Ralph M. Trimble

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1. September 1923 Ralph M. Trimble joins the University faculty Ralph M. Trimble was among the new members of the University faculty listed by the Chapel Hill Weekly in September 1923. He taught in the School of Engineering.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 13, 1923, p. 1
2. April 21, 1924 R. M. Trimble plats the Kittrell Mill Property for H. G. Dorsett Surveyor R. M. Trimble subdivided and platted the Kittrell Mill Property along Morgan Creek near Chapel Hill into lots and small farms for H. G. Dorsett. The plat went into Orange County Plat Book 1, and a road through the tract was later known as Trimble Road.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 3, 1929, p. 2
3. September 1924 Engineering professor Ralph Trimble and his wife Hazel move into their new Gimghoul house Ralph M. Trimble, the UNC engineering professor who surveyed the lots of the Gimghoul subdivision, and his wife Hazel move into one of its first houses, built by contractor Charlie Martindale on Glandon Drive. People: Charlie Lee Martindale, Ralph M. TrimbleSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 18, 1924, p. 4 · Also: National Register: Gimghoul Neighborhood Historic District nomination (OR0709, 1993)
4. June 1929 Ralph M. Trimble is promoted to associate professor After their June meeting the University trustees announced faculty promotions, among them R. M. Trimble of engineering from assistant to associate professor. That summer he took eighteen engineering students to the summer engineering camp at Camp Sapphire near Brevard.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 14, 1929, p. 2
5. May 5, 1931 Chapel Hill re-elects its aldermen in a record town vote Chapel Hill voters returned the sitting board of aldermen and Mayor Zeb P. Council, and chose C. P. Hinshaw over L. J. Phipps by 37 votes for judge of the Recorder's Court. The 730 ballots, cast in the school athletic building known as the "tin can," were far more than in any earlier town election, the Weekly said. People: Brodie Thompson, R. D. W. Connor, Ralph M. Trimble, Peter L. Burch, Zeb P. Council, Clarence P. HinshawSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 8, 1931, p. 1
6. May 23, 1931 Battle Park Association volunteers begin clearing Battle Park Forty-six people, twenty of them Boy Scouts, answered the Battle Park Association's call and worked from mid-afternoon until dark clearing undergrowth around the Forest Theatre and opening trails, under L. C. MacKinney. A second workday the next Saturday drew about forty more, and a committee under Ralph M. Trimble began restoring the bridges over the brook. People: Ralph M. TrimbleSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 29, 1931, p. 2
7. April 1939 Eastwood, Incorporated dams Booker's Creek for a 55-acre lake northeast of Chapel Hill A dam was being built across Booker's Creek about half a mile upstream from the Chapel Hill to Durham highway near Harwood's dairy, to form a 55-acre lake as the center of a restricted residential development called Eastwood. The company's promoter was W. S. Crawford and its stockholders R. P. McClamroch, L. J. Phipps and R. M. Trimble; the dam was due in four weeks and the lake to fill by September. People: Luther James Phipps, Roland P. McClamroch, Ralph M. Trimble, Walter S. CrawfordSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 28, 1939, p. 1
8. May 1939 WPA crews regrade and wall the grounds of the Orange County Training School The WPA transformed the grounds of the Orange County Training School, Chapel Hill's Black school, with a broad new entrance road from Church Street, gravel walks, stone walls against washing, and grading for a playground, a regulation football field and parking. School board member Collier Cobb Jr. and engineer Ralph M. Trimble supervised, and the board meant to ask the state highway commission to surface the road beyond the town limits. People: Collier Cobb Jr., Ralph M. TrimbleSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 19, 1939, p. 1
9. July 1939 W. S. Crawford finishes the Eastwood dam on Booker Creek and the lake begins to fill The masonry dam across Booker Creek near Harward's dairy on the Durham road, raised to 18 feet with about 1,000 tons of rock, was finished by early July for Eastwood, a residential development of W. S. Crawford, R. P. McClamroch, Ralph M. Trimble and L. J. Phipps. The gate was closed by July 21, and after rains about 50 of the planned 65 acres were under water by July 27. People: Luther James Phipps, Roland P. McClamroch, Ralph M. Trimble, Walter S. CrawfordSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 7, 1939, p. 1
10. by May 31, 1940 W. C. Coker lends the money to buy land for a home colony for Black University workers Plans for homes for the University's Black janitors and other Black employees on the 40-acre old Creel place advanced: W. C. Coker provided at low interest the $3,000 for the land, a lender arranged through University officials agreed to advance 95 per cent of building costs, and engineer Ralph M. Trimble had nearly finished laying out streets and lots of at least half an acre. Owners were to do the ditching, grading and landscaping themselves and pay off $1,500 to $1,700 houses in 15 years for about what they paid in rent. People: William Chambers Coker, Ralph M. TrimbleThe Chapel Hill Weekly, May 31, 1940, p. 1
11. November 1943 Ralph M. Trimble's drawing section grows for the Navy V-12 trainees With the Navy V-12 trainees arriving for the trimester that began November 1, 1943, the University engineering drawing section headed by Professor Ralph M. Trimble took on five new teachers.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 12, 1943, p. 4
12. 1987 The Trimble house, one of the first in the Gimghoul subdivision, is torn down The 1924 house built for Ralph and Hazel Trimble on Glandon Drive, one of the first in the Gimghoul subdivision, is demolished, leaving a vacant lot. People: Ralph M. TrimbleSearch the index · National Register: Gimghoul Neighborhood Historic District nomination (OR0709, 1993), section 7