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Orange County Training School / Lincoln High School

Orange County Training School, Chapel Hill's school for Black students, opened in October 1917 on the former Hackney campus on Merritt Mill Road and in 1924 moved to a Rosenwald-aided brick building in Northside. Renamed Lincoln High School in 1949, it moved to a new Merritt Mill Road building in 1951 and closed as a high school in 1966.

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Indexed works

Books, articles, records, and images about Orange County Training School / Lincoln High School. Each has been reviewed for relevance; materials held at OCPL appear first.

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Oral history interview with Burnis Hackney, February 5, 2001: interview K-0547, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Hackney, Burnis · 2006 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Burnis Hackney entered Chapel Hill High School, newly integrated, in 1966, one of the first Black students there after Lincoln High School closed. In this Southern Oral History Program interview, recorded February 5, 2001, by Bob Gilgor, Hackney weighs his conviction that integration was right against what was lost when Lincoln's traditions were set aside, and how the merger played out for students. About an hour and a half. Published online in 2006 by the UNC-Chapel Hill Library in Documenting the American South.

Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.

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Oral history interview with Fred Battle, January 3, 2001: interview K-0525, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Battle, Fred · 2006 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Fred Battle grew up in Chapel Hill under segregation and describes that world in a Southern Oral History Program interview recorded January 3, 2001, by Bob Gilgor. He portrays the Black community of his youth as centered on the church and on Lincoln High School, recalls his schooling there, and tells of his college years in Greensboro and the civil rights demonstrations he joined there. Published online in 2006 by the UNC-Chapel Hill Library in Documenting the American South.

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Oral history interview with Gloria Register Jeter, December 23, 2000: interview K-0549, Southern Oral History Program (#4007)

Jeter, Gloria Register · 2006 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Gloria Register Jeter (born 1952) attended both segregated and integrated public schools of Chapel Hill and offers a critical view of how desegregation was carried out, in a Southern Oral History Program interview recorded December 23, 2000, by Bob Gilgor. Jeter argues that the merger of Lincoln High School into Chapel Hill High School cost the Black community its school traditions and institutions, and describes the student protests that followed. Published online in 2006 by the UNC-Chapel Hill Library in Documenting the American South.

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Oral history interview with James Atwater, February 28, 2001: interview K-0201, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Atwater, James · 2006 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

James Atwater, born in 1932 into a family that had lived in Chapel Hill for generations, talked with Jennifer Nardone in February 2001. He describes the town's Black community between the 1930s and the 1950s: how neighbors dealt with one another in church, at school and in social life, and what schooling under segregation meant at Orange County Training School and Lincoln High School. About an hour and eighteen minutes; electronic edition from the UNC library, 2006, through Documenting the American South.

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Oral history interview with Joanne Peerman, February 24, 2001: interview K-0557, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Peerman, Joanne · 2006 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Joanne Peerman, a Chapel Hill native and the daughter of a well-known coach, was in one of the first classes to integrate Chapel Hill High School. In this Southern Oral History Program interview, recorded by Bob Gilgor in February 2001, she describes her schooling under segregation and after it, the last years of Lincoln High School, and the civil rights demonstrations that accompanied school integration. About an hour and a half; electronic edition from the UNC library, 2006, through Documenting the American South.

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Oral history interview with Raney Norwood, January 9, 2001: interview K-0556, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Norwood, Raney · 2006 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Raney Norwood was among the African American students who moved from Lincoln High School to the newly desegregated Chapel Hill High School. Interviewed by Bob Gilgor in January 2001, he recalls the traditions left behind at Lincoln, a hard first year at the new school, and the nonviolent protests students mounted to carry those traditions over. An Upward Bound math-science program also comes up. Runs about an hour and three quarters; electronic edition issued by the UNC library in 2006 through Documenting the American South.

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Oral history interview with Rebecca Clark, June 21, 2000: interview K-0536, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Clark, Rebecca · 2006 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Interview recorded June 21, 2000 with Rebecca Clark (1915-2009), a Black Chapel Hill resident, for the Southern Oral History Program at UNC. Clark, educated in Chapel Hill's segregated schools, describes working life under segregation and the economic discrimination she met in it. Topics also include Lincoln High School, school integration, and Howard Lee, elected mayor of Chapel Hill in 1969. Interview K-0536 in collection #4007.

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Oral history interview with Sheila Florence, January 20, 2001: interview K-0544, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Florence, Sheila · 2006 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Sheila Florence (born 1947) was one of the first African American students to enter Chapel Hill High School when it desegregated. In this January 2001 interview with Bob Gilgor she describes growing up in segregated Chapel Hill, the poor state of the town's Black schools, including Lincoln High School, the harassment she faced at the formerly white school, and the civil rights demonstrations of the era. About an hour and forty minutes; electronic edition from the UNC library, 2006, through Documenting the American South.

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Oral history interview with Stella Nickerson, January 20, 2001: interview K-0554, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Nickerson, Stella · 2006 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Stella Nickerson describes her girlhood in Chapel Hill's Black community during the years of school integration. Interviewed by Bob Gilgor in January 2001, she remembers a close neighborhood in which work, school and church were bound together, the disciplined atmosphere of the all-Black schools, and the changes integration brought as students moved from Lincoln High School to Chapel Hill High School. Runs about seventy-two minutes; electronic edition from the UNC library, 2006, through Documenting the American South.

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Oral history interview with Thurman Couch, February 12, 2001: interview K-0537, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Couch, Thurman · 2006 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Thurman Couch went from Lincoln High School into the first group of African American students at Chapel Hill High School. Interviewed by Bob Gilgor in February 2001, he compares the two schools, speaks as a former athlete about sports before and after desegregation, and argues that integration cost the Black community its school traditions and weakened the bond between school and neighborhood. The town's civil rights demonstrations also come up. About an hour; electronic edition from the UNC library, 2006, through Documenting the American South.

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Oral history interview with Walter Durham, January 19 and 26, 2001: interview K-0540, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Durham, Walter · 2006 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Walter Durham, born about 1948 into a landowning Black family, grew up between Carrboro and Chapel Hill and attended Carrboro's all-Black schools until Lincoln High School merged into Chapel Hill High School in 1966. Over two sessions with Bob Gilgor in January 2001 he describes neighborhood life, church and school, what students lost and gained in the merger, and the civil rights demonstrations of the 1960s. About two hours and ten minutes; electronic edition from the UNC library, 2006, through Documenting the American South.

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Race, memory and the desegregation of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, public schools, 1954-1969

Nardone, Jennifer · 2002

Jennifer Nardone's 2002 study of how Chapel Hill desegregated its public schools between 1954 and 1969, with Lincoln High School and Chapel Hill High School both included. Fifty-three illustrated leaves with a closing bibliography. School integration and discrimination in education are the subject terms, and the pairing of the two schools reflects the town's move to a single high school.

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Chapel Hill/Carrboro City Schools alumni directory 1996.

1996 · Chapel Hill/Carrboro City Schools

Graduates of Chapel Hill High School and of Lincoln High School are listed together in this alumni directory for the Chapel Hill and Carrboro City Schools, published in 1996 for the system's golden anniversary. 228 pages with illustrations and portraits.

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A report to the citizens of Chapel Hill : about ten weeks ago Lincoln High School students began an effort to get equal service at lunch counters nearest our homes : we want to make a report to you on our activities and some of the results.

1960 · Chapel Hill Council on Racial Equality

In 1960 students from Lincoln High School spent about ten weeks pressing for equal service at the lunch counters nearest their homes, and the Chapel Hill Council on Racial Equality printed this single sheet report to the town on what they had done and what had come of it. Topics include civil rights demonstrations and segregation in Chapel Hill.

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Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools: Orange County Training School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

North Carolina. Department of Public Instruction · 1941

Accreditation reports of 1941 and 1942 on the Orange County Training School in Chapel Hill, the town's school for Black students and later Lincoln High School, prepared as it sought Southern Association approval with help from the ACSSN. From the Department of Public Instruction's files on Negro education, in 191 images.

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Alumni Monument Installation (DVD, Chapel Hill Historical Society)

2017

Video of the 2017 installation of the Lincoln High School alumni monument in Chapel Hill, shot by freelance videographer Clayton Weaver, who gave the DVD to the Chapel Hill Historical Society. Lincoln was the town's Black high school until it closed in 1966 with desegregation. Audiovisual Materials Collection, CHHS.012.

Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.

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Lincoln High School, Marching Band Alumni: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)

2017

Alumni of the Lincoln High School marching band gathered in 2017, decades after the Chapel Hill school closed. One photograph from the schools series of the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection (CHHS.002).

Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.

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LHS Class of 1966 50th Reunion Slide Show (DVD, Chapel Hill Historical Society)

2016

Clayton Weaver compiled this 2016 slide show to welcome the Lincoln High School Class of 1966 to its fiftieth reunion. Lincoln, Chapel Hill's Black high school, closed that same year after desegregation. DVD, Chapel Hill Historical Society Audiovisual Materials Collection, CHHS.012.

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LHS Tiger Memories (DVD, Chapel Hill Historical Society)

2016

Interviews and images honoring Clayton Weaver's classmates at Lincoln High School, Chapel Hill's Black high school, which closed in 1966 following desegregation. Weaver shot and assembled the DVD in 2016. Chapel Hill Historical Society Audiovisual Materials Collection, CHHS.012.

Included because: The site is named in the title, catalog subjects, or description.

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Lincoln High School, students of: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)

1957

Class picture of Lincoln High School students in Chapel Hill, taken in 1957. One photograph from the schools series of the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection (CHHS.002).

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Lincoln High School: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)

1950

Lincoln High School, Chapel Hill's high school for Black students before integration, under construction in 1950. One photograph from the schools series of the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection (CHHS.002).

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Orange County Training School, 1917-11

Davis, Jackson, 1882-1947 [photographer] · 1917

General view of the Orange County Training School, a vocational school for Black students, photographed by Jackson Davis in November 1917.

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Orange County Training School, 1917-11

Davis, Jackson, 1882-1947 [photographer] · 1917

Men gathered outside a building at the Orange County Training School in November 1917, photographed by Jackson Davis, the educator who documented Black schools across the South.

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Orange County Training School, 1917-11

Davis, Jackson, 1882-1947 [photographer] · 1917

November 1917 view by Jackson Davis of men in the yard among the buildings of the Orange County Training School, a school for African American students.

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Orange County Training School, 1917-11

Davis, Jackson, 1882-1947 [photographer] · 1917

A man and three women at the Orange County Training School, photographed by Jackson Davis in November 1917, one of his many pictures of schools for Black students in the South.

