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Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
- 1920s
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R. H. Claytor serves as an elder of the Hillsboro Presbyterian Church
The school superintendent R. H. Claytor was an elder of the Hillsboro Presbyterian Church for twenty-nine years until his death in February 1949. The session's memorial resolution, read to the congregation on March 6, 1949, praised his respect for others "without concern for color, class, or creed."
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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.
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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.
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The Bellevue company builds its mill village north of the mill
In the early 1920s, as it doubled the mill, the company set closely spaced houses along a narrow loop road reached from West King and South Nash streets, in three plain types; the one-and-a-half-story houses had two front doors so workers on different shifts could come and go separately. All the houses appear on the 1924 Sanborn map.
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The Bellevue mill is enlarged in 1920 and again in
Expansions in 1920 and 1923 were part of a decade of growth in which the mill more than doubled its spindles and looms, and they coincided with the building of much of its company housing.
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The Bivins brothers' tobacco basket factory is running in Hillsboro
A Hillsboro report called the Bivins brothers' basket factory a new industry doing a thriving business. It wove the large baskets used in tobacco warehouses by machine, one of few such plants in the country.
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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.
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The Five Forks meeting house north of Cedar Grove
The 1993 county survey recorded a small front-gable frame building at Five Forks, north of Cedar Grove, as Five Forks Church and estimated it at about 1920. It was most likely the old pack barn owned by Mr. Laws where Five Forks Baptist Church began meeting in 1952 and was organized in 1953, until its new church was dedicated in 1967.
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The Hillsborough Methodist parsonage is remodeled and raised to two stories
Under pastor J. E. Blalock the one-story parsonage on lot 94 was remodeled with a second story added. It served until 1956.
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The Old Oxford Road schoolhouse closes as children are bused to town
Around 1920 pupils from the area began riding buses to the elementary school in Chapel Hill, and the two-room school John Edward Clark had built was made into a house.
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The Sparrow family takes over a Blackwood farm near Mount Carmel Church Road
A farm first held by the Blackwood family passed to the Sparrows in the 1920s. It keeps a much-changed two-story house and a good group of log outbuildings.
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The University builds ten faculty houses
In the summer of 1920 the Tar Heel reported ten new faculty houses under construction, with more promised. These were most likely the Park Place houses, of which one survives at 620 Park Place Lane.
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The Walker farm on St. Mary's Road switches from grain to dairy cattle
Around 1920 the Walker family gave up grain for dairying and built a large gambrel-roofed dairy barn, milking parlors and feed barns on the St. Mary's Road farm.
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The boll weevil pushes southern Orange farmers from cotton to dairying
The boll weevil hit Orange County hard in the 1920s, and with cotton prices falling from over thirty cents a pound in the 1910s to ten cents by 1932, farmers in the southern part of the county turned to dairying. Silos, milking barns and gambrel-roofed barns followed in the southwest.
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The university awards Francis D. Winston an honorary doctor of laws
In 1920 the University of North Carolina gave Francis D. Winston, a member of the class of 1879 and a longtime trustee, an honorary LL.D.
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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.
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UNC separates the student council presidency from the senior class presidency
Other fraternities, angry that Beta Theta Pi held the top campus offices, won the creation of new posts, among them a student council president separate from the class president.
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William C. Coker directs a university bureau for school grounds
Coker set up and ran the UNC Extension Division's Bureau of Design and Improvement of School Grounds, which sent plans and a field assistant to schools around the state; 33 towns were helped in 1920-21. In 1921 the bureau began advising on home and factory grounds as well.
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William Clarence Cole builds a Craftsman farmhouse on Smith Level Road
About 1920 William Clarence Cole put up a side-gabled Craftsman farmhouse with a front dormer on a tract split off from the Smith plantation. Four early outbuildings stand with it.
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Chapel Hill's new federal post office opens on Franklin Street
Postmaster R. S. MacRae moved into the new government post office across Franklin Street from the Battle dormitory before the building was quite finished, leaving the crowded one-room office. Haymes Brothers had begun the one-story building with columns in April 1918 under a contract signed the December before.
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Fire destroys the Chapel Hill Country Club clubhouse
The club's one-story clubhouse, partly of log, burned to the ground on a Saturday afternoon after a leaking oil stove soaked the floor. The faculty used the Gimghoul lodge as a clubhouse for a time, and that fall the club moved into the Gorgon's Head lodge.
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Mount Olive Baptist Church is organized at Efland
Black Baptists at Efland organized Mount Olive Baptist Church and built a church the same year.
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Harry W. Chase is inaugurated as president in Memorial Hall
The new ROTC unit led a procession of students, faculty, alumni and delegates from over a hundred institutions to Memorial Hall, where Chief Justice Walter Clark gave Chase the oath. Chase asked the state to see its University as the university of the South; the day ended with a banquet at Swain Hall and a reception in Bynum Gymnasium.
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The Farmers' State Alliance auctions off its old academy headquarters
The Farmers' State Alliance had found the old Barracks property a burden since about 1901. On June 21, 1920 it was cut into lots and sold at auction, and John W. Hill got the parcel with the commandant's house.
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Horace Williams holds the Kenan professorship of philosophy
Williams was named a Kenan professor at the June 1920 commencement, announced by President Chase together with W. C. Coker and Louis R. Wilson. He held the Kenan chair of philosophy until 1935 and taught as professor emeritus afterwards.
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Louis R. Wilson and W. C. Coker are raised to Kenan professorships
At the 1920 commencement meeting the trustees made librarian Louis Round Wilson and botanist William C. Coker Kenan professors, in the same action that recognized Horace Williams.
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Trustees order a building plan for 3,000 students
At commencement Chase told the trustees the University had hit its limit, with laboratories running three shifts and 500 teachers turned away from summer school, and the visiting committee called the dormitories unsafe and unsanitary. The board told Chase to list what an enrollment of 3,000 would need.
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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.
