Eben G. Merritt

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, in date order. See these 4 dated events in the chronology →

1. 1929 Eben and Ruby Merritt open a gas station on the Pittsboro Road Eben and Ruby Merritt began running an Esso gas station on the Pittsboro Road south of Chapel Hill in 1929 and kept it for nearly fifty years. It is the business that became Merritt's Store and Grill. People: Eben G. Merritt Place: Merritt's Store, 1009 South Columbia Street (Pittsboro Road), Chapel Hill · Also named: Ruby Merritt · Also mentions: Merritt's Store and GrillSearch the index · Chapelboro.com: Claire Mackman, Merritt's Store & Grill: Serving Since 1929 (August 10, 2018)
2. January 1941 Eben G. Merritt opens a new filling station on the Pittsboro Road E. G. Merritt opened a new filling station on the Pittsboro Road, just above his old stand, with a tiled roof and a large parking lot. It later ran as Merritt's Service Station and store. People: Eben G. Merritt Place: 1009 South Columbia Street (Pittsboro Road), Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 3, 1941, p. 3 · Also: Chapel Hill Historic Sites Survey: Final Report
3. spring 1952 Eben Merritt stops highway crews with an injunction over land taken for the new bypass Filling station owner Eben G. Merritt got an injunction that briefly halted State Highway Commission work near Morgan Creek, arguing that the new bypass and the rerouted Pittsboro road would cut through his pasture, isolate his new house and pull his station off the main highway for far less than they were worth. A court-appointed commission set his damages at $6,000 in March 1953, and he appealed. People: Eben G. Merritt Place: Merritt's Store, 1009 South Columbia Street (Pittsboro Road), Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 9, 1952, p. 3 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, March 20, 1953, p. 9
4. February 1954 Judge Susie Sharp orders damages for the Chapel Hill bypass land assessed as a full taking In Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Merritt's damage suit against the State Highway and Public Works Commission and Burton Construction Company over the new bypass east and south of Chapel Hill, Judge Susie Sharp ordered the damages assessed as for an entire taking of the property. The Merritts objected to that method and appealed to the state Supreme Court. People: Eben G. Merritt Place: Superior Court, Hillsboro · Also named: Susie SharpSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 25, 1954, p. 8