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Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
- 1910s
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Venable is incorporated
The General Assembly incorporated the mill settlement west of Chapel Hill as the Town of Venable in an act ratified March 3, 1911, naming William H. Parker mayor and T. N. Mann, J. F. Ragan, T. A. Ray and J. F. Partin commissioners until the first election. The town, named for UNC president Francis P. Venable, became Carrboro in 1913.
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Bettie Jackson London publishes the design for the campus monument and appeals for the $7,500
Writing from Pittsboro as chairman of the UDC monument committee, Mrs. Henry A. London described the monument designed by the sculptor John Wilson, a soldier above a bronze tablet of the State calling a student from his books, and warned that the chapters had not met their pledges and the unveiling at the semicentennial commencement was in doubt.
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The Tar Heel reports the monument's unveiling put off from the 1911 commencement for want of funds
The paper reported that the UDC chapters had been unable to fulfill their pledges toward the $7,500, so the monument could not be unveiled at the June 1911 commencement, the fiftieth anniversary of the war's beginning, and would certainly be unveiled in 1912. It was in fact dedicated in June 1913.
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Alumni set up a General Assembly and plan an alumni monthly
On May 29, 1911, the alumni adopted a plan for a General Assembly of delegates from local associations, a Council of fifteen, and a magazine to be called the University of North Carolina Alumni Monthly. W. H. Swift went out as field manager to organize local groups.
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Governor Woodrow Wilson gives the commencement address
Woodrow Wilson, governor of New Jersey, spoke at the alumni luncheon and gave the 1911 commencement address in Memorial Hall, and the university made him a Doctor of Laws.
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The university grants diplomas to students who left for the Confederate army
The faculty and trustees voted to give A.B. diplomas to surviving students who had left their classes to join the Confederate army, and the war classes of 1861 to 1868 were called at the 1911 commencement.
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Thomas F. Lloyd, founder of Carrboro's first two mills, dies
Thomas F. Lloyd died in May 1911, close to the time his second mill, a one-story brick yarn mill a block south of the Alberta mill, was finished. A Confederate veteran with no schooling, he had built the gin, grist mill and flour mill by the depot before starting the Alberta mill in 1898.
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Adolph Vermont directs and acts in As You Like It for the Summer School's Fourth of July
The Summer School's Fourth of July of 1911 ended with an evening performance of Shakespeare's As You Like It, directed by Vermont, who also played Orlando.
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Samuel Paul Lockhart rejects the school board's re-election of Superintendent T. Wingate Andrews
At its July 1911 meeting the county board of education re-elected T. Wingate Andrews as superintendent of schools. Lockhart, a candidate for the post, said he would not abide by the result because the election was illegal, and by August he was superintendent himself.
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Samuel Paul Lockhart becomes superintendent of the Orange County schools
Lockhart, a Bingham and UNC student from the New Hope area, took over the county schools in August 1911 and set to work with the board on new schoolhouses. He served until his cousin R. H. Claytor defeated him in 1917.
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The Noxall Bottling Works buys a lot near the Hillsborough depot for its plant
The Noxall Bottling Works, newly chartered under state law with its headquarters at Hillsborough, bought a lot near the Southern Railway station and planned to run its plant there.
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The county board agrees to pay half the cost of new schoolhouses built by local districts
At its meeting of October 10, 1911, early in Lockhart's term, the board planned new schoolhouses in several districts, the county paying half the cost and each community raising the other half.
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Alphonso McDade sells the McDade House to his daughter and son-in-law
McDade sold J. E. Merritt and his wife Minnie, McDade's daughter, the West Franklin Street house they had been renting for years.
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Alumni begin publishing the Alumni Review
The alumni launched the Alumni Review, issued monthly during the college year, with Dean Edward Kidder Graham as an associate editor; his piece in the first issue memorialized his teacher Thomas Hume.
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David K. Blackwood is moved from a family burying ground to New Hope churchyard
In 1912 the remains of David K. Blackwood, who had died in 1859, were taken from the family graveyard and reburied at New Hope Presbyterian Church. His marble headstone records the move.
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Dr. Braxton Bynum Lloyd begins practicing medicine in the Chapel Hill community
A Chapel Hill native with an M.D. from the University of North Carolina (1909) and three years at the Newark Eye and Ear Infirmary, Lloyd began a medical practice in the community that lasted until his death in 1947.
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Dr. C. M. Hughes builds a Colonial Revival house in Cedar Grove
Dr. C. M. Hughes's large two-story frame house in Cedar Grove, with a high hip roof, a cutaway bay and a columned wraparound porch, was built in 1912.
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Durham Hosiery Mills nearly doubles Mill No. 4
About 1912 the company added a two-story extension to the west end of the old Alberta mill, enlarged its one-story south wing and put up a new power house northeast of the reservoir. Orders for cotton hosiery had outgrown the building. The Sanborn maps show the work done between March 1911 and December 1915.
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Graham joins the student county clubs into a civic association
Dean Graham revived the clubs of students from the same county, which nearly half the student body joined after Rand's death, and federated more than a dozen of them as the North Carolina Civic Association of the University, urging members to study conditions at home.
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Harriet Cole's house is moved to clear a site for a public school
Mrs. Harriet Cole's house was moved several hundred feet east along West Franklin Street to make room for a planned public school.
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Hillsborough merchant "Dr." Durham has a Craftsman bungalow built on West Tryon Street
About 1912 a downtown general merchant named Durham, known in town as "Dr. Durham" though he was not a physician, had a large one-and-a-half-story bungalow built for himself at 110 West Tryon Street. Its wraparound porch has ogee-arched spans between the columns.
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Ira Rogers builds a hip-roofed farmhouse northwest of Hillsborough
Tobacco farmer Ira Rogers built himself a plain, square, hip-roofed farmhouse northwest of Hillsborough in 1912, with tapered porch posts and grouped windows.
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John L. Efland starts a hosiery mill at Efland
Efland's first hosiery plant, opened by John L. Efland in 1912, first made half hose and later full-fashioned stockings. Relatives' later mills grew from it.
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Louis H. Hackney opens a school for Black students in Chapel Hill
Louis H. Hackney, minister of Rock Hill Baptist Church, opened Hackney's Industrial and Educational Institute, a private school for Black students on Merritt Mill Road in Chapel Hill.
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Richard H. Battle gives his law books to the university
Shortly before his death, Richard H. Battle gave the University Law Library all his law books, about 500 volumes including full sets of the United States and North Carolina Reports.