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Orange County Training School, 1917-11

Davis, Jackson, 1882-1947 [photographer] · 1917

Horse, wagon and outbuildings at the Orange County Training School, a vocational school for Black students, in a November 1917 photograph by Jackson Davis.

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Orange County Training School, 1917-11

Davis, Jackson, 1882-1947 [photographer] · 1917

Children on the porch and in the yard of the Orange County Training School, photographed in November 1917 by Jackson Davis, who documented schools for African Americans across the South.

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Orange County Training School (Dormitory)

Davis, Jackson, 1882-1947 [photographer] · 1916

Dormitory of the Orange County Training School in Chapel Hill, a clapboard building with a pile of rubble in the foreground. Photograph by Jackson Davis, 1916.

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Orange County Training School, 1916

Davis, Jackson, 1882-1947 [photographer] · 1916

Clapboard school building with a bell tower at the Orange County Training School in Chapel Hill, photographed by Jackson Davis in 1916. Davis, an educator with the General Education Board, documented schools for Black students across the South.

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Orange County Training School, 1916

Davis, Jackson, 1882-1947 [photographer] · 1916

Jackson Davis photographed the Orange County Training School, a school for Black students, in 1916: a group of clapboard buildings, with people posed on the balcony of the building in front.

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Orange County Training School, 1916

Davis, Jackson, 1882-1947 [photographer] · 1916

Men stand in front of a clapboard building raised on stone piers at the Orange County Training School, a school for African American students, in a 1916 photograph by Jackson Davis.

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Orange County Training School, 1916

Davis, Jackson, 1882-1947 [photographer] · 1916

Two men in front of a clapboard building at the Orange County Training School, 1916, photographed by Jackson Davis. The image is blurred.

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End view of main building.Lines broken by shrubs. Orange County Training School

Davis, Jackson, 1882-1947 [photographer] · 1915

End view of the main building at the Orange County Training School, a school for African American students, its lines softened by shrubs. Photograph by Jackson Davis, dated sometime between 1915 and 1947.

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General view of grounds, shop lower left. Orange County Training School

Davis, Jackson, 1882-1947 [photographer] · 1915

General view of the grounds of the Orange County Training School, with the shop building at lower left. Jackson Davis took the photograph at some point between 1915 and 1947; the school served African American students.

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Landscaping done by patrons and students. Painting of all building done by agricultural students as farm shop work. Orange County Training School

Davis, Jackson, 1882-1947 [photographer] · 1915

Grounds of the Orange County Training School, landscaped by patrons and students, with every building painted by agricultural students as part of their farm shop work. Jackson Davis photograph, dated 1915 to 1947.

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Orange County Training School. Outhouses screened by students. Honeysuckle used as screens

Davis, Jackson, 1882-1947 [photographer] · 1915

Outhouses at the Orange County Training School, screened from view by students with honeysuckle. One of Jackson Davis's photographs of the school, dated 1915 to 1947.

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Primary buildings. Orange County Training School. Seat built by farm shop students holds or seats (30) children

Davis, Jackson, 1882-1947 [photographer] · 1915

Primary buildings at the Orange County Training School, with a bench made by farm shop students that seats thirty children. Jackson Davis photograph, dated 1915 to 1947.

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Adeline Denham McCall photographic collection, 1908-1950s (bulk 1940s-1950s).

McCall, Adeline, 1900-1989 · 1908

Fifty one photographs gathered by the music teacher Adeline McCall (1900-1989), spanning 1908 through the 1950s with most images from the 1940s and 1950s, in the North Carolina Collection at UNC. Subjects include the Orange County Training School and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, school music instruction, African American children, the North Carolina Symphony, and portraits of Leonard Bernstein and A. C. Howell.

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LHS BAND (DVD, Chapel Hill Historical Society)

DVD of 223 photographs from a reunion of the Lincoln High School band. Lincoln was Chapel Hill's Black high school until 1966. Undated. Chapel Hill Historical Society Audiovisual Materials Collection, CHHS.012.

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Lincoln High School (Chapel Hill Historical Society vertical file)

Lincoln High School, Chapel Hill's high school for Black students before desegregation, in newspaper clippings, photocopied articles, published material, promotional pieces and notes. Undated folder in the Schools series of the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Vertical File Collection (CHHS.001).

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Lincoln High School, Marching Band: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)

Baton twirlers marching with the Lincoln High School band in Chapel Hill, in an undated candid photograph from the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection (CHHS.002).

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Orange County Training School & Northside (Chapel Hill Historical Society vertical file)

Orange County Training School, the Chapel Hill school for Black students that preceded Lincoln High School, and the Northside neighborhood, in copies of published material with reports and notes. Undated folder, Schools series, Chapel Hill Historical Society Vertical File Collection (CHHS.001).

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Published by or for this institution

The Lincoln echo.

1964

The Lincoln echo was the periodical of Lincoln High School in Chapel Hill, the town's school for African American students, published in volumes with illustrations and recorded here from 1964. Topics include African American high school students and African American schools in Chapel Hill. Issue sizes range from twenty-eight to forty-four centimeters.

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The Orange jewel.

1962 · Orange County Training School

The student publication of Orange County Training School in Chapel Hill, an African American school, with issues from 1962. Published by the school in large format volumes with illustrations, 49 cm.

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The Orange echo.

1949

School paper of the Orange County Training School in Chapel Hill, the high school for African American students. Issues from 1949 onward, in volumes with illustrations ranging from 28 to 44 centimeters, the publication issued under the school's own name.

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[Miscellaneous announcements, programs, bulletins, etc.]

Lincoln High School (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · 1944

Four pieces of printed matter from Lincoln High School in Chapel Hill, announcements, programs and bulletins gathered together and dated 1944, each measuring twenty-eight centimeters.

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Closing exercises of the Orange County Training School beginning Friday, May 15, 1925

1925 · Orange County Training School

A single printed sheet announcing the closing exercises of the Orange County Training School, the African American school in Chapel Hill, beginning Friday, May 15, 1925, and signed by B. L. Bozeman and the faculty. One sheet, 31 by 23 centimeters, issued by the school.

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Orange County commencement will be held at the Orange County Training School, Chapel Hill, N.C., April 9, 1925

1925

Program announcing the Orange County commencement set for the Orange County Training School in Chapel Hill on April 9, 1925, with B. L. Bozeman named as president and L. W. Latta as secretary. A single sheet. It documents a graduation in the county's schools for Black students.

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Commencement day, May 16, 1922, of Orange County Training School

1922 · Orange County Training School

A printed program sheet for commencement day at the Orange County Training School in Chapel Hill, May 16, 1922. The school served the town's African American students. A single sheet, 22 by 12 centimeters, issued by the school; an early document of Black education in Chapel Hill.

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Orange County Training School commencement

1922 · Orange County Training School

Single-sheet announcement of the 1922 commencement exercises of the Orange County Training School, the African American public school in Chapel Hill, with exercises beginning May 10, 1922. Topics include African American schools and commencement ceremonies in Chapel Hill. 28 by 22 cm. One page of print, but a dated trace of the school that later became Lincoln High School.

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[Miscellaneous announcements, programs, bulletins, etc.]

Orange County Training School (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · 1900

Gathered announcements, programs and bulletins from the Orange County Training School in Chapel Hill, the school that served African American students in the town. The pieces are loose items of varying size rather than a bound volume, the earliest dated around 1900.

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Lincoln High School Student Newspaper (Chapel Hill, N.C.)

1944

Student newspaper of Lincoln High School, Chapel Hill's high school for Black students under segregation, published as The Lincoln Echo and later The Orange Echo. A run of 36 issues dating from 1944.

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Surveys and maps of the area

Not about Orange County Training School / Lincoln High School 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.

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

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The town and gown architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975

Little, M. Ruth · 2004 · Preservation Society of Chapel Hill

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.

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Chapel Hill historic sites survey : final report.

Gatza, M. B. · 1992 · Chapel Hill Planning Department

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.

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Chapel Hill township survey final report

Lally, Kelly A. · 1992

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.

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When Chapel Hill was a village

Love, Cornelia Spencer, 1892-1981 · 1976 · Chapel Hill Historical Society

Cornelia Spencer Love's recollections of Chapel Hill as a village, published by the Chapel Hill Historical Society in 1976 with drawings by John V. Allcott. Love lived from 1892 to 1981, and the book covers Chapel Hill biography, the town's social life and customs, and the faculty of the university before 1962. viii and 87 pages with illustrations.

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Map of Chapel Hill as it was in 1875 to 1885

Carter, H. D. (Henry Dennis), -1941 · 1934

Henry Dennis Carter's reconstruction, drawn as a blueprint in 1934, of Chapel Hill as it stood between 1875 and 1885, showing the buildings of the village. A note on the map says the information came from old residents who gave it to Mary L. Thornton.

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[Map of Chapel Hill and vicinity].

Harris, Hunter Lee, 1866-1893 · 1888 · Hunter Lee Harris?

Dating from 1888 and attributed to Hunter Lee Harris, a map of Chapel Hill and its vicinity, reproduced as a photocopy measuring 22 by 37 centimeters. Harris died in 1893, which brackets the drawing to the late nineteenth century. An early depiction of the streets of the village and the land around it.

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[Map of Chapel Hill].

1895

Pen-and-ink manuscript map of Chapel Hill dated 1852, with a table of measurements, showing the University campus, the village around it, street widths and layout, and the town limits. Later notes attributed to Kemp P. Battle give the longitude and latitude of landmarks as measured from atop New East Hall in 1880.

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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina.

1925

Sanborn Map Company fire insurance map of Chapel Hill, June 1925, on eleven sheets, with Carrboro also drawn. Sanborn maps recorded the outline, construction and use of each building for fire insurers, so the set shows both towns block by block in the mid 1920s.

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Map of Chapel Hill & vicinity.

1933

Street and property map of Chapel Hill and the surrounding country, revised to 1 January 1933 and printed in the town. Topics include streets, real property and the historical geography of Chapel Hill along with maps of the University of North Carolina in its 1793 to 1962 period. A useful sheet for tracing lot lines and street names as they stood at the start of the 1930s.

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Map of African-American Neighborhoods in 1944, Chapel Hill

1944

An appendix map from 1944 marking Chapel Hill's African American neighborhoods: Potters Field, Sunset, Tintop, Knolls and South West Lane. A proposed park north of town, possibly Umstead Park, is also shown.

