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The Occaneechi Indians lived in the area of what is now Hillsborough, north of Chapel Hill, prior to European settlement. [6]The area was the home place of early settler William Barbee of Middlesex County, Virginia, whose 1753 grant of 585 acres on the north and south side of "Lick Branch" [7] from John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville was the first of two land grants in what is now the Chapel ...
Occoneechee Mountain State Natural Area. / 36.062004000°N 79.120904833°W / 36.062004000; -79.120904833. Occoneechee Mountain State Natural Area is a North Carolina state park in Orange County, North Carolina in the United States. Located adjacent to the town of Hillsborough, it covers 221 acres (0.89 km 2) [1] and includes Occoneechee ...
Eno River State Park is a 4,319-acre (17.48 km 2) [ 1] North Carolina state park in Durham and Orange Counties, North Carolina. Together with the adjoining West Point on the Eno city park, the two parks preserve over 14 miles (22.5 km) of the Eno River and surrounding lands. There are five public access areas with features including twenty-four ...
Orange County was formed in 1752 from parts of Bladen, Granville, and Johnston counties. While no surviving records exist regarding the namesake of the county, it may have been named for the infant William V of Orange, whose mother Anne, daughter of King George II of Great Britain, was then regent of the Dutch Republic; or William of Orange, who became William III of England after the ...
Collins Creek is a 11.73 mi (18.88 km) long 3rd order tributary to the Haw River, in Chatham and Orange Counties, North Carolina. Course [ edit ] Collins Creek rises at Dodsons Crossroads in Orange County, North Carolina and then flows south into Chatham County to the Haw River about 2 miles east of Mandale, North Carolina.
Old Orange County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. It was built in 1845, and is a two-story, Greek Revival style, temple-form brick structure. It replaced Dickerson Chapel as the county's courthouse. The front facade features a Doric order tetrastyle pedimented portico and two ...
Battle Park, E. Franklin and E. Rosemary Sts. residences, and central campus of University of North Carolina; also roughly bounded by Carolina Ave., North, Cameron & Columbia Sts. 35°54′45″N 79°03′08″W / 35.9125°N 79.052222°W / 35.9125; -79.052222 ( Chapel Hill Historic
Census-designated places in Orange County, North Carolina (1 P) Chapel Hill-Carrboro, North Carolina (8 C, 24 P, 3 F) Cities in Orange County, North Carolina (1 C, 1 P)