Community centers and organizations
The Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Saving and Making History is a Chapel Hill organization that grew from a 2007 Northside oral history partnership between St. Joseph CME Church and UNC professor Della Pollock. Named for church historian Marian Cheek Jackson, it opened at the church in 2009 and has worked with Northside and Rogers Road residents on planning.
Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors. Site locations from the N.C. State Historic Preservation Office survey, Open Orange, Orange County GIS, OpenStreetMap and a few other published sources named on each site’s page; town and community pins show approximate locations.
People named in events about this site, ordered by number of mentions. Each example links to an entry with a source citation.
Books, articles, records, and images about Marian Cheek Jackson Center. Each has been reviewed for relevance; materials held at OCPL appear first.
Announcement issued in Chapel Hill in 2009 for the Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Saving and Making History, a community history organization in the town's Northside neighborhood.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
A 2015 library science master's paper on how the Marian Cheek Jackson Center, St. Joseph's C.M.E. Church and UNC's Southern Oral History Program gathered oral histories of the Northside and Pine Knolls neighborhoods into a community archive.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
A brochure and pamphlets from the Marian Cheek Jackson Center, the Northside neighborhood center in Chapel Hill, gathered in box 12 of the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Vertical File Collection. Undated.
Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.
A folded walking tour map of Northside, the historically African American neighborhood near downtown Chapel Hill, produced by Alexander Stephens for the Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Saving and Making History in 2021. One illustrated sheet, 43 by 28 centimeters, folded to pocket size. The walk introduces the neighborhood through its residents' own histories of home.
Included because: Published by or for this institution.
A 2016 picture book by Ms. Murray's first grade class at Northside Elementary School in Chapel Hill. The story draws on civil rights and Clementine Self, through work with the Jackson Center Oral History Trust.
Included because: Published by or for this institution.
A 2016 picture book by Ms. McGruder's first grade class at Northside Elementary School in Chapel Hill. The story concerns Bynum Weaver, a store and generosity, and is associated with the Jackson Center Oral History Trust.
Included because: Published by or for this institution.
A 2016 picture book by Ms. Miller's first grade class at Northside Elementary School in Chapel Hill. This fictional school story centers on Janie Alston and is associated with the Jackson Center Oral History Trust.
Included because: Published by or for this institution.
Community paper for the Northside neighborhoods of Chapel Hill, issued by the Jackson Center and described beneath its title as a print link for the neighborhoods of Northside. Volumes with color illustrations at 36 centimeters.
Included because: Published by or for this institution.
Not about Marian Cheek Jackson Center 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.
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.
Included because: A survey or map of the town or county where the site stands.
M. Ruth Little's 2004 architectural history of Chapel Hill and the university campus from 1795 to 1975, written for the Preservation Society of Chapel Hill. A 99-page survey with a bibliography.
Included because: A survey or map of the town or county where the site stands.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
M. B. Gatza's final report of the 1992 Chapel Hill historic sites survey for the town Planning Department, with contributions by Beverly C. Kawalec and Catherine Bishir. It covers historic buildings and districts in Chapel Hill in 80 pages.
Included because: A survey or map of the town or county where the site stands.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Kelly A. Lally's October 1992 final report on the architectural survey of Chapel Hill township, including Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Besides the report and a bibliography, most of its 56 pages form an annotated index of the historic buildings surveyed.
Included because: A survey or map of the town or county where the site stands.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
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These books don’t necessarily mention Marian Cheek Jackson Center, 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.
Steven Stolpen's pictorial history of Chapel Hill, one of the Donning Company's photographic town histories, published in Norfolk, Virginia in 1978. Photographs and portraits carry the story of the town and the university, including references to Thomas Wolfe's years as a student at Carolina. 156 pages with illustrations.
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.
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.
A pocket-sized guide to the historic buildings and landmarks of Chapel Hill, prepared by the Chapel Hill Historical Society and printed by Creative Printers in 1973. Forty pages with illustrations and maps, 14 by 22 cm. Topics include architecture, historic buildings and historic districts in Chapel Hill, and the guide is useful for a walking tour of the older parts of town.
Deed transcripts for the town lots of Chapel Hill and adjoining land from 1790 to the 1930s, compiled by Stewart E. Dunaway. Each transcript keeps only the working facts: grantor and grantee, price, acreage and the metes and bounds of the parcel. Self-published in 2014 as Issue 1G, 702 pages with maps and facsimiles.
Sources cited in this site’s history, National Register documents, and places to get research help. Research guide: Investigate a school or community institution.
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