The Hillsborough Recorder Thursday July 2, 1846 Died in this place on Monday night after a long and painful illness which she bore with christian resignation. Mrs Margaret Walls, aged 99 years. Mrs Walls had been a member of the Presbyterian Church for about thirty years, and while gradually wasting away by age and disease, she continued to rely with a steadfast faith on the assurance that when the earthly house of her tabernacle was dissolved, she should have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. She was the oldest inhabitant of the town. Margaret Wall left will in Orange County that was proved August 1846...Listed in Book F page 301 ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange GENDEX at http://www.gendex.com/gendex/ has over 1500 databases on line

My grandmother, Mabel Utley was born on 11-29-05 in Chapel Hill, NC. Her father was named Lewis Utley. He was a maintenance employee for UNC. I do not know her mother's name. I think it might have been Judd(last name). If anyone is doing any research on Utleys, and has any info, please let me know. ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange

Louise, I sent the mess. below directly to DFGM43A@prodigy.com and it bounced. CW Thanks, Louise, for the response. I had noticed an unusual amount of typhoid deaths in some of mountain counties, but since my DOHERTYs died after the 1860 census hadn't thought to check there. BTW, my mother/father met in the typhoid ward at Lees-McCrae College in 1933. I guess the epidemic in the pre-census months of 1859-60 could have carried over into spring 1861, but that's generally flu epidemic time. Oh, just idle speculation... Thanks again. Charlie Weaver, Winston-Salem ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange

Addresses of various Genealogy Socities in North Carolina. More will follow if you have a county that is not listed, and desire an address. Alamance County Genealogical Society P.O. Box 3052 Burlington, NC 27215-3052 Durham-Orange Genealogical Society P.O. Box 4703 Chapel Hill, NC 27515-4703 Caswell County Historical Association, Inc P.O. Box 278 Yanceyville, NC 27379 Moore County Genealogical Society P.O. Box 1183 Pinehurst, NC 28374-1183 Genealogical Society of Rowan County P.O. Box 4305 Salisbury, NC 28145-4305 Rockingham-Stokes Counties Genealogical Society P.O. Box 152 Mayodan, NC 27027 Rockingham County Historical Society P.O. Box 84 Wentworth, NC 27375 Guilford County Genealogical Society P.O. Box 9693 Greensboro, NC 27429-0693 Granville County Genealogical Society, Inc. P.O. Box 1746 Oxford, NC 27565 Randolph County Genealogical Society P.O. Box 4394 Asheboro, NC 27204 Wake County Genealogical Society P.O. Box 17713 Raleigh, NC 27619-7713 VA-NC Piedmont Genealogical Society P.O. Box 2272 Danville, VA 24541-0272 Federation N.C. Historical Societies 109 E. Jones Street Raleigh, NC 27607-2807 ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange GENDEX at http://www.gendex.com/gendex/ has over 1500 databases on line

Hello Louise Overton: I, for one, want to thank you for posting such good info. In your last Poor House posting you mentioned a typhoid epidemic in the 1860-61 period. Could you possibly give me a source for info on this epidemic? I think I may have great-great-grsndparents who could have been victims. My William Anderson DORITY (v.), son of James DOHERTY who got a grant in 1790 on Buck (Water or Quarter) Creek ne of Hillsborough, and his wife, Elmira ALLEN DORITY, died in 1861, Elmira on 26 April and William on 1 May. At the time of the 1860 census they were in the Rogers Store area of Wake Co., but I don't know if they were still there when they died. I have never been able to determine Elmira's parents/origins. I also need to try to confirm that James DOHERTY's brother was Anthony DOHERTY Jr. who married Mary McCOOL and fled to Canada with her family in 1794, and, that James & Anthony Jr were the sons of Anthony Sr. who was exempted from Orange Co taxes in 1784 because of blindness. Thanks. Charlie Weaver, Winston-Salem ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange USGenWeb Orange Co, NC Archives site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nc/orangnc.htm