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    Where to look on the shelf

    These books don’t necessarily mention Orange County Training School / Lincoln High School, 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 · NC 975.656 STO Chapel Hill: A Pictorial History Stolpen, Steven · 1978

      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.

    • 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.

    • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 975.658 OAKLEY Mebane Oakley, J. Ronald · 2012

      J. Ronald Oakley's pictorial history of Mebane, the railroad town on the Orange and Alamance county line, from Arcadia Publishing in 2012, 127 pages of photographs. Chapters cover the railroad, industries, businesses, the Depression and war years, profiles past and present, churches and civic clubs, recreation and sports, school days, and preserving the past. Topics include Mebane's history, economy, buildings and railroads.

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    • Start here · NC 371.097 PENDER A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 Pender, Irene Oliver · 1983

      Irene Oliver Pender's history of the public schools of Orange County from 1752 to 1983, covering more than two centuries of schooling in Hillsborough, Efland, Cedar Grove and the rural districts of the county. Published in 1983, 186 pages with illustrations.

    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.

    • Foundational · NC 917.56 HIS Historic Buildings and Landmarks of Chapel Hill, N.C Chapel Hill Historical Society · 1973

      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.

    Land, family and burial records

    • Foundational · NC 333.3 DUNAWAY Chapel Hill, N.C. History of Town Lots (1790-1930s) Dunaway, Stewart E. · 2014

      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.

