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Julian S. Carr

Julian Shakespeare Carr (1845–1924), a Durham tobacco and textile industrialist whose Carr Mill stood in Carrboro, the town renamed for him in 1913 at his request, was an admitted Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan member. At the 1913 dedication of UNC's Confederate monument he told the crowd he had horse-whipped a Black woman "until her skirts hung in shreds" a hundred yards away.

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Julian S. Carr, engraving, 1905
Julian S. Carr, engraving, 1905

Life and Orange County connections

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StorylineCaldwell Institute at Caldwell, 1877–19051877–1905 · 22 events · Caldwell Institute, a school in Little River Township, drew at least 800 people to its closing in 1877, lost its building to a fire thought to have been set in 1886 and went on under a series of principals. In 1890 the trustees gave J. H. McCracken the use of the building, a new one was nearly done by December, and the spring term of 1891 opened with 53 pupils, the largest session yet, the trustees said. The 1899 legislature chartered the institute, which recovered under Prof. Roberts after two unsettled years. In 1902 the county formed a large Caldwell district, whose voters approved a local tax for a rural graded school in 1903. StorylineBuilding the State University Railroad, 1879–18831879–1883 · 29 events · Chapel Hill's railroad to University Station was graded by state convicts; a guard shot one dead as he ran, and an overseer was charged with cruelly whipping another, a Black convict named Fries, who died. A coroner's jury found other causes, and Battle wrote that the solicitor found no ground to prosecute. In 1879 the legislature had rechartered a stalled iron-mine line as the State University Railroad, and in January 1880 the stockholders adopted Kemp P. Battle's resolution to run it from Chapel Hill to University Station, and the directors elected him president. The first passenger train left Chapel Hill in February 1882, and by July mail ran on the line. StorylineOrange County party politics and Sheriff Hughes, 1880–18881880–1888 · 13 events · In the 1880s Orange County voters kept returning Sheriff John K. Hughes, even in years they voted Democratic for president. Hughes was first elected in 1880, when independents ran against the Democratic ticket. In 1882 the Republican county convention endorsed the Liberal coalition ticket and Hughes's re-election; Zebulon B. Vance spoke nearly three hours against the coalition, but the Republican Isaac R. Strayhorn led the Senate race and the Liberal James A. Cheek won a House seat by seven votes. In 1884 Orange went for Cleveland and still returned Hughes, and in 1886 the Republican-backed Hughes won by more than 1,100 votes. In 1888 the Democrats left the sheriff's race to Hughes, who won as an independent. StorylineFrom West End to Carrboro: railroad, mills, and a new town, 1882–19131882–1913 · 83 events · In 1882 a university railroad spur ended a mile west of Chapel Hill, and the settlement of West End grew around its boxcar depot. Thomas Lloyd opened a gin and grist mill in 1883 and the Alberta Cotton Mill in 1899, which Julian Carr's Durham Hosiery bought in 1909. Incorporated as Venable in 1911, the town became Carrboro in 1913. StorylineGeorge T. Winston’s presidency of the University, 1890–18961890–1896 · 13 events · George T. Winston became president of the University in 1891, when Kemp P. Battle left the office after fifteen years to take a chair of history that alumni had answered a call to endow, and he led it through rising enrollment and a fight over its state appropriation. He and a faculty committee ended a campus feud by barring students from fraternities until a year after matriculation. In 1895 he rallied alumni legislators against a cut in the appropriation and prevailed after Populist leader Marion Butler came out for the university. Enrollment reached 403 that March and 534 in the 1896 catalogue. In July 1896 Winston resigned to become president of the University of Texas. StorylineJulian S. Carr's Occoneechee Farm, 1891–19231891–1923 · 15 events · By 1896 Julian S. Carr's Occoneechee Farm held nearly all of the registered cattle and hogs that put Orange first in the state's register of blooded stock. The Durham industrialist bought Poplar Hill, the house James Hogg had built about 1794 on the Eno, in 1891 and renamed it. He gave the Norwood Mineral Spring a marble basin and spring house and built a large stock barn, a gate wall and a model sheep fold. The State Dairymen's Association met there in 1896, and a Farmers' Institute in 1906 drew several hundred people. Wind, lightning and a 1918 storm destroyed barns, and Carr rebuilt. On November 22, 1923 the farm was sold at auction in small farms.
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StorylineThe University's centennial and the Alumni Building, 1895–19011895–1901 · 6 events · The University's hundredth anniversary in June 1895 brought both a look back at its history and a new building. Alfred Moore Waddell gave the oration, printed that year as The Ante-Bellum University, and Stephen B. Weeks spoke on the University in the Civil War. At the centennial banquet alumni and classes pledged gifts toward an Alumni Hall, led by Julian S. Carr. With about $7,000 of the $20,000 in pledges in hand, the trustees began its foundation in 1897, to a design by Frank Pierce Milburn modeled on the Boston Public Library. Its cornerstone was laid with Masonic ceremony in 1898, and the Alumni Building was finished in 1901 with fourteen lecture rooms and the University's administrative offices. StorylineThe Bank of Chapel Hill, 1899–19311899–1931 · 7 events · Founded in 1899 with $2,500 paid in, the Bank of Chapel Hill was, in Lefler and Wager's county history, the county's first bank after the Civil War. Julian S. Carr was elected president, and it opened for business that July. It moved into a new building on Franklin Street in 1914. In 1919 it raised its capital to open a bank in the mill town of Carrboro, and the Bank of Carrboro took in more than $30,000 in deposits on its first day. In 1925 it bought the assets of Chapel Hill's second bank, the Peoples Bank. After the bank failures of 1930, the federal government named it depository for postal savings at the Chapel Hill post office in 1931. StorylineSilent Sam1913–2018 · 25 events · On June 2, 1913, the United Daughters of the Confederacy and UNC alumni dedicated a Confederate soldier statue in McCorkle Place, and Julian Carr's dedication speech boasted of whipping a Black woman. The monument drew decades of protest until demonstrators pulled it down on August 20, 2018.

