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  1. Early twentieth century · 1900–1944

  2. 1910s
  3. Violence or armed conflict · Cedar Grove Marine Samuel Maris Wilkerson of Cedar Grove dies of wounds in France

    Samuel Maris Wilkerson of Cedar Grove enlisted in the Marine Corps on December 8, 1917, and served with the 5th Marines in France. Reported wounded on June 15, 1918, he died of his wounds on June 17.

  4. Property or economic transaction · Orange County Orange County pledges three-quarters of its War Savings quota in a June drive

    The county's War Savings Stamps quota was $331,400, about $20 a person. A drive June 23-28, 1918, pledged 75 percent of it, and a second drive September 9-14 sought the rest; the county finished with $272,956 pledged and $264,370 sold.

  5. Founding or opening · UNC, Chapel Hill The university gets an ROTC unit under Lt. Col. Gustave W. S. Stevens

    With the university's ROTC application finally approved, the army called Lieutenant Colonel Gustave W. S. Stevens out of retirement in New Orleans and sent him to Chapel Hill in June 1918 to run the program. He stayed on to command the campus when the SATC replaced it.

  6. Publication, speech or performance · Chapel Hill Orange County holds a Fourth of July war rally on the UNC campus

    At the Governor's request the UNC Summer School invited the county to its July 4, 1918 celebration, and at least 3,000 people came for a parade, a flag raising and S. M. Gattis's address in Memorial Hall. The county Council of Defense met in Gerrard Hall, and Adolph Vermont's pageant on French-American friendship played in Battle's Park.

  7. Health or relief action · Hillsborough The Orange County Red Cross sends $120 for canteen work among troops passing through Raleigh

    Answering James H. Pou's appeal, the executive committee voted on John W. Graham's motion on July 19, 1918 to send $120 from chapter funds to Mrs. William Grimes of the Raleigh chapter for troops passing through Raleigh. The same meeting reported War Fund receipts of $4,294.38.

  8. Health or relief action · Hillsborough A four-church committee raises $504 for Jewish war relief

    About the middle of August 1918 a campaign for the Jewish Relief Fund, run by men from the Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian and Episcopal churches, raised $504.

  9. Founding or opening · Hillsborough The Hillsborough Community Chorus formally organizes

    Already singing at patriotic gatherings, the chorus organized at the Hillsborough Library on September 2, 1918, with Mrs. W. D. Benton as director, and gave the Red Cross $73 from an August concert. It later planned four concerts a year to help the Daughters of the Confederacy build a public library as a memorial to the county's Confederate soldiers.

  10. Founding or opening · Hillsborough The Orange County Red Cross forms a canteen committee to give packages to men leaving for camp

    On September 2, 1918 the chapter appointed a canteen committee of five women, each to add another, with authority to buy supplies for packages worth up to a dollar for men leaving Hillsborough for camp. In October the Chapel Hill chapter offered to share the cost, since the men came from all parts of the county.

  11. Publication, speech or performance · Hillsborough A War Savings rally in Hillsborough welcomes home wounded volunteer Jim Cheshire

    On the night of Registration Day, September 12, 1918, a crowd packed the court house for a War Savings rally to hear two of Pershing's soldiers. One was Jim Cheshire, the first man to volunteer from the town and the first to come home, sent back wounded to train troops. That day 1,727 county men registered for the draft.

  12. Protest or organizing · Hillsborough Orange County organizes for the United War Work drive

    A court house meeting on September 19, 1918, elected N. W. Brown county chairman for the United War Work drive. The county raised $7,485; Carrboro gave $1,240 on a $500 quota, and Hillsborough Township, under Elizabeth Cornelius, gave $2,300.

  13. Law, policy or court · UNC, Chapel Hill The Students' Army Training Corps takes over the campus

    Registration, put off to September 24 and 25, opened a year run by the army: dormitories became Barracks 1 through 8, Swain Hall the Mess Hall, and the year was cut into twelve-week quarters with classes grouped by age. About seven hundred enrolled, nearly all of them required to take a course on the issues of the war, and the commander worked from the Sigma Chi house.

  14. Appointment, election or service · Flag pole, UNC campus, Chapel Hill 750 University students are inducted into the Students' Army Training Corps

    At noon on October 1, 1918, about 750 University students took the oath at the campus flag pole from Lt. Col. Stevens, the commandant, and became members of the Students' Army Training Corps, at the same moment as students at about 500 colleges across the country. President Edward Kidder Graham gave the address, and the corps was reviewed from the steps of the Alumni Building.

  15. Statistic or record · Chapel Hill Chapel Hill Red Cross membership grows to 687

    The Chapel Hill chapter, which had enrolled 71 members at its first meeting in 1917, counted 687 members on October 1, 1918.

  16. Violence or armed conflict · Chapel Hill Lt. Joseph Henry Johnston of Chapel Hill is killed in France

    Joseph Henry Johnston of Chapel Hill Route 2 volunteered in May 1917, trained at Fort Oglethorpe and became a first lieutenant in the 322nd Infantry, 81st Division. He was killed in France on October 15, 1918.

