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===Reconstruction=== In 1869, in the lead-up to the [[Kirk-Holden War]], Governor [[William Woods Holden|William Holden]] sent a detective into Chapel Hill to investigate the presence of the [[Ku Klux Klan]], whose members had been riding through Chapel Hill and nearby towns committing crimes and terrorizing the populace.<ref>{{cite book |last = Holden |first = William W. |date = 1911 |title = Memoirs of W. W. Holden |url = https://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/holden/holden.html |location = Durham, NC |publisher = The Seeman Printery |page = 141-142 |isbn = |access-date = 2025-03-02 }}</ref> Once in Chapel Hill, the detective was tied to the town pump by a group of men and given sixty lashes. In 1870, a group of Chapel Hill Conservatives attempted to overthrow the Chapel Hill Board of Commissioners. On February 28th, they held a fraudulent election and installed a new Board, which seized the town records and began holding regular meetings. They appointed members of their group as Magistrate of Police, Town Constable, and Town Clerk. In early April, the Conservative Board began to face scrutiny, and on April 7th, it fell apart, as their own attorney informed them that their February 28th election was not valid.<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Chapman |first=John Kenyon |date=2006 |title=Black Freedom and the University of North Carolina, 1793-1960 |url=https://doi.org/10.17615/y1hb-9d45 |work= |degree= |location= |publisher= |access-date=2025-03-02}}</ref>
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