Places in the chronology: streets

The chronology’s entries name 573 places at least two times each, besides 130 streets and street addresses. 428 of the places have a page of their own and link to it. Every other place lists the entries that name it.

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• Airport RoadChapel Hill · 4 entries · 1943–1962
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  • early October 1943: A carnival sponsored by the Chapel Hill American Legion post plays on the Airport Road
  • September 3-8, 1945: The American Legion stages a week-long fair on Chapel Hill's Airport Road
  • August 17, 1961: Chapel Hill aldermen agree to buy the Airport Road triangle
  • by May 3, 1962: Chapel Hill aldermen adopt a site plan for a municipal center on North Columbia Street
• Barracks RoadHillsborough · 2 entries · 1866–1872
  • 1866: General Colston takes charge of the reopened Hillsborough Military Academy
  • 1872: Paul C. Cameron buys the Hillsborough Military Academy at public sale
• Battle LaneChapel Hill
  • 115 Battle LaneChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1908–1948
    • 1908: A house is built on Battle Lane for English professor Edward Kidder Graham and his wife Susan
    • February 18, 1948: Fire damages the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority house, the old Graham home on Battle Lane

    See also Open Orange: 115 Battle Lane · On a map

• Calvin StreetHillsborough · 2 entries · 1955
  • November 8, 1955: Hillsboro's town board agrees to widen Calvin Street by 25 feet
  • November 30, 1955: The Hillsboro Building and Loan Association passes $2 million in resources
• Cameron AvenueChapel Hill · 9 entries · 1925–1941
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  • October 1925: The university paves Cameron Avenue through the campus
  • October 22, 1926: Carrboro merchant W. D. Neville dies
  • fall 1927: Zeta Psi moves into a new brick house on Cameron Avenue
  • late 1929: Kappa Alpha begins a new house on Cameron Avenue
  • April 29, 1931: Chapel Hill aldermen authorize bonds to pave Cameron Avenue
  • August 1, 1931: Chapel Hill opens a new concrete pavement on Cameron Avenue from Columbia to Mallette Street
  • July 6, 1931: Work begins on paving Cameron Avenue west of the campus
  • March 13, 1935: Aldermen let William Hunt open a flower garden on the old Wilson Caldwell lot
  • May 3, 1941: Fire damages the home of photographer Bayard Wootten
• Cameron Avenue and South Columbia StreetChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1795–1913
  • 1795: The university finishes a house for its president at Cameron Avenue and Columbia Street
  • 1913: The first president's house is moved off the Swain Hall site and becomes a private home
• Center StreetCarrboro
  • 109 Center StreetCarrboro · 2 entries · 1898–1918
    • about 1898 to about 1908: A new mill house on Center Street becomes the community's first school
    • late 1910s: Durham Hosiery sets up looping machines in a Center Street house

    See also On a map

• Chapel Hill and Durham roadChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1906–1930

  Also printed as Chapel Hill and the Durham road

  • by August 9, 1906: The new Chapel Hill and Durham road is graded as far as the bridge
  • May 6, 1930: Durham Gas Company commits to piping gas to Chapel Hill
• Church StreetChapel Hill · 4 entries · 1926–1937
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  • May 1926: Chapel Hill lays a sewer system through the Black neighborhood around Church Street
  • by April 16, 1926: Chapel Hill and the University arrange a sewer for the Black neighborhood on Church Street
  • by January 11, 1935: Chapel Hill widens and gravels Church Street in its Black neighborhood
  • by July 30, 1937: Chapel Hill lets a contract to hard-surface most of its remaining dirt streets
• Churton StreetHillsborough · 12 entries · 1883–1989
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  • early September 1883: A new storehouse on Churton Street opens with Hayes's drug store and the Observer office
  • by May 17, 1884: James Webb Jr. and Brother buy the Churton Street storehouse C. M. Parks had left
  • by September 26, 1885: D. C. Parks builds a two-story house on North Churton Street
  • mid-September 1893: Eugene L. Hassell takes charge of the Hillsborough post office and moves it to Churton Street
  • by November 25, 1893: The Hillsboro Book Store moves into new quarters on Churton Street
  • July to November 1894: C. M. Parks lets a contract for a two-story store on Churton Street
  • June 1, 1908: Hillsboro's commissioners order Churton Street macadamized
  • July to November 1908: Hillsborough macadamizes Churton Street
  • by February 10, 1944: G. W. Gilmore buys a half-interest in Hillsboro's Ford agency
  • by February 23, 1956: Orange Farm Equipment Company takes over Coleman-Laws in Hillsboro
  • August 16, 1962: Edmund Strudwick speaks against a new federal access road and bridge into Hillsborough
  • 1989: A state highway marker for Hamilton is cast for Churton Street in Hillsborough
• Columbia StreetChapel Hill · 4 entries · 1915–1923
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  • 1915: The Chapel Hill fire company buys a Ford fire truck and moves to Columbia Street
  • by March 2, 1922: Ground is broken for the new Chapel Hill Baptist Church on Columbia Street
  • by November 30, 1922: Sigma Nu lets the contract for a three-story fraternity house on Columbia Street
  • February 17, 1923: The old W. E. Lindsay store on Columbia Street is auctioned off for removal
• Columbia Street and Rosemary LaneChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1938
  • August 18, 1938: Chapel Hill lets the contract for its town hall
  • June 22, 1938: The PWA offers Chapel Hill $17,550 toward a municipal building
• Cornwallis Road4 entries · 1830–1910
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  • about 1830: A log homestead is built on the later William Couch farm
  • about 1860: William Shambley builds a log house before going to war
  • about 1900: William Edgar Shambley builds a log house near his grandfather's
  • about 1910: Brothers John and Page Couch add a frame front to a log house on Cornwallis Road
• Country Club RoadChapel Hill · 3 entries · 1923–1933
  • May 17, 1923: The Chapel Hill Country Club opens its new clubhouse
  • 1928-1940: Black stonemasons build the stone walls of Rocky Ridge Farm
  • by October 6, 1933: The state lays a hard surface on the Country Club road
• East Center StreetMebane
  • 401 East Center StreetMebane · 2 entries · 1948–2011
    • 1948: Charlie McAdams and George Crawford Amick open the A & M Grill in Mebane
    • June 26, 2011: The A & M Grill in Mebane closes after 63 years

