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- Colonial and Regulator years · 1680–1774
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A log house, later the Weaver House, is built beside the Hillsborough wagon road
A story-and-a-jump house of hewn logs, one room on each floor, went up a few yards from the wagon road to Hillsborough, whose roadbed could still be traced in 1983. Tradition says it was first a tavern; it is the oldest building standing in Carrboro.
Subject: Weaver House
- Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865
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Allan Bubberly sells the future Weaver House property to Thomas Weaver
In 1811 Allan Bubberly conveyed the old homestead and tavern property on the Hillsborough road to Thomas Weaver. Weaver's descendants kept it for ninety-nine years, and the house still carries the family name.
Subject: Weaver House
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The Weavers add a frame front wing to the log house
A plain one-and-a-half-story frame block with two rooms per floor was built across the front, by family account to shelter the wife and children of a Weaver who went off to the Civil War. The log wing got matching Greek Revival doors and sash at about the same time.
Subject: Weaver House
- Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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Sara Thomas Watters buys the Weaver House and its road takes her name
Alexander and Leta Hogan, owners since 1910, sold the old Weaver place to Watters. The dirt lane to it, formerly Old Hillsborough Road, was renamed Watters Road about then; a mapmaker misread the name and it has been Walters Road since.
Subject: Weaver House
- Civil rights era · 1945–1975
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A Weaver farm barn is rebuilt as a house, the Barnstable
While Sara Watters owned the Weaver House she deeded its two-story board-and-batten barn and several acres to her sister, a Charlotte interior decorator. The sister made it a dwelling with log and frame wings built from salvaged materials.
Subject: Weaver House
- Recent decades · 1976–2026
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Reviewers hold back Carrboro's Oak Avenue and Maple Avenue districts from the Study List
Four Carrboro requests from owners or interested parties came before the State Professional Review Committee on April 9, 1981. Staff asked that the proposed Oak Avenue and Maple Avenue historic districts be deferred, and the committee approved the rest of the day's Study List without them, including the Weaver House and the Old Carrboro Business District.
Subject: Weaver House
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The state holds the Weaver House nomination until Orange County is surveyed
Staff doubted the integrity of the Carrboro log house, which had been covered in weatherboards and remodeled several times, and noted that Orange County had no architectural survey against which to judge its log buildings. On July 10, 1986 the committee postponed the nomination until such a survey was done and asked staff to suggest that the owners urge their legislators to pay for one. In January it had already withheld approval pending a staff visit.
Subject: Weaver House
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