  17. Statistic or record · Chapel Hill The Tar Heel counts some 300 student cases and three deaths as the three-week campus quarantine eases

    Confined to the campus for three weeks, the Student Army Training Corps men had their first leave on Saturday, October 19, under orders not to leave town. The paper counted about 300 cases among the students, three deaths and 35 still in the college infirmary, credited the second-year medical students with keeping the toll low, and noted that both of the university's physicians, Dr. Mangum and Dr. MacNider, had fallen ill.

  18. Life event · Chapel Hill President Edward Kidder Graham dies of influenza and pneumonia at his home in Chapel Hill

    Graham, 42, president since 1914 and regional director of the Student Army Training Corps for the South Atlantic states, died on Saturday night after five days' illness. The SATC battalion escorted the funeral, conducted at the grave by W. D. Moss of the Presbyterian church; Josephus Daniels and Newton D. Baker sent tributes.

  19. Health or relief action · Hillsborough The Orange County Red Cross organizes volunteer nursing for the epidemic

    Meeting on October 26, 1918, with the county influenza relief committee, the chapter named T. N. Webb and Nellie Russell to take requests for nurses in the West Hill and Hillsborough school districts and canvassed the town for volunteers. Chester Turner and Ross Turner, a Black man, served as volunteer nurses wherever needed.

  20. Health or relief action · Carrboro Carrboro opens an influenza diet kitchen in the mill club rooms

    When influenza spread from the university to Carrboro, a volunteer nursing committee worked night and day, and J. S. Carr gave the club rooms for a diet kitchen and paid its costs. For two weeks Mrs. R. B. Lawson and Mrs. Arthur Blackwood served at least seven gallons of soup a day, and orderlies checked homes each morning.

  21. Health or relief action · Chapel Hill Members of the Woman's Association make 120 gauze masks for the campus Hospital Corps

    Meeting in small groups during the epidemic, women of the university's Woman's Association sewed 120 gauze masks and sent them to the infirmary for the Hospital Corps. The county's 1919 war record, summing up the association's work that fall, counts 150 influenza masks.

  22. Property or economic transaction · Orange County Orange County subscribes $331,700 to the Fourth Liberty Loan despite the influenza ban

    The county meeting planned for Liberty Day, October 12, 1918, was called off when the epidemic closed public gatherings, but Orange subscribed $331,700 against a $300,000 allotment. Hillsborough Township gave about $175,000 on a $55,000 allotment, and the women's committees raised $227,300.

  23. Health or relief action · Hillsborough The Orange County Red Cross ships 2,682 pounds of clothing for Belgian relief

    In October 1918 the chapter shipped eleven boxes holding 2,682 pounds of clothing for Belgian relief and sent 706 linen articles, valued at $234.90, for soldiers in French hospitals. The Oaks branch, unable to send clothing, gave $40 for Belgian relief.

  24. Violence or armed conflict · Hillsborough Chandler J. Cates of Hillsborough dies of wounds after the armistice

    Chandler J. Cates of Company F, 120th Infantry, 30th Division, was severely wounded on October 17, 1918, after distinguished service, and taken to hospitals in France and England. He died of his wounds on November 20, 1918.

  25. Appointment, election or service · Chapel Hill The Chapel Hill Red Cross elects A. H. Patterson chairman at its annual meeting

    At its annual meeting on Thursday, November 21, 1918, the chapter elected Dr. A. H. Patterson chairman, with Alice Noble vice-chairman, Nellie Roberson secretary and Dudley Carroll treasurer. Earlier that fall George Howe had resigned for his duties on the University's Student Army Training Corps committee, and J. M. Bell had taken his place.

  26. Statistic or record · UNC, Chapel Hill About 2,240 university men are in uniform when the war ends

    At the armistice about 2,240 university men, counting alumni and faculty, were in service. The Alumni Review's October to December issues listed 33 dead, and the only faculty member killed was Lt. Joseph Henry Johnston of the School of Education.

  27. Construction or physical change · University Inn, Chapel Hill The Chapel Hill Red Cross moves its workroom to the University Inn

    After the armistice of November 11, 1918, the chapter left the Zeta Psi fraternity hall for roomy quarters in the University Inn that the University provided.

  28. Health or relief action · Hillsborough The Orange County Red Cross mails 111 Christmas boxes to men overseas

    In November 1918 a chapter committee inspected, packed and mailed 111 Christmas boxes for men in the American Expeditionary Forces. A hundred comfort kits that Mrs. C. H. Robertson's workers had made for a Capt. Davies, which could not be shipped to him, went instead to fill a headquarters order for Italian comfort kits.

  29. Closing or ending · UNC, Chapel Hill The SATC is demobilized and half its men leave Chapel Hill

    Demobilization of the Students' Army Training Corps was completed on December 10, 1918, ending military control of the campus, and half of the SATC men left on the next train. Faculty judged the arrangement a failure because the university had answered to two masters.

  30. Life event · Chapel Hill Sgt. Charles Battle Wills of Chapel Hill dies of pneumonia overseas

    Charles Battle Wills of Chapel Hill enlisted June 19, 1917, and served as a sergeant in Battery C, 113th Field Artillery, 30th Division. He died of pneumonia overseas on Christmas Day 1918, and L. P. McLendon paid him tribute at the Chapel Hill homecoming.

