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FREE Virtual Event hosted by the Orange County Historical Museum Professional storyteller and historian for the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, Lawrence Dunmore, invites viewers to join him for a virtual evening of storytelling, exploring tales from the Occaneech-Saponi people and other Native peoples and Nations from Turtle Island. This event accompanies the Museum's... Read More →
The Orange County Historical Museum is honored to virtually host Tom Magnuson for “Carolina’s First Permanent Settlement: 1650-1705”, Thursday, May 6, at 7pm. This event is the second in his four-part series, “The Networks of Early North Carolina History”. In this series, Magnuson presents his findings from his thirty years of studying the earliest commercial... Read More →
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 share some of his findings from his thirty years of studying the earliest commercial transportation networks in the Southeast of North America. Part 4 takes place on Thursday, October... Read More →
Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: North Carolina’s Free People of Color With Warren Milteer Jr. On January 20, 2022, at 7pm, the Orange County Historical Museum, Alliance for Historic Hillsborough, and Burwell School Historic Site will be joining together to present a program by UNC Greensboro Assistant Professor of History, Warren E. Milteer Jr. The talk examines... Read More →
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