Blackwood

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1. early 1900s Blackwood Station grows into a small railroad settlement In the early twentieth century a cluster formed where Mount Sinai Road meets NC 86, with a store, a building remembered as store and post office, and two bungalows. The Blackwoods are said to have kept a post office and store on their farm nearby once the railroad arrived. Also mentions: Mount Sinai RoadSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Kelly Lally and Ruth Little, Chapel Hill Township Survey Final Report (1992), p. 54
2. about 1905 Sam Nunn and neighbors raise the last recorded log house in the township About 1905 Sam Nunn built a two-story log house for his family with help from Monroe Partin, Green Johnson and one more neighbor. His daughter Annabel Lloyd remembered the four builders, one at each corner, and the survey found no later log dwelling. Also named: Sam Nunn, Laura Nunn, Monroe Partin, Green JohnsonSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Kelly Lally and Ruth Little, Chapel Hill Township Survey Final Report (1992), p. 10
3. about 1910 The Blackwood family builds a grist mill on Millhouse Road Around 1910 the Blackwoods built a small frame grist mill on a stone basement near Eubanks. It was made into a house in the 1950s.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Kelly Lally and Ruth Little, Chapel Hill Township Survey Final Report (1992), p. 40
4. late September to mid-October 1932 State highway crews improve the road from Chapel Hill to Orange church and Blackwood station Over two or three weeks, state highway forces working convicts from the camp near Hillsboro widened the right of way, smoothed the bed and mixed sand into the clay, cleaned the ditches and put in culverts on the road north from Chapel Hill past Orange church to Blackwood station. Farmers north of the village had found the road impassable after heavy rains.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 14, 1932, p. 1
5. September 24, 1935 Women of New Hope and Blackwood Station organize a home demonstration club Women of the New Hope and Blackwood Station communities met at the home of Mrs. Henry Tapp on September 24, 1935, to organize a home demonstration club under the new county agent, Grace Holcombe, and elected Mrs. John Powell president. First called the University Station club, it voted that November to take the name Blackwood-New Hope Club as a better fit for its members. The Weekly called it the first club organized in the county, and the club's 1951 history, written by reporter Elizabeth Kirkland, made the same claim and counted sixteen charter members; a 1953 club history in the News of Orange County gave the year as 1938. Also named: Mrs. Henry Tapp, Mrs. John Powell, Janie Blackwood, Elizabeth Kirkland, Grace Holcombe · Also mentions: News of Orange County, University StationSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 3, 1951, p. 8 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 7, 1953, p. 3; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 27, 1935, p. 6; Chapel Hill Weekly, October 4, 1935, p. 3; Chapel Hill Weekly, November 15, 1935, p. 1
6. July 22, 1969 County planning board recommends rezoning the Blackwood Station tract for Fiber Industries The Orange County Planning Board unanimously recommended rezoning the 450-acre Blackwood Station tract from residential to industrial for a $100 million Fiber Industries plant promising 1,500 jobs. Board member Mark Burnham pressed for stricter performance standards, and commissioners Carl Smith, Ira Ward and Harvey Bennett had backed the Chamber of Commerce's pro-Fiber campaign. People: Ira Ward, Carl Smith (Chapel Hill businessman and county commissioner), Harvey Bennett Also named: Mark BurnhamSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, July 24, 1969, p. 1
7. August 4, 1969 Fiber Industries withdraws its New Hope Creek rezoning request; commissioners chairman Carl Smith blames opponents The county commissioners learned two hours before their Monday meeting that Fiber Industries had withdrawn its request to rezone 450 acres near New Hope Creek for a plant, after opposition from UNC, Duke and Mayor Howard Lee. At a public hearing in Hillsborough that day, county commissioners chairman Carl Smith blamed 'unintelligent intellectuals' and a town political 'machine', and said Lee, the town's Black mayor, was not serving Black residents by opposing the plant. People: Carl Smith (Chapel Hill businessman and county commissioner), Howard N. LeeSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel: Fiber Industries withdraws request, August 7, 1969, p. 1