  31. Statistic or record · Chapel Hill The Chapel Hill Red Cross signs 550 members in its 1918 Christmas Roll Call

    J. S. Holmes chaired the chapter's Christmas Roll Call of 1918, which secured 550 members. The school's Junior Red Cross auxiliary enrolled 310 in the same roll call, with every grade of the graded school at full membership.

  32. Chapel Hill Alice Noble writes the history of the Chapel Hill Red Cross chapter

    As chapter historian, Alice Noble signed the Chapel Hill chapter's account of its war work, from the 1917 first aid class through the 1919 welcome home for soldiers and sailors in Memorial Hall.

  33. Construction or physical change · Bacon Farm, 4123 St. Mary's Road, east of Hillsborough The Bacon farm on St. Mary's Road takes up dairying

    After the First World War the owners of the Bacon Farm switched to dairying, building a large gambrel-roofed dairy barn and two frame milking parlors behind the house, which was remodeled as a bungalow in the same years.

  34. Statistic or record · Orange County The county war record lists 23 Orange County servicemen who died in the war

    Annie Sutton Cameron's record for the Council of Defense lists 23 Orange County soldiers killed in action or dead of wounds or disease, four of them Black. The list includes men from Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough, Blackwood and Rougemont.

  35. Gerrard Hall Gerrard Hall memorial service for Marvin H. Stacy

    Students, faculty and friends met in Gerrard Hall to remember Stacy, who had died of influenza on January 21. Former president Francis P. Venable, a childhood friend, and Albert Coates for the students spoke.

  36. Construction or physical change · Hillsborough The county board commits $20,000 to a new Hillsboro school as a memorial to the county's war dead

    The board first offered Hillsboro $5,000 for a new school plant if the town raised $2,500, then settled on $20,000, and asked that the building honor the men of the county killed in the First World War. It offered Carrboro $2,500 on condition that voters there pass a $20,000 bond issue.

  37. Naming or commemoration · Chapel Hill Chapel Hill welcomes home its World War soldiers alongside Confederate veterans

    On Saturday, May 10, 1919, a parade of Confederate veterans, returned soldiers and sailors, former student soldiers and town groups filled Franklin and Columbia Streets. Over 2,000 people crowded Memorial Hall to hear Archibald Henderson, L. P. McLendon and Joseph Hyde Pratt, with William Cain presiding.

  38. Health or relief action · Orange County Orange County raises $800 for the Salvation Army

    In a Salvation Army campaign May 16-26, 1919, South Orange under W. S. Roberson raised $300 and North Orange under R. H. Claytor raised $500.01 on a $500 quota.

  39. Property or economic transaction · Orange County Orange County subscribes $137,050 to the Victory Liberty Loan

    In the fifth, or Victory, Liberty Loan the county subscribed $137,050 against a $112,500 allotment, from 202 men, 70 women and 4 corporations. The women's committee reported $67,300 obtained by direct solicitation.

  40. Award or honor · Orange County Orange County towns and townships win honor flags in the Victory Loan

    For meeting their Victory Loan quotas, Cedar Grove, Chapel Hill, Cheeks, Eno and Hillsborough townships and the towns of Chapel Hill and Hillsborough were awarded honor flags, the Chapel Hill News reported on May 29, 1919, crediting Mayor W. S. Roberson as Victory Loan chairman. The paper said county residents had put more than a million dollars into government securities since the first Liberty Loan.

  41. Naming or commemoration · Hillsborough Black women of Hillsborough serve the homecoming dinner for Black soldiers and sailors

    For the July 16, 1919 homecoming, a committee of Black residents planned a separate welcome, with Minnie Berry Martin chairing the dinner and Annie Berry the serving. Black soldiers and sailors marched in the parade with Black Red Cross workers and were served dinner at the Black school house.

  42. Naming or commemoration · Hillsborough Hillsborough holds the county homecoming celebration for returned soldiers

    On July 16, 1919, about 15,000 people came to Hillsborough to welcome home Orange County's soldiers and sailors, with a parade, Gov. Bickett's address at the court house and a dinner for about a thousand guests in Cameron Park. J. Cheshire Webb chaired the celebration, and the county Red Cross voted $300 toward its cost, money the celebration fund turned out not to need.

  43. 1920s
  44. Construction or physical change · North side of Mill No. 7, Carrboro A fenced playground is built beside Mill No. 7

    Around 1920 a fenced playground with swings and horseshoe pits went up on the north side of Mill No. 7, one of the projects of the mills' Industrial Democracy plan. It was taken apart in World War II so its metal could go to the war effort.

  45. Closing or ending · UNC, Chapel Hill 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.

  46. Construction or physical change · Hearn's Grocery, 102 East Main Street, Carrboro Lueco Lloyd builds the brick store that houses Hearn's grocery

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

  47. Graham Residence Hall, Chapel Hill The trustees name a Lower Quad dormitory Graham Residence Hall for John W. Graham

    Meeting shortly after his death, the university trustees named the dormitory finished in 1924 on the Lower Quad for John Washington Graham, class of 1857 and a trustee since 1876. They praised his service at the 1864 Battle of Plymouth, where Confederate troops massacred Black soldiers and people who had fled slavery.

