Hillsborough, North Carolina
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 Eno River |
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| Location of Hillsborough in North Carolina | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1754 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | North Carolina | ||
| County : | Orange County | ||
| Coordinates : | 36 ° 4 ′ N , 79 ° 6 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 5,446 (as of: 2000) | ||
| Population density : | 457.6 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 11.9 km 2 (approx. 5 mi 2 ) of which 11.9 km 2 (approx. 5 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 166 m | ||
| Postal code : | 27278 | ||
| Area code : | +1 919 | ||
| FIPS : | 37-31620 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 986830 | ||
| Website : | www.ci.hillsborough.nc.us | ||
| Mayor : | Tom Stevens | ||
Hillsborough is a place in and at the same time the administrative seat of Orange County , North Carolina in the United States of America . In 2000 the place had 5,446 inhabitants and a population density of 459 inhabitants per square kilometer. The name was unofficially abbreviated to Hillsboro over the years (beginning in the 19th century), but the original spelling has been used again since the late 1960s.
history
Indian history
Native Americans lived in the Hillsborough area thousands of years before the European colonization of North America and the discovery of the region . Tribes of the Sioux- speaking Occaneechi and Eno were the last to live in the Hillsborough region before the expulsion, possibly one of the Indian settlements was the "Occaneechi Town" described by Lawson , which he had visited in 1701 when traveling to the area. Today, there are a few remaining Indians living in the area, mostly from the Occaneechee Band of the Saponi Nation tribe .
Colonial era and American revolution
Hillsborough was founded in 1754 and was owned, explored and mapped by William Churton (a geometer commissioned by Earl Granville ). Originally called Orange, it was later renamed Corbin Town after Francis Corbin, a member of the governor's advisory board and real estate agent on behalf of Granville. In 1759 it was added to Childsburgh in honor of another Granville Realtor and Attorney General Thomas Child of North Carolina. It was not until 1766 that the place got its current name after the Earl of Hillsborough , the British Secretary of State in the colonies and a relative of the royal governor William Tryon .
It was one of the earlier colonial places in the Piedmont where court was held. Hillsborough was the scene of some tensions prior to the actual Revolutionary War , such as the Regulators' revolt . North Carolina residents fought against laws they believed to be unfair and introduced by local officials.
The site was the seat of the North Carolina legislature during the American Revolution and was used as the base camp of British General Charles Cornwallis in late February 1781 .
Civil War
The Burwell family ran a girls' boarding school in their house on Churton Street from 1837 to 1857 , where Elizabeth Keckley was freed from slavery as a teenager and became a seamstress, later confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln, and wrote her memoirs.
In 1864/1865 Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston wintered outside Hillsborough. After Union General Sherman's march to sea , while he was encamped in Raleigh , Johnston offered a truce . He agreed and they agreed to meet to negotiate the terms of surrender. Shortly thereafter, Johnston surrendered at Bennett Place with 90,000 men, effectively ending the war.
motor race
Occaneechi Speedway , an oval course just outside Hillsborough, was one of the first two NASCAR circuits to open and is the only track from that opening season in 1949 that still exists. Bill France and the founders of NASCAR bought land to build a 1.6 kilometer (one mile) oval track in Hillsborough, but after resistance from local religious community leaders who did not want a circuit in their community, it became one of the major circuits NASCAR building the Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega , Alabama instead.
geography
Hillsborough is on the Eno River in Orange County . The area of the place is 11.9 square kilometers; 0.22 percent of this is water.
Demographics
Hillsborough had a population of 5,446 as of the 2000 census . 245 of these people lived in collective accommodation, the other residents lived in 2,101 households and 1,428 families. The population density is 459 inhabitants per square kilometer. The racial the population is composed of 60.3 percent white population, 34.8 percent African American , 0.5 percent Native American , 0.6 percent Asian and 1.6 percent of residents from other ethnic groups; 2.2 percent are descended from two or more races. 2.8 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
Of the 2,101 households, 34.9 percent had children under the age of 18 living with them, 42.9 percent of whom were married couples living together, 20.9 percent were single mothers and 32.0 percent were non-families. 26.2 percent consisted of single households and 9.6 percent had people 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.48 and the average family size was 2.99 people.
26.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 7.2 percent between 18 and 24 years old, 32.7 percent between 25 and 44 years, 21.1 percent between 45 and 64, and 12.8 percent were 65 years old or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 86.3 males. For every 100 women aged 18 or over there were 81 men.
The median income for a household in the 40,111 US dollars and the median income for a family was $ 46,793. Males had a median income of $ 36,636 versus $ 29,052 for females. The per capita income was $ 21,818. 11.0 percent of the population and 12.6 percent of families are below the poverty line. 16.1 percent of them were children and adolescents under 18 years of age and 16.6 percent were 65 years of age or older.
Personalities
- William Hooper (1742–1790), attorney and signer of the Declaration of Independence for North Carolina
- Josiah Turner junior (1821–1901), lawyer, newspaper man and politician
- George Burgwyn Anderson (1831–1862), Confederate general, killed in the Battle of Antietam
- Shepperd Strudwick (1907-1983), actor
- Robin Murphy Williams , Jr. (1914-2006), sociologist
- Lee Smith (born 1944), author
- Doug Marlette (1949–2007), cartoonist and author
- Jerzy W. Rozenblit (* 1956), computer scientist, former Department Head Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona, professor in the electrical engineering and medical faculties.
- Mike Nelson (* 1963), first gay mayor in North Carolina ( Carrboro )
- Logan Pause (born 1981), soccer player
Name variants
The city has a few different names:
- Childsburg
- Childsburgh
- Corbinton
- Hillsboro
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Minding the museum , Chapel Hill News . July 25, 2007. Archived from the original on September 29, 2007 Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved July 30, 2007.
- ↑ Racing vs. Religion . Historic Hillsborough. Archived from the original on October 8, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 16, 2007.
- ^ Hillsborough town, North Carolina , 2000 census data sheet at factfinder.census.gov .
- ↑ Cartoonist Doug Marlette dies in wreck . Raleigh News and Observer . Archived from the original on July 13, 2007. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 16, 2007.
- ↑ US Board on Geographic Names. Geographic Names Post Phase I Board / Staff Revisions. 01-Jan-2000. Board decisions referenced after Phase I data compilation or staff researched non-controversial names
- ↑ a b Powell, William S. The North Carolina Gazetteer. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, [1968]. p228
- ^ Citation US Board on Geographic Names. Geographic Names Post Phase I Board / Staff Revisions. 01-Jan-2000. Board decisions referenced after Phase I data compilation or staff researched non-controversial names
Web links
- Hillsborough / Orange Chamber of Commerce
- Hillsborough Arts Council Hillsborough Arts Council