Orange County Poor House Records September 1, 1861 1856-1879 located in NC Archives as # C.073.900.44 List of Paupers at the Poor House 1 September 1861 Reuben CARDIN, Bennett DENSON, Alfred COLLINS, Hiram RILEY, John J. HELLIAM, William BALDWIN, Squire ELLIS, William CATE, William STOWERS, John STOWERS, John STOWERS, Jaes (James?) STOWERS, Alcey FLINT, Hannah RAY, Mary DURHAM, Mary CATES, Sally CATES, Nancy CATES, Betsy TEASLEY & Child, Betsey ASHLEY, Nancy ASHLEY, Mary ASHLEY, Ibba KELL, Nancy KELL, Phillis WOODS, Betsy BALDWIN, Sally STOWERS, Sally MARTIN Births for the year ending Sept 1, 1861 at the Poor House John STOWERS born 17 July 1861 Jane REUBEN'S child born 10 July 1860 Susan GLENNS Child born 7 July 1860 William C. CATES born 24 Jany 1861 Nancy KELL'S child born 26 July 1861 Jefferson Davis TEASLEY born 3 Augt 1861 Deaths since 1st September 1860 Hannah CARSON died 15th Sept 1860 Benjamin CARROLL 7th March 1861 Tennessee MARTIN 15th March 1861 James HOPE 15th March 1861 Aaron DURHAM 28 May 1861 George W. BARBEE 8th Augt 1861 Moses JONES 8th Augt 1861 Susan GLENN'S child 7th July 1861 (my note) in 1860 and 1861 there was a typhoid epidemic...I am wondering if this is what the folks that died the same days had? This needs further research. This concludes what I have on the Poor House. ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange USGenWeb Orange Co, NC Archives site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nc/orangnc.htm

Part 2 Poor House Records-Orange County, NC September 5, 1859 N.C. Archives # C.073.000.44 Out Door Poor Ordered that the Superintendent pay to the following persons for the benefit of the person named six months from this date the sums specified for each To WIT. Pay to William J. HOGAN for the benefit of Nathan CREEL...$10.00 Pay to William J. HOGAN for the benefit of John SHEPERD ....$10.00 Pay to James M. WORKMAN for the benefit of ----WALKER.... $10.00 Pay to Dr Edmund STRUDWICK for the benefit of Joseph CRABTREE.... $10.00 Pay to Alexander DICKSON for the benefit of Polly BLACKWOOD.... $10.00 Pay to Eli J. HESTER for the benefit of Lydia HEWLET.....$7.50 Pay to William J. HOGAN for the benefit of Edward PENDERGRAF.... $10.00 Pay to William J. HOGAN for the benefit of Mildred RHODES...$7.50 Pay to William J. HOGAN for benefit of Nancy STEPHENS.... $10.00 Superintendent furnished info for John COMPTON amount of....$10.00 Superintendent furnished info for benefit of Abram HOOD.... $10.00 Superintendent furnished info for the benefit of Jesse PEARCE & wife....$5.00 Pay to Mrs Barzilla HALL......$5.00 To be continued...... ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange

Poor House Records 1859 from Wardens of the Poor Proceedings Orange County, NC Located in the NC Archives #C.073.90044 1856-1879 Paupers listed as living at the Poor House September 5, 1859 Moses JONES, Reuben CARDIN, Aaron DURHAM, Lucy HOPKINS, Elizabeth ASHLEY, Hannah CARSON, Hiram RILEY, John Tyler HELLUM, William STOWERS, James STOWERS, John HORTON, Alay FLINK (?) Hannah RAY, Mary DENNIG (Denning?) Nancy JORDON, Sally STOWERS, Mary DURHAM, Phillis WOODS, Betsy BALDWIN, Mary ASHLEY, William BALDWIN, Thomas CHAVIS Deaths.... Susan DURHAM died 3 Oct 1858 Hannah CABE died 6 April 1859 George NELSON died 30 June 1859 Francis HOPKINS died 14 Feb 1859 Stacy CARDIN died 29 Feb 1859 Mary MITCHELL died 8 Aug 1859 Thomas CHAVIS died 5 Sept 1859 Discharged Mary, Sally, Josephine, and Nancy CATES 24 Feb 1859 Eliza, John and Sheila HORTON 4 July 1859 James FORRESTER 4 July 1859 To be continued.... ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange

For those interested in Revolutionary War Military Records, Mary Vanderpool Gormley has an excellent article by that title which you can access from the Family Tree Maker Home Page. The website address is: http://www.familytreemaker.com/24_myra.html [To go directly to the article, click your mouse on the line under the address directly on this posting. This is my ONE self-taught bit of computer magic.] Helen Gant Donald ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange GENDEX at http://www.gendex.com/gendex/ has over 1500 databases on line