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St. Matthew's Episcopal Church builds its present rectory across St. Mary's Road
St. Matthew's built a one-and-a-half-story frame rectory on the triangular lot across St. Mary's Road from the church in 1912 and 1913, for its new rector, Alfred S. Lawrence. The parish had owned the lot since 1869, and rectors have lived there since then.
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Students form the Greater Council and open honor code hearings to the public
Working with Dean Graham after Rand's death, students set up the Greater Council, with members from every class, to give them more voice on campus questions, and the Student Council began trying honor code charges in public with the accused facing their accusers.
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Summer School students perform the colonial play Esther Wake
In the summer of 1912 the Summer School for Teachers presented Esther Wake, a play by instructor Adolf Vermont about colonial North Carolina, on the steps of Smith Hall.
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The Bellevue mill runs 5,000 spindles and 200 looms making dress ginghams
Three years after it opened, the Bellevue mill had 5,000 spindles and 200 narrow looms weaving dress ginghams 27 and 32 inches wide, sold through agents in New York and New Jersey.
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The Villines log house is built north of Hillsborough
A one-room V-notched log house with a center door and a small loft window was built in 1912 on what is now SR 1546, north of Hillsborough in the Caldwell section of the county; the year is carved into its rock chimney. It shows log building for tenants and laborers lasting into the twentieth century.
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The two-story brick building later the Smith Furniture Store is built at 126 West King Street
A two-story brick commercial building with mousetooth corbelling at the parapet was built at 126 West King Street around 1912. The document calls it the Smith Furniture Store.
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The university names a new McCorkle Place residence hall for Kemp Plummer Battle
In 1912 the university named a new residence hall on McCorkle Place for Battle, its president from 1876 to 1891. It was one section of a three-part dormitory whose other sections honored J. Johnston Pettigrew and Zebulon B. Vance.
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The university razes the old Central Hotel to build dormitories
The university bought the old Central Hotel from Dr. Roberson's estate, tore it down in 1912, and built the Vance, Battle and Pettigrew dormitories on the site.
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Union Baptist Church becomes Venable Baptist Church
Once the Methodists stopped meeting there around 1910, the chapel was known as Union Baptist Church. In 1912 the congregation took the name of the newly incorporated town of Venable.
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Wade's Temple is organized at Efland
Wade's Temple, a United Holy Church congregation at Efland, was organized in 1912 with George Wade as first pastor and built its church in 1915.
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Work begins on an education building on Cameron Avenue
In 1911-12 the university began a building for the Department of Education on Cameron Avenue next to Commons Hall, paid for with the Peabody Fund gift.
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Orange County voters approve $250,000 in road bonds
Under a 1911 local act, the county voted 919 to 831 to borrow for grading and macadamizing its roads, with a nine-member good roads commission to pick them. The bonds, sold about a year later at 5 percent for 40 years, were the county's first and left a debt not cleared until 1953.
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Sophomores besiege a freshman cottage and fire a pistol into a room
After a class banquet a crowd of sophomores surrounded a university-owned cottage where freshmen lived, threw rocks at one room and fired a shot into it when the freshmen would not come out. Neither a faculty committee nor the Student Council could name the culprits until the inquiry into Isaac William Rand's death that fall.
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The Community Club joins the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs
The Chapel Hill club was admitted to the state federation of women's clubs in April 1912 and later sent delegates to its meetings.
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The medical building, Caldwell Hall, is dedicated
On May 8, 1912, the university opened its new medical building and named it Caldwell Hall for its first president. Dr. Richard H. Lewis presented it for the trustees, and Venable and Dean Isaac H. Manning accepted it.
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The Orange Trust Company is organized at Hillsborough
A Hillsborough real estate and insurance firm, the Hillsboro Real Estate and Improvement Company, took the new name Orange Trust Company, with H. W. Webb as president. It planned to buy and sell land, lend money and sell insurance, with $11,000 in paid-in stock.
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Trustees split the secretary-treasurer office after Richard H. Battle's death
After Richard H. Battle, secretary and treasurer of the university, died on May 12, 1912, the trustees divided his office, required the treasurer to live in Chapel Hill, and abolished the office of bursar. Julius A. Warren became treasurer.
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Abe and Annie B. Mebane sell a lot in west Hillsborough to the trustees of Mebane Chapel
For $25 the Mebanes sold a 30-by-40-foot lot at the corner of Union Street, opposite the later Central High School, to trustees Elisha Williams and Arthur Hood. The chapel was named in their memory.
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The Chapel Hill Presbyterians vote to call William D. Moss back as pastor
Moss had left in 1905 for a church in Washington, D.C. A congregational meeting voted without dissent to invite him back, at $500 a year and the manse with help from the Synod, and he began the long pastorate the church remembered him for.
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Freshman Isaac William Rand dies in a hazing incident on the athletic field
Taken from his Old East room near midnight by sophomores, the Smithfield freshman was made to stand on a barrel behind Bynum Gymnasium, fell onto broken glass that cut his carotid artery, and died within minutes on the gymnasium steps. Four students were arrested for manslaughter that day after a coroner's inquest, and Governor W. W. Kitchin demanded a full public investigation.
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Venable's faculty committee reports on the Rand death and the spring hazing
After questioning nearly fifty students, the committee gave the trustees a full account of the night Rand died and of the March attack on the freshman cottage. Sixteen more students were punished, four dismissed and twelve suspended for a year, and the trustees' executive committee in Raleigh turned down fathers' appeals.
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Orange County begins agricultural extension work
The commissioners put up $300 to match a state appropriation for extension work with farmers. The county dropped its share in December 1915 and revived the work during the war.
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Kappa Sigma breaks ground for a new fraternity hall on Fraternity Row
The Tar Heel reported in mid-October 1912 that ground had been broken for a new Kappa Sigma hall between the Zeta Psi and Pi Kappa Alpha houses. The building, later called the Evergreen House, is the only one of the original Fraternity Row houses still standing.
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A Chapel Hill conference turns football coaching and finances over to an alumni committee
Three weeks after a 66-0 Thanksgiving loss to Virginia, students, alumni and faculty agreed that alumni would clear the Athletic Association's debts and hire professional coaches under a new alumni-run General Athletic Committee, while the faculty kept control of eligibility. Weeks later the committee gave Thomas Trenchard a three-year contract.
