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    The town of Hillsborough is the county seat of Orange County, North Carolina, United States and is located along the Eno River. The population was 6,087...
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    Poplar Hill is a historic plantation house in Hillsborough, North Carolina. The home was the center of a large plantation, formerly called Occoneechee...
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    region of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 148,696. Its county seat is Hillsborough. Orange County is included...
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    historic estate and national historic district located at Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. The main house was built about 1900 and remodeled in...
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    Hillsborough station is a planned infill train station in Hillsborough, North Carolina, located on the North Carolina Railroad (NCRR). According to town...
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    first U.S. Route 70 Alternate (US 70A) in Hillsborough was established in 1942 as a new alternate bypass north of downtown. It was replaced by US 70. The...
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  • Francis Nash (category People from Hillsborough, North Carolina)
    politician in Hillsborough, North Carolina, and was heavily involved in opposing the Regulator movement, an uprising of settlers in the North Carolina piedmont...
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    Heartsease is a historic home located at Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. It was built about 1770, and consists of a 1+1⁄2-story, three-bay...
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    Green Hill, or Greenhill, is a Federal style plantation house in Hillsborough, North Carolina. The house originally sat on a plantation near Turkey Farm Road...
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    physician, lawyer, and statesman who lived in Hillsborough, North Carolina. He represented North Carolina as a delegate to the Continental Congress and...
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    Scott Satterfield (category People from Hillsborough, North Carolina)
    Satterfield played quarterback for Orange High School, located in Hillsborough, North Carolina, from 1989 to 1991. He attended Appalachian State from 1991 to...
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    The Hillsborough Convention, was the first of two North Carolina conventions to ratify the United States Constitution. Delegates represented 7 boroughs...
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    Payton Wilson (category People from Hillsborough, North Carolina)
    round, 98th overall in the 2024 NFL draft. Wilson grew up in Hillsborough, North Carolina and attended Orange High School. As a junior, he made 127 tackles...
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  • WHUP-LP (category Companies based in Hillsborough, North Carolina)
    station owned by 501c3 non-profit Hillsborough Community Media. It is licensed to serve Hillsborough, North Carolina. The station airs a community radio...
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    Adam & Eve (company) (category Companies based in Hillsborough, North Carolina)
    parent company, PHE Inc., is the largest private employer in Hillsborough, North Carolina, where its headquarters are located. The company funds non-profit...
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    Sans Souci is a historic home located at Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. It was built about 1813, as two-story, three-bay, frame dwelling...
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  • Connie Ray (category People from Hillsborough, North Carolina)
    Shelton Ray and raised on the family's dairy farm in Orange County, North Carolina. At the age of ten, Ray wrote a play with her brother Lester for a 4-H...
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    The frustrated farmers took to arms and closed the court in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Tryon sent troops to the region and defeated the Regulators...
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  • New Hampshire Hillsborough Township, New Jersey Hillsborough, North Carolina Hillsborough Historic District, North Carolina Hillsborough (East Indiaman)...
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    Frederick Nash (category North Carolina lawyers)
    1858) was an American lawyer and jurist from Hillsborough, North Carolina. He served on the North Carolina Supreme Court and was its chief justice from...
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  • Register of Historic Places Green Hill (Hillsborough, North Carolina), plantation in Hillsborough, North Carolina Green Hill (Virginia Beach, Virginia)...
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    William Hooper (category People from Hillsborough, North Carolina)
    his family, and they settled in Hillsborough, North Carolina, where Hooper continued to work for the North Carolina assembly until 1783.[citation needed]...
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    Heath (Wilmington); Nina Simone (Tryon); and Billy Strayhorn (Hillsborough). North Carolina is also famous for its tradition of old-time music, and many...
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  • James Few (category People from Hillsborough, North Carolina)
    executed west of Hillsborough, North Carolina on May 17, 1771, after taking part in the Battle of Alamance. He was executed by North Carolina militia troops...
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  • dirt races for owner Don Robertson in 1970 at Columbia Speedway and North Carolina State Fairgrounds as part of a deal with Petty Enterprises, winning...
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  • Trenton Gill (category People from Hillsborough, North Carolina)
    has previously played for the Chicago Bears. Gill grew up in Hillsborough, North Carolina and attended Cedar Ridge High School, where he played soccer...
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    near Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. The congregation was established in 1759 by Anglicans, and united with the Episcopal Church of North Carolina...
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  • Frances Mayes (category People from Hillsborough, North Carolina)
    to North Carolina, along with Frances' daughter Ashley. Frances and Edward Mayes currently divide their time between their homes in North Carolina and...
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  • John Wesley Fletcher (category AIDS-related deaths in North Carolina)
    of 56 in Hillsborough, North Carolina. His death was reportedly from AIDS. Fletcher is buried in Maplewood Cemetery in Durham, North Carolina. Wildman...
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    Edmund Strudwick (category People from Hillsborough, North Carolina)
    Strudwick (born March 25, 1802) at Long Meadows, north of Hillsborough, in Orange County, North Carolina. He eventually designed the first building at Dorothea...
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