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January 8, 1924 Ground is broken for a new Hill Bakery building in Chapel Hill Ground was broken on Tuesday, January 8, 1924, for a new Hill Bakery building, 25 by 80 feet, next to the O'Kelly Pressing Club, with Mr. Thompson as contractor, the News reported. The News (Chapel Hill), January 10, 1924, p. 5
December 1, 1925 W. B. Neal sells the Hill Bakery to Charles B. Guthrie and W. V. Stuart W. B. Neal sold the Hill Bakery to his two assistants of more than four years, Charles B. Guthrie and W. V. Stuart, who kept it at the old stand with the same staff. Neal left Chapel Hill to go into real estate at Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He came back to Chapel Hill to stay in January 1927 and by April had resumed the management of the Hill Bakery, with Stuart as his chief assistant. The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 11, 1925, p. 4 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, January 14, 1927, p. 4
by July 9, 1943 The Hill Bakery stops selling at its shop to bake for the military units Mrs. W. B. Neal's Hill Bakery, in business since 1922, gave up selling at the shop for the duration because bread for the Navy Pre-Flight School, the Army Pre-Meteorology Unit and the Navy V-12 unit took all its capacity. Its bread and rolls stayed on sale in Chapel Hill and Carrboro groceries; it had already dropped pastries and cakes in October. The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 9, 1943, p. 1
May 1945 Robert A. Reinhardt takes over the Hill Bakery from Mrs. W. B. Neal Robert A. Reinhardt, a baker of twenty years from Waynesboro, Virginia, came to Chapel Hill in mid-May 1945 to run the Hill Bakery on Franklin Street, which he had bought from Mrs. W. B. Neal; she had run it since her husband William Brumfield Neal died in 1935. Bryant's Franklin Street survey spells the name Rhinehart and places the sale in 1943. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 24, 1945, p. 1 · Also: Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan
1954 Robert Rhinehart sells the Hill Bakery to Thell Jernigan, who renames it Thell's Bakery Rhinehart, who had bought the East Franklin bakery in 1943 from Mrs. William Brumfield Neal, sold it to Jernigan, and the new owner put his own name on it. Thell's Bakery stayed in business into the mid-1980s. Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 303

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Indexed works

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Surveys and maps of the area

Not about Hill Bakery 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.

The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, North Carolina: 1795-1975

Little-Stokes, Margaret Ruth · 2006

Margaret Ruth Little-Stokes's survey of Chapel Hill's town and campus buildings from 1795 to 1975, published by the Preservation Society of Chapel Hill in 2006. Chapters run from the first campus buildings through David Swain's romantic campus to midcentury modernism, followed by area surveys of the campus, east and west Chapel Hill, downtown, Northside and the suburbs.