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    1. Quakers open a freedmen's school in Chapel Hill In 1866 Philadelphia Friends opened a school for Black children in Chapel Hill; by early 1867 it had been running more than half a year with 248 pupils, in a rented house while the freedpeople built a school and house of worship on a fifty-dollar lot the Friends had bought. The school, which came to stand on the land near West Franklin Street and Merritt Mill Road that Benjamin Craig and Green Cordal bought in 1866, merged into Orange County Training School in 1917. People: Green Cordal, Benjamin Craig Internet Archive: Fourth Annual Report of the Friends' Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of Colored Freedmen (1867), p. 20 · Also: Town of Carrboro: Historic Downtown Walking Tour, stop 14
    2. Hackney's school on Merritt Mill Road is bought for a public training school Louis Hackney had opened his school for Black students on Merritt Mill Road in 1912. In 1916 the property was bought for a public training school for Black students, after Black residents raised $3,000 toward the purchase. People: Louis H. Hackney NC State Historic Preservation Office: Ridge Road School National Register nomination (2023), sec. 8 p. 8 · Also: Open Orange: Orange County Training School
    3. Robert and Mollie Malone open Orange County Training School on the old Hackney campus Principal Robert E. Malone, his wife Mollie Holmes Malone as domestic science teacher, and two other teachers began classes in academic, industrial and farm subjects at the county's new training school for Black students. Black residents had raised $3,000 toward the board's 1916 purchase of the Hackney campus on Merritt Mill Road. NC State Historic Preservation Office: Ridge Road School, National Register nomination (OR1104), p. 13
    4. Orange County Training School enrolls 215 students Two years after it opened on the former Hackney campus in Chapel Hill, the county's training school for Black students had 215 enrolled. NC State Historic Preservation Office: Ridge Road School, National Register nomination (OR1104), p. 13
    5. Black citizens of Chapel Hill form a Community Betterment Association About twenty Black men of Chapel Hill met in the office of the county training school on a Thursday night in late May and formed a Community Betterment Association. According to the communication printed in the News, they pledged to work against idleness, whiskey selling and vice, asked the cooperation of white residents and the town authorities, and raised compulsory school attendance. The News (Chapel Hill), June 5, 1919, p. 4
    6. Bruce L. Bozeman becomes principal of the county training school for Black students at Chapel Hill Professor Bruce L. Bozeman, an Alabama native and Hampton Institute graduate with ten years' teaching behind him, most recently at the state school for Black boys at Broad Neck, Virginia, was named the new principal of the Colored County Training School of Chapel Hill. Trained in agriculture, he was to carry on the school's work among the county's farmers and boys; Mrs. Bozeman was also an experienced teacher. People: Bruce L. Bozeman The News (Chapel Hill), October 16, 1919, p. 4
    7. Orange County Training School holds a farmers' conference and community fair The Orange County Training School, the county's Black training school at Chapel Hill, held a farmers' conference and community fair with prizes for corn, hay, livestock, canning, baking, needlework and school garden work. Principal B. L. Bozeman reported that white visitors, among them county agent E. S. Vanatta, Mrs. Collier Cobb and M. C. S. Noble, spoke, and that former principal R. E. Malone praised the school and its teachers. People: M. C. S. Noble, Bruce L. Bozeman The News (Chapel Hill), November 27, 1919, p. 4
    8. Black residents of Chapel Hill rally to pay the Training School's debt and build anew Black residents of Chapel Hill met on Sunday afternoon, February 1, to back the Orange County Training School. George McCauley and Thomas L. McDade asked for money to pay off the school's debt and buy more land for better buildings, teacher Mabel D. Holmes read an essay on the need for a modern building, M. C. S. Noble of the University spoke, and the meeting collected $35. Principal B. L. Bozeman followed with a printed appeal for a dormitory and a demonstration plot, checks to go to Noble as treasurer. People: M. C. S. Noble, Bruce L. Bozeman The News (Chapel Hill), February 5, 1920, p. 1
    9. Influenza closes the Orange County Training School The Orange County Training School, the county's school for Black pupils at Chapel Hill, closed on Tuesday, February 24, because of the influenza epidemic. The same wave had closed Chapel Hill High School on Thursday, February 19, and by late February Efland counted about thirty cases, though its school stayed open. The News (Chapel Hill), February 26, 1920, p. 5
    10. Orange County Training School holds a week of commencement exercises The Black training school at Chapel Hill held commencement exercises from May 10 to 16 in the town's Black churches and lodges, and the halls were packed each night; some 900 to 1,000 people crowded into a hall seating about 500 for the elementary grades' concert. A writer for the News described the school's carpentry shop, farming and domestic science classes and its seven elementary and four high school grades under principal B. L. Bozeman. People: Bruce L. Bozeman The News (Chapel Hill), June 22, 1922, p. 1
    11. Orange County Training School burns About 4 a.m. on Monday, June 12, 1922, fire broke out in the Sallie Flanner house, a large two-story frame house on South-West Lane at the edge of the Carrboro town limits where eight or ten Black roomers lived; the News supposed it began in the kitchen, and two roomers were hurt jumping from windows. With no hydrant near, firemen had to borrow hose from the University and Carrboro to reach one almost half a mile away. The fire spread to the house of the school's head, Bozeman, and destroyed the large school building and one or two other buildings of the Orange County Training School, the county's school for Black students on the former Hackney campus; most of the furniture was saved. The school reopened on September 20, using the Masonic and Odd Fellows halls, a hall over the picture house and a dwelling on Rosemary Street until it could rebuild, and in spring 1923 its pupils were meeting in the Odd Fellows' hall, lent free of charge. A Rosenwald-aided brick building replaced the burned campus in 1924. NC State Historic Preservation Office: Ridge Road School, National Register nomination (OR1104), p. 15 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), September 14, 1922, p. 5; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 5, 1923, p. 1; Open Orange: Orange County Training School; The News (Chapel Hill), June 15, 1922, p. 1
    12. A six-acre site is bought for the Orange County Training School's new building With the Training School's building lost to fire, its committee (M. C. S. Noble, Dr. Charles S. Mangum and J. S. Holmes), helped by Black and white citizens, sold the old lot and used the proceeds and the insurance to buy six acres at the end of Church Street beyond Pottersfield, with room for farming and gardening. Construction was to start that summer for about 400 pupils; meanwhile classes met in makeshift quarters, including the Odd Fellows' hall lent free. People: M. C. S. Noble, Charles Staples Mangum, John Simcox Holmes, Bruce L. Bozeman The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 12, 1923, p. 3
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    1. The Orange County Training School closes its year with a commencement week The Black county school's commencement ran a week of grade programs and a high school play, 'Just Plain Mary', and ended at Rock Hill Baptist Church, where F. D. Bluford of the Agricultural and Technical College spoke in place of its president, James B. Dudley; 300 to 400 people could not get in. Principal B. L. Bozeman reported 300 pupils and only seven teachers. People: Bruce L. Bozeman The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 31, 1923, p. 4
    2. The Orange County Training School opens its year in borrowed buildings While it waited for its new building on land already bought at the end of Church Street, the Training School for Black children opened in a moving picture theatre and the Odd Fellows Hall on Franklin Street for the lower grades and a rented house on Rosemary Street for the high school. A meeting at Rock Hill Baptist Church the night before, with E. D. Mickle of Durham as speaker, raised more than $40. People: Bruce L. Bozeman, M. C. S. Noble The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 27, 1923, p. 1
    3. Parents reorganize the Parent-Teacher Association at the Orange County Training School Sixty parents and friends of the Orange County Training School, the county's school for Black students in Chapel Hill, met with the teachers at the teachers' cottage on Wednesday night, October 3, 1923, and reorganized the Parent-Teacher Association, electing Mrs. L. M. Bozeman president, Mrs. Shadie B. Hackney secretary and Mrs. Alice Neal treasurer. Principal B. L. Bozeman presided, Rev. George McCauley, president of the trustees, opened a talk on the school's needs, and Dr. D. E. Caldwell spoke. People: Bruce L. Bozeman The News (Chapel Hill), October 25, 1923, p. 1
    4. Black Chapel Hill raises money to clear ground for a new Orange County Training School At a meeting called by the Black parent-teacher association in the interest of the Orange County Training School, Black residents took up 'How We Can Build a School' and reported $241 raised among themselves in about a week to start clearing the site for a new building at the end of Church Street. M. C. S. Noble, E. W. Knight, J. S. Holmes and Dr. C. S. Mangum spoke for the white townspeople. People: M. C. S. Noble, Edgar Wallace Knight, John Simcox Holmes, Charles Staples Mangum The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 13, 1923, p. 4
    5. Kennon Cheek helps negotiate the land swap that brought Hackney's school to Northside Cheek's daughter Marian Cheek Jackson said he was instrumental in negotiating the 1924 land swap that moved Hackney's Educational and Industrial School from South Merritt Mill Road into the Northside community. People: Marian Cheek Jackson UNC Names in Brick and Stone: Cheek Clark Building
    6. Orange County Training School opens a Rosenwald campus The Orange County Training School's new brick building for Black students rose on land given by Henry Strowd at the north end of Church Street in Northside, Chapel Hill. Its cornerstone was laid on Labor Day 1924 and it opened late that year; the Rosenwald Fund gave $1,500 of its $23,112 cost, Black residents $500. The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 18, 1924, p. 1: Negro Children's Rally (celebrating the opening of the new building)
    7. Black Chapel Hill begins clearing the site for the new Training School building Black residents of Chapel Hill were preparing the ground at the end of Church Street for the new building of the Orange County Training School, blasting rock and digging stumps, with grading about to begin; Principal B. L. Bozeman hoped construction would start that spring. People: Bruce L. Bozeman The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 7, 1924, p. 1
    8. The county board moves $30,000 in building money to Efland and sets the order of its new schools The board shifted $15,000 each from the White Cross and Caldwell building funds to Efland, reasoning that Efland had the greater need, a local tax with an eight-month term, and a paved road for school trucks. It then fixed the building order as Efland, White Cross, Orange County Training School, Orange Grove and Caldwell. DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 70
    9. The Orange County Training School holds its commencement at Rock Hill Baptist Church The Orange County Training School, Chapel Hill's school for Black children, held its closing exercises at Rock Hill Baptist Church, where five seniors spoke, Principal B. L. Bozeman told of the school's growth, and Professor E. D. Mickle of Durham gave the address. Dr. Charles S. Mangum described the new building planned at the end of Church Street and how Black residents had kept the school going after its building burned about three years before; the Weekly noted it was one of three Orange schools with eleven grades. People: Bruce L. Bozeman, Charles Staples Mangum The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 22, 1924, p. 1
    10. The contract is let for the new Orange County Training School building After two rounds of bids came in too high, the contract for the Orange County Training School's new building went to F. M. Williams of Durham at $17,550, of which the county board of education gave $15,000 and the General Education Board $2,550. The one-story brick and tile building, with nine classrooms and an auditorium for 400 pupils, was to stand on six and a half acres at the north end of Church Street and be done by October 1. People: M. C. S. Noble, Charles Staples Mangum, John Simcox Holmes The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 3, 1924, p. 1
    11. The Training School building committee names the new auditorium for Henry Strowd M. C. S. Noble said the committee building the new Orange County Training School had decided to name its auditorium for Henry Strowd, a Black citizen of Chapel Hill who had sold six and a half acres of his land for the school at a reasonable price when no other site could be found after the old building burned. People: M. C. S. Noble The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 3, 1924, p. 1
    12. Black residents lay the cornerstone of the new Orange County Training School building A large crowd of Black residents of Chapel Hill and the country around turned out for the cornerstone laying of the new Orange County Training School building on the Henry Strowd hill at the end of Church Street. Black Masons conducted the ceremony, the Chapel Hill colored band played, school board chairman M. C. S. Noble introduced N. C. Newbold, the state director of Negro education, who gave the address, and the school's principal and local trustees took part. People: M. C. S. Noble, N. C. (Nathan Carter) Newbold The News (Chapel Hill), September 4, 1924, p. 4
    13. Orange County Training School pupils celebrate their new building with a $105 gift To celebrate the opening of the new Orange County Training School building at the north end of Church Street, the Black school children held a rally, had their photograph taken, played a football game and made up a gift of $105 for the school, more than 70 of them giving a dollar each. The faculty thanked the white school committee of M. C. S. Noble, Charles S. Mangum and J. S. Holmes and the Black and white donors who had helped build it. People: M. C. S. Noble, Charles Staples Mangum, John Simcox Holmes The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 18, 1924, p. 1
    14. An Orange County Training School pupil makes $230 raising turkeys Martha Reaves, a sixth-grader at the Orange County Training School, built a flock from three turkeys to 54 in two years as a school project on her father's farm and sold them for $270, clearing $230. Principal B. L. Bozeman said such home projects proved the value of the school's agriculture classes. The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 15, 1925, p. 1
