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- Reconstruction and the New South · 1866–1899
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Toney and Nellie Strayhorn, formerly enslaved, bought thirty acres in what became Carrboro
The Strayhorns bought about thirty acres and built a one-room log cabin at what is now 109 Jones Ferry Road, and their son William built the house next door at 107 in 1915. Toney Strayhorn is remembered as a founder of First Baptist Church in Chapel Hill, and the house is still owned by a great-granddaughter.
People: Toney Strayhorn · William Strayhorn
Subject: Toney and Nellie Strayhorn House and William Strayhorn House
- Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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The Strayhorn log cabin on Jones Ferry Road reaches its two-story form
Toney Strayhorn, born enslaved in Orange County, became a farmer and brick mason and in the late 1800s built a one-room log cabin on his tract. He and later his son William enlarged it until, by about 1910, it stood two stories high with a rear ell and big brick end chimneys that show the family's skill.
People: Toney Strayhorn · William Strayhorn
Subject: Toney and Nellie Strayhorn House and William Strayhorn House
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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.
People: Toney Strayhorn · William Strayhorn
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Mason Toney Strayhorn and his grandson Alfred Barbee finish a stone dam across Morgan Creek
Toney Strayhorn, a formerly enslaved Carrboro mason and preacher, completed a thirty-foot-wide stone dam spanning Morgan Creek near University Lake with his grandson Alfred Barbee, whose first masonry job it was. Alfred and his brother Willis Barbee went on to build walls, dams and chimneys around Chapel Hill and Carrboro for sixty years.
People: Toney Strayhorn
- Recent decades · 1976–2026
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Carrboro unveils a truth plaque at the Strayhorn House
The Town of Carrboro unveiled a truth plaque at the Strayhorn House, 109 Jones Ferry Road. It records that Toney and Nellie Strayhorn, enslaved in Orange County, were one of the first Black families to settle in Carrboro and built a one-room log cabin there in 1879 after buying thirty acres.
Subject: Toney and Nellie Strayhorn House and William Strayhorn House
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