In a message dated 97-11-20 12:06:56 EST, Bebenjohn@aol.com writes: << Chunn goes on to say: "Before the big army reorganization, on May 23, 1778 the 7th, 8th and 9th North Carolina regiments were disbanded because of personnel shortages. Their remaining troops, along with those in the 4th, 5th and 6th North Carolina, transferred, on May 29, to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd regiments. >> Hi Group, Thanks for posting the information on the leadership of the various NC units. Does anyone have infomation on one of the units that my Major Thomas Blair was part of. I know that he fought at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, and was a Captain in the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, but I do not know the unit. I would love to know more about the unit he was part of and more details about the other battles they were involved in. Thanks for any help you can provide. Tom Green TBGreen3@aol.com ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange USGenWeb Orange Co, NC Archives site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nc/orangnc.htm

Tidbits of Old Orange County History ....James TURNER and David CRAIG It has been passed down that James Turner came from County Down in Ireland, settled briefly in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, thence to the area called Hawfields in Orange County. James Turner purchased 200 acres from the agents of the Earl of Granville. James Turner married Mary Patton in 1735 Their known proven children: there were more but I have no proof of them. James Turner married Rebecca Clendenin Nellie Turner married James Craig of the New Hope area of Orange County, son of pioneer William Craig. David Craig was a member of the North Carolina Continental line of the Revolution. He died in 1785 and is buried in the New Hope Cemetery. Nellie Turner and her husband Davis Craig gave fifteen acres of their land for the establishment of the University of North Carolina. ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange

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This will be my last posting on the Burwell Female School. If anyone has further questions, please ask by e-mail. I am not researching this Burwell name, but have enjoyed reading the history. I hope in some way, that it has been helpful for some of you out there that are researching these names. My sources for this material came from the Hillsborough Historical Society, Inc. which did the research on this old school. Miss Alice Noble of Chapel Hill, NC owns the original student lists. A xerox copy hangs in the old Burwell School, which has been restored and is open for tours. Rev. and Mrs Burwell left Hillsborough, NC in October of 1857 to organize the Charlotte Female Institute, which later became Queens College in Charlotte, NC. After Mrs Burwell died on 21 June 1871 in Raleigh, NC at the home of a daughter, Mrs W.H. Crow (Nan). the Rev. Burwell with his son, John Bott Burwell took a new position as new principals of Peace Institute in Raleigh, NC (now Peace College). Rev. Burwell retired from teaching in 1875. He died at the home of his daughter, Mrs Crow, on 5 March 1895. Mr John Bott Burwell continued as the Principle of Peace until about 1890. He died on 26 January 1904 ************************************************************************ 22 PATRONS OF THE BURWELL SCHOOL are listed in the Catalogue. "We would respectfully refer to the following gentlemen who have patronized the School" Hon. William A. GRAHAM...Hillsborough, NC Hon. A. W. VENABLE....Granville, NC Rev. E. MITCHELL, DD.....Chapel Hill, NC Hon. F. NASH...Hillsborough, NC Rev. A. GILCHRIST..Fayetteville, NC Rev. D. STRATTON...Newbern, NC Rev. James O. STEDMAN....Wilmington, NC Rev. Colin SHAW...Bladen Co. NC Rev. A. WILSON, DD....Alamance Co. NC Rev. Neil McKAY....Cumberland Co. NC Rev. E. McNAIR...Cumberland Co. NC Rev. F. NASH....Robeson Co. NC Rev. Wm. S. PLUMER, DD....Balitimore, Md Patrick MURPHEY, Esq.....Sampson Co NC Dr. Thomas BUNTING...Sampson Co NC Henry ELLIOTT, Esq.....Cumberland Co. NC Dr. John T. GARLAND.....Caswell Co NC Dr. Robert SCALES....Rockingham Co NC John C. WILLIAMS, Esq.... Cumberland Co NC John W. NORWOOD...Hillsborough, NC Daniel McDIARMID, Esq.... Cumberland Co NC Dr. Daniel MONTGOMERY....Alamance Co NC ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange USGenWeb Orange Co, NC Archives site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nc/orangnc.htm

