Charles Baskerville

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1. 1886 The university begins leasing its Franklin Street land to faculty for houses Because a federal court had ruled about 600 acres around the campus inalienable, the trustees leased a Franklin Street parcel to James Lee Love for fifty years, followed by leases to Charles Baskerville and Francis K. Ball. Later, on legal advice, such lots were sold outright to faculty members. People: Charles Baskerville, James Lee Love Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Francis K. Ball · Also mentions: Franklin StreetDocumenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 366
2. 1892–1894 Charles Baskerville plays fullback for Carolina Baskerville was fullback and manager of the Carolina football squads of 1892, 1893 and 1894. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: Baskerville, Charles
3. November 26, 1892 Carolina's football team beats Virginia 26 to 0 at Atlanta Under captain Michael Hoke the 1892 team lost only to Virginia in October and then beat Richmond College, Trinity, Alabama A. and M., Vanderbilt and, in a rematch at Atlanta, Virginia. Students met the team at University Station and pulled their carriages to the campus. People: Charles Baskerville, George Tayloe Winston Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Michael Hoke · Also mentions: University StationSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 477
4. February 23, 1893 The Tar Heel publishes its first issue The first issue of The Tar Heel, volume 1, number 1, appeared on Thursday, February 23, 1893, as a weekly published under the auspices of the University Athletic Association, with Charles Baskerville as editor in chief. The student paper took the name The Daily Tar Heel in 1929. People: Charles Baskerville Place: Chapel HillIn the index: Daily Tar Heel · The Tar Heel, February 23, 1893, p. 1 (DigitalNC)
5. 1896 Chemistry professor Charles Baskerville builds a Queen Anne house at 524 East Franklin Street Charles Baskerville's house on East Franklin Street, going up in March 1896, hides two full stories behind a large polygonal entrance bay with a pyramid roof, trimmed with a turret, a balconied dormer and a gabled vent. Little calls it the most playful Queen Anne house in town. Baskerville bought the lot outright in 1905 and sold the house that year to chemist Charles Herty. People: Charles H. Herty Place: 524 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: East Franklin StreetSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 40 · Also: The Tar Heel, March 21, 1896, p. 3
6. 1900–1904 Charles Baskerville heads UNC's chemistry department When Francis P. Venable became university president in 1900, Baskerville succeeded him as chairman of the chemistry department, Smith Professor and director of the chemical laboratory, posts he held until 1904. People: Francis Preston Venable Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: Baskerville, Charles
7. 1903 Charles Baskerville announces two new elements, carolinium and berzelium Baskerville's research at the university on thorium and other rare earths led him in 1903 to announce two previously unknown elements, which he named carolinium and berzelium. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: Baskerville, Charles
8. 1905 Chemist Charles H. Herty buys Charles Baskerville's new house Charles Baskerville, who had built a house on the southwest corner of Boundary and Franklin streets in 1897, sold it in 1905 to the chemist Charles H. Herty, who joined the university faculty that year and was later known for a process that made newsprint from southern pine. People: Charles Baskerville, Charles H. Herty Place: Baskerville-Herty house, East Franklin Street at Boundary Street, Chapel HillSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 40 · Also: Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan
9. 1905 The General Assembly votes $50,000 for a chemistry building After Professor Charles Baskerville described the crowded chemistry laboratories, the legislature raised the university's yearly appropriation to $45,000 and gave $50,000 for a chemical laboratory. Venable called the building grant a new departure. People: Charles Baskerville, Francis Preston Venable, Richard H. Battle, Victor Silas Bryant Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 647