Key local figure
Bonnie B. Davis became Orange County's first Black home demonstration agent in 1950 and worked for the county Cooperative Extension office until she retired in 1990. In 2021 the county named its new Bonnie B. Davis Environment and Agricultural Center for her, the first county building named for a Black woman.
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Annual report for 1953 by the Orange County extension agents of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service. The agents named are Jessie Trowbridge, Katheryn Pritchett, Cyrus A. Greene, Ed. P. Barnes and Don S. Matheson. Topics include agricultural extension work and African American farm families. Microfilm, part of Better Living in North Carolina.
Included because: Their name appears in the record.
The Orange County extension staff's 1946 annual narrative report to the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service, naming Katheryn Pritchett, Jessie Trowbridge, Cyrus A. Greene, Ed. P. Barnes and Don S. Matheson. It covers farm extension work, including work with African American farmers. Microfilm, part of Better Living in North Carolina.
Included because: Their name appears in the record.
Home demonstration agents Katheryn H. Hamrick and Virginia Cathey filed these annual narrative reports for Orange County from December 1946 to 1948. Topics include extension work with African American women. Microfilm, part of Better Living in North Carolina.
Included because: Their name appears in the record.
Combined 1937 annual report of Orange County's extension workers, naming Don S. Matheson, Ed P. Barnes, Katheryn H. Hamrick, Virginia Cathey and Dorothy S. Parrish. It covers agricultural extension work in the county, including work with African American farmers. Microfilm, part of Better Living in North Carolina.
Included because: Their name appears in the record.
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