  48. 1930s
  49. Appointment, election or service · University infirmary (Abernethy Hall), 131 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill Dr. Eric A. Abernethy resigns as university physician

    Abernethy, appointed university physician in charge of the infirmary after he came home wounded from the First World War, resigned because of poor health and went into private practice in Chapel Hill with his son. Dr. Foy Roberson of Durham took temporary charge of the infirmary.

  50. Construction or physical change · Hillsborough Hillsborough builds the Confederate Memorial Library

    Federal relief crews began a new library on Churton Street in Hillsborough in December 1933, with local money, including $7,000 from the Hillsborough United Daughters of the Confederacy, paying for materials. The cornerstone of the Confederate Memorial Public Library was laid on July 13, 1934, and the building became the Orange County Historical Museum in 1983.

  51. Appointment, election or service · Chapel Hill Guion Griffis Johnson serves as president of the Chapel Hill PTA

    Guion Griffis Johnson was president of the Chapel Hill PTA in 1937–1938 and a district PTA officer the following year.

  52. Property or economic transaction · Confederate Memorial Library, Hillsborough The county begins small yearly grants to Hillsborough's Confederate Memorial Library

    Even before state library grants were available, and at least as early as 1938, Orange County made small annual appropriations to the Confederate Memorial Library in Hillsborough.

  53. Appointment, election or service · Chapel Hill William S. Hogan is appointed Chapel Hill postmaster

    President Roosevelt appointed Hogan, assistant postmaster, to succeed Robert A. Eubanks on the nomination of Congressman Carl Durham, and the Senate confirmed him. Durham waived an examination because Hogan had served in the office about twenty years.

  54. 1940s
  55. Protest or organizing · Chapel Hill A Chapel Hill chapter of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies is organized

    Frank Graham and Durham banker George Watts Hill were among the first North Carolinians to sign on with the national committee formed in 1940, and chapters were organized in Chapel Hill and Asheville. Covington describes Chapel Hill as a center of support for the Allies while both of the state's senators opposed involvement.

  56. Founding or opening · William Whitted House, 306 North Churton Street / 103 East Queen Street, Hillsborough The William Whitted House becomes Hillsborough's American Legion post

    In the 1940s the William Whitted House at 306 North Churton Street becomes the home of the local American Legion post. It has since become a private residence again.

  57. Appointment, election or service · University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill UNC offers its faculty and laboratories to the national defense

    Twenty months before Pearl Harbor, the university president telegraphed Washington putting UNC faculty, laboratories and equipment at the government's service; the trustees confirmed the step at their August meeting.

  58. Founding or opening · Chapel Hill A Naval ROTC unit is established at the university

    On September 11, 1940 the Navy named the university one of eight new Naval ROTC sites, and on September 25 about 100 freshmen began naval science classes under Captain Robert S. Haggart. During World War II the Navy's V-12 program there was built around the unit. An Air ROTC unit followed in 1947.

  59. Law, policy or court · University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill UNC makes physical training compulsory for every student

    As part of its defense program the university began requiring physical training of students in all classes from September 1940.

  60. Health or relief action · Chapel Hill Chapel Hill's British war relief committee raises money for a mobile canteen in London

    The local committee raised $1,160 to buy a mobile tea kitchen and a large stock of food for Londoners under German bombing.

  61. Violence or armed conflict · Chapel Hill Chapel Hill organizes civilian defense after Pearl Harbor

    Within days of Pearl Harbor, Mayor John Foushee called for hundreds of civilian-defense volunteers, and armed sentries guarded the airport, the University Lake dam and the power plant. A control center opened at the Carolina Inn, with a branch volunteer office for Black residents at Perry's barber shop, and UNC students formed a volunteer training corps.

  62. Founding or opening · University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill UNC forms the Carolina Volunteer Training Corps and opens a War Information Center

    In the month of Pearl Harbor the university organized a volunteer military training corps for students and set up a War Information Center.

  63. Naming or commemoration · New Hope Presbyterian Church A memorial to local Revolutionary War soldiers is placed at New Hope

    In 1942 a monument honoring Revolutionary War soldiers from the neighborhood was set in the grounds of New Hope Presbyterian Church, beside its cemetery.

  64. Construction or physical change · Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House, 114 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill Beta Theta Pi and other fraternity houses quarter Navy trainees

    While the university served as a naval training center, many fraternity houses, the Beta house among them, were used to lodge midshipmen, which held back chapter growth until the war ended.

  65. Appointment, election or service · Institute of Government, Chapel Hill Coates trains as a civil defense instructor and Popular Government issues a defense number

    Called to a War Department school in Texas in the summer of 1942, Coates returned to run civil defense training through the Institute, and that fall Popular Government published a 'Defense Issue' on espionage, water system protection, gas attacks and air raid warnings. In 1945 an Army Service Forces colonel credited the Institute with the plan for joining local and state forces with federal ones to defend the state.

  66. Appointment, election or service · Chapel Hill Guion Griffis Johnson leads home-front work in Chapel Hill and Orange County

    During World War II Johnson chaired the Community Service Committee of the Chapel Hill War Price and Rationing Board, was public relations officer for the Orange County Office of Civil Defense, and collected war records for Orange County.

  67. Founding or opening · University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill UNC starts a pre-induction curriculum for students bound for the service

    The university set up a course of study for all students entering military service; it later grew into the College for War Training.