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A Colonial Revival house is built for businessman Junius Webb on Pittsboro Street
The two-story house at 302 Pittsboro Street, with a deep hip roof, hipped dormer and wraparound classical porch, was built for Junius Webb about 1913.
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A YMCA lecture series on Black life in the South is held for students
Frank Graham and the campus YMCA organized lectures on 'Negro life in the South.' Professor Harry W. Chase told students that Black citizens were a third of the population but received a sixteenth of school spending, and that what they did not pay in property taxes they made up in fines. A second series was held five years later.
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A new wood-frame railroad station is built in Carrboro
The depot that still stands east of the old Alberta mill (Carr Mill) was built about 1913 as an extension of a small frame depot of about 1900, which had itself replaced the boxcar that served as West End's first station. The older depot was later removed, and the 1913 building served as the passenger and freight depot.
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Bank cashier C. B. Griffin builds a house on McCauley Street
C. B. Griffin, a bank cashier, built the two-story frame I-house at 214 McCauley Street in or about 1913. It has a two-story rear ell and a full-width front porch.
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Barbara Bynum Henderson of Chapel Hill becomes president of the Equal Suffrage League of North Carolina
Barbara Bynum Henderson, wife of UNC professor Archibald Henderson, organized the Equal Suffrage League of North Carolina and was elected its president, bringing the woman suffrage campaign to Chapel Hill. She was reelected unanimously in 1915.
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Carl Durham begins work at Eubanks Drug Store in Chapel Hill
Carl Durham, born in 1892 in the White Cross community of Orange County, went to work at Eubanks Drugstore in Chapel Hill in the summer of 1913. He qualified as a pharmacy apprentice by 1916, studied pharmacy at UNC, served in the Navy Hospital Corps in 1918 and came back to Eubanks as a pharmacist.
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Carr Methodist Church is organized
Carr Methodist Church was organized in 1913 and built a church in 1915.
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Chapel Hill gets a sealer of weights and measures at the Community Club's urging
The club's home economics department won the appointment of a sealer of weights and measures for the town in 1913-14. The same department persuaded the groceries to sell bread in wrappers.
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Edward Kidder Graham serves as acting president while Venable is in Europe
Graham, head of the English department and dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Chapel Hill, acted as president in 1913 during President Francis P. Venable's absence in Europe.
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Edwin Greenlaw joins the UNC faculty
Greenlaw, a Renaissance scholar, came to the University of North Carolina in the fall of 1913 at the age of 39.
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Mebane Chapel is organized in Hillsborough
Mebane Chapel, a United Holy Church congregation in Hillsborough, was organized in 1913 and built a 250-seat church the next year.
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Moorefields is advertised for public sale and leaves the Moore family
After more than a century with Alfred Moore's descendants, Moorefields was advertised for public sale, and its later owners were not Moore relatives until 1949.
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Orange County counts 5,203 school-age children and 4,193 enrolled
Of 3,316 white and 1,887 Black children of school age, 2,613 white and 1,580 Black children enrolled in 1913-14. Average daily attendance was 1,724 white and 933 Black pupils, 65 and 59 of every hundred enrolled.
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Orange County public schools average a 122-day term, with longer terms in six local-tax districts
In 1913-14 the county's public schools ran an average of 122 days, while the six districts that taxed themselves for schools averaged 154. Those districts were Hillsboro, University (Eno), Chapel Hill, Efland, Carrboro and Mount Hope.
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Orange County tax listings show white owners holding nearly thirteen times the property of Black owners
Property owned by white residents was valued at $3,695,385 and property owned by Black residents at $290,805, though Black residents made up about a third of the county's people.
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Orange County's taxable property is assessed at $6,017,399
The 1913 assessment put real estate at $2,230,212, personal property at $1,755,978 and bank stock, railroads, telegraph and telephone lines at $2,031,209. Average wealth per resident in 1910 had been $218, against $322 for the state.
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R. B. Mason's land west of the Bellevue mill is platted as the West Hill Property
To meet the need for workers' housing near the two mills, Mason's holdings were laid out in 1913 as a grid of roughly equal lots, bounded by the Bellevue mill village, Eno Street and the railroad, West Hill Street, and Mount Willing Road (later King Street). Most houses there went up from the 1920s to the 1940s, and the section beyond West Hill Avenue was platted in the 1930s.
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Smallpox breaks out on the campus
In the last weeks of the 1912-13 term President Venable had to deal with an outbreak of smallpox at the university, one of the worries of the year that led him to seek leave.
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Strowd's Garage opens in Chapel Hill as the first garage in Orange County
A plate caption identifies Strowd's Garage in Chapel Hill, pictured about 1913, as the county's first garage.
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Swain Hall is built as the university dining hall
The university built Swain Hall in 1913 and 1914 as a dining hall on the site of the first president's house and named it for David L. Swain. It served as the dining hall until 1940 and later became the first home of the communications department.
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The Bingham School in the old buildings near Mebane enrolls 53 students
The preparatory school opened in the old Bingham School buildings on the Orange County side of Mebane after the original school left for Asheville had 53 students in 1913-14.
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The Braxton Craig House on McCauley Street is sold to E. G. Norwood
In 1913 the builders of the house at 224 McCauley Street sold it to E. G. Norwood.
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The Cedar Grove pharmacy where Dr. C. M. Hughes practiced is moved beside his house
The early 1900s pharmacy building at the Cedar Grove crossroads, where Dr. Claude M. Hughes kept his medical practice, was moved in 1913 to the lot east of his new house so a three-story flour mill could go up on its site. The mill burned about 1931.
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The Chapel Hill Community Club runs an improvement contest in a Black neighborhood
Susan Moses Graham and the Community Club, with YMCA students under Frank Porter Graham, organized a project in an African American neighborhood at the edge of town, giving prizes for the cleanest house, the cleanest yard and the best fence.
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The Community Club brings about a Town Welfare Committee
Through the club's efforts Chapel Hill formed a Town Welfare Committee in 1913-14, made up of two club members, two from the Board of Trade, two named by the mayor and two named by the Board of Aldermen.
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The Community Club gives books to the Chapel Hill school library
In 1913-14 the club gave the school library the twenty-volume Book of Knowledge and nineteen other books and paid for a subscription to The Mentor.
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The Community Club helps start a club among Chapel Hill's Black women
The club's report of its 1913-14 work lists the start of a club among the town's Black women. In January 1915 its health and social service departments gave a program on the work the Black women were doing.
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The Community Club holds clean-up days in Chapel Hill
The club carried out two town clean-up days in 1913-14 and followed them with a Clean Up Week in April 1915.
