included because: Catalog heading in the OCPL record: Cedar Grove (N.C.) -- Church History.

✓ Held at OCPL · NC 286.06 MOU UNC

The Couch tract of the Durham division of the Duke Forest: a history of agricultural land-use patterns, 1750-1950

Frankel, Rachel · 1984 · Rachel Frankel (attributed)

Rachel Frankel's Duke University honors paper of 1984 on the Couch tract in the Durham Division of Duke Forest, a history of agricultural land use from 1750 to 1950. The Couch family, family farms and rural land use in Orange County are its subjects. A photocopied typescript, 97 leaves with maps and a bibliography.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Agriculture -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- History.

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The History of Chestnut Ridge United Methodist Church, 1832-1982

Compton, Stephen Charles · 1982

Stephen Charles Compton's 22-page history of Chestnut Ridge United Methodist Church at Efland, spanning the 150 years from 1832 to 1982. A short Methodist congregational history of the kind often printed for an anniversary. Published in 1982, 22 centimeters.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina -- Efland.

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To preserve our farms : final report of the Orange County Agricultural Task Force

1981 · Orange County Commissioners

Final report of the Orange County Agricultural Task Force, published by the county commissioners in Hillsborough in 1981. A planning document on farms and rural land use in Orange County, 102 pages with illustrations.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Farms -- North Carolina -- Orange County.

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1978 census of agriculture, preliminary report, Orange County, N.C

1980 · U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census

A four-page preliminary report from the Bureau of the Census giving county-level agricultural statistics for Orange County, North Carolina from the 1978 Census of Agriculture. Issued in Washington in August 1980 as report AC78-P-37-135, ahead of the final state volume. 28 cm.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC State record: Agriculture -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- Statistics.

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Chestnut Ridge United Methodist Church cemetery, Route 1, Efland, N.C

1980 · W.E. Blalock?

W. Ernest Blalock's listing of burials at Chestnut Ridge United Methodist Church cemetery on Route 1 near Efland, in western Orange County, dated March 1, 1980. Compiled in Greensboro, 29 leaves.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: North Carolina -- Efland.

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Books in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection whose titles, catalog subjects, or descriptions match this event. The Friends’ recommended starting points are labelled. Books marked Wider context cover the broader subject rather than this event itself.

  • Foundational · NC 285 ELL History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina Ellis, A. A. · 1980

    A 1980 edition, issued by the church, of A. A. Ellis's history of Eno Presbyterian Church at Cedar Grove, Orange County. Twenty unnumbered pages with illustrations and portraits. Ellis's original history of the congregation appeared in 1955.

  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 286.06 MOU Mount Adar Baptist Church, 1889-1989 1989

    The centennial history of Mount Adar Baptist Church at Cedar Grove in northern Orange County, marking 1889 to 1989 under the motto a century of remembrance, a future of vision. Prepared by a centennial committee co-chaired by Nancy Rogers and Jackie Oakley and published by the church in 1989, 36 unnumbered pages with illustrations. Topics include Baptists in North Carolina and church history for Cedar Grove.

  • Foundational · NC 633.71 YEA North Carolina Tobacco: A History Yeargin, Billy · 2008

    Billy Yeargin's history of tobacco in North Carolina: how the crop shaped farm communities and their customs, gave rise to manufacturing industries and left a lasting mark on the state's culture. The History Press of Charleston published it in 2008; 159 illustrated pages with source references.

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  • Wider context · NC 633.71 YEA Remembering North Carolina Tobacco Yeargin, Billy · 2008

    Billy Yeargin collects his own memories and those of others raised in North Carolina's tobacco culture, following the crop's year through laying by, cropping and curing, along with the nuisance of slugs and tar and the sight of a field in bloom. The History Press of Charleston published it in 2008; 128 illustrated pages.

  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 975.656 SICURO Schley, 1958: The Story of A Community and Its People Sicuro, Natale · 1958

    Natale Sicuro's account of Schley, a rural community in northern Orange County, written in 1958 as the story of the community and its people. A short typescript of 38 leaves with a map and a chart, produced in Chapel Hill.

  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 929.209 RIC Efland Family History Richardson, Linda Efland · 2001

    Linda Efland Richardson's history of the Efland family, whose name the Orange County community of Efland carries. The lineage runs from Bernhard Iffelandt through the emigrant Johan Davitt Ifflandt and Peter Iffland, who took the Efland spelling, down to the twentieth century and Sim Efland (1913-2000). Published by the author in Kernersville in 2001, 84 pages with illustrations, portraits and facsimiles.

  • Wider context · NC 770.92 WOOTEN Tobacco Barns, Eastern North Carolina Wooten, Hubert · 2023

    Hubert Wooten's color photographs of tobacco barns in eastern North Carolina, collected in a 243-page book that he published himself in 2023.

  • Wider context · NC 338.173 BAD Prosperity Road: The New Deal, Tobacco, and North Carolina Badger, Anthony J. · 1980

    Anthony J. Badger's study of the New Deal in North Carolina centered on tobacco, tracing how federal economic policy of the 1930s worked out in the state's tobacco economy. Badger, a British historian, later held the Paul Mellon chair of American history at Cambridge; this was his first book. University of North Carolina Press, 1980, in the Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies; 295 pages with a bibliography and an index.

  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 929.209 PET Know your Relatives: The Sharps, Gibbs, Graves, Efland, Albright, Loy, Miller, Snodderly, Tillman, and Other Related Families Peters, Genevieve Elizabeth (Cummings) · 1953

    Genevieve Elizabeth Cummings Peters compiled this 1953 family history around the Sharp family and related lines: Gibbs, Graves, Efland, Albright, Loy, Miller, Snoderly and Tillman. Efland is also the name of the Orange County community west of Hillsborough. 242 pages with illustrations, part of the library's Wall Local History Collection.

