At 3pm the HFHOC and the Central Orange Senior Center at Meadowlands will host Stores and Stories: How Businesses in Hillsborough Have Changed. Participants will talk about businesses in Hillsborough from 1940-1975. Business leaders include Wesley Woods and Rev. Sharon Freeland. For more information contact Brooks Graebner at stmattclergy@embarqmail.com or Kaye Crawford at kayecrawford@embarqmail.com

Heritage Preservation Annual Photo Contest

May is the National Historic Preservation Month, and the Orange County Historic Preservation Commission along with the Historical Foundation of Hillsborough and Orange County are celebrating by hosting a Photography Competition.  We are inviting photographers of all ages to document this history with their film or digital cameras. 

The theme this year, historic commercial buildings, allows entrants to highlight old buildings throughout the cities, crossroads and rural areas of the County—thus, bridging the past to the present and to the future.  An example includes the Carr Mill Mall in Carrboro, and many downtown businesses in Hillsborough and Chapel Hill. For more ideas, visit the Chapel Hill Museum and see the Meet Me on Franklin Street exhibit.

Prospective entrants in the Photography Competition may want to begin taking images now, and continue through the changing seasons. Awards will be given in each division.  The Orange County Historical Museum will be accepting entries beginning in mid-April 2010.  All photographs will be on display during May at the Orange County Historical Museum in Hillsborough as part of the 2010 Preservation Month celebration.  Winners will be announced on May 28, at the Hillsborough Last Friday Event. 

Please stay tuned for more details, including the entry form.

Museum receives North Carolina Museum Council Free On-Site Consulting Service

The Historical Foundation for Hillsborough and Orange County is proud to announce that it is a recipient of the Free On-Site Consulting Service from the North Carolina Museum Council. This will provide two free consultants to help improve the Museum's exhibits and marketing.

February 14th : Stores and Stories 3pm

HFHOC and the Central Orange Senior Center at Meadowlands will host Stores and Stories: How Businesses in Hillsborough Have Changed. Participants will talk about businesses in Hillsborough from 1940-1975.

February 20th: We Shall Not Be Moved: African Americans in the South, 18th Century to the Present

This exhibit comes to the museum from the University of North Carolina Southern Historical Collection. The exhibit includes photographs, letters, diaries, and other items reflecting African-American Southern experience.