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  1. James Hogg moves across the Eno to Poplar Hill Hogg, who owned the land along the south bank of the Eno opposite the town, lived east of Hillsborough on the later Cameron property until 1793 or 1794. He then moved across the river to Poplar Hill, later the site of Julian S. Carr's Occoneechee Farm. People: James Hogg, Julian S. Carr Place: Poplar Hill, south of the EnoSearch the index · Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), p. 38
  2. Julian Shakespeare Carr, later Carrboro's namesake, is born in Chapel Hill Julian S. Carr was born in Chapel Hill on October 12, 1845, the son of the Franklin Street merchant John Wesley Carr, and later studied at the university. He built tobacco, banking and textile fortunes in Durham, and his Durham Hosiery Mills went on to own both Carrboro mills; the town took his name in 1913. People: Julian S. Carr, John Wesley Carr Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Franklin StreetUNC Wilson Library, Southern Historical Collection: Julian Shakespeare Carr Papers (#00141), biographical note · Also: Brown, McSwain and Florin, Carrboro Inventory
  3. Julian S. Carr buys a third of Blackwell and Day's tobacco business at Durham Soon after returning to North Carolina in 1870 from a year in Arkansas, Julian S. Carr paid $4,000 for a third interest in the tobacco partnership W. T. Blackwell and J. R. Day were running at Durham, then in Orange County. The sketch, quoting S. A. Ashe, calls it a small but prosperous business with hardly any capital, in a Durham of about a dozen houses. People: Julian S. Carr Place: Durham (then Orange County) · Also named: W. T. Blackwell, J. R. DayInternet Archive: R. D. W. Connor, William K. Boyd and J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, History of North Carolina (1919), vol. 6, leaf 17
  4. The Blackwell v. Wright trademark case is moved from Orange to Alamance On the defendant Wright's motion, the Orange Superior Court moved to Alamance County the original Blackwell v. Wright suit over the Durham Smoking Tobacco trademark, after his counsel said the real plaintiffs W. T. Blackwell, Julian S. Carr and Day had too much local influence. People: Julian S. Carr Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: W. T. Blackwell, Day, WrightSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, November 5, 1873, p. 3
  5. John W. Carr gives $100 toward reopening the university John W. Carr of Chapel Hill paid $100 to the subscription of nearly $20,000 raised to revive the university in 1875, alongside $500 from his son Julian S. Carr of Durham. People: John Wesley Carr, Julian S. Carr Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 795
  6. Fire guts Person Hall Person Hall, the old chapel finished in 1798 and recently given to the chemistry department, burned on February 6, 1877, apparently from a stovepipe set too close to a roof rafter. The thick walls stood, the loss came to about $1,000, and gifts from A. F. Redd, J. S. Carr and others paid to restore it. By mid-April workmen under a Hillsborough builder had raised a new roof and new window frames on the old walls. People: Julian S. Carr, Samuel (Samuel Field) Phillips, Samuel Field Phillips Place: Person Hall · Also named: Alexander Fletcher Redd, A. F. ReddSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 127 · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, April 11, 1877, p. 3
  7. W. T. Blackwell and Julian S. Carr buy out a partner in W. T. Blackwell & Co. William T. Blackwell and Julian S. Carr bought the interest of their third partner in the Durham smoking tobacco firm of W. T. Blackwell & Co., which went on under the same name. Place: Durham (then Orange County, now Durham County) · Also named: W. T. BlackwellSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, November 13, 1878, p. 3
  8. Julian S. Carr buys a lot of the A. S. Lee property at auction and gives it to Willis Cheek The Chapel Hill property of A. S. Lee was sold at auction in three lots. Julian S. Carr bought the first lot, with a three-room house, for $355 and presented it to Willis Cheek as a Christmas gift; A. S. Barbee bought two acres of the Lee lot for $97.71. People: Algernon S. Barbee Place: Lee property, Chapel Hill · Also named: Willis Cheek, A. S. LeeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, January 4, 1879, p. 3
  9. W. T. Blackwell & Co. let the contract for a block of brick stores on Durham's Main Street W. T. Blackwell & Co. gave out the contract for the brick for a row of handsome stores on the south side of Main Street in Durham, to cover the whole block. The firm also opened a branch office in New York. People: Julian S. Carr Place: South side of Main Street, Durham (then Orange County, now Durham County) · Also named: W. T. BlackwellThe Chapel Hill Ledger, March 29, 1879, p. 3
  10. Corporators of the State University Railroad meet at Chapel Hill and open books for stock Corporators of the rechartered State University Railroad met at the Chapel Hill law office of Watson and Alexander, with Paul C. Cameron in the chair after Kemp P. Battle explained the charter. They opened subscription books at twelve places from Hillsborough and Durham to Pittsboro and Raleigh, named three commissioners at each, and refused conditional subscriptions. People: Paul C. Cameron, Kemp Plummer Battle, Julian S. Carr, James B. Mason, John R. Hutchins Place: Law office of Watson and Alexander, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: State University RailroadThe Chapel Hill Ledger, April 19, 1879, p. 3
