Chronology

The Bank of Chapel Hill opens a branch, the Bank of Carrboro

The Bank of Chapel Hill raised its capital in the summer of 1919 so it could open a bank in the mill town, and the Bank of Carrboro opened for business on a Saturday late that fall. Deposits on the first day came to more than $30,000.

Subject: Bank of Chapel Hill

A wedge-shaped brick store replaces a frame general store at 111 East Main Street

The one-story building, nicknamed the Flatiron for its nearly triangular plan, took the place of a frame store that had sold general goods and then drugs. It served as Carrboro's post office in the early 1930s.

Fire destroys Gooch's Café and a row of frame stores in Chapel Hill

An early-morning fire, thought to have started in Gooch's Café, burned five frame buildings in the business district, among them Pendergraft's grocery, Peace's barber shop and Foister's book store. Summer school students carried out the bookstore's stock, and the loss was put at $35,000.

Subject: Gooch’s Café

R. H. Marks builds Carrboro's first brick commercial building on East Main Street

R. H. Marks' Dry Goods Store, built around 1920 at 104 East Main Street, was the first brick store in Carrboro. It came through the 1924 fire that burned its frame neighbors, and the other owners on the block rebuilt in brick after its example.

R. L. Snipes opens a general store and filling station near Cedar Grove

A general store and gas station with a stepped front gable, the R. L. Snipes Store, is built on NC 86 near Cedar Grove around 1920.

The Booker family opens a crossroads store on Old NC 86

Around 1920 the Bookers built a small frame pyramidal cottage and, beside it, a gable-front rural store with a shed canopy over the front, near the Arthur Minnis Road junction.

Three matching brick buildings for car sales and repair go up on South Churton Street

In the early 1920s three two-story brick buildings with matching arched Craftsman transoms replace earlier buildings at 100, 106 and 108 South Churton Street. The 1924 Sanborn map marks 108 as auto repair and 106 as built from plans, and the 1943 map shows 106 as auto sales.

The Bank of Efland receives its state charter

The Secretary of State chartered the Bank of Efland with $25,000 in authorized capital, $10,000 of it paid in by three Efland men. The charter gave Efland its own bank.

Subject: Bank of Efland

A neighborhood grocery is built at 425-427 West King Street

A one-story frame grocery was built around 1921 at 425-427 West King Street; the 1924 Sanborn map shows it as commercial, and by 1943 it had been made into a duplex. A small store facing South Nash Street was added at its rear after 1943.

J. Cheshire Webb becomes president of the Eno Cotton Mills

Webb, a director of the Eno Cotton Mills since early manhood, was made president of the Hillsborough mill in 1921. He ran it until his death in 1932 and was also a director of the Rocky Mount Mills and the Bank of Orange.

Subject: Eno Mill

William B. Neal opens the Hill Bakery in Chapel Hill

Neal started the bakery in 1921 on the lot later taken by Strowd Motor Company. After his death Mrs. Neal ran it until 1945, and it supplied most of the town's bread for over thirty years.

Fire destroys two store buildings in Hillsborough's business district

A fire that began behind O. J. and B. B. Forest's general store destroyed that brick store, the frame Spurgeon building next door with Tolar's grocery and Dr. J. S. Spurgeon's dental office, and a storehouse. The brick post office building stopped the fire, which did about $30,000 in damage with little insurance.

John Sprunt Hill offers the Graves lot and $10,000 for an alumni hotel

Hill offered the Graves property across from the west entrance plus $10,000 if 1,000 to 1,500 alumni would each give $100 toward a hotel whose profits would go to the University. The investors did not come, so he built the Carolina Inn himself.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

Subject: The Carolina Inn

Robert L. Strowd's two-story brick Strowd Building goes up on East Franklin Street

The Strowd Building was new and already taking tenants in January 1923, when a law fraternity moved in; by March a print shop was planned for its basement. The University Cafeteria had announced in June 1922 that it would open that fall in a larger new building.

Dwight Ray and Seaton Lloyd open the Lloyd-Ray hardware store in Carrboro

Dwight Ray and Seaton Lloyd, both from families of the White Cross and Carrboro communities, opened their hardware and furniture store in April 1922. Over the next 37 years it became the place where Carrboro talked over town and county politics.

Houston J. Walker and Allen H. Walker Sr. open Walker's Funeral Home in Hillsborough

Houston J. Walker and his son Allen H. Walker Sr. opened Walker's Funeral Home in Hillsborough, buying a Model T Ford and a Reo hearse. The family added branches in Chapel Hill in 1937 and Mebane in 1945.

Subject: Walker’s Funeral Home

A two-story brick store block is built at 173-175 East Franklin Street

The two-bay, brick-veneered commercial building with corbelled brickwork is reported to date from 1923. It had been altered by 1992.

John T. Fowler buys the Model Market at auction

After Sam Pickard died, John T. Fowler bought his Model Market at auction. Fowler's sons enlarged it after 1925, and Robert L. Fowler later moved it across the street.

The Pope Mattress Company builds a two-story brick store on East Franklin Street

The Pope Mattress Company, mostly a furniture dealer, left Columbia Street for a large two-story brick building it had just put up on the north side of East Franklin. Berman's department store moved into it in 1926.

John Sprunt Hill lets the building contract for the Carolina Inn

John Sprunt Hill, for the incorporators of the Carolina Club, let the contract for the Carolina Inn to H. L. Smith of Durham. The old Graves house on the site, at the west gate of the campus, was to be moved south of the inn and joined to it for use as a student boarding house.

Subject: The Carolina Inn

A gas station and garage is built at 136-138 North Churton Street

A low gas station and garage, with a front-gabled canopy that sheltered the pumps, is built at 136-138 North Churton Street in 1924. A concrete-block wing was added on the south side after 1943.

Cleveland Lindsay puts up a nine-foot-wide brick building on Carrboro's Main Street

Cleveland Lindsay of the Damascus section built a one-story brick building nine feet wide and about 50 feet deep next to J. D. Webb's store, near the depot. He would not say what it was for, and the Chapel Hill Weekly called it Carrboro's "mystery house."

Eugene Andrews turns his West Franklin Street home into a funeral home

Andrews converted his residence into a funeral home. After his death his widow, Nellie Andrews, kept it running.

The building at 111 North Churton Street is in use as a drug store, later James Pharmacy

The yellow-brick building at 111 North Churton Street appears as a drug store on the 1924 Sanborn map. It keeps a 1940s carrara glass sign reading James Pharmacy and much of its original drug store fittings inside.