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  1. Hugh McAden preaches to the Eno Presbyterian settlers On August 10, 1755 the missionary Hugh McAden preached at Eno to a Presbyterian community already settled near the river, southeast of present Cedar Grove; the congregation counts its beginning from these years. The settlers asked Hanover Presbytery for supply preachers in 1756, and by church tradition the congregation was formally organized during the Synod mission of 1764. People: Hugh McAdenSearch the index · Documenting the American South: William Henry Foote, Sketches of North Carolina (1846), pp. 166, 225-226, quoting Hugh McAden's journal of 1755 · Also: Kaye Graybeal, Cedar Grove district National Register nomination, 1997
  2. Land later farmed by the Allison family near Caldwell is granted The tract under the Joseph Allison house near Caldwell comes from a 1759 land grant, one of the few colonial grants the survey tied to a surviving farm. People: Joseph AllisonSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 90
  3. Little River Presbyterian Church is organized Hugh McAden led the organization of Little River Presbyterian Church, with Henry Pattillo as its first pastor. People: Henry Pattillo, Hugh McAdenLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 295
  4. The Allison family settles at Cedar Grove The Allison family settles the Cedar Grove area in the late eighteenth century, and other families follow. Allisons still lived there when the survey was made.NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 122
  5. Joseph Dunn Hughes keeps a school in the Eno Church community Pender lists a school run by Joseph Dunn Hughes near Eno Presbyterian Church in 1785, the earliest of the Hughes family schools that later produced Cedar Grove Academy.DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 16
  6. The John Paisley Hughes House is built at Cedar Grove The oldest part of the John Paisley Hughes House at Cedar Grove dates to the early nineteenth century. It was enlarged around 1860 and again around 1880, and is on the Study List.NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 89
  7. Orange County counts twenty-one academies By 1832 Orange County had twenty-one academies, among them Hillsborough Academy, the Bingham school and Cedar Grove Academy, a pace of school founding somewhat ahead of the state as a whole.NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 21
  8. Cedar Grove Methodist Church is organized The Cedar Grove Methodist Episcopal Church was organized on July 23, 1832.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove Rural Crossroads Historic District, National Register nomination (OR1424), inventory no. 20 · Also: Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952
  9. Cedar Grove Methodist Episcopal Church builds its first church The congregation put up a small frame sanctuary facing east on what is now Efland-Cedar Grove Road, on land given by Joseph Allison and John Kelly. It was enlarged on the south side in 1876 and later torn down; its site lies just east of the 1939 stone church. People: Joseph AllisonNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove Rural Crossroads Historic District, National Register nomination (1998), pdf p. 22
  10. Fairfield Presbyterian Church is organized Fairfield Presbyterian Church was organized with Samuel Paisley as its first pastor.Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 295
  11. The two-story Wrenn log house is built near Cedar Grove A two-story log house now called the Rosie Wrenn House is built near Cedar Grove around 1840. A large frame addition went on the back around 1869; the house is on the Study List.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 89
  12. The Joseph Allison house is built near Caldwell A frame side-gable house is built in 1845 on the Joseph Allison place near Caldwell, on land that goes back to a 1759 grant. It had been remodeled by 1993. People: Joseph AllisonSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 90
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  1. Samuel Wellwood Hughes opens a classical school for boys near Cedar Grove Samuel Wellwood Hughes opened his own academy in northern Orange County in January 1845. First called Cedar Grove Academy and later Hughes' Academy, it offered classical and mathematical courses modeled on the Bingham School and ran until his death in 1884.Search the index · NCpedia: Hughes, Samuel Wellwood
  2. The two-story Pickett log house is built near Cedar Grove The Pickett House near Cedar Grove is a large log dwelling of two full stories, a size uncommon among the county's log houses. The survey could not settle whether it went up in 1846 or 1864.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 85
  3. Enslaved workers build the stone dam at Trimm's Mill near Cedar Grove Enslaved laborers build a large stone dam for Trimm's Mill near Cedar Grove in the 1850s. The dam is all that survived of the mill by 1993.NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 119
  4. The Lambert Hall House goes up near Caldwell A two-story frame hall-and-parlor house with a chimney at each end was built near Caldwell in the 1850s, its inside walls lined with wide plain boards. Local informants told the surveyors that dwellings for the people enslaved on the farm once stood in a cluster close to the house.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 55
  5. The Mary Hughes House is built at Cedar Grove About 1850 a center-hall cottage with Greek Revival touches, louvered shutters and sidelights at both front and back doors was built at Cedar Grove. When surveyed it was little altered outside but badly run down, and its mantels had been removed.NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 58
  6. Samuel Wellwood Hughes opens his own school near Cedar Grove After fourteen years as founder and principal of Cedar Grove Academy, Samuel Wellwood Hughes opened his own classical school five miles northwest of Hillsborough, its first session beginning on the second Monday of January 1859. He taught there until his death in 1884; the surviving schoolhouse, dated about 1862, was later moved to Hillsborough and restored.Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, January 5, 1859, p. 3 (Classical School advertisement dated December 10, 1858) · Also: Open Orange: Hughes Academy
  7. The Pitard Place is built near Cedar Grove A two-story frame house with a very low hip roof, widely spaced windows and a two-tier entry porch, the broadest local take on the Greek Revival.NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 31
  8. The Tally family I-house is built near Cedar Grove The main house at the Tally Homeplace near Cedar Grove, a two-story I-house, goes up around 1860 and is altered in the 1880s. The farm keeps tobacco barns, two tenant houses of about 1900 and an office, and is on the Study List.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 89
  9. Allison and Corbin run a plug tobacco factory at Cedar Grove By the late 1860s Cedar Grove had a plug tobacco factory run by Allison and Corbin that employed fourteen men, the largest workforce of any business in the area. Dr. John J. Allison, a large landowner, was also a partner in dry goods, hardware and grocery stores, and William W. Allison kept a hotel.NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 29
  10. Freedpeople at Cedar Grove put up a school house and win Bureau rent for it Trustees led by Sam F. Martin wrote on July 4, 1868 that they were putting up an 18 by 20 foot school building at Cedar Grove and would open with 20 scholars, and asked the Bureau for $8 a month for a year. Lt. Thomas H. Hay, who had visited on July 2 and met the leading Black men of the district, recommended it, and on July 28 the superintendent of education agreed to pay $8 a month rent, to go to John F. Masters.Freedmen's Bureau, North Carolina Field Offices, Hillsboro: Register of Letters Received, Vol. 129, July 1867–Dec. 1868, transcription p. 24
  11. Georgianna Rumbley opens the freedmen's school at Cedar Grove The Friends' Freedmen's Association of Philadelphia sent Rumbley to teach at Cedar Grove, where the freedpeople guaranteed her board, fuel and light. She went reluctantly after being told the place was dull, but by October 24 Lt. Thomas H. Hay reported the school open since the first week of October and better supplied with books and maps than any in the district except Hillsborough's.Freedmen's Bureau, North Carolina Field Offices, Hillsboro: Letters Sent, Vol. 130, July 1867–Dec. 1868, transcription p. 169
  12. A Cedar Grove meeting expels Samuel H. Martin from the freedmen's school committee At a meeting called by trustees Augustus Allison and Arthur Anderson, the people of Cedar Grove voted unanimously to expel Samuel H. Martin from the freedmen's school committee, elected John Clark in his place, and agreed that the teacher Georgiana Rumbley should receive the Bureau's rent check. The Bureau's superintendent of education had held back the school's $8 monthly rent in October after getting no reports from the school Martin had taught.Freedmen's Bureau, North Carolina Field Offices, Hillsboro: Letters Received, May 1866–Dec. 1868, Part 2, transcription p. 139
  13. Post office opens at Cedar Grove with John D. Corbin as postmaster A post office was established at Cedar Grove on mail route 6308 between Hillsborough and Milton, with John D. Corbin as postmaster.Hillsborough Recorder, July 28, 1869, p. 3
  14. John and Mary Jane Pope build their farm near Cedar Grove John S. Pope, a Confederate captain, and his wife Mary Jane McDade Pope built a two-story I-house on land she inherited from her father's estate in 1869; it was likely finished by 1874, when her brother's share brought the tract to about 73 acres. Tobacco was the farm's main cash crop, and its oldest surviving barn dates to about 1875.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Captain John S. Pope Farm, National Register nomination (OR1029)
  15. The Watson family builds an ornate I-house near Cedar Grove An ornate I-house is built on the Watson farm on NC 86 near Cedar Grove in the 1870s; the farm also keeps three log tobacco barns. It is on the Study List.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 97
  16. The Eno Grange is organized at Cedar Grove James Means of Concord organized the Eno Grange at Cedar Grove with thirty members and more applications, electing John K. Hughes master and Nathaniel L. Bain secretary, after a Hillsborough meeting drew too few farmers and a Durham meeting formed only a small club. People: John Knox HughesHillsborough Recorder, December 17, 1873, p. 3
  17. A new academy building is finished at Caldwell A new academy at Caldwell, in Little River Township, was completed under the direction of Dr. J. L. Brower, its principal, and got its last coat of paint on Saturday, July 24. A correspondent described it as fitted for a high school and able to hold one hundred pupils, and by early August L. W. Hall was preparing to enlarge his house to board its students.Hillsborough Recorder, July 28, 1875, p. 3
  18. The Cedar Grove Methodist Church holds its centennial celebration The Cedar Grove Methodist Church kept its centennial with three days of services led by the presiding elder of the district, assisted by visiting clergy, and drew large crowds from four counties.Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, August 2, 1876, p. 3
  19. A post office opens at Caldwell Institute in northern Orange A post office was established at Caldwell Institute on April 1, 1877, giving the neighborhood mail service. A later issue said the office was officially named Caldwell Institute and revived one that had existed there many years before the war.Hillsborough Recorder, April 4, 1877, p. 3
  20. Mount Zion AME Church is organized at Martinsville Lefler and Wager say five Black men, Jack Horner, Bedford Corbett, Richard Jordan, Sam McBroom and Richard Thompson, organized the church about 1878 at Martinsville, probably the Martin farm near Cedar Grove. The congregation's own history dates its first gatherings to about 1869 and says it was known as Poplar Springs, with a pastor by 1878, until it took the Mount Zion AME name about 1880. It bought an acre from S. W. and Margaret J. Hughes in 1882 and moved to its present site about 1927.Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 304 · Also: Mt. Zion AME Church, Our History
  21. Five custom grist mills work the creeks of Cedar Grove Township The 1880 manufacturing census found five flour and grist mills in Cedar Grove Township on Back, Eno and Lynch creeks and the South Little River, grinding local farmers' grain about six months a year. James Allen, who owned the township's largest farm, ran one of the smaller mills on Lynch Creek; two sawmills on the Little River ran five months a year.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 34
