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Harvey Bennett

Harvey Bennett was a part owner of Bennett and Blocksidge, Chapel Hill's leading coal, fuel and appliance dealers. Elected to the Orange County Board of Commissioners in 1960, he served into the 1970s and was chairman in 1964, when he cast the deciding vote on the Walker Milling building, and again in 1972. In 1969 he backed the campaign to bring a Fiber Industries plant to the county.

Source: The News of Orange County, April 7, 1960

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  1. Workmen begin tearing down Dave Neville's old store at Main Street and the railroad Dismantling began on the frame store at Main Street and the University Railroad tracks, known over the years as Dave Neville's general store, Partin's grocery and the Carrboro Feed and Seed Store. Owner Harvey Bennett took it down at the town board's informal request, since Carrboro's fire code barred prolonging the life of frame buildings downtown. People: Harvey BennettSearch the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, July 3, 1961, p. 6
  2. The old Walker Milling Co. building on courthouse square is torn down Orange County, which bought the mill property in August 1963 for $25,000, had a Wilmington contractor raze the building to clear the lot for parking. Historical groups asked the commissioners to save it, but they would only agree, by a split vote, to buy the old handmade bricks for resale. People: Mary Claire Engstrom, Harvey BennettSearch the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, December 10, 1964, p. 8
  3. County planning board recommends rezoning the Blackwood Station tract for Fiber Industries The Orange County Planning Board unanimously recommended rezoning the 450-acre Blackwood Station tract from residential to industrial for a $100 million Fiber Industries plant promising 1,500 jobs. Board member Mark Burnham pressed for stricter performance standards, and commissioners Carl Smith, Ira Ward and Harvey Bennett had backed the Chamber of Commerce's pro-Fiber campaign. People: Carl Smith (Chapel Hill businessman and county commissioner), Harvey BennettSearch the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, July 24, 1969, p. 1

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