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Carrboro Lions Park

In Carrboro. 6 dated events, 1950–1963.

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  1. The Carrboro Lions Club finishes its $30,000 ball park The 45-member Carrboro Lions Club built a lighted ball park with a covered 740-seat grandstand on US 54 outside the town limits, doing much of the work themselves and paying for it with fence advertising, a loan and small bonds sold to members. League play began there the first week of May, and on June 21 about 1,500 people came through the rain to a civic barbecue held to help pay off the debt. People: Lloyd M. Senter The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 29, 1950, p. 6
  2. The Carrboro Lions Club pays off the debt on its ball park At its ladies' night banquet at Camp New Hope the club announced it had paid off the $12,500 debt on the Carrboro Lions Park, valued at about $35,000 and seating about 1,500, the community's only stadium outside the University and its only place for night games. The club bought the first land near the Carrboro school in 1947, graded it with a bank loan, and formally opened the lighted park in the summer of 1950. People: Lloyd M. Senter The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 16, 1954, p. 8
  3. The Carrboro Cubs stage a folk festival at the Lions park More than 400 people came to the festival, billed as the first in Carrboro, a talent contest that netted about $150 for the Carrboro Cubs semi-pro baseball team; featured performers George Pegram and George Hamilton, 'the collegiate hillbilly,' urged that it be held every year. Ed Norwood and his Chatham County Rhythm Rangers took first place and Frank Ward's Wildcats square dance team from White Cross second. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 28, 1956, p. 6
  4. The Carrboro Festival raises money for the Carrboro Cubs with banjo player George Pegram A night of music, dancing and other acts at the Carrboro Lions Park raised money for the Carrboro Cubs semi-pro baseball team, with Union Grove banjo player and folk singer George Pegram as guest star. Baton twirler Jean Neville won the talent contest and was crowned Miss Carrboro Cubs; Claudia Cannady had started the festival two years before. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 19, 1958, p. 6
  5. Carrboro Lions Club ends the Chapel Hill schools' use of Lions Park Saying the school system had not kept up the field or paid for its use, the Carrboro Lions Club cancelled its five-year-old $1-a-year lease of Lions Park for Chapel Hill school football and baseball. The school board accepted the cancellation but would not sign a new agreement costing about $1,200 a year for lack of money, so its teams faced playing every game away from home. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 8, 1962, p. 12
  6. Lincoln High's football team finishes its regular season unbeaten and unscored on The football team of Lincoln High School, the Black high school of the Chapel Hill system, won all nine regular-season games without giving up a point, and the Chapel Hill school board formally congratulated it. It was to meet Williamston in the regional playoff for the state title at Carrboro's Lions Park on November 9. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 7, 1963, p. 4

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Indexed works

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Surveys and maps of the area

Not about Carrboro Lions Park alone: the architectural surveys that cover its town or the county, and maps drawn while it stood. Several of the surveys can be read free online at NC Digital Collections.

Carrboro Map [1935]

1935

Hand-drawn map of Carrboro from about 1935, centered on Greensboro Avenue and Weaver Street and marking buildings, lots and the main roads.

Included because: A survey or map of the town or county where the site stands.

DigitalNC DPLA

Map of Chapel Hill-Carrboro, N.C.

Gove, John R. · 1958 · Chapel Hill-Carrboro Merchants Association

Robert J. Ayers drew this folding map of Chapel Hill and Carrboro using data gathered by John R. Gove; the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Merchants Association published it under a 1954 copyright. The 1958 printing shows the towns, the University, streets, creeks and country clubs. On the back is text for the Chapel Hill School Art Guild house tour of 30 October 1960, with eleven houses marked in red.

Included because: A survey or map of the town or county where the site stands.

UNC State Archives of NC

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    Where to look on the shelf

    These books don’t necessarily mention Carrboro Lions Park, but they cover where it stands, its kind of building and the land, family and burial records behind it, and they are where a search for a place like this usually goes next. All are at OCPL, most in the Wall Collection.

    Histories of the town and county

    • Rebecca Wall Collection · 975.656 OTTO Carrboro Otto, David · 2011

      Pictorial history of Carrboro in Arcadia's Images of America series by David A. Otto and Richard Ellington, published in 2011. Its 127 pages of photographs, maps, facsimiles and portraits cover the town's history, social life and African American community, with a bibliography and index.

    • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 975.656 OTTO Carrboro Otto, David · 2015

      Second Images of America volume on Carrboro by David A. Otto and Richard Ellington (Arcadia, 2015). Chapters follow the town from mill village to growing urban center, then turn to its merchants, the arts, festivals, changing demographics and changing architecture, in 95 illustrated pages.

    • Foundational · 975.656 RYAN Orange County Trio: Hillsborough, Chapel Hill, and Carrboro, North Carolina, Histories and Tour Guides Ryan, Elizabeth Shreve · 2004

      Elizabeth Shreve Ryan's combined histories and tour guides for Hillsborough, Chapel Hill and Carrboro, the three towns of Orange County, with the University of North Carolina treated alongside Chapel Hill. Each town gets a narrative history and a tour of its streets and buildings. Published by Chapel Hill Press in 2004, 369 pages with illustrations and maps.

    Buildings and surveys

    • Foundational · NC 720.975 BIS A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Piedmont North Carolina Bishir, Catherine W. · 2003

      Catherine W. Bishir and Michael T. Southern's field guide to the historic buildings of the North Carolina Piedmont, arranged county by county from Wake and Franklin in the east to Mecklenburg and Gaston in the west. The Orange County section takes in Hillsborough, Chapel Hill and Carrboro along with the rural county, with entries on individual buildings and maps for finding them. Published 2003, 596 pages with illustrations and maps.

    • Start here · NC 720.975 BRO Carrboro, N.C: An Architectural & Historical Inventory Brown, Claudia Roberts · 1983

      Architectural and historical inventory of Carrboro by Claudia Roberts Brown, published in 1983 by the Carrboro Appearance Commission and the town. The 48-page survey, with illustrations and maps, documents the town's historic buildings and their conservation.

    Research sources

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