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In the chronology
- James Freeland opens the Fairview Bowling Alley in Hillsborough James Freeland opened the Fairview Bowling Alley in a building he put up himself, casting the cinder blocks and laying the concrete floor. It opened with three duckpin alleys and room for a tenpin lane.
- James Freeland opens a barbecue pit behind his Fairview Bowling Alley James Freeland opened a barbecue pit behind the Fairview Bowling Alley and began serving barbecue every day. As with the alley, he built most of it himself.
- Bowling alley owner James Freeland knocks out a Black man who asked to bowl Lorenzo Thompson, a Black man, came into the Fairview Bowling Alley late at night, said he had bowled up north and would not leave when told he could not bowl. Owner James Freeland knocked him unconscious and dragged him outside, and Thompson needed stitches.
Research sources
Read contemporary evidence 3
Newspapers, photographs, and records of the time
- DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, April 5, 1945, p. 1 cited by an event here
- DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, April 5, 1945, p. 5 cited by an event here
- DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, October 26, 1944, p. 5 cited by an event here
Ask locally 4
Local organizations that preserve the story and can help you go further
- 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
- Local History Help Hours and request form The library’s Local History Liaison helps in person most Mondays, 12 to 3, at the Main Library, or by the online request form
- Alliance for Historic Hillsborough Hillsborough sites, tours, and interpretation
- Orange County Historical Museum Orange County history, objects, and interpretation
Additional research sources
Other sources to search and local organizations that can help.
- Background context: Churton Street: mapping the businesses of Hillsborough churtonstreet.org Who traded where along the main street, from 1754 to the present
- Search beyond the index: NC LIVE: prepared search for Fairview Bowling Alley NC LIVE Articles, e-books and newspapers across the state’s shared databases, already scoped to this site’s names and the county; sign in through your North Carolina library to read
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