  11. Julian S. Carr connects his office and home by Durham's first telephone Julian S. Carr of W. T. Blackwell & Co. connected his office and his residence in Durham by telephone, the first telephone in Durham, then in Orange County and now in Durham County. People: Julian S. Carr Place: Durham (then Orange County, now Durham County) · Also named: W. T. BlackwellThe Chapel Hill Ledger, August 23, 1879, p. 3
  12. University Railroad corporators open subscription books for a line from Chapel Hill to Durham Meeting at Chapel Hill with Jones Watson in the chair, the corporators of the State University Railroad adopted Kemp P. Battle's plan to seek $10,000 in stock for a line from Chapel Hill to Durham, and named a committee to canvass Durham and other places. Chapel Hill men subscribed $2,800 on the spot, led by Battle, S. M. Barbee and D. McCauley at $500 each. People: Jones Watson, Kemp Plummer Battle, Julian S. Carr Place: Office of Watson & Alexander, Chapel Hill · Also named: S. M. Barbee, D. McCauley · Also mentions: Chapel Hill to Durham, State University RailroadThe Chapel Hill Ledger, November 15, 1879, p. 2
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  1. Robert F. Hoke raises subscriptions to run the railroad toward Chapel Hill When iron prices rose in 1880 and shipping ore to Pennsylvania furnaces paid, Gen. Robert F. Hoke, who owned most of Iron Mountain north of Chapel Hill, began organizing the branch line from University Station. His Iron Mountain Company put up $6,000, the largest single pledge, and Julian S. Carr was among the other subscribers. People: Julian S. Carr, Robert F. Hoke Place: University Station to West End (now Carrboro) · Also mentions: University StationTown of Carrboro: Brown, McSwain and Florin, Carrboro, N.C.: An Architectural and Historical Inventory (1983), p. 10
  2. University Railroad stockholders organize and run the line to University Station Stockholders of the University Railroad Company met at President Battle's office with $10,160 of stock taken. After Julian S. Carr and Paul C. Cameron argued for Durham, they adopted Battle's resolution to locate the road from Chapel Hill to University Station, elected Cameron, Hoke, McCauley, Carr and Battle directors, and called in a quarter of the stock. People: Paul C. Cameron, Kemp Plummer Battle, Robert F. Hoke, Julian S. Carr, David McCauley Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: University StationThe Chapel Hill Ledger, January 10, 1880, p. 2
  3. Julian S. Carr gives up on a Durham route for the University Railroad Writing from Durham, Julian S. Carr told the Ledger that the friends of a Durham connection had abandoned it, because Robert F. Hoke and the iron mine company declined to supply iron for the longer line, and that he had little hope for the road to University Station. People: Julian S. Carr, Robert F. Hoke Place: Durham (then Orange County, now Durham County) · Also mentions: University StationThe Chapel Hill Ledger, January 24, 1880, p. 3
  4. The Alumni Association names a committee to help raise money for the university The university's Alumni Association appointed Julian S. Carr, Fred Phillips, S. F. Phillips, Mills L. Eure and Charles M. Stedman to work with the trustees in raising funds. Secretary W. L. Saunders was receiving gifts, among them $5 from James W. Wilson of the class of 1852. People: Julian S. Carr, Samuel Field Phillips, William L. Saunders Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Fred Phillips, Mills L. Eure, Charles M. StedmanSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, February 21, 1880, p. 2
  5. University trustees name a committee to examine the university's organization At a recent meeting the trustees raised a special committee of five to visit the university and examine its organization: A. M. Lewis of Raleigh (chairman), C. H. Wiley, James A. Graham, A. H. Merritt and Julian S. Carr. The members were expected in Chapel Hill soon. People: James Augustus Graham, Julian S. Carr Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: A. M. Lewis, C. H. Wiley, A. H. MerrittSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, February 21, 1880, p. 2
  6. Orange Democrats choose convention delegates and back Julian S. Carr for lieutenant governor The Orange County Democratic convention at Hillsborough, chaired by C. W. Johnston of Chapel Hill Township, chose delegates to the judicial, congressional and state conventions and asked them to work for the nomination of Julian S. Carr for lieutenant governor. A resolution asking the delegates to vote for Ruffin for judge also passed, over some dissent. People: Charles W. Johnston, Augustus Washington Graham, Julian S. Carr Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, June 12, 1880, p. 3
  7. Zebulon Vance opens the Orange County Democratic canvass at Durham Senator Zebulon B. Vance gave the main speech when the Orange County Democratic canvass opened at Durham, then still part of Orange County. A procession led by the Durham band formed at the Grand Central Hotel and carried Vance, seated beside Paul C. Cameron, through the principal streets before Julian S. Carr took charge of him. People: Zebulon B. Vance, Paul C. Cameron, Julian S. Carr Place: Grand Central Hotel and principal streets, Durham (then Orange County)Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 23, 1880, p. 2
  8. Hillsborough holds a torchlight jubilee for the Democratic victory Democrats from Orange and five neighboring counties celebrated the election of Cleveland and Scales at Hillsborough with a cannon salute, a torchlight procession led by the Durham Cornet Band from the depot to the court house square, burning rosin barrels and fireworks, and speeches with Paul C. Cameron presiding. People: Paul C. Cameron, William R. Cox, Julian S. Carr, Halcott P. Jones Place: Depot to court house square, Hillsborough · Also named: Allan CameronSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 15, 1884, p. 3