    15. Community Club women carry household goods and books to the Orange County Training School The Chapel Hill Community Club canvassed the town for books, maps, cooking utensils, crockery and other things needed at the Orange County Training School, the town's school for Black children, and on February 6, 1925, members drove the gifts out to the school's new building at the end of Church Street. Superintendent B. L. Bozeman thanked the club for the goods and $12 for the domestic science class and said the school still needed classroom maps and auditorium seats. People: Bruce L. Bozeman The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 19, 1925, p. 1
    16. Orange County's Black schools hold their county commencement at the Orange County Training School Black schools from across Orange County, among them Bethel, Terrell's Creek, Oaks, High Rock, Cedar Grove, Efland, Morris Grove, Wardsville, Hillsboro, Rosemary and Hairston Grove, met at the Orange County Training School in Chapel Hill on April 9, 1925, for contests in story-telling, declamation, singing and spelling, exhibits of sewing, embroidery and cooking, a baseball game, and an evening address by E. D. Mickle of Durham. G. E. Davis of the state education department and the Rosenwald Fund told the gathering that Black North Carolinians were giving $100,000 a year toward their schools; the Training School took most of the first prizes. The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 16, 1925, p. 4
    17. Black citizens of Chapel Hill organize a Community Fair Association to support the Orange County Training School About thirty Black citizens met in the Training School auditorium, organized the Community Fair Association to help the school and through it the county's farmers, and elected Johnson Merritt and Charles Craig presidents. Committees were named to raise money for the auditorium platform, floors, the farm shop and library, light fixtures and water spigots, to report by Labor Day. People: Kennon Cheek, Louis H. Hackney, Charles C. Craig The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 26, 1925, p. 3
    18. Orange County Training School opens its year with its largest attendance and a drive for auditorium chairs The Training School's faculty opened the year with a Sunday evening program for parents in the new auditorium, with the Rock Hill Baptist choir, where Black residents pledged auditorium chairs at $3.60 each and raised $59.45. Classes began the next morning with the largest attendance in the school's history and seven new teachers. People: Bruce L. Bozeman The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 18, 1925, p. 6
    19. Orange County Training School publishes a newspaper, The Orange Jewel The Orange County Training School put out a newspaper called The Orange Jewel, written by its teachers and pupils, for a large celebration Black residents planned for October 29. Its articles dealt with the educational, business and other work of Black Chapel Hill. The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 23, 1925, p. 1
    20. Black church choirs hold a song festival at the Orange County Training School Choirs from Rock Hill Baptist Church, Mount Sinai and Markham's Chapel gathered in the auditorium of the Orange County Training School and sang from noon until after three o'clock. Principal B. L. Bozeman gave the welcome and W. C. Lasater of Durham responded. People: Bruce L. Bozeman The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 4, 1925, p. 3
    21. The Orange County Training School publishes its newspaper, The Orange Jewel The fourth number of The Orange Jewel, the newspaper of the Orange County Training School, Chapel Hill's Black school, came out on January 29, 1926. The Weekly said the paper recorded the pupils' work in and out of class, with sections on athletics and student opinion, and had drawn favorable comment in educational circles. The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 29, 1926, p. 3
    22. Orange County Training School students show their Red Cross home nursing training On May 12, 1926, five girls who had finished the Red Cross home nursing course under Nurse Compton showed their bed-making, bandaging and care of the sick at the Orange County Training School, Chapel Hill's Black school, along with a fashion show of dresses made in its domestic science classes. The Weekly reported that the town government had taken over part of the nurse's salary, first paid by the Red Cross, the tuberculosis seal fund and Black residents, making her a town employee under health officer S. A. Nathan. People: S. A. Nathan The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 14, 1926, p. 1
    23. Orange County Training School opens its fall term with 280 pupils Chapel Hill's Black school, the Orange County Training School, opened its 1926-1927 session with exercises on Sunday afternoon, September 19, led by Principal B. L. Bozeman, and regular classes began the next day. The Weekly reported 280 pupils enrolled so far, a considerable increase over the opening a year before, and the school planned a fair for the fall. People: Bruce L. Bozeman The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 24, 1926, p. 3
    24. The Orange County Training School holds Armistice Day exercises J. S. Holmes, the state forester and a former Chapel Hill resident, was the chief speaker at the Orange County Training School's Armistice Day exercises. He spoke on the ideal of peace and reviewed the history of the movement that established the school. People: John Simcox Holmes The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 19, 1926, p. 4
    25. Annual benefit football games fund Chapel Hill's Black public health nurse From 1927 a yearly football game between Black teams, sponsored by the University YMCA, raised money for the public health nurse serving Chapel Hill's Black community, a project run by the Community Club. The 1941 game, played on Fetzer Field, involved the Orange County Training School and raised $275 net. People: Harry F. Comer The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 21, 1941, p. 1 (Negro Game Next Week)
    26. Orange County Training School graduates twelve The county training school for Black students at Chapel Hill held its commencement with orations by three graduates, spirituals by the glee club and a male quartet, an address by Rev. Eugene Olive and diplomas presented by M. C. S. Noble of the University faculty; twelve boys and girls graduated. The Weekly noted the large crowd and the simple dignity of the ceremony. People: M. C. S. Noble, John Caldwell The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 27, 1927, p. 1
    27. The Orange County Training School opens its fall term The Orange County Training School, Chapel Hill's school for Black pupils, opened for the year on September 19. W. M. McDade, for many years a University janitor and known to thousands of alumni as Bill McDade, gave the welcoming address. The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 23, 1927, p. 1
    28. Orange County Training School students win offices at the state conference of Black vocational schools At the state vocational conference of Black schools in Greensboro, two of the seven members elected to the executive committee came from the Orange County Training School in Chapel Hill. Its students, coached by principal and vocational teacher B. L. Bozeman, did well in project records. People: Bruce L. Bozeman The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 20, 1928, p. 5
    29. Black patrons raise money to give the Orange County Training School an eight-month term Black patrons of the Orange County Training School in Chapel Hill closed a fund campaign that, with more than $200 from white residents and a conditional gift from the Rosenwald Fund, let the school run its full eight-month term. The Weekly reported plans to make the longer term permanent; the principal, faculty, patrons and the Parent-Teacher Association ran the drive. The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 9, 1930, p. 6
    30. Termites leave the Orange County Training School building unsafe, and its commencement moves to Rock Hill Baptist Church Termites ate away beams and sills in the Orange County Training School, Chapel Hill's school for Black pupils, and the building was declared unsafe, so the graduating exercises planned for its auditorium were held instead on the evening of June 2 at Rock Hill Baptist Church on West Franklin Street. The Weekly put the cost of repairs at $1,500 to $2,000 and noted that termites had attacked the building once before a few years earlier. The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 2, 1933, p. 1
    31. Brodie S. Thompson gets the contract to repair the termite-damaged Orange County Training School Brodie S. Thompson, the low bidder at $623, won the contract to repair the Orange County Training School building, rebuilding the floors and sills of the two east rooms, the concrete floors of the three west rooms, ceilings and beams, and the front porch and steps. H. C. Wills and Sons got the tin work on both the white and the Black school buildings. People: Brodie Thompson The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 18, 1933, p. 5
    32. Harold M. Holmes becomes principal of the Orange County Training School Superintendent H. F. Munch, with the school board's approval, engaged Harold M. Holmes, for five years a teacher at Greensboro's Dudley High School, as principal of the Orange County Training School, Chapel Hill's school for Black children. The school opened under him on Tuesday, September 12. People: Harold M. Holmes The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 8, 1933, p. 1
    33. Boy Scouts collect readers for the Orange County Training School The Orange County Training School, Chapel Hill's school for Black children, was badly short of books, mostly readers for the lower grades. The Boy Scouts set collection boxes in two Chapel Hill stores, and gifts of money went to principal Harold M. Holmes. Chapel Hill Weekly: Boy Scouts Are Giving Aid to Chapel Hill's Negro Institution (December 15, 1933, p. 5)
    34. Orange County Training School's attendance earns it more teachers than its building can hold With an average daily attendance of 362, Chapel Hill's Black school, the Orange County Training School, qualified under the state ratio for an additional teacher, and by July its attendance entitled it to two more. The Weekly reported that the building did not have rooms enough for the classes. The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 20, 1934, p. 5
    35. The Orange County Training School plays Chatham's training school to support the Black community's nurse The annual football game between Black high school teams on Emerson Field, sponsored by the University YMCA, matched the Orange County Training School of Chapel Hill against the Chatham County Training School on November 24, 1934. Gate receipts came to about $140, and after expenses and Chatham's $25 guarantee about $105 went to support the nurse who served Chapel Hill's Black residents. The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 14, 1934, p. 5
    36. A dental clinic treats 340 children at Chapel Hill's school for Black children A dental clinic at the Chapel Hill school for Black children examined 456 children and treated 340, making 157 amalgam and 54 cement fillings and 245 extractions. Black residents raised $100 of the cost through a benefit concert, church circles and their parent-teacher association; women's missionary societies of three white churches, the Kiwanis and Rotary clubs, the Spanish War Veterans and the Red Cross gave the rest. The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 10, 1935, p. 6
    37. The state school commission takes a teacher from Chapel Hill's school for Black children The state school commission notified Superintendent J. Minor Gwynn that the Chapel Hill school for Black children would lose one elementary teacher for 1935-36 because its building lacked classroom space for the teachers it had; Gwynn hoped to have the ruling reversed. People: J. Minor Gwynn The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 12, 1935, p. 3
    38. The county board of education buys five acres beside the Orange County Training School Planning a $20,000 brick addition of eight classrooms for Chapel Hill's Black school, the first of the county's PWA projects to get under way, the county board of education bought a five-acre plot adjoining the school grounds on the east for playgrounds. Building was expected to start by mid-November. People: H. D. Carter The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 20, 1935, p. 1
    39. Black Chapel Hill residents petition the school board to move their school to a new site Some of Chapel Hill's Black residents petitioned the school board to move the Orange County Training School, complaining that the site was not central, lay outside the town limits without fire or police protection or lights, and had no playground or athletic field and gullied grounds. On October 11 the board answered that it would keep the site, renovate the old building, add a new one, buy more land and a better approach, and arrange fire protection. People: R. E. Coker The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 4, 1935, p. 1
    40. County lets contracts for a new Hillsboro school and a Training School addition for Black pupils After first bids ran well over estimates, $47,000 against $30,000 for Hillsboro and $25,625 against $21,200 for Chapel Hill, the county redrew the plans, cutting the new Hillsboro school for Black children from 12 rooms to 8 and the Chapel Hill addition from 8 rooms to 6, and advertised for new bids, due December 5. Contracts went to Southeastern Construction Company for the Hillsboro school, $36,404 with plumbing and heating, and to Thompson and Cannada for the six-room addition to the Orange County Training School, $23,493.50 in all. The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 3, 1936, p. 3
    41. Work begins on the six-room addition to the Orange County Training School Construction began on the PWA-funded six-room addition to the Orange County Training School, Chapel Hill's school for Black children, about a week before the Weekly's January 17 report. The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 17, 1936, p. 1
    42. Orange County lets a PWA building contract at Chapel Hill's school for Black children By May 22, 1936 a $23,493 building contract at the school for Black children in Chapel Hill was under way as one of ten county school projects paid for about 45 per cent by a federal PWA grant and the rest by county bonds. The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 22, 1936, p. 6
    43. Enrollment at Chapel Hill's Black high school rises to 97 Opening figures showed 501 pupils in the white elementary grades and 291 in the white high school. At the school for Black children the elementary grades enrolled 332, twenty fewer than a year before, while the high school grew from 75 to 97. The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 18, 1936, p. 1
    44. A new Chapel Hill High School opens on Columbia Street Chapel Hill's new high school for white students, beside the Pittsboro road on what is now South Columbia Street, opened to classes on October 5, 1936, three weeks late. Built for $106,000 with Public Works Administration aid to plans by Atwood and Weeks, it came in the same federal program that built an addition at the Orange County Training School. The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 9, 1936, p. 5: New School Building in Use
    45. A Black company from Mebane gives a play at the Orange County Training School Black actors from Mebane gave 'The Modern Prodigal' in the auditorium of the Orange County Training School, with a quartet and chorus singing spirituals; white people were welcome. The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 20, 1936, p. 6