    See also Open Orange: 401 E. Center St · On a map

• East end of Franklin StreetChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1794–1795
  • August Term 1794: The court orders a road laid off from the east end of Franklin Street in the University village
  • November Term 1795: The court orders a road from the east end of Franklin Street into the New Hope road from Raleigh
• East Franklin StreetChapel Hill · 17 entries · 1843–1986

  Also printed as East Franklin Street (Durham Road)

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  • about 1843: Samuel Phillips builds a law office with a Tudor entrance porch on East Franklin Street
  • 1868: Solomon Pool's new faculty move into the old professors' houses
  • early 1916: The Tar Heel Theatre opens on Franklin Street beside Strowd's garage
  • about 1921: The center of East Franklin Street is paved
  • September 1921: Ione Cates opens a cafeteria in Chapel Hill that feeds the University's overflow
  • by August 16, 1923: B. S. Thompson gets the contract for a brick hotel and store building on East Franklin Street
  • February 9, 1924: Fire destroys the Pickwick Theatre on Franklin Street
  • May 31, 1924: The rebuilt Pickwick Theatre opens on Franklin Street
  • March 5, 1933: Margaret Williams Gore, who built a country chapel south of Chapel Hill, dies
  • April 1934 (begun by April 6): State highway crews begin paving East Franklin Street from curb to curb
  • November 7, 1938: The old Pickwick reopens as the Pick, a second movie house under the Carolina's management
  • 1944–1968: Vic and Rebecca Huggins run Huggins Hardware on East Franklin Street
  • May 6, 1951: The Village Theatre becomes the Varsity under new owners
  • 1960s: Cornelia Spencer Love gives private funds toward a new library on East Franklin Street
  • October 1964: The State Highway Commission approves four-laning East Franklin Street to Eastgate
  • 1966: Don Stewart designs the Chapel Hill Public Library building on East Franklin Street
  • February 21, 1986: Estes Drive and Burlage Circle residents reach an agreement with Hakan-Corley over the Siena Hotel
  • 100 East Franklin StreetChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1992–1994
    • August 1992: The Colonial Revival gas station at 100 East Franklin Street is torn down
    • by 1994: A new building fills the long-vacant corner of East Franklin and Columbia streets

    See also Open Orange: University Service Station · On a map

  • 115 East Franklin StreetChapel Hill · 3 entries · 1954–1963
    • August 16, 1954: The College Cafe moves across Franklin Street into the former Marathon building
    • about June 1, 1954: The Marathon Restaurant leaves its East Franklin Street building
    • April 5, 1963: Student pickets begin marching outside the segregated College Cafe

    See also Open Orange: 115 E. Franklin St · On a map

  • 118 East Franklin StreetChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1952–1982
    • September 2, 1952: Ben Schreiber turns the Harry's Grill building into the Youth Center, a children's clothing store
    • Christmas break, 1982-83: Herbert Chu opens the Four Five Six Chinese restaurant at 118 East Franklin Street

    See also Open Orange: 118 E. Franklin St · On a map

  • 122 East Franklin StreetChapel Hill · 3 entries · 1938–1966
    • October 29, 1938: Bowling Carolina opens a four-lane alley in the former Lyon Hardware store
    • September 20, 1957: J. K. Ellis reopens his East Franklin Street grill as the Village Cafeteria
    • April 1966: The Sharyn Lynn Shoppe moves into the former Village Cafeteria at 122 East Franklin Street

    See also Open Orange: 122 E. Franklin St · On a map

  • 149 1/2 East Franklin StreetChapel Hill · 3 entries · 1956–1975
    • May 11, 1956: The Tempo Room, a basement beer and sandwich lounge, opens on East Franklin Street
    • April 28, 1969: An early-morning fire guts the Tempo Room on East Franklin Street
    • spring 1975: Mickey Ewell opens Harrison's, a basement bar with a dress code, on Franklin Street
  • 501 East Franklin StreetChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1818–1820
    • by 1818: The Puckett house stands on East Franklin Street across from Hooper's
    • 1820: Professor Denison Olmsted buys the Widow Puckett house on East Franklin Street
  • 513 East Franklin StreetChapel Hill · 4 entries · 1847–1994
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    • 1847: The Rev. William Mercer Green buys an East Franklin Street lot and builds a house
    • 1889 or soon after: The Presbyterian church buys the Phillips house on East Franklin Street for a manse
    • 1966: The Presbyterians sell their East Franklin manse to Gordon L. McAndrews
    • between 1994 and 1998: C. D. Spangler Jr. buys the old Green-Phillips house at 513 East Franklin

    See also On a map

  • 619 East Franklin StreetChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1922–1933
    • 1922: Graduate dean James Finch Royster builds a house on East Franklin Street
    • 1933: State senator John Umstead buys the Royster house on East Franklin Street

    See also On a map

  • 704 East Franklin StreetChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1907–1952
    • 1907: Geologist Joseph Hyde Pratt builds a Colonial Revival house on East Franklin Street
    • 1952: Neurosurgeon Warner Wells buys the Pratt house on East Franklin Street

    See also Open Orange: 704 E. Franklin St · On a map

  • 1215 East Franklin Street (Durham road on Strowd Hill)Chapel Hill · 2 entries · 1947–1952
    • July 1947: Dr. S. A. Nathan opens the Curve Inn, a curb-service stand on Strowd Hill
    • October 16, 1952: The Hong Kong, an American-Chinese restaurant, opens in the former Curve Inn