  22. Henry Cole runs a general store near Caldwell Henry Cole keeps a country general store near Caldwell in the late nineteenth century; the building still stood in 1993.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 117
  23. Pender Store is built at Cedar Grove The two-story weatherboarded Pender Store, with a classical gable front and a hip-roofed porch, was built at Cedar Grove in the 1880s. Its shelves and display cases were still in place in 1996.NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 62
  24. The first McDade Store goes up at McDade crossroads The first McDade Store, a two-story frame building, was put up in the 1880s at the McDade crossroads just north of Cedar Grove, where it would have stood over the small community. A second McDade store with a canopy for motorists buying gas was built across the road in the early 1920s.NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 81
  25. W. R. Hughes makes bricks at Cedar Grove The only brickyard in Cedar Grove Township in 1880 belonged to W. R. Hughes. It worked two months of the year and turned out about 100,000 common bricks.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 35
  26. Samuel W. Hughes's school at Cedar Grove closes for his illness The school Samuel W. Hughes had kept at Cedar Grove for more than forty years closed because of its principal's poor health. Hughes resigned as county superintendent of public instruction later that summer for the same reason. People: Samuel Wellwood HughesOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 15, 1882, p. 3
  27. The Methodist district conference meets at Cedar Grove, and Bishop Keener preaches in Orange The Hillsboro District Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, under presiding elder N. H. D. Wilson, met at Cedar Grove from June 28 and adjourned to meet next year at Chapel Hill. Bishop Keener, said to be the first Methodist bishop ever to preach in Orange County, preached at Cedar Grove and in the Hillsborough Methodist church, and more than 1,500 people gathered in the grove on Sunday, July 1.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 7, 1883, p. 2
  28. The Rev. A. Currie opens a school at Caldwell Institute with 21 pupils The Rev. A. Currie opened a school at Caldwell Institute, his post office address, beginning with 21 pupils.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 19, 1884, p. 3
  29. W. W. Allison, long a magistrate in Cedar Grove Township, dies W. W. Allison, 73, said to have been the first magistrate ever elected in his township and to have held the office for many years, died in Cedar Grove Township and was buried at Eno church.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 17, 1887, p. 3
  30. Three Farmers' Alliance chapters organize at Cedar Grove, Fairfield church and Ray's school house Three subordinate chapters of the Farmers' Alliance were organized in Orange County in a single week, at Cedar Grove, at Fairfield church and at Ray's school house in Cedar Grove Township, a month after state lecturer Col. G. B. Pickett had spoken at the court house.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 28, 1888, p. 3
  31. Breeze School is built near Caldwell A plain two-room frame schoolhouse with shuttered windows was probably built at Breeze, near Caldwell, in the 1890s. It is one of the few nineteenth-century schools left in the county.Search the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 60
  32. Caldwell Institute post office grows into a small trading place Around 1890 the Caldwell Institute post office, with about 119 people, had Jordan's and Terry's stores, Allison's carriage shop, a blacksmith, a doctor, Turner's Mill, the Caldwell Institute school and Little River Presbyterian Church.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 37
  33. Cedar Grove is the busiest post office community in its township In the early 1890s Cedar Grove, with about sixty-five people, had the most businesses in its township. It had Cedar Grove Academy, the Methodist church, a doctor named Terrell, a tanner, a carriage maker and a dry goods merchant, with Eno Presbyterian Church and Compton's and Warren's mills a short way off. The High Rock and Yanceyville roads joined and ran east-west through the village.NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 37
  34. Laws and Border post offices serve the far corners of Cedar Grove Township In 1890 Cedar Grove Township had post offices at Cedar Grove, Laws and Border. Border, in the far southwest of the township, counted about twenty people, and Laws, in the far northeast, about twenty-five.NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 36
  35. Cedar Grove residents vote to build a school building to be called Cedar Grove Academy A meeting of Cedar Grove citizens decided to put up a large school building named Cedar Grove Academy, elected a board of trustees with John McCracken as chairman, and named an executive committee to buy a lot and build; the lot was bought and work begun at once, with completion hoped for by early summer.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), March 29, 1890, p. 3
  36. Cedar Grove citizens put up a new academy building and plan a chapel in memory of Samuel W. Hughes Citizens of Cedar Grove were building a handsome academy near the site of Samuel Wellwood Hughes's old school, now under Rev. J. R. Game of South Carolina. The trustees proposed a chapel beside it named for Hughes and asked his former pupils for a dollar or more each toward it. People: Samuel Wellwood Hughes, John Knox HughesOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 12, 1890, p. 2
  37. B. C. Patton becomes postmaster at Cedar Grove B. C. Patton, who kept a high school and academy at Cedar Grove, was named postmaster there, apparently after the post fell vacant with the death of T. C. Ellis. People: Benjamin C. PattonOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 24, 1890, p. 3
  38. Cedar Grove Academy opens its fall term in a new schoolhouse Under Rev. J. B. Game the academy opened in a newly built, painted and plastered schoolhouse with 40 students, and more enrolled in its first week.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 6, 1890, p. 3
  39. B. C. Patton gives up his Cedar Grove high school to go into business Patton, whose 'High School and Academy' at Cedar Grove had been advertised for a fall term, decided not to teach the coming session and to open a store at Cedar Grove instead. People: Benjamin C. PattonOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 16, 1890, p. 3
  40. Cedar Grove Academy is incorporated Simeon J. Hall, Robert H. Hughes and Artemus A. Compton incorporated Cedar Grove Academy before the clerk of superior court to run a school for the youth of the area, for thirty years, with $2,500 in stock in $5 shares. People: Robert Hughes, Samuel Mallett GattisOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 13, 1890, p. 3
  41. Cedar Grove Academy closes its first fall term in the new building with 80 students Principal J. B. Game reported that the academy's fall term closed on December 19 with 80 enrolled and a student entertainment that Friday night. He expected 100 in the spring term, planned uniforms for the boys and was thinking of hiring another teacher.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 3, 1891, p. 3
  42. Caldwell Institute nearly finishes a new school building Principal J. H. McCracken reported that Caldwell Institute's new building, about 36 by 52 feet with a bay window, was almost done, and thanked the neighbors who had helped build it. The school planned public exercises for the night after Christmas. People: J. H. McCrackenOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), December 13, 1890, p. 3
  43. Five Forks rivals Cedar Grove as a crossroads settlement In 1891 the crossroads of Five Forks was probably as populous as Cedar Grove. Allen's flour and grist mill and Sharp's sawmill stood nearby, and a Dr. Murphy lived at the fork and likely kept a store. Riley School, Harmony Primitive Baptist Church and Mount Zion Church lay between Five Forks and Border.NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 36
  44. J. Laws keeps a country store at Laws post office In 1891 J. Laws ran a small country store at the Laws post office in northeastern Cedar Grove Township. Walnut Grove Methodist Church, Sartain School, G. W. Parker's sawmill and Hawkins's flour and grist mill stood nearby.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 36
  45. J. McAdams runs a mill and a country store near Border Around 1891 J. McAdams operated a mill and a small country store near the Border post office in southwestern Cedar Grove Township.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 36
  46. Caldwell Institute opens its spring session with 53 pupils The spring term at Caldwell Institute began with fifty-three pupils, which the trustees called the largest session the school had had. A growing music class led the school to add an assistant music teacher, and the young men formed a debating society named for Dr. Brower.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), February 14, 1891, p. 3
  47. Cedar Grove Academy holds its 1891 commencement Rev. L. L. Johnson was to preach the commencement sermon on Sunday, and Judge R. W. Winston and W. W. Kitchin gave addresses. Irene Hughes won the principal's gold medal and C. C. McDade the silver, and the fall term was set to open August 27. People: Robert W. Winston, William W. (William Walton) KitchinOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), June 27, 1891, p. 3
  48. Caldwell Institute opens its fall term with about sixty students Caldwell Institute opened under Principal J. H. McCracken and had about sixty students in its first weeks, with more still arriving. The paper called the school's prospects very bright. People: J. H. McCrackenSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 29, 1891, p. 3
  49. A new tobacco barn full of tobacco burns in Cedar Grove Township A new tobacco barn belonging to Col. W. G. Robson of Cedar Grove Township was destroyed by fire on Saturday morning, September 12. It was full of good tobacco.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 19, 1891, p. 3
  50. W. S. Snipes opens Cedar Grove Academy's spring term as its new principal Cedar Grove Academy opened its spring term on Monday under a new principal, W. S. Snipes, a University of North Carolina graduate. The school's notice said competent assistants would be employed.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 16, 1892, p. 3
  51. Forest fire destroys Eno Presbyterian Church Wind-driven woods fires on Saturday, April 1, 1893 burned the Eno Presbyterian church and its session house at the old site near the river. The loss preceded the congregation's move to Cedar Grove, where it built again in 1897 to 1899.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 8, 1893, p. 2 (A Fire Scourged Township, Cedar Grove letter of April 3) · Also: Kaye Graybeal, Cedar Grove district National Register nomination, 1997
  52. Walnut Grove Methodist Church dedicates its frame church The congregation began a frame church in 1891 on land given by Anthony W. Cole, replacing the log building it had used since the 1840s, and dedicated it on October 29, 1893. The frame church served until the stone church of 1937 to 1942.Walnut Grove United Methodist Church: A History of Walnut Grove United Methodist Church (church history, revised September 2020)
  53. Annie L. Hughes keeps Cedar Grove Academy Annie L. Hughes carried on a Cedar Grove Academy from 1894 until 1915, a decade after the death of Samuel W. Hughes ended his Hughes Academy. People: Samuel Wellwood HughesDigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 16
  54. Fire destroys Frank Smith's sawmill in Cedar Grove township Fire destroyed Frank Smith's steam sawmill in Cedar Grove township, and he lost a good deal of lumber and about ten thousand shingles.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 28, 1894, p. 3
  55. Fire breaks out in the Cedar Grove Academy building A defective flue set the third story of the Cedar Grove Academy building on fire and burned a hole about the size of a barrel in the ceiling before the pupils put it out and saved the building.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), February 29, 1896, p. 3
