Pritchard's Mill

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1. 1803 Mount Carmel Baptist Church is organized Mount Carmel Baptist Church was organized in 1803. Lefler and Wager place its start at Pritchard's Mill; a 1922 sketch of the church in the News says it was constituted at Pritchard's M. H. (meeting house), a few miles south of its later site on Morgan's Creek two miles southwest of Chapel Hill, and has members meeting at Mount Carmel meeting house by June 1816. Lefler and Wager say the church moved to its later site in 1873, when it built the church still in use in 1953. Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 300 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), June 22, 1922, p. 1
2. by July 24, 1919 The Pritchards sell their mill and cotton gin to Bowden and Poythress W. N. and I. W. Pritchard sold their grist mill and cotton gin to J. D. Bowden and T. C. Poythress, who took charge and were running the mill. The new owners advertised grinding daily at Pritchard's Mill. People: Isaac W. Pritchard The News (Chapel Hill), July 24, 1919, p. 5
3. August 29, 1919 Lightning burns the engine house at Pritchard's mill During a thunderstorm on the night of August 29, fire destroyed the wooden engine house at Pritchard's mill, which stood only a few feet from the mill and the gin house. The owners, Poythress and Bowden, thought lightning struck the smokestack; no one knew of the fire until the next morning. The News (Chapel Hill), September 4, 1919, p. 5

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