    See also Open Orange: 1215 E. Franklin St · On a map

• East King StreetHillsborough · 5 entries · 1842–1964
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  • December 1842: James Jackson Jr. buys the Hillsborough House tavern on King Street
  • January 1847: Robert F. Morris buys the Hillsborough House from James Jackson
  • March 1855: William McCauley takes charge of the Hillsborough House
  • April 1950: Hillsboro writer Peter Taylor wins a Guggenheim Fellowship
  • by April 30, 1964: Graham Production Credit Association opens a Hillsborough branch office
  • 120 East King StreetHillsborough · 2 entries · 1947–1964
    • September 1947: Morris Telephone Company switches Hillsborough to dial telephones in a new exchange building
    • 1964: Morris Telephone Company builds a larger exchange on East King Street

    See also Open Orange: 120 E. King St · On a map

• East Main StreetCarrboro
  • 103-105 East Main StreetCarrboro · 3 entries · 1948–2000
    • October 1948: The Whitfield and Oakley department store moves into a new building on Carrboro's Main Street as White Oaks
    • November 1982: Francis Chan opens the Jade Palace Chinese and Seafood Restaurant on East Main Street in Carrboro
    • January 20, 2000: Fire guts the Jade Palace restaurant on East Main Street in Carrboro

    See also Open Orange: 103-105 E. Main St · On a map

  • 110 East Main StreetCarrboro · 2 entries · 1959–1998
    • March 1959: Dwight Ray and Seaton Lloyd sell the Lloyd-Ray Hardware Store after 37 years
    • about March 1998: Kevin Callaghan opens Acme Food and Beverage Company at 110 East Main Street in Carrboro

    See also Open Orange: 110 E. Main St · On a map

  • 116 East Main StreetCarrboro · 2 entries · 1933–1982
    • April 1933: The Bank of Chapel Hill closes its Bank of Carrboro branch
    • by October 1982: Polaris, a Black-owned nightclub, opens on East Main Street in Carrboro

    See also Open Orange: 116 E. Main St · On a map

  • 309 East Main StreetCarrboro · 2 entries · 1959–1988
    • January 29, 1959: The Chapel Hill News Leader suspends publication
    • 1988: Barry Keith opens Surplus Sids on Main Street in Carrboro

    See also Open Orange: 309 E. Main St · On a map

• East Orange StreetHillsborough
  • 110 East Orange StreetHillsborough · 2 entries · 1889–1987
    • 1889: A small office from the Turner-Strudwick grounds is moved to East Orange Street
    • 1987: The East Orange Street house built around Edmund Strudwick's old office is raised to two stories

    See also Open Orange: Strudwick Law Office · On a map

• East Rosemary StreetChapel Hill · 4 entries · 1962–1964
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  • August 15, 1962: The Orange Printshop closes after 39 years
  • late December 1963: Chapel Hill buys East Rosemary Street lots for a municipal parking lot
  • late April 1963: Chapel Hill arranges $80,000 in parking revenue bonds for a downtown lot
  • May 27, 1964: Chapel Hill opens its off-street parking lot behind the downtown business block
  • 315 East Rosemary StreetChapel Hill · 3 entries · 1853–1944
    • between 1853 and 1858: Isaac Collier builds an I-house on East Rosemary Street
    • 1885: Professor Adolphus Mangum buys the Collier house on East Rosemary Street
    • 1944, after July 29: Charles S. Mangum Jr. sells the old Mangum house on East Rosemary Street to Betty Smith

    See also Open Orange: 315 E. Rosemary St · On a map

  • 523 East Rosemary Street (Rosemary Lane at Boundary Street)Chapel Hill · 2 entries · 1898–1924
    • 1898: The Order of Gimghouls builds its first lodge on Rosemary Lane
    • November 1924: The Gimghouls sell their old lodge lot on Rosemary Lane

    See also Open Orange: 523 E. Rosemary St · On a map

• Efland-Cedar Grove RoadCedar Grove
  • 5206 Efland-Cedar Grove RoadCedar Grove · 2 entries · 1907–1946
    • October 1907: The Oliver family takes over the Cedar Grove crossroads store
    • 1946: Charles Crisp Oliver builds an auto and tractor repair shop at the Cedar Grove crossroads
• Eno River near present Halls Mill RoadEno River · 2 entries · 1753–1768
  • 1753: The Earl Granville grants 371 acres on the Eno to John Tinnin and James Taylor
  • 1768: Richard Faucette buys part of the Tinnin and Taylor land on the Eno
• Estes DriveChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1953–1965
  • 1953: William C. Coker dies and leaves his land north of town to Coker College
  • mid-1960s: Stewart and Anderson build a new office on Estes Drive as Webb stays in the old Methodist church
• Fordham BoulevardChapel Hill
  • 1500 Fordham BoulevardChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1957–1994
    • August 1957: Wes and Nancy Thompson hold a grand opening of the South 501 Restaurant under their ownership
    • October 24, 1994: Owens 501 Diner is honored for turning a former gas station into a diner

