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In the chronology
- Bill Chance opens the Hillsboro Lunch on West King Street Bill Chance opened the Hillsboro Lunch, a sandwich bar and short-order eatery next to Wynne's Beauty Salon, serving Cotton Nichols' barbecue, Brunswick stew and milkshakes from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. Margaret Riley, formerly of the Hickory House, ran the service.
- Fire damages the Hillsboro Lunch on West King Street A Sunday night fire, blamed on spontaneous combustion, broke a front plate glass window and damaged the partition between the kitchen and the lunch room. Owner Bill Chance said he was fully insured and would reopen once repairs were made.
- Bozo and Lillian Taylor open a second dining room at the Hillsboro Lunch R. T. (Bozo) Taylor Jr. and Lillian Taylor, then running the Hillsboro Lunch, opened a newly renovated dining room next to their old quarters, giving them two dining rooms for daily meals and catering. The Hillsboro Merchants Association soon began holding its luncheon meetings there.
Research sources
Read contemporary evidence 3
Newspapers, photographs, and records of the time
- DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, March 26, 1953, p. 5 cited by an event here
- DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, October 18, 1951, p. 4 cited by an event here
- DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, October 3, 1957, p. 1 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 Hillsboro Lunch 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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