Arthur R. Hollett

Life and Orange County connections

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1. September 1928 A. R. Hollett joins the University faculty in place of H. F. Janda Among the faculty changes the University trustees' committee approved in September 1928, A. R. Hollett succeeded H. F. Janda. Hollett went on to be the town's engineer for its PWA sewer, incinerator and paving work in 1936-1937 and later the University engineer.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 21, 1928, p. 3
2. by September 11, 1931 The McClelland Company finishes building Chapel Hill's new sewage disposal plant in Strowd's lowgrounds The McClelland Company of Charlotte, general contractor, finished its part of the town's new sewage disposal plant about 300 yards below the Durham road bridge, and installation of the equipment was set to begin. The plant, costing about $25,000 and paid for by bonds carried by sewer rentals, had a primary clarifier, a control house and a digester, used the gas from the sewage for heating, and was expected in use by October 1. People: Herman G. Baity, Arthur R. HollettSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 11, 1931, p. 1
3. October 14, 1936 Chapel Hill aldermen accept a PWA grant for sewers, an incinerator and street paving A week after Senator Bailey and Representative Umstead wired that Washington had approved a $21,000 Public Works Administration grant, 45 per cent of a $47,000 project, the aldermen accepted it and agreed to raise the town's $26,000 share by bonds. The project called for sewer lines and a pumping station serving 21 homes in the southwest of the village, a 30-ton incinerator near the sewage plant east of town, and hard surfacing of most remaining dirt streets. People: John M. Foushee, Arthur R. HollettSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 16, 1936, p. 1
4. by December 4, 1936 Chapel Hill lets its PWA sewer contract to the Gilbert Engineering Company The contract for sewer lines under West University Drive and McCauley Street, a pumping station in the ravine behind the Isaac Pritchard place and a discharge line to Ransom Street went to the Gilbert Engineering Company of Statesville, run by University engineering graduates John and Paul Gilbert, for $11,698. Labor was to come from the county relief rolls as far as possible; work began in December, and the contractor had trouble finding enough laborers. People: Arthur R. HollettSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 4, 1936, p. 1
5. February 2, 1937 Chapel Hill lets the contract for a town incinerator At a special meeting the aldermen gave the Nye Odorless Incinerator Company of Macon, Georgia, a $17,700 contract for a garbage and trash incinerator beside the sewage disposal plant in Strowd's Lowgrounds, about a mile east of the village. It was one part of a public works project for which the town had a $21,000 PWA grant from October 1936, with the west-end sewer and street surfacing; laborers began digging its foundations in late March. People: Arthur R. HollettThe Chapel Hill Weekly, February 5, 1937, p. 1
6. by April 2, 1937 Chapel Hill completes the west-end sewage pumping plant The town finished a pumping station in the woods behind the Isaac W. Pritchard place, making it possible for every home within the corporate limits, and several outside, to connect to the municipal sewer system. Built by the Gilbert Engineering Company of Statesville for $11,620 with PWA aid, it served the 24 to 26 low-lying houses in the southwest of town that gravity sewers could not reach and that had used septic tanks, with two pumps so that one could stand by. People: Arthur R. HollettThe Chapel Hill Weekly, April 2, 1937, p. 1
7. June 22, 1937 Chapel Hill's new PWA-aided incinerator goes into operation The town's new garbage and trash incinerator, built beside the sewage disposal plant in Strowd's Lowgrounds east of the village by the Nye Odorless Incinerator Company for $17,700, passed its final inspection by PWA engineers and town officials and began burning the daily truckloads. The federal government paid nearly half the cost, the University supplied much of the refuse, and the town stopped using its old dump off the Hillsboro road. People: John Caldwell, John L. Caldwell, Arthur R. HollettSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 25, 1937, p. 1
8. late September 1937 Chapel Hill begins hard-surfacing 37,000 square yards of streets with PWA aid Contractor J. M. Gregory of Raleigh began laying asphalt on about twenty dirt streets, among them West Rosemary, Church, Pritchard Avenue, Tenney Circle, Glenburnie, Kenan, McCauley and Ransom, and sealcoating North Street and Senlac Road, under a $9,348 contract. It was the last part of a three-part PWA project with the southwest sewer lines and the incinerator, for which the federal government paid close to half the cost. People: Arthur R. HollettSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 1, 1937, p. 1
9. by December 24, 1937 The town and the University agree to split the cost of shared services Committees of the two met and agreed to share equally the cost of fire protection, police, jail and recorder's court, the health department, and the sewers and incinerator. Their figures showed the University paying less than half for fire and sewers and more than half for health and police, leaving a net $186 due from the University. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Robert H. Wettach, Arthur R. HollettSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 24, 1937, p. 1
10. by January 21, 1938 The WPA approves work on the Chapel Hill High School grounds State WPA headquarters approved the school's application, about $2,800 with roughly $2,500 from the WPA, for a 400-foot rock retaining wall along the front, walks and drains, an all-weather bus road behind the building out to McCauley Street, and a graded playground. Town engineer A. R. Hollett drew the plans and was to supervise, with work due to start the next week. People: Arthur R. Hollett, Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 21, 1938, p. 1
11. July 1938 The University lays trial brick walks in front of Swain Hall The University laid several hundred square feet of brick walk on packed sand in front of Swain Hall, with engineer A. R. Hollett supervising and keeping a record of the cost so that the University could decide whether to use brick elsewhere. The Weekly reported that the town might lay its own trial stretch of brick sidewalk, perhaps in front of the Presbyterian church.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 22, 1938, p. 1 (Town May Make Experiment with Brick for Walks)
12. October 1938 WPA workers build a road and begin grading playgrounds at the Orange County Training School WPA crews began building a new broad road to connect Chapel Hill's school for Black students, the Orange County Training School, with Church Street, and grading was about to begin on its rocky, gullied grounds for a football field, smaller playgrounds and tennis courts, with stone retaining walls and graded paths toward the ravine and toward Carrboro. The school board had A. R. Hollett plan the work; the Weekly noted that Black citizens had long and rightly complained that the school was hard to reach on foot or by car. People: Arthur R. HollettThe Chapel Hill Weekly, October 21, 1938, p. 1