I used to own a cache in this alley when it was first "revitalized" a few years ago. Here's another. Bouncy co-ordinates.
Hillsborough: There has been a village on this site for hundreds of years, beginning with three successive Native American villages spanning from AD 1000 to 1710. Orange County was founded in 1752. Two years later Hillsborough was laid out by William Churton on land where the Great Indian Trading Path crossed the Eno River. The street names — Tryon, Wake, King, Queen, Churton — still recall this early history. Hillsborough took its present name in 1766 after the Irish peer, William Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1768 to 1772 under George III in 1754. Hillsborough was a center of political activity during the Colonial and Revolutionary period. The War of the Regulation (1766-1771) ended here. It was from temporary headquarters near town that General Joseph E. Johnston rode out to surrender the largest of the Confederate armies to General Sherman in 1865. There remain more than 100 late eighteenth and nineteenth century structures that illustrate the Town's early history. In addition, there are numerous secondary buildings, bridges, millsites and dams along the Eno, and Native American relics from the locations of ancients towns stretching back thousands of years.