a message dated 11/18/97 5:00:28 AM, hgdonald@leo.infi.net wrote: <<Nine units of North Carolina Continentals overwintered at Valley Forge; the First North Carolina Regiment was the largest. By Christmas of 1777, only 1,033 North Carolians remained, and one out of five of these were ill. Helen Gant Donald >> Helen, Here is some additional info on the Carolina Regiments: In Hugh F. Rankin's book,The North Carolina Continentals, the Seventh North Carolina Regiment was under the command of Colonel James Hogun, and was one of three regiments created by the state legislature in late November, 1776. The Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Regiments were organized at Halifax, North Carolina in the month of July, 1777 and by September of 1777, Colonel Hogun had already established his more than five hundred men at Carlyle, Pennsylvania where they were innoculated for small pox, and had proceeded to within six miles of Fredericksburg, Virginia. Colonel Hogun and his troops were assigned to West Point where they were placed initially on work detail in the building of fortifications. Calvin E. Chunn, Ph.D. in his book Not By Bread Alone states "near the site of Washington's Headquarters, a marker designates where Brig. Gen. Lachian McIntosh's Brigade of Maj. Gen. John Sullivan's Division camped. These men were the gallant North Carolina Line and the marker reads: CONTINENTAL ARMY Valley Forge December 19 1777 June 18 1778 Sullivan's Division Major General John Sullivan McIntosh's Brigade Brigadier General Lachian McIntosh Commanding 1st North Carolina Infantry Colonel Thomas Clark 2nd North Carolina Infantry Colonel John Patton 3rd North Carolina Infantry Colonel Jethro Sumner 4th North Carolina Infantry Colonel Thomas Polk 5th North Carolina Infantry Lieut Col William L. Davidson 6th North Carolina Infantry Colonel Gideon Lamb 7th North Carolina Infantry Colonel James Hogun 8th North Carolina Infantry Colonel James Armstrong 9th North Carolina Infantry Colonel John Williams Chunn goes on to say: "Before the big army reorganization, on May 23, 1778 the 7th, 8th and 9th North Carolina regiments were disbanded because of personnel shortages. Their remaining troops, along with those in the 4th, 5th and 6th North Carolina, transferred, on May 29, to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd regiments. ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange GENDEX at http://www.gendex.com/gendex/ has over 1500 databases on line

Mr and Mrs Burwell's Female School, 1837-1857 Hillsborough, NC Who the Burwell's Were..... The Reverend Robert Armistead Burwell (1802-1895) and his wife, Margaret Anna Robertson (1810-1871) were both Virginians of distinguished ancestry from the Petersburg area (Orange, Chesterfield, and Dinwiddie counties). Robert was the son of Col. Armistead Burwell (1777-1841) and Mary Cole Turnbull, and traced his descent back to Major Lewis Burwell 1 (1621-1658) who came to Virginia in 1640. Margaret Anna, or Anna as she was always called, was the daughter of Ann Spotswood (1792-1869) who had married William Bruce Robertson, a Scots merchant. Ann Spotswood was a direct descendant of Gov. Alexander Spotswood, Kt. of Virginia (1676-1740) and Anne Butler Brayne of London. The Burwell children: (1) Mary Susan Burwell....b. 17 Dec 1832; d. Choctaw Co. Ala on 3 July 1859. Married Frederick Nash Strudwick 1 (1833-1890) in Hillsborough, NC on 27 June 1854. (2) John Bott Burwell...b. 3 Oct 1834; d. 26 Jan 1904. Married (1) Rebecca Irene Spragins (17 Dec 1957) (2) Mrs Mary F. Foster (died 5 Jan 1879) Educator, Principal, Peace Institute, Raleigh, NC (3)Ann Robertson Burwell...b. 31 Aug 1836; d ----, 1895. Married William H. Crow, Raleigh, NC (27 Sept. 1866) (4) Frances Armistead Burwell...b. 17 May 1838; d. 27 April 1855. Died on board steamer "Jamestown" returning from N.Y. to Norfolk, VA. Buried in Old Town Cemetery, Hillsborough, NC. (5) Armistead Burwell....b. 22 Oct 1839; d, 13 May 1913. Married Ella M. Jenkins, Charlotte, NC. Known as Judge Burwell. (6) Robert Turnbull Burwell...b. 30 Nov 1841; d Feb or March 1864 of disease contracted in Army Camp. (7) William Robertson Burwell...b. 7 Nov 1843; d. unknown. Married his cousin, Jane Stewart McKenney. Est. wholesale drug firm in Charlotte, NC (8) James Webb Burwell...b. 7 July 1845; killed in battle of Cedar Creek, 19 Oct 1864. Buried near spot where he fell. Reinterred in Charlotte, NC 1886 (9) Dandridge Spotswood Burwell...b. 18 June 1847; d.-----. Married Mary Louise Cooke 1883. Resided in Norfolk, Va. (10) Edmund Strudwick Burwell... b. 6 May 1848; d. 30 March 1887. Married Martha Wilkerson 1879. Est. wholesale grocery firm in Charlotte, NC (11) Virginia Isabella Burwell...b. 9 Sept 1851; d. 1 Nov 1867 at age 16 years. Buried in Charlotte, NC (12) Richard Spotswood Burwell...b. 8 July 1853; d. 6 Nov 1944 in Davidson, NC. Married (1) Marah Julia Blair (22 Oct 1884) (2) Blanch A. Franklin (6 May 1897). Presbyterian Minister ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange GENDEX at http://www.gendex.com/gendex/ has over 1500 databases on line