    See also Open Orange: 1500 Fordham Blvd · On a map

• Franklin StreetChapel Hill · 53 entries · 1794–2004
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  • by August 1794: The name Franklin Street appears in Chapel Hill documents
  • about 1818: A student of 1818 recalls the village's two stores and Hilliard's tavern
  • March 19, 1859: Chapel Hill fixes its village limits as a rectangle of 839 acres
  • April 14, 1865: Johnston's retreating infantry marches through Chapel Hill
  • August 6, 1878: Methodist trustees buy a Franklin Street lot from Thomas A. and Zoa A. Long
  • early March 1879: Chapel Hill commissioners order the Franklin Street culvert cleaned and yards inspected
  • October 1879: Col. H. B. Guthrie opens a grocery store in Chapel Hill
  • early November 1879: M. Cheek Jr. builds a new store at the west end of Franklin Street
  • by May 29, 1880: Franklin Davies and H. H. Patterson form Franklin Davies & Company
  • September 19, 1885: Chapel Hill Methodists vote to build a second church
  • February 15, 1896: Chapel Hill bans bicycle riding on the Franklin Street sidewalks
  • September 9, 1907: Chapel Hill Methodists vote to sell their College Avenue parsonage and buy the Carr property
  • late November 1909: The Pickwick, a moving-picture theatre, opens on Franklin Street next to Brockwell's building
  • October 13, 1915: Ground is broken for S. J. Brockwell's brick building beside the new garage and Tar Heel Theatre
  • by May 22, 1919: Building goes forward on Chapel Hill's new post office and Presbyterian church
  • from September 1921: Chapel Hill Methodists enlarge their Franklin Street grounds through purchases and a swap with the university
  • by November 23, 1922: Durham Brothers put up a gasoline filling station on Franklin Street
  • April 1922: The Susan Graham memorial fountain replaces the old town well on Franklin Street
  • December 6, 1924: Methodists award the building contract for the new Chapel Hill church
  • April 28, 1925: The cornerstone of the new Chapel Hill Methodist church is laid
  • January 6, 1925: Ground is broken for the new Chapel Hill Methodist church
  • September 1925: University opens its new building for women students on Franklin Street
  • November 14, 1927: Chapel Hill aldermen forbid ride-seekers to stand in the roadway
  • November 22, 1927: John Sprunt Hill buys the block of stores beside the campus at the realty company auction
  • June 28, 1927: Work begins on the Sutton building on Franklin Street
  • February 14, 1928: W. O. Lacock opens Lacock's Boot Shop on the site of the original Bank of Chapel Hill
  • August 27, 1929: Chapel Hill's board of adjustment bars banners across Franklin Street
  • October 5, 1929: Chapel Hill's Jewish merchants close their stores for Rosh Hashanah
  • September 5, 1929: Receivers auction five Franklin Street business buildings for $60,804
  • October 8, 1930: Aldermen make Franklin Street a through street with Stop signs and speed limits
  • June 1930: Gas company ditchers begin laying mains in Chapel Hill
  • early October 1930: Town plants grass between the curb and the new Franklin Street sidewalk
  • September 22-23, 1930: Jewish merchants in Chapel Hill close for Rosh Hashanah
  • December 6, 1930: Major William Cain, Confederate veteran and engineer, is killed by an automobile
  • October 10, 1934: Chapel Hill aldermen order the police to crack down on speeding
  • December 1936: Chapel Hill and Carrboro merchants light their business streets for Christmas
  • July 1, 1938: John M. Booker proposes a Franklin Street site for the new town hall
  • March 22, 1940: Louis Graves's Weekly takes up J. L. Morehead's call to give Franklin Street a Williamsburg look
  • August 21, 1941: Chapel Hill's four central filling stations agree to take turns opening on Sundays
  • December 9, 1941: Ground is broken for a new movie theatre on Franklin Street
  • by November 21, 1941: Chapel Hill merchants give up Christmas decorations on Franklin Street
  • late January 1942: Chapel Hill grocers limit sugar sales after a buying rush
  • June 1, 1942: The Orange Bus Line begins local service between Carrboro and Chapel Hill
  • August 14, 1945: Chapel Hill celebrates the end of the war with Japan on Franklin Street
  • December 11, 1947: Fire guts two university buildings on Franklin Street
  • about 1950: African American flower sellers known as the Flower Ladies set up on Franklin Street
  • November 28, 1950: The Highway Commission opens bids to grade the new Durham-Chapel Hill highway
  • July 13, 1963: Five hundred people join a freedom march through downtown Chapel Hill
  • February 15, 1968: BSM members march in Chapel Hill to protest the Orangeburg killings
  • 1969: Alexander Julian opens Alexander's Ambition on Franklin Street
  • March 13-18, 1978: The Black Student Movement marks its tenth anniversary with a week of events
  • June 23, 1996: Frances Hargraves carries the Olympic torch down Franklin Street
  • start of the fall 2004 semester: A radio host leads a Heterosexual Pride Parade on Franklin Street, and students march in parody
• Glandon DriveChapel Hill
  • 232 Glandon DriveChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1924–1987
    • September 1924: Engineering professor Ralph Trimble and his wife Hazel move into their new Gimghoul house
    • 1987: The Trimble house, one of the first in the Gimghoul subdivision, is torn down
• Greenwood RoadChapel Hill
  • 707 Greenwood RoadChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1941–1951
    • late 1941: Illustrator William Meade Prince and his wife Lillian build a house in Greenwood
    • November 10, 1951: William Meade Prince dies at his home in Greenwood

