Join us for ‘Date Night’ at the OCHM! Curator Courtney Smith will provide a virtual tour, give behind the scene insights, and celebrate the opening of our newest exhibit, ‘Date Night: Fashion, Food, Music, and Fun’, which will explore individual adventures and overall experiences that showcase what it was like to date in Orange County … Continued
Join us for a LIVE Poetry Reading on April 25th! Celebrate spring and poetry month with Florence Nash and Paul Jones. These two poets have a number of things in common – their wit, their ability to delight, and a direct connection to their readers and listeners that can pierce your heart. “A poem is … Continued
The Orange County Historical Museum and Tom Magnuson present ‘The Networks of Early North Carolina History’ as a four-part series. In this series, Tom Magnuson will present some of his findings from his thirty years of studying the earliest commercial transportation networks in the Southeast of North America. Part 2 takes place on Thursday, May … Continued
Author and historian, Chris Holaday, will discuss the various restaurants around Orange County that generations of couples have enjoyed as date night locations. As well as providing historical information about many of Orange County’s eateries, he will also discuss how going out to eat became a social staple of dating as we know it today. … Continued
Welcome to Wine and Wonder at the Colonial Inn! We invite you to be part of an evening of local storytelling, artistic fun, and of course, wine. Wine will be available to purchase from our eclectic wine menu. Immerse yourself in the history of Hillsborough as you create a visual keepsake mused by your boundless … Continued
Betty Eidenier will lead you on an imaginary walk from the Eno River up Churton Street as it was in 1850. Along the way, you will meet Anna Burwell, Maria Nash, Job Berry, Hugh Waddell, John Berry, Lemuel Lynch. Eliza Chavious, Umstead Mayo, the Burwell boys, and others out and about on this fine May … Continued
Join award-winning teacher Ken Ostrand as we Zoom around one of Hillsborough’s often overlooked treasures, the Old Town Cemetery. An archaeologist by training, Dr. Ostrand, will uncover some oft-overlooked people and some of the archaeological evidence that landed the Cemetery on the National Register of Historic Places. A Signer of the Declaration of Independence, a … Continued
Welcome to Wine and Wonder at the Colonial Inn! We invite you to be part of an evening of local storytelling, artistic fun, and of course, wine. Wine will be available to purchase from our eclectic wine menu. Immerse yourself in the history of Hillsborough as you create a visual keepsake mused by your boundless … Continued
Welcome to Wine and Wonder at the Colonial Inn! We invite you to be part of an evening of local storytelling, artistic fun, and of course, wine. Wine will be available to purchase from our eclectic wine menu. Immerse yourself in the history of Hillsborough as you create a visual keepsake mused by your boundless … Continued
This will be a narrated slideshow about the Trading Road shown on the 1733 Moseley Map of NC. There is no record of any court-ordered wagon roads in the backcountry at the time Moseley made his map, yet there it is, arcing like Interstate 85 across the Carolina Piedmont. Research into this peculiarity surfaced a … Continued