    46. The Orange County Training School gets a $24,000 addition H. D. Carter's review of 1936 building in and around Chapel Hill listed a $24,000 addition to the Orange County Training School, the county's school for Black students. A WPA plan to grade its grounds, sought in October along with the grounds of the new white high school, was set aside in December because the WPA found no relief labor available in Chapel Hill. People: H. D. Carter The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 18, 1936, p. 1
    47. The Orange County Training School opens with a record enrollment and new courses Chapel Hill's school for Black children opened with a record 420 pupils, 101 of them in high school, against 369 a year before, and the county provided a bus for high school students from Sunnyside, Merritt, Morris Grove, Piney Mount and Damascus. For the first time the high school offered two years each of industrial arts and home economics, special music courses and night classes for adults. People: Harold M. Holmes The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 10, 1937, p. 4
    48. State inspector finds the Orange County Training School meets the standards for a 1A rating H. L. Trigg, inspector of Negro high schools for the State Department of Public Instruction, visited the school and reported that it had met the department's requirements for a 1A rating; it had been rated 2B since 1932. People: Harold M. Holmes The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 10, 1937, p. 4
    49. The Orange County Training School PTA elects Charles C. Craig and starts a drive for shop machinery At its first meeting of the year the Black school's Parent-Teacher Association chose Charles C. Craig as president and voted to raise money for manual training machinery, a victrola and radio for the music department, and a mimeograph machine, projects proposed by principal H. M. Holmes. In late October the association reported on the drive, and Superintendent A. W. Honeycutt praised the school's two new departments, home economics and manual training. People: Charles C. Craig, Harold M. Holmes, Allison W. Honeycutt The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 24, 1937, p. 6
    50. The Orange County Training School starts a free homemaking class for Black women As part of the Black school's new vocational home economics program, an adult homemaking class began meeting on Thursday nights, free to women over sixteen, with a large first enrollment; the fall unit on choosing and making clothing ran to November 18, and a winter unit was to cover meal planning and buying and cooking food. The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 8, 1937, p. 5
    51. The Orange County Training School PTA raises money for shop machinery At its Monday meeting the parent-teacher association of the Black school reported $135.38 raised in a month toward machinery for the manual training department. The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 12, 1937, p. 2
    52. Louis H. Hackney dies in Chapel Hill Louis H. Hackney, pastor of Rock Hill Baptist Church for sixty years, a teacher who had kept a school on West Franklin Street, and founder in 1912 of the private school on Merritt Mill Road that became Orange County Training School, died at his home in Chapel Hill on December 19, 1937, at 83. He was buried in a Black section of the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery. The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 24, 1937, p. 6 · Also: NC State Historic Preservation Office: Ridge Road School, National Register nomination; Cemetery Census: Chapel Hill Cemetery [Old], Black sections A-B; Open Orange: Louis H. Hackney
    53. The Orange County Training School observes Negro History Week The Black school in Chapel Hill marked the week with assembly programs, homeroom discussions and a public program on the evening of February 11. Its home economics department also announced ten evening classes in home improvement for adults and young people out of school, with an open house and exhibit on February 14. The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 11, 1938, p. 1
    54. Black Chapel Hill mothers organize a garden club at the Orange County Training School The Chapel Hill Mothers' Mission Club, a Black women's club, and the school's home economics teacher held a Better Homes and Garden Week program at the Orange County Training School and organized a Black garden club. The school's student council had already led a clean-up campaign of the school grounds. The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 6, 1938, p. 5
    55. The Orange County Training School graduates its largest class, fourteen Chapel Hill's Black high school held its commencement before a crowded auditorium; eight seniors spoke on the school's activities in place of a guest speaker. The Weekly reported 14 graduates, the largest class in the school's history. People: R. E. Coker, Harold M. Holmes, Allison W. Honeycutt The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 3, 1938, p. 5
    56. The WPA takes on a $29,000 school-grounds project across Orange County WPA crews under county supervisor Clarence Webb were set to grade, terrace and drain school grounds throughout the county, a project estimated at $29,000 that included the grounds of the Orange County Training School, Chapel Hill's Black school, where runoff had cut bad gullies. By early September a crew of about 25 had built stone walls and drains at the Chapel Hill high school, and the Training School grading was on the WPA schedule. The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 22, 1938, p. 1
    57. WPA workers build a road and begin grading playgrounds at the Orange County Training School WPA crews began building a new broad road to connect Chapel Hill's school for Black students, the Orange County Training School, with Church Street, and grading was about to begin on its rocky, gullied grounds for a football field, smaller playgrounds and tennis courts, with stone retaining walls and graded paths toward the ravine and toward Carrboro. The school board had A. R. Hollett plan the work; the Weekly noted that Black citizens had long and rightly complained that the school was hard to reach on foot or by car. People: Arthur R. Hollett The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 21, 1938, p. 1
    58. The Orange County Training School football game clears nearly $100 for the Black nursing service The University YMCA's annual benefit football game, begun eight years before, matched the Orange County Training School against Dudley High School of Greensboro on Fetzer Field, with four University varsity players as officials; Chapel Hill won, and the game cleared almost $100 toward the nursing service for Black families too poor to pay for it. The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 9, 1938, p. 5
    59. The Orange County Training School holds an open house for parents and patrons The P.T.A. of Chapel Hill's school for Black students met at the school while teachers and students showed classes at work and pupils' work in the classrooms, the industrial arts shop, the science laboratory and the home economics room, with music by the first- and second-grade rhythm band and the music classes. That fall, the Weekly reported, the school had a qualified music teacher for the first time; its P.T.A. had raised $136.17 for manual training machinery, $52.79 for auditorium curtains and $20 for a radio, and the Community Club's education department was collecting books, records and kitchen equipment for it. The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 16, 1938, p. 2
    60. WPA crews regrade and wall the grounds of the Orange County Training School The WPA transformed the grounds of the Orange County Training School, Chapel Hill's Black school, with a broad new entrance road from Church Street, gravel walks, stone walls against washing, and grading for a playground, a regulation football field and parking. School board member Collier Cobb Jr. and engineer Ralph M. Trimble supervised, and the board meant to ask the state highway commission to surface the road beyond the town limits. People: Collier Cobb Jr., Ralph M. Trimble The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 19, 1939, p. 1
    61. WPA finishes grounds work at the Orange County Training School, including a football field By late September 1939 the WPA had completed all the work authorized on the grounds of the Orange County Training School, Chapel Hill's school for Black pupils, including laying out a football field. The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 29, 1939, p. 1
    62. The Orange County Training School opens with a record enrollment The Black elementary and high school at the north end of Church Street opened on September 6 with a record first-day enrollment of 532, 369 in the elementary grades and 163 in high school, 34 more than the year before. Principal H. M. Holmes counted 540 by midweek, and two weeks later the school reported 659 pupils; new teachers included Harry N. Simms, a Tuskegee graduate, in industrial arts. People: Harold M. Holmes The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 13, 1940, p. 5
    63. Chapel Hill's schools report fall enrollment, with 545 at the Orange County Training School Chapel Hill's elementary school opened the year with 379 pupils, 30 fewer than a year before, and the Orange County Training School, the town's school for Black pupils, with 545, down 15, while the high school enrolled 437, more than at the same point in 1940. The schools added a full-time arts and crafts teacher, Edgar Thorne, and a vocational agriculture teacher. People: Harold M. Holmes, Allison W. Honeycutt The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 26, 1941, p. 1
    64. Boy Scout Troop 107 is organized at the Orange County Training School Boy Scout Troop 107 was organized at the Orange County Training School, Chapel Hill's school for Black pupils, with nine boys who had passed the Tenderfoot tests after five months of meetings. William Weaver was scoutmaster, with Charlie Maddox, Sr., Rev. J. H. Lightsey and principal H. M. Holmes on the troop committee, and installation services were set for November 2 at the C.M.E. church on West Rosemary Street. People: Harold M. Holmes The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 31, 1941, p. 2
    65. Orange County Training School opens defense trade classes for Black youth Defense classes for out-of-school Black young people began meeting every evening at the Orange County Training School, with Charles Brooks, one of Chapel Hill's leading Black contractors, teaching carpentry and Jody M. Harris teaching elementary electricity, under the general supervision of W. F. Lathan. The eight-week classes drew a heavy enrollment, and Harris said their aim was to train workers for the labor shortage. People: William F. Lathan The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 16, 1942, p. 6
    66. Orange County Training School pupils and teachers buy defense stamps Students and teachers at the Orange County Training School, Chapel Hill's Black school, bought more than $60 in defense savings stamps in three weeks, sold every day at activity and lunch periods in every grade from the first through the eleventh, with graphs of each class's sales posted to spur them on. The school's committee aimed to have every student and teacher buy at least one stamp before the year ended. The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 13, 1942, p. 6
    67. The Orange County Training School adds an eighth grade and has no ninth grade for the year Under the state's change to a twelve-year school program, all of the Black school's 1942 seventh-grade graduates moved into a new eighth grade of 43 pupils instead of entering high school, so the Orange County Training School had no ninth grade in 1942-43. The school opened September 3 under principal H. M. Holmes, with an enrollment the Weekly reported as 512. People: Harold M. Holmes The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 18, 1942, p. 2
    68. Orange County Training School organizes a New Farmers of America chapter Agriculture students at the Orange County Training School, Chapel Hill's school for Black pupils, organized a chapter of the New Farmers of America. The Weekly reported that the members went house to house on Thanksgiving Day and again on December 12 to collect scrap, formed a thrift club buying defense stamps every week, and were planning projects to raise poultry, eggs, pork, vegetables and soybeans and to help neighboring farmers do the same. The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 18, 1942, p. 2
    69. Orange County Training School reports its war work Principal H. M. Holmes reported that the Orange County Training School, Chapel Hill's Black school, had collected 22,075 pounds of scrap in two drives, sold war stamps through its Student Council, and run defense courses for adults since December 1941. Its New Farmers of America club gathered 10,000 pounds of scrap in Thanksgiving week. People: Harold M. Holmes The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 26, 1943, p. 6
    70. Black residents of Chapel Hill launch a Victory Garden campaign Black residents launched a Victory Garden campaign meant to reach every Black family in Chapel Hill and Bingham townships, organized at a meeting called by Supt. A. W. Honeycutt and principal H. M. Holmes. Students in the Training School's Young Farmers of America and Excella clubs were to work a school garden on a plowed field beside the school. People: R. D. Smith, Harold M. Holmes, Allison W. Honeycutt The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 19, 1943, p. 1
    71. Orange County Training School sells $1,165 in war stamps and bonds in its Jeep campaign The Orange County Training School finished its Schools-at-War Jeep campaign, run by the Student Council from March 1 to April 19, with $1,165.45 in war stamps and bonds sold, more than the $900 cost of an Army jeep, earning a Treasury Certificate of Award. Every class took part, a first-grade class leading. The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 23, 1943, p. 5
    72. Black women open a Red Cross surgical dressings room at the Orange County Training School A surgical dressings center for Black volunteers opened in the clinic room of the Orange County Training School under Norma Snipes as chairman, meeting Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Fourteen women worked the first evening, the chapter reported, and by late July twenty-two regular workers were listed. The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 30, 1943, p. 1
    73. The Chapel Hill school board and its Black advisory committee agree to hire an attendance officer Meeting at the Orange County Training School, the board and its committee of Kenneth Jones, Thomas Oldham and Adolphus Clark discussed Black children kept out of school in spite of the compulsory attendance law. The committee urged enforcement, and the board decided to employ an attendance officer and ask the aldermen for the money. People: Kenneth Jones The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 20, 1943, p. 1
    74. The Orange County Training School opens its fall term in a repaired building The Orange County Training School, Chapel Hill's Black school, opened on September 1 after summer work in which classrooms and the auditorium were painted, a workroom was cut through for the library with labor given by Charles Craig, and termite-damaged timbers were replaced. Four teachers left over the summer and four new ones joined a faculty headed by H. M. Holmes. People: Charles C. Craig, Harold M. Holmes The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 10, 1943, p. 6