  9. Alumni build the university's first gymnasium off university land After the dancing ban, a chartered Gymnasium Association sold $10 shares to alumni and built a hall 110 by 45 feet on its own land, rented to the university for exercise and used for the 1885 commencement ball. The building later became Commons Hall, the student dining hall. People: Julian S. Carr, Robert Bingham, Isaac Hall Manning, Richard H. Lewis, David Gaston Worth Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 313
  10. Julian S. Carr's carload of meal is given out to Orange County's destitute A carload of meal paid for by Julian S. Carr of Durham was handed out in April at Hillsborough by Joseph A. Harris and at Chapel Hill by commissioner J. Y. Merritt to families without bread, without regard to color, sect or religion; by April 20 it was all gone. People: Joseph A. Harris Place: Hillsborough and Chapel Hill · Also named: J. Y. MerrittSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 20, 1889, p. 3
  11. Alumni pledge an endowment for a chair of history At the 1890 commencement banquet, alumni answered a call to endow a chair of history: Julian S. Carr pledged $10,000 and Judge James Grant offered to make up the balance. Battle then visited alumni in the larger towns to complete the fund. People: Julian S. Carr, Robert W. Winston, Albert R. Ledoux Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: James GrantSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 448
  12. Julian S. Carr buys Poplar Hill south of the Eno and renames the estate Occoneechee Farm The Norwood family sold Poplar Hill, the house James Hogg had built about 1794 on the south bank of the Eno, to the Durham industrialist Julian S. Carr, who renamed the property Occoneechee Farm. Carr enlarged and altered the house over the next three decades. People: James Hogg Place: Poplar Hill (Occoneechee Farm), south bank of the Eno River, Hillsborough · Also mentions: Poplar HillSearch the index · National Register: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation (2014), section 7, p. 20
  13. The state experiment station director certifies an analysis of the Occoneechee mineral spring water H. B. Battle, director of the state agricultural experiment station, certified an analysis of the water from the spring on Julian S. Carr's Occoneechee Model Stock Farm, better known as the Norwood Mineral Spring. The paper added that Carr had already put a rustic house over the spring and placed seats for visitors. People: Julian S. Carr Place: Occoneechee (Norwood) Mineral Spring, Hillsborough · Also named: H. B. BattleSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 25, 1891, p. 3
  14. Julian S. Carr rebuilds the Occoneechee mineral spring with a marble basin and a rustic spring house On his new Occoneechee Farm, Carr had the old mineral spring cleaned out and extended, set a marble basin in it, laid a cement floor and covered it with a rustic spring house with seats for visitors. The Orange County Observer described the finished work in September 1891. Place: Occoneechee (Norwood) Mineral Spring, Occoneechee Farm, off Tuscarora Drive, HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 12, 1891, p. 3 · Also: Durham Daily Globe, December 12, 1891, p. 4
  15. Julian S. Carr nearly finishes a large stock barn at Occoneechee Farm Carr's new stock barn at his Occoneechee plantation near Hillsboro was a brick and frame building 42 by 155 feet, with stalls for horses, mares and foals, storage for 500 tons of hay and an elevator. Place: Occoneechee Farm, HillsboroughSearch the index · DigitalNC: Durham Daily Globe, November 27, 1891, p. 1
  16. A model sheep fold is finished at Julian S. Carr's Occoneechee Farm The sheep house at Occoneechee Farm is described as just completed: a frame building closed on the north, east and west and open to the south, with a hay rick down the middle of the first floor, feeding troughs, separate pens for parts of the flock, and a picket-fenced yard. A trench of packed stone under the fence guards against dogs. Place: Occoneechee Farm, HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), December 12, 1891, p. 2
  17. Julian S. Carr builds a fieldstone gate wall at the entrance to Occoneechee Farm Carr put up a stone gate wall at the farm entrance, two curving walls of fieldstone gathered on the farm, one on each side of the driveway, set with round pillars capped by stacked round stones. The Durham Daily Globe reprinted the Orange County Observer's description in December 1891. Place: Occoneechee Farm entrance, US 70A (old Hillsborough-Durham road), HillsboroughSearch the index · DigitalNC: Durham Daily Globe, December 12, 1891, p. 4
  18. Caldwell Institute holds its 1892 closing exercises Over two days the school held a lecture, a pupils' concert with recitations and a calisthenics drill, an address, and a medal presentation, including a scholarship medal given by Julian S. Carr. A correspondent called the evening crowd the largest ever at Caldwell. People: Julian S. Carr, J. H. McCracken Place: Caldwell Institute, CaldwellSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), June 4, 1892, p. 2
  19. Orange County Democrats hold a mounted parade and rally at Hillsborough On Tuesday, November 1, delegations from the county's Democratic clubs rode into Hillsborough and paraded down Churton Street behind a Kernersville brass band, with C. M. Parks as chief marshal and more than 330 riders in line. Fabius H. Busbee and Charles B. Aycock spoke; Julian S. Carr was called north and did not appear. People: Charles B. Aycock, Julian S. Carr, Charles M. Parks, Augustus Washington Graham Place: Churton Street and court house, Hillsborough · Also named: Fabius H. Busbee · Also mentions: Churton StreetSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 5, 1892, p. 2
