Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition ix
Preface to the First Edition xi
Abbreviations xv
1. Land for the Taking: Prehistory–1740s 1
2. Moving In, 1740s–1771 15
3. The American Revolution 29
4. Eighteenth-Century Orange County, 1752–1800 38
5. The Rip Van Winkle Era, 1801–1840 51
6. Improvement Fever, 1840–1861 69
7. Origins of the Town of Durham, 1819–1861 85
8. From Victory to Defeat, 1861–1865 97
9. From Bust to Boom, 1865–1880 108
10. A House Divided: An Independent Black Culture, 1865–1880 130
11. A County at Last, 1880–1890 140
12. The Apogee of an Era, 1890–1903 169
13. Social Challenges, 1900–1917 203
14. The Face of Change, 1903–1917 223
15. Joining the World, 1917–1924 248
16. Elation and Depression, 1925–1941 281
17. World War II and the End of an Era, 1941–1945 321
18. The Old Order Changeth, 1946–1969 332
19. Civil Rights, 1954–1978 360
20. Rounding Out a Century, 1960–1981 379
21. City and County to Century's End 403
Appendix: Population Statistics and Officeholders 449
Notes 461
Bibliography 537
Index 561

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About the Author

Jean Bradley Anderson is the author of Carolinian on the Hudson: The Life of Robert Donaldson, The Kirklands of Ayr Mount, and Piedmont Plantation: The Bennehan-Cameron Family and Lands in North Carolina. A professional genealogist and freelance contract researcher, Anderson formerly conducted research for the North Carolina Office of Archives and History, contributing to the prize-winning multivolume The Way We Lived in North Carolina.

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