  56. T. M. Jordan & Co. moves its drugstore at Caldwell to a new stand Thomas M. Jordan and his brother Dr. Archibald C. Jordan ran a store and pharmacy at Caldwell. In 1896 the firm moved its stock of drugs from the old stand, and Jordan told customers he had moved the drugstore to West Caldwell.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), February 15, 1896, p. 3 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 2, 1896, p. 2
  57. Eno Presbyterian builds at Cedar Grove The replacement church was constructed over three years.Search the index · Kaye Graybeal, Cedar Grove district National Register nomination, 1997
  58. The late William H. Jordan's home place in Cedar Grove Township is advertised for auction Under a court decree, Jennie Jordan McDade, executrix of William H. Jordan, advertised his 260-acre home place for sale at the courthouse door in Hillsborough on July 19, 1897, to pay the estate's debts, subject to the life estate of his widow, Mary F. Jordan.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 15, 1897, p. 3 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 8, 1897, p. 3
  59. D. E. Forrest becomes postmaster at Cedar Grove D. E. Forrest was appointed postmaster at Cedar Grove in place of B. C. Patton. People: Benjamin C. PattonOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 21, 1897, p. 3
  60. Robert W. Anderson is the first person buried in Eno Church's new cemetery at Cedar Grove After the congregation moved to Cedar Grove, a new burying ground opened beside the church being built on the A. T. Finley lot. Robert W. Anderson, an elder, died suddenly at his Cedar Grove home early on Sunday, January 30, 1898, and was buried in the new Presbyterian cemetery the next evening, its first burial.Search the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 11 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), February 3, 1898, p. 3
  61. Blacksmith H. D. Brown becomes postmaster at Efland H. D. Brown, a blacksmith, was appointed postmaster at Efland, five miles west of Hillsborough, and was to move the office into a new store where patrons would call for their mail.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 13, 1898, p. 3
  62. Caldwell Institute trustees vote to build a new academy At the Caldwell Institute commencement the trustees met and voted to build a new academy building, in appreciation of principal Thomas T. Candler's work. Several trustees pledged a hundred dollars apiece and others gave building materials, with work to start in the summer or fall.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 26, 1898, p. 3
  63. The General Assembly incorporates the Caldwell Institute in Orange County Among the private schools chartered by the 1899 legislature was the Caldwell Institute at Caldwell. A bill to incorporate it had been introduced in 1891.DigitalNC: The News and Observer, March 11, 1899, p. 2 · Also: DigitalNC newspaper, February 22, 1891, p. 4
  64. H. S. Bradshaw is installed as pastor of Eno Presbyterian Church The Rev. H. S. Bradshaw was installed as pastor of Eno Presbyterian Church at Cedar Grove on Sunday, December 31. He was also pastor of the Presbyterian church at Hillsborough, where he kept regular appointments through the winter. People: H. S. BradshawSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 11, 1900, p. 3
  65. A log house near Caldwell is enlarged into the Annie Parrish House Around 1900 a one-room log house near Caldwell, built some fifty years earlier, was wrapped into a new story-and-a-half frame house with a center gable. The form uses the Annie Parrish House to show how early log houses survive inside later ones.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 50
  66. Pender Store is moved across the road at Cedar Grove In 1900 the Pender Store building was moved to the other side of the road, where it still stands.NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 62
  67. The Carr Store is built on NC 49 A store is built at Carr on NC 49 early in the twentieth century; it was later enlarged and altered. Carr Store Road takes its name from the crossroads.NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 117
  68. The Walter Hawkins farmstead with its tobacco barns takes shape near Caldwell The Walter Hawkins farm near Caldwell is laid out around 1900 and keeps several tobacco barns the survey singled out. It is on the Study List.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 96
  69. The William Woods McDade House is built in the Cedar Grove area Around 1900 a story-and-a-half house with a decorated center gable, a cutaway bay and a wraparound porch with turned posts was built near Cedar Grove. The county survey knows it as the William Woods McDade House, though William Woods McDade himself died in 1862; the 1993 survey form dates it about 1890.NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 50 · Also: Captain John S. Pope Farm National Register nomination
  70. Fairfield Presbyterian Church is remodeled with pointed Gothic windows The one-story frame church near Cedar Grove, built about 1834, kept its gable-front shape but got pointed-arch windows and doorway in a 1901 renovation.Search the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 33
  71. A post office called Mohan opens in Little River Township A new post office named Mohan was established in Little River Township, seven miles east of Hillsborough, with E. Marvin Lockhart as postmaster.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 4, 1901, p. 3
  72. Cedar Grove district finishes a new $279 schoolhouse with county help The board paid $150 from the general fund toward the new schoolhouse of Cedar Grove District No. 6, which cost $279.DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 54
  73. Caldwell Institute starts a school library Under Prof. Roberts, its head since August 1901, Caldwell Institute started a library with help from the school's society and well-wishers as the academy recovered from two unsettled years.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), February 27, 1902, p. 3
  74. Caldwell Institute gets a large new school district A committee from Caldwell Institute asked for one district made from parts of the Wilson, Little River and Poplar Grove districts. The board approved and had the boundary surveyed.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 54
  75. Caldwell asks for an election on a rural graded school The Caldwell community asked for a vote on establishing a rural graded school, and the board asked the county commissioners to call the election. People: Charles Edward MaddrySearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 54
  76. Caldwell school district votes a special tax for a rural graded school Voters in Caldwell District No. 5, Little River Township, approved a local tax for a rural graded school by 17 to 10, setting 30 cents on the $100 of property and 90 cents on each poll. People: James Yadkin JoynerSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 15, 1903, p. 3
  77. The county school board merges districts for new schoolhouses at Efland and near Ridge Meeting at Efland on September 18, 1903, the county board of education merged the Efland and Railroad districts and voted a two-room schoolhouse at Efland, merged the Occoneechee and Ridge districts with a schoolhouse to be built near M. C. Ray's, and obtained a loan from the State Board of Education to build both.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 1, 1903, p. 3
  78. B. C. Patton replaces Mrs. William Allison as Cedar Grove postmaster By October 22, 1903, B. C. Patton, a member of the county Republican executive committee, had been appointed postmaster at Cedar Grove in place of Mrs. William Allison, the former postmaster Delia Findley, who had lately married a Democrat. People: Benjamin C. PattonOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 22, 1903, p. 3
  79. Efland Baptist Church is organized Baptists at Efland organized a church in 1904. It had 55 members in 1953.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 302
  80. The Efland district finishes a new public school building The new public school building for the Efland district was completed. The Observer called it one of the best, if not the best, public school buildings in the county.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), December 1, 1904, p. 3
  81. Efland Methodist Church is organized Methodists at Efland organized a church and built it the same year. People: O. E. BivinsSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 298
  82. Gains Chapel AME Church is organized at Efland Robert Watson, Shurman Morrow and Brown Wright led the organization of Gains Chapel, an African Methodist Episcopal church at Efland, about 1906.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 304
  83. The Oliver family takes over the Cedar Grove crossroads store The Oliver family acquired the frame store the Allison family had built at the Cedar Grove crossroads in the 1880s. They kept it until C. H. Pender and his wife Irene Oliver took it over in the 1960s.National Register: Cedar Grove Rural Crossroads Historic District (1998)
  84. The county board builds the first room of Carr School for $300 Carr School in northwest Orange County, a gable-roofed weatherboarded schoolhouse, went up in 1908 with one room costing $300. The nomination names it among the few surviving frame schools the county built for Black children; it stands long vacant.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Ridge Road School, National Register nomination (OR1104), p. 21
  85. Efland Presbyterian Church is organized Presbyterians at Efland organized a church and built a 150-seat building in 1910. Lefler and Wager date the organization to November 1, 1908; a 1959 News of Orange account of the new church says it was organized on November 1, 1909 with 20 members.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 295 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 22, 1959, p. 1
  86. Efland Presbyterian Church completes its first building Two years after twenty charter members organized the church under M. C. Arrowood, the congregation finished its first church at Efland.Search the index · Women of the Church of Orange Presbytery, Celebrating Our History (1988), scan p. 24
  87. John Kenion's center-gable farmhouse is built north of Hillsborough The Kenion House, a two-story farmhouse with a shingled front gable, pointed window heads and a bracketed porch, was built in 1910 for John Kenion, a farmer and Hillsborough banker. It stands in the Cedar Grove area.NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 50
  88. The Laws Store is built at Laws Crossroads A small store is built at Laws Crossroads near Caldwell around 1910. By 1993 it was abandoned and was all that remained of the crossroads.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 118
  89. The county board builds a new school for white children at Efland The board sought a state loan of $750 for a new Efland building, chose a three-acre lot of Jordan land south of the railroad, and had the superintendent hire carpenters while patrons supplied the framing and free hauling from West Hillsboro depot. It paid Mary W. Jordan $246 for the land in 1911 and sold the old Efland schoolhouse to J. R. Riley for $50 in February 1912.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 60
  90. The county board buys 2.46 acres from Mary E. Jordan for an Efland school Early in Lockhart's term the board bought 2.46 acres at Efland from Mrs. Mary E. Jordan, paying $246, as the site for the Efland School. People: Samuel Paul LockhartSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 121
  91. Dr. C. M. Hughes builds a Colonial Revival house in Cedar Grove Dr. C. M. Hughes's large two-story frame house in Cedar Grove, with a high hip roof, a cutaway bay and a columned wraparound porch, was built in 1912.NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 52
  92. John L. Efland starts a hosiery mill at Efland Efland's first hosiery plant, opened by John L. Efland in 1912, first made half hose and later full-fashioned stockings. Relatives' later mills grew from it.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 278
  93. Carr Methodist Church is organized Carr Methodist Church was organized in 1913 and built a church in 1915.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 299
  94. The Cedar Grove pharmacy where Dr. C. M. Hughes practiced is moved beside his house The early 1900s pharmacy building at the Cedar Grove crossroads, where Dr. Claude M. Hughes kept his medical practice, was moved in 1913 to the lot east of his new house so a three-story flour mill could go up on its site. The mill burned about 1931.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove Rural Crossroads Historic District, National Register nomination (OR1424, 1998), p. 6
