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Growth, Land & Planning

Growth, land, housing, and the changing county.

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Hillsborough, North Carolina History of Town Lots

Dunaway, Stewart E. · 2015 · [Stewart E. Dunaway]

Orange County N. C. Ejectments

2015 · [Stewart E. Dunaway; Lulu]

"Ejectment was a legal process disputing ownership (of the title) to a piece of land. This might answer questions over mysterious land situations (disappearing or title change). Some plats and drawings were included in …

Chapel Hill, N.C. History of Town Lots (1790-1930s)

Dunaway, Stewart E. · 2014 · [Stewart E. Dunaway]

Comprehensive transportation plan Orange County

prepared by Sarah Lee, EI, Project Engineer ; Scott Walston, PE, Triangle Planni · 2013 · [Transportation Planning Branch, N.C. Department of Transportation]

The library and the mission of university, 2013-2018

2013 · UNC libraries

The Dynamic Decade

Godschalk, David R. ; Howes, Jonathan B. · 2012 · University of North Carolina Press

The Dynamic Decade tells the story of the sweeping makeover of the 200-year old campus of the University of North Carolina. Six million square feet of new buildings were constructed and a million square feet of historic…

Farewell forever, old road to Durham : lessons from the history of transportation planning in the North Carolina Piedmont

by Mark Chilton. · 2012 · Hand Made Books

Orange County, North Carolina

2012 · The Commission

[1] A planning/management process for Orange County, North Carolina with recommendations for sound land development.

Hillsborough District Court Civil Action Concerning Land (1778-1806)

2011 · Lulu

Ejectments of Orange County, N.C

Dunaway, Stewart E. · 2010 · [Stewart E. Dunaway]

volume 1. 1787 [that is, 1778]-1814 -- volume 2. 1817-1832 -- volume 3. 1833-1849 -- volume 4. 1850-1902

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