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Spring Friends Meeting is an active congregation of Quakers from the Alamance, Chatham, Orange, Guilford and Randolph County area of North Carolina. Members of the Religious Society of Friends first started "meeting at the spring" around 1761, with the congregation formally recognized by North Carolina Yearly Meeting in 1773.
Lake Orange is a freshwater reservoir in Cedar Grove, Orange County, North Carolina, located on the east fork of the Eno River. [1] It is fed by Lick Creek. [2] The lake was created in the 1960s, when five local farmers donated 205 acres of land to the county for the creation of a reservoir. [3]
This is a list of Friends meeting houses. Numerous Friends meeting houses are individually notable, either for their congregations or events or for architecture of their historic buildings. Some in the United Kingdom are registered as listed buildings , and in the United States are listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
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Lake Julian (North Carolina) Lake Kristi; Lake Louise (Roaring Gap, North Carolina) Lake Orange; Lake Summit, North Carolina; Little River Reservoir (North Carolina) Lake Lure (North Carolina) Lake Lynn (Cabarrus County, North Carolina) Lake Lynn (Raleigh, North Carolina)
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The Eno rises in Orange County. The river's watershed occupies most of Orange and Durham counties. The Eno converges with the Flat and Little Rivers to form the Neuse at Falls Lake, which straddles Durham and Wake counties. The Eno is notable for its beauty and water quality, which has been preserved through aggressive citizen efforts. Though ...
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 ...