  20. Julian S. Carr's crews build a hay barn and a rustic club house at Occoneechee Farm Julian S. Carr kept thirty to forty carpenters and painters at work on Occoneechee Farm, where they had lately finished a large hay barn and were building two new houses, a two-room log house and a rustic club house. Place: Occoneechee Farm, HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), June 16, 1894, p. 3
  21. Julian S. Carr's new club house at Occoneechee Farm is shown to an excursion from Raleigh Julian S. Carr hosted students of the A. and M. College and their friends at Occoneechee Farm with a barbecue. The visitors toured his new rustic club house, with its stone fireplace, pool table, piano and a clock that played "Carolina." Place: Occoneechee Farm club house, near Tuscarora Drive, Hillsborough · Also named: Marvin CarrSearch the index · DigitalNC: The News and Observer, May 26, 1895, p. 6 · Also: The News and Observer (Raleigh), May 22, 1895, p. 4
  22. Alumni pledge money for an Alumni Hall at the centennial banquet At the banquet marking a hundred years since the university opened, alumni and classes pledged gifts toward an Alumni Hall, led by Julian S. Carr with $3,000 and Thomas M. Holt with $1,000. The building, modeled on the Boston Public Library, had its cornerstone laid in 1898. People: Julian S. Carr, Marion Butler, David Gaston Worth, Bennehan Cameron Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Thomas M. Holt · Also mentions: Alumni HallSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 523 · Also: The News and Observer (Raleigh), June 6, 1895, p. 1
  23. The State Dairymen's Association meets at Occoneechee Farm The North Carolina Dairymen's Association held a two-day meeting at Julian S. Carr's Occoneechee Farm near Hillsborough, with the members as Carr's guests on the farm. People: Julian S. Carr Place: Occoneechee Farm, HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), February 22, 1896, p. 3
  24. A storm with hail and lightning sweeps Orange County A heavy storm crossed Orange County with hail in many places. Lightning killed a young man named Cates at his father's home south of Hillsborough and struck a house in Little River Township, and the wind blew down the hay barn at Julian S. Carr's Occoneechee Farm. People: Julian S. Carr Place: Orange County; Occoneechee Farm, HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 2, 1896, p. 3
  25. Julian S. Carr's Occoneechee Farm puts Orange first in the state for registered cattle and hogs The state Agricultural Department's register of blooded stock ranked Orange first among North Carolina counties for registered cattle and hogs, nearly all of them on Julian S. Carr's Occoneechee Farm, which had 112 registered cattle. Place: Occoneechee Farm, HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 10, 1896, p. 2
  26. Thomas F. Lloyd builds the Alberta Cotton Mill Lloyd built the Alberta Cotton Mill beside the railroad in West End in 1898 and 1899, the brick mill that later became Durham Hosiery Mill No. 4 and then Carr Mill Mall. People: Julian S. Carr, Thomas F. Lloyd (Carrboro mill builder) Place: Carrboro · Also mentions: Alberta Cotton Mill, West EndTown of Carrboro: Carrboro Walking Tour · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, April 9, 1982, p. 4
  27. Julian S. Carr gives money to finish the Carr Building dormitory Carr, born in Chapel Hill, gave $3,000 in 1899 to finish the dormitory named for him. In 1900 Winston praised it as a gift from a son of the village whose family name had once hung over a small store there. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 568
  28. The Bank of Chapel Hill is established The bank's incorporators met at Chapel Hill on April 12, 1899, elected Julian S. Carr president, C. L. Lindsay vice president and S. T. Peace cashier, and voted to build a brick bank house; the bank opened for business in July. Founded with $10,000 authorized and $2,500 paid in, it was the county's first bank after the Civil War, and by 1953 it held $8,500,000 in assets. People: Julian S. Carr Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: C. L. LindsaySearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 274 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 20, 1899, p. 3; Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 27, 1899, p. 2; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 3, 1931, p. 3; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 10, 1931, p. 3
  29. Henry Weil of Goldsboro gives the university library $1,000 Henry Weil of Goldsboro, a university trustee, gave the university library $1,000. The gift was listed that fall with Julian S. Carr's dormitory and James Sprunt's fund for historical monographs among recent trustee gifts. People: Julian S. Carr, James Sprunt Place: University library, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Henry WeilSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 30, 1899, p. 3
  30. Julian S. Carr gives the university the Carr Building At the 1900 commencement the trustees accepted the Carr Building, a three-story dormitory that Julian S. Carr paid for at a cost of $18,000. It was designed by Pearson and Ashe and housed seventy-four students. People: William H. S. Burgwyn, Richard H. Battle Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 588
