Hillsborough, North Carolina
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The town of Hillsborough is the county seat of Orange County, North Carolina, United States, and is located along the Eno River. The population was 9,660 as of the 2020 census.
Old Orange County Courthouse
Downtown Hillsborough
The Inn at Teardrops
Orange County Historical Museum
Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire,, known as the 2nd Viscount Hillsborough from 1742 to 1751 and as the 1st Earl of Hillsborough from 1751 to 1789, was a British politician of the Georgian era.
Hillsborough, North Carolina
…general for North Carolina from 1751 to 1760 and another of Granville's land agents). It was not until 1766 that it was named Hillsborough, after Wills Hill, then the Earl of Hillsborough, the British secretary of state for the colonies, and a relative of royal Governor William Tryon. Hillsborough was an…
Portrait by Pompeo Batoni, 1766
Wax profile portrait of Lord Hillsborough by 'Lewis'.
Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford by Nathaniel Dance,