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Forty-three alumni meet at the Coop and start the campaign for the state's colleges
Telegrams sent in Chase's name by Frank Porter Graham and alumni secretary Edgar R. Rankin brought 43 alumni to the Coop, an off-campus boardinghouse, where talk of the crowding went on past midnight. The book counts the meeting as the start of the citizens' movement that won the 1921 building appropriation.
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Frank Porter Graham takes the higher-education campaign to Hillsboro alumni
A day after Greensboro alumni founded the Association for the Promotion of Higher Education, Graham spoke to an alumni meeting in Hillsboro, one of nearly two dozen club gatherings across the state that October.
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The University receives a life-size 1800 portrait of founder William R. Davie
Chase built the 1920 University Day program around the portrait, which had survived the Civil War buried at the Davie estate in South Carolina. He used Davie's example to argue the state should meet the University's needs now.
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Orange County women vote in a presidential election after the Nineteenth Amendment
Orange County women could vote for president for the first time on November 2, 1920, after registering by October 23 without paying a poll tax. In an October 15 speech at the Chapel Hill high school auditorium, Governor Thomas Bickett said women should cast their votes. Literacy tests and hostile registrars kept many Black women off the rolls.
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Trustees let Chase ask for a six-year building program
On November 5 Governor Bickett and the trustees' executive committee reversed an earlier two-year limit and let Chase plan every building needed for six years. Near the end of November he gave the State Budget Commission a $5.6 million list: dormitories for about 1,275 men, a law building, classroom buildings, a gymnasium, a women's building and faculty houses.
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The new Presbyterian church on Franklin Street is dedicated as Sprunt Memorial
The new Presbyterian church at 209 East Franklin Street, built by James Sprunt of Wilmington as a memorial to his wife, Luola Murchison Sprunt, was formally dedicated as the Sprunt Memorial Presbyterian Church. It had been under construction for about two years and in use for about a month. The pastor, William D. Moss, accepted it for the congregation.
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A General Education Board grant pays for 25 percent faculty raises
In late November the University learned it would get up to $50,000 from the Rockefeller-funded General Education Board, one of only two tax-supported schools helped. Chase used it for raises of 25 percent backdated to July 1.
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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.
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A rail spur from Carrboro brings building materials to the campus
With the nearest railhead in Carrboro, convict labor built a $73,000 spur that ran south of Franklin Street, crossed Pittsboro Street and ended near Raleigh Road at the new dormitory sites; it was later moved toward the new mall. Neighbors blamed the Chapel Hill Limited for cracked plaster, cinders and smoke.
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Alexander H. Graham acquires the Hasell-Nash House on West Queen Street
After more than ninety years with the Nash family, the house passed in 1921 to lawyer Alexander H. Graham, later lieutenant governor and a grandson of Governor William A. Graham. The Grahams sold it on August 20, 1935, to Dr. H. W. Moore, who had it restored with architect Archie Royal Davis.
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Alice Noble joins the UNC School of Pharmacy staff
Alice Noble was hired as assistant secretary of the School of Pharmacy in 1921, the start of a decades-long tenure in which she was later librarian and secretary to Dean Edward Brecht.
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Carl Durham serves on the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen
While working as a pharmacist, Durham sat on the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen from 1921 to 1930 and on the Chapel Hill school board from 1924 to 1938.
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Connor returns to Chapel Hill as Kenan professor of history and government
Connor left his state archival work for the university in 1921 and taught at Chapel Hill until 1934, when he was named the first Archivist of the United States.
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Cool Springs gets a two-teacher Rosenwald school for Black children
Cool Springs got a two-teacher Rosenwald school for Black children in the Rosenwald Fund's 1921-22 budget year, one of four Orange County schools the Fund helped build. It cost $3,200: $1,800 raised by the Black community, $600 in public money and $800 from the Fund.
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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.
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James Finch Royster returns as Kenan Professor of English Philology
After seven years in Texas, Royster accepted the Kenan Professorship of English Philology, which he held until his death. Covington says President Chase recruited him back from Austin.
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Lightning sets fire to the new brick grist mill
A few years after the brick mill replaced the burned frame buildings, a strike burned out its interior. It was soon repaired, and W. Albert Lloyd is said to have made it a grocery and his home; the 1925 Sanborn map lists it as his grocery warehouse.
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Louis Graves becomes the university's first journalism professor
Louis Graves came back to Chapel Hill in 1921 as the University of North Carolina's first professor of journalism. He resigned in 1924 to give his time to his newspaper.
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Louis Round Wilson's survey finds thin library collections in Orange County's white schools
A questionnaire of Orange County's 48 white schools for 1921–22, including the Chapel Hill and Hillsboro graded schools, found seven with no library and 3,692 volumes for 1,586 pupils, slightly more than two books per pupil. Ten of the 25 teachers who answered said the books were used "not very much"; Wilson published the results in January 1923.
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Masons lay the cornerstone of Grimes Dormitory
Masons from Hillsborough's Eagle Lodge and Chapel Hill's University Lodge laid the cornerstone of Grimes Dormitory. Past Grand Master Samuel M. Gattis of Eagle Lodge ran the ceremony and gave the address.
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Memorial Hall is renovated with heat, electric light and sound padding
Builders laid cork on the floors and padded the vaulted ceiling with felt and burlap to fix the acoustics, and added electric lights and heat so the hall could be used year-round. It reopened for the fall 1921 term.
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Steele Dormitory, the first building of the new south quadrangle, goes up
Designed by Raleigh architect J. A. Salter and built just south of Smith Hall, Steele was the first building on what became Polk Place and the best-equipped dormitory the campus had yet seen.
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Story-and-a-half houses, probably mill housing for the Newport Manufacturing Company, go up on South Occoneechee Street
Three matching one-and-a-half-story houses at 212, 216 and 218 South Occoneechee Street, built around 1920-1921, may have been mill houses for the Newport Manufacturing Company, which the 1924 Sanborn map shows on nearby Calvin Street.
