[…] once the power source for 32 mills or more. Beyond Hillsborough, the Eno gathers strength and breadth, moving in its meandering way through unspoiled wilderness, past curio us rock formations, past bluffs covered with mountain laurel, rhododendron, azalea, galax and partridge berry, through swimming holes with strange names and histories, the Bobbitt Hole, Green’s […]
Happy 50th Birthday to Eno River State Park!
[…] video, mapping the growth of the Eno River State Park over 50 years. It’s time to light the candles and sing happy birthday! This year, on Aug ust 22, Eno River State Park is celebrating the big 5-0. It’s a significant milestone in our journey to protect and conserve the natural, historical, and cultural […]
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 land 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, expanding […]
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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access
[…] of work in land conservation and land ownership is intertwined with racial injustice and acts of violence against Black and Indigenous peoples. The land that we protect today is the ancestral homelands of the Eno, Shakori, Sissipahaw, Occaneechi, other people of Siouan descent and their descendants, the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation. The […]
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[…] of opportunities are waiting for you to make an impact on the plants, animals, and programs supported by the Eno River Association. Sign up to Volunteer Latest News How Eno River Association Contributes to Climate Resilience within the Eno River Watershed Read More How Eno River Association Contributes to Climate Resilience within the Eno […]
Celebrate Earth Day 2020
Photo by Dalvin Nichols, www.8bitphotog.com There are so many ways to celebrate our beloved river and our earth today, and we hope you’ll take part in at least one of them: …download our Treasure Maps for the Confluence Natural Area …color a page from our coloring book …represent the Eno River (and support our […]
Remembering: John Blackfeather Jeffries
[…] where we are sitting right now. All of my family lived around me. You could see that monadnock rising up from the Eno River from my ho use. I was told that this was originally a volcano that exploded millions of years ago and changed the course of the river. In my childhood that […]
Eno River Association expands Occoneechee Mountain State Natural Area
[…] will help provide habitat and water protection for the Eno River. The property protects 350 linear feet of a tributary to the Eno River classified by the US Fish and Wildlife Service as Critical Habitat for the Federally Threatened Neuse River Waterdog and helps safeguard local drinking water for over half a million residents […]
Land Acknowledgement
The Eno River Association respectfully acknowledges that the land we are on today is the traditional and ancestral homelands 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 and developed distinct identities, they spoke a common Tutelo-Saponi language. In […]
Take a Hike with BING-ENO!
Start the New Year off right! Hike the Eno! Win prizes! Stay safe!!! Join us along the Eno from January 2nd through March 31st with our new BING-ENO game! Learn more and download your BING-ENO card today: www.enoriver.org/bing-eno
Honoring Native American Heritage Month
[…] Land Acknowledgment Statement as further commitment to practicing inclusion daily. Photo by Mike Salemi The Eno River Association respectfully acknowledges that the land that we are on today is the traditional and ancestral homelands of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi, the Tutelo, the Shakori, the Cheraw, and the Eno. They descended from an […]
Hugh L. Mangum, 1877-1922
Hugh Mangum. The photos featured on this page (pl us many more) by Hugh Mangum are in the collection of Duke Libraries and may be browsed at their website. Hugh Leonard Mangum was born June 3,1877 on Main Street in Durham where the Alexander Ford Building stands today. His father, Presley J. Mangum, an […]
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
ENO Journal Volume 4, No. 2 1976 This local story is another of the traces left to us of the Occaneechi on the Eno. Among 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 […]
Geocaching
Geocaching is an exciting outdoor adventure game that uses a Global Positioning System (GPS) to find hidden items at different locations around the world. Within the Eno River State Park, there are 4 caches for you to find. At each location there will be a container (a “cache”) that contains a logbook for you […]
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 […]
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
ENO Journal VOLUME 8 NUMBER 1 1989 by Jean Bradley Anderson Special thanks to: Willi am Few Lyne Few Kendrick Few Randolph Few Cover Map, John Collet, 1770 The banks and hinterlands of a stretch of the Eno River that runs directly south near the eastern boundary of Orange county, North Carolina, once comprised […]
A Q&A with Author Julie Thomson
[…] and the Eno River Association is that you do everything you can think of doing, and you make it a community effort. They really did what we today would call a multi-media campaign to save the Eno. They spoke up! They wrote letters; attended city council (and countless other meetings); they asked hard questions; […]
Orange County Proposal to Slash Funding for Land Protection
[…] that could affect the lands legacy program, most commissioners stated they will NOT cut that funding when it comes up for vote in September!! This is good news. Sample Talking Points Here are some sample talking points you can use to craft your letter or remarks, but it is by no means comprehensive. The […]
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 Ne use 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 […]
Occoneechee Mountain State Natural Area
[…] volcanic activity early in the Paleozoic (~500 million years ago). Fractures developed which were filled with an assortment of minerals, one of which, pyrophyllite, is actively mined today east of the Natural Area. In the geologic present the nature of the mountain’s rock and the shaping force of the Eno made it an Ice […]