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- The Carrboro Lions Club breaks ground for a Boy Scout hut beside its ball park Members of the Carrboro Lions Club broke ground for a 24-by-36-foot concrete block Scout hut beside the Carrboro baseball park, to be the meeting place of the recently reorganized Troop 45, which the Lions sponsor. The plans called for an assembly room, fireplace, closets and toilets, with the Lions themselves putting on the roof and finishing the woodwork; the troop had been meeting in local churches. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 28, 1955, p. 6
- Carrboro Lions Club opens its new Boy Scout hut The Carrboro Lions Club finished a 20 by 50 foot masonry block Scout hut beside its baseball park, built for about $3,800 with much donated labor and material, and set its dedication and turnover to Troop 45 for the evening of April 26. The club planned to make the land between the park and the school into a community park. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 26, 1956, p. 1
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- The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 26, 1956, p. 1cited by an event here
- The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 28, 1955, p. 6cited by an event here
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- Chapel Hill Historical Society Photographs, maps and papers on Chapel Hill and Carrboro, with a research links page
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- Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
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