23 Additional Names Of Burwell Students (Found in letters, albums, and assorted records) Lavinia ALLSTON ...no residence given Jane Williamette BELL...Plymouth, NC Emily Rowena BELL.....Plymouth, NC Harriotte Middleton Gillespie COLE.....New Bern, NC Martha Jane CRAIG....New Hope, NC Fannie EASLEY ...no residence given Harriet EASLEY....no residence given Mary Bailey EASLEY...no residence given Mittie EASLEY....bo residence given (Hannah) HAWKS...New Bern, NC Caroline HEARTT....Hillsborough, NC Henrietta HEARTT....Hillsborough, NC Harriet JOHNSTON ....no residence given Mary Albertine JONES....Hillsborough, NC Sara KOLLOCK....Hillsborough, NC Frances Elizabeth LUNSFORD....Roxboro, NC Virginia LUNSFORD.....Roxboro, NC Sally Allston MANGUM ....Orange Co NC Annabelle NORWOOD....Hillsborough, NC Mary Anne PRIMROSE....New Bern, NC Fanny S----(Smith?)....no residence given Sarah SMITH ...no residence given Mary WEBB.....Hillsborough, NC This concludes the list of students enrolled at Burwell Female School, Hillsborough, NC from the years of 1837-1857 ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange GENDEX at http://www.gendex.com/gendex/ has over 1500 databases on line

At 07:08 PM 11/19/97 +0000, you wrote: >Near the middle of the last century, various companies in North Carolina >began to construct plank roads in an effort to improved transportation. >>>>>>> The Fayetteville-Salem Plank road ran through the front yard of the house where I grew up (20 miles north of Fayetteville). I have a part of an old plank from that road as a momento. About 200 yards past my home was a spring and a campground where the travelers often spent the night. > An interesting project is to plot the route of the road on a topographical map. You will find that it followed the ridges and very seldom crossed a stream. In fact, Deep river near Gulf was the only major stream it had to cross. Does anyone know if there was a ford somewhere in that area which made crossing easier? I'm sure that is how they crossed Lower Little River just north of Fayetteville and Upper Little River SW of Jonesboro (now Sanford). The latter crossing was rather near the headwaters and thus not very big. > Good Searching - Good Finding - Good Luck! David Huffines Searching Hofheintz/Huffines/Huffhines/Hoffein/et.al. and Williamson, Wakefield, Underwood, Paisley, Sikes, Lipscomb ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange GENDEX at http://www.gendex.com/gendex/ has over 1500 databases on line

