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Edward G. Danziger's memoir of love and cooking, published by J. F. Blair in 1967. Danziger (1893 to 1972) ran Danziger's Old World Restaurant in Chapel Hill, and the book tells his life as a restaurateur in the town.
Storyline · 1916–1961
Lending to members to buy or improve real estate, a Chapel Hill building and loan association grew from a 1916 subscription drive into a savings and loan with record assets of $7.3 million. Its own later reports gave March 1, 1920 as the date of its organization. By 1928 it had lent $375,075 for 97 homes without a single foreclosure, and by 1932 it had lent $710,000 on 199 homes, most of them in Chapel Hill, while its president said it had foreclosed only one mortgage. Its assets grew elevenfold after 1950, and in 1959 it bought the Goldston property for a new office. In 1961 it took the name Orange County Savings and Loan Association.
In early November 1916 articles of incorporation were being filed for the Orange County Building and Loan Association at Chapel Hill, to lend to members to buy, improve or clear real estate. The cashiers of the Bank of Chapel Hill and the Peoples Bank took subscriptions, aiming at 600 shares at 25 cents a share a week. The association's own reports in the Chapel Hill Weekly in the late 1920s gave March 1, 1920 as the date of its organization and never mentioned 1916.
Its annual reports traced its growth. In March 1926 it counted 56 homes financed since its organization, eight of them in 1925. At the annual meeting on March 12, 1928, stockholders heard that the association had earned 7.93 per cent in 1927 and had lent $375,075 for 97 homes built or remodeled without a single foreclosure, and M. E. Hogan was re-elected president. In January 1931 secretary W. O. Sparrow reported a 6.96 per cent return on instalment stock (shares paid for in weekly instalments) for 1930 and 167 homes built or improved with its loans, and in January 1932 shareholders heard that their shares had earned 6.88 percent in 1931 and that it had lent $710,000 on 199 homes, most of them in Chapel Hill, while Hogan said it had foreclosed only one mortgage. Dudley D. Carroll, a director from 1920 to 1950, chaired its board from 1937.
By April 2, 1959 the association had bought the Goldston property at North Columbia and Rosemary streets for an estimated $50,000 or more. President J. S. Bennett said the association, whose assets had grown elevenfold since 1950 to $5.4 million, was outgrowing its quarters and planned a new office there. At its annual meeting on January 23, 1961 it changed its name to Orange County Savings and Loan Association, reported record assets of $7.3 million, and showed architect F. Carter Williams's plans for a three-story colonial brick office at East Rosemary and Columbia Streets.
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Edward G. Danziger's memoir of love and cooking, published by J. F. Blair in 1967. Danziger (1893 to 1972) ran Danziger's Old World Restaurant in Chapel Hill, and the book tells his life as a restaurateur in the town.
William M. Rohe's history of Research Triangle Park and the region around it, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2011. Topics include regional planning and the economic and social conditions of the Research Triangle Park region, one corner of which is Chapel Hill and the university. 298 pages with illustrations and maps.
Herbert G. Gutman's 1976 history of African American families from 1750 to 1925, published by Pantheon Books in New York, 664 pages with 38 leaves of plates. Its Orange County connection is the Bennehan and Cameron family plantations, Stagville and Fairntosh: the book discusses the people enslaved by Richard Bennehan (1743-1825) and the Camerons, and follows family ties among them under slavery and after emancipation. Subjects include African American families and enslaved persons in Orange County.
Reviewed in The Journal of Southern History (1977), The William and Mary Quarterly (1977), The American Historical Review (1977), Journal of American History (1977), The History Teacher (1977), Political Science Quarterly (1977), Journal of Black Psychology (1978), Journal of Social History (1978), Civil War history (1978), Signs (1978).
Orvin Lee Shiflett's biography of William Terry Couch, 1901 to 1988, the editor who built up UNC Press at Chapel Hill over four decades in publishing, with a subtitle that calls his career a lightning rod for controversy. Chapters treat culture in the South, a case history in book publishing, objectivity and social science and 'The Sainted Book Burners'. It bears on scholarly publishing and university presses in the twentieth century. McFarland, 2015, 268 pages with illustrations.
Albert N. Link's early history of Research Triangle Park, published in 1995 by the Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina. Topics include research parks, research institutes and industrial research in the state, with the park's own history at the center. 149 pages with illustrations and maps.
Annette Marie Council's book about her family and Mama Dip's Country Kitchen, the Chapel Hill restaurant, published by NP Press in 2005. Subjects include African Americans in Chapel Hill, the restaurant's history and family biography. Fourteen introductory pages and 223 pages of text with illustrations, part local history and part family account.
Albert N. Link's history of the Research Triangle Park, the research park founded to draw on the universities at Chapel Hill, Durham and Raleigh, published in 2002 by the Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina in 278 pages with illustrations. Topics include research parks, research institutes and industrial research in North Carolina and the history of the park itself.
Charles X. Larrabee's history of the Research Triangle Institute over its first thirty one years, published in 1991. Topics include research institutes and research parks in North Carolina and the history of Research Triangle Park, the research district that lies between Chapel Hill, Durham and Raleigh.
Alex Sayf Cummings's 2020 book on the knowledge economy of the Research Triangle, technology research and the history of Research Triangle Park. Chapel Hill and its university form one corner of the Triangle.
A tour guidebook prepared for the 2016 Vernacular Architecture Forum conference in Durham, leading visitors through buildings in Orange and Caswell counties. It takes in the architecture of the bright leaf tobacco economy and the work of Thomas Day, the free Black cabinetmaker of Caswell County who worked in the middle of the nineteenth century.
Account of student protest in 1960s Chapel Hill, published by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007 with illustrations. It draws together the civil rights movement and segregation in the town, discrimination in restaurants, academic freedom and university autonomy, protest against the Vietnam War, Students for a Democratic Society and the Black Student Movement on campus.
Maxine Freeland's biography of James John Freeland (1918-1999), a Hillsborough man of the twentieth century, compiled in 1999.
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Friends of the Orange County Public Library. “The Orange County Building and Loan Association, 1916–1961.” Orange County Indexed, https://focplnc.org/orange-county-books/storylines/building-and-loan-storyline-1916/. Accessed October 22, 2026.
