Hillsborough

Hillsborough, town, seat of Orange county, north-central North Carolina, U.S., on the Eno River about 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Durham. Laid out in 1754 on the site of a Native American village (Acconeech or Occaneechi), it was initially called Orange, then Corbinton (for Francis Corbin, a colonial official), and in 1759 it was incorporated as Childsburgh (for Thomas Childs, the provincial attorney general). It was renamed Hillsboro in 1766 to honour Wills Hill...