William Courtney's Yellow House serves as Hillsborough's telephone exchange

The 1924 Sanborn map shows the old Courtney house at 141 East King Street in use as a telephone exchange.

Henry and Matilda Guthrie's Franklin Street lot, with its moving-picture house, is advertised for foreclosure

A trustee advertised for public sale on August 16, 1924 the Franklin Street land of Henry and Matilda Guthrie, which held two houses, a building used as a moving-picture house, two stores and a garage. The Guthries had bought it from Mary McCauley Lindsay and D. McCauley and fallen behind on the note.

Rameses, the live ram mascot, makes his debut for Carolina

Head cheerleader Vic Huggins won athletic department approval and $25 to buy a ram as a mascot. Rameses first appeared at the football game against the Virginia Military Institute, which Carolina won 3-0.

A narrow brick store goes up at 106 East Main Street

The narrow unit at 106 East Main Street went up when the block was rebuilt in brick after the December 1924 fire; the 1983 inventory remembers it as built for the post office, though in December 1924 the burned-out post office was to move across the street into Mrs. Stone's new building. Beside it stood the R. H. Marks dry goods store, the town's first brick commercial building.

A two-story brick store block rises in stages at 114 to 120 East Main Street

Beginning in the mid-1920s brick buildings replaced the frame stores at the east end of the block, among them the two-story row at 114 to 120 East Main Street. Samply Merritt's drug store held the east end and Gurnie H. Ray ran the Melba movie theater at 118.

Cameron MacRae builds the MacRae building at Franklin and Henderson streets

Cameron F. MacRae, son of Robert Strange MacRae, put up the MacRae building on the northeast corner. By 1928 it held Clarence Pickard's grocery, the Jefferson-Standard insurance office and a basement barbershop.

Fire destroys the building that housed Foister's Camera Shop

The building burned, and Robert W. Foister moved across Franklin Street, with a photo laboratory upstairs and a student supply and soda shop below. A new building on the site later held the University Cafeteria.

Lueco Lloyd builds the brick store that houses Hearn's grocery

After the December 1924 fire that began in the Pendergraph boarding house, Lueco Lloyd put up a one-story brick building at 102 East Main Street as rental property, with T. C. Thompson as contractor. His only tenant was John Hearn, who had moved his grocery from Chapel Hill after World War I and ran what by 1983 was Carrboro's oldest business.

The Bank of Chapel Hill buys the Peoples Bank

Chapel Hill's second bank, the Peoples Bank, ran from about 1912 under presidents Vernon Howell and J. D. Webb. The Bank of Chapel Hill bought its assets in 1925.

Subject: Bank of Chapel Hill

J. Cheshire Webb takes options on the Hillsborough quarry farm that supplied stone for Duke

Webb showed geologist Jasper L. Stuckey the old quarry near Hillsborough that had supplied flagstones, and at the request of Duke's business manager Frank Brown he took purchase options on the quarry farm, signed January 31, 1925. The land was bought under the option for Duke University on March 31.

Brodie S. Carr opens a grocery in a small filling-station building north of Hillsboro

Out of work after losing his timekeeper job at Eno Cotton Mills, Brodie S. Carr opened a grocery in a small frame service-station building on the northern edge of Hillsboro. It grew into Carr's Super Market.

Subject: Carr’s Super Market

E. A. Brown sells his Chapel Hill furniture and hardware business to Pendergraft and McCauley

E. A. Brown sold his furniture and hardware business to Joseph W. Pendergraft, his assistant of seven years, and Thomas H. McCauley, who ran it as Pendergraft & McCauley.

Lawyer J. Clyde Ray finishes a two-story office building with a restaurant on Churton Street

J. Clyde Ray built a two-story brick building, about $10,000 with its lot, with his law offices on one side of the ground floor and a restaurant run by Arthur Crabtree on the other. It also held six offices, a lodge room and a rest room for women shopping in town.

Patrick L. Clayton sells his farm northwest of Hillsboro to James B. Duke's agents for $4,000

The Chapel Hill Weekly reported that Patrick L. Clayton, who had paid $200 for a 70-acre farm about a mile northwest of Hillsboro twenty years earlier, had sold it to representatives of James B. Duke for $4,000 for its building stone. Architects and builders had judged the stone suitable for the new Duke University.

Subject: Duke land purchases in Orange County

The Farmers and Merchants Bank moves into a new building on North Churton Street

The Farmers and Merchants Bank moved into a new building of granite and brick on the east side of Churton Street, between the old bank building and Mitchell's hardware store. The building cost about $5,000.

The University buys the Chapel Hill Telephone Company

The University bought the Chapel Hill Telephone Company, reportedly for $25,000 to $30,000, to keep it from outside buyers. The exchange stayed for the time being on Henderson Street near the post office, with a later move planned to the old Strowd garage.

Dewey Merritt opens a filling station at Rosemary Lane and Columbia Street

Dewey Merritt, a mechanic at Strowd Motor Company, went into business for himself at the end of 1925 with a filling station at the corner of Rosemary Lane and Columbia Street, built with a roof extension to shelter cars. He also offered battery, generator and starter service.

Sam Berman moves his department store into the old Pope Mattress building

Mr. Pope sold out to his partner John P. Crowder, who held a liquidation sale and sold the building to Berman. Berman then moved his store across Franklin Street into the much larger space.

The store bearing A. A. Kluttz's name closes

The Kluttz store shut, and Stetson D, a men's clothier, took its space. Its manager, B. Y. C. Buice, blamed too many like stores, cars and better roads drawing customers away, and credit buyers slow to pay.

People: Adam Alexander Kluttz

The old Methodist church on Rosemary Street becomes a garage run by Montrose Tull

The long-closed 1853 Methodist church at Rosemary and Henderson streets was converted into an automobile repair station, the Club Service Motor Co., run by Montrose Tull. A platform was built from the rear door to Henderson Street for cars.

Subject: Old Methodist Church (Rosemary Street)

Bayard Wootten opens a Chapel Hill studio over Foister's store

Bayard Wootten arranged with R. W. Foister to use the upper floor of his store as a studio, making portraits there every Saturday and taking photographs in homes and outdoors. By 1928 the Wootten-Moulton Studio over Foister's was her Chapel Hill base.

A two-story brick building goes up at 121-125 East Franklin Street

The building, called the Strowd Building in the survey text, was put up in 1927. After later damage it was rebuilt in its present form in the 1960s, with a balustraded roofline and hooded windows, and in 1992 it housed the Varsity Theatre.