  95. The Efland Hosiery Mills is incorporated at Efland The Efland Hosiery Mills received a state certificate of incorporation with its principal office at Efland and an authorized capital of $50,000. By July the mill was reported nearly finished.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Mooresville Enterprise, May 22, 1913, p. 1 · Also: DigitalNC newspaper, May 23, 1913, p. 3; DigitalNC newspaper, July 10, 1913, p. 7
  96. The Cedar Grove firm of Hughes & Anderson is dissolved The partnership of Hughes & Anderson at Cedar Grove was dissolved by mutual agreement.Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 14, 1913, p. 5
  97. Carr Methodist Church builds its Gothic Revival frame church Two years after organizing, the Carr Methodist congregation builds a modest frame church with Gothic Revival touches on NC 49 at Carr.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 107
  98. The old Cedar Grove one-teacher schoolhouse is moved to serve Black children When Cedar Grove's white pupils moved to the new high school, the one-teacher schoolhouse was hauled to Baxter Thompson's land and used as a school for Black children.DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 121
  99. The county board buys the Annie Hughes Academy to house a Cedar Grove high school Answering a petition from Cedar Grove residents, the board offered on May 3, 1915 to buy the old Cedar Grove Academy from Annie Hughes and on May 15 paid her $1,500 for it, deeding her the lot of the one-teacher school it closed. The new Cedar Grove High School took grades one through eleven. People: Samuel Paul LockhartDigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 121
  100. Cedar Grove voters approve a special school tax district The board allowed Cedar Grove to call an election on a special school tax in July 1917, and the returns reported in September showed 34 votes for and 16 against. The board then set pay for each Cedar Grove high school teacher at $50 a month.DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 65
  101. The county board pays for a school for Black children at Jordan's Grove On July 9, 1917 the county board agreed to pay J. L. Wilson $119 to build a school for Black children "at Jordan's Grove and Grover," near Caldwell. The frame field school ran until 1951; the 1993 survey found it the only Black field school left in the county, badly deteriorated.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 115 · Also: Pender, A History of Orange County Schools
  102. Cedar Grove organizes a Red Cross branch By August 1, 1917, a Red Cross branch had been organized at Cedar Grove and was making surgical dressings. In the fall the county chapter thanked Cedar Grove for giving it the premiums from the community fair.Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 32
  103. The Orange County Red Cross grants a branch to Carr precinct At its August 12, 1918 meeting the chapter granted Carr precinct's petition to become a branch, its fourth after Cedar Grove, New Hope and Oaks. The same meeting heard headquarters' advice to stop giving comfort kits to men leaving for camp.Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 40
  104. Cedar Grove Township counts about 375 influenza cases and four deaths Cedar Grove Township had about 375 cases of Spanish influenza and only four deaths, and the epidemic there lasted until the second week of December 1918.Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 79
  105. A service station opens across from the store at Laws In the 1920s a service station went up across the road from the late nineteenth-century store at the Laws crossroads, as the automobile shifted crossroads trade from the country store to the gas pump.NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 44
  106. Log tobacco barns are built on the Tapp Farm in far northern Orange A group of stuccoed log tobacco barns, each 18 feet square, was probably built in the 1920s on the Tapp Farm at the county's northern edge.Search the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 57
  107. McDade Store No. 2 opens as a filling station at Cedar Grove McDade Store No. 2, a small frame store with a gable-front canopy over its gas pumps, was a typical 1920s country filling station at Cedar Grove.NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 63
  108. R. L. Snipes opens a general store and filling station near Cedar Grove A general store and gas station with a stepped front gable, the R. L. Snipes Store, is built on NC 86 near Cedar Grove around 1920.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 119
  109. The Five Forks meeting house north of Cedar Grove The 1993 county survey recorded a small front-gable frame building at Five Forks, north of Cedar Grove, as Five Forks Church and estimated it at about 1920. It was most likely the old pack barn owned by Mr. Laws where Five Forks Baptist Church began meeting in 1952 and was organized in 1953, until its new church was dedicated in 1967.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 108 · Also: Five Forks Baptist Church, Our History
  110. Eno Presbyterian adds to its Cedar Grove church and remodels it almost completely During C. D. Whiteley's pastorate, a time of growth for the congregation, an addition was built and the 1890s building was remodeled so thoroughly that the book likens it to a new church.Search the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 11
  111. The county board agrees to build a new school at Cedar Grove On August 11, 1922, under superintendent Claytor, the county board agreed to build a modern school at Cedar Grove once state building-fund money came. The building was accepted in January 1924 and named Aycock School. Carrboro's new school, planned under the same program, was already going up in 1921. People: R. H. ClaytorSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 125
  112. Ellis Store and post office opens Allen A. Ellis built a new crossroads store.Search the index · Kaye Graybeal, Cedar Grove district National Register nomination, 1997
  113. Aycock School is built at Cedar Grove The county board of education built a new school at Cedar Grove on land bought from Carl C. McDade, because state law barred board member Charles A. McDade from selling his own land to the county. Sam Johnson won the contract in August 1923 with a bid of $19,570. On January 7, 1924 the board voted to name the school Aycock instead of Cedar Grove, and on January 21 it inspected and accepted the building.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 70 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, March 6, 1924, p. 1; Open Orange: 6116 Efland Cedar Grove Rd. / Aycock High School; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 16, 1926, p. 1
  114. A new consolidated school for white children is built at Efland The board let the Efland contract to A. R. Davis for $21,388, with steam heat by Dermott of Durham, placed the school east of the highway and made the contractor replace inferior brick. The board inspected and accepted the building in March 1925, and John Efland paid $1,135 for the old white schoolhouse.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 71 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), June 5, 1924, p. 5; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 16, 1926, p. 1
  115. Harmony School patrons protest a merger with Aycock School A delegation from Harmony School went before the board to object to consolidating their school with the new Aycock School at Cedar Grove. The board told them no such step was planned, though Harmony was merged into Aycock six years later.DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 73
  116. Eno Church women organize a Woman's Auxiliary at the manse Pastor C. D. Whiteley presided at the meeting that formed the auxiliary, later renamed Women of the Church.Search the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 11
  117. The old Caldwell schoolhouse is sold as a new consolidated school is built When the county built a new consolidated Caldwell School in 1925, the board sold the old one-teacher schoolhouse and its site to R. E. Clements for $160 on May 4, 1925.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), pp. 74-75 · Also: NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form
  118. The county board merges Little River Township's schools into a new Caldwell School Little River patrons voted in March 1925 for a new school at Caldwell, the board let the building contract to B. F. Blanchard for $12,956.20, and C. S. Miller gave seven acres just beyond Caldwell for the site. In June the board consolidated every school in the township except Schley into Caldwell, which opened with 124 pupils.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 75 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, April 16, 1926, p. 1
  119. Black farmers Joe B. Brooks and John W. Jones organize Jones Grove Missionary Baptist Church African American farmers Joe Bethel Brooks and John William Jones founded the Jones Grove congregation north of Hillsboro. Its members were close to Lea's (now Lee's) Chapel Baptist Church at Cedar Grove, where the Brooks family lived. People: Joe Bethel BrooksSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Ridge Road School, National Register nomination (OR1104), p. 22
  120. J. Walter Mann, a son of Hawfields Church, is ordained and installed pastor of Eno Mann began preaching at Eno as stated supply in the spring of 1926 and was ordained and installed that October. Forty-eight members joined during his fifteen years, and his wife, Esther Covington Mann, led much of the women's work.Search the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 11
  121. Eno Church holds what it believes was Orange County's first daily vacation Bible school Eno held the school with Cedar Grove Methodist Church. Summer Bible school became a lasting part of the church's work and was later held at Camp New Hope.Search the index · A. A. Ellis, History of Eno Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove, North Carolina (1980), scan p. 12
  122. Joseph H. Jones deeds a quarter acre of his farm to the Jones Grove church trustees John Jones's father, Joseph H. Jones, gave a quarter-acre of his farm to the trustees of the new Jones Grove congregation: his son John, Joe Brooks and Joe's brother William Brooks. The deed also marks the line of the Ridge Road School lot to the south. People: Joe Bethel BrooksSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Ridge Road School, National Register nomination (OR1104), p. 22
  123. Dr. Claude M. Hughes, Cedar Grove physician, dies Dr. Claude M. Hughes died at his home in Cedar Grove on Thanksgiving Day after several months of ill health. He had studied medicine in Atlanta and practiced in the Cedar Grove neighborhood for many years, and the Weekly wrote that his loss was felt throughout the county.The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 9, 1927, p. 2
  124. Jones Grove Missionary Baptist Church dedicates its first sanctuary Members and neighbors built a front-gable weatherboarded church, finished early in 1928, with Buck Jacobs giving a large cash gift, William Brooks the sand and Aldolphus Hester the logs; John Jones hauled lumber in a white neighbor's truck. Rev. Joe B. Brooks led the dedication. People: Joe Bethel BrooksSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Ridge Road School, National Register nomination (OR1104), p. 22
  125. The county board merges Chestnut Ridge, Jordan's Grove, Smith Level and Grover into larger schools Over objections from families who wanted to keep neighborhood schools, the board sent the pupils of Chestnut Ridge to Gravelly Hill, those of Grover and Jordan's Grove to Aycock, and those of Smith Level to Carrboro. It then adopted a school budget of $180,849.25 for 1930-31.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 76
  126. Breeze School is merged into Aycock and later becomes a tobacco pack house On June 15, 1931 the county Board of Education merged Harmony and Breeze schools near Caldwell into Aycock School. By 1938 the Breeze building was being used to store tobacco.Search the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 61 · Also: Pender, A History of Orange County Schools
  127. Schley Grange No. 710 is chartered Thirty residents of the Schley farming community north of Hillsborough chartered Schley Grange No. 710, one of five Orange County Granges formed in the state Grange revival of 1929 to 1931. The county board had merged Schley School into the Hillsboro school that June, and on November 2 it sold the Schley School building for $122 to Charles Wilson, who bought it for the Grange.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Schley Grange Hall National Register nomination (OR3148) · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, December 25, 1931, p. 1
