hours in hillsborough The Eno River is a chain of rapids, pools and riffles meandering through forest on a bed of rock. It flows from northwest Orange County into Durham County for 33 miles, where it joins the Flat River to become the Neuse and flows into Falls Lake. 77 Burnside, Cameron Park. Foreground, the Thomas Ruffin Law Office, constructed around the early 19th century. Ruffin’s home, now just ruins, was nearby. Ruffin was Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1833 to 1852 and was ranked by Harvard Law School Dean Roscoe Pound as one of the ten greatest jurists in American history. Behind the law office the present two-and-a-half story, side hall plan house was built by Ruffin’s daughter and son-in-law Paul and Anne Ruffin Cameron in 1835. It is the former home of Pulitzer Prize-winning American editorial cartoonist and novelist Doug Marlette and is the current home of author Michael Malone and his wife. Educated at Carolina and at Harvard, Malone is the author of 11 novels, a collection of short stories and two nonfiction works. He has taught theater, film and creative writing at Yale, Connecticut College, the University of Pennsylvania and Swarthmore. He is currently a professor of theater studies and English at Duke, where he now teaches film, television and theater. 36 known as Wilmington and Hillsborough played pivotal roles in Revolutionary War-era protest and resistance as unjust British Colonial policies increased in the 1760s. Wilmington patriots were the first to protest unfair taxation that came with the Stamp Act in 1765, which led to widespread resistance throughout the other 13 colonies and its eventual repeal by Britain in 1766. Orange County patriots, known as Regulators, protested similar unfair colonial policies. English Colonial Governor William Tryon marched out in May 1771 to confront these protestors at what is now the Alamance Battleground, where he attacked them with deadly force. Tryon inflicted terrible casualties, confiscated property, burned farms and hanged six men in Hillsborough in June 1771 on the grounds of “high treason” for daring to question Colonial authority. Most importantly, Hillsborough and Wilmington are responsible for helping generate two of America’s greatest documents. When Wilmington patriots decisively defeated Scottish highlanders near Wilmington at the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge in February 1776, they tipped the scales in favor of independence. On April 12, 1776, one of the historic dates on North Carolina’s flag, delegates meeting in Halifax voted to instruct the NC delegation to lobby the other colonies for indepen-dence from Britain, the first colony to do so. Two and one-half months later, the American Declaration of Independence gave a young nation’s leaders the reasons they needed to risk everything for freedom. Hillsborough played a pivotal role in the shaping of another key American document: the US Constitution. In the summer of 1788, www.wrightsvillebeachmagazine.com WBM
Wrightsville Beach Magazine May 2014
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