The early history of North Carolina is documented by the many signs and historical markers that line Churton Street in historic downtown Hillsborough.

But the past is the past and after a period of sleep Hillsborough has awakened to become the center of culture, entertainment and education envisioned by Paul Cameron and William Graham some 150 years ago.

Not your ordinary small southern town, Hillsborough has lately been attracting some of the finest minds in the South who have made it their home and some of the best chefs in the state who have opened restaurants to feed them.

Located 12 miles from both Durham and Chapel Hill and 38 miles from Raleigh, Hillsborough is convenient to Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Research Triangle Park.

The nearest airport is RDU International, just 40 minutes away. Both Interstate 40 and 85 pass within a couple miles of downtown Hillsborough and old NC Highway 86 passes right through it. 

Hillsborough was an early Piedmont colonial town where court was held, and was the scene of some pre-Revolutionary War tensions. In the late 1760s, tensions between Piedmont farmers and county officers welled up in the Regulator movement, which had its strongest support in Hillsborough.

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