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The Community Club opens a rest room in Chapel Hill
The club established a Rest Room in 1913-14, paid for mainly from afternoon teas served there. From the fall of 1914 it was open as a tea room on Wednesday afternoons from October to April, and the club's department meetings were held in it.
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The General Assembly makes hazing a crime
After the outcry over Rand's death the 1913 legislature outlawed hazing; the same session gave the university enough to keep growing and money for a new dining hall.
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The High School Debating Union is organized at the university
Out of student interest in the two literary societies, the university organized a High School Debating Union in 1913, beginning its long leadership of high school debating. In 1930-31, 218 schools took part and the 52 winning schools sent their teams to Chapel Hill for the finals.
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The School of Education is established with M. C. S. Noble as dean
The university formally established its School of Education as a professional school in 1913, with M. C. S. Noble as dean. He held the post until 1921 and kept teaching until he retired in 1934.
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The first president's house is moved off the Swain Hall site and becomes a private home
When Swain Hall was built in 1913 at Cameron Avenue and South Columbia Street, the 1795 house built for the university's president was moved from the corner and reused as a private dwelling.
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The new School of Education building is dedicated
Before the 1913 commencement Venable presided at the dedication of the building for the university's new School of Education, later called the Peabody Building.
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The university calls off its football game with A&M over eligibility
Disputes over A&M players who had played for Brown, Holy Cross and Georgetown and over paid assistant coaches on the field led Carolina to cancel the game, a step Graham accepted with reluctance.
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The university organizes a Bureau of Extension under Louis Round Wilson
Set up as Venable left for Europe in mid-1913 and run by university librarian Louis Round Wilson with no budget of its own, the bureau started programs to take the university's work into the state; the trustees endorsed it in January 1914.
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Venable is renamed Carrboro
A 1913 act of the General Assembly changed the name of the Town of Venable to Carrboro. Julian S. Carr, owner of the local mill since 1909, had asked UNC president Francis Venable's consent in January 1913, and the town's own history says Carr agreed to supply the community with electricity.
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The vestry makes the new Chapel of the Cross parish house a memorial to Dr. and Mrs. Kemp P. Battle
Parishioners petitioned that the parish house planned under rector Homer W. Starr honor the Battles, and the vestry agreed unanimously. Battle, who counted sixty-nine years in the parish, accepted, and the vestry also asked him that day to write a fuller parish history.
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The Lloyd yarn mill becomes Durham Hosiery Mill No. 7
The Thomas F. Lloyd Manufacturing Company mill was sold to Durham Hosiery Mills, which ran it as Mill No. 7 alongside Mill No. 4, the former Alberta mill.
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The Blanche Hosiery Mill Company is chartered again with $100,000 in authorized capital
Four years after Julian Carr's company bought the first Blanche mill, W. E. Lindsay, Blanche Gilbert Lindsay and W. S. Robertson took out a new charter for the Blanche Hosiery Mill Company. By late April its new plant was finished, with 58 knitting machines and work for about 40 hands.
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Three students are convicted in Hillsborough in Isaac William Rand's death
At the Orange County Courthouse one of the four defendants was freed after the first testimony, and a jury of Orange County farmers found the other three guilty within a few hours. The judge gave the minimum four months with the option of hiring them out, and their families paid the fees and took them home the same day.
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The Efland Hosiery Mills is incorporated at Efland
The Efland Hosiery Mills received a state certificate of incorporation with its principal office at Efland and an authorized capital of $50,000. By July the mill was reported nearly finished.
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Silent Sam
On June 2, 1913, the United Daughters of the Confederacy and UNC alumni dedicated a Confederate soldier statue in McCorkle Place, and Julian Carr's dedication speech boasted of whipping a Black woman. The monument drew decades of protest until demonstrators pulled it down on August 20, 2018.
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UNC's Confederate Monument is dedicated
On the second day of commencement Major H. A. London introduced Governor Craig; Mrs. London presented the monument to the trustees for the UDC, President Francis P. Venable accepted it for the university, and Julian S. Carr spoke for the students of 1861. Carr's speech, which praised the Confederate army and recounted his horsewhipping of a Black woman in the village in 1865, is the part now most remembered.
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Vice President Thomas R. Marshall gives the commencement address
Newly inaugurated with Woodrow Wilson, Marshall was the 1913 commencement speaker and stayed at the President's House because there was no decent hotel within fifteen miles of the campus.
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The Hillsboro Building and Loan Association is organized in the back of the West End Drug Store
Six incorporators put up $5,500 to start the Hillsboro Building and Loan Association, with Charles H. Robertson as president and druggist C. M. Andrews as secretary-treasurer. Andrews took members' payments at his drug counter until 1926.
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Acting president Graham pledges to carry the university to the whole state
In his University Day remarks in Memorial Hall, Graham said the new Bureau of Extension would put the university in close touch with every problem of North Carolina life, a break with Venable's narrower view, and he answered charges that students cared mostly for football. Raleigh and Greensboro papers praised the idea the next day.
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Eugene C. Branson shows students how to survey their home counties
During a five-day stay as Graham's guest at Bulrushes, the Georgia rural sociologist led classes and seminars and coached the Johnston County club on gathering facts about illiteracy, tenancy, crops and the tax burden, a report meant to serve as the model for the other county clubs.
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Orange County begins registering births and deaths
The county's birth and death records are complete from October 1913, when registration began. By the 1950s the district health officer served as registrar and sent copies to the register of deeds and the state Bureau of Vital Statistics.
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John Laws dies after more than sixty years as register of deeds
Laws served as register of deeds and clerk to the county board from at least October 1849, apart from 1853 to 1855, until his death at 92.
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Graham proposes a statewide civic service week in a Charlotte speech
Closing Farm Life Week in Charlotte, the acting president called for a day of community self-study across North Carolina a year later, and Farmers Union president Henry Q. Alexander drafted a resolution asking the governor to back it. The book treats the speech as the moment the university openly took up the cause of farmers and wage earners.
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The Corporation Commission orders three railroad underpasses for the Durham-Greensboro highway in Orange County
Ruling on a petition from the Orange County Good Roads Commission against the Southern Railway, the Corporation Commission ordered the county to lower the Durham-Greensboro highway at three railroad crossings and the two sides to build 26-foot underpasses there. The county was to pay half to two thirds of each, and the railroad the rest, including the widening of an existing underpass.