Subject: Varsity Theatre (the first Carolina Theatre)

The Carolina Theatre and Jeff's Campus Confectionery open in the new Sorrell building

When W. B. Sorrell's building was finished, its first tenants were his optometry shop on the west, the Carolina Theatre in the middle and Jeff's Campus Confectionery on the east.

Subject: Varsity Theatre (the first Carolina Theatre)

The Esso company buys the Lockhart house at Churton and Tryon and moves its front half next door

About 1927 the Esso company bought the eighteenth-century Catherine Lockhart house at the northeast corner of Churton and Tryon streets. The front half was moved to the lot next door on East Tryon Street, and the corner became the site of a filling station.

The Fitch family buys out W. T. Riggs and the business becomes Fitch Lumber Company

The Carrboro yard had opened in 1923 as a branch of the Mebane firm Fitch-Riggs Lumber Company, run by R. B. Fitch Sr. In 1927 the Fitches bought Riggs's share and renamed the company; in 1983 it was Carrboro's oldest working industry.

Fire destroys the Everett building, a meat market on King Street

A fire that started soon after midnight destroyed R. O. Everett's two-story brick building on King Street, which held a meat market with roomers upstairs. A bucket brigade and fire trucks from Durham and Mebane kept it from spreading; the loss was put at about $5,000.

Fire destroys Ralph Pendergraft's Chevrolet agency on West Franklin Street

The frame building of the Chevrolet dealership Pendergraft had opened at Franklin and Roberson streets burned. A small brick building went up on the site and later housed a grocery and an auto service.

Fire destroys the Pickard Hotel on Franklin Street

A fire that started in the attic destroyed the old Pickard Hotel late on Saturday night, January 7, 1928, at a loss of about $20,000. Firemen thought they had put it out, but were called back to find the whole roof burning. The hotel, built by the Pickards, was then owned and run by Colonel Uzzell.

Subject: Pickard Hotel

The Southland Motor Company opens a Studebaker and Erskine agency on Rosemary Street

The Southland Motor Company, a Raleigh firm headed by J. F. Cooper, opened for business in the building near the fire station lately used by the Burroughs Motor Company, with Herbert Pendergraft in charge. It sold Studebaker and Erskine cars and ran a service station and repair shop.

Eben and Ruby Merritt open a gas station on the Pittsboro Road

Eben and Ruby Merritt began running an Esso gas station on the Pittsboro Road south of Chapel Hill in 1929 and kept it for nearly fifty years. It is the business that became Merritt's Store and Grill.

Subject: Merritt's Store and Grill

Eno Cotton Mill installs new machinery and switches to combed yarn

New machinery went in at the Eno mill in 1929, and combed yarn replaced coarse carded yarn. Broadcloth shirting and corduroy became its main products.

Subject: Eno Mill

George Livas and James Gust go into partnership at the Carolina Confectionary

George Livas formed a partnership with James Gust in 1929 and began operating the Carolina Confectionary as a restaurant as well; it became the Carolina Coffee Shop.

Herbert Ledbetter and Clarence Pickard open Ledbetter-Pickard Stationery

Ledbetter, a former clerk at Alfred Williams's stationery, and Clarence "Doc" Pickard, whose grocery had failed, opened the store in part of Foister's photo shop. It did well enough to move to a larger space in 1932.

A brick building that housed the post office goes up at 118 South Churton Street

A one-story beige brick commercial building is put up about 1930 at 118 South Churton Street and is labeled post office on the 1943 Sanborn map. The post office moved to a new building farther down South Churton Street in 1958.

James M. Pritchard and Thomas P. Lloyd buy the bankrupt Patterson Brothers drugstore

The Patterson Brothers drugstore failed in 1930, and Pritchard and Lloyd bought it from Wallace Durham Patterson. The maps then list it as the Pritchard and Lloyd Rexall store.

Johnson-Moore Hardware goes bankrupt and Orange Hardware takes its place

The hardware store that had succeeded Chapel Hill Hardware failed in 1930, one of several Franklin Street businesses lost in the Depression, and Orange Hardware took it over.

Students boycott the Carolina Theatre over ticket prices

University students stayed away from the Carolina Theatre on Franklin Street to push the price of admission down from forty cents to thirty.

Subject: Varsity Theatre (the first Carolina Theatre)

The Mercantile Center building on North Churton Street is remodeled in the Spanish Mission style as a dime store

The two-story brick building at 121 North Churton Street, put up soon after 1911, is remodeled in the 1930s with a tiled pent roof on large brackets, apparently when it became the dime store. Its storefront dates from 1988.

The University gives up its Service Plants appliance business to two employees

The UNC Service Plants, which supplied water, power and laundry, had begun selling electrical goods. After the state barred the University from competing with private business, Harvey D. Bennett and Frank C. Blocksidge took over the shop in the same place.

The Bank of Efland fails and goes into receivership

Efland had its own bank for about ten years, with John L. Efland as president. In November 1930, days after a robbery in which a merchant shot the robber dead, the cashier, Roberts Riley, handed the state bank examiner the keys; the bank was found $15,000 to $40,000 short and put in receivers' hands, and Riley was jailed at Hillsboro.

Subject: Bank of Efland

Richmond Motor Company opens as Hillsboro's Ford dealer

Richmond Motor Company began selling Ford cars in Hillsboro in 1932. It marked its 15th anniversary in July 1947 with a three-day open house, having sold 1,848 new and used cars.

Robert L. Fowler moves the Model Market across Franklin Street into a new building

Fowler carried his stock to a new building on the south side over one weekend and opened there the next Monday.

Strum's Gas Station, a Spanish Mission-style filling station, is built on South Churton Street

The stuccoed Spanish Mission-style gas station at 200 South Churton Street, with a green tile pent roof, is built in 1932 and appears as a filling station on the 1943 Sanborn map.

Robert A. Eubanks closes his general store when he becomes postmaster

Eubanks shut his long-running general store on the south side of East Franklin when he took over the Chapel Hill post office. The building was razed in 1934.

The Pickwick Theatre closes in the Depression

Hard times forced the Pickwick to shut. For some years the building served as a town courtroom before it reopened as the Pick in 1938.

Subject: Pickwick Theatre

The Bank of Chapel Hill closes its Bank of Carrboro branch

With the Carrboro mills idle and other business falling off, the Bank of Chapel Hill closed its Carrboro branch and moved its accounts to the parent bank. The branch cashier, W. E. Thompson, went with them.

