The Regulator Monument

Hillsborough

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Description: This memorial marks the location where six Regulators were hanged on June 19, 1771 after their defeat at the Battle of Alamance. The monument is a small bronze plaque bearing an inscription and placed atop a small rectangular block of granite.

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Inscription:
ON THIS SPOT WERE HANGED / BY ORDER OF A TORY COURT / JUNE 19, 1771 / MERRILL, MESSER, MATTER, PUGH / AND TWO OTHER REGULATORS / PLACED BY / THE DURHAM - ORANGE COMMITTEE / NORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY / COLONIAL DAMES IN AMERICA / APRIL, 1963
 

Dedication date: April 1963
 

Materials & Techniques: Bronze, granite
 

Sponsor: N.C. Society of the Colonial Dames in America
 

Location: The monument sits on a site shared with the historic Hughes Academy schoolhouse building. The Regulator marker is within a small plot, enclosed by an old gridiron fence. The site can be accessed by walking through the parking lot of the Orange County Board of Education, located at the corner of East King and Cameron Streets in Hillsborough. The school and marker are a short walk up the Cameron Park Trail behind the parking lot.
 

Landscape: The site is a small grassy clearing. The marker is beneath a number of large old trees on the edge of the clearing and just off the walkway to the entrance of the Hughes Academy schoolhouse.
 

City: Hillsborough
 

County: Orange
 

Subjects: Colonial Wars,Revolutionary War
 

 

11 July 2014 | Commemorative Landscapes of North Carolina