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Dwight Ray

Dwight Ray was a Carrboro merchant and local officeholder. In April 1922 he and Seaton Lloyd opened the Lloyd-Ray hardware and furniture store on Main Street, which for 37 years was a place where Carrboro talked over town and county politics. He served on the Carrboro Board of Commissioners from 1949 to 1954 and on the Orange County Board of Commissioners from 1954 to 1958.

Source: The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 26, 1959

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  1. Merchant Dwight Ray builds a bungalow on Hillsborough Road Ray, co-owner of Lloyd-Ray Hardware and later an Orange County commissioner, had the one-and-a-half-story house built at 218 Hillsborough Road. Bungalows lined the road through the 1920s and early 1930s, among them one next door built for businessman Miles Andrews. People: Dwight RaySearch the index · Town of Carrboro: Brown, McSwain and Florin, Carrboro, N.C.: An Architectural and Historical Inventory (1983), p. 31
  2. Dwight Ray and Seaton Lloyd open the Lloyd-Ray hardware store in Carrboro Dwight Ray and Seaton Lloyd, both from families of the White Cross and Carrboro communities, opened their hardware and furniture store in April 1922. Over the next 37 years it became the place where Carrboro talked over town and county politics. People: Dwight RaySearch the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, March 26, 1959, p. 11
  3. Dwight Ray and Seaton Lloyd sell the Lloyd-Ray Hardware Store after 37 years The partners sold the Carrboro hardware store they had opened in April 1922, long a gathering place for local politics. People: Dwight RaySearch the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, March 26, 1959, p. 11

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