    See also Open Orange: 707 Greenwood Rd · On a map

• Henderson StreetChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1919–1940
  • by February 20, 1919: Chapel Hill aldermen order the town's old school lot on Henderson Street sold
  • November 2, 1940: Samuel J. Brockwell, Chapel Hill builder and businessman, dies
• Hillsboro StreetChapel Hill · 3 entries · 1919–1963
  • May 1, 1919: The Raney Canner Company of Chapel Hill is dissolved
  • February 2, 1945: Fred Sparrow's Chapel Hill dairy sells its herd after more than fifty years
  • April 15, 1963: Chapel Hill aldermen approve two apartment projects on Hillsboro Street
• Homestead RoadCalvander · 3 entries · 1890–1930
  • 1890s; enlarged about 1935: A Hogan family log house goes up on Homestead Road
  • 1908: William D. Hogan builds a frame I-house on Homestead Road
  • 1930s: Clay Hogan builds a large dairy complex off Homestead Road
• Hooper LaneChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1932–1952
  • September 14, 1932: Chapel Hill aldermen name Hooper Lane for Professor William Hooper
  • 1952: Albert and Gladys Coates move into their own house on Hooper Lane
• Johnson StreetChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1968–1977
  • 1968: The Pine Knolls Community Center opens in the Green House on Johnson Street
  • early 1977: Pine Knolls residents ask the town to rebuild their condemned community center
• Jones Ferry RoadCarrboro · 2 entries · 1945–1952
  • 1945 to 1947: Mason Alfred Barbee builds his own house on Jones Ferry Road
  • June 1952: The state paves Jones Ferry Road out to the Chatham County line
• King StreetHillsborough · 10 entries · 1886–1957
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  • by August 14, 1886: Sutton & Strudwick open a hardware store on King Street
  • by March 3, 1894: The law firm of Merritt, Bryant & Merritt opens an office in Hillsborough
  • May 1899: Lisbon P. Berry has a house built on King Street by Black contractor James Nichols
  • July 18 to October 31, 1905: Hillsborough macadamizes King Street west of Churton
  • July 2, 1906: The Durham-Parish Company is incorporated to keep a general store in Hillsboro
  • by May 16, 1907: The Hillsborough post office moves into C. D. Turner's new brick building on King Street
  • by September 21, 1911: N. W. Brown buys a King Street store house beside the post office
  • July 27, 1927: Fire destroys the Everett building, a meat market on King Street
  • January 4, 1956: Marshall Cates Jr. and Dr. N. L. Mauroner buy Bivins Furniture Company
  • June 17-30, 1957: A Catholic motor chapel holds a two-week mission in Hillsboro
• Main StreetCarrboro · 10 entries · 1922–1971

  Also printed as Main Street (state highway)

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  • April 1922: Dwight Ray and Seaton Lloyd open the Lloyd-Ray hardware store in Carrboro
  • by June 17, 1927: Carrboro widens the concrete highway through town to 30 feet
  • late July 1949: Roy Cole opens the Cole Piano Company on Carrboro's Main Street
  • by May 10, 1951: Bone and Brandon Company finishes a two-story building on Carrboro's Main Street
  • July 7, 1952: The Carrboro post office opens in its new brick building on Main Street
  • December 31, 1953: Fire burns the Carrboro Smoke Shop and a barber shop in the center of Carrboro
  • November 1955: Carrboro Baptist Church opens an annex on Main Street with a church nursery
  • May 1955: Mrs. Marvin Ivey reopens Ivey's Cafe in Carrboro after her husband's death
  • by April 6, 1961: Dr. John S. Hooker opens a doctor's office in a former Carrboro Methodist building on Main Street
  • 1971: The survey records downtown Carrboro businesses at Main and Greensboro streets and on Poplar Avenue
• Mallett StreetChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1928–1929
  • by April 20, 1928: New water mains and full-time firemen bring Chapel Hill a cut in fire insurance rates
  • July 1, 1929: Chapel Hill aldermen move the east side of Mallett Street into the residence zone
• Margaret LaneHillsborough · 2 entries · 1854–1948
  • between 1854 and 1860: The Baptists buy W. J. Freeland's lot for a new church
  • August 21, 1948: Farmers Mutual opens its new farm supply warehouse on Margaret Lane
• McCauley StreetChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1919–1933
  • April 26, 1919: A roof fire on McCauley Street shows the Chapel Hill fire company's weak water pressure
  • February 8, 1933: Former Congressman A. C. Shuford dies in Chapel Hill
  • 224 McCauley StreetChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1910–1913
    • about 1910: Braxton Craig and partners build a small Queen Anne house on McCauley Street
    • 1913: The Braxton Craig House on McCauley Street is sold to E. G. Norwood

    See also On a map

• Merritt Mill RoadChapel Hill · 4 entries · 1912–1952
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  • 1912: Louis H. Hackney opens a school for Black students in Chapel Hill
  • 1938: Daphne Athas's family moves to Chapel Hill
  • May 1, 1950: Archie Davis shows the commissioners his plans for a new Black high school on Merritt Mill Road
  • September to October 1952: Merritt Mill Road past Lincoln High is paved
• Millhouse RoadBlackwood · 2 entries · 1905–1910
  • about 1905: Sam Nunn and neighbors raise the last recorded log house in the township
  • about 1910: The Blackwood family builds a grist mill on Millhouse Road
• Mount Carmel Church RoadChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1900–1935
  • early 1900s: The Blackwood family settles the farm that becomes the Blackwood Brothers Dairy
  • 1935: The Williams family buys a 38-acre farm on Mount Carmel Church Road
• Mount Sinai RoadChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1920–1926
  • about 1920: Henry and Lora Trice, a Black couple, build a farmhouse on their 36 acres
  • April 1926: Mount Sinai Baptist Church raises money for the new church it is building
• North Churton StreetHillsborough
  • 104 North Churton StreetHillsborough · 2 entries · 2016–2017
    • March 2016: Bona Fide Sandwich Co. opens at 104 North Churton Street
    • October 2017: Bona Fide Sandwich Co. closes on North Churton Street

    See also Open Orange: 104 N. Churton St · On a map

  • 112 North Churton StreetHillsborough · 4 entries · 1960–2024
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    • August 19, 1960: The Hillsboro Savings and Loan Association lays the cornerstone of its North Churton Street office
    • April 15, 1961: The Hillsboro Savings and Loan Association opens its new downtown office
    • March 26, 2013: Radius Pizzeria opens in the old savings and loan building on North Churton Street
    • December 29, 2024: Radius Pizzeria & Pub closes after more than eleven years

    See also Open Orange: 112 N. Churton St · On a map

  • 113 North Churton StreetHillsborough · 2 entries · 1911–2018
    • by 1911: A general store goes up at 113 North Churton Street, later a Chevrolet dealership
    • July 5, 2018: The Wooden Nickel pub reopens two doors up in the former bank at 113 North Churton Street

