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Thomas F. (Thomas Felix) Hickerson

1882–1968 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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By Thomas F. (Thomas Felix) Hickerson

Topography, Chapel Hill and vicinity, Orange County, North Carolina.

Hickerson, Thomas F. (Thomas Felix), 1882-1968; Morrison, W. F. · 1918

Topographic map of Chapel Hill and vicinity based on an 1896 U.S. Geological Survey, with additions by Thomas Felix Hickerson and W.F. Morrison in 1918, issued as an advance sheet. Ten-foot contours and spot heights show relief, along with roads, railroads, buildings, streams, the University, its athletic fields and the University Quarry. Carrboro falls within the sheet.

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About Thomas F. (Thomas Felix) Hickerson

Order of Gimghoul records, 1832-2006 (bulk 1940-1997).

Order of Gimghoul (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · 1832

Organizational records of the Order of Gimghoul, a student society at Chapel Hill, spanning 1832 to 2006 with most material from 1940 to 1997. About 4,000 items in six linear feet, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40262. Subjects include the Gimghoul Corporation along with Lyman A. Cotten, Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis, Thomas F. Hickerson, George Watts Hill and Charles Milton Shaffer, and reach student activities and faculty social life.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Hickerson, Thomas F. (Thomas Felix), 1882-1968.

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about 1915 Engineering professor T. Felix Hickerson builds a house on Battle Lane T. Felix Hickerson, later author of a standard road-design textbook and the engineer who laid out Gimghoul and Laurel Hill, built a two-story weatherboarded house at 108 Battle Lane that pairs a classical entrance porch with a bay window and a sleeping porch. People: Thomas F. (Thomas Felix) HickersonSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 49
1923 The Order of Gimghouls plats its Chapel Hill subdivision with racial deed restrictions The Junior Order of Gimghouls subdivided its land east of campus into house lots, with a plat recorded in Orange County Plat Book 1, page 51. The original deed covenants carried the racial restrictions standard for the period, along with setbacks and a requirement that the order review house plans. People: Thomas F. (Thomas Felix) HickersonLiving Places: Gimghoul Neighborhood Historic District (adapted from the 1993 National Register nomination by M. Ruth Little)
1926 T. Felix Hickerson publishes Highway Curves and Earthworks UNC civil engineering professor Thomas Felix Hickerson, who laid out the curving roads of Rocky Ridge Farm, first published his road design text in 1926. Later issued as Route Location and Design, it was used in engineering programs at some 83 colleges.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District, National Register nomination (OR0303), p. 19
1927 William C. Coker plats the Laurel Hill subdivision On his land southeast of the campus, Coker had T. Felix Hickerson lay out Laurel Hill Road along a ridge beside the golf course, with short cul-de-sacs and large lots. Coker approved every house plan and seems to have sent builders to Atwood and Nash; seven houses were built before the 1929 crash. People: William Chambers Coker, Thomas F. (Thomas Felix) HickersonSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 64

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Gimghoul Castle and neighborhood Houses, farms, parks and cemeteries · Chapel Hill · 1 event here
Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District (Laurel Hill) Houses, farms, parks and cemeteries · Chapel Hill · 1 event here

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William Chambers Coker 1 entry: William C. Coker plats the Laurel Hill subdivision (1927)

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Background context: NCpedia: Thomas Felix Hickerson NCpedia Dictionary of North Carolina Biography entry
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