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George Washington Watts

1851–1921 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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John Sprunt Hill papers, 1679-1967.

Hill, John Sprunt, 1869-1961 · 1679

Four thousand five hundred items in five linear feet kept as the papers of John Sprunt Hill, 1869 to 1961, with material dated from 1679 to 1967, collection 3564 in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. Genealogy, family histories and campaign literature appear among the genres. Topics include banking and business in North Carolina, the General Assembly, cooperative agriculture, Erwin Cotton Mills, the Carolina Inn, and Hill as a benefactor of the university.

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Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 338.097 COV Favored by Fortune: George W. Watts & the Hills of Durham Covington, Howard E. · 2004
Four generations of a Durham family in Howard E. Covington Jr.'s collective biography: George Washington Watts, John Sprunt Hill (his son-in-law), and the two George Watts Hills, father and son. Their interests ran from the American Tobacco Company to Central Carolina Bank, Watts Hospital and the Carolina Inn at Chapel Hill, and they pressed for credit unions, better highways and Research Triangle Park. Published by the UNC Library at Chapel Hill in 2004; 372 pages and 48 pages of plates.

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Background context: NCpedia: George Washington Watts NCpedia Dictionary of North Carolina Biography entry
Read contemporary evidence: State Archives catalog: 6 collections naming George Washington Watts State Archives of North Carolina Collection descriptions for manuscripts, county records, and state records held by the State Archives of North Carolina
Search beyond the index: NC LIVE: prepared search for George Washington Watts NC LIVE An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
Ask locally: Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
Ask locally: Local History Help Hours and request form OCPL Local History Liaison The library’s Local History Liaison helps in person most Mondays, 12 to 3, at the Main Library, or by the online request form

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