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1. Reconstruction and the New South · 1866–1899

2. about 1891
   Property or economic transaction · Central Hotel, Franklin Street, Chapel Hill Dr. Abner B. Roberson buys the Central Hotel and moves his drugstore into it

   After the hotel's owner, Jones Watson, died, Dr. Roberson bought the Central Hotel, moved his drugstore into it with Clyde Eubanks as druggist, and leased the hotel's management to 'Bunn' Patterson. Adam A. Kluttz opened a store called the Glass Front in the many-windowed west end of the building.

3. 1897
   Property or economic transaction · Central Hotel, Franklin Street, Chapel Hill Clyde Eubanks buys Dr. Roberson's drugstore

   When Dr. Roberson died, his druggist Clyde Eubanks bought the drugstore and kept it in the Central Hotel until 1901.

4. Early twentieth century · 1900–1944

5. 1901
   Construction or physical change · Eubanks drugstore, Tankersley property, Franklin Street, Chapel Hill Clyde Eubanks moves his drugstore into a building of his own

   Eubanks left the Central Hotel and set up his drugstore in a new building he had put up on the west corner of the Tankersley property on Franklin Street.

6. 1914
   Construction or physical change · Eubanks Drug Store, East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill 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.

7. April 14, 1941
   Founding or opening · Chapel Hill Chapel Hill appoints its first town planning commission

   After more than a year of urging by the Chapel Hill Weekly, the town named a five-member planning commission to review the design of new and remodeled buildings. It set the Colonial Revival look of downtown for the next decade.

8. Civil rights era · 1945–1975

9. 1965
   Property or economic transaction · Eubanks Drugstore (Courts' Drugs), East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill Clyde Eubanks sells his drugstore to Benjamin and Ellyn Courts, who rename it Courts' Drugs

   The Courts kept the East Franklin store where it was for about two years, then moved it to University Square East in 1967 when North Carolina National Bank began expanding.

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