Joseph Hyde Pratt

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1897 Joseph Hyde Pratt comes to North Carolina and settles in Chapel Hill Pratt came to North Carolina in 1897 as state mineralogist and made his home in Chapel Hill for the rest of his life. He also lectured in mineralogy at the university.Search the index · Association of American State Geologists: Joseph Hyde Pratt (North Carolina)
2. 1901–1921 Harriet Berry works for the state Geological and Economic Survey in Chapel Hill Berry began work in Chapel Hill with the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey in 1901 and rose from stenographer to secretary and, in 1917, acting head. She left in 1921, the year her Good Roads lobbying produced the state highway commission law. People: Joseph Hyde PrattSearch the index · NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources: Harriet M. Berry 1877-1940 (G-100)
3. 1904–1925 Joseph Hyde Pratt teaches economic geology at UNC Pratt was professor of economic geology at the University of North Carolina from 1904 to 1925, while also serving as state geologist.Search the index · UNC Libraries: Joseph Hyde Pratt Papers, 1889-1942
4. 1907 Geologist Joseph Hyde Pratt builds a Colonial Revival house on East Franklin Street Joseph Hyde Pratt, UNC professor of economic geology and later state geologist, builds a two-story Colonial Revival house set well back on a large lot on East Franklin Street. Pratt also built several other houses on that part of the street.Search the index · National Register: Chapel Hill Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation (OR1750, 2015), section 7
5. January 1908 Faculty members organize the Chapel Hill Country Club About forty-five people, mostly university faculty, organized a country club and rented a house and several acres at the edge of Chapel Hill, laying out golf links and tennis courts. Joseph Hyde Pratt chaired its board of governors. People: Joseph Hyde Pratt, Archibald Henderson, Charles H (Charles Holmes) HertySearch the index · DigitalNC: The Tar Heel, January 16, 1908, p. 1
6. Late 1914 Students improve Franklin Street and Battle Park during Community Service Week During Graham's first statewide Community Service Week, about a hundred students worked on Chapel Hill: one crew graded Franklin Street under Joseph Hyde Pratt with teams paid for by merchants and bankers, others cleared the grounds around Swain Hall, cleaned the Battle Park trails under the Rev. W. D. Moss and gathered trash from the alleys. People: Edward Kidder Graham, Joseph Hyde Pratt, William Dygnum MossSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 102
7. March 1914 The first Good Roads Institute meets at Chapel Hill State geologist and faculty member Joseph Hyde Pratt chaired the first Good Roads Institute held at Chapel Hill. The institute later became part of the university's extension program. People: Joseph Hyde PrattSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 102
8. April 17, 1916 The Chapel Hill to Durham road is turned over to the federal engineer The commissioners placed the road under the U.S. government engineer, as the central highway through Hillsborough already was, and set $40 a mile a year for upkeep. On May 1 they did the same for the road from Carrboro to the Alamance line by way of White Cross. People: Joseph Hyde PrattSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 206
9. May 10, 1919 Chapel Hill welcomes home its World War soldiers alongside Confederate veterans On Saturday, May 10, 1919, a parade of Confederate veterans, returned soldiers and sailors, former student soldiers and town groups filled Franklin and Columbia Streets. Over 2,000 people crowded Memorial Hall to hear Archibald Henderson, L. P. McLendon and Joseph Hyde Pratt, with William Cain presiding. People: Archibald Henderson, Joseph Hyde Pratt, Andrew Henry PattersonSearch the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 115
10. April 10, 1931 Townspeople and faculty form the Battle Park Association at Joseph Hyde Pratt's home A meeting at Colonel Pratt's home launched a volunteer group to restore Kemp Battle's paths and bridges in Battle Park. By the end of 1931 it had cleared old walks, opened about three miles of trail and rebuilt the bridges.Search the index · Valiunas, An Archaeological and Historical Investigation of the Battle Park Pavilion Site (31OR639), UNC Research Laboratories of Archaeology, Research Report 35 (2012)
11. 1940 Louis Graves starts a newspaper campaign to give Franklin Street a Williamsburg look Feeling the business district looked shabby beside the new campus, Chapel Hill Weekly editor Louis Graves began praising Colonial Williamsburg's shops in editorials. Joseph Hyde Pratt, John M. Booker, W. D. Carmichael Jr., Collier Cobb and George Watts Hill backed the plan, and architect Archie Davis gave the planning commission watercolors showing owners how to remodel. People: Joseph Hyde Pratt, William D. Carmichael Jr., George Watts Hill, Archie Royal DavisSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 68
12. April 14, 1941 Chapel Hill appoints its first town planning commission After more than a year of urging by the Chapel Hill Weekly, the town named a five-member planning commission to review the design of new and remodeled buildings. It set the Colonial Revival look of downtown for the next decade. People: William D. Carmichael Jr., Herman G. Baity, Joseph Hyde Pratt, Clyde EubanksSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Chapel Hill Town Hall, National Register nomination (OR0327), p. 10
13. 1942 Geologist Joseph Hyde Pratt, first chairman of the Chapel Hill Planning Board, is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery Joseph Hyde Pratt (1870-1942), professor of geology and the first chairman of the Chapel Hill Planning Board, was buried in the cemetery.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, National Register nomination (OR0496), p. 22
14. 1952 Neurosurgeon Warner Wells buys the Pratt house on East Franklin Street Ten years after Joseph Hyde Pratt's death, Dr. Warner Wells, a neurosurgeon on the UNC medical school faculty, buys the Pratt house on East Franklin Street, which became known as the Pratt-Wells House. People: Joseph Hyde PrattSearch the index · National Register: Chapel Hill Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation (OR1750, 2015), section 7