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The General Assembly grants almost $1.5 million for new university buildings
After a 1920 campaign by the university to expand its crowded plant, where about 1,000 students packed old dormitories and classrooms, the legislature voted close to $1.5 million for buildings in 1921 and 1922.
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The Paul Riley House is built on Riley Avenue in West Hillsborough
The Paul Riley House, a one-story frame bungalow with a shed dormer and tapered porch posts, was built at Riley Avenue and Eno Street. The Rileys were among the leading West Hillsborough families, and the Paul Riley Store went up nearby on Eno Street about 1942.
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The campus contractor builds separate quarters for white and Black workers
The trustees made T. C. Thompson and Brothers of Charlotte sole contractor for the $1.1 million building program, a first in the state. Its first job was housing the initial 200 workers, in one dormitory for white men and another for African American men.
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The center of East Franklin Street is paved
With the town's cars numbering 95 in 1921, an 18-foot strip down the middle of East Franklin Street was paved. About ten feet of packed dirt was left on each side.
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The legislature passes the Highway Act championed by Harriet Morehead Berry of Hillsborough
The 1921 act paid for a state highway network tying together the main cities and county seats. Its trunk route, the Central Highway (later U.S. 70), ran straight through Hillsborough.
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The trustees' building committee names Durham engineer Thomas C. Atwood its executive agent
Atwood ran the campus expansion on the ground, hiring engineers, draftsmen, an inspector, the architect H. P. Alan Montgomery and the Charlotte contractor T. C. Thompson. Nash replaced Montgomery the next year.
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The university drops its postwar ROTC unit for lack of students
An ROTC program organized at the university after World War I was ended in 1921 because too few students took part. It was 1924 before a visiting general's call for a new unit drew applause in Memorial Hall.
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Toney and William Strayhorn begin Carrboro Baptist's brick church
When the Rev. J. B. Davis called for full-time services, the Baptists traded their lot for a larger Durham Hosiery lot on North Greensboro Street and hired the Strayhorns, who laid the foundation and ground-floor walls in 1921. Money ran short and work stopped until 1924, a break visible in two shades of brick.
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UNC completes a sewage disposal plant in Battle Park for the Park Place faculty houses
Built with convict labor under T. C. Atwood, the plant on Battle Branch treated waste from the new Park Place faculty houses and nearby homes the town mains did not reach. It was reported complete and in service by October 12, 1921.
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Under rector Alfred Lawrence, the Chapel of the Cross asks Hobart Upjohn to design a new church
The vestry, led by its new rector Alfred Lawrence, asked church architect Hobart B. Upjohn to design a larger building linked to the old chapel by a cloister, after a 1920 diocesan resolution called for enlarging the church to serve the university.
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White Cross AME Church builds its present church
White Cross AME Church builds a new church in 1921; the congregation refaced it in brick veneer in 1958.
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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.
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Women students at UNC organize a basketball team
Women, then a small group mostly in upper classes and graduate study, formed a basketball team in 1921, and men on campus wondered whether a woman would have to be given a letter.
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The legislature abolishes the State Building Commission
The commission whose delays had raised the cost of Steele Dormitory was ended in the closing hours of the 1921 session, leaving Chase answerable only to the trustees' building committee for the new campus.
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Tuskegee principal Robert Russa Moton speaks in Gerrard Hall
Moton, Booker T. Washington's successor at Tuskegee Institute, told his campus audience that he accepted social separation of the races and promised good relations so long as whites gave Black people education and industrial fairness.
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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.
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Black clubwomen buy the Forrest farm at Efland for their home for girls
The North Carolina federation of Black women's clubs, led by Charlotte Hawkins Brown, bought the 143-acre farm of S. C. and Carrie Forrest at Efland as the site of its industrial home for Black girls. Plans for the first building were drawn that September, and the federation deeded the land to the home's trustees on August 3, 1922.
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Chapel Hill's town board orders a brick fire house built in Columbia Street
The town ordered a fire house of about $4,000 built in the middle of Columbia Street just north of Rosemary, and on August 9 let the contract to J. T. Squires for $3,988. It served until the 1938 town hall and fire station went up beside it.
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Carrboro's new school building goes up
Carrboro's new brick school building was under construction in the summer of 1921 and was expected to be ready for the September term. The old schoolhouse was advertised for sale at the end of the year.
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A freight wreck at the Occoneechee Farm siding sets a gasoline tank car burning
Three cars of a Southern freight train, one a gasoline tank car, left the track at the Occoneechee Farm siding east of Hillsboro. The tank car caught fire and burned through the night, a flour car and a lumber car burned, and passengers were transferred around the torn-up track until repairs the next afternoon.
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Plans are drawn for the first cottage of the Efland Home
In a letter of September 5, 1921, to state welfare commissioner Kate Burr Johnson, Charlotte Hawkins Brown reported that plans were under way for a cottage at the Efland site estimated at $5,000. The architect is not known, but the finished building follows a professional drawing except for its weatherboard walls, which replaced brick to save money.
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Charles E. Maddry urges the faculty to add religious instruction
At Harry W. Chase's invitation, Maddry, a university graduate just back from an Austin pastorate to lead the Baptist State Convention, met the faculty and described the University of Texas plan, under which denominations paid Bible teachers whose courses earned university credit. No decision was taken; Chase sent the question to the faculty committee on educational policy.
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Drought shrinks the University's water supply and delays the fall opening
After four hot, dry months Strowd's Creek, the main water source, had dwindled, and plants in the arboretum died. On local health officials' advice Chase asked students not to arrive before October 4, when a temporary six-inch line to Morgan's Creek was due to be ready.
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Fire destroys the main building of the old University Inn
Fire on November 30, 1921 destroyed the main building of the old University Inn, the former Eagle Hotel, and left 42 student roomers without quarters; students on the roof with a hose saved the annex Nancy Hilliard had built for President Polk's 1847 visit. The annex stood until it was razed in January 1924 to clear the site for Graham Memorial.
