William Muirhead

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1. by September 25, 1942 The University contracts for a new water line from University Lake The University let a contract of about $60,000 to William Muirhead of Durham for a second 12-inch line of concrete-and-asbestos transite pipe from University Lake to the campus filter, a new pump and an addition to the lake pump house, doubling capacity to two million gallons a day. The Weekly noted that in June the community had come within twenty minutes of running out of water and that more storage would be the next need. People: William Muirhead Place: University Lake to the campus filter plant, Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, September 25, 1942, p. 1
2. June 21 and 28, 1949 Chapel Hill agrees to take sewage from William Muirhead's Raleigh Road apartments The aldermen unanimously agreed to take sewage and garbage from a 300-unit, FHA-financed apartment project that Durham contractor William Muirhead planned on the Raleigh Road (Highway 54) about three quarters of a mile outside town, with veterans to get preference. A week later, in special session, they voted to negotiate a contract on his offer to build the line and pumps to the town's new disposal plant at his own cost, the lines to become town property once paid for. People: Edwin Sidney Lanier Place: Raleigh Road (NC 54), east of Chapel HillSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 23, 1949, p. 1
3. by July 7, 1949 The FHA agrees to insure the loan for the Country Club Apartments outside Chapel Hill The state FHA director announced that his agency would insure a loan of up to $2,130,000 for the 314-unit Country Club Apartments on the Raleigh highway just outside Chapel Hill, with William Muirhead and William E. Watt as builders and Wachovia Bank and Trust Company as mortgagee. The project was estimated to cost $2,366,907, and stakes were already being driven, with construction expected to be well under way by September. People: William Muirhead Place: Raleigh Road (NC 54), east of Chapel Hill · Also named: William E. WattSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 7, 1949, p. 1
4. by August 25, 1949 Judge John T. Manning challenges Chapel Hill's sewer terms for Muirhead's Raleigh Road apartments In an open letter to Mayor Edwin S. Lanier, Recorder's Court judge John T. Manning charged that the town's proposed sewer arrangement for William Muirhead's planned Raleigh Road apartment project would excuse the Durham builder from the connection and service fees other outside users paid. By his own figures the terms were worth about $97,500 to Muirhead over 33 years; the paper printed no town reply. People: Edwin Sidney Lanier Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: John T. ManningSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 25, 1949, p. 1
5. December 23, 1949 William Muirhead names his apartment colony Glen Lennox Muirhead named his apartment colony on the Raleigh highway Glen Lennox, after his wife's family, and announced that its rental office would open in one of the apartments on December 28. It was to have 314 apartments in 48 one-story buildings; by March 1950, 66 families had moved in. Place: Glen Lennox, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 23, 1949, p. 1 (Glen Lennox item) · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, March 17, 1950, p. 1
6. November 1953 The Planning Board approves Muirhead's street layout around Glen Lennox The Chapel Hill Planning Board approved new streets on the fringes of Glen Lennox, including Ayr Street, which Muirhead named, extending the colony's central road across the highway so children could reach the new Glenwood School more safely. Place: Glen Lennox, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Glenwood SchoolSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 6, 1953, p. 1 (Glen Lennox street layout item)