  68. Publication, speech or performance · Chapel Hill Eleanor Roosevelt speaks at Memorial Hall to close a post-war planning conference

    Eleanor Roosevelt spoke in Memorial Hall at UNC to a capacity audience of about 2,000 people, closing a two-day conference on post-war planning sponsored by the Carolina Political Union and the International Student Service. She warned the audience that there was no going back to normalcy.

  69. Property or economic transaction · Chapel Hill The Navy B-1 Band lives in the Community Center

    With the community center unfinished for lack of funds, the town lent it on May 22, 1942 to the Navy as quarters for the B-1 Band, the Black musicians of the Pre-Flight School. The Navy, not the band, finished and equipped the building, and the band lived there from that summer until the town regained it on October 24, 1945.

  70. Publication, speech or performance · Chapel Hill Governor Broughton welcomes guests at the commissioning of the Navy Pre-Flight School

    The dinner program for the commissioning of the Naval Aviation Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill on May 23, 1942 has Governor J. Melville Broughton offering the welcome, and Josephus Daniels giving greetings to the Navy Department representatives and to Commander O. O. Kessing. The school trained 18,700 pre-flight cadets before it was decommissioned on October 15, 1945.

  71. Storyline · 10 events · Chapel Hill Navy Pre-Flight School operates at UNC

    Commissioned at UNC in May 1942, the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School trained 18,700 cadets before it was decommissioned on October 15, 1945. Cadets ate in Lenoir Hall and drilled in a Navy-built armory that opened in 1943. George H. W. Bush trained there as a cadet, Gerald Ford taught there, and Ted Williams played on its baseball team.

  72. Construction or physical change · Swain Hall, UNC campus, Chapel Hill The Naval ROTC moves out of Woollen Gym and Lenoir Hall into Swain Hall

    By university decision the Naval ROTC left its quarters in Woollen Gymnasium and the basement of Lenoir Hall during June 1 to 9, 1942, and moved into Swain Hall, which its commander thought below the Navy's minimum standard.

  73. Appointment, election or service · Chapel Hill The Navy B-1 Band serves at Chapel Hill

    The B-1 Band, 44 Black musicians sworn in at Raleigh on May 27, 1942 as the first African Americans to serve in the Navy at general rank, played for the Navy Pre-Flight School at UNC from July 1942 to April 1944. Barred from campus housing, they lived in the new Black community center on Roberson Street, now the Hargraves Center.

  74. Construction or physical change · NROTC Naval Armory, 221 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill Archie Royal Davis's plans for the Naval Armory are settled and building begins

    After weeks of argument with consulting architect Arthur C. Nash, Durham architect Archie Royal Davis had his design for a Georgian Revival armory approved in mid-September 1942; R. K. Stewart and Son began building it late that year for about $41,000, meant as a temporary building to be replaced after the war.

  75. Construction or physical change · Navy Pre-Flight Armory, near the tennis courts, UNC campus, Chapel Hill The Navy Pre-Flight School's armory is completed near the campus tennis courts

    A semi-prefabricated armory and rifle range designed by Archie Royal Davis for the Pre-Flight School was finished near the tennis courts, a short walk from Navy Hall. It was a separate building from the NROTC Armory.

  76. Property or economic transaction · West House, near Swain Hall, Chapel Hill Kenneth Tanner lends West House to the Carolina Volunteer Training Corps

    Tanner gave the student officer-training corps the use of West House as its headquarters for the rest of the war. The corps then had 125 students in eight companies under Lt. Col. W. A. Raborg.

  77. Publication, speech or performance · Chapel Hill Guion Griffis Johnson lectures in the Navy V-12 program at the University

    Johnson taught as a lecturer in the Naval V-12 program at the University of North Carolina in 1943–1944.

  78. Founding or opening · University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Pre-meteorology and aviation training units arrive at UNC

    In the first half of 1943 the university took in pre-meteorology and aviation training units, adding to the Navy programs already on campus.

  79. Appointment, election or service · Chapel Hill William Meade Prince becomes head of the university's art department

    William Meade Prince took charge of the University of North Carolina's art department during World War II, while also making posters and drawings for wartime causes.

  80. Founding or opening · NROTC Naval Armory, 221 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill The Naval ROTC moves into its new armory on South Columbia Street

    The NROTC took over its new armory in January 1943, with classrooms in use by January 7 and a drill hall whose mezzanine served as a ship's bridge for drills. It is the first NROTC unit's building in North Carolina and has housed ROTC training ever since.

  81. Naming or commemoration · NROTC Naval Armory, 221 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill The NROTC holds its annual dance to open the new armory

    The Naval ROTC dedicated its armory with its annual Navy dance on the drill deck, with the Navy B-1 Band, the Black enlisted musicians stationed with the Pre-Flight School, named as the band. The drill deck stayed a favorite dance floor through the war.

  82. Founding or opening · Navy Hall (later Jackson Hall), UNC campus, Chapel Hill Navy Hall opens as the Pre-Flight School's visitors' entrance and cadet lounge

    Designed by Archie Royal Davis and first drawn as a temporary office and hostess building, Navy Hall opened in March 1943 with offices for the Pre-Flight School and recreation rooms for cadets; the public was invited in on March 21.

