Topics Related to Orange County

Jurist and agriculturist. Chief Justice of North Carolina Supreme Court, 1833-1852 and 1858-1859. Grave 3/10 mile east.

Patriot general in American Revolution, was mortally wounded at Germantown, 1777. His home is 150 yds. W.

One of North Carolina's three signers of the Declaration of Independence. His home is 150 yds. W. Was buried a few yds. W.

Governor, 1781-82. Member of Revolutionary, Provincial, & Continental Congresses. Grave is 1 1/2 miles N.E.

Harriet Morehead Berry, often called the champion of good roads, was born in 1877 in Hillsborough.

Born a slave in Virginia around 1820, Elizabeth Keckley came to North Carolina with her master’s son in 1835. Keckley purchased her freedom in 1855. In 1860, Keckley moved to Washington, D.C. where she eventually was hired by Mary Todd Lincoln in March 1861. In 1868, Keckley published her memoir, Behind the Scenes: Or 30 Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House.