  31. Julian S. Carr's gift clears the last debt on the Chapel Hill Methodist church A gift from Julian S. Carr let the Methodist church at Chapel Hill pay off the last of its debt. Place: Methodist church, Chapel HillSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 11, 1900, p. 2
  32. Lightning burns the race track barn at Occoneechee Farm During an electrical storm, lightning struck the "Pocahontas" or race track barn on Julian Carr's Occoneechee Farm, destroying it with its feed and farm machinery. No livestock were inside, and the loss was insured. People: Julian S. Carr Place: Occoneechee Farm, HillsboroughSearch the index · DigitalNC: Durham Daily Sun, June 10, 1902, p. 1 · Also: The News and Observer (Raleigh), June 10, 1902, p. 5
  33. Heavy rain and wind wash out the railroad trestle over the Eno A storm of heavy rain and wind damaged crops across the county, washed away the Southern Railway trestle over the Eno at Occoneechee Mountain, carried off cordwood and damaged the brickyard of the Eno Cotton Mill, drowned one of Julian S. Carr's mules above the town bridge, and wrecked the bridge over New Hope Creek at Robson Station. People: Julian S. Carr Place: Eno River at Occoneechee Mountain, HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 22, 1904, p. 3
  34. Several hundred people attend a Farmers' Institute at Occoneechee Farm A Farmers' Institute drew several hundred men, women and children from every section of Orange County to Julian S. Carr's Occoneechee Farm near Hillsboro, where Carr gave the address of welcome. A Women's Institute held with it heard Mrs. L. L. Brooks of Guilford County, Viola Boddie of the State Normal and Industrial College and R. W. Scott. People: Julian S. Carr, Robert W. Scott Place: Occoneechee Farm, near Hillsborough · Also named: L. L. Brooks, Viola BoddieSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 26, 1906, p. 3
  35. Julian Carr's Durham Hosiery Mills buys the Alberta Mill In early February 1909 Julian S. Carr and his sons closed a deal for both the Alberta Cotton Mill that Thomas F. Lloyd had built at West End and the Blanche Hosiery Mill, to change hands on April 1 and run together as Durham Hosiery Mills' Mill No. 4. The deeds were recorded in March. People: Julian S. Carr, Thomas F. Lloyd (Carrboro mill builder) Place: Carrboro · Also mentions: Alberta Cotton Mill, West EndDigitalNC: The Durham Recorder, February 12, 1909, p. 3 · Also: NC State Historic Preservation Office: Alberta Mill Complex, National Register nomination; Brown, McSwain and Florin, Carrboro Inventory
  36. Alumni pledge forty-one endowed scholarships At the 1909 alumni luncheon, classes and local alumni groups promised to endow forty-one scholarships of $1,000 each. Julian S. Carr gave five named for J. Johnston Pettigrew for sons of Confederate soldiers, and Edgar Love two named for Cornelia Phillips Spencer. People: Julian S. Carr, Francis Preston Venable, Francis D. Winston Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Edgar LoveSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 689
  37. The university grants diplomas to students who left for the Confederate army The faculty and trustees voted to give A.B. diplomas to surviving students who had left their classes to join the Confederate army, and the war classes of 1861 to 1868 were called at the 1911 commencement. People: Edward K. Graham, Julian S. Carr, Walter Clark, Francis D. Winston, Edward Kidder Graham Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 717
  38. Hillsboro presses its claim to the Central Highway route The committee named by the Central Highway Commission to pick a route across the state, H. B. Varner, Joseph Hyde Pratt, James A. Wellons and William Dunn, met at Hillsboro with delegations from Durham and Mebane who came in twelve automobiles. John W. Graham presided; W. G. Bramham promised Durham's support if the road came through Hillsboro, Will White said Mebane had just arranged to build a mile of macadam, and a Cheeks Township speaker offered to build the road to the Alamance line if Hillsboro built to the township line. People: Joseph Hyde Pratt, John W. Graham, Julian S. Carr Place: Hillsborough · Also named: H. B. Varner, James A. Wellons, William Dunn, W. G. Bramham, Will WhiteSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), June 22, 1911, p. 5
  39. Julian S. Carr addresses a Black educational congress at Dickerson Chapel Gen. Julian S. Carr spoke to the Christian Educational Congress of Black churchgoers at Dickerson Chapel A.M.E. Church in Hillsboro. Col. Frank Nash introduced him before a very large audience, with some white listeners present. People: Frank Nash Place: Dickerson Chapel A.M.E. Church, HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 21, 1911, p. 5
  40. Venable is renamed Carrboro A 1913 act of the General Assembly changed the name of the Town of Venable to Carrboro. Julian S. Carr, owner of the local mill since 1909, had asked UNC president Francis Venable's consent in January 1913, and the town's own history says Carr agreed to supply the community with electricity. People: Julian S. Carr Place: CarrboroOn the Books (UNC Libraries): 1913 Private Laws, Chapter 97, Section 1, An Act to Change the Name of the Town of Venable · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, April 9, 1982, p. 4
  41. The Lloyd yarn mill becomes Durham Hosiery Mill No. 7 The Thomas F. Lloyd Manufacturing Company mill was sold to Durham Hosiery Mills, which ran it as Mill No. 7 alongside Mill No. 4, the former Alberta mill. People: Thomas F. Lloyd (Carrboro mill builder), Julian S. Carr Place: Carrboro · Also mentions: Mill No. 7Town of Carrboro: Brown, McSwain and Florin, Carrboro, N.C.: An Architectural and Historical Inventory (1983), p. 14 · Also: NC State Historic Preservation Office: Alberta Mill Complex, National Register nomination; Open Orange: Thomas F. Lloyd Manufacturing Co. / Durham Hosiery Mill No. 7