  83. Publication, speech or performance · Kenan Stadium, Chapel Hill Governor Broughton speaks at a Pre-Flight School graduation in Kenan Stadium

    Broughton and UNC president Frank Porter Graham both spoke at Navy Pre-Flight School graduation exercises in Kenan Stadium on June 2, 1943.

  84. Founding or opening · University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The Navy V-12 program opens at UNC with about 1,300 men

    The Navy's V-12 college program, which paid for future officers to finish degrees, began at UNC with an entering class of about 1,300, straining dormitory and dining space already taken up by the Pre-Flight School. It absorbed the Naval ROTC until 1945.

  85. Appointment, election or service · Institute of Government, Chapel Hill Governor Broughton asks the Institute of Government to help towns plan for after the war

    As Allied armies advanced across Europe, Broughton called on the short-staffed Institute to help plan for life in North Carolina's towns and cities once the war ended. State payments for this work and for civil defense training steadied the Institute's budget.

  86. Founding or opening · South Columbia Street, UNC campus, Chapel Hill The Scuttlebutt, a Navy canteen, opens on the UNC campus

    The Scuttlebutt, a canteen built as an extension of the Book Exchange for the Navy and Marine trainees on campus, opened on the morning of January 11, 1944, after months of delay over a sugar contract. Pete Pulley managed it, and at first only trainees with Swain Hall meal tickets could buy there.

  87. Closing or ending · Chapel Hill The Navy B-1 Band leaves Chapel Hill for service in Hawaii

    The B-1 Band, the first Black Navy unit whose members held a rating above messman, cook or steward, was sent from Chapel Hill to Hawaii after nearly two years of playing across the campus and town.

  88. Civil rights era · 1945–1975

  89. Naming or commemoration · Franklin Street, Chapel Hill Chapel Hill celebrates the end of the war with Japan on Franklin Street

    As the news spread that evening, townspeople, students and Pre-Flight School cadets filled Franklin Street while the campus bells rang and the fire siren sounded. Revelers draped the trees with toilet paper and lit a bonfire in the central block, and a policeman who tried to put it out was pushed aside.

  90. Closing or ending · Mill No. 7, Carrboro The National Munitions plant in Mill No. 7 closes

    The shell-loading plant that National Munitions Corporation had run in Mill No. 7 since 1942 closed in August 1945. At its peak it employed 1,600 people, many of them former mill hands assembling anti-aircraft rounds, and it won the Army-Navy E award for production three times.

  91. Closing or ending · University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill UNC holds a farewell assembly for the Navy Pre-Flight School

    As the war ended the university held a formal assembly to say goodbye to the Pre-Flight School; Chancellor R. B. House had told the Navy that any peacetime Navy program should fold into the NROTC and the regular degree.

  92. Construction or physical change · NROTC Naval Armory, 221 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill Navy officers move into the NROTC Armory as the V-12 program ends

    With the Pre-Flight and V-12 programs closed and remaining V-12 men absorbed into an enlarged NROTC, the Navy officers who had worked in Navy Hall moved their offices to the NROTC Armory.

  93. Appointment, election or service · Chapel Hill Terry Sanford serves as assistant director of UNC's Institute of Government

    After the Second World War Sanford returned to Chapel Hill, completed a law degree in 1946 and served two years as assistant director of the Institute of Government before opening a law practice in Fayetteville.

  94. Construction or physical change · 201 Broad Street, Carrboro The Campbells build a stone bungalow for carpenter Vance Thompson on Broad Street

    Next door to the Neville House, John Wesley Campbell and his sons designed and built a fieldstone Craftsman bungalow at 201 Broad Street for carpenter Vance Thompson and his family just after World War II. Land records show it finished by 1947; a Thompson son recalls moving in in 1946, and the family kept it until 2013.

  95. Construction or physical change · Chapel Hill (UNC south campus) Victory Village is built to house married veterans at UNC

    As returning veterans pushed enrollment to about 6,800, the federal government put up the prefabricated metal houses of Victory Village on 65 acres of UNC's south campus in 1946. About 350 student families lived there, and the last units were torn down in the early 1970s for the expansion of UNC Hospitals.

  96. Founding or opening · Hollywood Theatre building, South Nash Street, West Hillsborough C. S. Cates opens a new movie theater in the old Hollywood Theatre building in West Hillsborough

    Cates, a World War II veteran, remodeled the building the Hollywood Theatre had used, with new sound and projection equipment and seats, and advertised the opening for Wednesday, May 1, with a contest to name the house.

  97. Construction or physical change · Navy Pre-Flight Armory, near the tennis courts, UNC campus, Chapel Hill The old Pre-Flight Armory reopens as a Scuttlebutt snack bar and bookstore

    Instead of razing it for a dormitory, the university turned the Pre-Flight School's armory into a second Scuttlebutt, a soda fountain, bookstore and student hangout in the lower quadrangle.

  98. Construction or physical change · 132 North Churton Street, Hillsborough A wartime Army garage from Camp Butner is moved to North Churton Street

    A one-story garage of concrete block and weatherboard, built at Camp Butner in 1942, was moved to 132 North Churton Street in Hillsborough in 1947. It still has five of its original wooden overhead doors.

  99. Naming or commemoration · NROTC Naval Armory, 221 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill A bronze plaque honoring Lt. George Howard Jr. is placed at the Naval Armory

    A plaque to naval officer Lt. George Howard Jr. was put up under the armory's portico, where it still hangs.