Subject: Bank of Chapel Hill

George and Mabel Bason open Whitehall in the old MacRae house

Leaving the Widow Puckett house after George Bason resigned from the University, the couple bought the MacRae house across from the Episcopal church, which had been a fraternity house. They named it Whitehall and took boarders, sold crafts and later antiques.

James J. Freeland moves to Hillsborough

Born in Durham in 1918, Freeland came to Hillsborough in 1934. In his early years there he operated the Sunny Side Inn, a barbecue restaurant, worked part time at a sawmill and helped run a dry cleaning plant in West Hillsborough.

People: James John Freeland

A Mission Revival Sinclair gas station is built at Churton and Corbin streets

A stuccoed Mission Revival gas station with a tiled porte-cochere is built in the late 1930s at 105 West Corbin Street, set at an angle to face the corner of North Churton and West Corbin. A large two-story addition went up behind it in 2003.

Andrews and Lloyd sell their North Greensboro Street cedar mill site to Fitch Lumber

Dick Andrews and Brodie H. Lloyd had kept running a cedar mill on the lot after leasing buildings to Fitch in 1923. They then sold the whole industrial site, including early frame sheds built for the Thelma Knitting Mill, later Blanche Hosiery.

Standard Oil builds a Spanish Revival service station on West Main Street

Brothers Stacy and Eric Neville ran the stuccoed station at 210 West Main Street, with its stepped pilasters and imitation tile roof, for many years. Before it was built they had worked from a frame station on the small paved triangle across the street.

The Hill family gives the Carolina Inn to the university

John Sprunt Hill and his family gave the Carolina Inn, which he had built in 1924, to the university on the condition that its income support the North Carolina Collection.

Subject: The Carolina Inn · UNC Libraries

James M. Pritchard buys out Thomas Lloyd and becomes sole owner of the drugstore

Pritchard took sole charge of the former Patterson Brothers store, now Pritchard's Drugstore. Lloyd opened his own Carolina Pharmacy in 1940.

Rose's 5-10-25 cent store opens on East Franklin Street

When John P. Crowder closed his variety store and left town, Rose's took his space and shared the building with the A&P.

The Durham Bank and Trust Company buys the Bank of Orange

The Bank of Orange stayed independent until 1936, when the Durham Bank and Trust Company bought it. Its assets were about $750,000 at the sale.

Dudley D. Carroll chairs the Orange County Building and Loan Association

Carroll was a director of the Orange County Building and Loan Association from 1920 to 1950 and chaired its board from 1937. He also chaired the county draft board and the county ABC board.

Walker's Funeral Home opens in the enlarged Bill Lloyd house on West Franklin Street

The old "Bill Lloyd" house was enlarged and made over as Walker's Funeral Home, near the Columbia Street end of West Franklin.

Subject: Walker’s Funeral Home

Robert Varley opens a men's clothing store on East Franklin Street

Varley's store took the space of Alfred Williams's stationery on the south side of the street.

Edward Danziger opens Danziger's Old World Candy Shop on East Franklin Street

Edward Danziger, a Viennese confectioner who had left Austria, opened a candy shop at 153 East Franklin Street in the Sutton Building, selling homemade confections, pastries, coffee and sodas. It later grew into Danziger's Old World Restaurant and a gift shop.

Maurice Julian opens a shoe store on East Franklin Street

Julian started out selling shoes at 167 East Franklin, in the space James R. Ellis's dress shop had left.

The Durham Bank and Trust Company takes over the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Hillsborough

The Durham bank acquired Hillsborough's second bank, the Farmers and Merchants Bank, in 1939. From then on it ran a single Hillsborough branch.

UNC tennis coach John Kenfield opens the Carolina Sports Shop

Kenfield started a sporting goods store on the north side of East Franklin. New owners bought him out in 1942 and made Henry Sawtelle McGinty manager.

Crabtree Store No. 2 is built north of Cedar Grove

A frame country store, Crabtree Store No. 2, is built north of Cedar Grove around 1940.

John Scott Trotter turns the old Bryan boarding house into The Hill House

Mrs. Green Bryan's heirs sold her West Franklin Street boarding house to Trotter, who renovated it and named it The Hill House, with hotel rooms and rental apartments.

Thomas P. Lloyd opens the Carolina Pharmacy

Lloyd, once James Pritchard's partner, opened his own drugstore in the space Ledbetter-Pickard Stationery left when it moved a door east.

Wartime orders push the Eno Cotton Mill to about 600 workers

Military demand for cloth during World War II enlarged the Eno Cotton Mill, which by the 1940s employed as many as 600 workers on three shifts.

Subject: Eno Mill

William D. Carmichael Jr. returns to Chapel Hill as the university's finance officer

Carmichael left a New York Stock Exchange partnership and came back in 1940 to serve the consolidated University of North Carolina as finance officer. As finance officer, comptroller and then vice-president he raised money from the legislature, foundations, corporations and individuals.

People: William Donald Carmichael

Eben G. Merritt opens a new filling station on the Pittsboro Road

E. G. Merritt opened a new filling station on the Pittsboro Road, just above his old stand, with a tiled roof and a large parking lot. It later ran as Merritt's Service Station and store.

Subject: Merritt's Store and Grill

A filling station is built at 212 North Churton Street

A parapet-roofed filling station with garage bays goes up at 212 North Churton Street about 1942. Around 1980 it lost its tiled pent roof, was stuccoed and enlarged, and became the John Couch Oil Company.

Maurice Julian opens The College Shop, a men's clothing store

Julian moved into the space Durham Dairy Products had left at 140 East Franklin and opened a men's clothing store he called The College Shop.

The Carolina Theatre is built on East Franklin Street to a Williamsburg design by Archie Davis

The new two-story brick theatre at 108 East Franklin Street, with a steep roof, dormers and brick pediments and arches, was the one building in the 100 block of East Franklin to follow the Williamsburg plan.

People: Archie Royal Davis

Subject: Carolina Theatre (1942)

The Paul Riley Store is built on Eno Street

A one-story brick store with a stepped parapet and inset entrance went up at 907 Eno Street, carrying the West End commercial style farther west. A longtime resident recalled it, with the nearby Methodist church, as a center of childhood life in West Hillsborough.

The old Carolina Theatre is renamed The Village

With the new Carolina Theatre open on the south side of the street, the 1927 house on the north side took the name The Village.

Subject: Varsity Theatre (the first Carolina Theatre)

Wilbur Kutz opens The Varsity, a clothing store with a basement soda fountain

Kutz's clothing store on the north side of East Franklin had a soda fountain downstairs that drew a crowd.