  128. Parents turn back a plan to merge the Aycock, Efland and Hillsboro schools A large crowd of parents appeared before the board to fight a plan that would have folded the Aycock, Efland and Hillsboro schools into one. The opposition was strong enough that the board dropped the plan, which returned in 1963 as Orange High School.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 79
  129. Black families from five northern Orange schools ask for a brick consolidated school Parents from five schools for Black children, Cedar Grove, Carr, Harmony, Sartins and White Oak, asked the board for a new brick building to replace them. The board promised to look into it; a site near Vincent's Store for a Cedar Grove school for Black children was bought in 1946.DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 79
  130. Walnut Grove Methodist Church replaces its wooden church with a stone one On May 4, 1937 the Walnut Grove congregation in northern Orange began building a rubble-stone Gothic Revival church, with buttresses and stained glass, from fieldstone that local farmers gathered, to replace its frame church of the early 1890s. The church was dedicated on April 14, 1942.Search the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 60 · Also: Walnut Grove United Methodist Church, A History of Walnut Grove United Methodist Church
  131. Cedar Grove Methodist Church's stone building goes up The stone church replaced earlier facilities serving the congregation. Masons laid its cornerstone in late November 1939 at the request of the pastor, S. F. Nicks.Search the index · Kaye Graybeal, Cedar Grove district National Register nomination, 1997
  132. The county board agrees to build an agriculture building at Aycock School Aycock principal Mrs. V. L. Warren and the school committee asked the board for a two-room brick building for agriculture classes, and the board agreed to provide it.DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 80
  133. The Burch family holds a reunion at the Cedar Grove Methodist church About 150 descendants of Coleman and Sallie Brown Burch, one of Orange County's oldest families, gathered at the Methodist church at Cedar Grove for dinner on the grounds and a reading of the family history from the Revolution on, including the branch that moved to Texas. They elected Charles Murphy of Leasburg president.The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 14, 1939, p. 5
  134. Census finds nearly half of Orange County's Black-owned farms in Cedar Grove Township The 1940 census counted 1,753 Black and 1,671 white residents in Cedar Grove Township, the county's only township with a near-even racial balance, and about three-fourths of the township lived on farms. Nearly half of Orange County's 503 Black-owned farms were in the township, which also had the county's highest share of Black tenant farmers.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove Rural Crossroads Historic District National Register nomination (OR1424)
  135. Crabtree Store No. 2 is built north of Cedar Grove A frame country store, Crabtree Store No. 2, is built north of Cedar Grove around 1940.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 117
  136. McDade and Laws stop functioning as crossroads communities In the 1940s the crossroads of McDade and Laws in northern Orange ceased to hold together as communities and their stores closed, while Cedar Grove, where the Pender Store stayed open, kept its identity.NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 45
  137. Little River Presbyterian Church is brick-veneered and enlarged Little River Presbyterian, organized in 1761, had nearly raised the money by September 1944 to add basements, central heat and Sunday School rooms and to brick-veneer the outside walls of its church; the county survey describes the result as a 1940s brick church. The large cemetery around it is one of the county's oldest.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 109 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 7, 1944, p. 3
  138. A hailstorm shreds crops on 50 to 75 farms in northern Orange County A sudden hailstorm on the afternoon of July 9 cut a path through the Carr community in northern Orange County and on into Mebane, badly damaging an estimated 50 to 75 farms. In the fields that took the brunt of the storm, standing tobacco and corn were shredded to the ground.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 12, 1945, p. 1
  139. Charles Crisp Oliver builds an auto and tractor repair shop at the Cedar Grove crossroads Oliver put up a one-story concrete block garage with a stepped parapet on the lot where his father, T. L. Oliver, had kept a blacksmith shop early in the century.National Register: Cedar Grove Rural Crossroads Historic District (1998)
  140. The county buys land from Mary Vincent for a Cedar Grove school for Black children In May 1945 board members Charlie Stanford and James Compton were asked to find a site near Vincent's Store crossroads for a Cedar Grove school for Black children. The board bought the land from Mary Vincent for $1,000 in 1946.DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 81
  141. The county board ends high school classes at Efland The board voted to discontinue Efland High School and send its students to Aycock and Hillsboro, leaving Efland an elementary school.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 81
  142. A hail storm wrecks crops across the Cedar Grove section A hail, wind and rain storm struck the Cedar Grove section between 3 and 4 p.m., cutting a path two to three miles wide and eight to ten miles long from Carr's store to the John Hawkins farm. Farm officials put the damage to standing tobacco, late corn, fruit trees and gardens at $75,000 to $100,000.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 29, 1946, p. 1
  143. Fire destroys the Fairfield community house The Fairfield community house in northern Orange County was destroyed by fire on a Sunday afternoon. The cause was not known.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 24, 1946, p. 5
  144. Allan A. Ellis, retired Cedar Grove postmaster and merchant, dies Allan A. Ellis, 73, retired postmaster and merchant of Cedar Grove and a lifelong leader in the community, died at his home after a stroke. He was buried at Eno Presbyterian Church.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 14, 1946, p. 1
  145. J. H. Liner starts a shuttle block mill at Cedar Grove J. H. Liner started a new industry in the Cedar Grove community, a mill making shuttle blocks, with three local men working for him.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 5, 1946, p. 4
  146. A community cannery is set up at Aycock School G. A. Munn and E. F. Cude told the board in July 1947 that the cannery at Aycock School had used $3,500 and needed $1,500 more to finish.DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 81
  147. Fire destroys Ed Walker's corn and feed mill near Cedar Grove Fire that started from the engine burned Ed Walker's corn and feed mill in the Cedar Grove community, and nothing in the mill was saved.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 13, 1947, p. 5
  148. Lattisville Grove Baptist Church builds a Gothic Revival frame church Lattisville Grove Baptist Church near Caldwell builds a frame church in the Gothic Revival manner in 1948, late for the style.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 109
  149. Schley Grange brings telephones to fifty-one families and wins a national community award For a National Grange and Sears-Roebuck Foundation contest, Schley Grange members cleared right-of-way, cut cedar poles and strung three miles of wire so the telephone company could give service to 51 families; they also held a soil conservation workshop with the extension service. Schley won the national prize in November 1948, and the new brick Grange hall it paid for was dedicated on December 6, 1949 before about five hundred people. People: W. Kerr Scott, Don S. MathesonSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Schley Grange Hall National Register nomination (OR3148)
  150. A Cedar Grove delegation asks the school board how to keep Aycock High School With the state education commission urging 300 pupils as the minimum for a senior high school, a Cedar Grove delegation asked the county Board of Education how to save the Aycock high school, which had 86 pupils and five teachers. The board, which reappointed Glenn T. Proffit superintendent for two years at the same meeting, advised enlarging the attendance area and building good will but took no action. People: Glenn T. ProffitThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 7, 1949, p. 1
  151. Governor Scott urges Orange farmers to back the school and courthouse bonds Speaking to about 300 farmers at an Orange County Farm Bureau membership rally at Aycock School, near his mother's birthplace, Governor W. Kerr Scott asked them to fight for the bond issues and for rural electricity, telephones, schools and roads. He also said the University's ownership of the Chapel Hill power and telephone systems was not wholesome and that it should sell them. People: W. Kerr ScottThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 17, 1949, p. 1
  152. Schley Grange dedicates the hall it won in a national contest On Tuesday, December 6, 1949, National Grange master Albert S. Goss gave the dedication address for the new $50,000 Schley Grange Hall, and E. J. Condon of the Sears-Roebuck Foundation spoke. The foundation built and furnished the hall after the Grange won the 1948 national community service contest. People: W. Kerr ScottSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 1, 1949, p. 1 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 25, 1948, p. 1; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 8, 1949, p. 1
  153. A packed hearing airs the fight over the Hillsboro and Aycock high school districts The county Board of Education heard both sides of its plan to move the Caldwell and Efland areas from the Hillsboro High School district to Aycock High at Cedar Grove. Opponents presented petitions with 2,032 signatures and another signed by the whole Hillsboro student body, Aycock's backers argued the rural school needed the territory to survive, and chairman Kemp Cate closed the meeting without a decision. People: Bonner D. Sawyer, Kemp S. Cate, Charles S. HubbardThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 9, 1950, p. 1
  154. The county school board keeps the Hillsboro and Aycock high school lines nearly unchanged After hearing committees from each district, the Board of Education voted 2 to 1 to follow a state committee's advice, adding only a small area north of Kennedy's on Highway 86 to the Aycock High School district, and rejected Zeb Burton's motion to send Efland and Caldwell freshmen to Aycock. Both the Hillsboro and Aycock groups appealed to the State Board of Education, which put off its decision in May. People: Bonner D. Sawyer, Charles W. Stanford, Kemp S. CateThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 20, 1950, p. 1
  155. The State Board of Education leaves the Hillsboro and Aycock school lines as they were Ruling on appeals from both sides, the State Board of Education decided at its June 1 meeting that pupils who had been attending Hillsboro High School would stay there and that Aycock High School would continue as it was. The county school board had first proposed enlarging the Aycock district to shore up its enrollment and then reversed itself, setting new lines that moved about six families.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 8, 1950, p. 1
  156. The county school board drops its bid to redraw the Aycock school lines After delegations from Efland, Caldwell and Hillsboro called its July 3 boundary resolution unworkable and unfair, the county Board of Education voted 2 to 1 on August 31 to rescind it and accept the State Board's June ruling, keeping all districts and bus routes as they had been. The State Board approved the rescission in September, and member Zeb C. Burton, who had led the fight to enlarge the Aycock district, said he would probably resign. People: Charles W. Stanford, Kemp S. CateThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 7, 1950, p. 1