Another important road in ante-bellum days was the one which led from TROLINGER's Crossing on haw River westward to Greensboro and eastward to Hillsboro. Adam TROLINGER, a German immigrant, brought his family to this region and settled on the Haw River in 1747. His son Jacob, built a grist mill there a few years later and the siste became known as TROLINGER's Ford. The girst mill stood where the Proximity Manufacturing Company (1949) today operates a cotton mill in the town of Haw River. From TROLINGER's Ford a road was built to the county seat in Hillsboro and later extended westward to Greensboro, a road to which many towns in Alamance, Guilford and Orange Counties owe their beginnings. Two miles below the present (1949) village of Saxapahaw and several miles below TROLINGER's ford, there was a second crossing of haw River known as WOOD's Ferry which competed with TROLINGER's crossing as and east-west route. The road by WOOD's led to Spring Friends' Church, LINDLEY's Mill, and Snow Camp toward Salisbury. Both TROLLINGER's and WOOD'S were important crossings during the Revolutionary War and later durning the War Between the States. When the North Carolina Railroad began construction of its line through Alamance County in 1850, General Benjamin TROLINGER of Haw River exerted his influence to route the railroad throught his village. As a result the town of Haw River was born on this site. ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange

Near the middle of the last century, various companies in North Carolina began to construct plank roads in an effort to improved transportation. One such road, the Graham and Gulf Plank Road, was laid out from Snow Camp in Alamance County to the village of Gulf in Chatham County, where it intersected another plank road which ran from Salem to Fayetteville. The original plan to extend the plank road from Snow Camp to Graham was apparently never carried out. Construction of teh Gulf and Graham Road began at Snow Camp in 1853, a long and laborious job which took several years to complete. The road bed was first graded by a method similar to that employed in constructing the modern highway. Light timbers were then placed lengthwise of the road bed on each side of the grading, over which thick planks from the nearest sawmill were laid crosswise, two inches in thickness and of vaying width. some of the roads of this period were called "washboard roads" because the rounded and bark-covered side of poles formed a jolting surface over which a wagon could travel. such a method of road construction is in use today (1949) in the sandy section of eastern Carolina. Mile posts marked every mile along the route between Snow Camp and Fayetteville, and toll stations were erected every seven miles. At the first station a teamster reached on the road he purchased a ticket, paying from two and one-half cents to five cents per mile, depending upon how many horses he had hitched to his wagon and whether or not the wagon was loaded. At the nearest station to the end of his journey he surrendered the tickets. The following information appeared on one of these tickets: G & G PLANK ROAD 185_ From To HORSE VEHICLE Vehicles must pass to the right, giving haof the plank where they can; exception, hills, the one going down must give all the plank. Sec'y John STAFFORD was president and H. W. DIXON, vice president of the Gulf and Graham Plank Road Company. Both of these men lived at Snow Camp. Many local citizens owned stock in the road. The old plank road met a very real need of this time by affording a good, solid surface over thich heavy loads of flour, pork, tobacco and other products could be hauled to market. Nevertheless, with the collapse of the South's economy during the War Between the States, the Plank Road could not pay expenses, and it was never repaired. ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange USGenWeb Orange Co, NC Archives site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nc/orangnc.htm

Part 3 of: Mr and Mrs Burwell Female School 1837-1857 Hillsborough, NC Margaret JOHNSON...Orange, NC Fanny JONES...Hillsborough, NC Frances JONES....Wadesborough, NC Lizzie A. JONES...Hillsborough, NC Margaret SHEPPARD...Newbern, NC Bettie SMITH...Cumberland Co. NC Fanny SMITH...Caswell Co. NC Isabella SMITH....Cumberland Co. NC Julia SMITH...Cumberland Co. NC Mary SMITH....Granville Co NC Rosa B. SPOTSWOOD...Petersburg, Va Eliza STEDMAN...Fayetteville, NC Lizzie STEVENSON....Newbern, NC Ann THOMSON....Hillsborough, NC Narcissa UNTHANK...Greensboro, NC Emily VANDERFORD....Hillsborough, NC Isabella VENABLE...Granville Co NC Martha VENABLE....Granville Co NC Maria E. WADDELL....Hillsborough, NC Caroline WALTERS...Wilmington, NC Anne H. WEBB....Greensboro, Ala. Caroline WEBB....Orange Co. NC Henrietta WEBB....Orange Co. NC Martha WEBB....Granville Co. NC Susan WEBB....Orange Co NC Bettie WHITTED...Orange Co NC Kate WILLIAMS...Cumberland Co NC Martha K. WILLIAMS....Cumberland Co NC Mary WILSON...Morganton, NC Denah WITHERSPOON....Camden, SC To be continued in Part 4 ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange