Local figure
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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Life and Orange County connections
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- Efland Methodist Church is organized Methodists at Efland organized a church and built it the same year. People: O. E. BivinsSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 298
- 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. BivinsSearch the index · DigitalNC: Durham Morning Herald, February 15, 1920, p. 4
- 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. BivinsSearch the index · Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation (National Register, 2014), Section 7, p. 56
- 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. BivinsSearch the index · DigitalNC: Wilmington Morning Star, March 13, 1941, p. 2
- 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.Search the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, July 18, 1963, p. 8
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- Occoneechee Farm Houses, farms, parks and cemeteries · Hillsborough · 1 event here
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