  100. Founding or opening · Navy Hall (later Jackson Hall), UNC campus, Chapel Hill The Monogram Club opens the former Navy Hall to all students

    After the war Navy Hall went to the Monogram Club of letter athletes; when it sat underused the university paid to renovate it, and on September 18, 1948 it reopened to every student with a basement dining room and the Circus Room lounge.

  101. Closing or ending · Navy Pre-Flight Armory, near the tennis courts, UNC campus, Chapel Hill The university tears down the old Pre-Flight Armory on the day it was to meet student defenders

    University officials bulldozed the former Pre-Flight Armory, then the Emerson Scuttlebutt, on the same day they were due to meet students petitioning to keep it, and did not come to the meeting. The administration said refreshments would move to the Monogram Club.

  102. 1950s
  103. Appointment, election or service · Chapel Hill Guion Griffis Johnson is president of the Chapel Hill Council of Churches

    After returning to Chapel Hill from Atlanta in 1947, Johnson served on the boards of the Chapel Hill Community Council and Community Club, and in 1950 she was president of the Chapel Hill Council of Churches.

  104. Construction or physical change · NROTC Naval Armory, 221 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill The Navy installs an "Attack Teacher" submarine-hunting trainer in the armory basement

    A mock warship interior with sonar room, bridge and plotting room was built into the armory basement to train midshipmen in antisubmarine work; it was still in use around 1970.

  105. Construction or physical change · Hume house, West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill The pre-Civil War Hume house is moved across the Chapel Hill High School grounds

    To clear ground for a new high school building, the pre-Civil War house known in turn as the Hume, Hogan and Cone house was put on rollers and moved to the west edge of the school lot, still facing Franklin Street, for use as offices and classrooms.

  106. Appointment, election or service · Chapel Hill John Ehle teaches in UNC's radio, television and motion pictures department

    Ehle, an Asheville native who came to Chapel Hill after infantry service in World War II and graduated from UNC in 1949, taught in the university's Communications Center, later the Department of Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures, from 1951 to 1963. He published his first books while teaching there.

  107. Chapel Hill Manly Wade Wellman settles in Chapel Hill

    The writer Manly Wade Wellman, who had moved to Pinebluff, North Carolina, after the Second World War, relocated to Chapel Hill, where he lived for the rest of his life.

  108. Appointment, election or service · Cedar Grove School, 5800 NC 86 North, Cedar Grove Millard Lee Bess joins the Cedar Grove School staff

    The county board hired Millard Lee Bess, a Gaston County native, Winston-Salem State graduate and World War II veteran, for Cedar Grove School in September 1952.

  109. Naming or commemoration · Chapel Hill High School, West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill The Chapel Hill Memorial Fund has a bronze tablet made for the town's World War II dead

    Trustees of the Chapel Hill Memorial Fund had a bronze tablet cast with the names of 26 men of the Chapel Hill community who died in the armed services in World War II, to stand on a stone base in front of Chapel Hill High School. The fund, raised by public gifts in 1946, also endowed a memorial book collection in the school library.

  110. Closing or ending · 110 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill Poe and Mangum move their DeSoto-Plymouth dealership out of a West Franklin Street filling station

    After World War II A. H. Poe and Marvin Mangum sold DeSotos and Plymouths from a 1930s Pure Oil station at 110 West Franklin Street, built in the company's half-timbered cottage design. They added service bays and a showroom before vacating it in 1956.

  111. Appointment, election or service · Orange County Moses Burt retires after 23 years as Orange County's agent for Black farmers

    Moses Cimuel Burt, a World War I veteran trained at NC A&T, Hampton and Cornell, retired as the county's African American extension agent in September 1958. Since 1935 he had backed farm programs in the county's Black schools and helped start 4-H clubs.

  112. 1960s
  113. Construction or physical change · Navy Hall (later Jackson Hall), UNC campus, Chapel Hill The former Navy Hall becomes the Faculty Club

    Because the Monogram Club building was again underused, the university turned it over to a Faculty Club in 1961.

  114. Protest or organizing · NROTC Naval Armory, 221 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill Student Peace Union symbols are painted on UNC's military buildings and the armory gun

    In one of the first antiwar acts on campus, someone painted the Student Peace Union insignia on several military buildings and on the antiaircraft gun in front of the Naval Armory.

  115. Construction or physical change · NROTC Naval Armory, 221 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill Failing roof trusses at the Naval Armory are replaced with steel

    In 1962 three of the armory's wooden roof trusses failed from a design flaw and poor 1942 lumber, and scaffolding held up the drill hall roof; Clancy and Theys Construction swapped in steel trusses one at a time, finishing in 1963 at a cost of about $25,500.

  116. Closing or ending · Walker Milling Co., Court Square, Hillsborough Charles M. Walker Jr. announces that Walker Milling Co. will close

    Walker said he would close the milling business in the three-story landmark on Court Square, which his father and uncle had run for decades before he bought it after World War II, and take a job in Battleboro. He pointed to changes in the farm economy.