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A two-story brick movie theater is built at 122 West King Street
A brick movie theater with a cable-hung marquee across its front and an upstairs projection booth was built at 122 West King Street around 1914. It is on the 1924 Sanborn map.
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A. J. Blackwood recruits Cora Oakley's family from Burlington to the Carrboro mills
In 1914 A. J. Blackwood, a Burlington neighbor lately made superintendent of Mill No. 4, drew Cora Oakley and her large family to Carrboro with slightly higher wages and a ten-hour day. Durham Hosiery Mills hired many experienced hands away from Burlington-area mills in this way.
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About 250 county citizens meet at the Hillsboro courthouse for Community Service Week
As part of the university's Community Service Week, some 250 citizens gathered at the Orange County courthouse in Hillsboro to take up the county's needs and hear President Graham speak on community service.
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An I-house front is added to the Lloyd family's log house on Dairyland Road
About 1914 a two-story frame front was built onto an older log section on the Lloyd place. Lemuel and Ola Cheek owned it for most of the century and ran it as a dairy farm.
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Andrew Henry Patterson builds a house on East Franklin Street
Patterson was one of several faculty members and townspeople who built new homes in the East Franklin Street residential district in these years.
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Black church members in Orange County give $3.04 each to their churches, against $4.00 for white members
Walter Patten's survey worked out what religion cost each church member in the county in 1914: $3.04 for Black members and $4.00 for white members. Pastors' pay came to the same $2.05 a member in both groups; the gap was in buildings (88 cents against $1.04) and above all in missions (13 cents against 91).
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Carrboro Methodists build their first church
Organized in 1910 as a mission of the Chapel Hill Methodists, the congregation met in the public school until early 1914, when it built a plain frame church on the large lot east of the school, later the Britt Building site. From about 1900 the town's Methodists had shared Union Chapel with the Baptists.
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Clyde Eubanks moves his drugstore into a building of his own on Franklin Street
Clyde Eubanks put up a new building on his own lot, about a hundred yards west of the Tankersley-owned store he had rented, and moved Eubanks Drug Store into it. Robert Foister's camera shop took the old space.
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Cora Zeta Corpening enrolls as the university's first woman candidate for a medical degree
When the 1914-15 session opened, Cora Zeta Corpening of Mars Hill became the first woman to enroll at the university as a candidate for a medical degree.
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Edward Kidder Graham is elected president of the university
The board of trustees elected Graham president by unanimous vote in 1914, succeeding Francis P. Venable. He had been at Chapel Hill since 1899, first as librarian and then through the English department to the deanship.
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Fire damages the Alumni Building
A fire probably started by Joshua Gore's X-ray machine in the basement did about $1,800 in damage to the Alumni Building.
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Historian J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton commissions a house on North Street from N. C. Curtis
In 1914 J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, head of the UNC history department and later founder of the Southern Historical Collection, had N. C. Curtis design a one-story house with a pyramid roof at 517 North Street. Two rooms were added in 1924.
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Isaac Emerson gives $25,000 for a new athletic field and stadium
Isaac Emerson of Baltimore, an 1879 graduate who made his fortune with Bromo-Seltzer, gave $25,000 for an athletic field and stadium. The field was under construction when students returned in September 1914 and was named Emerson Field for him.
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James Finch Royster leaves the university for the University of Texas
Royster, who had been teaching the journalism course Edward Kidder Graham created, left Chapel Hill for the University of Texas, one of the faculty Graham could not keep during his year as acting president.
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Marvin H. Stacy becomes permanent dean of the College of Liberal Arts
Graham had made Marvin Hendrix Stacy acting dean of the College of Liberal Arts during Venable's absence and made the post permanent at his first faculty meeting as president. Stacy, a civil engineering professor, handled student discipline and worked to replace written rules with reliance on student honor.
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Mebane Chapel builds its church in Hillsborough under its first pastor, B. F. Alston
A year after the United Holy Church congregation organized, it put up its chapel, seating about 200, with thirty-five members and Rev. B. F. Alston as first pastor.
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S. Berman opens a department store at Franklin and Columbia streets
Newly arrived in Chapel Hill, S. Berman started a department store on the southeast corner of Franklin and Columbia, where J. T. Durham had kept a general store. Berman's stayed on East Franklin for decades.
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Six students and the track trainer are arrested in a Chapel Hill craps game
The authorities found the floating game when a loser wrote a bad check; a few townspeople were arrested too, the faculty suspended the students, and the trainer resigned.
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State Forester John S. Holmes builds a shingled house on Glenburnie Street
John Holmes's wood-shingled house at 204 Glenburnie Street, with bargeboards and diamond-pane sash, is the only example in Chapel Hill of the Shingle Style that McKim, Mead and White developed for Newport summer cottages.
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Students improve Franklin Street and Battle Park during Community Service Week
During Graham's first statewide Community Service Week, about a hundred students worked on Chapel Hill: one crew graded Franklin Street under Joseph Hyde Pratt with teams paid for by merchants and bankers, others cleared the grounds around Swain Hall, cleaned the Battle Park trails under the Rev. W. D. Moss and gathered trash from the alleys.
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The 1914 Yackety Yack is dedicated to chemistry professor Charles H. Herty
The editors of the university yearbook dedicated the 1914 Yackety Yack to Herty because he stood for service to his region. Colleagues recalled that he urged students to use chemistry to do something for the state or the country.
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The Bank of Chapel Hill moves into a new building on Franklin Street
Short of room, the Bank of Chapel Hill moved into a new building just west of Clyde Eubanks's new drugstore, and a barbershop took over the space it left.
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The Bureau of Extension begins correspondence courses for credit
Under Louis R. Wilson, the university's new Bureau of Extension began organizing correspondence courses for credit during the 1914-15 term. It had already widened its free advice for teachers to help town officials with water systems and streets.
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The Chapel Hill Community Club helps form a community club in Carrboro
Among its work for 1914-15 the Chapel Hill club reported helping to organize a Community Club in Carrboro.
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The Chapel of the Cross builds a new rectory and parish house
Under its rector, the Rev. Homer Worthington Starr, whose plan for new buildings dates from 1911, the Chapel of the Cross built a new rectory in 1914 and 1915 and then the Battle Memorial Parish House, named for Kemp P. Battle and his wife, in 1915 and 1916, without debt.
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The Community Club puts a library in a store at University Station
In 1914-15 the club placed a library of forty-five volumes in Mr. Craig's store at University Station. Its social service department later took up the idea of a shelf of books in every country store in Orange County.