    See also Open Orange: 113 N. Churton St · On a map

  • 137 North Churton StreetHillsborough · 2 entries · 1964–1988
    • May 7, 1964: Kenan Oil Company advertises the opening of its Colonial Phillips 66 station at Churton and Tryon
    • 1988: Orange Federal Savings and Loan builds an office on the old service station lot at 137 North Churton Street

    See also Open Orange: 137 N. Churton St · On a map

• North Churton Street at Corbin StreetHillsborough
  • 610 North Churton Street at Corbin StreetHillsborough · 2 entries · 2015–2018
    • fall 2015: Cannie Bacon Lloyd and Bob Lloyd open Bacon's Meat Market on North Churton Street
    • April 30, 2018: Bacon's Meat Market passes to new owners and becomes Steve's Garden Market

    See also Open Orange: 610 N. Churton St · On a map

• North Churton Street (east side)Hillsborough · 2 entries · 1925
  • April 1925: The Farmers and Merchants Bank moves into a new building on North Churton Street
  • April 1925: Lawyer J. Clyde Ray finishes a two-story office building with a restaurant on Churton Street
• North Columbia StreetChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1949–1963
  • 1949: The Carl Smith Building is completed on North Columbia Street
  • by November 7, 1963: Chapel Hill accepts its new central fire station on North Columbia Street
• North Greensboro StreetCarrboro
  • 100 North Greensboro StreetCarrboro · 2 entries · 1963–1997
    • October 1963 to 1964: Carrboro Baptist Church remodels its sanctuary
    • June 17, 1997: Carrboro aldermen vote to buy the Carrboro Baptist Church property

    See also Open Orange: Carrboro Baptist Church · On a map

• North side of Franklin StreetChapel Hill · 3 entries · 1924–1928
  • July 15, 1924: Henry and Matilda Guthrie's Franklin Street lot, with its moving-picture house, is advertised for foreclosure
  • by November 25, 1927: Post-mounted lamps replace hanging lights on Franklin Street's north side
  • by January 21, 1928: The town plants Lombardy poplars along Franklin Street's business block
• North StreetChapel Hill · 3 entries · 1921–1943
  • December 20, 1921: Fire destroys Mrs. C. B. Wills's house on North Street in Chapel Hill
  • September 21, 1938: Illustrator William Meade Prince moves his family to Chapel Hill
  • August 18, 1943: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, written in Chapel Hill, is published
• Old Hillsborough RoadHillsborough · 2 entries · 1867–1911
  • about 1867: Andrew Green Ruffin Lloyd builds a log house on Old Hillsborough Road
  • about 1911: The Luther Craig farmhouse is built on Old Hillsborough Road
• Old Oxford RoadChapel Hill
  • 108 Old Oxford RoadChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1905–1920
    • about 1905: Merchant John Edward Clark builds a two-room schoolhouse on Old Oxford Road
    • about 1920: The Old Oxford Road schoolhouse closes as children are bused to town

    See also On a map

• Pittsboro StreetChapel Hill · 7 entries · 1894–1971
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  • mid-September 1894: Work begins on Dr. London's and Dr. Headen's houses on Pittsboro Street
  • June 12, 1915: Confederate veteran William H. Harward dies at Chapel Hill
  • September 16, 1929: Chapel Hill aldermen refuse to rezone Pittsboro Street for fraternities and apartments
  • March 9, 1932: Chapel Hill and the University utility agree to lay a six-inch water main under Pittsboro Street
  • June 25, 1939: Thomas H. Raney, inventor of a home canning apparatus, dies in Chapel Hill
  • by February 12, 1943: University breaks ground for two dormitories on Pittsboro Street
  • 1971: Don Stewart designs the State Employees Credit Union office on Pittsboro Street
• Queen StreetHillsborough · 2 entries · 1787–1890
  • May Term 1787: The court orders a road laid off from the end of Queen Street to the Halifax road
  • by July 19, 1890: A roof fire on a two-story Queen Street building is put out before it spreads
• Rosemary LaneChapel Hill · 3 entries · 1924–1932
  • September 1924: The Chapel Hill Weekly's printshop moves into its own brick building
  • by July 29, 1927: Chapel Hill's telephone service orders an automatic dial system
  • by September 16, 1932: The log cabin of Tony and Liza Jenkins on Rosemary Lane is torn down
• Rosemary StreetChapel Hill · 5 entries · 1923–1940
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  • April 1923: Chapel Hill lays a sewer line on Rosemary Street
  • by October 25, 1923: Van Nunn completes a new store on Rosemary Street
  • September 1924: The Orange Printshop moves into a new brick building off Rosemary Street
  • May 5, 1927: Grading begins on the new highway link from Chapel Hill to the Carrboro school
  • March 10, 1940: Fire nearly destroys the Loizon home, the old Cate place on Rosemary Street
• Smith Level RoadCarrboro · 5 entries · 1880–1956
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  • 1880s: William Cole buys the Smith plantation seat on Smith Level Road
  • 1903: Sidney W. Crabtree starts a farm on land from the Smith plantation
  • about 1910: The Smith Level School is built for white children south of Carrboro
  • about 1920: William Clarence Cole builds a Craftsman farmhouse on Smith Level Road
  • August 10, 1956: A cross marked KKK is burned at a home on Smith Level Road
• South Churton StreetHillsborough · 2 entries · 1932–1989

  Also printed as South Churton Street (US 70 Business)

  • 1932: Richmond Motor Company opens as Hillsboro's Ford dealer
  • 1989: A state highway marker for James Hogg is cast for Churton Street in Hillsborough
  • 110 South Churton StreetHillsborough · 3 entries · 1990–2021
    • 1990: The early twentieth-century building at 110 South Churton Street is torn down
    • 2006: Chef Aaron Vandemark opens Panciuto on South Churton Street
    • May 2021: Panciuto reopens after its pandemic closure, now sharing space with the Hillsborough Bakeshop