  157. Jordan's Grove School for Black children closes as the Cedar Grove Negro School opens Jordan's Grove School for Black children closed in the fall of 1951, when it and six other small Black schools were combined in the new Cedar Grove Negro School, accepted by the county board that November. It is the only surviving rural field school building the 1993 survey could tie to African American pupils, abandoned in a farm field when recorded. A separate white Jordan's Grove school had merged into Aycock in 1930.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 79 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 8, 1951, p. 1
  158. Construction of Cedar Grove School begins Work on the new school for Black children on NC 86 north of Hillsborough started in January 1951. By early February a well had been drilled and the footings poured.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 19
  159. The board cuts the north wing and kitchen from the Cedar Grove School plans To lower costs, the county board struck the six-classroom north wing, the kitchen, floor tile, clocks, bells, sidewalks and other items from Davis's design. The gymnasium was to serve as a multipurpose room partitioned into four classrooms until money for more space could be found. People: Archie Royal DavisNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 19
  160. The Cedar Grove Ruritan Club receives its charter The newly organized Cedar Grove Ruritan Club held its charter night at Aycock School on June 19, 1951, when the Ruritan district governor installed its officers and received 42 members; Lefler and Wager's county history dates the club's forming to 1950. It helped landscape the new Aycock School and equip its gym, fielded a community baseball team and arranged group hospital insurance for members, and in 1952 it placed first among 22 rural groups in the community improvement contest.Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 262 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 5, 1951, p. 1
  161. John Thel Smith accepts the principalship of Aycock School Smith, who had taught at Four Oaks for five years, succeeded Robert W. Isley, who resigned at the end of the school year to retire but stayed in the Cedar Grove community, where Mrs. Isley went on teaching.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 29, 1952, p. 1
  162. Farmers Home Administration pushes livestock to raise tenant incomes near Cedar Grove The News of Orange County reported a Farmers Home Administration effort to raise tenant income by adding livestock to tobacco farming. Tenants on the Banks Wilson farm near Cedar Grove added hogs and other animals, and 42 county farm families had FHA operating loans.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 21, 1952, p. 1
  163. The county board votes to borrow for a six-classroom wing at Cedar Grove School On a motion by board member Kemp S. Cate, the board voted to borrow $30,000 from the state literary fund and add $25,000 from its capital budget to build the north classroom wing cut from the 1951 plans. The county commissioners approved the loan. People: Kemp S. CateNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 20
  164. Millard Lee Bess joins the Cedar Grove School staff The county board hired Millard Lee Bess, a Gaston County native, Winston-Salem State graduate and World War II veteran, for Cedar Grove School in September 1952.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 20
  165. The News of Orange prints the first picture of the Cedar Grove Negro School A front-page photograph presented the new school as a major piece of the county's three-year building program. The story listed seven classrooms, a library, an office, a heating plant, two toilets and a multipurpose room used from the start as four classrooms.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 20
  166. Hail damages tobacco and corn in northern and eastern Orange County A Saturday evening hailstorm damaged tobacco and corn in scattered parts of northern and eastern Orange County, with the worst harm in a small area of the Carr-Corbett community and more damage around Walnut Grove and St. Mary's.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 18, 1953, p. 1
  167. Five Forks Baptist Church is organized in a converted pack barn Prayer meetings begun in 1951 by Gattis Brown of Glen Hope Baptist Church in Burlington moved in 1952 to an old pack barn at the Five Forks crossroads, and the church was organized there on July 2, 1953 with 27 members. Brown was pastor until 1964.Five Forks Baptist Church: Our History (church website)
  168. The county school board signs a $55,000 contract for new classrooms at Cedar Grove Negro School The Board of Education signed a contract for a $55,000 classroom addition at the Cedar Grove Negro School, money the commissioners had set aside in the 1953-54 budget together with funds carried over from the year before. When school opened in September, six classrooms were being built there at a cost of about $60,000, the largest single school improvement of the summer.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 30, 1953, p. 1
  169. The name Cedar Grove Negro School gives way to Cedar Grove School The county board and local papers had called the school the Cedar Grove Negro School from the 1946 land purchase on. After 1954 they used Cedar Grove School or Cedar Grove Elementary School.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 15
  170. Cedar Grove School's six-classroom north wing is finished The north wing Archie Royal Davis had drawn in 1951, a $60,000 addition of six classrooms closely matching the original classroom wing, was accepted from the builder by the county board on January 4, 1954 and occupied that week, bringing the school to 14 classrooms and moving six classes out of the auditorium and halls. With the new rooms the multipurpose room became the gymnasium and auditorium. Davis and board members Harry Breeze and C. W. Stanford inspected the wing that January. People: Archie Royal Davis, Charles W. StanfordNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 20 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 7, 1954, p. 1
  171. The Cedar Grove community gets its first Boy Scout troop The first Boy Scout troop in the Cedar Grove community, sponsored by the Cedar Grove Ruritan Club with the Rev. Kay Misenheimer as scoutmaster, held its first meeting at Aycock School with 26 boys present and ten ready to register.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 12, 1955, p. 4
  172. The county school board lets $73,420 in contracts for a lunchroom and two classrooms at Aycock School Contracts for the lunchroom and classroom addition at Aycock School in Cedar Grove went to H. F. Mitchell of Burlington for the general work and to three Durham firms for plumbing, heating and wiring. Because the bids and fees ran $10,420 over the $63,000 in bond money, the board added that sum from capital outlay funds.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 27, 1956, p. 1
  173. The county board approves a cafeteria for Cedar Grove School After voting in September to study the need, the board approved a cafeteria for 150 pupils at Cedar Grove at no more than $40,000, while again putting off new classrooms. Archie Royal Davis's plans for it were approved and sent to the state in October 1957. People: Archie Royal DavisNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 21
  174. Cedar Grove Community Choir organizes Singers from the Cedar Grove community met at a dinner given by Mr. and Mrs. Allen Graham at the Albright homeplace and organized a community choir, electing Mrs. Jule Allen president and Mrs. Graham director, with the Rev. Clark Porter of Eno Presbyterian Church presiding. They planned Christmas concerts in several communities.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 26, 1957, p. 3
  175. A kitchen and cafeteria are added to Cedar Grove School A one-story brick kitchen and cafeteria, 78 by 49 feet, was finished behind the gymnasium late in 1958 to Archie Royal Davis's plans. One open dining room filled two-thirds of it, with the kitchen, dishwashing and storage along the north side. People: Archie Royal DavisNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 21
  176. Carr Store Road is paved through Cedar Grove Carr Store Road, the east-west road through the Cedar Grove crossroads, was paved in 1958, about a decade after the north-south Efland-Cedar Grove Road. Until then farmers in the area could find farm-to-market roads impassable for months of the year.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove Rural Crossroads Historic District National Register nomination (OR1424)
  177. Cedar Grove residents start a move to restore the old Eno church cemetery A group met at Cedar Grove Methodist Church to plan restoring the old Eno cemetery about two miles east of Cedar Grove, the first site of Eno Church, which the item says moved to Cedar Grove in 1893 after burning a third time. Prominent people and ancestors of most long-settled families of the area are buried there; a public meeting was set for the fourth Sunday in January.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 19, 1959, p. 11
  178. Two classrooms are added to the south wing of Cedar Grove School The two classrooms at the south end of the original wing, built to Archie Royal Davis's plans on bids taken in fall 1959, were finished by September 6, 1960, when the board inspected them with Davis and contractor Lindsay Fogelman. People: Archie Royal DavisNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 22
  179. The state accredits Cedar Grove School The State Department of Public Instruction added Cedar Grove Elementary, the Black school in the far north of the county with Harold Webb as principal, to its accredited list. Only Caldwell and Efland-Cheeks in the county system and Northside and Chapel Hill Junior High in the city system were still off the list.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 21, 1961, p. 6
  180. Harold Webb leaves Cedar Grove School for a state science post Harold H. Webb, principal of the Cedar Grove Elementary School for eight years and a science teacher at Central High School from 1948 to 1954, accepted the post of education supervisor for NDEA science with the State Department of Public Instruction, to begin July 1.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 26, 1962, p. 12
  181. Orange County Board of Education closes Caldwell School In spring 1961 the county board weighed its attorney's proposal to close White Cross and Caldwell schools. In March 1963, in the consolidation that came with the new Orange High School, it eliminated the Caldwell district and closed Caldwell School, a school for white pupils built in 1925; that May Caldwell pupils were moved into the Aycock district, and other parts of the old district joined Cameron Park. A sale of the building fell through in 1963 because the board could not give clear title, and it was not sold until the 1970s.The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 8, 1963, p. 2 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 1, 1961, p. 1; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 6, 1961, p. 6; February 4, 1963 resolution; Chapel Hill Weekly, November 6, 1963, p. 14; Open Orange: Caldwell School
  182. Teacher Hassie Vanhook Gattis retires after 34 years Hassie Vanhook Brooks Gattis retired in 1963 after 34 years of teaching Black children in northern Orange County, at the Sartin, Grover, Poplar Grove and Carr schools and, from about 1955, at Cedar Grove. The News of Orange County marked her retirement in June.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 19
  183. Aycock and Hillsborough High schools are consolidated into Orange High School On February 4, 1963 the county board of education resolved to consolidate the high schools at Hillsborough and Aycock into the new Orange High School. The News of Orange reported the board's vote on the consolidation, over the protests of Aycock and Caldwell parents, late on Tuesday, March 12, 1963. The new school north of Hillsboro opened to pupils on Monday, September 9, 1963, a week after the date first set, with Charles Yelverton as its first principal, and had 460 pupils that month. The new Orange Junior High School was housed in the old Hillsborough High School building, and Aycock continued as an elementary school.DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 85 · Also: Orange County Historical Museum: Integration in Orange County; NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination; Open Orange: 6116 Efland Cedar Grove Rd. / Aycock High School; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 14, 1963, p. 2; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 29, 1963, p. 8; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 12, 1963, p. 1; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 19, 1963, p. 1
