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Cosby, a brick builder who moved from Virginia to Raleigh in 1839, took the masonry subcontract for the lengthening of Old East and Old West at the university in Chapel Hill in the 1840s and then built a Presbyterian church on Franklin Street to a design by Alexander Jackson Davis. The skilled work was done by men he enslaved.
Source: North Carolina Architects and Builders, NC State University Libraries: Cosby, Dabney (1779-1862)
1779–1862 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Twenty-four items kept as the papers of Dabney Cosby, 1779 to 1862, spanning 1827 to 1865, collection 1071-z in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, some of them photocopies. Topics include the nineteenth century construction industry in North Carolina and Virginia and the correspondence of Confederate officers, naming the 53rd Virginia Infantry, Wharton's Brigade, Dabney Minor Cosby and Dabney Cosby, 1836 to 1886. A preservation microfilm was made in 2005.
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