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James Webb Jr.
James Webb Jr. and his wife bought Over-the-River, John Wall Norwood's house across the Eno from Hillsborough, in 1848 and enlarged it. In 1881 he had the Italianate house later called Mid-Lawn built at East Queen and North Cameron streets; it was sold to David and Elizabeth Patterson in 1919.
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Life and Orange County connections
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- James Webb Jr. and his wife buy Over-the-River from the Norwoods and enlarge it John Wall Norwood and his wife sold Over-the-River to James Webb Jr. and his wife, who added to the two-story wing. The house stayed in the family and passed to James Webb Cheshire in 1936. People: James Webb Jr., John Wall NorwoodSearch the index · Hillsborough Historic District National Register Additional Documentation (2014), pdf p. 198
- James Webb Jr. advertises his Cheap Cash Store in Hillsborough Advertisements in the Hillsborough Recorder in 1867 offered garden seeds, white granite cups and saucers, coffee, sugar and candies at the Cheap Cash Store of James Webb Jr.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Hillsborough Recorder, April 24, 1867, p. 4 (advertisements)
- James Webb Jr. builds Mid-Lawn at East Queen and North Cameron streets James Webb Jr. built a two-story Italianate house, later called Mid-Lawn, on the northwest corner of East Queen and North Cameron streets. David and Elizabeth Patterson bought it in 1919. People: James Webb Jr.Search the index · Hillsborough Historic District National Register Additional Documentation (2014), pdf p. 144
- D. C. Parks is elected a Hillsborough town commissioner At a quiet town election Hillsborough chose George C. Corbin mayor and elected A. W. Graham, James Webb Jr., J. W. Hooker, William Anderson, D. M. Laws, D. C. Parks and William H. Newman commissioners. People: James Webb Jr.Search the index · DigitalNC: Orange County Observer, May 8, 1886, p. 3
- The Webb & Co. tobacco partnership in Hillsborough is dissolved James Webb Jr., Joseph C. Webb and George C. Corbin gave notice that their tobacco manufacturing firm, Webb & Co., was dissolved, leaving the two Webbs to collect its debts and wind up its business. The firm had been making tobacco in Hillsborough since at least 1881. People: James Webb Jr.Search the index · DigitalNC: Orange County Observer, February 26, 1887, p. 3
- James Webb Jr. and Joseph C. Webb buy town lot 94 in Hillsborough George C. Corbin, who had bought the property in 1878, sold the land and house on Hillsborough's lot 94 to James Webb Jr. and Joseph C. Webb. James Webb sold the lot to the Methodist church for a parsonage in 1903.Search the index · Pauline O. Lloyd and Allen A. Lloyd, History of the Churches of Hillsborough, N.C., ca. 1766-1962 (1963), scan p. 110
- Hillsborough Methodist Church buys town lot 94 and its house for a new parsonage The church bought lot 94, with a one-story five-room house, from James Webb, son of Dr. James Webb, and used it as the parsonage. The lot later held the 1958 parsonage. People: James Webb Jr.Search the index · Pauline O. Lloyd and Allen A. Lloyd, History of the Churches of Hillsborough, N.C., ca. 1766-1962 (1963), scan p. 110
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Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors. Site locations from the N.C. State Historic Preservation Office survey, Open Orange and OpenStreetMap; town and community pins mark the middle of their mapped buildings.
- Hillsborough Methodist Church Churches and lodges · Hillsborough · 1 event here
- Over-the-River (Norwood-Webb-Cheshire House) Houses, farms, parks and cemeteries · Hillsborough · 1 event here
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