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Geography, Settlement & General History     1870 Ramsey Map           1870 Ramsey Map Index     1890 Pittsboro Streets and Lots     1911 Chatham Map     1971 Chatham Map     1971 Map Inset Pittsboro and Siler City     First Owners of Pittsboro Lots Map     Chatham Geology Outline     Chatham Geology Facts and Oddities     Early Chatham County Deed Abstracts     Granville Land Grants     History of the New Hope Valley Project and Jordan Lake     Land Beneath the Waters Documentary     Orange County Deed Book Zero     Rock and Mineral Identification     Waterways of Chatham County     Walter D. Siler's History of Chatham County        Politics and Military     Alamance Outrage of 1895     Chatham County Amputees and Artificial Limbs     Chatham County, Hotbed of Populism     Chatham’s Inner Civil War     Chatham County Veterans Honored     Chatham County ~ World War I     General Cornwallis in Chatham     John R. Lane and Chatham Boys     Lt. John R. Emerson NC Troops     Nathan Alexander Stedman III~ Revolutionary War Patriot     Pittsboro High School’s Honor Roll of WWI Veterans     Politics of Secession     Rednap Howell ~ Poet of the Regulation     Revolutionary War Soldier James Emerson     The Stone/Elkins Family Civil War Letters     Veterans Memorials of Chatham     Whigs Restored Two-Party Rule   Architecture, Communities, and Landmarks     1933 Home Movie of Pittsboro         BA Perry House ~ Pittsboro 1970     Alvin Bynum House     Architectural Update 2019-2021         Bynum Bridge Awarded Historic Designation     Cemetery Mystery at Hailbron     Chatham County Historic Districts     Chicken Bridge     Downtown Pittsboro 7Jul24     Downtown Pittsboro Storefronts 7Jul24     From Baldwin Bridge to Pace's Bridge     Harvey Newlin's Barns     Haughton McIver House History     History of Fearrington Farm         Jones Ferry Crossing—Chatham Landmark     Jones Grove ~ The Land and the People     Kelvin ~ A Brief History and Photographs     Looking for Shakerag in Chatham     Manly Law Office     McClenahan House     Mt. Vernon Springs—Health & Beauty     National Register Forms for Chatham Properties     Patrick St. Lawrence House Update 2016     Searching for Jones Ferry Crossing     Seaforth History     Siler City Historical Tour     Since Then: A Short History of Pittsboro     Smokehouse on Agriculture Center Property     St. Lawrence House     Taylor House     The Lawrence School ~ Corinth     The Marshall and Milliken Log Cabins     The Riggsbee Community     The White House on 15-501     Twenty-Seven Years in the Chatham County Courthouse     Two Bridges (and a Culvert)