The Carr surname

In the chronology 21 people

The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.

• Carr, A. H. 2 entries, 1899–1919
  • 1899–1931: The Bank of Chapel Hill, 1899–1931
  • November 29, 1919: The Bank of Chapel Hill opens a branch, the Bank of Carrboro
• Carr, Brodie S. 7 entries, 1925–1961
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• Carr, Elizabeth Bullock 1 entry, 1843
  • 1843: John Wesley Carr buys his mother-in-law's Franklin Street house
• Carr, G. Paul 76 entries, 1951–1969
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• Carr, George Watts 5 entries, 1920–1954
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  • late 1920s: Anatomy professor Wesley George builds a Colonial Revival cottage in Gimghoul
  • 1928: Botanist John Couch builds an Elizabethan Revival house on Ridge Road
  • by October 7, 1938: The PWA approves three more dormitories and a Carolina Inn addition for the University
  • 1948: Lt. Gov. Alexander Graham has Watts Carr remodel Montrose as a Colonial Revival house
  • 1954: George Watts Carr designs a Cape Cod house on Country Club Road for religion professor Bernard Boyd
• Carr, George Watts, Sr. 3 entries, 1920–1954
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• Carr, J. M. 1 entry, 1925
  • by April 30, 1925: Brown and Lloyd put up a brick store on the site of Hillsboro's old livery stable
• Carr, James M. 1 entry, 1956
  • March 11, 1956: New Hope Presbyterian Church holds its first service in its fifth building
• Carr, John W., III 3 entries, 1958–1960
  • November 1958: The University acquires a $2.4 million Univac computer
  • 1958–1966: UNC's Univac computer, 1958–1966
  • by May 5, 1960: The journal Computing Reviews begins publication with a UNC editor
• Carr, John Wesley 18 entries, 1843–1893
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• Carr, John Wesley 2 entries, 1847–1879
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• Carr, Julian S. 76 entries, 1793–2020
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• Carr, Julian S. 5 entries, 1878–1946
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  • August 8-10, 1878: Chapel Hill magistrates hear the Hendon burglary case and send four men to jail
  • May 29, 1909: Southern Railway president W. W. Finley speaks at Chapel Hill after a stop at Hillsboro
  • January 1926: The county commissioners replace road supervisor C. S. Brown with Dave Woods
  • by May 29, 1931: The University turns the Carr building into a law students' dormitory
  • July 24, 1946: Raleigh buyers purchase the Occoneechee Farm tract at auction
• Carr, Julian S., Jr. 3 entries, 1899–1924
  • June 1899: The class of 1899 gives a bronze bust of Zebulon Vance and plants ivy from Lee's tomb
  • July 1919: Julian S. Carr Jr. starts the Industrial Democracy plan in Durham Hosiery's mills
  • April 1924: Carrboro's school board lengthens the term with a payment from Durham Hosiery Mills
• Carr, Leo 4 entries, 1954–1969
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  • by December 30, 1954: The Rev. R. C. Frazier's group drops its appeal and organizes Faith Chapel in West Hillsboro
  • October 8, 1954: Judge Leo Carr rules on the split in West Hillsboro's Pentecostal Holiness church
  • week of December 14, 1959: Judge Leo Carr bars Caswell County from enrolling Orange pupils at Prospect Hill School
  • November 25, 1969: State troopers disperse strike pickets at Lenoir Hall and a court bars six people from the campus
• Carr, Marvin 1 entry, 1895
  • May 25, 1895: Julian S. Carr's new club house at Occoneechee Farm is shown to an excursion from Raleigh
• Carr, R. E. 1 entry, 1888
  • June 27, 1888: Chapel Hill Democrats organize a Cleveland, Fowle and Bunn Club
• Carr, Sarah 1 entry, 2009
  • November 2009: Flyleaf Books opens
• Carr, W. F. 2 entries, 1928–1938
  • 1928–1942: Durham Hosiery's Carrboro mills through the Depression and after, 1928–1942
  • December 10, 1938: Chapel Hill and Carrboro leaders meet to find work for the jobless Carrboro mill hands
• Carr, Watts 5 entries, 1936–1948
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  • April–September 1936: The McClamrochs build the Village Apartments on East Franklin Street
  • November 1938 to early 1939: Harold W. Brown of the public health faculty builds a red brick house on Laurel Hill Road
  • March 1939: Muirhead Construction Company of Durham gets the contract for the Carolina Inn addition and a medical students' dormitory
  • January 22, 1940: The Carolina Inn completes the first of its rear additions
  • 1948: Lt. Gov. Alexander Graham has Watts Carr remodel Montrose as a Colonial Revival house
• Carr, William F. 3 entries, 1929–1939
  • by September 20, 1929: Carl Durham's diggers find Dr. Bartlett Durham's grave in southwestern Orange
  • April 10, 1939: Chapel Hill dedicates its new Town Hall
  • by June 2, 1939: Durham Hosiery Mills gives its Carrboro playground equipment to the University Lake picnic ground

In books and archives 3 headings

Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.

• Carr, Julian Shakespeare 4 works
• Carr, Elias, 1839-1900 1 work
• Carr, John Wesley, 1814-1889 1 work

In the historical records 134 records

78 deeds, 3 records of enslaved people, 26 marriages, 20 court minutes, 4 tax list entries and 3 wills and papers, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Carr marriages in full · Search the name in every collection