  42. UNC's Confederate Monument is dedicated On the second day of commencement Major H. A. London introduced Governor Craig; Mrs. London presented the monument to the trustees for the UDC, President Francis P. Venable accepted it for the university, and Julian S. Carr spoke for the students of 1861. Carr's speech, which praised the Confederate army and recounted his horsewhipping of a Black woman in the village in 1865, is the part now most remembered. People: Julian S. Carr, John A. Wilson, Locke Craig Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Bettie Jackson London, Francis P. VenableDigitalNC: The News and Observer (Raleigh), June 3, 1913, page 1
  43. Julian S. Carr endows a scholarship on his class's fiftieth anniversary At the 1916 commencement, fifty years after his class was due to graduate, Durham industrialist Julian S. Carr gave $4,000 to endow a scholarship fund. Treasury Secretary William G. McAdoo gave the address. Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: William Gibbs McAdooSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 124
  44. A winter cyclone wrecks the dairy barn at Occoneechee Farm A storm on a Friday night damaged every building on Julian Carr's Occoneechee Farm and demolished the dairy barn, killing a number of blooded cows. Carr began rebuilding at once. People: Julian S. Carr Place: Occoneechee Farm, HillsboroughSearch the index · DigitalNC: Wilmington Morning Star, January 15, 1918, p. 4 · Also: The Charlotte Observer, January 14, 1918, p. 4
  45. Carrboro opens an influenza diet kitchen in the mill club rooms When influenza spread from the university to Carrboro, a volunteer nursing committee worked night and day, and J. S. Carr gave the club rooms for a diet kitchen and paid its costs. For two weeks Mrs. R. B. Lawson and Mrs. Arthur Blackwood served at least seven gallons of soup a day, and orderlies checked homes each morning. People: Julian S. Carr Place: Carrboro · Also named: Mrs. R. B. Lawson, Mrs. Arthur BlackwoodDocumenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 26
  46. B. N. Duke's Sunnyside farm at University Station is sold in 35 tracts Sunnyside, B. N. Duke's 2,300-acre farm around University Station, was divided into 35 farms and sold at a well-attended public auction for more than $98,000. Julian S. Carr bought most of the land on the left of the highway and railroad going north, including the groves. People: Benjamin N. (Benjamin Newton) Duke, Julian S. Carr Place: University Station · Also mentions: SunnysideSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), July 3, 1919, p. 5
  47. Hillsborough holds the county homecoming celebration for returned soldiers On July 16, 1919, about 15,000 people came to Hillsborough to welcome home Orange County's soldiers and sailors, with a parade, Gov. Bickett's address at the court house and a dinner for about a thousand guests in Cameron Park. J. Cheshire Webb chaired the celebration, and the county Red Cross voted $300 toward its cost, money the celebration fund turned out not to need. People: Frank Nash, Julian S. Carr, John W. Graham, J. Cheshire Webb, Samuel Mallett Gattis, Thomas W. Bickett Place: Hillsborough · Also mentions: Cameron ParkSearch the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 112 · Also: State Archives of North Carolina, Military Collection, WWI Papers, Box 2, Folder 37: Orange County Red Cross History, Hillsborough chapter h
  48. Chapel Hill holds its annual Rally Day fair in Memorial Hall Hundreds of people from the surrounding country came to Chapel Hill's annual Rally Day, where Memorial Hall held exhibits of farm, garden, kitchen, dairy, orchard and poultry products, Red Cross and home economics work, and war relics. The day also brought University orchestra music, gymnasium stunts, free state education films at the Pickwick theatre and a singing prize for the Mann's Chapel choir. People: M. C. S. Noble, Julian S. Carr Place: Memorial Hall, Chapel HillSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), October 23, 1919, p. 1
  49. Julian S. Carr buys much of the Duke farm and puts up a $12,000 barn Gen. J. S. Carr bought a large part of the Duke farm at a recent sale and was building a $12,000 barn and other improvements there. Place: Duke farm, Orange CountySearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), January 8, 1920, p. 5
  50. Mount Moriah church celebrates its centennial More than a thousand people came to Mount Moriah church, about six miles northeast of Chapel Hill, for a homecoming marking the hundredth anniversary of its founding, with dinner spread on long tables in the grove. Rev. Charles E. Maddry told of the Baptist World Alliance meeting at Stockholm and preached in the afternoon, and Julian S. Carr, W. J. Brogden and W. A. Erwin also spoke; Carr said he had been at the fiftieth anniversary. People: Charles Edward Maddry, Julian S. Carr Place: Mount Moriah church, northeast of Chapel Hill · Also named: W. J. Brogden, W. A. ErwinSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 6, 1923, p. 1
  51. Julian Carr's Occoneechee Farm is sold at auction in small farms Occoneechee Farm, divided into small farms along the Durham-Greensboro highway a mile from Hillsboro, was sold at auction with its personal property. Carr had already sold his Holstein herd to Chapel Hill dairyman C. H. Weaver. Place: Occoneechee Farm, Hillsborough · Also named: C. H. WeaverSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 22, 1923, p. 1 · Also: Durham Morning Herald, November 22, 1923, p. 3; The News (Chapel Hill), November 22, 1923, p. 5