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A two-story addition turns the Hill Farm house to face a new way
In 1922 a big two-story frame wing was added to the Hill Farm house east of Hillsborough on St. Mary's Road, changing the direction the house faced. The older part, a rear ell from the late eighteenth century, became a back wing.
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Arthur Cleveland Nash comes to Chapel Hill as the university's architect
Nash moved to Chapel Hill in 1922 to serve as architect for the University of North Carolina during its major expansion, working with the builder Thomas C. Atwood and the consulting firm McKim, Mead and White of New York.
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Atwood and Nash rebuild Old East inside a fireproof concrete frame
After Old East was condemned, the firm of Atwood and Nash put a fireproof concrete frame inside the building, restored its eastern porches and left the outside lines unchanged. It was back in use as a dormitory by 1925.
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Bethlehem Presbyterian Church builds a Classical Revival church at Oaks
In 1922 the Bethlehem Presbyterian congregation at Oaks built a church fronted by a tall portico on square columns, with dentils along the eaves and large nine-over-nine windows. The congregation dates from early in the nineteenth century, and the form says its church has been replaced at least three times.
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Brodie Thompson oversees the building of the Ben Warren house on Hillsborough Street
Julius A. "Ben" Warren, the university's treasurer, and his wife Pattie Spurgeon Warren built a large two-story frame house at 301 Hillsborough Street on four acres he had bought in 1917, under the supervision of local builder Brodie Thompson.
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Chapel Hill hires its first town manager, E. M. Knox
Chapel Hill appoints E. M. Knox as its first town manager. He served until 1928, when J. M. Foushee took the post.
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Courts clear the University's claim to $75,000 a year from the Bingham estate
Five years of litigation over Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham's bequest ended in late 1922, confirming the University's right to an annual income of $75,000 from her estate.
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Edgar Wallace Knight serves on the Chapel Hill School Board
Knight was a member of the Chapel Hill School Board for thirty years.
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Graduate dean James Finch Royster builds a house on East Franklin Street
James Finch Royster, dean of the UNC graduate school in the later 1920s, built the two-story house at 619 East Franklin Street in 1922.
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Howard W. Odum founds the Journal of Social Forces at UNC
Two years after coming to UNC, Odum founded and edited the Journal of Social Forces, the journal now titled Social Forces.
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James Finch Royster becomes dean of the College of Liberal Arts
Royster became dean of the College of Liberal Arts in 1922 and introduced the major-minor system, sectioning of students by ability, and an advisory system that later grew into the General College.
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John M. Booker outlines sixteen more buildings for the growing campus
With enrollment rising past 1,600, English professor John M. Booker, a member of the faculty building committee, presented a plan with sites for sixteen buildings beyond the seven already funded, which he said would be needed within a few years to serve 3,000 students. He had also urged grouping buildings by purpose in the new campus plan.
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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.
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Mangum Dormitory opens, named for three members of the Mangum family
The university opened Mangum Dormitory in 1922, naming it for Senator Willie Person Mangum, his nephew Willie Person Mangum Jr., and Professor Adolphus Williamson Mangum.
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Manly Residence Hall is completed and named for Charles and Matthias Manly
Manly Residence Hall, finished in 1922, carries the names of Charles Manly, a trustee from 1821 to 1868 and governor from 1849 to 1851, and his brother Matthias Manly, a judge and trustee from 1874 to 1881.
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McDuffie Memorial Baptist Church is organized
J. F. McDuffie and Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Franklin organized a Baptist church named for McDuffie, who became its first pastor. It built a 130-seat church the same year.
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Murphey, Saunders and Manning halls are designed in the university's building office
On the east side of the new south quadrangle, H. P. Alan Montgomery, architect in the university's building office under Thomas C. Atwood, laid out a smaller court of classroom buildings, with McKim, Mead and White as consulting architects: Murphey Hall for languages and literature, Saunders Hall (now Carolina Hall) for history and social science, and Manning Hall, with an Ionic portico and cupola, for the law school.
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New Bethel Methodist Church builds a frame church near Rougemont
New Bethel Methodist in northeastern Orange County builds a frame church with a recessed entrance in 1922.
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Old East is condemned as unsafe
The university's first building was condemned when some of its walls were found to have bowed as much as three inches.
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Orange County Training School burns
In 1922 fire destroyed the buildings of the Orange County Training School, the county's school for Black students on the former Hackney campus in Chapel Hill. The school reopened that September, and in spring 1923 its pupils were meeting in the Odd Fellows' hall, lent free of charge, while they looked for a suitable place. A Rosenwald-aided brick building replaced the burned campus in 1924.
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Robert Ervin Coker becomes professor of zoology at UNC
Coker, who had worked for the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, accepted a professorship of zoology at Chapel Hill.
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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.
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The O. E. Bivins House, a Craftsman bungalow, is built on North Hassell Street
The 2014 National Register documentation for the Hillsborough Historic District names the hip-roofed Craftsman bungalow at 112 North Hassell Street the O. E. Bivins House and dates it about 1922. O. E. Bivins was a Hillsboro manufacturer who ran the town's tobacco basket factory with his brothers.
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The State Highway Commission builds a concrete bridge over the Eno at Hillsboro
The commission let State Project 453, a bridge over the Eno at Hillsboro, to contractor George W. Kane for $30,651.20 on February 8, 1922, and work was well along by July. The reinforced concrete bridge, now on Exchange Park Lane, was the main way into town from the south until 1964.
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The law school moves to a three-year course with new entrance rules
By the end of 1922 the law curriculum had become a three-year course of study with new admission requirements, part of Dean Lucius McGehee's effort to meet American Bar Association standards.
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Trustees create a School of Engineering
The trustees joined the departments of civil and electrical engineering into a school of engineering, one of several steps Chase took in 1922 toward a full university.
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Trustees put Graham Memorial on the site of the burned University Inn
After other sites were floated, the trustees settled on the University Inn lot, set back from Franklin Street. Alumni pledges then stood near $120,000, only half of it paid.
