Ribbons of Color Along the Eno River
Contains first and second-hand stories telling the history of the Eno River Valley from the perspective of African Americans and people of color living along the Eno, from prehistory to modern day.
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The original county cut down in turn to help make Guilford, Wake, Chatham, and Caswell, then Alamance in 1849 and Durham in 1881: why an “Orange County” record may belong to a place now in another county.
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Contains first and second-hand stories telling the history of the Eno River Valley from the perspective of African Americans and people of color living along the Eno, from prehistory to modern day.
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Held in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection. Selected because their titles or catalog subjects provide wider historical context for this event; they may not discuss the Orange County event directly.
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