Harriet Morehead Berry

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1883 The Berry family moves to Sunnyside south of Hillsborough Dr. John and Mary Strayhorn Berry moved from their West King Street house, now known as Two Chimneys, to Sunnyside, the Berry family plantation two miles south of town. Mary Berry tutored her daughter Harriet at home until she was twelve. People: Harriet Morehead BerrySearch the index · NC DNCR: Harriet M. Berry 1877-1940 (G-100)
2. 1901–1921 Harriet Berry works for the state Geological and Economic Survey in Chapel Hill Berry began work in Chapel Hill with the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey in 1901 and rose from stenographer to secretary and, in 1917, acting head. She left in 1921, the year her Good Roads lobbying produced the state highway commission law. People: Joseph Hyde PrattSearch the index · NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources: Harriet M. Berry 1877-1940 (G-100)
3. 1918 (Third Liberty Loan) Orange County women's committees sell $59,600 in Third Liberty Loan bonds With Harriet M. Berry of Chapel Hill as county chairman, women organized in every township made $59,600 of the county's $99,150 in Third Liberty Loan sales, more than two-thirds of the allotment. Mrs. T. J. Wilson's Chapel Hill committee took 85 subscriptions for $18,500 and the Hillsborough committee raised $36,000. People: Harriet Morehead BerrySearch the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 63
4. October 1918 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. People: Harriet Morehead BerrySearch the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 65
5. May 1919 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. People: Harriet Morehead Berry, W. S. RobersonSearch the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 69
6. 1921 The legislature passes the Highway Act championed by Harriet Morehead Berry of Hillsborough The 1921 act paid for a state highway network tying together the main cities and county seats. Its trunk route, the Central Highway (later U.S. 70), ran straight through Hillsborough.Search the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 44
7. 1940 Good-roads advocate Harriet Morehead Berry is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery Harriet Morehead Berry (1877-1940), who campaigned for North Carolina road improvements in the 1920s, was buried in the cemetery.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, National Register nomination (OR0496), p. 23
8. 1986 I-40 through Orange County is named the Harriet Morehead Berry Freeway The Board of Transportation named a section of Interstate 40 through Orange County for Berry, the Hillsborough-born Good Roads campaigner. A state highway marker to her was cast the same year for NC 86 at I-40 north of Chapel Hill.Search the index · NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources: Harriet M. Berry 1877-1940 (G-100)