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O. E. Bivins

O. E. Bivins of Hillsboro owned the Bivins Basket Factory with C. A. Bivins. The plant stood just east of the town on the Durham-Greensboro highway and was being used mostly to store supplies when a fire of unknown cause razed it on March 12, 1941.

Source: DigitalNC: Wilmington Morning Star, March 13, 1941, p. 2

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  1. Efland Methodist Church is organized Methodists at Efland organized a church and built it the same year. People: O. E. Bivins Place: Efland · Also named: Mrs. M. P. EflandSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 298
  2. The Bivins brothers' tobacco basket factory is running in Hillsboro A Hillsboro report called the Bivins brothers' basket factory a new industry doing a thriving business. It wove the large baskets used in tobacco warehouses by machine, one of few such plants in the country. People: O. E. Bivins Place: Occoneechee Street at West Margaret Lane, Hillsborough · Also named: Claude A. BivinsSearch the index · DigitalNC: Durham Morning Herald, February 15, 1920, p. 4
  3. The O. E. Bivins House, a Craftsman bungalow, is built on North Hassell Street The 2014 National Register documentation for the Hillsborough Historic District names the hip-roofed Craftsman bungalow at 112 North Hassell Street the O. E. Bivins House and dates it about 1922. O. E. Bivins was a Hillsboro manufacturer who ran the town's tobacco basket factory with his brothers. People: O. E. Bivins Place: 112 North Hassell Street, Hillsborough · Also mentions: Hillsborough Historic DistrictSearch the index · Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation (National Register, 2014), Section 7, p. 56 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), September 14, 1922, p. 4
  4. Fire destroys the Bivins Basket Factory east of Hillsboro A fire of unknown cause razed the Bivins Basket Factory on the Durham-Greensboro highway just east of Hillsboro. The plant had been used mostly for storage, and its owners called it a total loss. People: O. E. Bivins Place: Durham-Greensboro highway (US 70), just east of Hillsborough · Also named: C. A. BivinsSearch the index · DigitalNC: Wilmington Morning Star, March 13, 1941, p. 2
  5. O. E. Bivins builds the cabin at Hillsboro's new Girl Scout camp The new camp for Hillsboro's Girl Scout troops, at Occoneechee Farm behind the Harold Culbreth home south of town, had a cabin built for the girls and their leaders by O. E. Bivins. An open house and picnic supper were planned for the following Wednesday. Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Harold Culbreth · Also mentions: Occoneechee FarmSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 18, 1963, p. 8

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  • Occoneechee Farm Houses, farms, parks and cemeteries · Hillsborough · 1 event here

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