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UNC is admitted to the Association of American Universities
Membership put the University beside Yale, Harvard, Columbia and Johns Hopkins. Virginia had been a founder, but Chapel Hill was the first Southern university voted in.
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UNC trustees name a new classroom building for William L. Saunders
The trustees named one of the new buildings Saunders Hall to honor Saunders as a Confederate veteran, a university trustee and a leader of the state Ku Klux Klan. It was built for the history department.
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New health rules cover Chapel Hill dairies, restaurants and boardinghouses
To head off food-borne illness as off-campus eateries fed more and more students, new health regulations on dairies, restaurants and boardinghouses took effect in January 1922.
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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.
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The Susan Graham memorial fountain replaces the old town well on Franklin Street
Townspeople set up a marble drinking fountain designed by Roger Noble Burnham at the curb of Franklin Street, on the site of the old town well, in memory of Susan Williams Graham.
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Jody and Mattie Sparrow open a concrete swimming pool below their house
The Sparrows built the pool, a novelty for the area, across the stream from their hilltop house on Old Pittsboro Road, with parking above and bath houses and refreshment stands nearby; it had its first swim in late May 1922 as the Maple Spring pool. Sparrow's Pool charged admission and drew swimmers from Burlington to Raleigh, and Mrs. Sparrow kept it running until about 1959.
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The University of North Carolina Press is founded
On June 12, 1922, university librarian Louis Round Wilson, nine other faculty members and three trustees founded the University of North Carolina Press, the first university press in the South. Its first book, William C. Coker's study of water molds, appeared in 1923, and William T. Couch became director in 1932.
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Trustees vote to ask for a 200-bed teaching hospital in Chapel Hill
A June 1 report by Dean Isaac H. Manning, Chase and Dr. Richard H. Lewis found the state 45th in hospital beds and short of doctors. Twelve days later the full board voted to ask the legislature for a 200-bed teaching hospital at Chapel Hill, a memorial to the World War dead, so the two-year medical school could grow to four years.
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University trustees name the new law building for John Manning
At their June 13, 1922 meeting the university trustees approved naming the new law building for John Manning. The School of Law moved into Manning Hall before the fall 1923 semester.
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The county board agrees to build a new school at Cedar Grove
On August 11, 1922, under superintendent Claytor, the county board agreed to build a modern school at Cedar Grove once state building-fund money came. The building was accepted in January 1924 and named Aycock School. Carrboro's new school, planned under the same program, was already going up in 1921.
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Hillsboro finishes its new $100,000 school building
The town's new brick school on West Tryon Street was reported ready within a week in September 1922, though a shortage of desks held up the opening. By early 1923 it housed grades one through eleven for the consolidated Hillsboro schools under principal J. A. Abernethy.
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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.
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Black clubwomen sell two-cent stamps across the state to build the first cottage at Efland
The state federation of Black women's clubs, led by Charlotte Hawkins Brown, sold two-cent stamps across the state in November 1922 to raise $5,000 for the first cottage of the North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls at Efland, on land it had bought the year before.
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William C. Coker's committee is put in charge of the care of the whole campus
After Coker drew his 'Plan A' for siting dormitories on the campus's east side, the grounds and buildings committee in December 1922 gave him and a subcommittee charge of the care and improvement of the entire campus, with its own budget. The nomination calls him in effect the university's first resident planner.
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Trinity's William P. Few proposes a joint medical school with UNC
After the trustees' site committee split on December 16, Few met the committee at the governor's mansion and offered a four-year school with two years at Chapel Hill and two in Durham near Watts Hospital, backed by $1 million from each side and a Trinity endowment. Morrison endorsed it that night, but Baptist protest over church and state killed it within weeks.
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"Judge" Brockwell's cabin at the edge of Battle Park burns
The cabin known as "Judge" Brockwell's, on the edge of Battle Park, burns down. Early in 1924 coach Bill Fetzer bought the plot in the new Gimghoul development and planned a Colonial house there.
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A Durham man named Pollard builds a brick duplex at 738 East Franklin Street
The buff-brick, two-story duplex with a two-level front porch and sleeping-porch ells may have housed the Pollards for a time but served mostly as rental housing. It changed owners several times before the Lacock family bought it in the 1940s.
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A hard-surface road links Chapel Hill and Durham
A new eighteen-foot concrete road ran from the center of Chapel Hill to Durham, credited to trustee John Sprunt Hill as a state highway commissioner. Franklin Street merchants declined to pay for paving its edges, so mud borders remained.
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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.
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Albert Coates joins the law faculty at Chapel Hill
Coates, a university graduate with a Harvard law degree, joined the law faculty in 1923. The schools he ran for police officers and sheriffs grew into the Institute of Government.
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Albert Ray Newsome joins the UNC history faculty
Newsome, a 1915 UNC graduate, returned to Chapel Hill from graduate study at Michigan as an assistant professor of history and stayed until 1926.
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Chapel Hill Baptists build a Neoclassical church at Franklin and Columbia streets
Leaving their church a few blocks west, the Baptists built a tan brick and stone church with an Ionic portico on a raised basement at the corner of West Franklin and South Columbia streets, facing the campus. Frank Milburn designed it, probably his last Chapel Hill job.
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Delta Kappa Epsilon completes the first of the large new fraternity houses
In the move off the old campus row, DKE finished the first of the big Colonial Revival chapter houses in 1923; Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Sigma Chi soon followed, and the South Columbia Street court had five houses by 1926.
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Ellis Store and post office opens
Allen A. Ellis built a new crossroads store.
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Fire guts the upper story of Edward Kidder Graham's former house
A 1923 fire burned out the upper floor of the late president's house, then rented to faculty, and destroyed many of Graham's personal papers stored there. The house still stood in the twenty-first century.
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Fitch-Riggs Lumber Company buys Andrews and Lloyd's Carrboro lumber business
In 1923 the Mebane firm Fitch-Riggs took over Andrews and Lloyd, a small Carrboro lumber business with one employee, and R. Bernice Fitch ran the Carrboro plant. It traded as Fitch-Riggs Lumber Co. into 1925 and as Fitch Lumber Co. by 1927, and by 1953 it was Carrboro's oldest small concern, with 20 men, a planing mill and a coal yard.