    75. The aldermen and school board hire an attendance officer for the Orange County Training School At a joint meeting the aldermen and the school board decided to employ an attendance officer for the Orange County Training School after principal H. M. Holmes reported 276 absences in the high school and 835 in the elementary grades, with truancy behind 36 per cent of the lost elementary days. The $300 cost was split between the school board, the town and, by request, Carrboro, and the school's four-member Black advisory committee came to support the plan. People: Harold M. Holmes, Kenneth Jones The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 19, 1943, p. 1
    76. Wartime day nursery opens for the children of Black working mothers in Chapel Hill and Carrboro A federally funded day nursery for Black children opened at the Orange County Training School, caring for thirty children aged two to six from 7:15 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. while their mothers worked. Parents paid for food, and by October 1944 two nursery schools were running, one in the Masonic building on the edge of Carrboro and one on Brooks Street. Chapel Hill Weekly: Nursery School Is in Operation at the O.C.T.S. (June 30, 1944)
    77. Orange County Training School organizes a twelve-piece band Orange County Training School formed a twelve-piece band of trumpets, cornets, trombones and drums under agriculture teacher B. F. Garrett. The recently organized band played at a tenth-grade musical program in the school auditorium in November 1944. Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), December 1944, p. 1
    78. D. M. Jarnagin succeeds H. M. Holmes as principal of Orange County Training School D. M. Jarnagin, former principal of Hawkins High School in Warrenton, took charge of Orange County Training School in Chapel Hill at the opening of the 1944-45 school year, filling the vacancy left by Harold M. Holmes. Four other new teachers joined the faculty despite the wartime teacher shortage. People: Harold M. Holmes Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), December 1944, p. 1
    79. The county health department brings a tuberculosis and venereal disease campaign to Orange County Training School The Orange County Health Department showed films and gave lectures on tuberculosis and venereal disease to parents at Orange County Training School on the evening of March 19, 1945, and to the students in assembly on March 22. The campaign was followed by tuberculin tests for all the school's children. Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), May 1945, p. 1
    80. A survey finds that 37 percent of Orange County Training School's high school students hold paying jobs A survey of the ninth, tenth and eleventh grades at Orange County Training School found that 37 percent of the students worked after school hours, 22 boys and 22 girls in fourteen kinds of jobs. Boys working as waiters averaged $20 a week, while girls in domestic service averaged $9 and waitresses $8. Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), May 1945, p. 5
    81. Orange County Training School's home economics department trains student teachers from three colleges The home economics department of Orange County Training School, headed by Ruth Pope, supervised practice teachers from Bennett College, North Carolina College for Negroes and Shaw University during the 1944-45 year. Shaw sent one senior for a full semester under its new policy of supervised practice teaching. Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), May 1945, p. 5
    82. The Training School's New Farmers chapter starts a purebred Poland China hog association The New Farmers of America chapter at Orange County Training School bought a purebred Poland China sow and boar and organized an association to improve the hogs raised in its section of the county. The chapter offered the boar's services to farmers in the community, by arrangement with agriculture teacher B. F. Garrett. Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), May 1945, p. 5
    83. Kenneth Jones speaks at the Orange County Training School V-E Day assembly Kenneth Jones, a notary public and funeral director, was the guest speaker when the Orange County Training School marked V-E Day at a morning assembly. He spoke on the need for peace among individuals and nations. DigitalNC: Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), May 1945, p. 1
    84. Charles A. McDougle becomes principal of Orange County Training School Charles A. McDougle, who had taught at the school earlier, became principal of Orange County Training School in Chapel Hill at the opening of the 1946-47 year. Students credited the new principal with longer class periods, a new lunch room and other changes in his first months, and he went on to lead the school as Lincoln High. People: Charles A. McDougle Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), May 1947, p. 1
    85. Orange County Training School opens a lunch room in the Craig building and adds two classrooms Orange County Training School opened a school lunch room in the Craig building just below the school grounds, set up by home economics girls and agriculture boys with dishes and towels given by community women. Two new classrooms, under construction since the summer of 1946 to relieve crowding, were also about to open. Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), December 1946, p. 2
    86. The Training School's student council forms a student court The student council of Orange County Training School formed a student court to promote loyalty and better conduct, under the supervision of music director H. B. Pickard, social science teacher Julia Caldwell and agriculture teacher R. D. Smith. Students served as judge, sergeant at arms and secretaries. People: R. D. Smith Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), December 1946, p. 1
    87. The Training School's New Farmers hold their first auction of repaired furniture The New Farmers of America chapter at Orange County Training School collected old furniture in the community, repaired and refinished it in the school shop, and for the first time sold it at an auction to finance chapter activities. The chapter also gave yearly to the Black orphanage at Oxford and helped the nursery school collect canned food. Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), May 1947, p. 4
    88. Sunny Side School is consolidated with the Orange County Training School By July 1, 1948, the county had consolidated Sunny Side School, one of its schools for Black children, with the Orange County Training School in Chapel Hill, while Piney Mountain School went into Morris Grove. The two consolidations cost the county's Black schools two elementary teachers for 1948-49. People: Glenn T. Proffit The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 1, 1948, p. 1
    89. Orange County Training School is renamed Lincoln High School In March 1949 the Parent-Teachers Association of the Orange County Training School, Chapel Hill's school for Black students, voted to rename it Lincoln High School and sent the request to the superintendent and school board. By May 13, 1949, the Chapel Hill Weekly reported that the name had been changed. People: Charles A. McDougle Chapel Hill Weekly (May 13, 1949): Negro School's Name Is Changed
    90. Principal C. A. McDougle opens Lincoln High School's year under its new name The Chapel Hill Weekly reported that Lincoln High School, the town's school for Black students, would open at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, September 12, 1949, as announced by Principal C. A. McDougle. The faculty list printed with the notice includes elementary teacher Mrs. Lucille R. McDougle and high school teacher Reginald D. Smith. People: R. D. Smith The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 9, 1949, p. 6 (Negro High School Opening Next Monday) · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, September 16, 1949, p. 2
    91. Lincoln High holds its first Achievement Day for farm and home projects Lincoln High School's agriculture and home economics departments held their first annual Achievement Day in the school auditorium, where New Farmers and New Homemakers, adult farmers and their wives, and members of the Veterans Farmer Training Program showed dairy cattle, potatoes, eggs, corn, poultry and swine. Local merchants gave the prizes. Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), December 13, 1949, p. 1
    92. Bond money sets aside $235,000 for a new Lincoln High School After voters passed the school bond issue by a wide margin, $235,000 was allotted for a new Lincoln High School building, the school paper reported. It noted that Black enrollment had grown from 250 in 1936 to 600 in 1949, against a rise from 900 to 1,000 white pupils, and in February 1950 Superintendent C. W. Davis said building would begin that spring. Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), December 13, 1949, p. 2
    93. The Junior Service League opens an evening course on business problems at Lincoln High The Junior Service League of Chapel Hill began a series of evening classes at Lincoln High School on everyday business problems, taught by professors from the University of North Carolina School of Business. The Thursday sessions, open to Lincoln parents and friends, covered borrowing, buying or building a home, savings, business law, income tax and small business. Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), February 17, 1950, p. 1
    94. Forty-two veterans are enrolled in Lincoln High's farmer training program The Veterans Farmer Training Program at Lincoln High School had forty-two veterans enrolled in its farm classes, taught by H. M. McNeill, E. O. Bovian and agriculture teacher R. D. Smith. The school paper reported that the veterans had built two homes, wired four more for electricity and cured 17,300 pounds of meat. People: R. D. Smith Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), May 1950, p. 2
    95. Commissioners cut the auditorium-gymnasium from Chapel Hill's new Black high school With low bids of about $330,800 against $235,000 set aside, the commissioners voted to let contracts at once for the new high school for Black pupils in Chapel Hill, leaving out the auditorium-gymnasium, site work, paved parking and some finishes. Black spokesmen, among them the Rev. J. R. Manley and Dr. C. W. Thompson III, opposed the cuts to the end and asked that bond money set aside for white schools make up the difference, which the board said it could not consider. People: Archie Royal Davis The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 27, 1950, p. 1
    96. Lincoln High girls organize a Y-Teens club Girls in grades eight through twelve at Lincoln High School organized a Y-Teens club, a new organization at the school, with home economics teacher Ruth P. Pope and Mrs. Kornegay as adult advisers. The club gave its first entertainment, a square dance for the high school boys, on November 28, 1950. Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), December 18, 1950, p. 1
    97. Lincoln High's PTA votes to name the elementary school Northside The Lincoln High School Parent-Teacher Association voted to call the elementary school Northside Elementary School, because the name Lincoln High School would go with the high school to its new building. By the fall of 1951 the school paper was reporting on Northside Elementary and its own principal. Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), June 1951, p. 2
    98. Lincoln High School opens on Merritt Mill Road In 1951 Lincoln High School, Chapel Hill's high school for Black students, moved from the old Orange County Training School building on Caldwell Street to a new building on Merritt Mill Road, and the old building became Northside Elementary. Lincoln used the Merritt Mill Road campus until 1966; the building is now the school district's Lincoln Center. People: Charles A. McDougle From the Rock Wall: A Note on "Northside" · Also: fromtherockwall.org; The Daily Tar Heel: Cammie Bellamy, New school, old ground; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 24, 1950, p. 1; Open Orange: 350 Caldwell St. / Orange County Training School; Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), October 1, 1951, p. 1
    99. Lincoln High adds a commercial department with typing and business courses Lincoln High School added business and commerce courses to its curriculum in its new building in the fall of 1951, with juniors and seniors taking typing and many sophomores general business. Mrs. M. G. Frazier of Raleigh, a Hampton Institute graduate, was hired to teach the new department. Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), October 1951, p. 1
    100. Lincoln High's agriculture department launches the Rural Progress Program in the Hickory Grove community Lincoln High School's vocational agriculture department began the county's Rural Progress Program among its farm families by putting up bulletin boards at Hickory Grove Baptist Church and building cedar mailbox stands with adult and day-class students. The program aimed to raise each farm family's income by $1,000 in 1952, improve every home and carry out community projects, with $300 in prizes from Farmers Mutual. Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), February 1952, p. 1
    101. The Lincoln-Northside PTA borrows $1,600 from the Quaker Fund for band instruments The Lincoln High and Northside Parent-Teacher Association borrowed $1,600 from the Quaker Fund, which the school paper described as money set aside for educational purposes in the local schools, to buy instruments for the growing Lincoln High band under bandmaster J. Y. Bell. A PTA drive the year before had raised $373.09 from local organizations for the band. Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), February 1952, p. 1
    102. Lincoln High's basketball team wins its district and finishes second in the state Lincoln High School's boys' basketball team under coach R. O. Kornegay had what the school paper called its most successful season, 23 wins and 2 losses, with a nineteen-game winning streak. The Tigers won the district tournament and reached the state finals at Fayetteville, where they lost to Nash County Training School 45-41 and finished state runners-up. Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), April 1952, p. 3
    103. Lincoln High School's class of 1952 plans its commencement The school paper announced the closing programs of the class of 1952, whose 29 seniors were to receive their diplomas: Senior Class Night on May 30, vespers on June 1, and commencement on June 5, all in the Northside Elementary School auditorium, with a class program on the theme of choosing an occupation. Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), May 1952, p. 1
    104. Merritt Mill Road past Lincoln High is paved Merritt Mill Road, on which Lincoln High School stands, was given a hard surface in a project that began in the second week of the 1952-53 school year and was finished in the seventh. The school paper welcomed the paving but warned that heavier and faster traffic on a road without sidewalks endangered children walking to school. Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), October 1952, p. 3
    105. A polio outbreak halts Lincoln High's football season for three weeks Lincoln High School's football team stopped play for three weeks in the fall of 1952 because of the polio outbreak, after losing its opener at Rocky Mount and a game to Hillside. The Tigers resumed by beating Horton High of Pittsboro 13-0 and finished the season with five wins and three losses. Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), October 1952, p. 3
