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Named event or history

Racial-terror lynchings in Orange County

The five documented victims named in the county’s 2022 resolution: Daniel Morrow, Jefferson Morrow, Cyrus Guy, Wright Woods and Manly McCauley.

1 work in the index name this event.

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In the index

Works across North Carolina libraries and archives whose catalog description names this event. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it.

Orange County, N.C. Road Records

Dunaway, Stewart E. · 2008 · S.E. Dunaway

Historic road records provided as facsimile images and (in some cases) transcriptions. Includes road petitions, road maintenance requests, bridge records, explanations of the re-routing of roads, etc. Vol. 3 also includ…

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