George Dixon

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1866 Benjamin Craig and Green Cordal secure land for a Black school In 1866 Benjamin Craig and Green Cordal bought a plot of land near what is now the corner of West Franklin Street and Merritt Mill Road and gave part of it to the Philadelphia Quakers for a school for freedpeople and the rest for the church that became St. Paul AME. In the spring of 1867 the Friends reported that the freedmen were putting up a school and house of worship on a fifty-dollar lot. People: Green Cordal, Benjamin Craig, George Dixon Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Merritt Mill RoadTown of Carrboro: Historic Downtown Walking Tour, stop 14 · Also: Internet Archive: Fourth Annual Report of the Friends' Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of Colored Freedmen; NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975; Open Orange: Quaker Freedmen's School
2. October 6, 1866 The Bureau's school superintendent seeks Quaker teachers for Chapel Hill and Bane's School House After Lieutenant Isaac Porter answered a schools survey on September 24, 1866, superintendent F. A. Fiske wrote on October 6 that he expected the Friends of Philadelphia, through their superintendent George Dixon, to send two teachers to Hillsborough and would try to get them to send others to Chapel Hill and to Bane's School House, though the society's funds were low. On October 15 Porter reported that Black residents throughout the sub-district were providing schools for themselves with much success, while in his view the schooling of poor whites was entirely neglected. People: George Dixon Place: Chapel Hill and Orange County · Also named: Isaac Porter, F. A. FiskeFreedmen's Bureau, North Carolina Field Offices, Hillsboro: Letters Received, May 1866–Dec. 1868, Part 1, transcription p. 71
3. June 26, 1868 The Philadelphia Friends' association owns the freedmen's schoolhouse at Hillsborough and lends it to the Methodists George Dixon wrote on June 26, 1868, that the Friends' teachers at the Hillsborough freedmen's school would leave early the next week and that the association had tried to keep a teacher for the youngest pupils through the summer. He said the schoolhouse belonged to the Philadelphia association, which let the Methodists preach in it without any claim to the property, and asked that they keep it in repair for the three months. People: George Dixon Place: HillsboroughFreedmen's Bureau, North Carolina Field Offices, Hillsboro: Letters Received, May 1866–Dec. 1868, Part 1, transcription p. 219