    106. Hillsboro and Lincoln high schools are named farm training centers for Korean War veterans By late January 1953 the State Board of Education had named the agriculture department of Hillsboro High School the training center for white Korean War veterans studying farming under the new G.I. bill, Public Law 550, and Lincoln High School's agriculture department the center for Black veterans, the only two approved in the county. Veterans had to enroll by March 1 or wait until October. People: Elmer R. Dowdy The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 29, 1953, p. 1
    107. A Chapel Hill Friends group rents paintings from the Person Art Gallery for Lincoln High's library The Friends Organization of Chapel Hill rented two paintings from the Person Art Gallery for Lincoln High School's library, a still life of fruit by Claude Monet and a rock landscape by Paul Cezanne. The paintings were hung in the library, where students wrote about them in the school paper. Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), February 1953, p. 1
    108. Lincoln High's student paper, the Lincoln Echo, wins a national certificate of honor The Lincoln Echo, the student newspaper of Chapel Hill's Lincoln High School for Black students, was one of nine North Carolina school papers given a certificate of honor by the National Tuberculosis Association and the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, for a special issue on the Christmas seal drive. Mrs. R. A. Smith chaired its faculty advisory committee. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 4, 1953, p. 4
    109. Lincoln High buys its own bus for school activities Lincoln High School took delivery of a new 47-passenger Ford bus from Sanders Motor Company of Raleigh, bought for band, team and club trips after a teacher popularity contest raised $1,042.86 toward the $1,500 down payment. Until then the school had depended on a local woman's private bus or Carolina Trailways, and the new bus appeared in the homecoming parade the next day. Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), November 1953, p. 1
    110. The Lincoln Echo welcomes the Supreme Court's school desegregation decision In its first issue of the 1954-55 year, Lincoln High School's student paper ran an editorial welcoming the Supreme Court's May 1954 decision against segregated public schools. The editorial said segregation had long denied Black students the chance to progress and urged Lincoln students to prove themselves equal to the opportunity integration would bring. Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), October 1954, p. 2
    111. W. D. Peerman becomes Lincoln High's football coach W. D. Peerman took over as coach of Lincoln High School's football team in the fall of 1954, and the school paper dedicated its first issue of the year to him. He also organized a baseball team in the spring of 1955 and was still coaching the Tigers when they won the 1961 state championship. Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), October 1954, p. 1
    112. A Black delegation asks the commissioners for a gymnasium-auditorium at Lincoln High A delegation led by the Rev. Mr. Manley of Chapel Hill's First Baptist Church asked the county commissioners to make a gymnasium-auditorium at Lincoln High School, left out of the building four years earlier for cost and estimated at $100,000, the first call on capital money. They warned the school could lose its accreditation without it and also asked for water and toilets in the shop building. Alderman Hubert Robinson said the building was needed regardless of the Supreme Court's decision; the board referred them to the Board of Education. People: Hubert Robinson The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 10, 1955, p. 1
    113. Students from Chapel Hill High and Lincoln High win the World Federalists' peace speaking contest A world peace speaking contest sponsored by the local United World Federalists chapter, held at Chapel Hill High School, produced two winners, one from Chapel Hill High and one from Lincoln High, the town's Black high school. As first prize each winner and her teacher, Mrs. Lucille Ingram of Chapel Hill High and Mrs. Minnie Turner of Lincoln, was given a free trip to the United Nations in New York on April 13-16. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 24, 1955, p. 6
    114. Lincoln High holds its first Career Week Lincoln High School held its first Career Week for juniors and seniors, with speakers from A. and T. College, North Carolina College, Durham Business School, North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company and Hillside High School on careers in nursing, business, insurance, music and teaching. The paper hoped it would become an annual event. Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), April 1955, p. 1
    115. County commissioners inspect the Chapel Hill schools, including the site for a Lincoln High addition The county commissioners toured the schools of the Chapel Hill district to see their condition before acting on the Chapel Hill school board's budget requests. At Lincoln High School they looked over the site of a proposed addition with principal C. A. McDougle. The board had made a similar tour of the county schools some weeks earlier. People: Charles A. McDougle, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Edwin Sidney Lanier, Sim Efland, Dwight Ray The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 19, 1955, p. 3
    116. Hilliard Caldwell leads the Chapel Hill chapter of the New Farmers of America The Lincoln High School paper reported a prosperous 1954 to 1955 year for the chapter under Caldwell, its president, and printed his own account of the chapter's work. DigitalNC, The Lincoln Echo, June 1, 1955, page 1
    117. Hilliard Caldwell writes the Negro Community news column for the Chapel Hill News Leader Caldwell was named as correspondent at the head of the column, which carried news of Black Chapel Hill and asked Lincoln High School graduates to send in their college addresses for the next week's issue. DigitalNC, Chapel Hill News Leader, September 1, 1955, page 6
    118. Four Lincoln High seniors take the University's entrance examination Four Lincoln High School seniors went to the University of North Carolina to take its entrance examination in vocabulary, English and mathematics, a trip the school paper said would make Lincoln history. The paper reported that the friendliness of university employees put the four at ease before the test. Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), April 1957, p. 1
    119. Lincoln High hosts the Cotton-Merrick Federation's New Farmers contests Lincoln High School hosted the annual contests of the Cotton-Merrick Federation of the New Farmers of America, made up of chapters at Black high schools in Durham, Orange, Granville, Vance, Warren and Franklin counties. Lincoln's chapter, taught by R. D. Smith, won the quartet and talent contests and would represent the federation at the state convention in Greensboro. People: Charles A. McDougle, R. D. Smith Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), April 1957, p. 1
    120. Hubert Robinson is named Man of the Year After Robinson was re-elected alderman with the highest vote on the ticket, a group of Black citizens representing churches, fraternal organizations and civic clubs named him Man of the Year and gave a reception in his honor at the Lincoln High School gymtorium on June 11. The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 28, 1957, p. 5 (Hubert Robinson Honored)
    121. Chapel Hill school board keeps segregated pupil assignments for 1957-58 The Chapel Hill school board announced a resolution assigning pupils for 1957-58 to the schools they had attended the year before, which kept the town's schools racially segregated. Parents could ask for a transfer during a ten-day period, June 1 to 10, and Northside pupils promoted to the seventh grade were assigned to Lincoln High. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 30, 1957, p. 10
    122. Lincoln High prepares to open with sixteen teachers and about four hundred pupils In the Chapel Hill News Leader's back to school report, Principal C. A. McDougle said Lincoln High School would have sixteen teachers and that enrollment would probably reach 400, against 381 on the first day of the previous year. Two of the teachers were new that year. DigitalNC: Chapel Hill News Leader, August 29, 1957, page 8 (school opening report)
    123. Lincoln High's football team wins a state championship Lincoln High School's undefeated Tigers won the Eastern title by beating Queen Street High of Beaufort 6-0 and then won the state championship in a game played in Chapel Hill on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. The student body thanked the team in the school paper for winning the State AA championship. Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), December 1957, p. 3
    124. Lincoln High students picket Colonial Drug and sit in at the Bus Station Cafe The day after the sit-in, nearly 100 Black high school students picketed Colonial Drug after manager John Carswell roped off its booths, while others filled the counter at the Bus Station Cafe until proprietor Leo Eliadis closed it and were served standing at the Long Meadow Dairy Bar. People: Harold Foster, Hilliard Caldwell The Daily Tar Heel, March 3, 1960, p. 1
    125. The Chapel Hill sit-in movement forms an executive committee and retains counsel At a Tuesday night meeting the Lincoln High demonstrators and their adult supporters organized, set up an executive committee to coordinate the lunch-counter protests and acquired legal counsel. People: Harold Foster, Hilliard Caldwell The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 10, 1960, p. 1
    126. Lincoln High's football team wins an undefeated state championship Coach William D. Peerman's Lincoln High Tigers won the state 2-A football championship for Black high schools on November 22, 1961, beating previously unbeaten Ridgeview High of Hickory 22-0 to finish 12-0. The season was unbeaten but not unscored upon: Harnett High scored six points in the eastern title game. People: Charles A. McDougle Chapel Hill Weekly (November 27, 1961): Lincoln's Tigers Win Championship
    127. Chapel Hill's Citizens' Committee begins a study of the high school curriculum The Citizens' Committee, which advised the Chapel Hill school board, began a preliminary study of the high school curriculum at both Chapel Hill High and Lincoln High, starting with a letter survey of recent graduates; possible later topics included extracurricular activities and classroom television. Ralph Howard chaired the subcommittee and Herbert Reichert the full committee, and a first report was due in May 1962. Chapel Hill High School student newspaper, December 8, 1961, p. 1
    128. One guidance counselor serves both Chapel Hill High and Lincoln High Rebecca Shepard was the full-time guidance counselor for both Chapel Hill High School and the Black Lincoln High School in 1962-63, keeping a separate guidance office at each and alternating days between the two schools. Chapel Hill High School student newspaper, December 19, 1962, p. 1
    129. James Brittian is expelled from Lincoln High School after a civil rights march Brittian, a student at the segregated Lincoln High School, was expelled for taking part in a civil rights protest march. He then became chairman of the Student Commission, a branch of the Chapel Hill Freedom Commission. The Daily Tar Heel, February 25, 1993, p. 1 (NAACP activist still fighting racism)
    130. 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
    131. About 50 Lincoln High pupils walk out in a boycott calling for one merged high school On Friday, February 14, about 50 pupils walked out of Chapel Hill's all-Black Lincoln High School in a boycott sponsored by the Chapel Hill Freedom Committee, whose chairman John Dunne called Lincoln inferior and asked that it be merged with Chapel Hill Senior High. Superintendent Howard Thompson denied the charge point by point, and by the following Monday 25 pupils were still out. People: John Dunne The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 20, 1964, p. 5
    132. Gloria Williams asks the school board to readmit boycotting Lincoln High students At the Chapel Hill school board meeting, Mrs. Gloria Williams, speaking for parents of students who had joined the Chapel Hill Freedom Committee's boycott of Lincoln High School, asked that all of them be readmitted. The board upheld the expulsion of two senior leaders, Henry Sanford and James Brittain, after Superintendent Howard Thompson said he would resign if they returned. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 27, 1964, p. 2
    133. Mayor Sandy McClamroch attends Lincoln High's Negro History Week program Lincoln High School's Negro History Week program had Mayor Sandy McClamroch, the city schools superintendent, Northside principal J. H. Peace and Rev. T. P. Duhart of St. Paul A.M.E. Church among its platform guests. The Rev. Alex A. Chambers of St. Joseph Methodist Church spoke, and the faculty chorus sang spirituals. People: Sandy McClamroch Lincoln High School student newspaper (Chapel Hill), March 1965, p. 1
    134. Integrated Chapel Hill High opens on High School Road A new Chapel Hill High School campus opened on High School Road in 1966 as the town's first racially integrated high school, taking in the white student body from the Franklin Street school together with Lincoln High's students. Under freedom of choice the board had planned for white students to occupy the building a year before Black students joined, but Black students applied together for 1966 so that the school would not first be seen as belonging to the white students. The Local Reporter: Newly Renovated Chapel Hill High School to Hold Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony Aug. 3
    135. Lincoln High School closes during integration Lincoln High on Merritt Mill Road, the Black high school led since 1946 by principal C. A. McDougle, stopped operating as a secondary school in 1966 and its students were reassigned to the new Chapel Hill High, completing the desegregation of the district's schools. McDougle became an assistant principal there and Lincoln's championship football coach William D. Peerman was made an assistant coach after a contested board vote; Lincoln's name, colors, mascot and much of its memorabilia were not carried over. People: Charles A. McDougle Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools: Resolution in Honor of 50 Years of Desegregation in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, February 18, 1970, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, February 19, 1970, p. 1
    136. Chapel Hill High School graduates its first desegregated class The class of 1967 was the first to finish at the merged Chapel Hill High School. The school board then debated the fate of the empty Lincoln building through 1969 and 1970, and voted to keep it for school use after sustained objection from Black residents to selling it. People: Robert Campbell, Stella Nickerson Carolina Digital Repository: From Forgotten to Remembered, The Long Process of School Desegregation in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Prince Edward County, Virginia
    137. A new Northside Elementary opened on the old Training School grounds The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools opened a new Northside Elementary on the former Orange County Training School site. In 2012 neighbors had rallied to make sure the new school kept the Northside name. From the Rock Wall: Orange County Training School

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