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Land for the taking : prehistory-1740s -- Moving in, 1740s-1771 -- The American Revolution -- Eighteenth-century Orange County, 1752-1800 -- The Rip Van Winkle era, 1801-1840 -- Improvement fever, 1840-1861 -- Origins of the town of Durham, 1819?-1861 -- Victory from defeat, 1861-1865 -- From bust to boom, 1865-1880 -- A house divided : an independent Black culture, 1865?-1880 -- A county at last, 1880?-1890 -- The apogee of an era, 1890-1903 -- Social challenges, 1900-1917 -- The face of change, 1903-1917 -- Joining the world, 1917-1924 -- Elation and depression, 1925-1941 -- World War II and the end of an era, 1941-1945 -- The old order changeth, 1946-1969 -- Civil rights, 1954-1978 -- Rounding out a century, 1960-1981 -- City and county to century's end -- Appendix: Population statistics and officeholders. |