Rachel Crook opens a fish and produce market on West Franklin Street

Crook made an old service station, lately a chicken house, into a fish and produce market.

A one-story brick store is built at 109 East King Street

A three-bay brick commercial building with a central entrance between large multi-light display windows was put up at 109 East King Street around 1944.

Len Hearn buys the East Main Street building his family grocery rents

After John Hearn died his son Len ran the store as L. D. Hearn, bought the building in 1944 and extended the back three times. It became L. D. Hearn & Son in the 1950s and, under grandson James, Hearn's Grocery.

Pritchard's drugstore on East Franklin Street closes after its owner dies

James Manning Pritchard died and his drugstore shut. Rachel Crook sold pecans in the empty store for a short while before the North Carolina Cafeteria, formerly on Fraternity Row, bought the building and moved in.

Vic and Rebecca Huggins run Huggins Hardware on East Franklin Street

The Hugginses bought the University Hardware Company and opened Huggins Hardware on March 22, 1944, adding kitchenware and general merchandise to the keys, paint and tools. They sold the store in 1968.

Smith Furniture Company opens on West King Street in Hillsborough

Smith Furniture Company opened in the building formerly occupied by the Scott store, selling furniture, stoves and rugs. R. J. Smith ran it as proprietor, and it was still selling G-E appliances and heaters on West King Street in the 1960s.

James Freeland opens the Fairview Bowling Alley in Hillsborough

James Freeland opened the Fairview Bowling Alley in a building he put up himself, casting the cinder blocks and laying the concrete floor. It opened with three duckpin alleys and room for a tenpin lane.

Subject: Fairview Bowling Alley

Nelson Callahan and Morris Timmons open the Village Printshop next to the Porthole

The Village Printshop opened at 7 Fraternity Row, next door to the Porthole, run by Nelson Callahan, who had worked at the Orange Printshop since 1928, and Morris Timmons, operator of the Porthole. It did job printing by letterpress and offset.

A brick Colonial Revival office building is built at 115 East King Street

A one-story Flemish-bond brick office building with a slate roof and a large central display window was built at 115 East King Street around 1945.

A row of Colonial-style stores fills the 300 and 400 blocks of West Franklin Street

As downtown pushed west after the war, an unbroken row of Williamsburg-inspired shops went up along West Franklin Street, many designed by Archie Davis.

People: Archie Royal Davis

A. H. Poe buys Ben Strowd's Pure Oil station on West Franklin Street for his DeSoto dealership

Poe bought the Pure Oil service station from Ben Strowd and moved his DeSoto car agency into it.

Fitch Lumber moves its Mebane business to Carrboro after the Mebane branch burns

A. B. Fitch and all of the firm's Mebane operations came to Carrboro, and the Lloyd Street plant was enlarged around the same time.

George Livas becomes sole owner of the Carolina Coffee Shop

George Livas's partnership with James Gust ended and Livas became sole owner of the Carolina Coffee Shop, which he ran until his death in 1956.

Johnson-Strowd-Ward opens a furniture store on West Franklin Street

The furniture firm began in one of A. H. Poe's car showrooms and in 1947 moved further west on West Franklin into a building put up for it.

County commissioners refuse to relicense beer sales at the Log Cabin filling station

The Orange County commissioners voted unanimously to keep refusing J. A. Thompson a license to sell beer at his filling station, the Log Cabin, on the Mebane road. Thompson and his wife called it a "Dirty Deal" and their lawyer pleaded for another chance without success.

Poe-Mangum Auto Service finishes a showroom and parts wing at its West Franklin Street station

Bill Poe and Marvin Mangum added a DeSoto-Plymouth showroom and a parts department to their Pure Oil service station, stretching the building to a 140-foot front. The Weekly called it one of the biggest building projects in town since the war.

Milton Julian opens the Clothing Cupboard on West Franklin Street

Milton's Clothing Cupboard was among the businesses started on West Franklin in 1947 and 1948. It later moved to East Franklin, where it stayed until the mid-1990s.

Cates's Esso station in Hillsborough is named the cleanest Esso station in North Carolina

A statewide survey by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey picked C. H. Cates's Esso station in Hillsborough as the cleanest Esso station in North Carolina, ahead of stations in Elizabeth City and Durham. The company arranged to name him on its Esso Reporter broadcast over WPTF.

The Hickory House restaurant opens in downtown Hillsborough

E. W. Godfrey's Hickory House opened to the public at noon on a Saturday after an informal inspection the night before, and became a regular meeting place for town merchants and clubs. In May 1948 it installed air conditioning, which the paper called a first for a Hillsboro business.

Mrs. Walter D. Toy sells her West Franklin Street home for business use

Mrs. Walter D. Toy sold the house she and her late husband had owned since the late 1890s to Margaret Davis Haywood of Durham, and the lot was to be used for business. The Weekly tied the sale to the business district's spread west along Franklin Street and noted talk of an A&P store on the site.

The Navine boarding kennels open at the Nathan Veterinary Hospital

Drs. S. A. Nathan and L. L. Vine opened 36 heated cinder-block kennels, each with its own indoor and outdoor run, at their animal hospital on the Durham road. The name joined their two surnames.

Morris Telephone Company switches Hillsborough to dial telephones in a new exchange building

The Morris Telephone Company of Roxboro replaced Hillsborough's hand-crank telephones with a dial system housed in a new brick exchange on East King Street, begun in March 1947 at an estimated cost of $40,000 with equipment. The cutover was set for 4 p.m. on Monday, September 1.

Ted Danziger names the passage to his Rathskeller Amber Alley

Danziger gave the name Amber Alley to the passageway off East Franklin Street that led down to his new Rathskeller. The Weekly said the name came from the yellow lanterns along its walls, not from the novel Forever Amber.

Subject: The Rathskeller (Amber Alley)

Ted Danziger opens the Rathskeller in the basement of his father's candy shop

Edward Danziger's son Ted opened the Rathskeller in the basement of the Danziger candy store on Franklin Street. The Hall of Fame credits it with being the first local restaurant to serve draft beer.

Subject: The Rathskeller (Amber Alley)

The A&P leaves East Franklin for a new store on the old Toy lot on West Franklin Street

The grocery chain moved off East Franklin into a building it put up on the former Walter Dallum Toy property, bought for the purpose in 1947. Rose's store then spread into the space the A&P had left.

William Sloan opens Sloan's Drugstore on East Franklin Street

Sloan opened his drugstore in the store where D. Pender's grocery had been. It lasted until the mid-1970s, when Spanky's Restaurant took the space.