  117. Protest or organizing · NROTC Naval Armory, 221 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill "Get out of Vietnam" is painted on the gun outside the Naval Armory

    Overnight, someone lettered an antiwar slogan on the antiaircraft gun on the armory lawn; NROTC officers called it a childish prank.

  118. Protest or organizing · Chapel Hill Wednesday vigils against the Vietnam War at the Chapel Hill post office

    Every Wednesday from 1967 through 1973, Charlotte Adams and fellow protesters of the Chapel Hill branch of WILPF stood in silent vigil in front of the Chapel Hill post office against U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia.

  119. Law, policy or court · University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill UNC faculty publicly debate dropping ROTC, and a Faculty Council committee is named

    An open faculty discussion of removing ROTC led to a Faculty Council committee under historian George V. Taylor, which proposed a Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense to take in naval and aerospace science while keeping ROTC as an option.

  120. 1970s
  121. Protest or organizing · NROTC Naval Armory, 221 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill Antiwar marchers lower the Naval Armory flag for the Kent State dead

    During a 2,000-student march against the Cambodia invasion, protesters took down the flag at the armory to half staff for the students killed at Kent State; NROTC students pushed back and raised it again before the march moved on to South Building.

  122. Protest or organizing · NROTC Naval Armory, 221 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill Students march on the Naval Armory and serve an eviction notice on the NROTC

    Led by two 1969 West Point graduates, student protesters marched to the armory and served a mock eviction notice, arguing the revised ROTC curriculum only made military training easier to accept.

  123. Publication, speech or performance · Carrboro and Chapel Hill Daphne Athas publishes Entering Ephesus, a novel set in Carrboro and Chapel Hill

    Her coming-of-age novel, set in Carrboro and Chapel Hill during World War II among intellectuals, poor southerners and Greek immigrants, was named one of the ten best novels of the year by Time magazine.

  124. Construction or physical change · Navy Hall (later Jackson Hall), UNC campus, Chapel Hill The former Navy Hall becomes UNC's admissions office

    The university moved its admissions office into the old Navy Hall, then the Faculty Club, in 1971; it was renamed Jackson Hall in 1992.

  125. Recent decades · 1976–2026

  126. Founding or opening · NROTC Naval Armory, 221 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill N.C. State students join UNC's Naval ROTC in a joint program

    NC State University joined UNC's NROTC unit in a shared program in 1979, before starting its own unit in 1988.

  127. 1980s
  128. Law, policy or court · Cane Creek, Orange County Army Corps of Engineers issues the federal permit for the Cane Creek dam

    The Corps' district engineer issued OWASA a Clean Water Act Section 404 permit to place fill for the dam on the same day the Court of Appeals voided the state certificate. The permit was set to expire on August 31, 1982 unless construction had begun.

  129. 1990s
  130. Construction or physical change · NROTC Naval Armory, 221 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill UNC renovates the Naval Armory to house all three ROTC branches

    After a 1993 push from the Army and Air Force units, the university chose to keep the aging armory and spent more than $400,000 refitting it for Navy, Army and Air Force ROTC, closing the rifle range, cleaning up lead found there, and enclosing much of the drill deck for offices.

  131. Closing or ending · Scuttlebutt, Cameron Avenue and South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill UNC tears down the Scuttlebutt, the wartime Navy canteen

    The Scuttlebutt snack bar at Cameron Avenue and South Columbia Street, built as a Pre-Flight School canteen, was razed after more than fifty years of feeding students.

  132. 2000s
  133. Naming or commemoration · Naval Armory, UNC campus, Chapel Hill UNC's Naval Armory joins the Study List

    The committee placed the Naval Armory on the UNC campus on the Study List on October 10, 2002, as one of the central and southeastern public requests it approved with staff recommendations.

  134. 2010s
  135. Naming or commemoration · Hillsborough Hillsborough votes to remove "Confederate Memorial" lettering from the former library

    The 1934 public library building on North Churton Street, home of the Orange County Historical Museum since 1983, still carried part of its "Confederate Memorial Library 1934" sign. After museum leaders asked in June 2015 to take the words down, saying some Black residents felt unwelcome, the Hillsborough Board of Commissioners voted that year to remove the sign from the pediment.

  136. Closing or ending · Chapel Hill Horace Williams Airport closes

    UNC closed Horace Williams Airport on May 15, 2018, under a November 2017 trustees resolution, citing money lost running the field and at least $1 million in needed runway repairs. The airfield dated to 1928 and had trained Navy pre-flight cadets during World War II; the Carolina North campus once planned for the site had stalled.

  137. Law, policy or court · Orange County The UNC System gives Silent Sam to the Sons of Confederate Veterans with a $2.5 million trust in a same-day consent judgment

    The North Carolina Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans sued the UNC System and Board of Governors over the monument and a consent judgment was entered the same day in Orange County Superior Court. The System handed over the statue, to be kept outside the fourteen counties with a System campus, and endowed a $2.5 million charitable trust from non-state funds for its care and display. Board chair Randy Ramsey said the deal let the University 'move forward'.

  138. 2020s
  139. Naming or commemoration · Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) Naval Armory at UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill The Navy ROTC Naval Armory at UNC-Chapel Hill is listed in the National Register

    On February 7, 2024 the National Park Service listed the Navy ROTC Naval Armory at UNC-Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill in the National Register of Historic Places.

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