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Brodie H. Lloyd, a cousin of Alberta Cotton Mill founder Thomas F. Lloyd, built many of the privately owned houses rented to Carrboro's mill workers from the 1890s on, some of them put up by carpenter Thomas Clark. With Dick Andrews he owned the Andrews and Lloyd Lumber and Cedar Company in Carrboro.
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Background reading on From West End to Carrboro: railroad, mills, and a new town, 1882–1913. These works cover the broader subject and may not discuss Brodie Lloyd. Follow a link to find a copy or view the material.
Second Images of America volume on Carrboro by David A. Otto and Richard Ellington (Arcadia, 2015). Chapters follow the town from mill village to growing urban center, then turn to its merchants, the arts, festivals, changing demographics and changing architecture, in 95 illustrated pages.
Pictorial history of Carrboro in Arcadia's Images of America series by David A. Otto and Richard Ellington, published in 2011. Its 127 pages of photographs, maps, facsimiles and portraits cover the town's history, social life and African American community, with a bibliography and index.
Elizabeth Shreve Ryan's combined histories and tour guides for Hillsborough, Chapel Hill and Carrboro, the three towns of Orange County, with the University of North Carolina treated alongside Chapel Hill. Each town gets a narrative history and a tour of its streets and buildings. Published by Chapel Hill Press in 2004, 369 pages with illustrations and maps.
Anniversary booklet marking fifty years of WCHL 1360, the Chapel Hill radio station, with profiles of fifty people from Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Published in 2003, 36 pages with portraits. Contributors include Roland Giduz, Jim Heavner, Jonathan Howes, Neil Offen and Rosemary Waldorf.
Lesley Wyatt's history calendar for 1999, subtitled the amazing history calendar, a wall calendar with local history notes on Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough. Published by the author in Carrboro in 1998, 28 unnumbered pages with illustrations in a large 28 by 44 cm format. Topics include the history of all three towns and of Orange County.
Maurice M. Bursey's biography of Francis Preston Venable (1856 to 1934), chemist and president of the University of North Carolina, published by the Chapel Hill Historical Society in 1989. It also covers the history of the university's chemistry department. Illustrated, 111 pages, with bibliographies.
Reviewed in Isis (1992).
Architectural and historical inventory of Carrboro by Claudia Roberts Brown, published in 1983 by the Carrboro Appearance Commission and the town. The 48-page survey, with illustrations and maps, documents the town's historic buildings and their conservation.
Valerie Quinney's article on the Carrboro mill village, pages 98 to 109 of a 1980 publication, with illustrations and portraits. Topics include Carrboro history and mills and mill work, drawing on residents' recollections of life around the town's cotton mills. It also discusses mill owner Thomas F. Lloyd.
A six-page illustrated leaflet on Carrboro, printed in December 1978 at the expense of Frances L. Shetley and Lou Bonds, whose names appear on the cover. A short piece of Carrboro history focused on the town's historic buildings, it is a brief local portrait of older structures as they stood when it was printed. A small ephemeral piece.
A short booklet on Carr Mill, the former Carrboro mill remodeled as a shopping village, issued around 1977. A note beneath the title names the owner, a limited partnership called Carr-Mill, the leasing agent Southern Real Estate of Charlotte, the architects Miller/Steever/Finch of Charlotte, and the contractor Wooten-Brawley of Statesville. Five unnumbered pages with illustrations, a map and a plan.
Poster by Bob Goldstein from 2020 arguing that Carrboro should stop carrying the name of Julian Shakespeare Carr, and proposing Cottenboro after the musician Elizabeth Cotten. A single sheet measuring 30 by 31 centimeters. Topics include Carr, Cotten and the question of the town's name, placing the poster with the local debate over commemoration.
Published in April 2011 as a supplement to the Carrboro Citizen, this forty-seven page commemorative marks Carrboro's first hundred years with history, biography and recollections of town life, illustrated with photographs, portraits and facsimiles. The subtitle uses the town's own nickname, Paris of the Piedmont.
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