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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 · 1921–1954
The Hill Bakery supplied most of Chapel Hill's bread for over thirty years, under a line of owners. William B. Neal started it in 1921 and in 1925 sold it to his assistants, Charles B. Guthrie and W. V. Stuart, leaving for Florida; he came back in 1927 and was managing it again by April. Mrs. W. B. Neal ran the bakery after her husband died in 1935, and she sold it to Robert A. Reinhardt of Waynesboro, Virginia, who came to run it in 1945; Bryant's Franklin Street survey spells his name Rhinehart and places the sale in 1943. In 1954 he sold it to Thell Jernigan, and Thell's Bakery stayed in business into the mid-1980s.
William B. Neal started the Hill Bakery in Chapel Hill in 1921, on the lot later taken by Strowd Motor Company. On January 8, 1924 ground was broken for a new bakery building, 25 by 80 feet, next to the O'Kelly Pressing Club, with Mr. Thompson as contractor. On December 1, 1925 Neal sold the bakery to Charles B. Guthrie and W. V. Stuart, his assistants of more than four years, who kept it at the old stand with the same staff, and Neal left Chapel Hill to go into real estate at Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The Neals came back to Chapel Hill to stay in January 1927, and by April Neal had resumed the management of the Hill Bakery, with Stuart as his chief assistant. Mrs. W. B. Neal ran the bakery after her husband, William Brumfield Neal, died in 1935. In mid-May 1945 Robert A. Reinhardt, a baker of twenty years from Waynesboro, Virginia, came to Chapel Hill to run the Hill Bakery on Franklin Street, which he had bought from her; Bryant's Franklin Street survey spells his name Rhinehart and places the sale in 1943. The bakery supplied most of the town's bread for over thirty years. In 1954 Rhinehart sold the East Franklin Street bakery to Thell Jernigan, who put his own name on it, and Thell's Bakery stayed in business into the mid-1980s.
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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 Hill Bakery, 1921–1954.” Orange County Indexed, https://focplnc.org/orange-county-books/storylines/hill-bakery-storyline-1921/. Accessed October 22, 2026.
