Carr

In the chronology

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1. about 1850 The Taylor log house is built near Carr A single-pen log house divided into two unequal rooms on the hall-parlor plan, a layout also common in frame houses of the period.Search the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 25
2. early 1900s The Carr Store is built on NC 49 A store is built at Carr on NC 49 early in the twentieth century; it was later enlarged and altered. Carr Store Road takes its name from the crossroads.NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 117
3. 1908 The county board builds the first room of Carr School for $300 Carr School in northwest Orange County, a gable-roofed weatherboarded schoolhouse, went up in 1908 with one room costing $300. The nomination names it among the few surviving frame schools the county built for Black children; it stands long vacant.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Ridge Road School, National Register nomination (OR1104), p. 21
4. 1913 Carr Methodist Church is organized Carr Methodist Church was organized in 1913 and built a church in 1915.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 299
5. 1915 Carr Methodist Church builds its Gothic Revival frame church Two years after organizing, the Carr Methodist congregation builds a modest frame church with Gothic Revival touches on NC 49 at Carr.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: Historic Resources of Orange County, National Register multiple property documentation form (1993), p. 107
6. August 12, 1918 The Orange County Red Cross grants a branch to Carr precinct At its August 12, 1918 meeting the chapter granted Carr precinct's petition to become a branch, its fourth after Cedar Grove, New Hope and Oaks. The same meeting heard headquarters' advice to stop giving comfort kits to men leaving for camp.Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 40
7. 1920 Carr School gets its second classroom The county board added a second room to Carr School in northwest Orange County, making it a two-room school twelve years after the first room was built.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Ridge Road School, National Register nomination (OR1104), p. 21
8. first Sunday in May 1948 Mount Adar holds its first service in a new auditorium Plans to remodel, begun in October 1941, stalled when the builders in the area went to work at Camp Butner, and the program revived in 1946. During construction Mount Adar met for about eight months in Carr Methodist Church on alternate Sundays, then opened its new auditorium with two Sunday school rooms in May 1948.Search the index · Blanche Sharpe Rogers and Tennala Abner Gross, Mount Adar Baptist Church, 1889-1989 (1989), scan p. 7
9. June 1950 Principal E. M. Stanfield reports on the one-room school for Black children at Cedar Grove In her report for 1949-50, E. M. Stanfield told the state she was the only teacher for 36 pupils in seven grades in a single room with no library, gymnasium, fire protection or indoor toilet. The two-room Carr School nearby, under principal Anne May Morrow, had 73 pupils and lacked a drinking fountain and state health approval.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 16
10. March 1952 The county board sells off its remaining small schoolhouses In March 1952 the board sold the last small school buildings, among them the Fairfield school for Black children, Sartin, Poplar Grove, Morris Grove and Hickory Grove, for prices from $300 to $2,010. Around the same time Carr School went to Jim Wade for $800.Search the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 82
11. August 1959 Orange County builds its third ABC store near the Alamance line at Carr The county ABC board put up a concrete-block liquor store on Mutt Byrd's land about 200 yards from the Alamance County line on the Roxboro-Burlington highway, with opening expected in mid-September. By early 1960 nearly all of its sales went to Alamance County customers.Search the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, August 13, 1959, p. 1