Hillsboro Speedway, Inc. buys the Occoneechee Farm racetrack tract

W. S. Murchison and J. R. Rogers sold two hundred acres of the old Occoneechee Farm, including its horse track, to Hillsboro Speedway, Inc., the company Bill France and four partners had chartered to build a stock car track. France had spotted the track while flying over Orange County.

Part of Occoneechee Speedway, Hillsborough · 34 events

Subject: Occoneechee Speedway · Occoneechee Farm

P. L. and Lloyd M. Senter open their new drugstore building next to Lloyd-Ray Hardware

Father and son pharmacists P. L. Senter and Lloyd M. Senter held a formal opening for their new Carrboro drugstore building, with a new soda fountain, on the evening of January 27, 1948. They treated it as the store's fifteenth anniversary.

Fowler's Food Store opens its new building on West Franklin Street

Fowler's Food Store, successor to the old Model Market, held a grand opening in a new 80-by-200-foot building on West Franklin Street, with a parking lot reaching through to Rosemary Street. Robert L. Fowler of Chapel Hill and Marvin M. Fowler of Durham owned the store.

The Whitfield and Oakley department store moves into a new building on Carrboro's Main Street as White Oaks

The Whitfield and Oakley department store moved from across the street from the Carrboro post office into a new building facing the Carrboro bank, under a new neon sign reading "White Oaks." The White Oaks Department Store advertised in local papers into the mid-1960s.

The Carl Smith Building is completed on North Columbia Street

Carl Smith's commercial building on North Columbia Street was completed in 1949; Gooch's Cafe moved in, and the area office of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis took rooms on the second floor.

Subject: Gooch’s Café

Owner W. M. Chance puts a neon marquee on the Osbunn Theater

W. M. Chance, owner of the Osbunn Theater on West King Street, had a steel marquee 32 feet long and 8 feet wide built across its front, lit by 300 feet of neon tubing. New aluminum display cases went in across the front as well.

Subject: Osbunn Theater

Phillip Andrews opens a Gulf service station at 214 West Franklin Street

Phillip Andrews opened a Gulf service station in a new Colonial-style building at 214 West Franklin Street, next to Fowler's Food Store, with three opening days starting Thursday, July 7.

William Muirhead opens the rental office of Glen Lennox

Muirhead named his apartment colony on the Raleigh highway Glen Lennox, after his wife's family, and opened its rental office in one of the apartments. It was to have 314 apartments in 48 one-story buildings; by March 1950, 66 families had moved in.

Cole Motor Company builds a streamlined garage on US 70

The dealership's building on Cornelius Street (US 70), streamlined with rounded brick corners and glass block, is one of the most modern commercial designs of its time on Hillsborough's outskirts.

Colonial Drugstore moves into the West Franklin store left by Milton's Clothing Cupboard

Colonial Drugstore took over the West Franklin building that Milton Julian's clothing store had vacated.

Paul Smith becomes owner of the Intimate Bookshop

Paul Smith took over the Intimate Bookshop on East Franklin Street, formerly Abernethy's, and fitted it with display fixtures designed for his earlier shop in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

People: Milton Abernethy

Subject: The Intimate Bookshop

Andrews and Riggsbee sell their Carrboro grocery to two other men named Andrews and Riggsbee

The partners Andrews and Riggsbee sold their Carrboro grocery to two men also named Andrews and Riggsbee, who kept the store's name. The sellers kept the tractor business they had bought from Bruce Strowd, which was moving into a new building on Greensboro Street.

B. S. Carr Grocery reopens as Carr's Super Market, Hillsboro's first supermarket

After a full renovation, the B. S. Carr Grocery reopened as a self-service supermarket with an open meat counter, refrigerated produce cases and parking for 50 cars. The paper called Carr the owner of the first supermarket in the Hillsboro area.

Subject: Carr’s Super Market

W. N. Tyler's Esso Servicenter holds its formal opening at West Franklin and Church streets

W. N. Tyler, a former Standard Oil sales supervisor, opened a new Colonial-style Esso station on the site of the old Ralph Weaver home at West Franklin and Church streets, with free movies and prizes on opening day.

The Parkvue Drive-In Theatre opens west of Carrboro

The Parkvue, a drive-in theater for 280 cars on the Greensboro highway (N.C. 54) west of Carrboro, opened with two evening showings of Three Little Girls in Blue. J. W. Thompson and C. M. Rumley owned and ran it.

Reeves Service Station takes over the Phillip Andrews station on West Franklin Street

The Gulf station at 214 West Franklin Street reopened under new management as Reeves Service Station on October 7, 1950, replacing Phillip Andrews Service Station.

The Hillsboro Building and Loan Association opens its first office building on Calvin Street

After 37 years of meeting in stores and a depot office, the association held an open house for its own one-story Colonial-style brick office on Calvin Street in West Hillsboro, built with a fireproof vault.

Subject: Hillsboro Building and Loan (Savings and Loan)

Colonial Stores opens on West Franklin Street in a building put up by Jack Hazzard

The Colonial Stores chain opened in a new building Hazzard had built. After Colonial Stores left, the Chapel Hill Newspaper moved into the building in late 1973.

Efland businessman Stephen Carl Forrest dies

S. C. Forrest, 68, a leading Efland businessman whose 1920s house on US 70 is on the state Study List, died at Duke Hospital after a heart attack and was buried at Fairfield cemetery. His sons T. J. and S. C. Forrest Jr. stayed in Efland.

The Village Theatre becomes the Varsity under new owners

Varsity Theatres, Inc., of High Point, headed by Hugh J. Smart, took over Chapel Hill's Village Theatre, renamed it the Varsity and made it a first-run house. The Village was the old Carolina Theatre, renamed in 1942 when the new Carolina opened.

Subject: Varsity Theatre (the first Carolina Theatre)

Bill Chance opens the Hillsboro Lunch on West King Street

Bill Chance opened the Hillsboro Lunch, a sandwich bar and short-order eatery next to Wynne's Beauty Salon, serving Cotton Nichols' barbecue, Brunswick stew and milkshakes from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. Margaret Riley, formerly of the Hickory House, ran the service.

Subject: Hillsboro Lunch

Morris Telephone Company opens an exchange at Efland with lines to Cedar Grove

The Morris Telephone Company put a new 30-line switchboard into service in its new building next to the Baptist church in Efland, along with about 14 miles of rural lines running to the Cedar Grove community.

