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32 Burlington, N.C., Times-News
www.TheTimesNews.com
AUGUST 2013-14
communities
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Haw Old Fields.
Colonial
administration
fixed Orange County’s original
county seat in 1752 at Pine Ford
in central Hawfields on high
ground between Back Creek
and the Haw River, east of the
present-day Town of Haw River. The formation of Alamance
County from the remnants of
western Orange County in 1849
further reduced the Hawfields.
Hawfields is served by two
important Presbyterian congregations: Hawfields Presbyterian
Church and Cross Roads Presbyterian Church. Both congregations had their founding before the Republic and continue
today as important local institutions.
The Bingham School, founded just across the Alamance–
Orange line on The Oaks
Plantation, moved just east
of Mebanesville in 1865, the
Times-News file photo
Vintage Hawfields buildings restored near the Presbyterian Church.
mercantile heart of Hawfields.
Belfast-born Alexander Wilson
founded the Melville Academy
in 1851 not far from a commercial crossroads district near the
Hawfields Church. Named for
the renowned turn-of-the-16th
century Scots partisan theologian, Andrew Melville, Melville
Township continues to bear the
Academy’s, and, by extension,
Andrew Melville’s name, while
Alexander Wilson Elementary
School in lower Hawfields honors the memory of Dr. Wilson’s
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