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Eno & Environment

The river and the land around it, from mill sites to state parks.

In briefThe Eno powered local mills and later became a focus of conservation efforts: the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley formed in 1966, the state park followed in 1973, and the fights over University Lake, Cane Creek, the Rogers Road landfill and the 1976 drought shaped how the county uses land and water. Hurricane Fran in 1996 belongs here too.

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The Eno River from Occoneechee Mountain, by DiscoA340.

Events and storylines

Named events and storylines the index follows in detail. Each has its own page.

Saving the EnoThe 1966 association that stopped the reservoir plans and won the state park Cane Creek Reservoir and Bingham TownshipOWASA’s reservoir, the watershed land purchases and the farm families displaced Rogers Road environmental justiceA historic Black community, the county landfill beside it, and the long campaign for sewer service and the Greene Tract Water for the towns: University Lake, the 1976–77 drought, and OWASAChapel Hill’s reservoir of 1932, the water crisis of 1976–77, the creation of the Orange Water and Sewer Authority in 1977, and the reservoir fight that followed at Cane Creek Hurricane Fran, September 1996The storm that came through the county overnight on 5–6 September 1996, felling trees by the thousand and cutting power for days Hillsborough’s water and the new Eno dam, 1949–1956Hillsborough’s water plant and rates after the war, the 1954 drought that left the town days from empty, and the bonds and new Eno River dam that followed
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Bridging the Eno, 1787–1816The county court’s bridges over the Eno River: at the Town Ford by Hillsborough from 1787, the bridge opposite the town rebuilt and repaired through 1814, and the bridge at Bennehan’s and Cameron’s mills finished in 1816 Hillsboro’s sewage treatment plant, 1958–1964How Hillsborough came to treat its sewage instead of emptying it raw into the Eno River: the 1958 engineer’s study that found mill dye wastes in the river, the state’s order, the 1962 bond vote and federal grant, and the plant that opened in 1964 Chapel Hill’s sewers and the Bolin Creek plant, 1923–1944How Chapel Hill extended its sewers in the 1920s: the small bond issues, engineer W. C. Olsen’s plan for a Bolin Creek interceptor and disposal plant, the plant site, a downstream owner’s suit, the Church Street lines, and the 1926 contest with Carrboro for ditch diggers Building University Lake, 1930–1932How the University dammed Morgan Creek to make University Lake: the earlier water line, the 1930 drought, the start of work in 1931, the end of Matthew McCauley’s old mill dam, the rising water and fish stocking of 1932, and the lake’s first filling The hard winter of 1935–1936Chapel Hill’s winter of 1935-36, the coldest since 1899 by the town’s weather records: the snow and ice from before Christmas, the 6-degree morning in January, the foot of snow in February, and the colds and influenza that closed the school The drought and forest fires of fall 1941The dry fall of 1941 in and around Chapel Hill: the drought and October heat that pushed the pipeline from University Lake to its limit, the University power plant cut loose from Duke Power to escape the power curtailment, and the forest fires fought by the Black CCC crews The summer floods of 1924The rains and floods of the summer of 1924 around Chapel Hill: the wet weeks that ruined crops, the June downpours that took the Morgan Creek bridges, the August 3 cloudburst that carried off Purefoy’s and King’s mills, and the bridges the county rebuilt Droughts, the Durham lines and Hillsborough water, 1968–1990How Chapel Hill, Carrboro and the University got through the drought of 1968: University Lake’s fall to its lowest level, the emergency pipeline from Durham, the ban on lawn watering and car washing, Carrboro’s protest of a higher water rate and the rains that refilled the lake Selling the University’s utilities, 1970–1977How the University came to sell the water, electric, telephone and sewer systems it ran for Chapel Hill and Carrboro: the 1970 rate fights and Carrboro’s water suit, the state study commission, the bids of 1974 and the choice of Southern Bell and Duke Power, and the water and sewer systems’ passing to OWASA UNC’s Cameron Avenue power plant and its neighbors, 1986–1994How UNC’s new coal-fired power plant on Cameron Avenue, approved by the Chapel Hill Town Council in 1986 to replace the 1940 plant, drew complaints from its neighbors over noise, dust and light and citations and fines from state regulators as it was tested in 1991 and 1992

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Other storylines that include this theme, in date order. Each has its own page.