Bob Cox and Monk Jennings open Town & Campus in place of Wilbur Kutz's Varsity Shop

Cox and Jennings's clothing store, Town & Campus, took over the East Franklin store where Kutz had run the Varsity Shop. It was replaced by another clothier between 1989 and 1993.

Cole's Store opens beside its owner's house on West Hill Avenue

The small concrete-block store and gas station on North West Hill Avenue, built on the same lot as the owner's home, follows the pattern of rural crossroads stores of the 1940s and 1950s.

Eno Mill becomes part of Cone Mills

The subsidiary joined the Greensboro textile corporation.

Subject: Eno Mill

James and Maxine Freeland open the Ja-Max Motor Lodge on US 70

Named for its owners, the long one-story motel northwest of town on the main Greensboro-Durham road let guests park at their own doors, and its hipped roof, stone veneer and horizontal-pane windows borrow from the Ranch house. It was probably the first of Freeland's motels, a string that later ran to Durham, Mebane and Roxboro and included Chapel Hill's Tar Heel Motel.

People: James John Freeland

Subject: Ja-Max Motor Lodge

Orange Speedway, Inc. takes over the Hillsborough track

Bill France Sr. became president of the new Orange Speedway, Inc., with Ann France as secretary-treasurer and Enoch Staley as vice-president; the other three original partners were no longer with the track. It was known as Orange Speedway from 1954.

Part of Occoneechee Speedway, Hillsborough · 34 events

People: Enoch Staley

Subject: Occoneechee Speedway

Dr. L. L. Vine buys the Nathan Veterinary Hospital and renames it

Dr. S. A. Nathan and Dr. L. L. Vine dissolved their partnership, and Vine, who had worked with Nathan for some years, took over the animal hospital on the Durham road as the Vine Veterinary Hospital.

Ben Schreiber turns the Harry's Grill building into the Youth Center, a children's clothing store

Ben Schreiber and his wife closed their restaurant, Harry's Grill, and opened the Youth Center, a clothing store for infants and children, in the same building next to the Carolina Theatre.

Bruce Strowd sells his car business to Crowell Little and Grady Pritchard

After thirty years at 100 West Franklin Street, Strowd sold the dealership in 1953. The new owners kept it in the same building for two more years.

Carroll Hall is built and named for Dudley D. Carroll

The university completed the main building of its business school in 1953 and named it Carroll Hall for the School of Commerce's first dean. It became home to the journalism school in 1999.

Fire damages the Hillsboro Lunch on West King Street

A Sunday night fire, blamed on spontaneous combustion, broke a front plate glass window and damaged the partition between the kitchen and the lunch room. Owner Bill Chance said he was fully insured and would reopen once repairs were made.

Subject: Hillsboro Lunch

Carrboro's last general store closes

Cliff Partin bought the Carrboro Cash Store on Lloyd Street in 1945 and ran it with his son Wilbur until competition from newer stores closed it in 1954. The store building, which dated from 1888, was torn down about 1960.

The Belk-Leggett-Horton department store opens on West Franklin Street

The department store opened next to the Masonic Hall. A few years later the hall was razed for its parking lot, and the store had closed by the early 1980s, when Southern Bell moved into its space.

A windstorm damages the Frozen Kustard drive-in across from Brady's on the Durham road

An evening thunderstorm with winds put at 80 miles an hour struck the Durham road east of Chapel Hill. It tore two signs off the Frozen Kustard drive-in, damaged its roof and knocked down its phone booth; the wind blew Brady McLennan back through his restaurant door.

Bayard Wootten sells her Chapel Hill studio and returns to New Bern

Bayard Wootten sold the Wootten-Moulton Studio to her longtime manager T. C. Moore, who kept it running, and left Chapel Hill for her old home town of New Bern.

Crowell Little and Grady Pritchard move the former Strowd dealership to 1710 East Franklin Street

The partners left the downtown building at 100 West Franklin Street in 1955 for a new site on East Franklin Street toward Durham. The old building was later remodeled for several businesses.

A. D. Yates's Yates Motor Company takes over the Caston Motor Company's Dodge-Plymouth business

The Caston Motor Company, Dodge and Plymouth dealer at 419 West Franklin Street since 1946, gave way to the Yates Motor Company at the same address and telephone number in late May 1955. By October A. D. Yates was named as owner of the firm.

A quarter-mile track opens inside Orange Speedway

A new quarter-mile track built inside the Orange Speedway mile opened with a seven-event NASCAR sportsman and amateur racing program under the direction of Bill France and Enoch Staley.

Part of Occoneechee Speedway, Hillsborough · 34 events

People: Bill France Sr.

Subject: Occoneechee Speedway

Aldermen rezone part of the Porthole lot so the restaurant can expand

Over the objections of University officials, the Chapel Hill aldermen rezoned 6,400 square feet of the Porthole restaurant's lot from residential to business use so that owner M. M. Timmons could enlarge the restaurant. It had been a nonconforming use on land zoned residential near the campus.

The Hillsboro Building and Loan Association becomes Hillsboro Savings and Loan Association

On a vote of its stockholders, the association changed its name to Hillsboro Savings and Loan Association, announced alongside the largest dividend in its history.

People: Ira Ward

Subject: Hillsboro Building and Loan (Savings and Loan)

Thomas Philip Lloyd sells the Carolina Pharmacy to Helen Duguid

Duguid kept the East Franklin drugstore going only a short time before Campus Laundry and Cleaners replaced it.

Sophie Livas sells the Carolina Coffee Shop to Donald Belton

Sophie Livas, who had run the Carolina Coffee Shop since her husband George's death in 1956, sold it to Donald Belton, who took over on February 1, 1957.

Bozo and Lillian Taylor open a second dining room at the Hillsboro Lunch

R. T. (Bozo) Taylor Jr. and Lillian Taylor, then running the Hillsboro Lunch, opened a newly renovated dining room next to their old quarters, giving them two dining rooms for daily meals and catering. The Hillsboro Merchants Association soon began holding its luncheon meetings there.

Subject: Hillsboro Lunch

Joe Page becomes sole owner of Ledbetter-Pickard Stationery

Page, a clerk in the East Franklin stationery store before the war, bought Herbert Ledbetter's share in 1947 and the rest of the business when Pickard died in 1958.

The University's telephone system plans to double its East Rosemary Street exchange

The University-owned Chapel Hill telephone system announced a $300,000 addition that would double the size of its exchange building on East Rosemary Street, along with better party-line service. Bids for the addition were opened in March.