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John Sprunt Hill chairs the trustees' buildings committee
As a university trustee, John Sprunt Hill chaired the committee on university buildings during the campus building program of 1923 to 1931.
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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.
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Lettie Glass serves as acting superintendent of the Chapel Hill schools
Lettie Glass ran the Chapel Hill schools as acting superintendent while Fred W. Morrison was away, and again in 1923-1924. She is the only woman in the book's list of superintendents.
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Louis Graves founds the Orange Printshop in Chapel Hill
Graves set up the Orange Printshop in 1923 alongside his Chapel Hill Weekly and leased it to W. M. Pugh in 1940. It printed books and magazines and set a record for delivering the state Session Laws.
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Murphey School is built in brick on the Durham-Hillsboro road
Murphey School, a hip-roofed brick consolidated school for white children named for Archibald D. Murphey, was built in 1923 on the Durham-Hillsboro road (Old NC 10). H. C. Linthicum drew the plans and W. H. Woods of Durham built it for $8,995. The school closed in 1959; the road nearby is spelled Murphy School Road.
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Orange County begins merging its one- and two-teacher schools into larger ones
Claytor started the county's first round of consolidation in 1923, folding small schools into larger ones and seeking local tax elections, with a budget request of $92,100. Efland, Aycock and Hillsborough were to carry grades one through eleven and the rest grades one through seven.
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Parts of the old academy land are subdivided as Oak Ridge and the Murray property
Portions of the Alliance tract were laid out as the Oak Ridge Development in 1923 and as the Murray property in 1924. Together they make up the west end of West Hillsborough.
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Robert W. Madry becomes the University's full-time publicity man
Persuaded by Louis Round Wilson that the University had to tell its story better, Chase hired Madry, an alumnus then writing for the New York Herald, as its first full-time publicity man.
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Students place the first marker at Governor Thomas Burke's grave
A committee of university summer-school students working with the Boone Trail Highway Association cleared the unmarked grave of Governor Thomas Burke near Hillsborough and set a stone with an iron tablet at its head.
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The Order of Gimghouls plats its Chapel Hill subdivision with racial deed restrictions
The Junior Order of Gimghouls subdivided its land east of campus into house lots, with a plat recorded in Orange County Plat Book 1, page 51. The original deed covenants carried the racial restrictions standard for the period, along with setbacks and a requirement that the order review house plans.
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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.
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The county school board builds a teachers' home at Murphey School from the unfinished Mount Hope School
Instead of finishing a new Mount Hope School that was to be merged into Murphey, the county board had the partly built schoolhouse taken apart and its materials carried to the Murphey site for a seven-room teachers' home. W. H. Woods built it for $800 in labor, paid with money from the sale of the old University School; the frame bungalow is the only teacherage left standing in Orange County.
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The faculty turns down church-paid Bible teachers at the university
Answering the churches, the faculty committee on educational policy, in a report drafted with Chase, refused to place instructors on campus who owed their posts and pay to a denomination, and warned that such a program would cut into the work of the church colleges. It offered instead Bible courses taught from a literary and historical standpoint by faculty the university chose.
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Thomas C. Atwood and Arthur C. Nash form the firm Atwood and Nash, Architects and Engineers
The firm served as the university's local architects and engineers through the 1920s building campaign, working under McKim, Mead and White's William Kendall. It kept its office in the Alumni Building and another in Durham.
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UNC and the North Carolina College for Women agree to limit women to UNC's upper levels
After a quarrel over Chase's remarks and a meeting with President Julius I. Foust at a Durham hotel, the two schools agreed that women would enter UNC's graduate and professional schools but not its first two years, even if they lived in Chapel Hill, and that transfers from NCCW would need NCCW's consent.
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William C. Coker gives the Chapel Hill Country Club land for a clubhouse and golf course
By early 1923 Coker had given the new Chapel Hill Country Club its grounds south of the campus. The clubhouse went up that spring and the golf course over the next two years. The land later passed to the university and is used for tennis courts and a greenway park; the Laurel Hill subdivision was laid out along the course.
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Hillsboro's first public schoolhouse is gone and its lot is set aside for an athletic field
Once the new consolidated school opened, the grounds where the old Hillsboro schoolhouse had stood were to become the new school's athletic field, according to a February 1923 report.
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Trustees ask $350,000 to start a four-year medical college, and the legislature ignores it
With the joint plan dead, the trustees heard delegations from Raleigh, Charlotte, Greensboro and Durham, chose no site, and voted to ask the General Assembly for $350,000 toward a four-year medical college. The legislature did not act; in June 1923 the trustees voted for a four-year program at Chapel Hill.
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The Chapel Hill Weekly publishes its first issue
Louis Graves published the first issue of his newspaper, the Chapel Hill Weekly, on March 2, 1923. He owned and edited it until 1954.
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A Tar Heel special edition attacks coeducation
While Chase sought $224,000 for a women's dormitory, students voted 937 to 173 against it in a Tar Heel poll, and on March 14 a special edition ran editorials headed "Women Students Not Wanted Here." Chase answered in a long statement read at chapel and printed in the paper.
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Carrboro's old schoolhouse is moved and split between the Methodist parsonage and church
The Carrboro school replaced by the new graded school was being moved in March 1923. Part became the Methodist parsonage at 114 West Main Street, which served until the Methodists built a new parsonage on Oak Street in 1955, and part was added to the Methodist church for Sunday school rooms, with John T. Squires as contractor.
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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.
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The 1923 legislature gives UNC $1.7 million for buildings
The University got about 15 percent of a $10.7 million bond issue for state institutions, letting the building program go on, but its operating budget was cut 7 percent below the request and it got $667,300 less than the $2.3 million in construction money sought.