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  1. Demonstrators re-read Julian Carr's 1913 dedication speech at the monument and unveil a mock plaque A campus demonstration read Carr's dedication-day speech aloud at the statue and unveiled a new plaque of its own giving the monument's history. The Daily Tar Heel reported a further Real Silent Sam movement protest on the statue's history later that month. People: Julian S. Carr Place: Chapel HillCommemorative Landscapes of North Carolina: Confederate Monument, UNC (Chapel Hill)
  2. UNC trustees vote to remove Josephus Daniels’s name from the student stores building On July 29, 2020 the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted 11 to 2 to remove four names from campus buildings, among them Josephus Daniels. The Daniels Building became UNC Student Stores, and the names of Charles Brantley Aycock, Julian Shakespeare Carr and Thomas Ruffin Sr. were removed at the same meeting. People: Josephus Daniels, Thomas Ruffin, Julian S. Carr, Charles B. Aycock Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Daniels Building, UNC Student StoresSearch the index · UNC-Chapel Hill: BOT votes to remove names from buildings

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Local taxation : Col. J.S. Carr's letter

Carr, Julian Shakespeare · 1897 · J.S. Carr

A public letter from Julian Shakespeare Carr of Durham, dated 8 July 1897 and addressed to C.H. Mebane and the executive committee of the campaign for local taxation, making the case for local taxes to pay for schools. Carr published it himself.

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Julian Shakespeare Carr papers, 1892-1923

Carr, Julian Shakespeare · 1892

Papers of Julian Shakespeare Carr, 1892 to 1923, a Durham industrialist in tobacco, textiles and banking, a Methodist active in Sunday schools, and a figure in the finances of the university at Chapel Hill. They also cover Confederate veterans, race relations, white supremacy campaigns, and the Chapel Hill war memorial by John A. Wilson known as Silent Sam. Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 141.

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Greetings from Cottenboro : Julian Carr has got to go

Goldstein, Bob, 1967- · 2020 · Bob Goldstein

Poster by Bob Goldstein from 2020 arguing that Carrboro should stop carrying the name of Julian Shakespeare Carr, and proposing Cottenboro after the musician Elizabeth Cotten. A single sheet measuring 30 by 31 centimeters. Topics include Carr, Cotten and the question of the town's name, placing the poster with the local debate over commemoration.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Carr, Julian Shakespeare.

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Opinion on name change for Carrboro

Porto, James V., Jr. · 2020 · Jim Porto

Four leaves printed out in 2020, in which James V. Porto, Jr. gives his opinion on changing the name of Carrboro. The piece is signed at the end by Jim Porto. Subjects include the town name itself and Julian Shakespeare Carr, the man the town is named for. Part of UNC's North Carolina Collection.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Carr, Julian Shakespeare.

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Carrboro Centennial Commemorative

The Carrboro Citizen (Carrboro, N.C.) · 2011 · Robert Dickson

Special stand-alone issue of the Carrboro Citizen published in April 2011 for the town's hundredth anniversary, with Robert Dickson as publisher. Its stories range from profiles of residents going about their day to a piece on Julian Shakespeare Carr, the industrialist for whom Carrboro is named.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Carr, Julian Shakespeare.

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  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC BIO CARR WEB Jule Carr: General Without An Army Webb, Mena · 1987

    Mena Webb's biography of Julian S. Carr (1845 to 1924), the Durham industrialist of Bull Durham tobacco, banker and philanthropist. UNC Press published it in 1987: 306 pages with illustrations, portraits, a bibliography and an index.

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