The Osbunn Theater reopens under a new operator after W. M. Chance's death

The Osbunn Theater, closed for several months after the death of its owner W. M. Chance, reopened under Sam R. Owens of Durham, who leased it from the Chance family. Owens had run drive-in theaters in Durham, Burlington and Fayetteville.

Subject: Osbunn Theater

Bill France leases Orange Speedway to the Orange County Board of Education

Bill France signed a ten-year lease letting Hillsboro High School use the Orange Speedway grounds as its athletic field, for $100 a year, while races continued.

Part of Occoneechee Speedway, Hillsborough · 34 events

People: Enoch Staley

Subject: Occoneechee Speedway · Hillsborough High School

Robert Rosenbacher opens The Hub, a men's clothing store, on East Franklin Street

The Hub took the store Charles Shields had just closed after 36 years of running his Home Owned Grocery there. It stayed 37 years, closing in 1996.

The Oh Boy Drive-In opens at West Rosemary and Church streets

The Oh Boy Drive-In, run by the Boy family of Durham, was nearing completion at the corner of West Rosemary and Church streets in early July 1959. It was hiring in early August and serving cars by late August.

A Hollywood crew films a racing drama at Orange Speedway and the Colonial Inn

A film company shot scenes for a television drama starring James Whitmore at Orange Speedway and the Colonial Inn in Hillsborough. Speedway co-owner Enoch Staley brought in several well-known drivers, among them Buck Baker, for close-up scenes.

Part of Occoneechee Speedway, Hillsborough · 34 events

Subject: Occoneechee Speedway · Colonial Inn

Dwight Ray and Seaton Lloyd sell the Lloyd-Ray Hardware Store after 37 years

The partners sold the Carrboro hardware store they had opened in 1922, long a gathering place for local politics. Tilden Hardware and Furniture Store held its grand opening in the same space on May 1, 1959.

Orange County's first ABC liquor store opens north of Hillsboro

Two months after voters approved county liquor stores on February 3, the first ABC store opened in a new building that also held the county ABC warehouse, near where Highways 70 and 86 meet. It was the county's first legal whiskey sale in the modern era.

Chapel Hill's ABC liquor store opens in Eastgate Shopping Center

The county ABC system's Chapel Hill store opened in Eastgate Shopping Center and sold between $2,000 and $3,000 of liquor a day in its first two days, about half again the daily average at the Hillsboro store, which had opened April 10.

Duke Power opens its remodeled Hillsboro office on King Street

Duke Power Company held an open house at its newly remodeled Hillsboro office, then numbered 110 King Street, showing new facilities and electric appliances. Manager C. B. Parris had served the town's customers since 1936.

Orange County builds its third ABC store near the Alamance line at Carr

The county ABC board put up a concrete-block liquor store on Mutt Byrd's land about 200 yards from the Alamance County line on the Roxboro-Burlington highway, with opening expected in mid-September. By early 1960 nearly all of its sales went to Alamance County customers.

Orange County commissioners give a cool reception to a Research Triangle planning request

At a special meeting, Orange County commissioners gave only a lukewarm reception to a request to help fund a land development survey for the Research Triangle area and took no action pending firm figures. The Chapel Hill Weekly reported that the county expected to gain mostly new residents and school costs from the park rather than industry, and commissioners discussed zoning the area northeast of Chapel Hill toward the Durham County line.

James Freeland builds the General Joseph E. Johnston Motel at US 70 and Interstate 85

Builder James Freeland put up the General Joseph E. Johnston Motel on US 70 near the new Interstate 85, part of a roadside group with his ice rink and, across the highway, the General Sherman Restaurant.

People: James John Freeland

Subject: General Johnston Motel and General Sherman Restaurant

The Piedmont Electric office on East Tryon Street is raised to two stories

The flat-roofed brick office built for the Piedmont Electric Company around 1950 as a one-story building was enlarged to two stories in 1960.

Subject: Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation

Lincoln High students picket Colonial Drug and sit in at the Bus Station Cafe

The day after the sit-in, nearly 100 Black high school students picketed Colonial Drug after manager John Carswell roped off its booths, while others filled the counter at the Bus Station Cafe until proprietor Leo Eliadis closed it and were served standing at the Long Meadow Dairy Bar.

Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 35 events

People: Harold Foster · Hilliard Caldwell

Subject: Orange County Training School / Lincoln High School

Chapel Hill aldermen pay the town's share of the Research Triangle planning commission budget

The Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen appropriated $1,545, six percent of the $25,750 budget of the Research Triangle Regional Planning Commission for 1960-61. The commission also asked the Orange County commissioners for four percent, or $1,030.

The Hillsboro Savings and Loan Association lays the cornerstone of its North Churton Street office

Cornerstone ceremonies were set for the association's new office on the east side of North Churton Street, half a block north of the court square, under construction since early June. Charles C. Hartmann of Greensboro designed the one-story Colonial Revival building with a drive-in window.

Subject: Hillsboro Building and Loan (Savings and Loan)

James Freeland opens his rebuilt Holiday Ice Rink beside the General Johnston Motel

James Freeland opened a new 65 by 180 foot Holiday Ice Rink on US 70 three miles west of Durham, replacing a rink whose roof had caved in under snow the winter before. It stood next to his new General Johnston Motel.

People: James John Freeland

Subject: General Johnston Motel and General Sherman Restaurant

Leo Eliadis closes his bus station grill and opens Leo's Restaurant on West Franklin Street

After a Duke student sat in the Black section of the Chapel Hill bus station grill in June 1961 and was arrested at Leo Eliadis's request, Eliadis shut the grill. By early September he had opened Leo's Restaurant on West Franklin Street.

Orange County's fourth ABC store opens at US 70 and Interstate 85

Orange County's fourth and largest ABC liquor store opened beside the General Sherman Restaurant, half a mile from the Durham County line. James Freeland built the colonial-style building and leased it to the county board; it was said to be the only ABC store in North Carolina on an interstate highway.

People: James John Freeland

Subject: General Johnston Motel and General Sherman Restaurant

Kenan Oil Company buys A. J. Snipes Jr.'s oil business and brings Phillips 66 to Hillsboro

Kenan Oil Company of Durham, the Phillips 66 franchise holder, bought A. J. Snipes Jr.'s Esso distributorship on Highway 70, its first foothold in Hillsboro, and kept Snipes on as its local agent.

Carr's Super Market opens its new store across the street in Hillsboro

Carr's Super Market began a six-week grand opening of its new $250,000 store, five times the size of its old one across the street, with a terrazzo floor. Building began in April 1960, and Brodie Carr's son saw it through after his father had a stroke.

Subject: Carr’s Super Market