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Church leaders spend a day with Chase and the faculty on teaching religion at the university
Baptist, Presbyterian, Moravian, Episcopal and Methodist leaders met in President Chase's office with the faculty committee on educational policy. All favored nonsectarian Bible courses; after a day of argument over who would choose and pay the teachers, the churchmen agreed on courses taught off campus by teachers the denominations selected, with credit from the university.
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Chapel Hill aldermen order a cemetery survey, burial permits and a deed from the university
After noting in December 1922 that the cemetery needed more room, the town board on May 10, 1923 told the town manager to survey the grounds, begin burial permits and obtain a deed from the university showing that the town owned the cemetery. Nothing is recorded to have come of it.
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The Chapel Hill Country Club opens its new clubhouse
Members gathered with basket suppers for the opening of the club's new house, three years after fire destroyed the first one. By late 1924 the club was clearing the fairways of its golf course.
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Sutton's Drug Store opens on Franklin Street
J. L. Sutton and J. L. Alderman, a UNC pharmacy graduate, opened the Sutton and Alderman drugstore with a soda fountain in the Strowd Building on Franklin Street, in space vacated by Jack Sparrow's shop. As Sutton's Drug Store it marked its centennial in 2023 as a downtown gathering place.
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The commissioners issue $65,000 in bonds to pay off the county's bank loans
Road spending in the early 1920s outran taxes and kept the board borrowing from banks. On August 6, 1923 it voted $65,000 in bonds to clear the existing debt, which the book calls the first time the county funded its deficits.
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Bayard Wootten photographs the Playmakers' outdoor Taming of the Shrew
Bayard Wootten of New Bern came to Chapel Hill to photograph the Carolina Playmakers' outdoor production of The Taming of the Shrew, the start of years of Playmakers work. That month she also urged the University to have aerial photographs made of the growing campus.
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Law dean Lucius McGehee dies
McGehee, dean since 1910 and the man who brought the casebook method to Chapel Hill, broke down weeks before the fall term and died in Richmond in early October. Atwell C. McIntosh became acting dean, and the trustees gave his estate $2,000 for burial and debts.
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Julian Carr's Occoneechee Farm is sold at auction in small farms
Occoneechee Farm, divided into small farms along the Durham-Greensboro highway a mile from Hillsboro, was sold at auction with its personal property. Carr had already sold his Holstein herd to Chapel Hill dairyman C. H. Weaver.
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Governor Morrison offers the law deanship to Justice Walter P. Stacy, who declines
At a trustees' executive committee meeting in early November, Morrison bypassed Chase and offered the deanship to Stacy on the spot. Stacy turned it down, and Chase saw the move as an intrusion on the president's role.
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The Chapel Hill chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy puts up four Jefferson Davis Highway markers
The Chapel Hill UDC chapter, with Mrs. W. S. Bernard in charge, marked the state road from Durham to Pittsboro as the Jefferson Davis Highway. The four signs stood at the one-mile bridge on the Durham road, at Andrews corner, at the new Baptist church and near the west gate of the campus.
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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.
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Albert Coates revives the Law School Association
Coates brought back Efird's association and used it to bring state supreme court justices, judges and lawyers to Manning Hall to lecture, to run moot courts across all three classes, and later to equip a model law office.
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Arthur C. Nash renovates Old West
Nash's rebuilding of the 1822 dormitory, done alongside the work on Old East, left the brick walls as about the only original material.
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Aycock School is built at Cedar Grove
The county board of education built a new school at Cedar Grove on land bought from Carl C. McDade, because state law barred board member Charles A. McDade from selling his own land to the county. Sam Johnson won the contract in August 1923 with a bid of $19,570. On January 7, 1924 the board voted to name the school Aycock instead of Cedar Grove, and on January 21 it inspected and accepted the building.
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Carrboro Baptist Church completes its brick church at Greensboro and Main
The mill-town congregation borrowed $50,000 to build a brick church at the corner of Greensboro and Main streets, paying off the debt in 1942; the building is now the Town's Century Center.
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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."
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Commerce dean Dudley D. Carroll and Eleanor Carroll build a house on Ridge Lane in Gimghoul
Dudley DeWitt Carroll, dean of UNC's commerce school, and his wife Eleanor Elliott Carroll had a Chatham County contractor named Barber build a two-story Colonial Revival house with a garage on Ridge Lane, among the first houses in the new Gimghoul subdivision.
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Daniel L. Grant, UNC's first alumni secretary, builds a house on Glandon Drive
Daniel L. Grant, the first secretary of the UNC Alumni Association, builds a two-story Colonial Revival house in the new Gimghoul subdivision, one of the five houses finished there in 1924.
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Efland gets a three-teacher Rosenwald school for Black children
Efland's three-teacher Rosenwald school for Black children went up in 1924-25 (Rosenwald budget year 1924-25) at a cost of $4,810: $900 from the Rosenwald Fund, $200 from Black residents and $3,710 in public money. The county board put the $501 from its August 4, 1924 sale of the old Efland school toward it and inspected the building while it was under way that October.
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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.
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First Baptist Church of Hillsborough replaces its steeple
In 1924 the steeple of the First Baptist Church at West King and South Wake streets was replaced; the bell tower now carries a tall four-sided copper steeple.
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Gerald W. Johnson heads the university's newly independent journalism department
After Louis Graves left in 1924, the university expanded journalism into an independent department with Johnson, an editorial writer, at its head. He left for the Baltimore Evening Sun in 1926.
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Guy B. Johnson begins work at the Institute for Research in Social Science
Guy B. Johnson and his wife Guion Griffis Johnson began working at UNC's new Institute for Research in Social Science in 1924. He was one of its original research assistants.
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Hatcher Hughes wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Hatcher Hughes, a UNC graduate and former instructor in English there, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Hell-Bent fer Heaven, a play about a mountain preacher. He was then teaching at Columbia University in New York.