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The Ruffin-Hill tract on St. Mary's Road is sold to A. S. Mitchell, who divides it
In 1914 the 47 1/2-acre Ruffin-Hill tract, long the home of Mary Ruffin Hill and her husband Thomas Hill, was conveyed to A. S. Mitchell, who subdivided the land.
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Venable Baptist Church becomes Carrboro Baptist Church
In 1914, the year after the town was renamed for Julian S. Carr, the Baptist congregation changed its name again, to Carrboro Baptist Church.
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White Oak Grove Baptist Church is organized
Charles Wells and William Thompson were leaders of White Oak Grove Baptist Church, a Black congregation organized about 1914.
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Trustees approve asking the Rockefeller Foundation for a student building
After a sharp debate the board agreed to seek $50,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation, to be matched by $25,000 raised at home, for a student center to replace the crowded YMCA quarters. The plan fell through when word reached the foundation that some trustees objected to tainted money.
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Trustees create a chair of applied economics and rural sociology for Eugene C. Branson
Graham won approval to hire Branson at the top faculty salary of $2,500 and promised him a large office in the Peabody Building; Branson said he would come that fall and proposed starting a study of Orange County right away.
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Trustees put athletic rules in the faculty's hands
At their winter meeting the trustees adopted Graham's view that the faculty alone should make and enforce athletic rules, turning aside coach Trenchard's lobbying for the board to overrule faculty eligibility decisions.
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The first Good Roads Institute meets at Chapel Hill
State geologist and faculty member Joseph Hyde Pratt chaired the first Good Roads Institute held at Chapel Hill. The institute later became part of the university's extension program.
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The Community Club affiliates with the American Civic Association
In April 1914 the Chapel Hill club affiliated with the American Civic Association, whose Maude van Buren had spoken to the club during 1913-14.
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Francis P. Venable resigns the presidency from London
Writing to the trustees from London, Venable resigned on his doctor's warning against another breakdown and asked to return to teaching chemistry. His letter reached board secretary Richard H. Lewis about the same time Graham got a personal note, which Graham called a great shock.
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Edwin Greenlaw heads UNC's English department
Appointed chairman of the English department in June 1914, Greenlaw built it from eight faculty members to 37 by 1925, when he left for Johns Hopkins.
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E. C. Branson takes up rural economics and sociology and starts the North Carolina Club
Eugene Cunningham Branson arrived in Chapel Hill in September 1914 as Graham's new professor of rural economics and sociology. He at once gathered the students' county clubs into the North Carolina Club to study conditions back home.
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The university assigns each freshman a faculty adviser
President Graham began a system of faculty advisers to help new students settle into university life, and fall 1914 was its first year. Albert Coates's adviser was Oliver Towles of romance languages.
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The Community Club holds a home economics demonstration fair
The club's home economics department held a Demonstration Fair in October 1914 with Miss Jameson of Greensboro as demonstrator.
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Branson's University News Letter publishes its first issue
E. C. Branson's University News Letter, a weekly one-page sheet packed with facts about North Carolina gathered by him and his students, first appeared in mid-November 1914 with a run of four thousand copies. Its items were widely reprinted by the state's papers, and circulation grew to fifteen thousand.
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Graham reports enrollment passing 1,000 students
Graham told the trustees in December 1914 that enrollment would pass 1,000, against 512 in 1900, and that counting summer students the university taught 1,578. The campus had grown from ten buildings in 1900 to two dozen.
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Carr Methodist Church builds its Gothic Revival frame church
Two years after organizing, the Carr Methodist congregation builds a modest frame church with Gothic Revival touches on NC 49 at Carr.
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Carrboro's mayor reports a population of 1,000
Two years after taking its present name, the mill town counted about 800 white and 200 Black residents, by figures the mayor gave the bulletin's author.
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Claude and Ola Neville build a foursquare farmhouse on their dairy farm
Claude Neville, a farmer who also kept a grocery in Carrboro, and his wife Ola built a two-story frame foursquare on Old Greensboro Road. A pegged frame kitchen from an earlier house on the land still stands behind it.
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Collier Cobb develops Cobb Terrace, Chapel Hill's earliest planned development
On uneven land at the north end of Henderson Street, geology professor Collier Cobb brought in earth to partly level the site, designed a terraced development and built eleven houses, several of them Aladdin kit houses, as affordable rental housing for young professors. The houses went up between 1915 and 1927 and stayed rentals until Cobb's death in 1934.
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Contractor Charles Craige builds a gambrel-roofed bungalow for mason William Strayhorn
The house at 107 Jones Ferry Road was built for William and Margie Strayhorn beside the home of his father Toney, head of a family of brick masons. William died young in 1933; his daughter Laura and her husband Albert Reaves kept the house in 1983.
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Cotton, knitting and flour mills make up Orange County's manufacturing
Carrboro and Hillsboro had cotton and knitting mills, and Carrboro, Hillsboro and Efland had flour mills. Efland, still unincorporated, also had a factory making excelsior for packing furniture.
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Durham Hosiery Mills builds a house on West Main Street for its Carrboro superintendent
Some time between 1915 and 1925 the company built a one-and-a-half-story house with a tall hipped roof and Tuscan porch columns at 103 West Main Street for the head of its Carrboro mills; it was long thought the best house in town. Ralph Ward of Mill No. 4 lived there first and Floyd M. Durham of Mill No. 7 later, and Marvin J. Dawson bought it at the 1939 company sale.
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Durham Hosiery Mills builds its last group of mill houses on South Greensboro Street
Around 1915 carpenter John Squires built five houses on South Greensboro Street south of Carr Street, thought to be Durham Hosiery Mills' last housing project in Carrboro. The company then planted Lombardy poplars along the street, which was called Poplar Street until the diseased trees came down in the 1930s.
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Edwin Greenlaw becomes managing editor of Studies in Philology
Greenlaw took over the university's journal Studies in Philology in 1915 and reorganized it as a quarterly.
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Eight post offices and rural free delivery routes serve Orange County
Post offices stood at Efland, Hillsboro, Cedar Grove, Teer, Blackwood, University Station, Carrboro and Chapel Hill, and rural free delivery carried daily mail to homes in nearly every part of the county.
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Engineering professor T. Felix Hickerson builds a house on Battle Lane
T. Felix Hickerson, later author of a standard road-design textbook and the engineer who laid out Gimghoul and Laurel Hill, built a two-story weatherboarded house at 108 Battle Lane that pairs a classical entrance porch with a bay window and a sleeping porch.