  184. Fire destroys the home economics building at Aycock School The home economics building at Aycock School in Cedar Grove burned, with the loss put at $15,000 to $20,000 and fully insured through the state. The county board had approved the building in 1948.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 86
  185. Cedar Grove families answer the county's freedom-of-choice forms The county sent 401 school-choice forms to Cedar Grove School families at the end of the 1964-65 year. Fifty-two made no choice, three asked for all-white Aycock Elementary and four for Orange Junior High.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 23
  186. Three Cedar Grove families ask to move their children to the all-white Aycock School At the end of the 1964-65 school year, under its freedom of choice plan, the Orange County Board of Education sent school choice forms to the parents of every school-age child. Of the 401 forms sent to families at Cedar Grove School, the area's school for Black children, three asked for transfer to the all-white Aycock Elementary School and four to Orange Junior High School.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 23 · Also: DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983; Open Orange: 6116 Efland Cedar Grove Rd. / Aycock High School
  187. Hillsborough groups lead a tour of historic sites in northern Orange County The Historic Hillsborough Commission, the Hillsborough Historical Society, the Orange County Historical Museum and the Hillsborough Chamber of Commerce sponsored the tour, with help from Cedar Grove residents led by Mrs. Robert W. Isley. It followed a broad semicircle north of Hillsborough to old churches, chapels and cemeteries, Governor Thomas Burke's grave at Tyaquin, early houses including John Berry's country home Sunnyside and Maple Hill, the sites of early schools and old mills, among them the state's first paper mill of 1777, and several historical markers. At Cedar Grove the visitors heard about the community's recent restoration of its old burial ground.Internet Archive: "Historical News", North Carolina Historical Review 43 (1966), p. 111
  188. Cedar Grove's advisory council asks for a painted lunchroom and a paved playground Oscar Beasley and Arthur Wells of the Cedar Grove Advisory Council asked the board to paint the lunchroom, hang doors on the girls' restroom and give the school a hard-surfaced playground. The board granted part of the request. People: Arthur Wells, Oscar Carver BeasleyNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 23
  189. Five Forks Baptist Church dedicates its new block church Needing room for a cemetery, the congregation moved to land bought from Arthur Wright for $1 and began building in 1966 with 2,400 donated blocks, much of the work done by the pastor, Tommy Willis, and members. The church was dedicated on December 10, 1967.Five Forks Baptist Church: Our History (church website)
  190. Principal George Pierce and Arthur Wells ask for basketball goals and better lighting Cedar Grove principal George Pierce and advisory council chairman Arthur Wells asked the board for basketball goals, better lighting, doors for the boys' restrooms and supplies for the lunchroom. People: Arthur WellsNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 23
  191. Cedar Grove's advisory council petitions to keep the school open As the county prepared to integrate its schools, the Cedar Grove Advisory Council brought the board a petition asking that Cedar Grove School run fully through 1969-70 and that the integration plan be reconsidered. The council said the community did not intend to give up its school.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 23
  192. Cedar Grove School closes under the county's integration plan The county board announced in May 1969 that Cedar Grove School would not operate in 1969-70. The school closed at the end of the 1968-69 year despite the community's appeals, and its pupils moved to schools in Efland and Hillsborough.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 23
  193. The county school board sells the closed Caldwell School property After the school board asked its attorney in November 1971 to move toward a sale, it accepted $5,143.52 from the sale of the Caldwell School property. Pender later wrote that the building was demolished and the land went back to its owner.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 88
  194. The school board sells the empty Cedar Grove School to Orange County for ten dollars After the building had stood vacant for nearly a decade, the Orange County Board of Education conveyed the former school and its eight acres to the county for $10.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 23
  195. Caldwell and Cedar Grove volunteer fire departments are incorporated The Caldwell Volunteer Fire Department was incorporated on December 6, 1977 and the Cedar Grove Volunteer Fire Department a week later, on December 13, extending local fire protection across the northern townships.Search the index · Orange Rural Fire Department: History of the Fire Service in Hillsborough
  196. Efland-Cheeks pupils use the old Cedar Grove School while their school is enlarged Under county ownership the former Cedar Grove School served several purposes, among them holding Efland-Cheeks School students until an addition to their own building was finished in 1978.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 23
  197. Orange County gets a grant to build a park behind the old Cedar Grove School A $30,000 grant let the county develop recreation land behind the school, where it built a baseball field and a children's play area.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 23
  198. The state places rural Orange County houses, churches, schools and districts on the Study List On July 8, 1993, after the survey of the rural county, the National Register Advisory Committee placed 23 rural Orange County properties on the state Study List: eighteen farmhouses and log houses, the Carr Methodist and Harmony churches, White Cross School, and the Cedar Grove and Oaks Rural historic districts.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: National Register Advisory Committee agendas, minutes and approved lists, p. 556 · Also: NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form
  199. A hurricane destroys the old Thomas Cox Ellis wing of the Dr. C. M. Hughes House The mid-1800s frame house of Thomas Cox Ellis, kept as the kitchen ell when his son-in-law Dr. Claude M. Hughes built his larger house beside it in 1912, was destroyed by a hurricane in 1996.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove Rural Crossroads Historic District, National Register nomination (OR1424, 1998), Section 7 p. 12
  200. Orange County buys 39 acres to expand the park at Cedar Grove The county bought thirty-nine acres behind the old Cedar Grove School to enlarge its recreation park.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 23
  201. The Cedar Grove Rural Crossroads Historic District is listed in the National Register On April 23, 1998 the National Park Service listed the Cedar Grove Rural Crossroads Historic District in Cedar Grove in the National Register of Historic Places.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Listings in the National Register of Historic Places, Orange County · Also: NC State Historic Preservation Office: National Register file OR1424
  202. Dr. Arch Jordan House is listed in the National Register The National Park Service listed the Dr. Arch Jordan House at 7015 NC 57 in Caldwell in the National Register of Historic Places on August 6, 1998, for architecture and social history. The Italianate house, built between 1875 and 1885 and home to physician Arch Jordan until 1905, served as a manse for three churches from 1905 to 1929.Search the index · National Park Service NPGallery: Jordan, Dr. Arch, House (NRIS 98000995)
  203. The Old Tavern and White Oak Grove School join the Study List The National Register Advisory Committee placed the log Old Tavern at 419 Hillsborough Street, Chapel Hill, and the White Oak Grove School for Black children near Cedar Grove on North Carolina's Study List, its list of properties likely to qualify for the National Register.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: National Register Advisory Committee agendas, minutes and approved lists, p. 796
  204. The David Faucette House is listed in the National Register On November 22, 1999 the National Park Service listed the David Faucette House near Efland in the National Register of Historic Places.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Listings in the National Register of Historic Places, Orange County · Also: NC State Historic Preservation Office: David Faucette House, National Register nomination (OR1376)
  205. Cedar Grove Branch Library opens in northern Orange County Orange County opened the Cedar Grove Branch Library in two rooms of the Northern Human Services Center, a former school, to serve Cedar Grove and northern Orange. Budgets describe books, Spanish-language materials, children's and adult programs, computer classes and materials borrowed from other regional libraries.Orange County FY 2008-09 Annual Operating Budget, Library - Cedar Grove Library
  206. A state trust fund grant pays for a larger Cedar Grove Park Beginning in 2007, with a $500,000 grant from the North Carolina Parks and Recreation Trust Fund, the county greatly enlarged the park around the old school. It now has three ball fields, two basketball courts, a playground and parking.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 24
  207. Commissioners reject closing the Carrboro and Cedar Grove branch libraries Facing recession cuts while opening the new Hillsborough main library, the county manager proposed closing the Carrboro branch at McDougle School and the Cedar Grove branch and moving their staff to the new building. After opposition from Commissioner Mike Nelson, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen and residents, commissioners rejected the closures and used reserve funds to staff the new library in the budget adopted in June 2009. People: Mike Nelson, Mark Chilton, Lucinda MungerThe Carrboro Citizen, "Carrboro library cuts on the table" (May 14, 2009)
  208. Orange County closes the Cedar Grove Branch Library The county closed the Cedar Grove Branch Library, northern Orange County's only staffed library, effective August 1, 2010, citing 502 registered borrowers and a cost per patron far above other branches. Its materials and computers went to the main library and the Cybrary, and some Cedar Grove items were reused in 40 Literacy Bag outreach kits.Orange County FY 2010-11 Manager Recommended Budget, Library Services
  209. The Captain John S. Pope Farm joins the Study List The National Register Advisory Committee placed the Captain John S. Pope Farm near Cedar Grove on North Carolina's Study List, its list of properties likely to qualify for the National Register.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: National Register Advisory Committee agendas, minutes and approved lists, p. 1203
  210. John S. Pope Farm is listed in the National Register The Capt. John S. Pope Farm at 6909 Efland-Cedar Grove Road, near Cedar Grove, was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on April 23, 2013. The Pope family has farmed the tract, now in organic tobacco, since at least 1870, and its two-story I-house dates from about 1870 to 1874.Search the index · National Park Service: National Register of Historic Places 2013 Weekly Lists (actions 4/22/13 to 4/26/13, ref. 13000206)
  211. Cedar Grove Community Center opens with a self-service library station Orange County dedicated the renovated Cedar Grove Community Center, once home to the Cedar Grove Negro School, in June 2016, with a self-serve library station beside the building. The $180,000 kiosk offered automated borrowing in northern Orange County without a staffed branch; the county's FY 2021–22 budget ended support for it, citing poor performance and low patron use.Chapelboro: Orange County Celebrating Dedication Ceremony of Cedar Grove Community Center (June 17, 2016)
  212. Cedar Grove School is listed in the National Register On April 23, 2020 the National Park Service listed Cedar Grove School near Cedar Grove in the National Register of Historic Places.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Listings in the National Register of Historic Places, Orange County · Also: NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044)

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