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The 1966 association that stopped the reservoir plans and won the state park.
In briefThe Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley, formed in 1966 to stop Durham's reservoir plans, won Eno River State Park and has kept adding land to it.
20 indexed works are connected with this event. 2 held at OCPL →
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A short history for young readers of how the Eno River was kept free of a dam. The Eno rises in Orange County and runs through Hillsborough into Durham County. When Durham proposed a dam in the 1960s, Margaret Nygard (1925-1995) and her neighbors formed the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley; Julie J. Thomson tells how they won Eno River State Park instead. Eno River Association, Durham, 2023; 25 illustrated pages.
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.
News from the Eno River Association, recorded from 2003, is one of several newsletter titles the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley used at Durham. Volumes with illustrations, 28 centimeters. Topics include association business, the history of the Eno River Valley and description of the river itself, which flows out of Orange County past Hillsborough.
Issue of Eno, the journal of the Eno River Association, published in 2001 and devoted to the Little River, the Eno tributary that runs along the Orange and Durham county line. Pieces cover the country above the Little River Reservoir, lore of the colonial Trading Path near the river, the eighteenth-century entrepreneur William Johnston, and the river's plants from Lewis's heartleaf to yellow-flowered trillium. 72 pages with illustrations.
The Eno River Association's newsletter, recorded from 1999 and published at Durham, carries association news and natural history of the Eno River Valley. Volumes with illustrations in a small 22 centimeter format. Topics include the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley and natural history of the valley, which straddles the Orange and Durham county line.
Twelve page memorial booklet issued in 1996 by the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley for Margaret Nygard, 1925 to 1995. The booklet concerns Nygard and the history of the volunteer association that preserves the Eno River valley in Orange and Durham counties. Illustrated, 26 cm.
A box of ephemera from the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley, dated 1988: flyers, brochures, newsletters and other loose material on protecting the Eno River corridor, the state park and the annual Festival for the Eno. The contents document the association's public campaigns in Orange and Durham counties.
Eno was the newsletter the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley began publishing at Durham in 1973. Volumes with illustrations and maps; some issues carry an added title of their own. Topics include the association itself, the history of the Eno River Valley and description and travel along the river, which runs from Orange County into Durham.
Margaret Nygard's 1973 article on the Eno, published by the Nature Conservancy and detached from the Fall 1973 number of its news magazine. Six pages with illustrations. The article concerns natural areas and recreation along the Eno in Orange and Durham counties, including the work of the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley.
Blue line print map dated 14 March 1973 showing the proposed Eno River State Park along the river in Durham and Orange counties, oriented with north to the upper left. From the Images of North Carolina collection.
Archived captures of the Eno River Association website, the online presence of the group founded as the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley. The website concerns conservation of natural resources and outdoor recreation in the Eno River watershed, the drainage that rises in Orange County and runs east through Durham.
Eno River currents, an illustrated newsletter published in Durham by the Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley. It concerns the organization and the history and landscape of the river valley in Orange and Durham counties. Volumes, 28 centimeters.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A 1979 item titled simply Eno, the name of the river that rises in northern Orange County and runs east past Hillsborough. Part of the library's Wall Local History Collection.
A feasibility study report from 2000 on a river walk for Hillsborough, a proposed trail along the Eno River through town. Subjects include trail design in Hillsborough. Of interest to anyone following the planning history of the town's Riverwalk and its greenways.
A history of Little River Presbyterian Church in Orange County, compiled in 1986. Topics include the church's history, Orange County church history and Orange County genealogy, along with the Presbyterian Church in North Carolina. A source for family historians with Presbyterian ancestors in the county.
A booklet of about 1979 from the Historic Preservation Society of North Carolina on using conservation and historic preservation easements to protect land and buildings, with a guide to the tax savings for donors, from income tax deductions to estate and property taxes, and worked examples. Lance Peacock and Charles Roe wrote it, Keith N. Morgan and Jo Ann Williford revised it, and Jenny Nygard drew the illustrations; 36 pages.
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.
Alfred Moore Waddell's sketch of General Hugh Waddell (about 1734 to 1773), who commanded North Carolina's provincial troops against the Cherokee, set among accounts of the French and Indian War in the South, the Stamp Act resistance in North Carolina, the Regulators' War and the former Cape Fear River town of Brunswick. It prints Stamp Act documents not published before. Copyrighted in 1885 and published in Raleigh in 1890; 242 pages with a portrait.
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Picture: The Eno at Eno River State Park. CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph by Gaurav; via Wikimedia Commons
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