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Eno Cotton Mill rents its village houses to workers for 25 cents a week
The Eno Cotton Mill, founded in 1896 by Allen J. Ruffin and James H. Webb Jr., built a company village for its fast-growing workforce, and by 1915 the company was renting the houses to employees for a quarter a week. The 1924 Sanborn map shows about 100 mill houses west and south of the mill.
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Flat Rock AME Church is organized
Flat Rock, an African Methodist Episcopal congregation, was organized about 1915 and built a 300-seat church in 1952.
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Flat Rock church builds its frame church at St. Mary's and New Sharon Church roads
Soon after the congregation formed in 1915, members of Flat Rock church built a one-story frame church in a plain Gothic style at the corner of St. Mary's and New Sharon Church roads, the center of one of two Black settlements that grew up along the road after emancipation.
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George Trice, who ran an oyster restaurant and shoe shop on Franklin Street, is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
George Trice (1838-1915), an African American businessman who kept an oyster restaurant and a shoe repair shop on Franklin Street, was buried in the cemetery's Black section.
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Graham launches an Alumni Loyalty Fund
After the class of 1905 gave $1,000, Graham asked the trustees to back an alumni loyalty fund and turned the gift into a nationwide appeal for small yearly gifts from the university's roughly six thousand living alumni. It was a new idea to seek private money for a state institution, and the hoped-for sums never came.
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Hoot Patterson rents his Franklin Street store to Frank and Clarence Pickard
Patterson had groomed his son Fred to take over the business, and after Fred died in 1914 he lost interest and in 1915 rented the store to Frank Pickard and his son Clarence. Patterson's store account books end the same year.
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Margaret Berry becomes the first woman to graduate from UNC's law school
Margaret Berry of the Hillsborough Berry family, who had finished her UNC undergraduate degree in 1913, graduated from the university's law school in 1915, the first woman to do so. That summer she passed the state bar examination, listed as Margaret Kollock Berry of Orange.
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Mill worker Jesse Riggsbee builds his own house on South Greensboro Street
Riggsbee and his wife both worked for Durham Hosiery Mills but chose to build rather than rent from the mill or a speculator, and two relatives later built on adjoining West Carr Street lots. A humidifier mechanic, he lived there until his death in 1946.
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Nearly three-fifths of Orange County is in forest
State forester J. S. Holmes reported that white and post oak on the poorer land yielded many railroad cross-ties each year, while second-growth pine on abandoned fields supplied most saw timber. Woods fires, mostly from carelessness, killed young trees every year.
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Orange County has 46 white public schools and two state high schools
The county ran 25 one-teacher and 21 larger white schools, 13 of them offering some high school work, and full four-year state high schools at Hillsboro and Chapel Hill that any county student could attend free. Their graduates entered the university or any state college without examination.
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Patten's survey finds nearly nine in ten Black households in Orange County living in homes they own
The survey reported that close to nine-tenths of the dwellings of Black families in the county were occupied by their owners, with town households ahead of country ones in screening and upkeep. Branson read the figure as a measure of real economic gains since the war.
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Some 250 high school debaters come to Chapel Hill for state finals
About 250 high school students came to the campus for the final rounds of the university's statewide debating union, one of Graham's means of tying the university to towns across the state. Topics included woman suffrage and public ownership of railroads.
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Southern Power Company builds a steam plant on the Eno near University Station
Duke's Southern Power Company built a coal-fired steam generating plant beside the Eno near University Station, a backup for its hydroelectric stations, with Fiske-Carter Construction Company holding the contract in 1915. By July 1916 the Eno steam plant was sending current as far as Charlotte while flooding shut down the company's river stations. Its power went to Durham's factories, not to Orange County.
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St. Paul's A.M.E. Church widens its sanctuary by one bay
A growing congregation led to the widening of the 1892 frame church. Brick veneer went on in the 1950s, but the belfry and steeple kept their original look.
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Student engineers wire the first campus telephone network
The electrical engineering laboratory rebuilt used telephones salvaged from a Durham textile mill to link the Alumni Building offices of the president, business manager, treasurer and registrar. Student engineers also put a radio antenna on New East to receive baseball scores.
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The 1880 brick building on the southwest corner of Franklin and Columbia is torn down
Judged unsafe, the brick building put up in 1880 at the southwest corner of Franklin and Columbia streets was razed. The Baptists later built their church on this corner.
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The 1915 General Assembly raises the university's appropriation
Graham's first legislative campaign won $115,000 a year for operations, against $95,000 before and the $125,000 he sought, plus $60,000 over two years for permanent improvements. Much of the building money went to pay for the University Inn property on Franklin Street and the land under Peabody Hall.
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The Order of Gimghouls buys a 95-acre tract east of campus
The land took in the Prospect Point overlook prized by 1880s member Edward Wray Martin, who had dreamed of a stone castle there. The order traded about a third of it to the university, sold 35 acres, kept a wooded site for the castle and developed the rest as the Glandon subdivision, now the Gimghoul neighborhood.
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The University Gymnasium Association votes to give Old Commons Hall to the university
Stockholders of the association that had owned the old ballroom, gymnasium and dining hall since 1885 voted at a meeting in Dr. R. H. Lewis's office to deed the building to the university. It was then used for class basketball games and, in 1917, for military drill.
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The county sanitation campaign reaches Black residents through their preachers and churches
In the 1915 county-wide drive for better sanitation, organizers found the Black churches the only real way to reach Black families. Black congregations took lantern-slide talks on unsafe privies as a fit church concern, while some white churches thought them out of place.
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The old Cedar Grove one-teacher schoolhouse is moved to serve Black children
When Cedar Grove's white pupils moved to the new high school, the one-teacher schoolhouse was hauled to Baxter Thompson's land and used as a school for Black children.
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The old Episcopal rectory is said to be cut into sections and moved to North Street
Local tradition holds that around 1915 the Episcopal rectory, a two-room house of about 1850 later enlarged into an H shape, was sawn into pieces and moved to North Street, where the parts became the small houses at 408, 410 and 412.
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The survey finds fewer than six Black lodges and benefit societies in the whole county
Patten's study counted fewer than half a dozen sick benefit societies, burial orders and fraternal lodges among the county's Black residents. The societies in the Black churches of Hillsborough, Chapel Hill and Carrboro were mostly church aid groups that raised mission money and cared for buildings and parsonages.
