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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 ...
This article contains an incomplete list of persons who have served on the Board of County Commissioners of Orange County, North Carolina. The Board of Commissioners is composed of seven members serving staggered terms of four years. Commissioners are elected by district and at-large in partisan elections.
The Regulator Movement in North Carolina, also known as the Regulator Insurrection, War of Regulation, and War of the Regulation, was an uprising in Provincial North Carolina from 1766 to 1771 in which citizens took up arms against colonial officials whom they viewed as corrupt. Historians such as John Spencer Bassett argue that the Regulators ...
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 ...
This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Orange County, North Carolina. Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view an online map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below. [1]
April 23, 1998. Cedar Grove Rural Crossroads Historic District is a national historic district located at Cedar Grove, Orange County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 44 contributing buildings, 9 contributing sites, and 7 contributing structures in the rural crossroads community of Cedar Grove. The district developed from the mid-19th ...
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The new unit of local government was chartered by the NC Secretary of State on December 1, 1989. 1991 – the NC General Assembly, subject to County approvals, authorized Triangle Transit to levy a vehicle registration tax of up to $5 per registration. This tag tax finances the regional bus operations, vanpooling program, and planning program.