    See also Open Orange: 110 S. Churton St · On a map

• South Columbia StreetChapel Hill
  • 115 South Columbia StreetChapel Hill · 3 entries · 1907–1954
    • 1907: The Archer family builds a house on South Columbia Street that becomes a student boarding house
    • 1935: The University again makes Archer House a residence for women students
    • August to September 1954: The University tears down Archer House to make room for the Ackland Art Museum

    See also Open Orange: 115 S. Columbia St · On a map

  • 121 (later 125) South Columbia StreetChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1919–1995
    • 1919: Sallie Hemphill, later Sallie Markham Michie, buys the house at 121 South Columbia Street
    • November 27, 1995: UNC razes the Michie House, the last private home on campus, for parking
  • 3819 South Columbia StreetChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1957–1964
    • August 1957: Watts Restaurant holds its grand opening on the Pittsboro highway south of Chapel Hill
    • July 3, 1964: The owner of Watts Restaurant and his staff attack civil rights testers

    See also Open Orange: 3819 S. Columbia St · On a map

• South RoadChapel Hill · 3 entries · 1927–1968

  Also printed as South Road (Cameron Avenue to Country Club Road)

  • by April 15, 1927: State highway commission takes over the Chapel Hill-Nelson road
  • by August 23, 1929: The South Road behind the campus is paved in concrete as part of Route 54
  • 1968: UNC's new law school building is finished on South Road
• St. Mary's RoadHillsborough · 6 entries · 1922–1999

  Also printed as St. Mary's Road (SR 1002)

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  • 1922: A two-story addition turns the Hill Farm house to face a new way
  • about 1940: St. Mary's Road is paved and straightened
  • January 18, 1955: Work begins on the Cameron Park Elementary School in Hillsborough
  • by March 29, 1956: St. Mary's Road residents start a six-inch water line from Hillsboro
  • May 31, 1956: St. Mary's Road residents finish a new water line on Hillsboro's system
  • August 1999: A county survey proposes a St. Mary's Road rural historic district
• Stephens StreetChapel Hill
  • 109 Stephens StreetChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1949
    • May 29 to June 5, 1949: The Chapel Hill Jaycees open the Williams Lustron house for public inspection
    • April 1949: Railway Express agent Lonas Williams starts Chapel Hill's first Lustron house, on Stephens Street

    See also Open Orange: 109 Stephens St · On a map

• Tryon StreetHillsborough · 4 entries · 1872–1951
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  • by February 14, 1872: Aleck Hall, a Black omnibus driver, builds a new house on Tryon Street
  • May to June 1888: Israel Turner rebuilds on his burned lot and reopens opposite the court house
  • January 10, 1906: A dynamite charge explodes near Mayor Joseph A. Harris's house on Tryon Street
  • August 6, 1951: The Hillsboro Exchange Club opens a public tennis court on Tryon Street
• Umstead DriveChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1962–1964
  • by March 22, 1962: Exchange Pools, Inc. lets the contract for a community swimming pool
  • November 23, 1964: The Umstead family gives Chapel Hill a two-acre recreation field on Umstead Drive
• US Highway 70Hillsborough
  • 122 US Highway 70Hillsborough · 2 entries · 1959–2019
    • April 10, 1959: Orange County's first ABC liquor store opens north of Hillsboro
    • August 3, 2019: Fire collapses the roof of the old ABC building at 122 US 70 in Hillsborough
• Weaver StreetCarrboro · 3 entries · 1917–1948
  • about 1917: The Colonial Movie Theatre on Weaver Street closes
  • by May 13, 1948: Carrboro's Weaver Street is hard-surfaced
  • April 16, 1948: Carrboro's Weaver Street is paved and reopened
• West Cameron AvenueChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1885–1939
  • 1885: Thomas F. Lloyd buys the brick house on West Cameron Avenue later called the Lloyd-Wiley House
  • November 6, 1939: A house fire on West Cameron Avenue exposes Chapel Hill's weak hydrant pressure
  • 321 West Cameron AvenueChapel Hill · 4 entries · 1850–1929
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    • 1850s: Dr. Johnston Blakeley Jones builds a Gothic Revival cottage on West Cameron Avenue
    • December 1928: Chi Psi announces a Norman-style house for West Cameron Avenue
    • By June 1928: Chi Psi buys Dr. Jones's Gothic cottage on Cameron Avenue for its fraternity house
    • December 25, 1929: The Gothic cottage serving as the Chi Psi house burns

    See also On a map

  • 403 West Cameron AvenueChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1870–1890
    • about 1870: A two-story frame house, later known as the Pool-Patterson House, goes up on West Cameron Avenue
    • 1890s: Merchant Henry "Hoot" Patterson turns a West Cameron Avenue I-house into a Queen Anne villa

    See also On a map

• West end of Cameron AvenueChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1938–1939
  • by September 16, 1938: The PWA backs a new University power plant away from the campus
  • July 5, 1939: The University lets the contract to build its new power plant
• West Franklin StreetChapel Hill
  • 100 West Franklin StreetChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1925–1953
    • February 7, 1925: Bruce Strowd opens his new Ford dealership at Franklin and Columbia streets
    • 1953: Bruce Strowd sells his car business to Crowell Little and Grady Pritchard

    See also Open Orange: 100 W. Franklin St · On a map

  • 206 West Franklin StreetChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1989–1993
    • February 1989: Cat's Cradle opens at 206 West Franklin Street
    • May 19, 1993: Cat's Cradle closes its last Franklin Street location

    See also Open Orange: 206 W. Franklin St · On a map

  • 214 West Franklin StreetChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1949–1950
    • July 7, 1949: Phillip Andrews opens a Gulf service station at 214 West Franklin Street
    • October 7, 1950: Reeves Service Station takes over the Phillip Andrews station on West Franklin Street

