[…] through unspoiled wilderness, past curious rock formations, past bluffs covered with mountain laurel, rhododendron, azalea, galax and partridge berry, through swimming holes with strange names and hi stories, the Bobbitt Hole, Green’s Hole, the Sennett Hole, past fording places that old timers with clear memories remember well. At Shoemaker’s Ford where the road to […]
Happy 50th Birthday to Eno River State Park!
Check out our time lapse video, mapping the growth of the Eno River State Park over 50 years. It’s time to light the c andles and sing happy birthday! This year, on August 22, Eno River State Park is celebrating the big 5-0. It’s a significant milestone in our journey to protect and conserve […]
ENO RIVER SUITE
John Bachmann tells the Eno River Story in soaring vocals and stirring video set to his original song ENO RIVER SUITE. (Click on the top title to see the uncropped version on YouTube).
We’ve Got Exciting News!
Help us raise $123,000 by December 31 We’ve got exciting news to share! We’re acquiring 23 more acres of l and and placing an additional 19 acres under a permanent conservation easement along the East Fork of the Eno River in northern Orange County in December. All 42 acres adjoin our Confluence Natural Area, […]
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Orange County Proposal to Slash Funding for Land Protection
Update September: Years 2 and 3 up for a vote by County Commissioners. Read our latest statement. Please continue to let your local officials know how important these land conservation programs are in our community. Update June 10: Commissioners protected conservation easement funding in this year’s budget. Thank you all for your time, support, […]
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access
Our Pledge The Eno River Association is committed to creating an environment that welcomes, encourages, respects, and celebrates people from all backgrounds with diverse stories and experiences. We pledge to hold ourselves accountable in continuously advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion, and establishing ourselves as an anti-racist and inclusive organization. Our History We humbly acknowledge […]
2020 Eno River Calendar
Our 2020 calendar is a soul-inspiring, story telling and photographic encounter with the Eno River. Eyes on the Eno is both looks at the river we love, and those who are watching in nature and in our community. We hope it also inspires you to join our extraordinary journey to save more of the […]
Eno River Currents
Eno River Currents is our twice-annual newsletter for Association members and friends. It contains news and updates about the work that we have been doing with YOUR help. Summer 2021 Winter 2020 Spring 2020 Winter 2019 Summer 2019 Winter 2018 Summer 2018 Fall 2017 Summer 2017 Archives Fall 2016 Summer 2016 Spring 2015 Winter 2015 […]
An Occaneechi Tale
[…] the members of the tribe was a beautiful maiden, the daughter of the chief. Her name was Ulalee, which means wood thrush. She was fond of birds, and wherever she went she was followed by them. Her favorite resort was a certain spring near Hillsboro, and there she often sat for hours at a […]
This Video Gets to the Heart of Why Protecting the Eno is so Important
Check out this great tribute to the river we all love by the fabulous folks at Beneath Blue Skies.
The History of Few’s Ford
[…] hours to subdue a host of Regulators at the place known now as the Alamance Battleground. The day after the battle, James Few was summarily hanged. Fanciful stories about him have been offered to explain his participation in the movement. One painted him as enraged by Edmund Fanning’s seduction of his intended bride; another […]
A Q&A with Author Julie Thomson
Julie Thomson is a naturalist, certified environmental educator, writer, and lover of the Eno. She enjoys studying and sharing the natural and cultural history of North Carolina and currently resides in the Black Mountain area of the state. Below is an excerpt from an interview with Julie about her recent book, “Saving the Eno River: Margaret […]
1676: Bacon’s Massacre
ENO Journal Volume 4, No. 2 1976 Elizabeth Duke, Mistress Bacon, was one of the first Dukes to come to America. Tormented by the Indians, her husb and Nathaniel Bacon, with a posse of planters, took the law into his own hands. He chased the offending Indians onto the Occaneechi Islands, massacred them there, […]
2023-27 Strategic Plan
Established in 1966, the Eno River Association is an accredited l and trust and conservation nonprofit driven by a mission to conserve and protect the natural, historical, and cultural resources of the Eno River Basin. Through a strategic planning process begun in 2021, the Eno River Association developed strategic priorities to guide and measure movement […]
2023-2027 Strategic Plan
Established in 1966, the Eno River Association is an accredited l and trust and conservation nonprofit driven by a mission to conserve and protect the natural, historical, and cultural resources of the Eno River Basin. Through a strategic planning process begun in 2021, the Eno River Association developed strategic priorities to guide and measure movement […]
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Visitor’s Guide Places Activities Events Programs The Eno River Association respectfully acknowledges that the l and we are on today is the traditional and ancestral homeland of the Eno, Shakori , Sissipahaw, Occaneechi, other people of Siouan descent, and their descendants, the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation. Although they lived in separate villages […]
A Peek into Neuse River Waterdog Research in the Eno!
Last week, myself and my colleague had the amazing opportunity to assist two research technicians from North Carolina State University with Neuse River waterdog surveys in the Eno and Flat Rivers. Spoiler alert: we found one in the Flat River, but none in the Eno. Nonetheless, I’d like to tell you about our experience! […]
1673: Second Exploration
ENO Journal Volume 4, No. 2 1976 This narrative about Needham and Arthur, transposed through the wooly mind Abraham Wood, indicates that the white traders had moved on to the Indian Trading Path and that Eno Town was a familiar stopping place along the route. It shows also the increasing hostility of the Occaneechi […]
Occoneechee Speedway
Hours: Dusk to Dawn Address: 320 Elizabeth Brady Rd, Hillsborough, NC 27278 Occoneechee Speedway was one of the first two NASCAR tracks to open and is the only track remaining from the inaugural 1949 season. The site is now heavily forested in 40 year old pines and sycamores. Visible still are the grandstands which […]
Reenvisioning Fall Events & Programs
Association to support personal and small group outdoor experiences Due to safety concerns stemming from the ongoing global pandemic, the Eno River Association is re-imaging several of its popular in-person fall events and programs. While experts agree that outdoor experiences are among the safest ways to recreate during the pandemic, the Association will focus […]
History
In the late sixties and early seventies, the wild, picturesque, and historic Eno River was threatened: the city of Durham planned to dam the river and create a new reservoir for its growing population. The Eno had already been used as a water supply for the city once before at the turn of the […]
Mill Moving
[…] No. 1 -Excerpted from an article in Bo-waters’ fall-winter 1974 issue of Crossbow 1975 What’s 18 feet across, weighs two tons, is over one hundred years old, and takes the National Guard and four two-and-a-half-ton trucks to move? Would you believe a grist mill? Yes, when Bowaters Carolina’s Woodland company, Catawba Timber does something, […]
Formation of the Eno River Association
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the wild, picturesque, and historic Eno River was threatened: the city of Durham planned to dam the river and create a new reservoir for its growing population. The Eno had already been used as a water supply for the city once before at the turn of the […]