Vintage Orange County, NC Photos Page Three

Except where noted, the photos on this page came from the book, "Orange County, 1752-1952"  Edited by Hugh Lefler and Paul Wager.

Nash-Hooper-Graham house, built by Gen. Francis Nash in 1772; the home of William Hooper from 1782-1789; the home of William A. Graham during the 1860; later, the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Brown..

Ice Wagon, Chapel Hill, 1927

Churton Street, Hillsboro, abt. 1914.

Herndon's Hardware Store, Chapel Hill, 1904

Main Street, Carrboro; 1920.

Unloading tobacco from trailer into baskets according to the grade, the night before auction sale, in warehouse; 1939; Orange County. New York Public Library Digital Library

Skimming the boiling cane juice to make sorghum syrup at cane mill  near Carr, NC; 1939.  New York Public Library Digital Library

Moorefields, in Orange County, built by Alfred Moore of Wilmington as his summer home in 1785.

Hillsboro Military Academy

Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, abt. 19

Colonial Inn, Hillsboro, erected in the 1780's.

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