StorylineEno Presbyterian Church moves to Cedar Grove, 1879–18991879–1899 · 6 events · After wind-driven woods fires burned Eno Presbyterian Church at its old site near the river in 1893, the congregation moved to Cedar Grove. Its frame church, built in 1878, had hosted Orange Presbytery in 1879, a meeting the Chapel Hill Ledger called the best attended since the war. In October 1893 the pastor, W. F. Wilhelm, died at Hillsborough after a long fever, and every business in town closed for his funeral. At Cedar Grove the congregation built its new church from 1897 to 1899, and the elder Robert W. Anderson became the first burial in its cemetery in 1898. H. S. Bradshaw was installed as pastor on the last day of 1899. StorylineBattle Park and the Battle Park Association, 1914–19331914–1933 · 6 events · Kemp Battle's paths through Battle Park were restored from 1931 by volunteers who were then put in charge of the land around University Lake as well. Students cleaned the park's trails during Community Service Week in 1914, and by 1917 an open-air theatre stood on a hillside there. In 1931 a meeting at Colonel Joseph Hyde Pratt's home launched the Battle Park Association, and citizens working without pay under Pratt cleared paths and built bridges, opening about three miles of trail that year. In 1933 the association was incorporated, and the University trustees put it in charge of both Battle Park and the land around the new University Lake, where it ran motorboat rides to pay for more improvements. StorylineStreet trees of Chapel Hill, 1927–19351927–1935 · 3 events · Chapel Hill's aldermen decided in 1927 that the business block would keep its trees, though some merchants wanted it bare. On November 7 they refused a petition from five property owners to remove the trees and, with W. C. Coker's advice, voted to keep the existing ones, replace those already cut and plant new ones in the new sidewalk. At a crowded hearing on November 14 Moody Durham spoke for the merchants, but the board reaffirmed the policy. In late 1935 crews set out 200 willow oaks along the village streets, in what the Weekly called the largest tree-planting in the town's history, with saplings from the University and labor from the WPA. StorylineBen Johnston's Hillsboro mayoralty and its end, 1955–19611955–1961 · 6 events · Ben G. Johnston, Hillsboro's mayor since 1933, saw the town's new Eno River dam named for him before voters turned him out in 1961. In 1955 he won a twelfth term, and in 1956 the town commissioners named the dam for the mayor who had pushed for a town water system and led the bond drive for it. He won a fourteenth term in 1959 over Fred S. Cates Jr., who had campaigned for a city manager form of government. In 1961 Fred T. Claytor, a commissioner, teacher and coach, defeated him 279 to 159. The new board raised the property tax rate from 75 cents to $1 per $100, and Claytor cited a General Fund under $1,000. StorylineThe North Carolina Botanical Garden's first decade, 1966–19761966–1976 · 6 events · The North Carolina Botanical Garden opened its Mason Farm grounds in 1966, the year its support foundation was formed under William Lanier Hunt. It added a lake in 1967 and Azalea Hill in 1970. When the University refused it more money in 1973, Chapel Hill voted it $6,000, and in 1976 the Totten Center, its first permanent building, opened. StorylineThe University’s landfills and hazardous waste, 1970–19821970–1982 · 5 events · The University ended the towns' free use of its landfill in 1972, leaving Chapel Hill without garbage pickup while a restraining order held up the Eubanks Road site. In 1980 radioactive waste from a UNC lab went out with the trash to the Eubanks Road landfill. In 1982 UNC planned a new hazardous waste building and registered its two old waste landfills under the Superfund law.
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StorylineChapel Hill and the New Hope dam (Jordan Lake), 1970–19831970–1983 · 11 events · As the New Hope Dam went up downstream in 1970, Chapel Hill's aldermen asked for a study of its environmental effects and of the water standards the town would have to meet. ECOS joined a suit against the Army Corps of Engineers in 1971, and after a 1972 public hearing that ran about 3 to 1 against the dam, the aldermen voted to join the suit. The town kept up the fight after the Corps moved to fill the lake in 1976 and appealed a 1977 ruling that let it go ahead, but in 1979 the aldermen dropped the suit. The Corps closed the dam gates in 1981, and in 1983 the Town Council asked the state to rate the lake for swimming rather than drinking water. StorylineRecycling in Orange County and at UNC, 1986–19941986–1994 · 34 events · Recycling at UNC began with a student pilot in 1986, and curbside pickup began in Chapel Hill and Carrboro in 1988. From 1989 UNC had a recycling office and the county program grew to apartments, drop-off sites, plastics and magazines, though mixed-paper collections stopped twice for lack of a market. The program and UNC's office both won state awards, and Chapel Hill tried weekly pickup from roll-out carts. In 1993 curbside pickup added cans and plastic jugs and UNC began paying departments to buy recycled paper, and by 1994 the county took cardboard at every drop-off site, though a glutted market stopped unmixed paper at University Mall.

Indexed works

Works about Eno & Environment from library and archive catalogs. The most widely held appear first; novels are not shown here. Follow a link to find a copy or view the material.

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Material

Periodicals 83Maps 73Histories 65Photographs & portraits 55Directories 16other types 89

Period

Colonial era (to 1775) 217th century 218th century 9Revolution (1775–1783) 319th century 22Civil War (1861–1865) 420th century 43World War II era 3

Place

North Carolina (statewide) 349Orange County 347Chapel Hill 214Eno River 99Durham County (neighboring) 70City of Durham (neighboring) 61

Widely held

Chapel Hill and Elisha Mitchell the Botanist

McVaugh, Rogers; McVaugh, Michael R.; Ayers, Mary · 1996

Elisha Mitchell, the University of North Carolina professor for whom Mount Mitchell is named, as botanist and as observer of early Chapel Hill, in a study by Rogers McVaugh, Michael R. McVaugh and Mary Ayers. It covers Mitchell's botanical knowledge, the plants of Chapel Hill and the town's historical geography. Published by the Botanical Garden Foundation in Chapel Hill in 1996, 122 pages with illustrations and maps.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Botany.

✓ Held at OCPL · NC 580.92 MCV NC Cardinal UNC Duke NC State Durham Davidson CH Historical Society Library of Congress

Carrboro, N.C

Brown, Claudia Roberts · 1983

Architectural and historical inventory of Carrboro by Claudia Roberts Brown, published in 1983 by the Carrboro Appearance Commission and the town. The 48-page survey, with illustrations and maps, documents the town's historic buildings and their conservation.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Architecture -- Conservation and restoration.

✓ Held at OCPL · NC 720.975 BRO NC Cardinal UNC Duke NC State Durham Chapel Hill PL CH Historical Society

Ribbons of Color Along the Eno River

2021

Collected first-hand and second-hand stories from the Eno River valley as told from the standpoint of African Americans and Native people who have lived along the river in Orange and Durham counties, from prehistory to the present day. Issued by the Eno River Association in Durham as volume 10, number 2 of the Eno Journal, 2021, 106 pages with illustrations.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Eno River (N.C.).

✓ Held at OCPL · NC 975.656 RIBBONS NC Cardinal UNC Duke Durham Chapel Hill PL CH Historical Society

Rogers Road

Pearce, Emily Eidenier · 2009

Emily Eidenier Pearce's history of Rogers Road, the historically African American neighborhood on the edge of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, and of what happened to it after Orange County opened its landfill next door in 1972. Drawing on interviews with residents, the book records the neighborhood's origins, family life, churches and customs, and then the environmental and social burdens of decades beside the landfill. Privately issued in 2009, 298 pages with illustrations, maps and portraits.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Sanitary landfills -- Environmental aspects.

✓ Held at OCPL · 975.656 EID NC Cardinal UNC Durham Chapel Hill PL CH Historical Society

Dark Tales of the Eno River

Cook, David · 2025 · The History Press

David Cook collects the grim side of the Eno River's past in Orange and Durham counties: ghost stories, crimes, train wrecks and accidents, including the hanging of rebels near the river in 1771, a sawmill accident said to have started a run of hauntings, and a dance one Valentine's Day that ended badly. Published by The History Press in 2025, 141 pages with illustrations.

Included because: Catalog heading in the OCPL record: Ghosts -- Eno River (N.C.).

✓ Held at OCPL · 133.109 COOK NC Cardinal UNC NC State Durham

Johnston and Robson Mill History, New Hope Creek (Orange Co., N.C.)

Dunaway, Stewart E. · 2010

Stewart E. Dunaway's history of the two mills George Johnston built on New Hope Creek in Orange County, the first in 1793 and the second in 1820, the earlier of which he sold to the Englishman William Robson. Self-published in 2010, 256 pages with illustrations, maps and facsimiles. Topics include gristmills in Orange County and the Blackwood, Johnston, Robinson and Robson families, so the volume serves both mill history and genealogy.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: New Hope Creek (Orange County-Chatham County, N.C.) -- History.

✓ Held at OCPL · NC 664.72 DUNAWAY UNC Duke Durham NC Cardinal
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An Historical Address Delivered in Saint Matthew's Church, Hillsboro, N.C., on Sunday, August 24, 1924

Cheshire, Joseph Blount · 1925

Address by Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire at St. Matthew's Church in Hillsborough on 24 August 1924, marking the parish's hundredth anniversary. Printed in Durham in 1925 at the vestry's order, with a foreword by the rector. Cheshire discusses George Micklejohn, William Mercer Green and Moses Ashley Curtis.

Included because: The record names this subject alongside a heading for the county or its towns.

UNC Duke Durham DPLA

History of Patterson Mill, New Hope Creek, Orange County, NC

Dunaway, Stewart E. · 2010

Stewart E. Dunaway's 2010 study of Patterson Mill, a gristmill site on New Hope Creek where Orange County meets Chatham County. The book pairs a short genealogy of the Patterson family with a close survey of what remains of the mill on land now inside Duke Forest, supported by maps, facsimile documents and illustrations across 176 pages. Self-published in a second issue dated October 10, 2010.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: New Hope Creek (N.C.) -- History.

✓ Held at OCPL · NC 664.72 DUNAWAY NC Cardinal UNC

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Start at OCPL

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

  • Foundational · NC 975.656 RIBBONS Ribbons of Color Along the Eno River: The History of African Americans and People of Color Living on the Eno 2021

    Collected first-hand and second-hand stories from the Eno River valley as told from the standpoint of African Americans and Native people who have lived along the river in Orange and Durham counties, from prehistory to the present day. Issued by the Eno River Association in Durham as volume 10, number 2 of the Eno Journal, 2021, 106 pages with illustrations.

  • Foundational · NC 289.6 ENG Early Quakers in the Eno River Valley: Ca. 1750-1847 Engstrom, Mary Claire · 1989

    Mary Claire Engstrom's history of the Quaker settlers of the Eno River valley from about 1750 to 1847, in the country that is now Orange and Durham counties. Published by the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley in Durham in 1989, 73 pages with illustrations, maps and portraits.

  • Foundational · NC 917.56 ENO Eno River State Park Master Plan 1979

    The North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation's master plan for Eno River State Park, dated June 1979, for the park that follows the river through Orange and Durham counties. Plans and maps, some in color, lay out the proposed development. Published by the Division in Raleigh, 64 pages in an oblong format.

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  • Start here · NC 975.656 BROWNING Valley Of The Eno : Some Of Its Lands - Some Of Its People - Some Of Its Mills Browning, Hugh Conway · 1973

    Hugh Conway Browning's 1973 history of the Eno River valley, subtitled some of its lands, some of its people, some of its mills, treating the tracts, families and water mills along the river in Orange and Durham counties. Among the people it covers is William Andrew Browning, 1835 to 1916.

  • Foundational · NC 289.6 HAINES Forged in the Spirit: Quaker Pioneers on the Eno Haines, Nancy Learned · 2026

    Nancy Learned Haines tells the story of the Quaker families who left Pennsylvania around 1750 for the Eno River valley near Hillsborough, where they farmed, traded and built a school, and asks how a community committed to peace fared through the unrest of the colonial years. Published by Pleasant Green Books in 2026, 122 pages with bibliography and index. Subjects include Quakers in North Carolina and the history of Hillsborough, Orange County and the Eno River valley.

  • Foundational · 975.656 TWENTY 27 Views of Hillsborough: A Southern Town in Prose & Poetry 2010

    Hillsborough seen by twenty-seven writers in essays, fiction and poems collected by Eno Publishers in 2010. Allan Gurganus writes on renovating old houses, David Payne and Beverly A. Scarlett on the Eno, Brooks Graebner on the courthouse and the churches, Nancy Goodwin keeps a gardener's journal, and Lee Smith offers scenes from 'On Agate Hill'; Randall Kenan, Michael Malone, Hal Crowther, Jill McCorkle, Craig Nova and Jaki Shelton Green also appear. 210 pages.

  • Foundational · NC 333.95 SAT Inventory of the Natural Areas and Wildlife Habitats for Orange County, North Carolina Sather, Dawson · 2004

    An inventory of the natural areas and wildlife habitats of Orange County, prepared by Dawson Sather for Triangle Land Conservancy in 2004. A reference for land planners and conservation groups identifying the county's significant tracts and habitats.

  • Wider context · NC 598.097 POTTER Birds of the Carolinas Potter, Eloise F. · 2006

    The guide to the birds of North and South Carolina by Eloise F. Potter, James F. Parnell and Robert P. Teulings, first published in 1980 and revised for this second edition of 2006 from the University of North Carolina Press. It has 399 pages with color illustrations, a map, a bibliography and an index.

  • Wider context · NC 598.297 TEKIELA Birds of the Carolinas: Field Guide Tekiela, Stan · 2001

    A pocket field guide by Stan Tekiela to the birds of North and South Carolina, 342 pages with color illustrations, a bibliography and an index. Published by Adventure Publications of Cambridge, Minnesota, in 2001; a second edition followed in 2004.

In the chronology

A selection of 12 events from the 574 chronology entries for this theme, including highlights and examples from different years. See all 574 dated events in the chronology →

  1. Indigenous communities occupy the Eno River Valley Excavations at the Hogue and Wall sites on the Eno near Hillsborough show farming communities growing corn, beans and squash, first in small scattered settlements (Haw River phase, about 1000–1400) and then in compact palisaded villages (Hillsboro phase, about 1400–1600). The Wall site village held perhaps 100 to 150 people in the mid-1400s. Place: Eno River valleySearch the index · UNC Research Laboratories of Archaeology, Ancient North Carolinians: Central Piedmont
  2. The Occaneechi settle on the Eno near Hillsborough After leaving the Roanoke River valley in 1676, the Occaneechi built a town on the Eno River near present-day Hillsborough and lived there from about 1680 to 1710. It was a small stockaded village of ten or twelve houses and probably fewer than 75 people, and it was the town John Lawson visited in 1701. Archaeologists dug the whole village between 1983 and 1986 at a place they named the Fredricks site, and they call this period of Occaneechi life on the Eno the Fredricks phase. People: John Lawson Place: Hillsborough · Also mentions: Eno RiverAncient North Carolinians — Historic period
  3. Occaneechi Town on the Eno is largely abandoned By 1713, when the Occaneechi signed a peace treaty with Virginia at Williamsburg, their town on the Eno near present-day Hillsborough was almost empty. They moved north to Fort Christanna in Virginia, and some Saponi families later resettled in North Carolina. Place: Hillsborough and the Eno RiverExcavating Occaneechi Town (UNC Press web edition): Pre-Revolutionary War
  4. The Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley forms Residents who had begun organizing in 1965 against plans to dam the Eno for a water-supply reservoir formed the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley on October 14, 1966. Led by Margaret and Holger Nygard, it began the campaign that preserved the river corridor in Durham and Orange counties. People: Margaret Nygard, Holger Nygard Place: Eno RiverEno River Association: ERA Through the Eras, Beginnings of the Eno River Association
  5. County commissioners refuse sewer money for a Whittaker Knitting Mills dyeing plant near Hillsborough At a special meeting the Orange County Board of Commissioners voted against putting up $67,000 for sewer lines to a planned $1.67 million Whittaker Knitting Mills dyeing and finishing plant near Hillsborough, which would have employed up to 100 workers. Chairman Harvey Bennett opposed any further 'wet industry' near Hillsborough, citing a state water-resources report that urged limits on the plant's discharge into the Eno; Hillsborough Mayor Fred Cates backed the plant, and the company said it was looking at other sites. People: Harvey Bennett Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Fred CatesSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 8, 1971, p. 1
  6. Eno River State Park is created After years of citizen opposition to damming the Eno for a reservoir, Governor James Holshouser accepted the first tracts for Eno River State Park in June 1973, including 90 acres donated by Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Bernheim. The first 1,000 acres opened to the public in 1975 along the river in Orange and Durham counties. People: Margaret Nygard Place: Eno River · Also named: James Holshouser · Also mentions: Orange and Durham countiesEno River Association: ERA Through the Eras, Creation of the Eno River State Park and West Point on the Eno City Park · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, November 6, 1973, p. 3
  7. OWASA votes 7 to 1 to accept the federal permit for the Cane Creek dam The OWASA board voted 7 to 1 to accept the Army Corps of Engineers permit for a dam on Cane Creek in Bingham Township, a reservoir yielding 10 million gallons a day that would flood 480 acres. Board member Eddie Mann, the county's appointee from the Cane Creek area, cast the lone no vote. Place: Orange Water and Sewer Authority, Chapel Hill · Also named: Eddie MannThe Daily Tar Heel, July 30, 1981, p. 2
  8. Orange County Rural Buffer is established Orange County adopted the Orange County-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan and map on August 19, 1986, designating a low-density Rural Buffer. The three governments signed the Joint Planning Agreement on November 2, 1987, and the county dates the buffer to 1988. Place: CarrboroSearch the index · Town of Chapel Hill: Joint Planning Agreement (Orange County, Chapel Hill, Carrboro), November 2, 1987, as amended · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, October 28, 1987, p. 3; The Daily Tar Heel, November 11, 1987, p. 3
  9. Hurricane Fran strikes Orange County Hurricane Fran came ashore on the night of September 5, 1996 and crossed to the Triangle overnight. In Chapel Hill winds topped 70 mph, falling trees caused about 29,000 power outages and UNC cancelled classes, and the Eno at Hillsborough hit a record flow. No one in Orange County was killed. Place: CountywideThe Daily Tar Heel: front page, September 9, 1996
  10. Occoneechee Mountain becomes a State Natural Area At the urging of the Eno River Association and The Nature Conservancy, the state began buying land on Occoneechee Mountain just south of Hillsborough, with the Conservancy purchasing 96 acres for the state. The 124-acre Occoneechee Mountain State Natural Area was dedicated on July 20, 1999, with a blessing from an Occaneechi tribal member. Place: Hillsborough · Also mentions: Occoneechee Mountain State Natural AreaSearch the index · Eno River Association: Occoneechee Mountain State Natural Area
  11. Tropical Storm Chantal floods Orange County Chantal dropped up to 10 inches of rain on Orange County on the night of July 6, 2025. Chapel Hill crews made more than 50 water rescues around Camelot Village and Eastgate Crossing, Carrboro's Weatherhill Pointe flooded, and the Eno at Hillsborough set a record crest on July 7. The county declared an emergency that day. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Orange County, NC Emergency Operations Center: Tropical Storm Chantal Executive Summary #8 (September 4, 2025)
  12. Randee Haven-O'Donnell announces she will not seek reelection to the Carrboro Town Council Ending twenty years on the town's governing board, Haven-O'Donnell said she was encouraging new voices and would turn to organizing and advocacy on reproductive rights, tenants' rights, stormwater, water quality and PFAS pollution. Chapelboro noted that during her service the council approved the South Green development, a community safety task force and greenway projects. People: Randee Haven-O'Donnell Place: CarrboroSearch the index · Chapelboro: Carrboro Town Councilor Randee Haven-O'Donnell Won't Seek Reelection

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Background reading at OCPL

Books from OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection that provide broader context. They may not discuss Eno & Environment directly.

  • Background reading · Rebecca Wall Collection Exploring North Carolina's Natural Areas: Parks, Nature Preserves, and Hiking Trails 2000

    Driving tours of the state's natural areas, 38 in all, written by naturalists from across the state and edited by Dirk Frankenberg, a marine sciences professor at UNC Chapel Hill. Grouped by the coast, the coastal plain, the Piedmont and the mountains, each tour follows a route of thirty to seventy miles linking parks, preserves, hiking and nature trails and scenic overlooks. UNC Press, 2000, 412 pages with 42 maps.

    Subjects in the Library of Congress catalog record: Natural areas -- North Carolina -- Guidebooks; Natural history -- North Carolina -- Guidebooks; Ecotourism -- North Carolina OCPL call number: 508.756 EXP
  • Background reading · Rebecca Wall Collection Down Along the Haw: The History of A North Carolina River Cassebaum, Anne Melyn · 2011

    Anne Melyn Cassebaum follows the Haw River from its seeps in Forsyth and Guilford counties past the cotton mills of Alamance and the whitewater and Jordan Lake of Chatham, then down the Cape Fear to the sea. Her history draws on interviews with mill owners and hands, archaeologists, farmers, environmentalists and water-treatment managers, and closes with a list of citizen groups working for the river. McFarland, 2011; 229 pages with maps and portraits.

    Subjects in the Library of Congress catalog record: Haw River Valley (N.C.) -- History; Human ecology -- North Carolina -- Haw River Valley; Stream ecology -- North Carolina -- Haw River (River) OCPL call number: NC 975.658 CASSEBAU

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