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Health officer S. A. Nathan leads a campaign against mosquitoes in Chapel Hill
Through the summer of 1924 the Chapel Hill board of health, directed by Nathan, drained standing water and treated breeding places with oil mixed with kerosene. Nathan asked both white and Black residents to report breeding places and said mosquitoes had decreased across town.
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J. F. Sturdivant completes a master's thesis on the Carrboro mill village
In 1924 J. F. Sturdivant finished a UNC master's thesis studying Carrboro as a small mill village. It found every house painted and about two-thirds with electric lights, and it counted 197 workers at Mill No. 4 and 81 at Mill No. 7 in the early 1920s.
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Jesse Nevilles builds a cow barn and milking barn on the family farm
Bryant Nevilles's son Jesse turned the log homestead farm into a dairy, adding a gable-roofed cow barn in 1924 and a frame milking barn in 1925 that still held its machinery in 1992. His son Lacy added a concrete-block milk cooling house and two silos in the 1950s.
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Kennon Cheek helps negotiate the land swap that brought Hackney's school to Northside
Cheek's daughter Marian Cheek Jackson said he was instrumental in negotiating the 1924 land swap that moved Hackney's Educational and Industrial School from South Merritt Mill Road into the Northside community.
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Odum's new institute makes county government its first study
The Institute for Research in Social Science chose county government as its first project, with E. C. Branson leading researchers who examined forty-three counties. Odum shared the findings in 1925 with Governor McLean's study commission, and McLean put county finance reforms to the 1927 legislature.
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Orange County Training School opens a Rosenwald campus
The Orange County Training School's new brick building for Black students rose on land given by Henry Strowd at the north end of Church Street in Northside, Chapel Hill. Its cornerstone was laid on Labor Day 1924 and it opened late that year; the Rosenwald Fund gave $1,500 of its $23,112 cost, Black residents $500.
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Public health in rural Orange County
County nurses, clinics, the district health department and sanitation work reached into rural Orange County from 1924: the campaigns against typhoid, diphtheria, tuberculosis and polio through 1955.
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St. Matthew's Church celebrates the hundredth anniversary of its organization
The parish marked a century since its 1824 founding with an evening service. Speakers included Samuel S. Nash of Tarboro, and two great-great-granddaughters of Thomas Ruffin, who gave the site, attended.
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The 1924 Sanborn map shows a school for Black children on West Orange Street
The 1924 Sanborn map records a 'colored school' on the West Orange Street lot where a Prince Hall Masonic lodge was later built.
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The Carolina Inn is built
John Sprunt Hill built the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill.
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The Tankersley house on East Franklin Street is torn down
Frances Adele Tankersley, tired of the business district's noise, built a new house east of the Presbyterian church, and her old house was razed. Three stores later went up on the lot.
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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.
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UNC and the state welfare board win a Rockefeller grant for Black welfare work
In 1924 the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare and the University of North Carolina received a Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial grant for a demonstration program in Black welfare, which opened on January 1, 1925, as the board's Division of Negro Work under Lawrence A. Oxley. Charlotte Hawkins Brown sat on its advisory commission, and Oxley visited the Efland Home.
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UNC national championships beyond women’s soccer
National titles won by Carolina teams other than women's soccer: the 1924 basketball team's later Helms recognition, men's basketball's six NCAA championships from 1957, women's basketball in 1994, and the field hockey, lacrosse, men's soccer and women's tennis titles since 1981.
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UNC opens a residence hall named for Charles B. Aycock
The university occupied Aycock Residence Hall on the Lower Quad in 1924. The name stood until the trustees removed it in July 2020, citing his racist views and actions.
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UNC’s 1924 basketball team earns later Helms recognition
UNC’s unbeaten 1923–24 team was retrospectively named national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation in 1943.
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Union Chapel is taken down and its materials go into McDuffie Baptist Church
Once the brick Carrboro Baptist Church was finished, the old frame chapel was dismantled and its materials used to build a church on N.C. 86 north of Chapel Hill, named for early Carrboro Baptist minister McDuffie.
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University architect Thomas C. Atwood builds a duplex on Ridge Lane for his firm's workers
Thomas C. Atwood, supervising architect for the 1920s campus building program, built a one-story frame duplex in the Gimghoul subdivision to house employees of Atwood and Nash. It stayed a duplex until the 1970s, when it became a single-family house.
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W. E. Atkins of the Atwood and Nash firm builds a Craftsman cottage on Gimghoul Road
W. E. Atkins, who worked for the university architects Atwood and Nash, has a Chatham County contractor named Barber build a one-and-a-half-story Craftsman cottage, said to be the first house on Gimghoul Road. He soon sold it to economics professor Earl Peacock.
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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.
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Work begins on Graham Memorial on the site of the burned University Inn
Construction of Graham Memorial started where the University Inn had stood until the 1921 fire. By 1928 only its social room was in use.
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Community Club hires a nurse to serve Chapel Hill's Black community
The health department of the Chapel Hill Community Club engaged a Black nurse, known as Nurse Compton and formerly of Lincoln Hospital, who began on January 1, 1924, visiting homes, examining children at the Black schools and organizing clean-up campaigns. By May 1926 the town had taken over part of her salary and she worked under Health Officer Nathan.
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Trustees adopt higher law school standards over Governor Morrison's objection
At a four-hour meeting in the governor's office, attended by about half the trustees, 45 of them lawyers, Morrison argued against stiffer entrance rules, but a voice vote approved Chase's plans. The board put off naming a dean rather than accept Chase's out-of-state choice.
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Fire destroys the Pickwick Theatre on Franklin Street
An early-morning fire burned the Pickwick movie theatre and the O'Kelly pressing club next door, and sparks threatened the fraternity houses nearby. Until it was rebuilt, films were shown in Gerrard Hall.
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Chase and Coates rally students to revive the Graham Memorial drive
President Chase, Albert Coates and student body president Julian Allsbrook held a special chapel meeting in Memorial Hall to restart the stalled fund drive, with plans cut back to a smaller building whose exterior was under way. In March Coates set out a University Life Unification Plan centered on the building.
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