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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 ...
Chatham County (locally / ˈ tʃ æ t əm / CHAT-əm) [1] is a county located in the Piedmont area of the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is also the location of the geographic center of North Carolina, northwest of Sanford. [2] As of the 2020 census, the population was 76,285. [3] Its county seat is Pittsboro. [4]
Gimghoul Neighborhood Historic District is a national historic district located at Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina. [2] The district encompasses 42 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in a predominantly residential section of Chapel Hill.
The Town Council’s 6-2 vote to rezone 5101 Barbee Chapel Road allows developer Toll Brothers Apartment Living to build several apartment buildings and townhouses. The 10.5-acre site is across ...
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 ...
A project on the Chapel Hill-Durham border seemed far from a vote Wednesday until the Chapel Hill Town Council took an abrupt turn, approving 388 apartments with affordable options for seniors and ...
Town Manager Maurice Jones suggested delaying a controversial part of the proposal.
Chapel Hill Town Hall is a historic town hall located at Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina. It built in 1938, and is a two-story, red brick, Colonial Revival style building. It has a full basement and a hipped slate roof topped by an octagonal wooden cupola. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. [1]