    See also Open Orange: 214 W. Franklin St · On a map

  • 301 West Franklin StreetChapel Hill · 2 entries · 2004–2007
    • End of August 2004: Vis Art Video closes its West Franklin Street store
    • June 29, 2007: Chipotle Mexican Grill opens in the old Vis Art Video building on West Franklin Street

    See also Open Orange: 301 W. Franklin St · On a map

  • 306 West Franklin StreetChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1948–1989
    • July 22, 1948: Fowler's Food Store opens its new building on West Franklin Street
    • between 1989 and 1993: Fowler's Food Store closes and gives way to the 306 Shopping Center

    See also Open Orange: 306 W. Franklin St · On a map

  • 405 West Franklin StreetChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1946–1969
    • 1946: An old house said to contain part of the Nunn Tavern is moved across Kenan Street for the bus station
    • between 1969 and 1973: The McCauley house, said to be part of the old Patterson inn and Nunn tavern, is razed for a Dunkin Donuts
  • 450 West Franklin StreetChapel Hill · 2 entries · 2018–2019
    • November 2018: Chapel Hill's council accepts the task force plan for a Chapel Hill Nine marker
    • February 28, 2019: The Chapel Hill Nine marker site is dedicated on the 59th anniversary of the sit-in

    See also Open Orange: 450 W. Franklin St · On a map

• West Franklin Street at Merritt Mill RoadChapel Hill · 3 entries · 1952–1979
  • by May 8, 1952: Chapel Hill's Black civic club asks the town again for a stoplight where children cross West Franklin Street
  • between 1974 and 1978: The produce stand Rachel Crook started at Merritt Mill Road gives way to a used-car lot
  • between 1979 and 1983: The last two houses on West Franklin Street are torn down for a used-car lot
• West King StreetHillsborough · 4 entries · 1810–1980
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  • 1810–1846: Dr. James Webb serves as Hillsborough agent of the Bank of Cape Fear
  • by March 22, 1906: The Morris telephone exchange opens in Hillsboro
  • February to May 1908: Thomas A. Corbin reopens the old Occoneechee Hotel as the Corbinton Inn
  • 1980s: The Parks-Richmond House opens as the Inn at Teardrops
  • 109 West King StreetHillsborough · 2 entries · 1894–2005
    • between 1894 and 1900: A one-story brick store, a drug store by 1900, is built at 109 West King Street
    • 2005: The storefront at 109 West King Street is restored and its pent roof removed

    See also Open Orange: 109 W. King St · On a map

  • 115 West King StreetHillsborough · 3 entries · 1931–2026
    • 1931: A second storefront is built beside the old general store at 115 West King Street
    • 1973: The Woods family takes over the King Street hardware store that becomes Dual Supply
    • August 24, 2026: Dual Supply puts up a going-out-of-business sign

    See also Open Orange: 115 W. King St · On a map

  • 118 West King StreetHillsborough · 4 entries · 1911–1957
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    • by 1911: Hillsborough's post office occupies a brick building at 118 West King Street
    • October 1951: Bill Chance opens the Hillsboro Lunch on West King Street
    • March 22, 1953: Fire damages the Hillsboro Lunch on West King Street
    • October 6, 1957: Bozo and Lillian Taylor open a second dining room at the Hillsboro Lunch

    See also Open Orange: 118 W. King St · On a map

• West Main StreetCarrboro · 2 entries · 1957–1971
  • by November 1957: Carrboro's old Methodist church on West Main Street is torn down
  • 1971: The survey records the businesses along West Main Street in Carrboro
  • 206 West Main StreetCarrboro · 3 entries · 1957–1992
    • November 8, 1957: La Pizza holds its grand opening on Carrboro's West Main Street
    • about 1977: Martini's, a Northern Italian restaurant, opens at 206 West Main Street in Carrboro
    • September 1992: Maggie's Muffins moves to West Main Street and becomes Maggie's Cafe and Espresso

    See also Open Orange: 206 W. Main St · On a map

  • 211 West Main StreetCarrboro · 2 entries · 1963
    • by January 31, 1963: The Chapel Hill Red Cross chapter buys an office building in Carrboro and renames itself
    • March 3, 1963: The Red Cross chapter opens its new headquarters on West Main Street in Carrboro
  • 301 West Main StreetCarrboro · 3 entries · 1921–1961
    • summer 1921: Carrboro's new school building goes up
    • September 14, 1959: The county school board sells the old Carrboro School to the Town of Carrboro
    • April 9, 1961: Carrboro shows off its new town hall in the old Carrboro School

    See also Open Orange: Carrboro Graded School · On a map

• West Rosemary StreetChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1952–2009
  • by December 1952: Stephen J. Edwards's Midway Barber Shop is open on West Rosemary Street
  • August 2009: The Greenbridge condominium towers topped out on West Rosemary Street
  • 101 West Rosemary StreetChapel Hill · 2 entries · 1928–1936

    Also printed as 101 West Rosemary Street (corner of Columbia Street)

    • August 21, 1928: The Southland Motor Company opens a Studebaker and Erskine agency on Rosemary Street
    • April 1936: Carolina Coach Company opens a new bus station at Rosemary and Columbia streets

    See also Open Orange: 101 W. Rosemary St · On a map

• West Tryon StreetHillsborough · 2 entries · 1908–1923
  • September 18, 1908: Maj. Daniel Heyward Hamilton, clerk of Orange Superior Court, dies
  • by February 1923: Hillsboro's first public schoolhouse is gone and its lot is set aside for an athletic field
• Whitfield RoadNew Hope Creek · 2 entries · 1879–1930
  • about 1879: John Joseph Whitfield builds a farmhouse on Whitfield Road
  • 1930s: An owner of Durham's Erwin Cotton Mill builds a log retreat above New Hope Creek