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Three weekly newspapers are published in Orange County
The county's weeklies in 1915 were the Orange County Observer and the Hillsboro Enterprise at Hillsborough and the Chapel Hill News.
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UNC gives James Sprunt an honorary doctor of laws
The university, where Sprunt served as a trustee, awarded him an honorary LL.D.
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Walter Patten surveys Orange County's Black churches and Sunday schools
In a field study for the University of North Carolina, Walter Patten counted 27 Black congregations in Orange County, against 47 white ones, served by 16 Black ministers. For the church year 1914-15 he tallied 720 preaching services, 113 new members and $5,772.88 raised.
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William Howard Taft gives the first Weil lectures on American citizenship
Former president William Howard Taft spent three days in Chapel Hill as Graham's guest, giving a series of lectures on politics and the presidency. A photograph caption identifies the visit as the inaugural Weil Lecture on American citizenship.
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A. W. Clarke becomes Orange County's superintendent of roads
A 1915 act ended township road administration in Orange and put every county road under a superintendent. Clarke accepted $65 a month from March through November and $3 a day for winter work.
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Edward Kidder Graham is inaugurated president in Memorial Hall
A procession of about 1,400 marched to Memorial Hall, where Chief Justice Walter Clark gave Graham the oath and Governor Locke Craig presided. Graham's address cast the state university as the instrument of democracy. Three former presidents walked with him in the procession.
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The Community Club and the school teachers hold a May Day festival on the campus
The club's 1914-15 calendar closed with a May Festival on the university campus on May 1, 1915, given with the teachers of the town school.
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The county board buys the Annie Hughes Academy to house a Cedar Grove high school
Answering a petition from Cedar Grove residents, the board offered on May 3, 1915 to buy the old Cedar Grove Academy from Annie Hughes and on May 15 paid her $1,500 for it, deeding her the lot of the one-teacher school it closed. The new Cedar Grove High School took grades one through eleven.
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A Christian Church congregation is organized near Mebane
The congregation later called Mebane Congregational Christian Church was organized on May 16, 1915, with W. C. Clements, pastor of the Christian church in Chapel Hill, as first pastor. Its building was finished in 1931.
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Mary Owen Graham is endorsed as supervisor of Orange County's canning clubs
The commissioners approved Graham, of Charlotte, to lead the county's canning clubs, the start of extension work with farm women. In 1916 they renewed $250 a year for tomato club work.
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The county board re-elects Superintendent Lockhart and funds an assistant for him
The Board of Education returned Samuel P. Lockhart to office and set aside $400 to pay Mary O. Graham as his assistant.
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The school board names Lula Cassidy rural supervisor and county canning agent
A week after electing Mary O. Graham supervisor, the board chose Lula Cassidy as rural supervisor and canning agent. In 1916 it put her in charge of a county-wide school commencement in Hillsboro.
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The AME Durham District holds its Sunday School Convention at St. Paul AME in Chapel Hill
Sunday school workers of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Durham District met at St. Paul AME Church, where committees reported on subjects running from church finance to the condition of the public schools and young women of the district read papers. Patten took the meeting as a sign that the AME church led Sunday school work among the county's Black churches.
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The county board orders two privies built at every school
Meeting in August 1915, the board bought desks and equipment and voted to put two privies at each county school, paying half the cost and leaving the community to pay the rest.
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The university publishes M. C. S. Noble's county geography bulletin built on Orange County
The UNC Bureau of Extension issued The Teaching of County Geography as Extension Series No. 12, an outline for teachers that used Orange County as its worked example, from soils and crops to town histories and school statistics. Education dean M. C. S. Noble wrote it with help from botanist W. C. Coker, state forester J. S. Holmes and historian J. G. de R. Hamilton.
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Emilie Holmes starts Mayfair War Relief work in Chapel Hill
Emilie R. Holmes (Mrs. J. S. Holmes) organized Chapel Hill war relief work for the Mayfair War Relief of New York in October 1915 and directed it until September 1917. About a dozen workers sent 13 boxes holding 1,183 surgical dressings, 300 rolled bandages, 160 pads and 36 hospital shirts.
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Billy Strayhorn, who spent boyhood summers in Hillsborough, was born
Composer and pianist Billy Strayhorn was born in Dayton, Ohio. From about age five he stayed with his grandparents at Margaret Lane and Hillsborough Avenue in Hillsborough, attended his first year of school there, learned piano in their home, and spent breaks and summers in the town into his early teens.
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Superintendent Lockhart's first township teachers' meeting meets at the Carrboro school
With rural supervisor Lula Cassidy, Lockhart set up meetings of the teachers in each township, smaller than the county meeting. The first, at the Carrboro school, drew a state education official and University School of Education staff, and the Merritt school came with all its teachers and its whole committee.
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A brass plate from the Old East cornerstone is returned on University Day
University Day 1916 brought back a brass plate that had once been part of the Old East cornerstone. A Tennessee foundry owner had found it in a pile of scrap metal, and how it got there was unknown.
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Adam Kluttz sells his Franklin Street store to the Solomon Brothers, who keep his name on it
After a heart attack, merchant Adam Alexander Kluttz sold his original store to the Solomon Brothers of New York on the condition that it go on carrying his name. B. Y. C. Buice became manager.
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Bank cashier Milton E. Hogan buys the Thomas Hume house on West Franklin Street
Milton E. Hogan, cashier of the Bank of Chapel Hill, bought the West Franklin Street residence of Dr. Thomas Hume. The house later passed to Caesar Cone, a fraternity and the University, and in 1943 held the high school.
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Chapel Hill's white graded school and high school move into a new West Franklin Street building
After a school bond election in May 1915, Chapel Hill's new $35,000 graded school building went up on West Franklin Street and was in use when the public school opened on September 11, 1916. It held the grammar grades and the high school, whose enrollment had doubled to 85 in four years.
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Eno Cotton Mill reports 150 women among its 500 workers
Reports from the years before the wartime changes count about 500 workers at Hillsborough's Eno Cotton Mill, 150 of them women and 50 children under 16, on a 60-hour week. The top average daily wage for women was $1.75 against $4.00 for men; at the smaller Bellevue mill nearby women's top average was $2.50.
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Hackney's school on Merritt Mill Road is bought for a public training school
Louis Hackney had opened his school for Black students on Merritt Mill Road in 1912. In 1916 the property was bought for a public training school for Black students, after Black residents raised $3,000 toward the purchase.
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